In the face of Xiao Junping's question, Li Yan, an agent of the military command, did not hesitate to meet frankly and directly informed the other party that the Shanxi Station of the military command was currently stopping at the No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane in Wencheng, and the banner of the external banner was the Wencheng branch of Taiyuan Fuhua Trading Company.

The captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army thought about it slightly, and he had a rough imprint of Yangliu Lane located in the north of the city in his mind - unexpectedly, the Blue Coat Society, which was hated by the Japanese puppet forces in Wencheng: the Shanxi Station of the Military Command, actually took root in the courtyard of the city, which should be less than two miles away from the headquarters of the Otsuka Wing of the Hagiwara Brigade!

"So, what position does Mr. Xiao have in the Xu Brigade Detachment of the Eighth Route Army?" Li Yan felt that he already knew everything, so he decided to find out the opponent's hole cards directly.

Xiao Junping was naturally aware of the sincerity of the military commander's agents, and he only hesitated for a few seconds before he replied: The Guanmenshan Detachment of the Xu Brigade has an enemy engineering team (the full name is the enemy task force), and he is the captain of the enemy engineering team.

"It turned out to be Captain Xiao, disrespectful and disrespectful!" Li Yan arched his hand towards the other party again, muttering in his heart: What rank should this captain of the enemy engineering team be? The Eighth Route Army does not have military ranks, corresponding to the formation of the national army, and the detachment belongs to the brigade level, but the so-called Guanmenshan detachment is under the Lin Division Xu Brigade, so it should only be at the regimental level; Xiao Junping claimed that the enemy engineer team was directly under the command of the detachment department, so his enemy engineer corps was about a battalion-level establishment - good guy, this young man on the other side would be a major if he had a military rank! is actually on an equal footing with his top female boss.

Xiao Junping naturally had no way of knowing these thoughts of the lieutenant of the military commander, and when he saw that Li Yan was silent, he thought that he was unfamiliar with the title of the enemy engineering team, so he explained a little. Unexpectedly, Li Yan suddenly changed the topic.

"Captain Xiao, it's rare that you and I hit it off today, since we are both anti-Japanese comrades, I also have something to say bluntly - originally I was worried that you have fallen into the way of the Japanese, but now it seems that your place should be safe and worry-free for the time being. To tell you the truth, last night my two brothers who were lurking in the shantytown in the square in front of the station, in order to save you, one of them was unfortunately shot and captured, and his whereabouts are now unknown. This brother has a complete control of the military command of Shanxi and stands at the foothold of Wencheng, if the Japanese pry open his mouth, the No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane is bound to be precarious. So I want to ask Captain Xiao to help me in a critical moment! ”

The captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army was also taken aback, and asked in a loud voice: "Captured last night?" That must also be in a shanty town? Is the message reliable? ”

"Infallible, as another of my brothers saw with his own eyes—he is now hiding across the road from your number, waiting for my news."

Xiao Jun's face was solemn, and he couldn't help but reach out and grab one of the military commander's agents: "Lieutenant Li, your people fought bravely to rescue us, slandered and were captured, both public and private, we will all be obliged to support the comrades of the military command!" ”

Hearing this, a hint of relief suddenly appeared on Li Yan's face: With the support of the Eighth Route Army, the means of adaptation have undoubtedly been greatly enhanced, both in terms of manpower and foothold.

Next, Li Yan personally walked out of the gate of Cheng Ruixiang and went across the street to recall the squad leader of the spy company Shen. Both sides recounted and reviewed in detail about last night's experience. The final inference is made:

As for the enemy engineering team, in view of the fact that the soldier Zhang Shaonian and his accomplices were all killed, there should not have been any Japanese puppet spies who had learned of Xiao Junping's former status in the Jin army. The underground intelligence station of Wencheng of the Eighth Route Army, after experiencing this turmoil, is basically still safe.

In terms of military command, Peng Sanxi, a captured friendly soldier, is the biggest variable, and before his life and death are determined, it is really difficult to say that the No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane is in danger. It is best to stay out of the limelight for a while.

"Lieutenant Li, I have thought of a solution," Xiao Junping said suddenly: "The Japanese have raised a detective team composed of traitors in the secret service of Wencheng, and I am very familiar with their captain surnamed Meng, today I can find an opportunity to invite him to drink, and I may be able to find out the news of your captured brother from his mouth by setting up a set of firefights in the shantytown last night." ”

This really made Li Yan overjoyed - Meng Longsheng, the captain of the traitor detective team, is a very familiar figure to the second intelligence group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command, but their so-called familiarity is just to grasp his whereabouts by stalking, and then prepare to get rid of it in one fell swoop. Compared with the Eighth Route Army's enemy engineering team, which was able to get along with it, and even became familiar with it to the point where it could extract information from it, the military commander could only sigh at himself. From this moment on, Li Yan had a new understanding of the underground intelligence work of the Eighth Route Army.

At this moment, Xiao Junping began to be particularly afraid of the turmoil that happened last night: after this exchange with the agents of the military command, he learned that Zhang Shaonian, the soldier who was shot by him at that time, not only did not die immediately, but even had the strength to expose his "old bottom" to the people who came to him later, and that person was now sitting in Cheng Ruixiang's shop, a subordinate of the military commander and the squad leader of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army! If the people who rushed to the dying Zhang Shaonian at that time were Japanese puppet spies who were being pursued, then it is very likely that Cheng Ruixiang Silk Village was killed by Lianwo at night! It's chilling to think about. In addition, squad leader Shen and Peng Sanxi opened fire in time to flank the Japanese patrol, covering the five members of the enemy engineering team to escape from the scene. This favor from the military commander, the enemy engineer team of the Eighth Route Army really owes a lot!

Thinking of these, Xiao Junping made a decisive decision, he informed Li Yan that he currently has a foothold at No. 16 Dongguan Street, which has not yet been officially opened; Since the situation of No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane, where the military commander Shanxi Station stopped, was critical, he asked them to immediately move to No. 16 Dongguan Street.

"Yay!" The lieutenant of the military commander said with his eyes shining and excited: "Thanks to Captain Xiao's great help, I will not thank you for your great kindness, and you and I will cooperate sincerely from now on, and we will be in the future!" ”

The two of them immediately began to make careful arrangements. Considering that there was only one wing room at No. 16 Dongguan Street, Li Yan finally decided to temporarily transfer only the radio station elder Liu Lianren with equipment, so that the people who stayed in No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane would have a lot less fetters, and even if the Japanese puppet spies attacked, they also had the mobility to meet the battle and break through.

Xiao Junping personally sent the director of the radio station of the Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command to No. 16 Dongguan Street, and lied to the landlord of the courtyard that he was a distant relative from Pingquan County and wanted to stay for a few days.

Li Yan sent squad leader Shen to sneak back to the shantytown on the north side of the square in front of the station to check whether there was anything unusual in the house he lived with Peng Sanxi before and its surroundings, so as to determine whether Peng Sanxi had confessed. A large-scale manhunt was launched in the shantytown last night, but based on past experience, the manhunt will not yield any results in such a large area with complex terrain and dense shantytowns.

Li Yan himself temporarily stayed in Cheng Ruixiang Silk Village to facilitate joint planning with Xiao Junping.

Xiao Junping sent an enemy worker to the detective team headquarters in the back alley of the city hall as a clerk, and invited the captain Meng Longsheng to come over for a drink at night, saying that Xiao Er's shopkeeper had something important to ask for.

Since being recognized by Zhang Shaonian, a ruffian of the Jin army, the former intelligence staff officer of the 12th Independent Brigade has become more and more cautious, and has decided not to go out to any public places with many eyes in the future. He made up his mind that as long as Meng Longsheng agreed to come over in the evening, he would order a takeaway table from several well-known restaurants on Dongguan Street nearby, and set up wine in the silk village.

Hearing that Xiao Junping was just a second shopkeeper in Cheng Ruixiang, the lieutenant of the military commander couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly asked who the other party's shopkeeper was, only then did he know that the deputy captain surnamed Chen of the enemy labor team was the shopkeeper. Unexpectedly, the Xu Brigade detachment attached so much importance to the intelligence points in Wencheng City, and actually sent the chief and deputy captains of the enemy engineering team to lurk.

"Captain Xiao, I'll pay for tonight's banquet, that traitor leader surnamed Meng likes the dishes of Baoyuan Restaurant the most, you can ask your men to order takeaway seats there."

The captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army had already learned from the exchanges and dialogues just now that the Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command was preparing to assassinate the traitor leader Meng Longsheng, and then he said to Li Yan quite sincerely: "Lieutenant Li, that Meng Longsheng defected to the Japanese invaders, acted rampant for the tiger, and oppressed the people and did all kinds of evil. However, I've managed to woo this guy here, and it's proven to be very effective, and I can get a lot of important information out of it. Therefore, I also asked Lieutenant Li and the comrades of Shanxi Station to let Meng Longsheng go for the time being and spare him a dog's life, which would have greater use value. ”

Li Yan smiled slightly, and immediately agreed. In fact, the assassination plan of the second intelligence group against Meng Longsheng has been shelved, and the female major of the military commander has more important things to do. This commitment can be described as a benefit and not a cost. What's more, at present, the people of the enemy engineering team of the Eighth Route Army are trying to find out the information after Peng Sanxi was captured from Meng Longsheng's mouth.

During the period of waiting for the people sent out to send back the news, Xiao Junping and Li Yan introduced to each other their many actions in Wencheng City. The captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army finally learned that several extremely sensational anti-Japanese incidents that had occurred in Wencheng before were all committed by the Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command. It seems that the determination and actions of the military commanders to resist the war have far surpassed their own. This further confirms the existence of the Blue Coat Society's forces that the Japanese secret services have always suspected and inferred.

"Last night's battle unexpectedly led to the mutual acquaintance of you and me, which is definitely a blessing for the anti-Japanese war!" At this time, Li Yan had a good impression of the enemy engineering team of the Eighth Route Army led by Xiao Junping, so he germinated the idea of joint action in the future: "If we can successfully survive this catastrophe, our cooperation space must be huge!" ”

Xiao Junping, who was infected and encouraged, naturally nodded his head frequently.

But the two of them would never have thought that the cooperation between the enemy engineering team of the Eighth Route Army and the Shanxi Station of the Military Command was by no means as smooth sailing as they predicted. Behind them, stood the female major of the military commander, and the male political commissar of the Xu Brigade detachment. This is destined to be the trouble of cutting and untidy and chaotic, and it will follow one after another.