Are you a spy? Killing the enemy is too cruel.

Chapter 453 Investigation

Night falls.

In the dilapidated and depressed town of Shanghai, Ye Feng climbed up to the rooftop of a tall building, looked to the north, and asked:

"Platoon Leader Luo, where is the Yamamoto Division currently?"

Luo Daqian, the leader of the reconnaissance platoon, said, "Commander, the Japanese division is slowly marching southward and is expected to arrive at the outskirts of the town at noon tomorrow."

Ye Feng asked again, "Where are their troops? Have they divided into four groups?"

Luo Daqian said, "The troops are divided into three routes. The left and right routes are composed of a regiment, and the center route is composed of more than 10,000 main forces. These devils did not make a large-scale detour to encircle us. It seems that they deliberately left a gap in the south."

Deputy head of the regiment, Deng Benling, said, "The Japanese have no intention of surrounding us on all sides. They probably want to force us to retreat into Shanghai after their army approaches us, and then have a final decisive battle in the city."

Ye Feng did not make any comment, and then asked, "Platoon Leader Luo, are you sure that the Japanese did not send out additional troops? No other troops are marching in secret? For example, they secretly pulled out a small force, spared us, and went straight to Shanghai!"

what?

Luo Daqian was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise, "Our scattered reconnaissance forces have not been able to discover the other hidden forces of the Yamamoto Division."

Ye Feng asked, "If you were Yamamoto Ikki and you were the commander of the Japanese division, how would you deploy your troops if you wanted to take Shanghai directly?"

Deng Benling took the lead and said, "The coastline to the east is very far away from us. There is a route there."

Luo Daqian also said, "If you want to avoid our detection, the route must be concealed. To the east is the coastline, and to the west, there is only the Woniu Mountain area. There are many complex mountain terrains there. If they hide during the day and move out at night, plus it is a small-scale troop march, it will be difficult for us to detect them."

"That's right. If Yamamoto Ikki wants to take Shanghai directly, he will cut off our retreat. The best routes are the eastern coastline and the Woniu Mountain in the west."

Ye Feng showed a gratified smile and continued:

"But, Yamamoto Ikki actually has another route to advance, right in this direction."

Following the direction Ye Feng pointed, Deng Benling and Luo Daqian saw several roads in the distance.

By land?

Take the main road?

Luo Daqian said, "Commander, this is impossible, right? The Japanese intend to treat our anti-Japanese armed forces as blind people, and want to bypass our eyes and directly attack Shanghai right under our noses?"

Ye Feng asked, "What if the Japanese disguise themselves as ordinary people who have left their homes?"

These days, there are wars in many places around Shanghai, and there is chaos everywhere.

The safest area now is Shanghai city.

Therefore, many people from counties, towns, townships, villages, etc., brought their families and moved to Shanghai to survive.

People entered the city in groups.

Among them, there were some Japanese devils mixed in. When everyone was hurrying on their way with their heads down, who could realize that the people around them might be enemies invading their home?

Leader Deng Ben said, "Commander, it seems that the Yamamoto Division was very insidious and cunning this time!"

On the surface, they were divided into three parts and besieged the town.

Secretly, three small-scale troops were also divided to bypass the small town and head straight for Shanghai.

Once Shanghai, the rear base of the anti-Japanese armed forces, is occupied by the Japanese, where can they go?

The city of Shanghai is now the base camp of the independent reorganization division and must not be lost.

Ye Feng asked, "How many people are there in Captain Xiao's group now?"

Luo Daqian replied, "In the past two days, Captain Xiao led his team to fight the Japanese more than ten times, and lost nearly 70% of their troops. Now there are only more than 300 soldiers left, and most of them are injured and exhausted."

Ye Feng said, "Send a message to Captain Xiao, and have him lead the remaining soldiers to the eastern coastline to intercept the small-scale hidden forces of the Japanese."

"Notify Comrade Song Yu that the wounded battalion he is in charge of must stop the other infiltrating Japanese troops in the Woniu Mountain area."

Song Yu did not come to the town with them. He was mainly responsible for managing the soldiers who retired from the battlefield due to injuries.

Luo Daqian asked, "Commander, there seem to be less than a few hundred people in that wounded camp, and many of them are missing limbs?"

Ye Feng said, "Song Yu is a good fighter. He will have a way to deal with it."

Ye Feng had no other choice but to withdraw some additional troops so that the town would no longer need to be defended.

What about those Japanese devils who disguised themselves, hid among the people, and tried to sneak into Shanghai?

These enemies can only be dealt with by people in the rear.

In this period.

In fact, there is no better way to identify Japanese spies.

They are all people with black hair and black eyes. They are disguised as Japanese devils and have learned some local language, so it is difficult to distinguish them.

Another point is that there was no universal unified language at that time, and the local accents varied greatly. If the Japanese devils spoke some Northeastern dialect, even with a few minor flaws, you would not be able to tell the difference if you were a southerner.

A few years ago, when Ye Feng was still in the Shancheng Intelligence Department, he learned a set of methods on how to identify Japanese spies.

First, look at the feet.

As we all know, Japanese people are used to wearing wooden clogs. In fact, wooden clogs were invented in my country before the Sui and Tang Dynasties. They were mostly used for outdoor walking. Later, they were introduced to Japan and have been popular ever since.

Wearing clogs for a long time will leave special marks on the toes, and the gaps between the toes are often larger. It is the same as when we wear T-shaped flip-flops for a long time, our toes will often be worn out and form calluses.

Therefore, by observing the characteristics of a person's toes, you can determine whether the person is suspicious.

Second, look at the hands.

As for Japanese soldiers, they have received professional training. The most basic training is using guns. Calluses on their hands are also the main feature for identification.

Third, listen.

The languages ​​and pronunciations used in different countries are completely different. Even in China, each place has its own dialect. Even when speaking Mandarin, the pronunciation in each place is different.

After all, the Japanese are from another country, so their pronunciation of Chinese must be non-standard. When he pretends to be from China, it is wrong for him to speak the local dialect, so his identity can be identified.

Fourth, clothing.

This is the best way to check whether they are Japanese soldiers. Look at the style of the pants they wear. The pants worn by the Japanese soldiers are made of a triangular piece of white cloth, while most of our people wear flat-angle pants, which makes it easy to identify whether they are enemies or friends.

After arranging all this, Ye Feng continued to consolidate the defense lines of various positions in the town, deploy defensive personnel, and configure weapons and firepower.

At noon the next day, the Yamamoto Division of the Japanese marched towards the town in a mighty force.

The army of more than 20,000 people was divided into three routes, with a regiment of several thousand people on each side.

To the north, in the direction of the middle road, there are nearly three regiments of people. Looking around, the Japanese soldiers in shit-yellow uniforms are densely packed, killing their way forward, raising countless smoke and dust.

Japan's various attack forces were deployed and taken up their positions.

The artillery behind them, accompanied by the command to fire, began to fire one mortar after another.