The sun is still high in the west, and the cold wind is howling in the barren ravine.
Near a depression in the mountain wall, several bonfires were burning brightly. A group of figures were sleeping next to the fires, with the neck protectors on their hats covering their ears, and their mouths and noses were wrapped tightly in towels.
A puff of white air continued to emit from the mouth and nose of the towel.
The cold wind howled in the ravine and got into the gaps in the clothes of the soldiers hugging each other.
Occasionally, the smell of barbecue penetrates the nose, and the continuous march does not wake up the sleeping people.
A few dozen meters away from the fires, two gray tents leaned quietly against the mountain wall.
In a larger tent, five people sat crowded inside, studying the battle plan with serious expressions.
Pu Buhuan frowned and unconsciously rubbed the gun cocoon on his hand with a small stone without saying anything.
Hu Yi frowned and kept thinking about the problem he was facing now. The task given to the student team by his superiors was to coordinate the assassination advance team of the special agent group.
Until now, I haven't even thought of a way to enter the city. Although I have a detective card, I can only bring a gun into the city.
Dozens of the detective team members in the city have been successfully lured out. Now they must make a decision as soon as possible, whether to outwit this group of advance teams and then enter the city in disguise, or to find other ways to sneak into the city.
County Magistrate Liu spoke again: "If we want to get rid of these traitors from the detective team, I think there is still no way. The people from the detective team must know each other when we come to the county town. We will have to reveal our secrets as soon as we show up at the gate of the county town. Moreover, the Japs are everywhere now." After setting up a phone call and pretending to be a detective team, this method will definitely not work."
"Then we can only use the most old-fashioned method and sneak into the city in batches."
Captain Liang immediately denied: "It's also very difficult. If nothing else, the most direct way for the detective team to investigate our Eighth Route Army is to inspect the gun cocoons on our hands. This matter cannot be solved now."
Liu Manhe smiled: "The chief has already considered this problem. Since a month ago, the soldiers have hardly touched the guns. Before setting off, the calluses on their hands were rubbed again. In order to deal with this situation, we are well prepared. .”
Pu Buhuan stopped what he was doing: "You mean, the people from your special agent team are entering the city? Are we just staring outside the city?"
Liu Manhe raised his eyebrows and said, "If you can sneak in, I have no objection."
County Magistrate Liu felt a toothache when he thought about this: "This is a model county for public security, and the investigation is really strict."
Captain Liang glanced at Liu Manhe: "This plan is too risky. Without enough weapons, it is impossible to complete the mission."
"It is better than sending a large force to attack by force. Moreover, if we attack by force, it will not be able to achieve the effect of assassinating the Japanese and supporting the troops and deterring the Japanese."
Hu Yi, who was deep in thought next to him, suddenly said: "There are a few people in our student team who meet the conditions of not having a gun cocoon in their hands. It's just that their combat effectiveness may not be strong, but there is no problem in providing support."
Pu Buhuan thought that he would not be able to enter the city, so he simply gave up his delusions: "I think that Staff Liu's idea of using cold weapons may seem unreliable, but it is the only thing we can do at the moment. The secret service team The skills of the soldiers are definitely fine. In my personal opinion, you can give it a try."
County Magistrate Liu shook his head: "Japs and traitors are having New Year's Eve dinner together. They will definitely bring weapons. We use our bare hands and knives to deal with enemies with guns. I think you are really crazy."
"Needless to say, you don't know the skills of the comrades of our special agent group. Now that the problem of weapons cannot be solved, we will have a hand-to-hand fight with this little devil. Think about it, this little devil is indeed trained He is skilled and has strong fighting ability. However, what we are doing this time is an assassination, and it is in a restaurant, and there are tables everywhere. No matter how good his marksmanship is, he can still beat me in that complicated environment. The white knife goes in and the red knife comes out?"
Pu Buhuan didn't know what was wrong, and suddenly sneered at County Magistrate Liu: "Hey, you County Magistrate has done a really wronged job. Not only can't you get a grenade in the city, but you can't even get a shell gun." No, you might as well use a kitchen knife to deal with those 'one-on-ones', I really don't know how you carry out your work."
County Magistrate Liu was not an easy man, and immediately became angry: "Instructor Park, if you don't know the situation, don't talk nonsense. The former anti-Japanese government magistrate of Qi County defected to the enemy and betrayed our Eighth Route Army independent battalion, causing heavy losses to the organization and a complete halt in work. After I came here, I finally arranged for people to take root in the city. This mass base is not related to intelligence work, it can be established in a day or two."
Park Bu-hwan has a clear understanding of the situation: "Everyone knows that the joint anti-Japanese democratic government formed with the reactionaries is unreliable. Can't you be more cautious?"
County Magistrate Liu felt that it was necessary to do some ideological work for these tough guys who only knew how to kill Japanese soldiers: "Our strength is weak. Do you know how many people we had in the army when we first came to Taihang?
Let me tell you again: your division only has a total of 10,000 people! If we only rely on the Eighth Route Army, and the Japs plus the security forces, there will be hundreds of thousands of troops in North China alone, and our equipment is poor, many soldiers only have three bullets in their guns!
Besides, more than 10,000 of us surrounded more than 1,000 Japanese who took advantage of the terrain, but we still couldn't defeat them!
Over the years, we have relied on the masses to grow our team to hundreds of thousands. Do you know that nearly half of the soldiers in our army are fighting the Japanese with swords and swords?
If we did not unite to fight against Japan and relied only on ordinary people, where would our guns come from? Where does the food come from? What you need to know more clearly is that your superiors have stopped talking about allocating land to wealthy people a long time ago! What should we do if we establish a democratic government? "
Seeing that everyone was angry, Captain Liang quickly gave County Magistrate Liu a hand: "Hey, Magistrate Liu, you are an old comrade, don't get too excited and go further. We all know what's going on in this forest. There are birds, and this is not your responsibility. Now let’s get down to business, the situation is right in front of you, you can talk about the situation inside Dadexing Restaurant.”
County Magistrate Liu stared at Pu Buhuan and snorted coldly: "Dadexing Restaurant is actually not big. It is just two floors with four front rooms. There are no private rooms. The kitchen is on the first floor. There is not much space for guests to eat downstairs. There are only a dozen small square tables set up, and the second floor is half larger than the first floor. There are more than 30 tables set up, and people with status usually go to the second floor to eat."
Captain Liang immediately raised a new question: "What if the Japanese book the hotel?"
"Probably not. Many Japanese officials often eat at restaurants. As for the captain of the detective team, Huang is not a big shot in Qi County. It is approaching the Chinese New Year, and the biggest official of the advance team he hired is just a man. Lieutenant, I think the traitorous weasel doesn’t have that many abilities yet!”
Captain Liang continued to ask: "How to deal with Chief Lin's matter?"
Liu Manhe finally said: "You don't have to worry about this. When the time comes, I will arrange for someone to pick you up when you enter the city."
County Magistrate Liu thought for a while: "Okay, since you are so confident, then I also agree with Staff Liu's battle plan."
Captain Liang considered it carefully for a while: "However, the details need to be perfected."
A soldier was turned blue by the cold wind and ran to the tent out of breath: "Report, an hour ago, a company of security forces came out of the city. They spread the word to the outside world that they were going to exercise. Now they are heading towards us. coming!"
(End of chapter)
