Lin Yi was among the crowd of ordinary people, her dirty head wrapped in sweat-stained linen cloth, her face was so gray that it was almost impossible to see her face clearly.
Apart from his tired eyes, he could only see the general outline of his face, which was almost the same as the beggar at the base of the city wall.
The group of civilians inspected by the detective team kept moving forward.
The detective team is collecting security fees for entering the city one by one. In order to fundamentally prohibit the use of legal currency and border tickets, the detective team only collects "Mongolian yuan" and Japanese military tickets issued by banks in the occupied areas. If anyone uses legal currency, the money will be transferred directly. No one was confiscated and shot.
As for real money and hard currency like Dayang, no one would be stupid enough to give such a large amount of money just to enter the city.
The detective team's dog eyes were constantly patrolling the crowd.
Finally it was the turn of Lin Yi, who seemed to have a numb expression. A detective team member took the wrinkled good citizen certificate from her and carefully checked the photo.
The woman exuded a disgusting sour smell, and the detective team quickly pinched her nose. However, he did not relax the inspection because of Lin Yi's beggar-like dress. He searched his belongings and asked: "You came in as a woman." What is the city doing?”
"Go to Renhetang to get some medicine from Mr. Liu to treat my mother-in-law." In order to speak in a hoarse voice, Lin Yi had not had a sip of water since he set out in the mountains yesterday.
"Where's the prescription?"
"Here!" Lin Yi took out a folded yellow paper from the basket hanging on his left forearm, with the name and weight of the medicine written in small letters on it, and handed it to the detective team member.
The detective team member took the prescription and looked at it. He didn't recognize many of the words. However, the paper on which the prescription was written was reserved for Renhetang, so he recognized it.
"In these days, if you have money, it's better to buy some food. You save an old woman for nothing." The detective team's black dog shook his head and muttered, which was considered good advice. The implication is that an old woman is yours. Even those who can be cured will starve to death.
Lin Yi didn't seem to understand. He took the Good Citizen Certificate and the prescription from the detective with dull eyes, put them away carefully, and slowly walked into the city gate.
"Another idiot?" The detective team member shook his head.
Above the city gate.
The detective captain kept his eyes on Lin Yi: "Send someone down and stare at that stinky bitch. I always feel like something is wrong."
After speaking, he raised his hand and pointed at the woman who had just entered the city.
A scar-faced traitor next to him followed the direction pointed by the captain and quickly found the target. He immediately became energetic and said, "Captain, can't we just arrest him?"
"Our Qixian County is a model county for public security in Shanxi. The Chinese New Year is in two days. If you catch a suspect at this juncture, it means that there are Eighth Route Army activities in the city. You want to cause trouble for the Imperial Army Captain. Really?" The vice-captain shook his head.
"what is it now?"
"If you put a long line to catch big fish, even if you catch people, you can only catch them outside the city. Do you understand?"
"Our model county for public security has a great reputation, but it is much more difficult to arrest people outside the city. Hey, if you can't arrest people in the shops of those wealthy businessmen, your brothers won't have much to gain, right? "
"You idiot, you're always looking for money... You know what the hell, since we are a model county for public security, there can't be any rebels in the city, and you have to pay attention to methods to make money, you know?"
"Young man...understand that Tubal Road dare not come to rub the tiger's beard, but occasionally a few ordinary people will be sent to the city to inquire about information. Does this make sense?"
"You can't tell these poor guys who know anything about anything they've caught, and you're just trying to catch them. We have to feed them first and catch the big fish behind them. Do you understand?"
"Is this what the play says about raising a thief to respect himself? Gao, it's really high!"
"Your mother is quite knowledgeable. As far as we are concerned, if we catch all the suspects, sooner or later we will become like birds. Good bows are hidden, cunning avoids death, and lackeys are cooked. Do you understand?"
"Hehe, then we are just dogs...Aren't you scolding yourself?"
"I am a good bowman, you are a fucking lackey."
"In these days, being a dog is more nourishing than being a human. Yes, I will follow you personally."
"Hey, you don't want your life?" the vice-captain reminded, somewhat dumbfounded.
"What do you mean?"
"Do you think the Eighth Route Army's anti-traitor team is just for show?"
"I just went to take a look. Anyway, let the military police do the job of arresting people." The scar-faced traitor thought for a while: "Brother, how did you see that there was something wrong with her? Can you tell me about it?"
"Huh? She walked very fast from outside the city to the city gate, and then walked slowly once she passed the checkpoint. Doesn't this mean that she was observing the situation in the city?"
"I admire you. Brother, you have such sharp eyesight that you can see such details clearly."
"What? You kid still knows how to have a piercing gaze?"
"Then when storytellers say that great heroes have vision, don't they always say that their eyes are like saws?"
"You go to the theater every day as a kid. Be careful, I will deal with you. Get out of here."
"I'm going to take a few brothers to take a look..." Seeing that the woman had gone away, the scar-faced traitor quickly called for people to run down from the city gate.
The environment in Qixian County was very harsh. The anti-Japanese government's county magistrate, independent battalion commander, and county police chief successively rebelled and surrendered to the enemy.
And these traitors are now openly working for the Japanese in the county seat, causing all agencies and units near the Eighth Route Army to be transferred.
The intelligence personnel who stayed in the city were all arranged by Lin Yi personally, and they only maintained a single line of communication with her through the traffic officer.
Just the day before yesterday, the intelligence personnel who had penetrated into the enemy accidentally received information about the advance team. The traffic officer tried his best to send the information to the designated location. Lin Yi was not around, so another traffic officer who collected the information sent the information to a nearby agency overnight. Two hours later, after analysis and screening, the information marked with three asterisks was translated into a telegram and urgently sent to the headquarters.
The enemy engineering section that received the intelligence further analyzed and made a judgment based on the situation reported by intelligence departments from various places. The Japanese advance team entered Qi County!
In the middle of the night, the intelligence was reported directly to the boss. After reading the intelligence, the boss could no longer sleep. With red eyes, he personally ordered: mobilize all the elite forces of the nearby Eighth Route Army to destroy this team at all costs.
The message was also sent to the division headquarters in the south.
The commander's words of "no risk at all" show that he hates the advancing team completely, and it also shows how destructive the advancing team is to the Eighth Route Army.
The commander's considerations must be reasonable. Judging from the terrain, if the advance team goes west over the Luliang Mountains and then crosses the Yellow River... the consequences will be disastrous.
Therefore, the organization general responsible for assassinating the Anxian advancing team was transferred directly to Qixian to ensure a successful attack.
When Lin Yi received the order, he was analyzing intelligence on the activities of the advancing team in Jizhong.
Liu Manhe, the staff officer of the headquarters' special agent group, had already assembled 20 or 30 elite members of the entire regiment. Under the escort of the special agent group, she set off from the mountains overnight, headed west, and entered the hilly areas of Shanxi after dawn. With the cooperation of local troops, she took great risks. He drove more than a hundred miles non-stop through enemy-occupied areas.
At this time, she finally successfully entered the east gate of Qixian County.
He took a breath and rested against the wall on the street. After observing for a while, he found that Liu Manhe, the staff officer of the secret service battalion, had also entered the city gate.
Lin Yi looked at a middle-aged man selling wontons on the street. The middle-aged man nodded slightly, and she continued to walk unhurriedly towards Renhe Hall, located in the south of Qi County.
She wanted to speed up, but she had not rested all night. Walking on mountain roads and riding horses, for a woman like her, her physical fitness had almost reached its limit.
There are not many pedestrians on the streets in winter.
Suddenly, the sound of someone running's footsteps appeared from behind. As Liu Manhe ran past Lin Yi, he whispered: "There is a tail behind."
Lin Yi was shocked, but did not look back and still maintained his speed.
After Liu Manhe finished speaking, he continued to run forward, turned around a corner and disappeared...
Lin Yi walked on a familiar street where she had worked before. She didn't even change her direction. There should be other comrades around her.
In fact, she wasn't too worried. She was very confident in her arrangements. The people lurking in the city were all experienced old comrades in arms, and there was no chance of them surrendering to the enemy.
Now, she has no more time to escape. Time is too tight. Even if Renhetang is exposed as the contact point, she must ensure that she completes this mission!
A determined look and a determined step.
Not long after, Lin Yi walked directly into Renhe Hall.
After a while, she left Renhetang carrying a pair of Chinese medicines wrapped in paper.
Turning in one direction on the street, Liu Manhe had already changed his clothes, and the two exchanged glances.
In the distance, the scarred-faced traitor watched the woman enter the pharmacy and come out shortly after carrying a bag of Chinese medicine. There seemed to be no one passing by her on the way.
No, that young man of 17 or 18 years old... seemed to have run behind him, and he seemed to have made eye contact with her!
Changed clothes so quickly? There must be something wrong.
Scarface couldn't accurately judge the situation, so he couldn't help but hesitate for a while, and suddenly told the loser next to him: "You follow her, and I'll follow the young man."
Immediately, the two separated, and two more figures appeared in a shop on the roadside. After they separated, they met up with the two traitors and continued to follow them.
Almost no one noticed that on the second floor somewhere nearby, a pair of eyes were hidden behind a slit window, staring at everything happening on the street.
"Captain, the contact person is being followed by a black dog." The observer's voice came, and several people in the room immediately became nervous.
Open the door, go downstairs, and go out into the street separately.
