Shen Rongxuan stepped out of the way, and a dark shadow stood in front. This is a bureau of Director Chen. He nodded downward, then pointed to the picture with a thin stick and said:

"This is the captain of the Grasshopper, Lieutenant Akiyu. Okay, next one. ”

Another girl.

"This is the engineer officer, Second Lieutenant Li Wenmei. Next. ”

Xiuxiu's photo.

"This is Second Lieutenant Sang-so, the communications officer. Next ......"

Looking at Xiuxiu's photo and on it, Xiang Xiaoqiang understood: Dongchang concealed Xiuxiu's identity as an agent and the fact that she was spared by a stand-in, and still said to the external unit that all twelve people were kidnapped.

After the release of the information of the twelve girls, Director Chen briefly introduced the accident of the submarine wreck last night, the crew was captured and then escaped, and said very concisely, without mentioning Xiang Xiaoqiang's name at all, just saying that "I was rescued by a hidden person of my East Factory", and completely took the credit to the East Factory itself.

Although Xiang Xiaoqiang was unhappy, he knew that this was in front of so many ministers of civil and military affairs, so he could only say this, and he could still understand it. Then Director Chen focused on the kidnapping of the submarine crew this morning. Listening to Xiaoqiang, it is basically the same as what Jiang Meilu introduced to him.

"Director Chen," Shen Rongxuan added, "the information we just received can also be introduced to your lords." ”

"Yes," Director Chen bowed and gestured, "Put the map." ”

A map appeared on the curtain, although it was hand-drawn, but it seemed to be military, and it was drawn very thinly and marked with contour lines.

"Ladies and gentlemen," said Director Chen, "this is Pukou Town. ”

Then he pointed to the place where the circle had been drawn with a red pen:

"According to intelligence, the members of the Grasshopper are now being held in Pukou. Right here, still in the compound of the garrison headquarters, in the building at the sticky pole. And we judge that at least until noon tomorrow, they will be in Pukou. ”

No one spoke. After a while, Marquis Zheng broke the silence:

"Hehe, why?"

Director Chen hurriedly said respectfully in his direction:

"Hou Ye Mingjian, it's like this, there are not enough trains. This time, the puppet Qing side planned to allocate at least 1,000 guards to escort the prisoners. Based on the 88-person passenger carriages that the Qing army usually used to transport troops by rail, it would cost 11 to 12 troop carriages alone. Plus the prisoner wagon, at least twelve knots. If Fourteen Gege returns to Beijing with the train, then there will be a box added. That's thirteen carriages. And that's not counting the food trucks. However, at the railway station in Pukou, most of the cars I saw were freight cars, and only six passenger cars were found, all of which were attached to different trains and were about to depart at any time. So, there aren't enough trains, that's one of them.

"Second, according to reliable information, the Puppet Qing Fourteen Gege was worried that the Pukou Army was heavily infiltrated by our side, and had asked the Puppet Emperor to transfer troops from other places. This place should be Xuzhou. Xuzhou is the closest military town to Pukou, with a large number of elite troops stationed. In addition, Xuzhou is also a large railway hub, which can give up empty carriages in batches within a day. However, it takes seven to eight hours to depart from Xuzhou to Pukou at the earliest, that is, half a day, and the Xuzhou garrison received an order to temporarily transfer these 1,000 people to piece together the train, and in terms of the consistent efficiency of the Qing side, it will take half a day at the earliest. In this way, even if they had given the order this afternoon to take the prisoners away, it would be at least until noon tomorrow. Therefore, we judged that the captives would be in Pukou before noon tomorrow. ”

"Well," Shen Rongxuan was very satisfied, waited for a moment for everyone to digest and digest, and then asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, what is the problem?" ”

After a moment of silence, a voice in the darkness asked coldly:

"Director Chen introduced such a lot, and asked you to calculate for a long time, what do you want to explain?"

"Oh," Director Chen smiled slightly, "it's Lord Yushichang." ”

"Yes," the voice said proudly, "it's Chang." ”

"Oh, Master Chang," Director Chen said with a smile, "I'm sorry that I didn't want to explain anything when I asked Lord Chang to 'count for a long time'. ”

Chang Yushi sneered:

"Oh? Is that your Dongchang playing with all the adults here? ”

"Don't dare," Director Chen said with a smile, "I'm just going to tell you the basic situation for the adults' reference." If it's not about playing, it's just a joke for Chang Yushi. ”

There was a snicker, mixed with a slight cough.

Chang Yushi slammed the table, the lid of the teacup clanged, and he could only be heard panting in the dark. After a while, he coldly shook off a sentence:

"Okay, this imperial history is not as knowledgeable as you."

Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't know why, when he heard Director Chen choke on the imperial history, he felt very relieved, probably because he had already taken on the role of "Dongchang personnel".

That's right, you should be arrogant, this is like the momentum that Dongchang should have. is best like the classic sentence of factory governor Cao Zhengqin in "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Do you want a holy decree?" Come on, let's write one for him! "It's enough to feel.

After staying for a while, Shen Rongxuan said lightly:

"Bing-new."

"Yes." Chen Bingxin, director of the First Bureau, owed his body and stepped aside.

Shen Rongxuan coughed and said with a smile:

"Ladies and gentlemen, Director Chen just said the basic situation, that is, from now until noon tomorrow, the members of the 'Grasshopper' will be in Pukou, but after noon tomorrow, it will be difficult to say."

An old man on the left next to him said loudly:

"Shen Dugong, the old man has a sentence, I don't know whether to say it or not."

Shen Rongxuan hurriedly bowed down and said:

"Oh, Master Xu, please speak."

This is Foreign Minister Xu Yuanzhen. The old man was over sixty years old, gray-haired, thin, with a goatee, reading glasses, and the light reflected from time to time in the dark, like the eyes of some animal, shining.

The old man was also polite, and smacked his tea:

"If the old man understands correctly, Director Chen, or Shen Dugong means to say: Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to save people, you have to hurry, while a few little girls are still in Pukou, hurry up, and you may be able to rescue people, otherwise you will be escorted north at noon tomorrow, and there will be no chance. Isn't that what it means? ”

After a moment of silence, Shen Rongxuan said:

"That's basically what it means."

"Well, that's what it means. Then the old man didn't understand, why did he say that he wouldn't have a chance at noon tomorrow? The old man has a good brain, so let's do the math: There are more than 1,000 kilometers of the railway line from Pukou to Beijing, and the pseudo-Qing Dynasty is afraid that we will destroy the railway, so the speed of the train has always been afraid to exceed 30 kilometers, and it has to add coal and water on the way, so that it will take almost two days and nights to reach Beijing. Since we have such a long time and such a long route, we are ambushing along the way, wouldn't the odds of victory be greater? ”

Shen Rongxuan smiled:

"This question can be asked by Captain Huang of the parachute commando."

"Yes," a soldier's figure stood up straight, his voice relatively young, "Lord Xu, this method is not feasible. Of course, we can ambush along the way, but first, the troops we can transport are limited, and it is difficult to form an advantage, and second, even if we are lucky enough to attack successfully, we will absolutely not be able to withdraw if we go deep into the enemy's territory. ”

The old man stroked his beard and nodded:

"I see. There are 1,000 soldiers in the pseudo-Qing escort car, and it is difficult for us to form an advantage. So in Pukou, there are 60,000 people stationed in the puppet Qing Dynasty, how many more people do we have to send to form an advantage? ”

As soon as these words came out, there was silence. After a while, Captain Huang said:

"Lord Xu misunderstood, what Xia Guan meant was that it was not necessary to form a military advantage, but it must be able to withdraw back. In the operation at Pukou, although there is no superiority in troops, it is only separated by a river, and it is easy for us to withdraw regardless of whether we succeed or not. If we go hundreds of miles deep into the enemy's territory, we can certainly parachute dozens of people to attack the train, but even if we succeed, how will these dozens of people come back? ”

Xu Yuanzhen stroked his beard again and said:

"Well, that is to say, it is easy to do it along the railway, but there is no hope of withdrawing it. Although it is difficult to do it in Pukou, there is hope for it to be withdrawn. ”

Captain Huang breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Master Xu."

Xu Yuanzhen said with a haha:

"Hehe, so the old man is too worried, presumably Dongchang is somewhat sure of the rescue operation. Director Chen, you can tell everyone what is the security situation on the other side? ”

……

Xu Zhien whispered coldly:

"These politicians shouldn't have been invited tonight. If there were only people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, we wouldn't be able to make much of a storm, and now that the two cabinet ministers are sitting here, we will have to rely on God's blessing if we want to rescue them. ”