Sakata explained his purpose, asked Sangmu to provide help, and asked him to keep the matter strictly confidential.
Sangmu felt very troubled by the tasks assigned by Sakata. He knew a lot about the situation in the Mawushan base area and knew that it was very difficult to dispatch Japanese and puppet personnel there. But he couldn't miss this good opportunity to make a career, so he planned to do his best to help Sakata complete the task.
The gendarmerie still had a lot of resources in the county and was well-informed. Soon after, he found a Hanjian for Sakata and others and recommended him to Sakata.
Xing Gensheng is the son of a poor landlord in Xingjiazhuang. He originally had no worries about food and clothing, but later his family fell into decline and he was forced to work as a waiter in a restaurant in the county town.
He felt that this kind of work was both hard and frustrating. He really didn't want to continue to live like this. He always wanted to find a way to join the Japanese and puppet troops, get promoted and make a fortune, so as to restore the glory of his ancestors. Unfortunately, he had no connections, so he never got what he wanted.
Opportunities are prepared for those who are prepared. One day, people from the Eighth Route Army's Military Work Team were preparing to attack the Japanese military police. Xing Gensheng saw someone holding a weapon on the street through the glass window of the restaurant. He felt that the opportunity had come and went to give it to them. The devil reported.
He put down what he was doing and walked out. Even the restaurant owner couldn't stop him from shouting. The restaurant owner was so angry that he scolded Ning and told him to get out.
When Xing Gensheng arrived on the street, he walked in the direction of the gendarmerie. Soon he met one or two Japanese gendarmerie.
As a local security force, most of the Japanese military police can speak some Chinese. After listening to Xing Gensheng's report, they took their rifles off their shoulders.
When the military workers who were observing the enemy's situation on the street saw the movements of the Japanese military police, they knew that they were exposed and evacuated immediately. When the Japanese military police saw someone running back, they shot at them, resulting in a fight between the two sides.
The puppet troops came for reinforcements one after another, and two members of the armed workers died in the battle.
Through this incident, Xing Gensheng was appreciated by the gendarmerie captain, who kept him in the gendarmerie's detective team as a small leader.
This guy was sweet-talking and knew how to get things done, and later helped the gendarmerie captain with a few things, which was highly appreciated by him. This time I specifically recommended him to Sakata.
Sangmu cherished this opportunity to please Bantian. In order to make Xing Gensheng work for him, he said that when he was transferred, he would bring Xing Gensheng there to ensure that he would be popular and drink spicy food.
Xing Gensheng was a ruthless man, and he risked everything in order to achieve success. He was determined to do something beautiful this time so that he could firmly hold Sang Mu's thigh.
Accompanied by Sang Mu, Bantian met with Xing Gensheng and had a good impression of him through conversations with him. So he was given a difficult task, asking him to sneak into the Eighth Route Army's base area to work as a traffic officer and deliver news for them.
Xing Gensheng agreed. He found out that a distant relative of his worked at the Coal Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Guancheng County and managed to get in touch with him.
On this day, Zhao Gang brought the director of the arsenal to see Xu Dalong and said that the seamless steel pipes used in the production of artillery were out of stock, and asked Xu Dalong to help solve the problem.
Some of the seamless steel pipes used in the production of artillery were captured from a Japanese military column when Li Yunlong and his men intercepted it. The rest were purchased from Taiyuan Iron and Steel Works by Zhou Mingde through his connections.
Now the batch of seamless steel pipes Li Yunlong obtained has been used up, and the seamless steel pipes ordered from Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant have exceeded the scheduled arrival time by two weeks.
Now that the artillery manufacturing in the factory has been suspended, the director of the arsenal wants to urge the seamless steel pipes to be shipped as soon as possible.
Xu Dalong sent a telegram to Zhou Mingde, asking about purchasing seamless steel pipes.
Zhou Mingde telegraphed back saying that he had lost contact with the middleman who helped purchase the seamless steel pipe and was worried that something might have happened to him. He is now investigating to find out what happened.
Xu Dalong was very worried about Zhou Mingde's safety and sent him a telegram saying that if he sensed any danger of exposure, he would evacuate Taiyuan immediately.
In the next two days, Xu Dalong felt a little nervous. He was worried that the middleman who purchased steel pipes at the Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant would be caught by the Japanese puppets and turned over to Zhou Mingde and the others.
In that case, not only Zhou Mingde would be in danger, but the intelligence system established by the trading company would probably be destroyed.
He couldn't sit still anymore and decided to go to Taiyuan in person to take the initiative to destroy the Japanese and puppet secret services and disrupt the enemy's pursuit of the seamless steel pipe incident.
After making up his mind, he sent a telegram to Zhou Mingde, and then took Monk Wei and a special operations squadron to Taiyuan City.
When Xu Dalong and others arrived in Licheng County, Zhou Mingde sent a telegram saying that the situation was clear. The middleman had indeed been arrested by Japanese and puppet agents, but it was not because of the seamless steel pipe, but because of something else. A case involving some personal grudges.
The middleman's rival colluded with the Japanese and puppets and arrested him for betrayal.
The middleman's family asked Zhou Mingde to try to organize a rescue. Zhou Mingde was looking for a way to rescue the person.
Xu Dalong felt more at ease. He sent a telegram to Zhou Mingde, telling him not to be afraid of spending money. If money could be used to clear the matter, he would spend a lot of money to solve the matter. If you can't find a suitable relationship, you can send a telegram and I will try to help.
Although the seamless steel pipe incident was not exposed, Xu Dalong decided to take a trip to Taiyuan. Since the Japanese army sent agents to target them, of course they couldn't be polite to them. As the saying goes, it is disrespectful to come back without reciprocating. Xu Dalong decided to go to Taiyuan City to destroy the Japanese intelligence agency.
Xu Dalong even planned to go directly to Peiping to kill the Japanese secret service in Peiping.
When they arrived at Taiyuan City, Zhou Mingde sent people to pick them up outside the city. People from the special operations squadron were arranged in a grain warehouse outside the city. Xu Dalong, Lin Xueying, Wei Monk and several special operations team members followed the traffic officers sent by Zhou Mingde and entered. Taiyuan City, came to the trading company.
After a brief exchange of greetings, Zhou Mingde reported on the relevant situation of the middleman.
The middleman's name is Ji Liqing. He is 47 years old and is in the coke business in Taiyuan City. He has been supplying Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant all year round and has established good business relationships. With his help, seamless steel pipes were produced from the Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant.
The steel plates used to lay the airport runway last time were also provided by Ji Liqing.
Ji Liqing is a very experienced person and does things without leakage. The reason why the accident happened was not because of him, but because of his son.
His son was idle, relying on his father's wealth and strong social connections, and often made trouble out of nothing. Once while eating, I offended the son of a deputy mayor of Zhengfu, TY City, and injured him.
The deputy mayor quit and not only arrested his son, but also Ji Li Qing. They threatened to kill his son and extract a large amount of money from Ji Liqing.
Zhou Mingde has recruited several Japanese and puppet personnel to help coordinate this matter. However, since the deputy mayor's son is seriously injured and may become disabled, this matter will be difficult to solve unless a powerful figure comes forward. The deputy mayor had to give face to solve this problem.
Xu Dalong asked: "Do you have the right person to solve this problem?"
Zhou Mingde said: "I plan to ask the logistics section chief of the First Army to come forward. As long as he comes forward, I think this matter will be settled."
Xu Dalong shook his head slightly and said: "The identity of the candidate you mentioned is enough. There should be no problem in solving this matter. But if you come forward, it will be clear that you have close contacts with this middleman. In case of seamless If something goes wrong with the steel pipe, I'm afraid you will be implicated. In that case, not only will you be in danger, but the underground intelligence network we have worked so hard to establish throughout Shanxi will also be destroyed.
We can't take this risk, we still have to find other ways. Don't come forward in this matter. Just provide the deputy mayor's situation. "
Zhou Mingde understood what Xu Dalong meant, and decided to use a vendetta to solve the problem according to the method he used to deal with the detective captain Luo Fengnian last time.
He provided relevant information about the deputy mayor's family and sent someone to be a guide for Monk Wei. They left the trading company and went to Guanghua Hospital first.
In the doctor's office on the second floor of Guanghua Hospital, a group of people wearing plain clothes suddenly broke in.
The leader, a tall, formidable-looking young man, said, "We are from the Military Police. Is there a patient named Guo Xiaoqi here?"
Seeing the menacing looks of these people, the doctor didn't want to provoke them, so he quickly said, "Yes, they are in ward 206."
The young man didn't say anything, turned around and walked out of the medical office door, and soon led people to the door of Room 206.
Sitting on the bench at the door of the room were two men wearing top hats and plain clothes. When they saw this group of people coming, they came forward and asked, "What do you do?"
The young man didn't talk nonsense. With a wave of his hand, several people behind him took out a box of bastards and put it on the heads of the two plainclothes men. Then they took out pistols from their waists.
The young man in the lead opened the door of the ward and saw a young man lying on the bed inside. The man's leg was injured and was hung from the bed with a bandage.
The person lying on the hospital bed was Guo Xiaoqi, the son of the deputy mayor. The movement outside the door had alarmed him.
He struggled to get up, but his legs were hanging and there was no way he could do it.
Looking at the vicious group of people who broke in, he asked with some horror: "Who are you?"
The young man at the head asked: "Are you Guo Xiaoqi?"
Guo Xiaoqi said in a panic: "I'm not."
The young man obviously didn't believe what he said, so he walked to the bedside, took out the case card on the bedside, and saw clearly that the name written on it was Guo Xiaoqi.
He reached out and grabbed the bandage on Guo Xiaoqi's leg, and pulled it hard to tear it off. The violent shaking made Guo Xiaoqi scream in pain.
The young man raised his palm and hit him on the head, knocking him unconscious. Several plainclothes men behind him stepped forward, picked up Guo Xiaoqi, and dragged him out of the ward.
The group dragged Guo Xiaoqi into the yard, stuffed her into a car, and then left the hospital with their two cars.
Guo Xiaoqi's two bodyguards were beaten unconscious and were lying at the door of the ward. The hospital discovered the situation here, rushed to rescue them, and notified Guo Xiaoqi's father what happened here.
Hearing that his son had been kidnapped, Vice Mayor Guo quickly mobilized various connections and dispatched a large number of police and Huang Xiejun to search, but found nothing.
Of course, this group of plainclothes men was Monk Wei and the others. They captured Guo Xiaoqi and planned to use him to rescue the middleman Ji Liqing and his son.
After dinner that day, Vice Mayor Guo and his family were sitting in the living room. Guo Xiaoqi's grandfather, grandmother, and mother were all sighing and crying.
Vice Mayor Guo was very irritable and was no longer in the mood to comfort them.
At this time, the phone in the living room rang. Vice Mayor Guo hurriedly grabbed the phone and asked in a very polite tone: "Who is this?"
A young man's voice came over the phone, with a local accent. He did not answer the deputy mayor's words, but asked: "Who are you? Who are you, Guo Xiaoqi?"
The deputy mayor hurriedly said: "I am Guo Xiaoqi's father. Is my son in your hands? Please don't hurt him. We can discuss anything."
The person on the phone said: "Your son Guo Xiaoqi is in our hands. Please rest assured that he is still fine now, but I can't guarantee what will happen to him in the future."
Vice Mayor Guo said: "If you have any conditions, just tell me."
The caller said: "Ji Liqing and his son were arrested by your people. Just let them go. Fighting between young people is a common thing. What you did is a bit too much."
Vice Mayor Guo immediately said: "I agree to release him, but you must ensure the safety of my son. But how can I guarantee that you will not hurt my son?"
The caller said: "You must let him go first. If you don't want to, then do whatever you want. If you can, kill Ji Liqing and his son, and I promise to cut your son Guo Xiaoqi into pieces." After saying this, the other party went straight to the phone. Hang up the phone.
In the room next to the living room, the TY City Police Chief and several police officers also monitored the call. When they heard the other party put down the phone, they walked into the living room.
At this time, the living room was in a mess. Guo Xiaoqi's grandfather, grandmother, and mother were crying and making trouble, begging Deputy Mayor Guo to release them quickly in exchange for Guo Xiaoqi.
Vice Mayor Guo was very irritated. He said patiently: "Don't make any noise. I'm trying to solve this problem." After saying that, he left the living room and went to the next door with the police chief and others. in the room.
Vice Mayor Guo asked: "Can we catch this group of people?"
(End of chapter)
