While Hu Yi and his party were waiting outside the village in the south of Xinglong Town, more than a hundred miles to the north, a team of nearly 200 people was marching in the darkness.
Tian Sanqi at the front of the team suddenly asked Zhang Yi: "You just mentioned that the spy leader we arrested in the eastern base area... did he really commit tens of thousands of sabotage actions by himself?"
Zhang Yi paused in the darkness: "The report issued by superiors stated that a section chief operating in the Hebei-Shandong Japs Special High-tech Section had recruited a large group of traitors, causing huge losses to the base area!"
Tian Sanqi always felt that it was untrue: "Are you just bragging? Think about it, even if he does sabotage once a day, it will take two and a half years without interruption! The total number of people in our division may only be 10,000 or 20,000, which is impossible. ..."
Zhang Yi's mood immediately worsened when he mentioned this, and he recalled unhurriedly: "The situation there is very complicated. Last winter, the commander of the third army division died. On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, the commander of the second division of the Hebei-Shandong border area died. Sacrifice again..."
Tian Sanqi was not good at words. He was stunned for a while and muttered: "Our independent group was poisoned last time, and dozens of people died!"
"So we must be more vigilant. The Japanese have set up some kind of propaganda class in the occupied areas to train traitors and spies. They also use those traitors to guide people, and even recruit candidates within our base area, or use coercion and inducement. Many traitors have developed in the plains. It’s different from the mountains. In addition to knowing how to fight, you also need to have the brains to fight against enemy agents, do you understand?”
Tian Sanqi was shocked, but a little worried: "Then...are Lao Qin and Lao Meng also in danger?"
"Danger? Should our revolution stop because of danger? Therefore, we must strictly guard against enemy agents. Even if their spies can enter our base area, we must prevent their news from spreading."
"Then can you also tell me how to guard against enemy agents?"
"First of all, we need to know the situation of the enemy agents. Some spies will use the 'bitter meat trick' to sneak into our local Eighth Route Army troops, or even sneak into local armed forces or progressive militia groups first, and then wait for opportunities to enter our base area. Moreover, the enemy has specially trained female spies, and then let them Female spies were waiting for opportunities to get close to the cadres in our base area, and used various methods to trick the cadres into rebelling... Last year, the headquarters found out that a guard was instigated by the female spies to rebel. Fortunately, the guard had been with the boss for many years, and he did not confess to the organization in the end. Instead, he shot himself. Tell me...how suspenseful this is..."
"Let me tell you, there are two ways to prevent enemy agents you mentioned. One is to prevent the enemy from entering our base area, and the other is to prevent them from transmitting information even if they can come in, right?"
"So the organization requires that you don't ask what you shouldn't ask, and you don't say what you shouldn't say. You understand, right?"
"I guess I know, but what should we do if a spy enters our base?"
"This requires mobilizing the masses. As long as everyone keeps an eye on each other, if the enemy agent wants to collect intelligence, his behavior will definitely be different from ordinary people. As long as the whole people are mobilized, even if the enemy sneaks in, it will not be easy for the spy to pass on the intelligence collected. , for example, if he collects a piece of intelligence and passes it to the enemy, they will have to analyze whether the intelligence is true or false, and finally come up with countermeasures and pass the order to the mopping up troops. It will take at least half a day, long enough for us to take a shot. A place, and you have to pay attention, those who work as spies are generally afraid of death, otherwise they will not surrender to the enemy, so they generally will not directly assassinate, do you understand?"
"Then if we send people to break into the enemy's interior, isn't it also dangerous?"
"This is not something you should know."
"Uh, then I get it."
Under the moonlight, the team arrived at the blockade trench. The lights on the distant turrets illuminated the blockade trench as bright as day.
After two small fires were lit somewhere in the distance, the searchlights on the two turrets closest to the fire intentionally or unintentionally avoided a certain location.
The team quickly crossed the blockade ditch and immediately disappeared into the darkness.
Tian Sanqi stared with big eyes: "Director Zhang, you have done a great job!"
Director Zhang rolled his eyes at him: "As long as you know, don't make it known everywhere."
As soon as they walked out of the searchlight range, the monkey jumped out from the side of the road: "How did you get here? Uh...why are there so many people?"
"To guard against enemy spies, most of the team are militiamen!" Director Zhang quickly asked: "How is the situation?"
"Xu Xiao is still in the town, and the bandits in Ma Da Bangzi's lair have been out for nearly a hundred..."
Zhang Yi was overjoyed: "Then there aren't many people left in his hometown, right?"
The monkey immediately shook his head: "It should be no less than nearly a hundred."
Director Zhang was stunned: "Isn't he only number 100? What's going on?"
"During this period, Ma Da Bangzi took advantage of the food supply and recruited some small groups of bandits nearby, increasing his manpower by nearly half. Two groups of bandits just arrived yesterday."
"Why did it increase so much?"
"Many bandits in the south can't live a good life. Uh... bandits are just bandits, no matter how many there are, it's useless!" After the monkey finished speaking, he turned to look at Tian Sanqi: "Hey, will you lead the team this time?"
"Can't I come..." Tian Sanqi suddenly changed his tone: "Well, I will cooperate with the public security team to come and eliminate the bandits!"
"Let me remind you, this group of bandits is not simple, and their equipment is no worse than our Ninth Company..."
"No matter how well-equipped he is, he is still a rabble!"
In the darkness, the team continued forward and stopped at the foot of a hillside.
Two figures walked towards the town under the moonlight.
Half an hour later, Monkey took Tian Sanqi to scout around the town and quietly returned to the back of the hillside.
A flashlight was turned on, and there were monkey's masterpieces on the ground.
The crooked map shows that the town is not big, and its layout is even simpler. A cross street running from east to west and from north to south divides the town into four major areas, with many alleys interspersed in the middle.
The town hall is located directly north of the intersection and opposite a large square to the south.
The monkey lowered his voice and said to Director Zhang: "There is an earth wall around the town, and sentries are set up on the four gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest. There is no one patrolling the town. The earth wall is not high. You can climb up with a stick. The town Most of the people there fled, leaving not many behind. The bandits lived in a mess. Xu Xiao drew circle marks on the walls of the courtyards where bandits lived..."
Tian Sanqi thought of the last time he touched the security army barracks, and planned to repeat his old trick: "Director Zhang, there are more than a hundred bandits, and we are also wearing puppet army uniforms now. How about we come to find out and go in directly through the gate?"
Zhang Yi shook his head: "No, with the temper of the bandits, they will definitely not let us enter the town in the middle of the night."
"Then how do you plan to fight?" Tian Sanqi had never personally commanded the attack on a small town, so he had no idea at all.
Zhang Yi thought for a while: "Surrounding three towers, let's feint attack from three sides, southeast and west, and concentrate our efforts to ambush the bandits who run out from the north!"
"The town is so big, what if the bandits don't come out?" Tian Sanqi asked after hesitation.
Zhang Yi frowned: "There are too many bandits, we can't attack by force..."
Seeing that these two people could not even attack such a small town, Monkey couldn't help but suggest: "The situation in the town is a bit complicated. We don't have many troops. If we want to take down all the bandits in the town, the best way is to let the militia First surround the town, and then our main force sneaks in, first seizes the bandit's den, and then goes from house to house like the devils entering the village and puts the people in the square to identify them."
Tian Sanqi immediately objected: "There are more than a hundred bandits, and there is no problem for us to defeat the two hundred or so. But as soon as the battle starts, the puppet troops in the nearby gun towers will probably send people when they hear the gunfire. We have to leave here before dawn." "
Director Zhang thought for a while: "The method mentioned by the monkey is good. We don't actually need to leave. As long as we can capture all the enemies before dawn, there should be no problem with safety. The public security team has already made an agreement with the insiders in the nearby turrets. When the time comes, they will If you come here, we will say that the bandits who were killed were guerrillas and have been wiped out by us!"
"But the puppet army must know the bandits in the town?"
"Hey, that means our second in charge died heroically in the process of wiping out the guerrillas. Then I will pretend to be the third in charge and the fifth in charge, with insider care, and send them dozens of oceans. Who will care about the bandits' affairs? "
The monkey has a black line: "The battle hasn't started yet, you two are really big-hearted... Although these bandits are not even considered as security forces, the trouble is that the bandits are hiding in the dark, so there are hundreds of them. I think it’s okay to let the militiamen surround the town first while guns are still being fired everywhere on the plains, and wait until daytime to slowly eliminate the bandits?”
Director Zhang was a little worried: "It makes sense. Although there are only a hundred bandits, they have the advantage of the location. This battle is still difficult to fight."
Monkey didn't care. If there weren't too many bandits, I and the big man could have eliminated this group of bandits: "No matter how good the bandits are...he is also a bandit. Besides, there are so many new bandits. They We don’t know each other either, so we’re just fishing in troubled waters!”
Director Zhang thought for a while and nodded in agreement: "In that case, let's climb over the wall and enter the town!"
The plan was decided, Tian Sanqi immediately arranged for his three "squads" to mobilize immediately and change clothes with the militiamen.
Half an hour later, Tian Sanqi immediately began to arrange militiamen wearing security army uniforms: "We surrounded the town in two circles around 100 meters and 300 meters outside the town in squad units. We must not let a bandit escape. Got it!"
It was quiet, and there was constant sound of drinking and fistfighting in the small town under the moonlight.
There was a surge of people outside the village. A bandit on the city gate suddenly became nervous. He raised his ears and looked carefully into the distance. He suddenly asked the bandit next to him: "Pheasant... wake up... wake up quickly... Outside the town There seems to be someone."
The other one blinked his sleepy eyes and yawned: "How can there be a ghost if there is no one?"
The person opposite looked nervously at the empty wilderness outside the town and muttered: "Who would be outside the town in the middle of the night?"
The one who blinked his sleepy eyes said angrily: "Oh, most of them are refugees who are running for their lives. What do you care about them?"
The bandit on the opposite side hesitated for a while: "Could it be a guerrilla?"
"Guerrillas?" The half-awake man woke up in surprise. He quickly stood up and looked into the hazy moonlight. After a while, he saw nothing. "Hey, are you dazzled?"
The bandit on the opposite side quickly said: "Can't you? I obviously saw someone, but this time... there is really no trace..."
"Public security is being carried out everywhere. Even if there are guerrillas in the middle of the night, there are so many brothers in our town. Are we afraid of him?"
"That's right. There are our people everywhere around. If anyone dares to mess with us, then you can continue to sleep." The bandits really thought of themselves as puppet soldiers.
People No. 70 and 80 crept up the four-meter-high earthen city wall. No matter how careful they were, there was still a lot of movement.
A dog barking immediately rang out in the town, followed quickly by a roar.
Amidst the creaking sound, some dark figures emerged from the town, asking around suspiciously.
There were dogs barking everywhere, and it was impossible to tell where the sound came first. Several bandits went to the town gate to inquire, cursing.
"I seem to see someone outside the town..." The bandit at the city gate saw the second master running over with his brothers, and quickly told him what he had seen earlier.
The second master felt a little nervous: "How many people did they come?"
"I didn't see clearly, there should be... about ten of them."
"Only a dozen or so?" The second master immediately felt relieved: "What the hell, keep a close eye on them. If brothers from other cottages come to join us, let them wait outside the town and explain to them clearly. God We have to wait until dawn tomorrow to talk about big things."
After the second master finished speaking, he yawned, and it was more practical to go back and sleep with his newly married wife.
The bandits did not notice that three groups of figures appeared in the town, and each group was divided into three groups. They bent down and used the shadows of the low walls to sneak towards the houses.
The barking of dogs in the town continued. Director Zhang, who was setting up a defense line outside the town, had a sullen face. He had to worry that if the barking of dogs continued, Tian Sanqi and the others who entered would sooner or later attract the attention of the bandits.
The bandits in the town must be made to think that the barking of the dogs is because someone is operating outside the town!
Thinking of this, he immediately led a squad of soldiers to the far side of the south gate, lit torches, and hurried towards the south gate of the town.
Far away from the city gate, a soldier shouted at the top of his lungs at the instruction of Director Zhang: "Is the Master of Mada here? Our Master of Shida specially asked us to come over and pay a visit."
"Master Shi Da? Which Shi Da is the master?" A voice came from the city gate.
"Linqi's Shi Wenhu Department! Hurry up and open the door for me..."
"I don't care about Shi Wenhu or Shi Wenmao, the second master has already ordered us to wait until dawn." The man on the tower was not an outsider from Bird Town at all.
"Damn it...it's so cold outside the town, why do you ask me to wait outside by myself!" As he spoke, Zhang Yi had already walked not far outside the city gate.
"In my territory, Mada, you have to control the dragon, and you have to protect the tiger!"
Several shouting voices reached the town, and the barking of dogs became even louder...
The monkey followed Tian Sanqi and found Xu Xiao hiding in the village.
The three people huddled in the corner. Xu Xiao snorted, pointed at the map illuminated by the flashlight, and lowered his voice: "In front is the bandits' gathering hall. It was originally the town hall. There is a courtyard behind, with three rows of houses and eight rooms. There are more than ten or twenty of Ma Da Bangzi’s confidants living inside.”
"What about the other bandits?"
"The new bandits live in the east, and the bandits' wives live with their families in the town. Most of the few people left live in the north."
Tian Sanqi raised his hand and pointed to the gate, and gave the order behind him: "One squad and one team occupy the gate, the second team climbs over the wall from the east and enters the yard, and the third team climbs over the wall from the west and enters the yard;
The second squad dispersed to guard various intersections in the village. After trying to capture the four city gates of the town, they immediately established a cordon along the wall to prevent bandits from escaping over the wall.
The third squad will first keep an eye on the new group of bandits from the east. If encountering a situation, try not to shoot and use bayonets to solve the problem! "
The two messengers waiting next to him immediately ran away into the darkness.
There are three classes under Tian Sanqi, each with thirty-four people! There are three teams in each class, and each team leads eleven leaders!
The platoon leader does the job of the company commander! It would be perfect if there was an instructor...
In fact, Tian Sanqi has already identified one. The guerrilla captain named Liu from Lao Qin's side is young, but his cultural level is really not low...
As for Director Zhang, his level is too high to be useful. What’s more, he is too enlightened in his words and is educating himself at all times. With his level, it would be good to serve as a staff officer or political commissar for the security group...
The barking of dogs in the town continued for a long time, and someone finally realized that something was wrong...
