The sun had just set, and under the fiery red sky filled with fish scales, a sparse team was marching north.
The team of fifty or sixty people were all dressed in black.
The leading soldiers at the front followed behind for four or five miles, walking around the villages from time to time, to the roads of the dilapidated villages they passed, and carefully looked at the thickness of the dust where there were footprints on the ground, so as to judge whether they had gone in or out of these villages. The size of the common people.
At the end of the line, there were three figures walking, one petite figure walking in front, and the young and beautiful woman in the middle had a towel wrapped around her head. If her breasts were not straight, she would have thought she was an ordinary traitor. The last one was tall and tall, holding her head high.
The petite figures stopped from time to time to catch grasshoppers flying everywhere on the roadside. The woman walking in the middle occasionally shouted and scolded, but the people behind them remained silent.
A crescent moon appeared faintly, and the team kept walking. From time to time, someone pulled a towel to wipe sweat.
The petite figure walked with the woman and occasionally said something.
The light was dim, but the team had no torches, and groups of faint shadows kept moving under their feet.
The air on the ground began to become cooler, and the team walked into the edge of a village to rest.
Lao Zhou led several men in black into the village to find a contact person. The village was full of chaos, with the sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping, and the child cried once before being covered by an adult.
Hu Yi sat under a tree, unhooked the rifle he was carrying and leaned against the tree. He took out the shell gun on his waist and put it to one side, and then put the other shell gun on the other side.
"Hey, Fox, what kind of public trial are you talking about? We can't afford it. Is it interesting?" The girl took a sip of water and muttered.
"You ask me, how do I know?" Hu Yi glanced at Su Qing next to him.
"Isn't it just to kill a few traitors? With so many of us here, how much action can we take?" The girl raised her hand to wipe away the water stains on her mouth.
"Don't underestimate it. The order came from the regiment. It's not that simple. It's also the first mission we have taken. If we don't complete the mission, we will be laughed at." Hu Yi was looking at the map, and Luo Fugui next to him was holding a flashlight. .
Anyway, now that the detective team is dressed up, no one dares to ask questions without opening their eyes.
Not long after, two dark figures came out of the village.
"This is Captain Hu. Captain Hu is responsible for this operation!" Lao Zhou came to Hu Yi and said, "This is Comrade Wu Nansheng."
The middle-aged man named Wu Nansheng stretched out his hands and shook hands with Hu Yi who stood up: "Hello, Captain Hu, let's go into the village to talk."
Seeing Hu Yi's hesitation, Wu Nansheng quickly told the truth: "Don't worry, the village is all our own, even the spy planted by the Japanese is ours!"
When a group of people entered the village, Wu Nansheng looked a little unhappy when he saw a girl coming in behind Hu Yi.
Lao Zhou quickly explained: "Don't underestimate Chang Yatou, she has been in the army for much longer than you and me!"
When Wu Nansheng heard this, he was dubious: "Is it true?"
Lao Zhou said with a smile: "She may have killed more Japanese than our entire team!"
Wu Nansheng was stunned. She was just a grown-up girl. Lao Zhou never told lies. He was quite a cheerful person.
Turning around and looking at Su Qing: "What should I call this person?"
"Work team director Chang Qing!" Su Qing did not use his real name.
"Okay, let's not talk about this for now. Lao Zhou should have told you about the situation here, right? Our place is different from the south. In addition to the Japanese traitors, there are also national army guerrillas in the west, not far from the provincial capital. , this time we asked our superiors to send someone to prepare to take action against the Xu family, the traitors here.
We have already found out clearly that the day after tomorrow is the 60th birthday of the traitor Xu Jinsen’s father, and it should be a big event. We estimate that Xu Jinsen will definitely come back, so we plan to attack his father’s birthday party. The traitor who comes then will definitely Quite a lot, just enough to stew in one pot! "
Wu Nansheng gritted his teeth when he said this.
Lao Zhou knew that Hu Yi didn't talk much. Seeing that Su Qing didn't express his position, he quickly added so that Hu Yi could understand in more detail: "Tomorrow, we will send people in to find out the situation. Our main target is Xu Jinsen, the big traitor leader. , we originally had a team here, and the team leader Sun Fu died in his hands, so this traitor must be eradicated, and this revenge must be avenged."
"The mountainous area to the west of this place is the actual occupied area of the remnants of the national army. We must be careful when moving here." Lao Zhou reminded.
"National Army? There is still a National Army here?" Hu Yi was shocked.
Lao Zhou began to think about the National Army unit that was wiped out by the Japs here before: "Of course there is, because this area in the north is mountainous, and the Japs often come out to raid. Originally there was a brigade of the National Army fighting guerrillas, but later they were killed by the Japs for some unknown reason. During the encirclement and suppression campaign, most of the troops moved southward, as if they still had not escaped the Japanese siege, and were finally incorporated into the security force by the Japanese in Xinglong Town, just outside the mountain outside the independent regiment's defense zone."
Hu Yi finally figured out the origin of the national army guerrillas in that brigade, so Tang Dagou should be familiar with this area.
Wu Nansheng continued: "Mr. Xu is the president of the Maintenance Association. He was the security chief during the previous National Government. His family is the richest in several nearby villages. In addition, his family owns three out of ten shops in the town. Grain shops, cloth shops, banks, pawn shops, whatever they can get money for, the whole family is full of traitors. His family used to have a coal mine, but later the Japanese came and were requisitioned, and most of the coal miners were organized by his family. Take away the workers’ hard-earned money!”
Lao Zhou thought for a moment: "Xu Jinsen must be suppressed. We all know that there is a drought this year, and the wheat harvest in the fields is less than half that of previous years. The county office has issued a grain requisition notice, requiring fifty kilograms per acre of land, and forty kilograms for middle fields. Jin, thirty kilograms in the fields, but the land rent of Mr. Xu’s family here is not much at all. If all this is spread on the sharecroppers, the common people will have no way of living!"
"How many fields does his family have?" Su Qing next to her frowned and finally asked.
Wu Nansheng kept his family treasures in mind: "Two thousand eight hundred acres! Half of the land in the village belongs to his family, and his family's nursing home has more than two hundred acres. One of his youngest sons is a security captain, and his second son is a policeman in the city police force. Commander, there is also Xu Jinsen, who is the deputy captain of the detective team in the provincial capital. He is ruthless and his hands are stained with the blood of his comrades and Lao Bai."
Lao Zhou immediately became furious when he heard this: "As soon as the Japs came, all his family defected to the Japs. They even led the Japs to set up an ambush and almost killed all the anti-Japanese guerrillas organized by a group of young people on the 30th and 40th. Our Comrade Sun Fu was trapped and killed by them under the pretense of resisting Japan."
"Why haven't you taken action against this traitor before?" Su Qing asked again.
Lao Zhou had a bitter look on his face: "It's not that we don't take action, but that we can't fight. Our team here is not strong in combat effectiveness. The Xu family's high-walled compound and the ancestral house in the village usually have a company stationed there. There are only a few thugs to protect the courtyard." There were four to five hundred of them, usually scattered in various places. After joining the Japanese, they formed a security group with sophisticated weapons. There were also many deceived tenant farmers and long-term workers living in the village. After receiving small favors from his family, they also joined their family and bullied them at ordinary times. The common people were roaming the countryside, building blockhouses and blocking ditches to fight the Japanese, while their security captain set up checkpoints at the edge of the town to collect taxes, doing all kinds of evil."
Wu Nansheng felt a little lonely: "It's better here. I heard that there is a locust plague in the west. Many fields have no harvest, and several ordinary people have hanged themselves under the old locust tree."
Lao Zhou also continued to talk about the suffering of the common people: "We originally organized some people to hide the food. We were afraid that the Japanese security team would come to snatch it, but this time the Japanese did not steal it, but they clearly wanted it, but who dared not to give it to them? Those who could not be handed over were directly tied up and sent to the town, where they would either pawn their houses or sell their sons and daughters. Therefore, several villagers felt that they could not live in this life, so they had to sell their ancestral fields to the Xu family and take them with them. The family fled westward!"
"We have nothing to do now. The Japanese have sent food, but we want to stop the people from giving it to them. But the detective team of the security group will probably send people to grab the food. If they can't grab it, they will arrest people. What do you think we should do?" Wu Nansheng also looked miserable.
The girl next to him suddenly thought of Li Youde and rolled his eyes: "This is not easy. I'll kill those bastards in his family, and then let the common people rob his family of food?"
"This is a good idea. His old man is celebrating his birthday, and most of the nursing staff are coming back. It won't take more than a few hundred days. Can we survive?" Wu Nansheng said angrily.
"How about we intercept the grain that the Japanese took away?" The girl refused to give up.
"Don't you look at where this place is? There are Japanese artillery strongholds everywhere!"
"I don't think it's really complicated. Aren't the enemy's strongholds in the artillery towers all communicated by phone? We cut down their poles, cut their wires, and dug their roads. How can he still bluff?"
"Hey, this is a good idea." Lao Zhou and Wu Nansheng's eyes lit up.
"We don't have enough troops to spare so many people to chop down telephone poles and dig roads." Hu Yi gave the girl a sharp look and frowned.
"Don't worry, we still have a team hidden here!" Lao Zhou hesitated and told him what he knew.
"You mean the Water Conservancy Self-Defense Corps?" Wu Nansheng's eyes lit up.
"After we cooperated with the National Government, we were not interested in attacking local tyrants to divide their land. We also organized some armed forces in enemy-occupied areas. However, the combat effectiveness of the Self-Defense Group is indeed not very good, but if we cut wires and dig roads, we should be able to do it." Lao Zhou knew that the Self-Defense Corps was actually an organization organized by poor people, and it also used the banner of the Japanese to the outside world.
"What kind of rich man is he? They are enemies and traitors!" Wu Nansheng stood up and said through gritted teeth.
"Then we have to send people over." Hu Yi thought for a while. The situation was unknown now, and the mission this time was an order from the regiment, but he didn't expect the enemy to be so powerful.
