Chapter 316: Strategizing and Acting Gradually

The county seat of Lin'an County. Fang's compound. The living room on the first floor of the Mochizuki Building in the backyard.

Fang Jiren, Fang Lusheng and his father-in-law, Yan Bo, sat on the sofa.

"Lu Sheng, after a while, you and I will go to the county hospital to reconnoiter the situation of the guards and prepare for the rescue of your two pregnant women. When you get to the county hospital, you must listen to me in everything, and you are not allowed to act rashly, let alone be impulsive and reckless. Francis said solemnly.

"Hmm. Sixth uncle, I will listen to you, nothing will go wrong. Fang Lusheng replied.

"Uncle Yan, in the afternoon, you go back to your home in the railway station and railway residential area, and tell the brothers that each of you has prepared food bags, as well as some more large flour bags and hemp bags, and there will be urgent and major tasks in the next few days. Uncle Yan, have you remembered them all? ”

"Yes. I remember it all. Young master, then I won't be back tonight, I have to work at night to make more pockets and more sacks. ”

"Huh? Sixth uncle, what kind of urgent and important task is it? If you still need to use cloth bags and hemp bags, why can't you use knives and guns? The brothers are bare-handed, so how can they fight with the little devils? Fang Lusheng asked nervously.

"This is a special mission that is different from the past, and it must not be used with knives and guns. Lu Sheng, don't ask, you'll know in two days. Uncle Yan, you can go as soon as you get ready. ”

Medium. Young master, then I'll go. Yan Bo stood up and left the living room.

"Lu Sheng, you go and ask Uncle De to come to the living room immediately, then change into the clothes of a small businessman and change your clothes, and wait for me in the concierge. Go ahead. ”

Fang Lusheng agreed, got up and walked out of the living room quickly. Fang Jiren took out the letter that Takagi Hiroshi had just handed him from his pocket, looked at it carefully, and after thinking about it, he straightened up, leaned back on the sofa, and pondered solemnly: There are too many things to do in the past few days, and everything will be very troublesome and very dangerous to do. It also involves too much, and it will seriously affect the daily lives of 1.8 million people in western Hebei, especially the ordinary people in Lin'an County and Lin'an Town. Alas! If the situation is forced and the task needs not to be done in this way, it will never work, and if it is done well, it can change from passive to active, and grasp the initiative of local strategic opportunities; If you don't do it well, you will not only expose your multiple identities, but also may fall into the situation where the Fang family is bankrupt and will never recover, and the urgent and dangerous tasks assigned to me by the head of the regiment and the strategic major mission entrusted to me by the organization will also fail. According to the plan and deployment, the entire operation has already begun in the western Hebei region, and this operation is no less than a campaign of strategic significance. At this critical juncture, according to the regulations and plans, after completing the first step of the mission, it is necessary to go to Peking to report to the organization for instructions and receive the next new task. I also had to go into the mountains to Hulu Valley to find Uncle Seven to transfer troops and people again, and even secretly sneaked into Shuihe Village to supplement the regimental headquarters and urgently negotiate with the head of Yu Genshan for future military operations. Unfortunately, time was very tight, and these things had to be completed before Nakagawa Rongichi returned from Baoding to Lin'an County five days later to take a large-scale military operation, and there was no room for error.

The county seat of Lin'an County. The front yard of the Fang family compound and the main house of the Japanese army headquarters.

Ono, who temporarily succeeded Nakagawa Eiichi as commander, received a report that the detective team had been prevented, searched, and resisted with bare hands, and asked for additional reinforcements from the gendarmerie. I also received a call from the police station, which was surrounded by many wounded and bleeding civilians, complaining about grievances, causing chaos, and requesting the Imperial Army to send troops to protect the police station. After thinking anxiously for a moment, Ono picked up the phone and informed Major General Sun Zudong, commander of the Imperial Cooperative Army, that two companies of fully armed troops would be dispatched in the afternoon to assist the detective team in continuing to search the Fang family's shop and business. The gendarmerie was called again and a squad was sent to protect the police station.

Sun Zudong listened to the advice of the chief of staff to train and test the recruits, and ordered two newly formed recruit companies to be sent to assist the reconnaissance team.

The county seat of Lin'an County. Fang's compound. The living room on the first floor of the Mochizuki Building in the backyard.

"Young Master, what's the matter? Please command. Delu came to the living room and asked.

"Uncle De, I have four letters here that I want to send out immediately." Fang Jiren took out a small paper scroll from his coat pocket and three palm-length paper strips two fingers wide and palm-length side by side on the coffee table, raised his right hand and pointed to the small paper scroll from left to right and said: "Uncle De, this letter is sent to the seventh master of Hulu Valley, and these three letters are sent to Lin'an Town, Shuihe Village and Linhe Township on horseback respectively. Who to look for? How to find it? I've written it all in the letter. Uncle De, you can see clearly, don't get confused, the stakes are very high, and you can't make any mistakes. ”

"Bh. Young master, I remember it clearly, I know the severity, and I will never be confused and delay the big thing. I'll send it out. Young master, I just received a secret letter from someone I don't know, what should you do about it? Delu took out the letter and handed it to Francis.

After Fang Jiren took the letter and read it carefully, his face changed abruptly, and then he smiled lightly and said:

"Uncle De, after sending out these four letters later, you send more people to inform all the Fang family shops inside and outside the county to do what the letter says, tell them to hide it tightly, and after nightfall, send the brothers of the car dealer to collect it separately and secretly, and then quietly send them to the stove shop. Uncle De, go ahead and do it. ”

"I get it, good idea." Delu put away the four letters and strode out of the living room.

Fang Jiren got up and walked out of the living room to the porter, changed into light gray muslin clothes and trousers, and changed his disguise with a bloody white cloth wrapped around his head, and walked out of the north gate with Fang Lusheng, who looked like a small businessman in a blue muslin shirt and a top hat and sunglasses, and walked towards the county hospital.

Fang Luqing walked out of the north gate with a flower handkerchief on his head that was oozing blood, and got on the rickshaw that was already waiting outside the north gate, following behind Fang Jiren and Fang Lusheng, who were moving forward. Six or seven more young and sturdy young men in plain clothes came out of the north gate, and they scattered a short distance to follow the whirlpool to serve as guards.

Southwest of Lin'an County. Shuihe Village. Under the old locust tree on the edge of the threshing floor in the west of the village.

Huang Zhongde told Yu Genshan, the political commissar, the chief of staff, and Han Dagang that he and Comrade Gu Lanlan, deputy head of the medical team of the supplementary regiment, secretary of the party branch, and head nurse, would go into the city to sell vegetables under the guise of husband and wife, and then take two guards with them to set off early tomorrow morning to infiltrate the county seat of Lin'an County to find and investigate the best place to establish a secret intelligence traffic station. And repeatedly emphasized that he had done secret underground work in Peking for a period of time before, and he was experienced. It only takes two or three days to complete the task and return to Shuihe Village.

"No! Absolutely not! Director Huang, you don't know anything about the complicated situation in the county, and you are not familiar with the place, how do you act? Han Dagang was the first to resolutely oppose it.

"Hmm. I also felt that Director Huang's plan was unrealistic and unreliable. It is even more infeasible to pretend to be a husband and wife with Comrade Glenland to enter the city. Yu Genshan said objectively.

After careful consideration, the political commissar and chief of staff agreed, believing that Huang Zhongde's plan could be tried, and it was better to take the initiative than to do nothing.

The five men were divided into two factions, each stating their reasons, denying each other, arguing fiercely, and arguing loudly.

"Regiment commander, political commissar, it's already past dinner, why don't you go back to the regiment headquarters for lunch? Why are you so noisy? Staff Officer Wu walked over and asked.