Lin Demeng drove an open-top jeep, Xiao Yazhi sat in the passenger seat, and three heavily armed team members sat in the back. The jeep was followed by three partial three-wheeled motorcycles, two in the middle, each with three people seated, the owner of a grocery store tied up in the body, and the second shopkeeper tied up in the other body, and three armed men sitting on a motorcycle in the back. The convoy was heading in the direction of the Secret Service. "Stop!" Xiao Yazhi suddenly ordered, and the convoy stopped. "Go to the General Intelligence Service." The convoy arrives at the gate of the Intelligence Service.

"Stop!" The guards stopped them. Lin Demeng glared at the guards and said, "You are blind, don't you know the stationmaster Xiao of the Secret Bureau?" The guards glanced at Xiao Yazhi and said immediately: "Without Director Bai's order, no one will be allowed to enter." ”

"! How old is the Intelligence Division? Lin Demeng took out a pistol and said to Xiao Yazhi: "Stationmaster, just let me lead someone to rush in and arrest Bai Yesheng, this kid." Xiao Yazhi glared at him and said, "Can you use your brains?" Bai Yesheng can be caught if you want to? He's the deputy commander now, what evidence do you have to arrest him? When Lin Demeng heard this, he was silent, inserted the gun into the holster, and thought, if you don't arrest him, what are you doing here? Xiao Yazhi said to Lin Demeng: "Stay here and follow my orders." After saying that, he got out of the car and said to the guards, "Can't I go in too?" The guard said, "Sir Xiao, you can go in, but the convoy must stop outside." Xiao Yazhi walked towards Bai Yesheng's office alone, and when she arrived at the door, she raised her hand to knock on the door, thought about it, put her hand down, and directly pushed open the door, and saw Bai Yesheng burying his head in the drawer to sort out the things in the drawer. She knocked on the door beside her, Bai Yesheng raised his head and smiled: "What kind of wind blew you to me?" ”

"Can't people come to see you?" Xiao Yazhi had a smile on her face.

Bai Yesheng pursed his lips, pointed at Xiao Yazhi with his finger, and said sarcastically: "Well, it's not right! I don't think it's that simple, I just met, and I said I thought about it, who are you fooling? Xiao Yazhi quibbled: "I think about it every day, I think about it all the time, can't I?" I still want to eat you. Bai Yesheng sneered: "Yes! People who are remembered by your secret bureau every day and think about it all the time seem to have a short life. Say, what are you doing here? Xiao Yazhi didn't want to hide anything anymore, so she asked straightforwardly: "Today, after the meeting, where did you go?" Bai Yesheng said disdainfully: "I am a dignified colonel and deputy commander, is it necessary to report to you where I go?" Xiao Yazhi said confidently: "It is my duty to ensure that the party-state intelligence is not leaked, that is, I will investigate anyone involved, no matter how big or small the official position is." Bai Yesheng pretended to be embarrassed by her, and said: "If your Secret Bureau says so, then I can only say, I'm sorry, if you want to check, I have nothing to say!" ”

"You ......" Xiao Yazhi was very angry.

Bai Yesheng said again: "However, if it is your sister Xiao who says, Brother Bai, where have you been today?" I'm willing to answer you. Xiao Yazhi suddenly turned her anger into joy and said, "You hateful guy, you dare to play tricks on me, see how I clean you up." Raising his pink fist to fight, Bai Yesheng made a pause gesture and said: "Listen to me, I'm not going to Nanliang tomorrow, so, go out to buy some daily necessities, and visit the store by the way, if you don't believe it, you can go and check." As he spoke, he casually took out daily necessities such as toothbrushes, razors, and shoe polish from the suitcase, showed them to Xiao Yazhi, and then threw them away and threw them on the table.

"Why don't you buy these things in Nanliang?" Xiao Yazhi asked suspiciously.

"As soon as I get there, I am busy with official business, and I want to suppress bandits immediately, and secondly, I am not familiar with Nanliang County, so I may not be able to find a shop at once, like washing my face and shaving my beard, but I can't wait." Xiao Yazhi saw that she couldn't squeeze anything usable, so she had to say: "Little sister still has official business, I have to leave, and I will send it to Brother Lao Bai." Bai Yesheng sent Xiao Yazhi to the gate, and was about to turn back, when he heard Xiao Yazhi say, "Wait!" Then, Xiao Yazhi waved her hand back and said, "Bring people up!" "The owner and the guy of the grocery store were brought to Bai Yesheng.

"Do you know them?"

Bai Yesheng replied: "Isn't this a person from a grocery store?" What's wrong? ”

"Do you know him?" Xiao Yazhi asked the two.

The owner of the grocery store said: "We are all ordinary people, how dare we climb this chief, I really don't know him." Xiao Yazhi said: "Take a good look, today, in the grocery store, have you seen this chief?" The two looked at Bai Yesheng tremblingly, the boss patted his head, and suddenly realized, and said: "No wonder I think this chief is a little familiar, indeed, today this chief came to our store and bought some razors and other things, he was wearing civilian clothes at the time, and now he has changed into a military uniform, how dare I admit it?" The boss hunched his waist, kept nodding his head, and pleaded with Xiao Yazhi and Bai Yesheng: "I am both people who keep their duties!" I don't know what Lu Dao is doing to arrest us? I beg the two chiefs, be merciful, let us go, we are old, we are young, we are not here, how can they live! As they spoke, the two began to weep bitterly. Bai Yesheng said: "Stationmaster Xiao, why can't you get along with the people?" Xiao Yazhi stared at Bai Yesheng's face with falcon-like eyes, and said coldly: "Then I have to ask you." Bai Ye said angrily: "Ask me what? Didn't you just go to the grocery store and buy something? Are you going to arrest me? Come on! Let's catch it! Xiao Yazhi was enraged and said angrily: "Do you think I don't dare? With a wave of his hand, the team members behind him rushed up with guns. The guards in the courtyard of the intelligence department also rushed out with guns, and the two sides were gun-to-gun. Bai Yesheng said disdainfully: "Fuck! Dare to come to this with Lao Tzu, you are looking for the wrong door, brothers! Keep an eye on them and play with them. With that, he swaggered back to the courtyard with his hands behind his back. Xiao Yazhi suddenly brought the grocery store owner and his companions to Bai Yesheng's purpose, first, to confirm whether Bai Yesheng had been to the grocery store, and second, if Bai Yesheng was a Communist Party, it was impossible to see the comrades who connected with him arrested, and he was indifferent, right? He must have two reactions: one is shock and grief, and the other is worry and fear, afraid that he has confessed. Seeing that Bai Yesheng had no shock, no worries, and no fear, his reaction now was the most normal. During the whole process, Xiao Yazhi's eyes never left Bai Yesheng's face, and the subtle changes in Bai Yesheng's emotions could not escape Xiao Yazhi's eyes. It seems that there is no point in such a stalemate, "Let's go!" Xiao Yazhi waved her hand, took the people, sat in the car, and went back to the Secret Bureau stupidly.

Back at the Secret Bureau, Xiao Yazhi instructed Lin Demeng to be responsible for interrogating the two people in the grocery store, and be sure to ask for a result. The grocery store owner and his companion were taken into the torture room, and the shopkeeper looked around the torture room with trepidation. In front of the wall in the middle of the torture room, there is a torture frame on the left and right, the torture frame is composed of two wooden piles with a diameter of more than 20 centimeters and a height of 1.8 meters, between the two wooden piles, a distance of 1.6 meters, and the top and lower parts of the wooden piles are equipped with iron chains and hemp ropes wrapped around them, which are used to bind the tortured person. In front of the two torture frames, there stood a shirtless man with a shaved head and a vicious man on the left and right. Three meters in front of the torture rack, there is a large iron furnace, the fire is in full swing, and there are several soldering irons on the red charcoal fire. In front of it, there was a long interrogation table, and next to the long table were several chairs, where Lindman and the clerk in charge of the transcript were seated. On the left wall of the torture room, there is a long table, on which are placed small wooden boxes, which contain large syringes, long needles, pliers, clips, nails, bamboo sticks, cloth bags, mille-feuille paper and other items. On the wall to the right of the torture chamber hung a row of torture instruments, including a long whip, an iron bar, a hammer, and a crowbar...... There are several wooden barrels next to them, which are filled with salt, salt water, chili water, dung water, etc. Not far from the barrel there was a room, which looked in from the outside, and in it was a tiger bench with some bricks stacked beside it, and further inside was a knee-deep pool, and a thick hemp rope hung from the beam over the pool, and the other end of the hemp rope was tied to a pillar beside it. Lin Demeng ordered two thugs to tie them to the torture rack, pointed to all kinds of torture tools, and said to the two: "Welcome to the Secret Bureau, there are eighteen kinds of torture tools here, try them all?" The owner of the grocery store pleaded, "Boss! We really haven't done anything, so you can spare us. Lin Demeng took the leather whip and dipped it in salt water, leaned up and said, "I will spare you, who will spare me?" Get acquainted, talk about it! Are you communists? The owner of the grocery store said, "I just opened a grocery store, what kind of party is that?" ”

"Don't say yes, do you? Call me! Lin Demeng picked up the leather whip and whipped it vigorously, and another torturer also whipped the shopkeeper. The two of them screamed.

"Stop fighting! I can't stand it anymore, I will say yes to whatever you ask. "These two people are really soft bones, they only ate a few whips, damn, they can't stand it, Lin Demeng scolded in his heart.

"Say it! Are you communists? ”

"Yes."

"Bai Yesheng, who is connected with you, is it the Communist Party?"

"Yes."

"Who are your superiors?"

"What superior? We don't know what to do. ”

"I don't know what to do, don't I?" Lin Demeng was fighting again.

"Boss, you make it clear, don't fight, I'll say it all." The shopkeeper pleaded.

"Who else is connected to you?"

"Wow, my dad, my uncle, and Boss Zhang from the wholesale store where the goods were purchased......"

In the torture room, the clerk in charge of recording quickly recorded the content of the interrogation.

After asking what he wanted to ask, he ordered the two to put their fingerprints on the torture record. Lin Demeng took a towel, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said to his subordinates: "Take these two people down, take good care of them, and wait for disposal." After speaking, he took the torture transcript from the clerk's hand, looked at it casually, held it with his right hand and patted it on the palm of his left hand, and then walked out of the torture room and looked for Xiao Yazhi to report the situation.

Xiao Yazhi took the torture record, read it carefully, and casually smashed it on the table in front of Lin Demeng, and said, "It's been a long time, that's it?" ”

"Yes! Webmaster, that's it. Linde replied.

Xiao Yazhi walked over, picked up the torture transcript on the table, and said, "Look at it, look at it, what is this?" Three aunts, six mothers-in-law and eight aunts, damn it, all of them are communists, is this possible? Lin Demeng said: "I don't think it's like it, the Communist Party is all hard bones, how can it eat a few whips, and be willing to recruit anything?" Xiao Yazhi threw the transcript into Lin Demeng's arms, and said angrily: "Not like? What else are you going to do with me? Get lost! Lin Demeng walked out the door in a gloomy manner, "Come back!" Lin Demeng turned around: "Stationmaster, what else do you have to order?" Xiao Yazhi waved her hand to Lin Demeng and said, "Go go, let those two go, what bullshit!" ”

"Yes!" Lin Demeng didn't know if the stationmaster was scolding those two people, or was he scolding himself? He hurriedly saluted, turned around and went out the door, and let the people go.

A middle-aged man wearing a white top hat, a pair of sunglasses hanging from his eyes, a short-sleeved white shirt on his upper body, a pair of gray short trousers on his lower body, and sandals made of rubber leather came to the gate of the Nanliang County Government. On the right side of the gate hangs the sign of "Nanliang County National Government", and on the left side hangs the sign of "15th Commissioner's Office". There is a guard on the left and right sides of the gate, and there is a guard box on the left side of the gate. Looking ahead, there is a two-story office building with a Western-style style. The middle-aged man walked to the gate.

"Stop! Who are you looking for? The guards stopped him.

"I'm looking for Deputy Commander Bai of your fifteenth commissioner's office, my surname is Huang, please report it."

"Don't stand here, I'll help you report." The guard carried the gun, trotted to the sentry box, put the gun behind him, and shook the phone of Bai Yesheng's office, "Sir Bai, there is a gentleman surnamed Huang looking for you outside the gate." Bai Yesheng's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Okay, I know, please wait a minute, I'll be there soon." After a while, Bai Yesheng came out, and the middle-aged man greeted him and asked, "May I ask this chief's surname?" Bai Yesheng replied: "Don't be surnamed Bai, the white of a white-faced scholar." What is your surname? The middle-aged man replied: "The contemptible surname is Huang, the Huang of the bumblebee, and he is the owner of the 'Yizihao' business house here." The two shook hands politely, and Boss Huang said, "The weather is so hot, Sir Bai, why don't we find a cool place and drink herbal tea, how about it?" Bai Yesheng replied: "Okay, please! The two made a humble gesture and went to a teahouse together. The location of this teahouse can be described as good. Next to the stone steps, there is an old man wearing a straw hat, is doing the work of mending shoes, along the stone steps up, a teahouse is located between two trees, on the left there is an ancient banyan tree like a giant umbrella, on the right is a thick and straight, towering kapok tree. There are two couplets on both sides of the door of the teahouse, and the right couplet reads: The kapok tree welcomes guests from all over the world with a smile. On the left side is written: The ancient banyan tree is happy to accept the eight square tea. Horizontal plaque in the middle: Yixin tea. Enter the teahouse, take a closer look, the structure of the teahouse, are all made of wood and bamboo, the beams and pillars are made of fir wood with a diameter of thirty or forty centimeters, the surrounding components are all composed of round bamboo or bamboo pieces, the surface of the wood and bamboo is painted with tung oil, the tone of copper color, it looks simple and elegant. The two of them went up to the second floor and chose a seat by the window to sit down. Looking out of the window, you can see the path you came from, and you can see the scene forty or fifty meters away.

"Sir Bai, what kind of tea do you like to drink?" Boss Huang asked.

"I saw that there is a saying of 'Bafang tea' on the couplet of this teahouse, there must be a lot of tea?" Boss Huang said with a smile: "I won't tell you, this tea house is opened by contemptible people, and there are some good tea houses in various places, but especially the oil tea in nearby Beijiang County and Guilin Gongcheng is the most famous." Of course, strictly speaking, drinking oil tea is not a cup of tea, but a soup, when Emperor Qianlong drank two bowls and named it 'Shuangshen Soup'. In this hot summer, we are tired and difficult, why don't we also drink two bowls of it, refreshing? ”

"Then we'll have two bowls?" Bai Yesheng said with great interest.

"Xiao Cui, get some oil tea."

"Okay!" After a while, Xiao Cui, a guy from the teahouse, brought the oil tea, and placed the oil fruits, peanuts, fried fragrant rice, green onions, etc. in small bowls in the center of the table, and then, in front of the two of them, put two small wooden bowls made of camphor wood, and poured the oil tea, "Okay, sir, please use it slowly." Just as he was about to leave, Boss Huang stopped Xiao Cui and said a few words in his ear, Xiao Cui hurriedly went down to the first floor, took a pair of broken shoes, went to the shoe repair stall, said a few words to the old man, put down the shoes and went back to the teahouse. The second floor is very quiet, just Bai Yesheng and Boss Huang. The sky in the distance, clear blue, a few white clouds lazily lying in the sky, unwilling to move a nest for a long time, the sun is desperately exerting power, the earth is baked, scorching, the heat wave is rolling, the heat is pressing. But there is another scene here, the shadows of the trees are swaying, the green shade is cool, the breeze is Buddha, and the heart is comfortable. Boss Huang stood up and said excitedly: "Comrade Bai Yesheng, let me introduce myself, my name is Huang Changming, I am the person in charge of the underground party of Nanliang County of the Communist Party of China, and my superiors instructed me to be your only contact person in Nanliang County." In the future, if there is any work that can be done directly to me. ”

"Comrade Huang Changming, you have worked hard." The hands of the two were tightly clasped together, and after the two sat down, Huang Changming said: "This teahouse is a liaison station of the underground party in my Nanliang County, and the guy is also our person. Huang Changming pointed to the old man who repaired shoes next to the stone steps and said, "Do you see the one who repairs shoes?" That person is also our traffic officer, his name is Dong Xin, you can call him Uncle Dong, in case of emergency, you can find him directly. In the future, the point where he repaired his shoes was set up not far from the gate of the county government. That's all for the situation, if you have any requirements, you can always ask us. Bai Yesheng said with great satisfaction: "Your work is very detailed, I don't have any requirements." Huang Changming said politely: "Come, let's taste our oil tea, and talk while drinking." Bai Yesheng skillfully put the ingredients into the oil tea, stirred evenly with a small wooden spoon, picked up the bowl, close to the nose, and gently inhaled the smell, a wisp of the fragrance of the oil tea accompanied by the elegance of the camphor wood, slowly into the heart, then feel refreshed, take a mouthful, swallow slowly, the residual fragrance in the mouth, the umami has entered the belly, suddenly feel comfortable and happy, can't help but from the bottom of the heart "ah" out of a sound, "tsk" said: "It can be described as a beautiful fragrance, good kung fu, good craftsmanship!" Huang Changming saw that this frame was a veteran of drinking oil tea, so he asked: "Look at the veteran, who is it?" Bai Yesheng replied in Guilin dialect, "Although I am from Guilin, I haven't drunk such authentic oil tea for a long time." Huang Changming smiled and said in Longcheng dialect: "Lao Bai, Lao Bai! You said it earlier, and I was ashamed to make my class have an axe for a long time? The two of them laughed, alas! After losing his temper, he looked at each other and quieted down, Bai Yesheng said: "The security regiment and the Self-Defense Corps will soon attack the Tanliang guerrilla area, please make preparations there quickly, and if there are specific operational arrangements, I will inform you in time." ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Huang Changming replied.

"In addition, the enemy's 'nightingale' hidden deep within us will also wait for an opportunity, which is a big threat to us, and we must find a way to dig him out."

"yes!" Huang Changming's mood became heavy, if this person is not removed, the harm will be endless! Bai Yesheng stood up and said: "I can't stay too long, don't leave it at that, thank you for your oil tea, let me feel extremely relaxed and happy, let me feel the warmth that I dreamed of in the revolutionary ranks, this is the most precious thing that I am in the enemy camp, it is difficult to get, I really hope that one day, there will be no worries and fears, no gunshots and cannons, we will be at ease, happy, playing oil tea, drinking oil tea, how good!" "Bai Yesheng is full of feelings and desires. Because of being in the enemy camp for a long time, you have to tense your brain all the time, worrying, afraid, lonely, helpless, and painful...... tormented him, consumed his youth and spirit. And today, at this moment, he found the feeling of returning to the revolutionary family. How nice it feels! It makes him feel extremely warm, relaxed and happy!

"There will be such a day, and it will come soon." The eyes of the two of them invariably cast into the distance......

Xiao Yazhi called Yuan Longbiao, the captain of the special service team, to the stationmaster's office and said to him: "Captain Yuan, you immediately rush to Nanliang County, command your special service team, collect all kinds of information on the Communist Party for the encirclement and suppression operation of the 15th Commissioner's Office, and cooperate with the work of the 'Nightingale', especially the movements of the 'Nightingale'. And that Bai Yesheng, also stared at me, but not too much, understand? ”

"Yes! Stationmaster. After receiving the task, Yuan Longbiao went back to prepare, and rushed to Nanliang County that night to prepare for the intelligence work of the special service team.

The Tanliang guerrilla brigade is stationed, in the ancestral hall of Mawei Village. Squadron Leader Hou Liang, Political Commissar Qin Gang, Deputy Brigade Leader Yang Ruping, Deputy Political Commissar Zhao Qi, and leading representatives of the 4th, 5th, and 6th squadrons are holding a meeting to study the operational arrangements for countering encirclement and suppression. In broad daylight, the sky gradually darkened, and when I looked up from the courtyard in the ancestral hall, the sky was already covered with dark clouds, and the patio was pressed down thickly. Gusts of wind swept across the patio, spinning tornadoes, tearing the leaves and branches scattered on the ground and roofs into the sky, sometimes spinning, sometimes fluttering down, sometimes being quickly pulled to higher ground. There was thunder in the distance, and "boom boom" rolled in this direction. In the room where the meeting was held, the light became darker and darker, and the atmosphere in the room became more and more solemn. Hou Liang said: "Comrades! According to the information we have, the enemy's Longcheng District Security Corps and the Nanliang County Self-Defense Corps will jointly launch an all-out encirclement and suppression campaign against the Tanliang guerrilla zone, in an effort to completely annihilate the Tanliang guerrilla brigade and open up the main communication route between the north and the south. ”

"If you want to destroy us, it's not that easy, you have to pass me first.!" Li Fengjiang, the leader of the fourth squadron, stood up suddenly, slammed his fist on the table, and said angrily.

"Yes, yes, we are not vegetarians, we fought with them!" The other comrades also became indignant. Hou Liang motioned for Li Fengjiang to sit down with his hand, and at the same time motioned for everyone to be quiet, and continued: "Comrades, since the enemy wants to encircle and suppress us, then we must be prepared to counter the encirclement and suppression. Qin Gang said, "Yes! Comrades, we must fight a battle with certainty. Hou Liang said: "Since we are guerrillas, we must still adhere to the '16-character' principle of guerrilla warfare when the enemy is strong and we are weak: the enemy advances and we retreat, the enemy is stationed and we disturb, the enemy is tired and we fight, and the enemy retreats and we pursue." For this reason, when the enemy's foothold is not stable, we must send a small force to attack and harass the enemy, and when the enemy attacks, we will fight and retreat, and go to a place more suitable for dealing with the enemy, and fight guerrilla warfare; when the enemy is dragged out of exhaustion, we will attack him in all directions, and when the enemy retreats, we will return here, and the enemy's encirclement and suppression will be declared a failure. ”

"Well said!" Qin Gang took the lead and applauded. Qin Gang added, saying: "After you go back, you must follow the unified deployment of the brigade, conscientiously prepare for war, and fight a good battle against encirclement and suppression. That's all for today's meeting, adjourned! ”

"Crackle!" With a loud bang, a blue lightning bolt pierced the sky, flashing with arc light, and from the blackest clouds, it slashed straight down, instantly splitting the side of a large tree along with its branches, revealing the torso that had been eroded by termites. The torrential rain came suddenly, and the torrential raindrops desperately hit the faces and bodies of the comrades who had returned to the guerrilla garrisons, and the delegates could not care so much about it, and they had to brave the thunder and lightning to rush back to the troops to organize an anti-encirclement and suppression battle.

At this point, in the area of the Guizhou-Guizhou border region, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party dispatched troops and arranged troops, and the battle clouds were dense, and a decisive battle between encirclement and suppression and anti-encirclement and suppression began. It is bound to be a bloody and bloody showdown at the pinnacle, and it will also change the situation in which the strength of the enemy and our enemies are comparable, and will turn a new page in the cause of liberation in the Guizhou-Guizhou border region.