In order to implement his idea of ​​"decisive battle on the mainland", Okamura Yasuji transferred a large number of elite troops stationed in the inland to the eastern coastal areas to build a line of defense.

The remaining positions are local garrison troops, and the troops are shrinked to the main node cities.

As a result, after the Japanese army withdrew, a large number of vacuum areas appeared, and the puppet army had no combat effectiveness, and a wave of regaining lost land was set off in the whole country.

As time enters June, the battle situation becomes clearer and clearer.

Europe has basically been pacified by the Allies, and Britain and the United States have finally turned their attention from the European battlefield to the Chinese battlefield on the Asian battlefield.

Encirclement and suppress Japan, which is still resisting stubbornly.

The smell of war can be smelled in the air.

Shanghai was controlled by the Japanese army and implemented various military controls, grain rationing, news control, and baojia system. If you feel that you have problems, you may face the consequences of being searched or even being captured.

The Japanese army also frantically requisitioned civilians, built various fortifications, and stored war preparation materials.

In particular, the continuous plundering of wealth obtained from China and transporting it to Japan one after another, staged the last scene of madness.

The production of pharmaceutical factories has also been affected. Raw materials soar and are still difficult to buy. Drugs soar with the price of them, and face various blockades.

People's lives are even more sad. Most people can drink a bowl of thin ones a day, and more people tighten their belts.

The food ratio has been distributed once every half a month, and it has gradually decreased. I wonder what will happen next?

"Meimei, how much rice and flour do we have in our family?" Lu Xiyan came back from get off work one day and asked Meng Fanxing.

"There are some more, what's wrong?" Meng Fanxing said. Their family is naturally different from ordinary families. After all, Lu Xiyan also has the identity of a member of the Municipal Advisory Committee and chief consultant of the Shanghai Police Department. With this, the grain quota has always been paid at full quota.

"Send something to Haozi, Mengyao and the others. Xiao Ping'an is young and is just when she grows up. It doesn't matter if adults eat less, so you can't starve the child." Lu Xiyan ordered.

"You have to explain it. I have sent someone to secretly send it to Mengyao and also brought some nutritional supplements. Mengyao has been in poor health for a while." Meng Fanxing said.

"Have you gone to the hospital?"

"Well, I saw it. I was infected with wind and cold. I prescribed a pair of Chinese medicine to regulate it."

"You worry about family affairs. I have a lot of things now and may not care about them. What are Haozi doing these days?" Lu Xiyan asked.

"What else can he do? He is not a business man. He will pay for whatever he does. Now he just needs to stay at home and do nothing." Meng Fanxing sighed.

"Forget it, just take a break. It's better to spend more time with Mengyao and the child. Let's talk about it after a while." Lu Xiyan thought for a while. It might not be a bad thing if Meng Hao didn't go out to make trouble.

...

"Sir, you guessed that there is indeed a problem with the electricity consumption of the Jiangwan branch. As for their current monthly production, after our calculations, the electricity consumption must exceed at least 50 to 70%. Where does this excess electricity go?" Yan Lei reported.

"Underground bacteria factory."

"Yes, I guess so, the pharmaceutical factory has temporary generator sets. Diesel on the market is now available but not at the market, but Shizuka Fujimoto can actually get it and ensure that the production of the Jiangwan branch is constantly being carried out. This is not something that ordinary people can do."

“Where did her diesel supply channel come from?”

"Tongyuan Foreign Company."

"This is the right thing. Tongyuan Foreign Company is the external agency of Inoue Agency. This is enough to show that Fujimoto Shizuka has a close relationship with Inoue Agency." Lu Xiyan nodded.

"Can we check our Jiangwan branch on site?"

"As the general manager, I need to report in advance, and then the people inside take me in. Even if I go to the toilet, there will be people following me. It is difficult to figure out the situation inside." Yan Lei shook his head.

"How did they transport the bacterial weapons they produced?"

"It should be out with their raw material delivery truck." Yan Lei said.

"We must find a way to figure out the operation of underground bacterial factories. Can we start with their internal personnel, such as Japanese workers in pharmaceutical factories?" Lu Xiyan asked.

"I'm afraid it's difficult. Although the Jiangwan branch recruited some workers from the local Japanese expatriates in Shanghai to make up for the shortage of labor, these are all Japanese. They may not be willing to promise to do things for us. If exposed, all their efforts will be wasted." Yan Lei said.

"Can you find someone who can speak Japanese and get a fake Japanese identity into it?"

"You can try this method, but what if it is exposed?"

"How can I know if I don't try it?"

"Okay, I'll inform my fifth brother to make arrangements." Yan Lei nodded. This matter is simple and simple, but it's really difficult. The Jiangwan branch is not short of people now, so how can it lack people? This is to know a little brain.

Yan Lei’s approach is very simple. On the grounds that there were few people in the production of vaccines by Meng'an Research Institute, he seconded some technicians from the Jiangwan Branch, but they were held in his hands and were not busy returning them.

When the Jiangwan branch is short of staff and there is not enough, they will naturally recruit people from the outside world. Of course, they have to choose from the Japanese expatriates to recruit people.

In this way, Yan Lei and Guo Hanjie can register for those carefully arranged, but whether they can enter depends on their own abilities.

If you can't pass the assessment, you can only find another way.

This operation did not arouse any suspicion from Shizuka Fujimoto. On the contrary, being able to enter the Meng'an Institute was also something that Shizuka Fujimoto tried hard to achieve. Now Yan Lei took the initiative to let go of a hole. Isn't that a god-given opportunity?

...

The "plague" bacteria specimens that Tang Jin got from Jack were finally obtained through special channels. This thing is highly contagious and fatal, so it was packed in an iron box and a self-destruct device was also set up.

Lu Xiyan personally handed it to Huo Xiaoyu and solemnly reminded her that not only should she be careful when studying, but she would not allow any information to be disclosed to the outside world.

Yan Lei's arrangement was very successful. He and Guo Hanjie looked for three people, but in the end only one of them was retained and was transferred to the Jiangwan branch.

However, his job is simply to add raw materials and record reaction time. The work discipline in the factory is very strict and he is not allowed to leave his post without authorization. Even when going to the toilet, he must take leave, find someone to take temporary replacement, and he is not allowed to talk casually when eating. He is strictly prohibited from walking around in the workshop. After get off work, he leaves the factory within a limited time. Except for employees from Japan, Japanese expatriate employees recruited in Shanghai are not allowed to stay in the factory.

With such strict management, there is no chance at all. Obviously, Shizuka Fujimoto is extremely strict in preventing this.

There is also a security guard in the factory and four wolf dogs are kept. Every day when entering and leaving the factory, someone will lead a wolf dog to squat at the door.

With such a strict factory management system, no one believes that there is no ghost inside. You must know that all the people working in the Jiangwan branch are Japanese. If you treat Chinese people, there is nothing unusual. If you do this to their own people, isn’t there any problem?

Also, Jiangwan branch is surrounded by residential areas, and the houses are low. From the sky, everyone is almost the same in length. Even if they are bombed by planes, they cannot guide and mark the ground. If they are accidentally bombed, the surrounding civilians will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

This is also one of the reasons why Lu Xiyan strongly opposes the US military's approach.

...

"Old Lu, based on the name of Aeko Sato you provided, my hometown has provided us with some information, hoping to give you some help." Hu Yunzhi suddenly asked Lu Xiyan to meet at Guangyuan Teahouse and handed him a telegram to Lu Xiyan.

"What?" Lu Xiyan unfolded the telegraph paper with a little confusion, and a row of words written vertically came into his eyes.

"Aeko Sato, female, unknown age, chief bacterial warfare expert of the 731st unit of the Japanese Kwantung Army stationed in Ice City, nickname: Queen of Plague..."

"Old Hu, isn't this alone?" Lu Xiyan was startled.

"This information was provided by the intelligence department of the Soviet Far East Military Region. In the past two years, Aeko Sato has carried out multiple practical bacterial warfare tests in the Soviet Union and the Northeast. At least a dozen villages and thousands of people died directly under the bacterial weapons she studied and manufactured." Hu Yunzhi analyzed, "Shizuka Fujimoto herself admits that she is called Aeko Sato. She has happened to be not in Shanghai for more than two years. Is this a coincidence?"

"But, just by this, it seems that she cannot directly prove her identity?" Lu Xiyan certainly knew that this was by no means a coincidence.

The problem is that this is just a reasonable doubt and cannot be used as evidence.

"The Soviet Union hated her and his research team and had been looking for her traces. However, recently she was found in Ice City." Hu Yunzhidao, "Our advance column has entered the Northeast and has contacted the Soviet army. He accidentally obtained this information and reported it as useful information. Someone happened to see it and sent it to us."

"So, is this an unexpected gain?" Lu Xiyan said. If someone hadn't reported it and was seen again, he wouldn't have thought of it.

This is the truth of intelligence, the function of induction and analysis. Often, two messages you don’t want to do are hidden when you pick them up and analyze them.

"That's right, what are you going to do next?" Hu Yunzhi asked.

"Now the entire Shanghai is still under the control of the Japanese army. Even if her identity is confirmed, we may not be able to do anything to her. She is basically in the Jiangwan branch and basically does not go out. The outside affairs are handed over to her assistant Yuanzi. Even if we can trick her out, if something happens to her, I am afraid that I will immediately track me down, so I can't touch her for the time being." Lu Xiyan analyzed calmly.

"Then when are you going to touch her?"

"When the U.S. military landed."

"However, they are still constantly producing bacterial weapons. At that time, they will be used on the battlefield by the Japanese army. Not only the US army will be injured, but if it spreads, what should our people do?" Hu Yunzhi asked.

"We can intercept and destroy the bacterial weapons they produce." Lu Xiyan said, "As long as the bacterial weapons they produce cannot reach the hands of the Japanese army, can we achieve the same effect?"

"Can you promise not to be suspected?"

"Once, two times should not be a big problem. However, with the frequency of their transports once every half month, according to the relevant information I have obtained, the US military will soon launch a landing battle on the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the latest time will be less than the end of July."

"It's only early June?" Hu Yunzhi said, "What if you can't wait for that time, or if the US military doesn't land near Shanghai?"

"There is no need to worry. People can leave, but they can't move the underground factories." Lu Xiyan said confidently.
Chapter completed!