The crazy purchase of grain in Mawushan Base attracted the attention of all parties. Someone asked them why they were hoarding so much food here. Of course Xu Dalong couldn't say that he was preparing for next year's drought. That would cause panic and make it more difficult for the guerrillas to purchase food.
He asked someone to spread the word that the guerrillas were planning to build a large winery and would use the grain to make wine.
In order to hide their identity from others, they actually built a medium-sized brewery. Brewing can also bring a certain amount of income to the base area.
On this day, Zhang Wanhe, the head of the headquarters’ logistics department, sent a telegram saying that the headquarters military factory needed to purchase raw materials, the clothing factory needed to buy cloth, and the hospital needed to buy medicines and other supplies. He hoped that the Mawushan base area could provide 50,000 yuan.
After Xu Dalong and others discussed it, they sent a telegram saying that they agreed with the headquarters' request, and someone was sent to him soon.
Unexpectedly, the Military Region Headquarters sent a telegram requesting that Xu Dalong personally deliver the money. The Military Region Headquarters had tasks to assign to Xu Dalong to complete.
Xu Dalong and Wang Xiaohu took a transport plane and flew to the Taihang Mountain base area.
After arriving at the military region headquarters, they saw Zhang Wanhe, the logistics minister, already waiting there.
After Wang Xiaohu handed over Dayang to Zhang Wanhe, Zhang Wanhe did not leave. He and the commander talked with Xu Dalong. Also participating in the conversation was Li Changshui, the Minister of Enemy Industry of the Military Region.
Zhang Wanhe said: "Brother Dalong, you still have a way to help the headquarters solve its economic difficulties. Due to the economic blockade of the Japanese and puppets, the headquarters was already very difficult economically, and another very serious incident happened. The financial situation in the base area has become increasingly tense.
It turned out that in order to bring down the economy of the base area, the Japanese army resorted to another vicious trick. They printed a large number of border tickets and went to the base area to purchase large quantities of supplies. As a result, prices in the base area skyrocketed and the economy suffered a heavy blow.
The headquarters decided to smash the Japanese invaders' conspiracy of economic aggression. Zhang Wanhe recommended Xu Dalong to the head of the headquarters and asked him to complete this task.
Zhang Wanhe's opinion is to send Xu Dalong and others to find the Japanese and puppet dens where counterfeit banknotes are printed, and then destroy them. The Taiyue Military Region decided to send Li Changshui to cooperate with the actions of Xu Dalong and others.
Xu Dalong knew about this matter and how to solve this problem in the end.
He said: "Minister Zhang, it is necessary to destroy the dens where the Japanese army prints counterfeit banknotes, but it cannot completely solve the problem.
Even if the Japanese army's counterfeit banknote factory was destroyed, with their economic and technical capabilities, they could quickly re-establish a new counterfeit banknote manufacturing den.
The most fundamental way is to work hard on our own anti-counterfeiting technology so that the Japanese invaders cannot copy it. "
Zhang Wanhe said: "I have thought about this and organized technical personnel to conduct research. However, based on the existing conditions in the base area, even if new banknotes are printed, the Japanese invaders can still counterfeit them. This is really shocking. People have headaches.”
Xu Dalong said: "Technically speaking, it is impossible to stop the Japanese army from counterfeiting. But we can work hard on the materials. We have to find a unique material, which is preferably a specialty of the base area. Based on this material Processing, it will be difficult to know what kind of materials we are using, and the difficulty of counterfeiting will be much greater. At least we can prevent them from counterfeiting for a long time."
When Zhang Wanhe heard this, his eyes lit up and he said, "This is a good idea. But what unique materials are there in the base area?"
Xu Dalong knew the specific materials used at that time. He said: "Using oak from the Taihang Mountains and reeds from Ansai in northern Shaanxi as raw materials for papermaking, the paper produced will have a special feel. As long as it is kept strictly confidential, the Japanese army will simply You can’t make paper with the same texture. This eliminates the risk of them copying.”
Zhang Wanhe was very happy after hearing this and said: "Brother Dalong, you have a way. I will organize people to collect these raw materials for research as soon as I return."
Li Changshui heard this and said: "If this is the case, destroying the Japanese army's counterfeit banknote printing factory is of little significance."
The commander said: "I think it is still necessary. It takes a certain amount of time to produce new border banknotes. During this period, the Japanese invaders are still printing a large number of counterfeit banknotes. This period of time will cause heavy losses to the base area. The sooner they are destroyed, The better their den is.”
Xu Dalong said: "The commander is right. We still have to go there, not only to destroy their counterfeit banknote factory, but if possible, to bring their counterfeiting equipment and experts back to the base area to help the base area develop new border tickets. "
Zhang Wanhe said happily: "Brother Dalong is still thoughtful. I agree with this opinion."
After discussion, it was decided that Xu Dalong and Li Changshui would lead a commando team to Peking City to carry out this mission.
Peking City.
Xu Dalong, Li Changshui, Lin Xueying, Wei Monk and others arrived at the outskirts of Peiping. Li Changshui was about to send a telegram to the underground party organization in Peking City, but Xu Dalong stopped him.
He said: "Minister Li, don't alert the underground party people when you come to Peiping this time."
Li Changshui asked puzzledly: "We are unfamiliar with the place here in Peiping, wouldn't it be more convenient for the underground party to provide help?"
Xu Dalong said: "It's really not necessary. If the underground party participates in this mission, it will increase the risk of exposure. We can just do this ourselves."
Li Changshui said worriedly: "We don't have any clues at all. How can we find the Japanese army's counterfeit banknote factory?"
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "I have clues and know where they are."
Li Changshui was very puzzled and asked: "We just took over this task, how did you know about it?"
Xu Dalong really knew. He checked the relevant information and knew that the Japanese army's counterfeit banknote printing factory was located on the outskirts of Peiping. It's just that it's difficult to get close to, because this factory is located inside the No. 2 Depot of the Logistics Department of the North China Front Army. In addition to the original Japanese guard troops at the military station, there should also be additional troops specifically designed to protect the printing factory. These situations must be top secret. Even the underground party intelligence station cannot provide much help, so there is no need to trouble them.
Li Changshui saw that Xu Dalong had quickly found the Japanese army's counterfeit banknote printing den. Although he was full of doubts, based on his past understanding of Xu Dalong, he knew that this guy was elusive and could not help but admire him very much. He sincerely praised: "Captain Xu, you are really amazing."
Now that the location of the Japanese counterfeit banknote factory has been found, the next step is how to get rid of this hideout. Xu Dalong and others brought Wei Monk's special operations squadron this time. The special operations squadron was very powerful and it was not too difficult to destroy the Japanese army's dens. However, Xu Dalong's purpose was not only this, he also wanted to transport the machines and equipment and take them away. The technical backbone among them.
This requires mastering the time rules of the arsenal's operation and ensuring that those technical backbones can be in the arsenal just when the guerrillas take action.
Xu Dalong and others arranged for the troops to temporarily live in a village near the Japanese Army's No. 2 Military Station, and tightly blocked the news to prevent the troops from being exposed.
Later, Xu Dalong, Li Changshui, Lin Xueying, Wei Monk and others led a squad of special operations team members to the vicinity of the No. 2 warehouse.
They first found the telephone line for external communication in the military depot warehouse, connected the monitoring equipment they brought to it, and began to monitor the phone calls.
Monitoring is a very boring task, so they take turns monitoring. They monitored the call for a long time, but did not hear any calls related to the production of counterfeit banknotes.
Li Changshui asked with some confusion: "Captain, is the Japanese counterfeit banknote factory not here? How come there is no content of their phone call?"
Xu Dalong was also a little confused for a moment. He also believes that no matter how secretive the counterfeit banknote factory is, there will definitely be calls between them and the relevant departments of the Japanese army. Is there an error in the data records? It shouldn't be.
Xu Dalong personally monitored the phone call, and a smile appeared on his face as he listened. He heard one word over and over again on the phone: "Sashimi."
Beiping City is not near the sea, so it is not easy for the Japanese army to eat fresh sashimi. In this case, mentioning this here will inevitably make people a little suspicious. Xu Dalong guessed that this was a code name. The Japanese army's depot warehouse was responsible for logistics matters. There were no more secrets to speak of. The only person who might use a code name should be the Japanese army's counterfeit banknote manufacturing factory.
Therefore, he requested to focus on monitoring content involving "sashimi".
Li Changshui thought Xu Dalong's words made sense, so he conducted the monitoring himself.
He heard something important. Tomorrow morning, a cash transport truck disguised as an ordinary freight truck was coming to the No. 2 Military Depot.
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He said happily: "Captain, it seems your information is accurate. There is indeed a Japanese counterfeit banknote manufacturing factory here."
After determining the location of the counterfeit banknote manufacturing factory, the next step is to study how to take action.
If it was just to destroy the Japanese printing dens, it would be nothing to the special forces. Monk Wei was confident that he could quickly defeat the Japanese army and then capture the counterfeit banknote printing factory. However, it is very difficult to arrest those important technical personnel and transport the machinery and equipment at the same time.
First of all, they could not guarantee that important technical personnel would be in the factory during the operation.
Secondly, even if the operation goes well and the counterfeiting experts can be caught and the machines and equipment are captured, once the Japanese army is alerted, it is almost impossible to safely transport them back to the base area. They will definitely be intercepted by a large number of Japanese troops on the way. People and things cannot be transported away. Even the special forces are vulnerable to being surrounded by the Japanese army and suffer heavy losses.
Thinking about these problems is a headache. Li Changshui quietly said to Xu Dalong: "Captain, the task assigned to us by our superiors is to destroy the dens where the Japanese army prints counterfeit banknotes. There is really no way to take away those counterfeit banknote manufacturing experts and machinery and equipment. , just destroy and blow them up."
Li Changshui fully sympathized with Xu Dalong and the special team and hoped that they would avoid danger as much as possible.
Xu Dalong didn't want to complete the task so simply. He needed these counterfeit banknote manufacturing personnel and advanced machinery and equipment, because he also had his own long-term plans.
He said: "Let's think of another way. If there is really no way to take away the technicians and machinery and equipment, then eliminate them."
Li Changshui asked: "Then how should we start?"
Xu Dalong said: "Don't worry about this. Let's monitor the Japanese army's phone calls again and see if we can find other clues."
Since it was difficult for the special forces members to understand what Xu Dalong really wanted, Xu Dalong simply monitored the phone calls himself.
For two days, Xu Dalong monitored hundreds of phone calls and finally found what he wanted.
Liu Changchun is a member of the Intelligence Squadron. He was originally a drama actor and was particularly good at imitating other people's speech. Xu Dalong thought that he could be useful this time, so he specially asked him to participate in this mission.
Xu Dalong found the phone he wanted to monitor, and then told Li Changchun his request, asking him to monitor the content of the phone inside and make sure to understand the accent of the key person during the call.
This morning, a car drove out of the No. 2 Military Station and headed for Beiping City. The car was driving and suddenly saw a Japanese checkpoint on the road.
The driver of the car was very puzzled because there had never been a checkpoint here. He didn't know when this checkpoint was set up and what it was for.
The car arrived at the checkpoint and was stopped.
The driver said arrogantly: "You guys get out of the way, the commander is on top of the car."
When the Japanese commander at the checkpoint, Captain Cao, heard the driver give such a big name, he was not afraid, but instead had a smile on his face. He said: "I have an order from my superiors. If people from the underground party pass through here, everyone must be inspected." As he said, he came to the car and looked inside.
He saw a Japanese soldier sitting in the back seat of the car, and next to him there was a young Japanese woman.
He waved his hand, and several special forces members rushed over and pointed their guns at the people inside.
The car drove away quickly. They did not continue to Peking City. Instead, they turned onto a country road under the escort of Japanese cavalry.
After the car left, the checkpoint was removed.
The person sitting in the car is Nobuo Hirota, the commander of the Japanese Army No. 2 Military Station, and the young woman is Nobuo Hirota's daughter, Eko Hirota.
Xu Dalong and others learned through monitoring the phone calls that they were going to the city today, so they stopped them on the road.
Xu Dalong interrogated Nobuo Hirota. During the interrogation, Li Changchun was present throughout. This guy really has the ability to imitate Nobuo Hirota's accent perfectly.
As an officer in the logistics department, Nobuo Hirota was not as stubborn as the Japanese officers and soldiers in the combat troops. In addition, his daughter was in the hands of others, so he soon confessed the information Xu Dalong wanted to know, and agreed to cooperate with the actions of Xu Dalong and others, just hoping to keep their father and daughter safe.
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