At the critical moment, Liu, the elder of the radio station on the side, suddenly blurted out: Cheng Ruixiang? It looks like a shop on Dongguan Street!

Lao Liu is in No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane, in addition to the radio station sending and receiving and guarding the house in the business, he also has a part-time job, which is responsible for the food of all the staff. He is a good cook, so he often has to go to the market to buy ingredients; Dongguan Street is one of the sections he frequents. Therefore, Cheng Ruixiang Silk Village is the store he has repeatedly passed by in front of his door, and he has an impression in his mind; At this moment, Li Yan mentioned this name in the conversation with squad leader Shen, which naturally touched his memory nerves.

After being reminded by the director of the radio station, Li Yan was also suddenly enlightened - it is indeed a cloth and silk village, he once witnessed it when passing by Dongguan Street, it was opened on the side of the street on the side of the Catholic church, and the plaque and door were new, and it should not have been open for a long time!

Could it be that the shopkeeper named Cheng Ruixiang is surnamed Xiao? And really the so-called "anti-Japanese elements" ?!

The agents of the military command hurriedly asked the squad leader Shen who had escaped by luck and the detailed scene of encountering the dying strong man in the shantytown north of the square in front of the station.

"That guy shouldn't be a Japanese puppet spy," Li Yan said with some certainty: "He mistook you and Sanxi for spies with guns, which shows that he himself is not a fellow believer - now the top priority is to find out Sanxi's life and death as soon as possible, if he has indeed been captured alive, we will immediately send a telegram to Major Wang and Shanxi Station, and prepare for emergency evacuation!" ”

"Lieutenant Li, don't talk about that!" The squad leader of the special service company of the Central Army shouted with grief and indignation: "Peng Sanxi is my good brother, we were born and died together on the Xinkou and Taiyuan battlefields last year, he is a tough guy - he will never betray our brothers and military commanders!" ”

Li Yan stared at the other party's angry face and was silent for a few seconds, and then slowly said word by word: "We who are engaged in underground spies must prepare for the worst; Of course, I believe that Sanxi is a tough guy, but that doesn't mean that he will be able to withstand the torture of the Japanese. ”

"Then hurry up and rescue him, the people of our spy company are willing to exchange their lives!"

"Rescue? How to save? The people of the spy company in Wencheng City, there are only two of you left, and the third one is staring at the railway branch line in the compound in the northern suburbs outside the city. Counting me, and counting the radio director who can't use guns, there are only four of us in total, and you want to rush to the Japanese secret service to save Sanxi with these four people?! ”

In the end, the agents of the military command were already full of voice. At this moment, he is the highest person in charge of the second intelligence group of Shanxi Station in Wencheng, and in this sudden crisis situation, there is no room for any illusions and hesitation. So he left behind the two soldiers of the special service company (the soldier sleeping in the No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane had already been alarmed), and instead dragged the elder of the radio station Liu back to his room, and verbally drafted an urgent telegram that was about to be distributed to the Shanxi Station in Taiyuan and the 391st Regiment Headquarters in Dayushu Mountain.

Preparing to stop the telegram, watching Lao Liu start operating the radio station, Li Yancai re-confronted the soldiers of the two spy companies to discuss the next course of action.

Because squad leader Shen was anxious to get out of the attack of the Japanese puppet spies, he failed to investigate the situation of his comrade-in-arms Sanxi after he was captured at the scene. Li Yan analyzed that Sanxi is likely to be directly escorted to the Japanese army's Wencheng secret service behind the Wencheng City Hall building; Of course, if he fell into the hands of a Chinese traitor, it does not rule out the possibility of being imprisoned in the detective team headquarters first.

"The dens of these two Japanese puppet spy agencies are not far from each other, and they are both in the back alleys of City Hall Avenue," Li Yan was very familiar with the geographical location of the entire Wencheng when he was on an errand in the Tongpu Railway Construction Bureau. Among them, the stationing of the Japanese military secret service and its traitor detective team in Wencheng was especially concerned by him.

"Lieutenant Li, can we pretend to be a traitor detective and take advantage of the chaos to sneak into their lair and act with a camera?"

It was squad leader Shen who spoke, and he thought of the big man who was shot and wounded just now, and when he saw him and Sanxi, he called the shopkeeper like a secret that he was an anti-Japanese element, and it was obviously the appearance of the two of them in plainclothes holding guns that caused the other party to misunderstand.

Li Yan pondered for a moment before shaking his head: this suggestion is obviously not valid. According to his knowledge, the total number of traitor detectives currently controlled by Meng Longsheng is only about 30, and the spies must be quite familiar with each other; Therefore, the strange men in the shantytown in the square in front of the station can not know the real spies, but if a few of their own people pretend to be members of the detective team and blatantly break into the team headquarters, they are afraid that they will be pierced on the spot.

"Now, the safety of No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane is the most important," the military commander agent tried his best to dispel the emotions of the soldiers of the special service company who were eager to take the risk to rescue their comrades: "If Sanxi has to say this, we will have to transfer people and radio overnight." ”

Squad Leader Shen had the intention to continue to fight, but in front of him, Lieutenant Li, who was usually not perverse in temperament, was like a different person at this moment, and his tone was strong and unquestionable.

Li Yan ordered a soldier of a special service company to climb the old willow tree in the courtyard to stand guard, and standing on the thick branches, he could clearly see the scene outside the mouth of the alley. If an enemy is coming, he can detect it early and give an early warning.

Lao Liu, who had sent two telegrams one after another, had already begun to pack up the radio equipment and could carry it out at any time.

After all this was deployed, the military commander agent ordered to wait for the day - I hope that the soldiers of the spy company who were shot and captured will grit their teeth, and if they can find an opportunity to kill themselves, it will be even more foolproof. It's just that this meaning can't be said in front of squad leader Shen and them. The last night attack on the Japanese military station at Wencheng Railway Station, Xiao Zhong, a soldier of the spy company who was seriously wounded, resolutely rang the * suicide on his body. This time, can that soldier named Sanxi still be able to do it?!

Also, who is the strong man who did not forget to expose the so-called anti-Japanese elements when he was dying? The dispute in the shantytown tonight, if nothing else, should be closely related to him - Squad Leader Shen personally confirmed that the guy was shot in the heart, and the blood stains had already stained his upper body, and he would not live for a moment or three at most. If it weren't for the sudden arrival of a group of traitor spies, Squad Leader Shen would have wanted to force the other party to speak in more detail.

Cheng Ruixiang, shopkeeper Xiao, anti-Japanese element - what kind of identity is this shopkeeper Xiao, an anti-Japanese element, and how was he recognized by that strong man and prepared to tell the whistle? How is the safety of Cheng Ruixiang and his shopkeeper Xiao now? Is it necessary for my side to send someone to find out what is going on or even warn him?

The dying strong man who was encountered by the squad leader of the special service company of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army in the shantytown in front of the station was the former corporal Zhang Shaonian of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army.

On this night, Zhang Shaonian can be said to have experienced several surprises and joys, including the joy of winning the bamboo bargain, and the surprise of being coerced by the staff officers of the former Jin army, until later the two sides tried to see the dagger in that shantytown and fought to the death, and finally alarmed the entire railway station area.

Since Xiao Junping, the enemy engineer captain of the Eighth Route Army, had made up his mind to completely exterminate Zhang Shaonian and the others, he made the greatest careful arrangements in advance under the circumstances at that time.

Except for Cheng Ruixiang's only female clerk, Sun Nier, who stayed on duty in the store, Xiao Junping took two enemy workers and coerced Zhang Shaonian to swarm out. Of course, Zhang Shaonian was still convinced of the old chief at that moment - the white flowers and the heavy pocket of the ocean were enough to show the sincerity of the other party to spend money to buy peace; The Jin army's ruffians, who were not scheming enough in the city government, underestimated the killing methods of this white-faced scholar.

So, he walked out of the gate of Cheng Ruixiang's silk village as instructed, and took the initiative to beckon the two accomplices across the street to come over boldly and confidently, and explained in a few words the plan to go out of the city tonight.

In this way, Xiao Junping and the three of them watched one-on-one, and the six of them went straight to the direction of the railway station in the west of the city.

Mr. Cheng Ruixiang's bookkeeper had already rushed to the house where the other two enemy workers were lurking near the railway station, informed them of the emergency situation, and asked them to be ready to respond immediately.

Xiao Junping and his entourage, who arrived later, rested for a while in the houses of the two enemy workers - they did not dare to delay too late, in that case, even in such a prosperous and lively area as the station would be sparsely populated by people and vehicles, and a few of them could easily arouse the suspicion of the Japanese puppet spies cruising nearby.

However, after arriving here, Zhang Shaonian and the other three regained their fear: the other party had changed from the original three to five at this time, and Zhang Shaonian even peeked at the scene where Xiao Junping quietly distributed short guns and short knives to the other two!

The explanation given by Xiao Junping is that the later out-of-town behavior needs to cross the Tongpu railway line outside the Wencheng railway station, and in order to prevent accidental encounters with Japanese soldiers and Japanese puppet spies, several of them carry firearms and weapons with them in case of emergency.

But this seemingly reasonable explanation did not dispel the suspicions of the former Jin army ruffians. At this point, he had even begun to regret that he had trusted his old chief's sincerity too much. Judging from the fact that the other party is well-staffed and well-equipped, it is absolutely impossible for Staff Officer Xiao to do any kind of Rausch silk cloth business in Wencheng City!

After inferring like this, and then thinking about the small pocket that was tightly held in his arms, Zhang Shaonian felt that this hundred oceans was too easy and smooth to earn - just with the other party's own Mauser* equipment, how could it be easy to accept blackmail!?

He tried to find an opportunity to communicate urgently with his two accomplices, but there were already five staff officers Xiao and his party, and at this moment, there were three people directly leaning on the three of them. And at this moment, Staff Officer Xiao gave the order to set off.

"We will escort the three of you out of the city from the area of the North Freight Yard, and then give you a ride after crossing Tongpu Road, and then we will rely on your own two legs to rush to Taiyuan."

Under the flickering and jumping candle light, the former staff officer of the Jin army said the above words to Zhang Shaonian quite calmly.

In desperation, the veteran ruffian grinned, and that smile looked even uglier than crying. He was thinking: Adapt to the situation, if this group of people in the silk business really have murderous intentions, they can't say it, they can only fight to the death!

Twenty minutes later, the group dodged through the street in front of the station and disappeared into the shantytown.