Because Xiao Junping was a halfway monk to serve in the Eighth Route Army, he has always respected Chen Xuanzhu, who was a veteran of the Red Army, and whenever there was a conflict between the views of the two, he rarely put pressure on the deputy captain with the posture of a captain. But the news he had just received from the traitor leader Meng Longsheng this morning really made him very worried, so when Chen Xuanzhu made a babbling question as before, Xiao Junping could no longer tolerate it, and roared in a rather gaffe.

The teacup that Sun Nier fell to the ground made a loud sound, and this sound suddenly surprised the captain of the enemy workers, and realized that he had overdone it; Looking at the deputy captain Chen Xuanzhu again, his face almost turned the color of pig liver, and he got up without saying a word to gather people.

A wave of remorse instantly surged into Xiao Junping's heart. Sun Nier was already panicking to pick up the pieces of the teacup, this female soldier who had recently joined the Eighth Route Army had never seen a handsome and amiable captain lose her temper.

"Nier, did it scare you? I'll help you," Xiao Junping squatted down apologetically, reaching out to pick up the tea bowl that had been broken into a few petals: "Don't be afraid, it's none of your business." I...... My cousin and I are discussing something......"

The cautious former intelligence staff officer of the Jin Army, since he led the team to infiltrate Wencheng to build this underground intelligence station, immediately asked all personnel, including himself, to discard each other's names when they were in the Xu Brigade Detachment, and strictly follow their current disguised identities in their words and deeds. Therefore, Chen Xuanzhu has always been called cousin, Lao Chen or shopkeeper.

"Team...... Second, the shopkeeper, I ...... I'm not afraid," Sun Nier stumbled, swallowing back half of the captain's words that were about to spit out: "You're pretty fierce." ”

Xiao Junping, the second shopkeeper, couldn't help but smile bitterly - but at this moment, he didn't have the heart to continue to comfort the other party, and after picking up the fragments of the tea bowl, he signaled Sun Nier to go to the outside store to continue to take care of (also sentry); At the same time, Chen Xuanzhu and several enemy workers disguised as a buddy had already grazed Sun Nier's body and rushed in.

The meeting was brief and clear: one of the team members immediately went out of the city, went to the contact point of the peasant households outside the gate of the east city to inform the comrades there, and rushed to the base area at the foot of the Guanmen Mountain to inquire about the news; The other two went separately to the Japanese barracks in the western and eastern suburbs outside the city to reconnoiter whether they were really empty.

Chen Xuanzhu suddenly spoke and took the initiative to ask himself to go to Guanmen Mountain to find out; Xiao Junping hesitated for a moment, and had the intention to veto it - at present, it is the top priority to collect and grasp the movements of the Japanese troops inside and outside the city as soon as possible and provide intelligence reference for the detachment - but he was afraid that he had just lost his temper with him, and it was not good to refute his face, so he nodded and agreed.

Although Chen Xuanzhu's face was silent, in his heart he was already overturned and angry, he decided that he could no longer tolerate the misdeeds of this enemy engineer captain thrown by the Kuomintang army, and he must immediately go to Guanmen Mountain to find the detachment leader or political commissar and complain about what happened to the underground intelligence station in Wencheng!

Naturally, it was impossible for the enemy engineer captain to understand the true thoughts of the deputy sitting opposite, and his mind had now shifted to the headquarters of the Japanese Hagiwara Brigade - just now in Meng Longsheng's detective team, the traitor leader once said a sentence: The Japanese Taijun has been busy these days, and the small building of the Imperial Army Brigade Headquarters has been lit all night.

Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters! Xiao Junping was like an enlightenment on the spot, the small bank building occupied by the Japanese was actually on this Dongguan Street, intersecting with City Hall Avenue. If you can find a house in the vicinity of that small building as an observation point, you can directly monitor the movements of the local Japanese military command apparatus - similar to the anomaly of the bright lights for several nights on end, and you will be alerted accordingly without being unaware.

After sending the team members out of the city, Xiao Junping went straight to the south end of Dongguan Street alone. He stopped in front of a Catholic church facing the street: standing in front of the church, the small building of the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters was clearly visible.

But Xiao Junping's eyes didn't pay too much attention to the small building, but scanned several buildings next to the small building. Among them, a courtyard wall diagonally opposite the Catholic church made him feel moved. So he pretended to be careless and crossed the road and came to the outside of the courtyard wall.

This is a residential courtyard, with a long courtyard wall facing Dongguan Street, and the courtyard gate opening at the mouth of the alley at the south end. Xiao Junping noticed that whether it was at the gate of the courtyard or in the courtyard, he should be able to see the small red brick building diagonally across the street at a glance: the headquarters of the Japanese Hagiwara Brigade.

The captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army had made up his mind, and walked into the courtyard with two open gates. This is a standard courtyard building, standing under the rain at the courtyard gate, looking around, it is easy to determine that this courtyard is currently inhabited by multiple families.

A middle-aged woman in the courtyard, who was sitting under the withered yellow vines, was washing a basin of clothes with a sigh, and suddenly found an uninvited guest standing at the gate of the courtyard. ”

There was no one else in the courtyard, Xiao Junping was afraid of arousing the other party's suspicion, so he only took two steps forward, then arched his hands and said politely: "Excuse me, sister-in-law, dare to ask this mansion, is there a vacant room for rent right now?" ”

Hearing the stranger say this, and then looking at his talent, bright clothes, the middle-aged woman's indifferent expression swept away, and stood up from the wooden bench where she was sitting, and took the initiative to meet Xiao Junping and stepped forward: "Oh, Mr. is looking for a house, then you can be regarded as here!" My yard is large and quiet, and now there is one main room and two side rooms left empty. What kind of rent would I like sir? ”

Xiao Junping was secretly happy in his heart, and at the same time realized that the middle-aged woman in front of him, who was not good-looking, should be the owner of this mansion: "Dare to ask your sister-in-law's surname, you must be the owner of the courtyard here?" ”

"Exactly, my surname is Yu, the man in the family is surnamed Gu, and the family of three has lived here for more than ten years; It turned out to be a big family, and in the first two years, the old people in the family passed away one after another, and the three sisters-in-law all got married, so there were only three of us left, and the house was empty; Now that the situation is chaotic and it is difficult to make money, I have to rent the house I can't live in to tenants, and I can also subsidize some family expenses. ”

The enemy engineer captain of the Eighth Route Army listened to the female homeowner's gushing introduction, but his eyes saw the layout of the four main rooms and six side rooms. It was learned that the owner's family of three now uses three of the four main rooms, and the six side rooms are rented out by two tenants.

The landlady tried her best to persuade the young newcomer to choose the last main room. However, Xiao Junping had already begun to wander around the courtyard and deliberately leaned towards the side of the east wing: three east wings had been rented out of the first room next to the main room, and the other two were apparently vacant.

"What is the price of renting an east wing room for half a year?" Xiao Junping raised his hand and pointed, turned his head and asked the landlady.

The woman surnamed Yu did not expect that the young man who was dressed up and decent, and should not be shy in his pocket, gave up the opportunity to live in the main house, and chose a side building, although she persuaded again and again, but the other party was resolute, and finally had to give up: the rent of the east wing room is naturally much less than the main house, but it is better than not being able to do this business.

Until the price was negotiated and the deposit was collected, the landlady surnamed Yu was still quite puzzled and regretful. But how did she know that what the young man in front of her liked was the diagonally opposite scenery from the door and window of the east wing-it was almost equivalent to setting up a lookout post, and the headquarters of the Japanese Hagiwara Brigade dozens of meters away could be seen at a glance.

Walking out of this courtyard, which was marked with the house number of No. 16 Dongguan Street, the mood of the enemy engineer captain of the Eighth Route Army had improved. This is far from the Cheng Ruixiang cloth and satin village on the same street, but more than a mile, and they can take care of each other. Just now he had instructed the landlady to clean the second room in the east wing as soon as possible, and he would move in soon.

Xiao Junping decided that he would personally stay in the No. 16 courtyard of Dongguan Street, and the silk village would be controlled by his deputy Chen Xuanzhu. From the landlord's mouth, I learned the identities of the other two tenants, one is a newly married couple who rent two rooms in the west wing; The other is a teacher of the same age as him, who came from Taiyuan and now works in Bencheng Middle School. The landlord and his wife, the woman is at home, and the man works in a foreign company in the city.

The conditions are good, and it is conducive to concealment - Xiao Junping thought excitedly, and he also told the landlady that he was the second shopkeeper of Cheng Ruixiang Cloth and Silk Village on this street. The other party was pleasantly surprised by this, and said frankly that he would go to Cheng Ruixiang to buy fabrics in the future, hoping that the shopkeeper Xiao would take care of him.

Everything seems to be going well!

The captain of the enemy workers walking on the street even whistled a little proudly. This unexpectedly established observation point is, of course, thanks to the unintentional guidance of the captain of the traitor detective team. It seems that the ocean he spent on Meng Longsheng was not in vain; This intelligence clue has become more and more of a unique importance; As long as this "friendship" with Captain Meng can be maintained, the possibility of obtaining more information from him in the future will be greatly increased.

"Sir, I'll borrow a fire from you."

Suddenly, a man who came up from the side and back leaned next to Xiao Junping, holding a paper cigarette in his hand, and said unhurriedly.

"Sorry, I don't smoke and I don't have a fire around." His mind was on the observation point that had just been built, and while Xiao Junping refused, he continued to move forward without looking at the other party, leaving the man who was trying to borrow the fire in place.

However, he didn't expect that this man didn't really use fire to smoke, but used this excuse to take a closer look at his face - just now near the gate of No. 16 Dongguan Street, the middle-aged man suddenly noticed Xiao Junping and saw him enter the gate of the courtyard; Then he squatted under a locust tree a few meters away from the courtyard gate, until Xiao Junping came out again, and then stepped forward quickly.

Now, the middle-aged man looked at Xiao Junping's back and completely recognized the other party. After a moment's hesitation, he began to follow. So, I witnessed Xiao Junping walk into Cheng Ruixiang Cloth and Silk Village.

Staff Officer Xiao of the brigade headquarters!

That's right, it's him!

The middle-aged man who was still holding the paper cigarette in his fingers stared at the black and gold plaque of Cheng Ruixiang across the street, and silently read in his heart: Why did the dignified captain and intelligence staff officer of the Jin Army take off his military uniform and put on a rich robe? ! Was it deliberately arranged by the brigade commander and major general, or did he become a deserter like himself?!