The enemy engineer team of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division finally entered Wencheng to set up a secret intelligence station, which was a long-planned event by captain Xiao Junping. Ever since the two base areas at the foot of Guanmen Mountain were attacked by the Japanese puppet army at night, Wu Zijian, deputy battalion commander, has painfully felt the great passivity and danger brought to the troops by the ineffective intelligence work. Therefore, this time to regain their strength, Wu Zijian and Xiao Junping thought of the plan to establish an intelligence station in the nest of the Japanese puppet at the same time.

When talking about this, the first thing they think about is what kind of capacity they will carry out activities once they enter Wencheng. As an important commercial center in the central and southern areas of Jin, Wencheng is undoubtedly the most reasonable and unobtrusive to operate shops there. Coincidentally, when Xia Lianshan, the commander of the cavalry company, heard this, he took the initiative to talk about the business history of his hometown family, and proposed to use the operation of the silk village as a cover. Wu Zijian and Xiao Junping listened carefully and immediately agreed.

As soon as they said they would do it, they immediately entered Wencheng to look for a suitable storefront. Xiao Junping was very familiar with Wencheng, and when he learned that the brigade headquarters of the Japanese Hagiwara Brigade was located in the original bank building on Dongguan Street, the enemy engineer captain decided to open a shop on this street. After placing a suitable storefront, Xia Lianshan found a silk shop that had been destroyed by the Japanese army and had closed down according to what he had seen and heard when he sneaked into Fengdian County to look for his sister, and for only a few silver dollars, he shipped all the inventory in the store to the store in Wencheng.

At the same time, Wu Zijian also mobilized the entire second battalion, including the team from the Hongxing Gorge in Guanmen Mountain, to find officers and soldiers who had business experience, and quickly equipped the bookkeeper and the young man. Xiao Junping was really eye-opening and admired the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the Eighth Route Army. Wu Zijian and Li Tianlin joked and said: Everything is ready, it depends on you, the captain of the enemy workers, how to do business under the nose of the commander of the Japanese brigade! Xiao Junping was full of ambition and confidently led a group of enemy workers to Wencheng.

However, as soon as Cheng Ruixiang Silk Village opened, he encountered unexpected troubles, which couldn't help but surprise and delight Xiao Junping - what was surprising was that someone came to fight the autumn breeze and collect black money, and the happy thing was that the identity of the person who came was the Zhina detective team of the Japanese military secret service in Wencheng.

According to the information obtained from Wencheng reconnaissance earlier, Xiao Junping knew that there were not only Japanese spy agencies in the city, but also traitor spy teams raised by them, that is, the so-called detective team. These are undoubtedly the key targets of the enemy's engineering team in the future, and many sources of intelligence can be recovered from them. It's like I just wanted to sleep and brought a pillow, and at the beginning of the opening, the detective team came uninvited! Xiao Junping quietly instructed the shopkeeper Chen Xuanzhu to envelop the comers, generously took out a silver dollar, and replied to the two detective team agents who came to the door with joy, promising to take care of Cheng Ruixiang's business in the future.

Speaking of which, the reputation of the detective team for collecting protection money in the streets and alleys is still due to their captain. Captain Meng Longsheng did similar things when he was a ruffian in the past; It's just that at that time, he could only make small fights, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard; And now with the backing of the secret service of the Imperial Japanese Army and the gold-lettered signboard of the detective team, Meng Longsheng's protection fee has been collected a lot. He not only brainstormed and formulated a detailed charging standard, but also implemented the scope of charging to the head of the team members, and performed their duties in different parts. For a while, the large and small shops in Wencheng were made by him and complained bitterly.

The two spies who broke into Cheng Ruixiang's silk village, which was not yet in business, were the candidates who were arranged by Meng Longsheng to collect protection money in the area of Dongguan Street. The two guys suddenly looked up and saw the newly decorated silk village with a plaque hanging high, and immediately entered the door honestly and unceremoniously to collect the money. How did they know that the shopkeeper in the store was actually a companion to them, with a short gun in his waist.

The shopkeeper of the silk village sent away the two uninvited guests, and when he turned around and returned to the store, his face had turned blue: Chen Xuanzhu, the deputy captain of the enemy work team, was really sad about the piece of ocean that had just been handed over. At present, Shanxi is a Japanese-occupied area, and the paper money issued by the original national government has been abolished; However, the central bank of the Japanese puppet regime in Peiping had just been established, and it had not yet had time to issue new banknotes here. Therefore, hard currencies such as gold bars and silver dollars are almost the only currency in circulation.

"These two shitty traitors! As soon as the upper lip touched the lower lip, he fished out a piece of the ocean from Lao Tzu! Chen Xuanzhu said to Xiao Junping trembling with anger.

The captain of the enemy worker smiled: "Old Chen, don't feel distressed. I can't bear the child, and I can't catch the wolf. These two guys happen to be members of the detective team, and if we can catch them, we can usually find out the movements of many detective teams from their mouths; It is very likely that even some information about the Japanese army can be found from it. The deal paid off. ”

Chen Xuanzhu didn't think so, he warned his boss that it was not as simple as a piece of the ocean, he gave a piece today, and in a few days, these spies would come to ask for it!

After all, the Eighth Route Army was used to being poor on weekdays, and the officers and men of the Second Battalion of the Lin Division relied on these oceans and gold bars obtained from the landlord Lao Cai in the Xiping Land Reform, and the officers and men cherished them quite much. Xiao Junping, who was born in the Jin Army, of course knew this, so he no longer argued with Chen Xuanzhu. In fact, before coming, Deputy Battalion Commander Wu Zijian had already told him that as long as it was beneficial to the development of intelligence work and the use of money, the enemy engineer captain could make his own decisions.

Xiao Junping brought a total of seven enemy workers, including Chen Xuanzhu, to Wencheng this time. In addition, there were four other people who were replenished by Wu Zijian to the enemy engineering team, including the bookkeeper and the young man, and a couple. This couple, the husband is a recruit recruited by the Second Battalion of the Lin Division in Xiping Village, and the daughter-in-law is his real original partner. The couple and two members of the enemy labor team bought a farmhouse in the eastern suburbs outside Wencheng, pretending to be the proprietor of the farmer and hired long-term laborers. The mansion was only about two miles from the East City Gate and was set up as the outer contact point of the Wencheng Information Station. Once the intelligence station in the city had information that needed to be transmitted back to the base area at the foot of Guanmen Mountain, it would first be sent to this farmhouse, and then the enemy workers here would ride horses to report back to Wu Zijian's battalion headquarters.

The intelligence station in Wencheng City, of course, is located in Cheng Ruixiang Silk Village, Xiao Junping, Chen Xuanzhu and two members of the enemy labor team are guarding the store; The other two team members were arranged to work as porters in the freight yard of Wencheng Railway Station, taking the opportunity to observe and spy on the movements of Japanese troops on the railway line.

All these deployments are designed and presided over by Xiao Junping. Wu Zijian, the deputy commander of the second battalion, gave the young enemy captain absolute trust and power. Xiao Junping, who was inspired, secretly made up his mind that he must make a breakthrough in Wencheng in order to live up to Wu Zijian's trust.

"Captain, what are we going to do next?" After finally calming down, Chen Xuanzhu asked Xiao Junping.

"Shopkeeper Chen, remember, don't call us our positions here! Everyone must get used to their new identity," Xiao Junping pointed to the street outside the door, and lowered his voice with a stern expression: "It's not far from here, it is the headquarters of the Japanese Hagiwara Brigade, and plainclothes spies are dotted around the city, and if you are not careful, you will make a big mistake." ”

Deputy Captain Chen Xuanzhu made a big red face, and explained in a loud voice: I am not used to it when I first arrive, and I must pay more attention in the future.

Xiao Junping changed his words and began to explain the task to Chen Xuanzhu. He mentioned the Baoyuan Restaurant on Dongguan Street, and asked the shopkeeper of this silk village in front of him to go there to drink and eat more, and take the opportunity to make friends with the three sects and nine streams in the city, which would be of great help to collect intelligence.

Xiao Junping knew about the restaurant as early as when he was in the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army. Many officers at the brigade headquarters, including the brigade commander, used to go there to eat and drink. However, Xiao Junping, who was a telecommunications staff officer of the brigade headquarters at the time, was deeply ashamed of this, and secretly lamented that under the national disaster, "the warm wind smoked the tourists drunk, and Hangzhou was regarded as Bianzhou", so he never went to the Baoyuan Restaurant to eat and drink.

Unexpectedly, his original self-cleaning behavior actually laid the foundation for today's latent work. Otherwise, with his image of wearing the uniform of a captain of the Jin Army and entering and leaving the restaurant in a dignified manner, I am afraid that he would have long left a memory in the minds of many people in Wencheng; Now that you disguise your identity, it will be easy to disguise yourself.

"What? Drinking, eating, and making friends? Chen Xuanzhu's triangular eyes widened, and he asked in disbelief: "Is this also intelligence work?" The big restaurant in Wencheng, I think the price is not cheap, let's spend so much money, okay? The comrades of the second battalion are eating bran vegetables on the side of Guanmen Mountain! ”

"Here we go again!" Xiao Junping gently patted the Eight Immortals table in the store and scolded in a low voice: "I told you, don't easily pronounce the original name anymore!" What captains, comrades, battalion company commanders, etc., let the spies hear it, you, the shopkeeper who sells cloth, will be suspected immediately! ”

Chen Xuanzhu was speechless for a while, but his doubts still increased greatly: this enemy captain who was younger than himself had absolutely a set of schemes in his head; However, he was born as a Kuomintang officer, and he was used to eating and drinking; At present, I haven't gotten a copy of the information, and the ocean of white flowers has been spent like a lot of water, and I'm afraid it's not a matter if it goes on like this for a long time.

The so-called flowing money of the deputy captain of the enemy labor team includes the cost of setting up this shop in the city, and the cost of buying the farmhouse in the eastern suburbs of the city, and of course, a piece of the ocean that has just been given to the traitor spy for nothing!

"Shopkeeper Chen, doing business, you have to pay attention to the news and the road, if you just sit in the store, how can there be customers to come to the door? If you want to go to Baoyuan Restaurant, it is to make friends and open the door widely, so that you can do business well. ”

Looking at Xiao Junping, who was sitting next to the table of the Eight Immortals, sipping a bowl of new tea and smiling and chatting, Chen Xuanzhu actually felt a little trance: doing business? He really thinks we're here to do business?!