Chapter 218: Exploring the route and breaking into the bandits' den alone

The county seat of Lin'an County.

At the beginning of the hour (about half past seven in the morning), the sun had climbed up the treetops.

Fang Jiren and two young men who were shorter and thinner, but sturdy, capable and clever, all walked out of the north gate of the Fang family's compound wearing dark gray coarse cloth loose trousers, large straw hats with wide brimming, long brooms, iron buckets and dustpans. Francis painted his eyebrows and eyes, and dressed himself as an old and ugly middle-aged man. When the three of them came to the south gate of the Fang family compound, Fang Jiren nodded and explained his intention to the two Japanese guards standing on the right side of the steps of the gatehouse with guns, and one of the guards turned around and walked up the steps into the gatehouse to make a call. A moment later, Hirotoshi Takagi, heavily armed, walked out with a few Japanese soldiers with empty hands.

Takagi Hirochi stood arrogantly on the steps with his hands behind his back and his legs apart, looked down at the three Franciscan who stood at the bottom of the steps with a straight face, and said loudly in Japanese:

"Search! Carefully and thoroughly search your body! ”

The three Japanese soldiers walked down the steps and groped Fang Jiren and his two men twice, on their chests and backs, on their arms, and on their legs, and even touched their crotches. Then they took off their cloth shoes and big straw hats, and searched carefully. Finally, I looked at the three brooms, the iron bucket and the dustpan. The three Japanese soldiers turned around and stood upright, reporting to Takagi Hirotoshi one after another, and no suspicious dangerous items were found.

Takagi Hirochi pointed to Francis and said in stiff and broken Chinese:

"You're cleaning, you're cleaning, you're cleaning, you know?"

"Yes, I understand greatly," Francisis nodded in agreement.

"Your land, the east yard is cleaned. You clean the ground, the front yard, clean and big, understand? Takagi Hirochi said, pointing to the two guys.

The three of them followed Takagi Hirochi into the south gate, sparing the shadow wall and coming to the front yard. Takagi Hirochi stopped and told the three of them in a stern tone that they were not allowed to enter any of the houses, clean the yard, and sprinkle water, water the flowers and pull weeds. Francis took the opportunity to observe the situation in the front yard.

Francis couldn't help but sigh when he saw four heavily armed guards standing in the four corners of the front yard, the cobweb-like telephone lines in the courtyard, the antennas erected on the roofs, the power grids on the courtyard walls, and the shell boxes, bullet boxes, and miscellaneous items scattered everywhere. Seeing that the yard that I was familiar with and where I had lived since I was a child was ruined and disorderly, anger and resentment rose in my heart. At the same time, he also knew that the front yard was an important command center of the Japanese command.

"You're here, open the way here, quickly."

Fang Jiren followed Takagi Hirochi out of the front yard and into the middle courtyard.

"Your place, this place is carefully cleaned, clean and big. Got it? ”

"Understood. Greatly clean. Francis said.

The door to the main room opens. Hanako, who was wearing a goose-yellow silk light Japanese kimono, walked out and stood next to the door, folded her hands in front of her lower abdomen, leaned over and bowed to Eiichi Nakagawa, who walked out of the door in a neat military uniform. Eiichi Nakagawa walked down the steps and strode to the front yard. Takagi Hirotomochi was bowing to Nakagawa Eiichi, and Francis took off his big straw hat and bowed with him. Nakagawa Rong walked out of the middle courtyard without looking at them.

Hanako reflexively returned to the main house, and walked out with a brass basin to pour water.

Takagi Hirochi walked up the steps quickly, bowed and said politely:

"Miss Hanako, let me come. Please go back and rest. Takagi took the brass basin from Hanako and walked down the steps, walked to the east wall, and poured water into the pool that led to the ditch outside the courtyard.

Fang Jiren fully understood the Japanese spoken by Takagi Hiroshi, and he knew that it was Takagi Hiroshi who asked him to confirm that the person in front of him was the daughter of Sohan Hanako who wanted him to rescue. Fang Jiren fixed his eyes on the young and beautiful Hanako girl, but her face was full of grief and sorrow, and instantly remembered Hanako's appearance. At the same time, he initially formed a rough rescue plan in his mind. At this moment, Hanako also turned her head to look at Fang Jiren. Then he turned around and walked into the main room and closed the door tightly.

Shuihe Village. Village office. The conference room of the regimental headquarters of the Eighth Route Army Supplementary Regiment.

In the conference room, a joint meeting of the military and the local, military and political forces in the western Hebei region is being held. The conference room was full of people and filled with smoke.

Regiment Commander Yu Genshan recounted the dangerous situation, the complicated situation, the enemy's briefing, and the military situation and force comparison between the enemy and the enemy.

Subsequently, the commissar talked about the political situation in the country and the morale of the troops.

The Chief of Staff spoke worriedly about the shortage of weapons, ammunition and food.

Glenland emphasized the practical difficulties of the health team's current serious shortage of anti-inflammatory and narcotic drugs, medical equipment, medical accessories, and supplies, and the complete severance of purchase channels, which will inevitably affect the treatment and rehabilitation of the wounded from gunshot wounds and knife wounds.

Wang Fujiang proposed that the Lin'an County CPC Committee and County Government be temporarily set up in Shuihe Village to immediately carry out the work of building the party and government and mobilizing the masses to support the anti-Japanese resistance.

The county magistrate proposed to send a working group to nearby villages to collect money, food, and materials for the Eighth Route Army. It was also proposed that the supplementary regiment send an armed detachment to follow the protection.

Wang Fujiang also pointed out that it is necessary to immediately re-establish the underground secret intelligence transportation system of our party and our army in the western Hebei region, and to re-establish an underground secret intelligence transportation station in the county seat of Lin'an County. Wang Fujiang has repeatedly stressed the importance, necessity, and urgency of establishing an intelligence and transportation station in the military, political, and economic fields. With regard to the composition of the personnel of the county intelligence and traffic station, Wang Fujiang entrusted Yu Genshan to select and send people from the supplementary regiment who were familiar with the various conditions in the county town and had a good face to go there, and the staff of the county party committee and government had no reconnaissance and combat experience and could not undertake this heavy task. It was recognized and agreed by the majority of the participants. Han Dagang, deputy commander of the regiment, and Ma Fucai, commander of the sixth company, shook their heads silently after hearing this.

Huang Zhongde, director of the Political Department, gave a briefing on the progress of the in-depth investigation of the Japanese spies lurking in the supplementary regiment, and reminded everyone to be vigilant, pay attention to the whereabouts of those around them, and those who act suspiciously, and report to the regiment headquarters in a timely manner. Han Dagang said in his heart: This is too much. Ma Fucai said in his heart: Long-winded nonsense, if you don't speak, it seems that you have nothing to do?

Deng Junsheng, secretary of the Youth League headquarters, and Secretary Cai, confidential secretary of the Youth League headquarters, made minutes of the meeting together.

The meeting continued in a tense and enthusiastic atmosphere.

The county seat of Lin'an County. It was nearly noon. Lin'an Street, the main street of the county, is crowded with people and in a hurry. From time to time, a nine-member armed patrol composed of three Japanese motorcycles drove by, and five or six detectives on bicycles stared at the pedestrians on the street.

Fang Jiren, who was dressed old and ugly, pulled a foreign car and trotted all the way to the east gate of the county seat on Lin'an Street. Out of the east gate and trotted all the way east. After a while, Fang Jiren came to the address provided by Fang's eyes and nails - the courtyard gate of Fang Lusheng's house in the north residential area of the railway station. Fang Jiren put down the handlebars, lifted the placket of his clothes, wiped the sweat on his head, face, and neck, walked to the door, went up the steps, raised his right palm, and slapped the beast rank ring on the door hard.

After waiting for a while, the courtyard door opened a crack, and Yan Bo stretched out his head to glare at Fang Jiren and asked:

"Who are you? What are you knocking on my door for? Are you looking for the wrong door? No one in my family calls a foreign car, so let's go. "After that, I will close the courtyard door.

"You are Uncle Yan. Tell your master that I want to see him. Just go. Fang Jiren said as he stretched out his hand to prop up the hospital door.

"I'm the owner of this house, I don't know you, go quickly, don't feel uncomfortable here." I can tell you, you can't get out of this courtyard when you come in. ”

"Really? Then I'd like to give it a try. Francis pushed open the courtyard door and walked in.

As soon as Fang Jiren entered the courtyard gate, the courtyard door behind him was tightly closed, and six sturdy young men surrounded Fang Jiren tightly, all staring at him fiercely.

"Grab this bastard and throw it out!" Yan Bo, who was standing next to him, said sharply.

Six young men pounced on him like hungry tigers, trying to catch Francis. I saw Fang Jiren smile slightly, his hands and feet moved together, and the grappling and fighting moves were frequent, and the six young men were knocked to the ground and couldn't get up in a dozen strokes.

"Ahh What are you doing with your three-legged cats? Isn't there a shame? Hurry up, let's go find a piece of tofu and kill it. With that, Francis walked towards the main room in the front yard.

More than a dozen sturdy young men came out of the east and west wings of the front yard, and they surrounded Fang Jiren with great momentum, rubbing their fists and palms in a fighting posture......