Chapter 51: The Gift for Yamada

  Dong Li Mao and Gou Hao were tied back to back, with the rope knot hidden at their waists where they had concealed a military knife and pistol. The loose end of the rope was in Dong Li Mao's right palm, allowing him to quickly untie it if needed. The two sat back-to-back in the train carriage, flanked by six local resistance guerrilla fighters dressed in Hwangbo uniforms, who were all skilled fighters according to Xu Hongming.

  Li Yuanyuan was still wearing that emerald green dress, sitting in the co-driver's seat of the truck. The driver was a member of the local resistance organization, a sleeper agent planted within the Royal Collaboration Army. None of them had participated, and Xu Hongming hadn't attended either. This was to protect them.

  This was what Li Yuanyuan thought of, she wanted to use the ID card obtained from Song Yuanxiang to pretend to capture the leader and subordinates of the bacterial bomb raid team as a key to send Dong Limao and others into the intelligence headquarters set up by the Japanese army in Dongya Commercial Building.

  When the truck stopped in front of Dongya Shanghao, Li Yuanyuan glanced at the watch that Xu Hongming had given her. It was 12:05. Before departure, they had calculated the time it would take to drive from the nearest Japanese garrison to Dongya Shanghao - at least fifteen minutes. In other words, from the moment the first shot rang out, they had to rescue the captured commandos and withdraw within fifteen minutes.

  Li Yuyuan got off the car and walked to the entrance of the store, stretched out her right hand, and slapped the iron door with her palm.

  Soon, a small square opening about half a person's height opened on the left side of the iron gate. A man with rolling eyes looked out and asked in Burmese, "Who are you looking for?"

  Li Yuyuan also replied in Burmese: "Quickly inform Major General Yamada that I have a precious gift to give him."

  "There's no one here like you said, scram!" The man inside said, and with a clang, he shut the iron gate that had been slightly ajar.

  Li Yuanyuan added a few more points of strength to her palm and slapped the iron gate with a deafening crash.

  "I told you, there's no one here you're looking for!" The small opening of the iron gate that had just been closed opened again, and it was still that man. He shouted loudly with some annoyance.

  This time Li Yuanyuan didn't speak Burmese, but instead took out her ID card and handed it over, saying in Japanese: "Please give this to Major General Yamada, when he sees this, he should know who I am!"

  The man took it over, didn't say a word, and slammed the small iron door shut with a clang.

  Li Yuanyuan strolled back and forth at the iron gate, looking like she had all the time in the world. But in reality, her heart was turbulent with waves of anxiety. She didn't dare to confirm whether Yamada had seen Matsubara Kiyo before. The reason she dared to take this risk was that she completely believed what Matsubara Kiyo had said, but at this moment Li Yuanyuan began to suspect whether Matsubara Kiyo had told the truth or not. Because high-ranking Japanese military officers often had ambiguous relationships with female subordinates, especially those who were extremely beautiful.

  "It shouldn't be, Song Yuan Ji Xiang is a subordinate of Mang Shi Yi Hao, she hasn't even seen Mang Shi Yi Hao before, how could she have seen Yamamoto...” Li Yuanyuan thought to herself as she analyzed the various possibilities.

  The iron gate creaked loudly, startling Li Yuanyuan. She turned around to see the gate open, and the man standing at the entrance said in Japanese, "Come in."

  Li Yuyuan waved at the truck and the driver slowly drove it towards the gate.

  "What's in the car?" The man who opened the door asked in Japanese.

  "A gift for Colonel Yamada." Li Yuanyuan pretended to be a native Japanese woman, answering very obediently.

  As soon as the truck drove in through the gate, the iron gate closed immediately. The courtyard was suddenly lit up all around, and several men wearing casual clothes and holding firearms rushed out from all sides, surrounding the truck.

  "What's going on here?" Li Yuanyuan asked with a surprised expression.

  "This is the rule, don't you understand?" The man changed his tone and loudly interrupted Li Yuanyuan's words. Then he said to the people surrounding the truck in Japanese: "Search the truck carefully!"

  Two plainclothes policemen responded with a "yes", one ran towards the back of the car and the other got into the driver's cabin.

  Dong Li Mao couldn't understand what Li Yuanyuan and the others were saying, but he didn't hear the pre-arranged signal to take action, so he could only wait patiently.

  Gu Hao was somewhat restless, struggling a bit, as if reminding Dong Li Mao whether it was time to take action.

  Dong Li Mao tapped his fingers lightly on Gu Hao's palm twice, this was what they had discussed on the way here. If Dong Li Mao pinched his palm, it meant to take action, but if he just tapped lightly twice, it was a reminder not to rush.

  At this time, the rear compartment door was opened, a man held a gun with both hands, shouted loudly, and shook his head slightly.

  Dong Li Mao and others did not hear what he was shouting, but from his actions, it can be judged that the people in the car should get off.

  Li Yuanyuan immediately walked over and loudly said in Burmese: "Bring down those two Chinese!"

  The man who opened the iron gate also walked over, looking at Dong Li Mao and Gou Hao being dragged down from the car by the 'Huang Xie Army', and asked Li Yuanyuan: "Is this the gift you want to give to General Yamada?"

  "That's right, this is the gift I want to give to General Yamada." Li Yuanyuan nodded and replied in a low voice: "I think General Yamada will be very happy to receive this gift."

  The two people were speaking Japanese.

  Acting, after all, should be done in a way that deceives people's eyes. Those several "Royal Collaborative Army" really did it like that, punching and kicking, throwing Dong Li Mao and Gou Hao off the truck like sacks of rice, with Gou Hao being pressed at the very bottom. Then, two "Royal Collaborative Army" members shouted in Burmese, with extremely rough movements, lifting the two up, making Dong Li Mao and Gou Hao stand back to back.

  Perhaps Gou Hao's mouth hit the ground when he fell, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. He spat a mixture of blood and saliva onto the ground, his eyes glaring furiously at everyone around him, with an air of readiness to fight to the death at any moment.

  Dong Li Mao quickly glanced around, the yard was very large, a bit like the northern siheyuan, except for the iron gate at the entrance and exit, three sides were covered with two-story high buildings. On the right side of the yard, some miscellaneous items were piled up, some were covered with oilcloth, and others were stacked wooden boxes. The strong light from the four corners illuminated the entire yard as if it were daytime. In addition to several plainclothes standing around the truck, Dong Li Mao also saw people standing at each corner of the building upstairs.

  While Dong Li Mao was sizing up the courtyard all around, Li Yuanyuan and that man were still in conversation:

  "What kind of people are they?"

  "Chinese soldiers, a Chinese assault team that destroyed the ammunition depot of our Great Japanese Imperial Army. One of them was the leader, named Dong Jiacheng."

  "Dong Jiacheng! Is he the Chinese regiment commander who tore open our Great Japanese Imperial Army's melon defense line?"

  "It's him." Li Yuanyuan continued to speak to the man in a polite and submissive tone, like a Japanese woman.

  "Hurry! Take these two Chinese away to see Major Yamada!" The man ordered others in an excited tone: "Leave the people from the Imperial Japanese Army here!"

  This was what Li Yuanyuan had thought of beforehand. The Japanese would not let the people from the Huangpu Military Academy enter the underground room, and this way, it would be a perfect inside-outside coordination. As long as the people outside heard gunfire coming from the underground room, they could take action.

  The two men in plain clothes, one on each side, did not untie the bound Dong Li Mao and Gou Hao, but instead pulled their hair towards the house on the left.

  Dong Li Mao felt like his scalp was being torn apart, and he silently cursed in his heart: "Damn! I didn't know that receiving a gift could be so painful!" He really wanted to kill the person who was holding onto his hair right now, but before he heard Li Yuanyuan's signal, he had to endure it, not even daring to struggle. The more he struggled, the more painful his scalp became.

  "Damn you, little brat! I'll screw your ancestors for eighteen generations..."

  Li Yuanyuan followed behind several plainclothesmen.