On the river, the Qingxiang ship sailed from Wuhan appeared, from the original blur to the clear, from the distance to look like the size of a cow to the behemoth at this time, the Qingxiang ship is getting closer and closer to the Chaotianmen wharf.

The crowd standing on the shore of the pier not only looked at the Qingxiang Ferry slowly approaching the pier, but also some young people who couldn't control it not only shouted and laughed loudly, but also a lively scene.

At this time, Xu Zhengmin, the manager of the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, an underground organization mixed in the crowd, whispered to the four young people who were close to him:

"When the Qingxiang ship docks, I will first board the ship through the inner line of the wharf and assist our comrades on the ship to take the medicine off the ship, and you will immediately pick it up and quickly hand it over to the eastern Sichuan guerrillas who come to the wharf to pick up the goods."

"Shopkeeper Xu, we have been at the dock for almost an hour, why didn't there be a comrade from the eastern Sichuan guerrillas to contact us, could it be that they were blocked from entering the city or sneaked in to accompany the military commanders found out that something was wrong? Otherwise, it wouldn't have appeared until now. ”

Xu Zhengmin also felt that things were a little strange, but this person was sometimes bold and careful, and sometimes with enthusiasm, as long as the task he determined was dangerous, no matter what happened in the middle, he would never give up even if he knew that his life was in danger.

He looked at the young man who asked the question and whispered: "Xiao Meng, the two situations you mentioned may happen, but the top-secret mission we carried out this time is related to the lives and safety of the front-line soldiers, and no matter what the situation is, we will never give up this mission."

Just as Xu Zhengmin was talking to the comrades around him, the Qingxiang ship suddenly sounded two whistles, and its wish was to tell the dock pick-up and passengers on board to prepare for picking up and disembarking, and the Qingxiang ship sailing from Wuhan to Chaotianmen Wharf in the capital was about to dock.

Xu Zhengmin nervously whispered an order to the four young people around him: "Make all preparations for action, even if we risk our lives, we must safely transport and escort the important materials that were secretly brought from Wuhan to the capital safely." ”

As he spoke, he squeezed towards the shore of the pier, and when he reached the passenger standing on the shore of the pier, whispered a few words, and did not leave the man without a single step.

The Qingxiang Ferry finally landed, and the crowd of people who finally waited for the Qingxiang Ferry to dock rushed towards the Qingxiang Wheel, but they were blocked by the armed police who suddenly appeared with loaded guns.

The wharf staff who were responsible for receiving the Qingxiang ship docked, caught the cable thrown down from the ship, quickly and skillfully tied it to the stone stake of the cable bolt on the shore, and several people leaned the ladder on and off the ship against the entrance and exit of the ship, ready to receive passengers to disembark.

The passengers on the ship sailed to the vicinity of the Fenghuangdu Wharf in Zhongxian County in the early morning, and were robbed by the river and ocean thieves.

At this time, I finally looked forward to the steamer leaning on the Chaotianmen Wharf in the capital of the city, carrying large bags and small bags on their shoulders, some leading children of different sizes, and some supporting the elderly people, hurriedly walked out of the cabin, crowded and ready to get off the ship.

Just as the passengers on the ship were crowded and ready to disembark, dozens of young people in civilian clothes came up from the dock, brandished guns in their hands and shouted that all passengers must return to the cabin immediately, and those who did not cooperate or deliberately made trouble would be killed.

The passengers who finally packed their luggage on their backs and were about to get off the ship did not expect to be driven into the cabin again with noisy voices under the intimidation of these guns and plainclothes people.

The captain of the Qingxiang steamer was blocked in the cockpit by one of the plainclothes leaders with two people, and the plainclothes leader asked fiercely: "Please gather all the people on board in the dining room and accept routine questioning, and no one is missing." ”

The captain of the ship was robbed by river thieves in the early morning, and at this time, he was blocked in the cockpit by strangers when he docked at the port, and ordered all the people on board to be gathered in the dining room, not only asked: "Ladies and gentlemen, what happened, and who are you?" ”

"Don't ask why, I can tell you that I am an agent of the Operations Department of the Military Command Bureau who boarded the ship to carry out a special mission, and you will do as I say immediately, and if you do not cooperate, you will be punished according to your fornication with the underground organization, and you will be arrested immediately."

"Huh? I—I'm just a well-kept captain, and I have absolutely no connection with the underground organization, so well, well, I'll gather all the ship's staff in the dining room at once to be questioned by the chief. ”

The captain picked up the microphone and shouted: "From now on, all the personnel of the Qingxiang Ferry must immediately gather in the dining room to be questioned by the commander of the military command. ”

When the staff on the Qingxiang ship heard the captain's notice coming out of the loudspeaker, they were afraid that they would be arrested as members of the underground organization, so they were so frightened that they gave up their work and rushed to the dining room in the crowded crowd of passengers.

The plainclothes leader who ordered the captain to order all the personnel to gather in the dining room was Geng Tiancong, deputy director of the Military Command Operations Department.

He waited for the captain to give the notice, and quickly led the captain to the dining room, at this time there were already six military commanders standing in the dining room, guarding the staff of the ship who walked in, ordering them to squat on the ground with their heads in their hands, and strictly exchange their heads and ears.

When several military commander spies saw Deputy Director Geng Tiancong walking into the restaurant with the captain, they stood in a proper manner one by one.

Section Chief Bian Weizhong, who led six spies to gather the people on the ship who walked into the dining room in accordance with the advance deployment, shouted:

"Report to Deputy Director Geng, the staff on board have been concentrated in the dining room, among which Wang Fusheng, the first deputy of Qingxiang, cannot come to the dining room because he was seriously injured by two guns, please give instructions to Deputy Director Geng."

"Section Chief Bian, why was this chief deputy Wang Fusheng shot, do you understand? Have the rest of the ship's staff arrived, and are there any unexpected situations? ”

"Deputy Director Geng, after investigating the staff on board, they only said that they were robbed by Jiangyang thieves near Fenghuangdu in Zhongzhong County in the early morning, and they couldn't tell other details clearly, saying that the captain knew the inside story best."

The captain listened to the crew on the ship blaming him for this dangerous thing, and he was so frightened that he looked at Deputy Director Geng and said tremblingly:

"Sir, the Qingxiang ship arrived near Fenghuangdu in Zhongxian County in the early hours of this morning, and was indeed forced to stop on the river by a marine police patrol boat that suddenly appeared, but I didn't expect the four masked thieves who boarded the Qingxiang ship from the patrol boat ...... on the boat."

He trembled and honestly explained the details of the robbery that happened in the early morning of the Qingxiang wheel by masked thieves.

Geng Tiancong was shocked when he heard that the Qingxiang Ferry had sailed to the vicinity of Fenghuangdu in Zhongxian County in the early hours of the morning, and was forced to stop on the river by a marine police patrol boat.

"Captain, are you sure that the ship that forced the Qingxiang Ferry to stop near Fenghuangdu in Zhong County in the early hours of the morning is the Marine Police patrol boat? And it was four masked thieves who boarded the ship from the patrol boat? ”

"Indeed, if the commander does not believe me, please investigate the staff and passengers on board, some of them clearly saw that the four masked thieves who boarded the Qingxiang ship came up from the marine police patrol boat."

Geng Tiancong had a detailed understanding of the robbery that occurred on the Qingxiang ship in the early morning, looked at the captain and suddenly asked: "Did you see the number on the side of the marine police patrol boat, and in which direction the robbers fled when they returned to the patrol boat?" ”

"Report to the chief, because the difference between the marine police patrol boat that appeared on the river at night and the Qingxiang ship is about one meter and a half, and the number on the side of the marine police patrol boat is not clear from the boat, I dare not talk nonsense."