Although Fang Moshu had long been a member of the Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command, and had been to Wencheng before, he was not present or aware of Li Yan's opening of the No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane as a new foothold, and of course, he could not grasp the hidden communication organs next to the door frame of the courtyard.

So standing outside the door at this moment, he just stretched out his hand and knocked on the two copper rings on the courtyard door, and saw that there was no response for a long time, and gradually increased the intensity of the knock. Suddenly, Fang Moshu's heart was shocked, and an ominous premonition gushed out: Could it be that this stronghold of the second intelligence group has been seized by the Japanese puppets?!

Thinking of this, Fang Moshu, an agent who had become a monk halfway through the road and was directly promoted to lieutenant of the military command, walked away from the steps of the courtyard gate with an arrow step, jumped two or three steps away, and stared at the immovable vermilion courtyard gate with a nervous expression.

Fang Moshu, who was tense and nervous, had never expected that his rather reckless amateur amateur avoidance action was being seen by the person on a big willow tree above his head - Li Yan, an agent of the military command, climbed the big willow tree near the wall of the courtyard a minute ago and looked out, but the knocker was close to the door frame, and he couldn't see the whole picture of the other party from this angle. It wasn't until the person left the door that Li Yan recognized his comrade in surprise!

After all, Li Yan had experienced short-term training and even actual combat tests, and his on-the-spot reaction was much more sophisticated than Fang Moshu's, he quickly looked at the mouth of the alley and the depths of the alley, and did not see any other figures, but he did not dare to call directly on the branches, lest he disturb Fang Moshu again. So he climbed down the willow tree in three steps and two steps, ran to the gate of the courtyard a few meters away, held his breath and pulled down the latch of the door, opened the half of the gate by a crack, and stood outside the door in a flash, beckoning to the comrades of the military commander who were hesitating and panicking.

Fang Moshu, who was wearing myopic glasses, didn't recognize Li Yan for the first time, until the other party waved again and again, and then looked at it, and then ran forward in ecstasy, almost shouting something out of his mouth. Li Yan hurriedly put a finger to his lips, and at the same time turned sideways to open the courtyard door wider, and the interesting Fang Moshu immediately shut up and swept into the courtyard in front of the other party's body. Li Yan looked vigilantly around the alley again, and then he dodged into the courtyard and closed the gate again.

"Brother, you freak the hell out of me! - Why did it take so long to open the door? Fang Moshu was shocked and shouted in a low voice, but his face was already full of joy.

Li Yan had received a telegram from Shanxi Station before, and knew that Fang Moshu had already set off from Taiyuan to meet in Wencheng. However, Fang Moshu during the trip was completely unaware of the terrifying scene that the second intelligence team had just experienced in Wencheng. After the adventure, seeing that his comrade-in-arms and brother in the same group were safe, the young Lieutenant Li was excited, and stepped forward to grab the other party's hands: "Brother Fang, let's go into the house and talk!" ”

In the past, in the second intelligence group, Li Yan was used to calling Fang Moshu "brother-in-law", because he first met Zhou Yi, the eldest sister who was married to Fang Wei. However, Zhou Yi, who was also an agent of the second intelligence group, had died in the line of duty, and the careful Li Yan was reluctant to use this title to touch Fang Moshu's mourning.

Sitting in the room, the two briefly exchanged views on their recent movements. Li Yan focused on the situation of the secondment of six officers and soldiers from the special service company of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, which Fang Moshu had heard of at the Shanxi Station in Taiyuan. Knowing that two of the six officers and soldiers of the spy company had unfortunately died, and thinking of his beloved wife who had also been killed by the Japanese puppet spies, Fang Moshu burst into tears, took off his glasses and wiped his eyes.

Li Yan has a good impression of Zhou Yi, who not only joined the military command one step ahead of him, but also became the right-hand man of the female major Wang Suihua of the military commander, and usually takes good care of him, a single little brother.

One thing he remembered most clearly was that when he was in the dilapidated compound in the northern suburbs of Wencheng and monitoring the branch line of the Tongpu Railway to Little Elm Mountain, Zhou Yi once went to visit with Wang Suihua and brought delicious sauce meat and roast chicken. When Li Yan, who was gobbling up, almost choked on eating, Zhou Yi, as the eldest sister, carefully poured herself a bowl of water - but she never expected that that time in the dilapidated compound in the northern suburbs of Wencheng would be the last time that Zhou Yi's eldest sister saw her before her death!

"Brother Fang, don't worry, if the brother has a breath, he must also kill the traitor who killed my sister Zhou, and avenge her and you!" Li Yan said impassionedly.

Fang Moshu nodded vigorously, calmed down his emotions, and turned the topic to business. He told Li Yan that before he left, the stationmaster Zhao Qingwen specially reported several major events that had happened recently, and asked him to relay them to Wang Suihua, the leader of the second intelligence group-

First, according to the information of the Military Command Bureau, the Japanese government sent a high-level advisory group to Beiping in late April to settle in the puppet provisional government of the Republic of China with the traitor Wang Kemin as the chairman. This meant that Japan began to take over the traitorous puppet regime that controlled North China.

Second, up to now, the puppet Republic of China Provisional Government controlled the four provinces and two cities in North China (i.e., Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Beiping, and Tianjin), only Shanxi Province has not yet established a puppet office. According to the latest information from the Northwest Region of the Military Administration and the Shanxi Station, Su Tiren, who was a counselor of the Shanxi Provincial Government before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, is currently preparing for the establishment of the Shanxi Puppet Office under the active promotion of the Japanese army's Taiyuan secret service, and Su Tiren himself plans to serve as the puppet governor of Shanxi Province in the near future.

Third, according to secret sources, Su Tiren has recently had frequent contact with Yan Xishan, commander of the Second Theater of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, who has retreated to the southwest of Shanxi, and the two have been friends for many years. It is reported that Yan Xishan intended to acquiesce in Su Tiren's appointment as the governor of the puppet Shanxi Province under Japanese rule. However, the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau highly suspected that the Japanese secret service was persuading Yan Xishan to surrender through Su Tiren.

Of the three things relayed by Fang Moshu, the last two attracted Li Yan's great attention. Although he is not a professional agent of the Military Command Bureau, because he has been immersed in the Yan Xishan regime for many years, he has a good understanding of the local political and economic system in Shanxi: "Su Tiren used to be a number one person in Shanxi, does this guy really want to be cheeky and come out as a traitor?" ”

Fang Moshu, who is also not a professional agent of the Military Command Bureau, has worked in Shanxi newspapers for many years, so he is also familiar with this politician Su Tiren: "It is not surprising that since the Japanese want to promote traitors to be the spokesmen of the puppet governments in various places, they will inevitably use those politicians who have influence in the local area. I was surprised that Yan Xishan would acquiesce to Su Tiren doing this! ”

"On behalf of the Japanese, Su persuaded Yan Xishan to surrender, was it the analysis of the Military Command Bureau, or did he really hear the exact rumors?" Li Yan continued worriedly: "In February this year, the First Army of the North China Front Army formed a temporary mixed brigade, with an infantry wing each from the Yamaoka Division and the Sena Division, to attack Yan Xishan's last territory in the southwest of Shanxi. According to our accurate information, the mixed brigade suddenly disintegrated on its own initiative in the previous stage - the Saijo Wing under the command of the Sena Division had withdrawn to the western suburbs of Bunjo Castle alone and returned to the Hagiwara Brigade system. At that time, Team Leader Wang and I still couldn't understand this abnormal practice of the Japanese army. Now it seems that it was the prelude to Huairou that they made in trying to persuade Yan Xishan to surrender?! ”

This analysis suddenly made Fang Moshu anxious: "Brother, what you said scared me!" During my stay in Linfen, I witnessed with my own eyes the many pre-war preparations made by the main force of the Sena Division to prepare for the attack on Zhongtiao Mountain in the south of Jinnan, and it can be said that the defense line of the Central Army under the command of Commander Wei Lihuang still made the Japanese army very jealous, and until I left Linfen, there was no sign of the Sena Division launching an offensive. The reason for this is that in addition to the strict preparation under the command of Chief Wei, there is also the factor that Chief Yan contained the actions of the Japanese army in the southwest of Shanxi. The two commanders of the Second Theater of Operations, one in the south of Jin, and the other in the southwest of Jin, were leaning on each other, and the Japanese must have had a big headache. However, if Yan Xishan's determination to resist the war is loosened, or even the sun falls, it will inevitably constitute a devastating disaster for the central army in southern Jinnan! If this is the case, Shanxi is dead! ”

Li Yan saw that the other party became more and more excited, and in the end, he even coughed violently, and hurriedly said something to comfort, saying that he was just analyzing and judging, and the situation might not be so bad. While comforting, he got up and went to the Eight Immortals Table to get a teapot and a bowl, and poured water for the literati-minded Brother Fang.

"I listened to the private discussions of my colleagues at Shanxi Station," Fang Moshu, who had drunk a few sips of white water, gasped and said to Li Yan: "Once Su Tiren openly surrenders to Japan, the headquarters of the Military Unification Bureau will inevitably issue a killing order to the Northwest Region, and the task of exterminating this big traitor will undoubtedly fall on the head of Shanxi Station." ”

When Li Yan heard this, his spirits first lifted, and then he showed worry - Shanxi Station currently has two intelligence groups, but only one action group, and Wang Suihua once commented that its manpower is not very strong. Only a few months after the establishment of the new Statistical Bureau of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, the forces in the northwest and north China were obviously weak. Among them, the Beiping Station under the jurisdiction of Beiping District has not even established an action group; So much so that at the end of March this year, after Director Dai Li's order to instruct the Beiping District and sanction the traitor Wang Kemin, chairman of the puppet Provisional Government of the Republic of China, was issued, the Beiping Station had to temporarily seconded the personnel of the action team from the Tianjin Station to carry out the assassination operation. In the end, the killer failed to kill Wang Kemin due to a mistake in judgment, and his Japanese adviser Eiji Yamamoto acted as a substitute for the dead ghost.

The scale of the Beiping District of the Military Command Bureau, which has jurisdiction over Beiping Station, Tianjin Station, and Chasui Station, is already much stronger than that of the Northwest District, but the action force to sanction traitors is still so stretched, not to mention the Shanxi Station under the jurisdiction of the Northwest Region!

Li Yan didn't tell Fang Moshu about his worries, lest the latter become more and more anxious. In his consciousness, the current Shanxi Station Intelligence Group No. 2, due to the joining of several elite soldiers of the Special Service Company of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, may not be inferior to the Shanxi Station Action Group in terms of overall strength. He was thinking, if Wang Suihua, the team leader on the way back, knew about this, would he take the initiative to ask the stationmaster Zhao Qingwen to take over the task of sanctioning the Shanxi traitor Su Tiren?!

Thinking that the beautiful female boss was rushing back day and night, the military commander agent who had been alone in the empty room for many days and had suffered incidents again and again, couldn't help but lose his mind, and a pair of eyes subconsciously looked at the small kang in the house.