Chapter 322: Captain or Foe
Xiao Junping, the captain of the enemy labor team, walked through the small square in front of Wencheng Railway Station and walked into the station box office and waiting room when it was almost close to sunset. A few feet behind him, a member of the enemy team followed, and the two went their separate ways, pretending not to know each other. On this trip, they also came from the Sena Division Regiment Station in the south freight yard of the railway station.
The plan for the joint operation of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade and the 391st Regiment of the Central Army has been very clear, and from the information from the headquarters of the 2nd Battalion at the foot of Guanmen Mountain, Xiao Junping has generally learned the role and objectives of the 2nd Battalion in this operation; However, Deputy Battalion Commander Wu Zijian unexpectedly gave him a new task: Before the start of the joint operation, quickly find out the weapons and ammunition reserves of the Japanese military station in Wencheng, and at the same time assess the possibility of stealing some of them while the railway outside the city was in chaos.
Xiao Junping, who received this order, couldn't help but be very troubled: Previously, the deputy battalion commander had explained that he had not had time to implement the idea of buying urgently needed light weapons from the underground arms black market in Wencheng, and he did not expect that he would actually start the idea of the Japanese again! Stealing weapons and ammunition from heavily guarded Japanese military stations is far more difficult than spending money on the black market for arms.
Chen Xuanzhu, deputy captain of the enemy engineering team, was very pleased with the deputy battalion commander's new motion, and he felt that if he could steal arms from the Japanese, it would of course be better than spending a lot of money to buy them, and the Eighth Route Army (Red Army) had always had a tradition of stealing weapons and equipment from the enemy, and although this time it was not robbing but stealing, the nature was still the same. Xiao Junping didn't show his true thoughts in front of his deputy, he didn't know the benefits of getting weapons without spending money, however, the danger of sneaking into the Japanese army's heavily guarded freight yard to get a chestnut in the fire was self-evident. In the evening, he appeared at the railway station with a member of the enemy engineering team, just to personally investigate the Japanese army's southern freight yard at close range.
The South Freight Yard in the twilight is lit up earlier than the train station. Far from the fence of the freight yard, there were already heavily armed Japanese soldiers standing guard and patrolling, and it was impossible for ordinary people to approach, let alone enter the cargo yard. Looking at all this from a distance, Xiao Junping secretly complained in his heart: The deputy battalion commander's sudden idea was obviously too wishful thinking.
Knowing that this area is full of Japanese pseudo-plainclothes agents, the enemy engineer captain does not dare to make too explicit observations; In addition, the South Freight Yard itself is far away from the platform of the railway station, and ordinary passengers usually do not patrol near the freight yard, so Xiao Junping naturally will not take the risk of moving forward.
In addition to the Japanese officers and soldiers, who else could freely enter and leave the South Freight Yard?
Porters are definitely not good, two members of Xiao Junping's team are working as porters in the freight yard, but they are in the civilian North Freight Yard; According to the reports of the two team members, the South Freight Yard, which was requisitioned by the Sena Divisional Military Station, was all loaded and unloaded by people from the Division's Heavy Infantry Wing on weekdays, and the common people were absolutely unable to intervene.
Xiao Junping thought of the candidates on the railway line, such as the dispatcher at the station, the railway worker, and even the train driver, and so on. These people who deal with railways and stations all day long should have more opportunities to enter the South Freight Yard. The enemy team had to either befriend them or pretend to be their men in order to carry out the bold plan of the deputy battalion commander. However, this alone was not enough, and the most difficult part of the implementation of this plan was how to safely transport the stolen arms and weapons out of the heavily guarded South Cargo Yard in full view of the Japanese officers and soldiers.
After all, Wu Zijian, the deputy battalion commander, also thought of the difficulties, so he specially emphasized to Xiao Junping: If this action is taken, it is necessary to choose the opportunity after the second battalion and the 391st regiment start a battle on the railway line, at that time, the Japanese army is bound to be busy with the defense of the entire Wencheng city and even send troops out of the city to reinforce the Lingshi line, so that the enemy team will have a chance to attack.
Thinking about the instructions of the deputy battalion commander in his mind, Xiao Junping at the station was a little distracted for a while, until the whistle of the train suddenly sounded, which made him realize. It was a passenger train on the platform that had just entered the station, from the direction of Taiyuan, and it should also be the last passenger car to enter Wencheng today; Since the beginning of the passage of civilian buses on Dong Po Road, buses and trucks from the north have entered the station almost every day. However, according to the observation of two enemy engineers at the North Freight Yard, the Japanese military trains transporting soldiers and baggage supplies still accounted for the majority of the Tongpu Road trains; Among them, the proportion of trains transporting baggage supplies is much higher than the proportion of transporting troops.
The people on the platform were almost gone, and Xiao Junping was also wrapped in the last group of passengers and slipped out of the station. If he is asked to make an assessment now, then the advice given by the enemy engineer captain to the deputy battalion commander must be: stop the operation, and then observe and prepare. It's just that he doesn't know what Wu Zijian thinks about this proposal?
Xiao Junping, who was anxious and worried, slowly walked back to Cheng Ruixiang Silk Village on Dongguan Street; Unexpectedly, when he walked to a place less than a foot away from the Silk Village, he was shocked to see a three-wheeled motorcycle parked there under the dim street lamps and the red lanterns hanging at the entrance of the Silk Village!
This kind of transportation, which is rare in the whole city, basically comes from the garrison Japanese army, some are used to transmit personnel and information, and some are used to patrol the streets. At this moment, Xiao Junping even saw a small flag planted in front of the motorcycle body, although the flag was curled up in the windless night, but the well-informed enemy captain had already judged that the flag was undoubtedly the Japanese sun flag!
How did the Japanese motorcycle stop in front of their shop?! Could it be that the underground intelligence station has been exposed?!
The captain of the enemy workers, who was shocked into a cold sweat, was about to run away, but after a moment he calmed down again: unlike the abnormal appearance, the lights peeking out from the half-hidden silk village gate and the windows facing the street seemed to be very harmonious, and there was no sound of fighting or noise in the store. Moreover, apart from this dazzling three-wheeled motorcycle, there was not even a shadow of a Japanese soldier in sight at the door.
The enemy worker who followed and covered Xiao Junping to the train station also arrived, Xiao Junping turned around and walked two steps closer to him, and commanded in a low voice: There is a Japanese motorcycle at the door, you go into the store to see what is going on.
The team member was also startled at first, but seeing that his captain was not panicked, he calmed down and walked into Cheng Ruixiang's store.
The three-wheeled motorcycle was indeed Japanese, and the sun flag was indeed planted in front of the body; However, at the moment, its owner has become a Chinese: Meng Longsheng, the captain of the detective team.
The motorcycle was originally part of the Japanese military secret service in Bunjo, but the head of the agency, Masao Kojima, had recently assigned it to the Shina Detective Team, and he trained the driver for a short period of time with the aim of strengthening the team's mobility. But as soon as this motorcycle arrived at the detective team, it was taken by the captain Meng Longsheng as his own and became the captain's special car. Meng Longsheng, sitting in the car body, felt very good, although the cold wind in early spring and February was like scissors, but Meng Longsheng had no chill, only experienced a burst of comfort, the motorcycle on the streets of Wencheng or galloping or slow, all of which made the detective captain more and more aware of the sense that he was the master of the city.
So in the evening, he ordered the driver to drive the motorcycle to the door of Cheng Ruixiang's silk village. This silk village, which has not been open for a long time, is said to be very generous, and two of his subordinates came to the door for the first time to fight the autumn breeze, and they were given a piece of ocean!
Grandma's, the little minions have caught a piece of the ocean, and if he, the detective captain, goes out in person, he will definitely have greater benefits. With such a mentality, Meng Longsheng finally came to visit in his busy schedule.
Of course, the shopkeeper is Chen Xuanzhu, who is in charge; But at this time, there was also an extra female guy in the silk village, Sun Nier from the old mansion of the Xia family in Pingquan County.
Before Meng Longsheng arrived, the two detective agents who had come to the door before had already arrived in advance to give their captain a front stand. As soon as Chen Xuanzhu saw these two guys, he was angry in his heart, but he didn't expect that they were not the true gods tonight, and he learned that the famous and notorious detective captain Meng Longsheng would appear later, and the deputy captain of the enemy engineering team of the Eighth Route Army was moved: Xiao Junping once told himself to try to get along with the leader of the detective team in order to extract valuable information from it. Unexpectedly, so soon their leading figure was uninvited!
When Meng Longsheng stepped into the door of the store with a big sting, he only brought an entourage and the driver of the motorcycle; Thanks to the change to modern transportation, his bikers and men on foot can no longer keep up with him, so the detective captain is no longer a group of people who are around him. The word "Light Car Jane" can be called the best description of him.
Choosing this time to come to the Silk Village, Meng Longsheng has a deep meaning, he has made up his mind to go to the Baoyuan Restaurant for a while, but recently the legend of him and his subordinates eating and drinking for nothing in the restaurant in the city has been very popular, and it has spread to his Japanese boss; The head of the Kojima office has officially warned him to restrain his misdeeds and not to discredit the imperial army to the citizens of Wencheng because of his bad deeds.
Since it is not good to eat and drink for nothing, then he has to find a few wronged bosses who are willing to pay the bills for him to eat and drink, and tonight, the captain of the detective team selected Cheng Ruixiang Silk Village.
ββChen Shopkeeper, Wishing you prosperity!
As soon as he entered the gate of the silk village, Captain Meng Longsheng, who was born as a ruffian on the streets of Wencheng in the past, followed the rules of the rivers and lakes and took the initiative to bow to Chen Xuanzhu. How did he know that the dark-skinned middle-aged man standing in front of him actually had the title of captain: deputy captain of the enemy engineering team of the Eighth Route Army. Xiao Junping, the captain of the enemy team, will return to the silk village in a few minutes.