From Peiping, follow the railway southward, across the Yellow River and all the way to Hankou on the Yangtze River, referred to as the Pinghan-Han Line.
The Yellow River runs from west to east and divides the Central Plains into Hebei and Henan. In terms of actual administrative division, the area from the north of the Yellow River to An County is under the jurisdiction of Henan.
The Pinghan-Hankou Railway runs from north to south to Anxian and enters Henan, and continues to cross the Yellow River through Zhongmou (Hebi), Tangxian, Qixian and Xinxiang to Zhengzhou.
Huaxian County is 70 miles due east of Qixian County, Zhongmou is more than 70 miles away from Qixian in the north, and Huaxian is also more than 70 miles away from Zhongmou. The three counties form a triangle.
Zhongmu and Qixian are on the edge of the Pinghan-Hankou Railway, and their size far exceeds that of Huaxian.
Since the severe drought, a large number of people have fled famine, and the villages around Huaxian County have gradually become sparsely populated.
However, the number of ordinary people in the villages surrounding the county along the railway line has not decreased significantly.
Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Naturally, there are many traitors and lackeys wandering around.
The Night Raid Team is an action team specially set up under the Detective Team to carry out activities at night, and is mainly composed of local gangsters.
The only difference from the plainclothes team is that they all wear black clothes.
There are roughly four main sources of income for traitors. One is regular pay from the Japanese, which is fine to support oneself, but it is impossible to support a family; the other is exploiting businessmen; the third is collecting money and reselling supplies by well-connected people; the fourth is robbery and extortion. Ordinary people also collect security fees.
They were of the same type as the neighboring county's secret service. Although they had different names, no matter who they were, they had to pay if they had goods passing through the other party's territory.
As for the amount of money, there is no fixed amount.
Seeing that the reinforcements had not arrived yet, the team from the south had already reached the stone bridge where the river had long dried up.
The gangsters started to get nervous.
The team that came didn't seem to have many people...just a dozen or so.
The three mule carts in the team followed them onto the stone bridge under the light of torches.
Seeing that the brother who went to inquire about the situation still hadn't come back, the little leader said in a shrill voice that he didn't let his men come forward.
The torches on the bridge were a bit dazzling.
Therefore, no one noticed that a gray shadow completely mixed with the ground appeared in the river, and the team member responsible for reconnaissance was raising his hand to gesture.
The traitors finally saw clearly that there were a few people walking at the front on the bridge, and they were all figures dressed as Imperial Army soldiers.
Lying in the ditch and looking around, the man with a saw voice asked: "Brother, it seems that the security forces are here, what should I do?"
"It doesn't matter whether he is a security force or a detective team. As long as he is not one of our people, except for the imperial army, anyone who crosses our territory must be paid."
"That's great, but...if we don't go up, they will leave..."
The high-pitched voice sneered: "You kid just can't keep calm and enters our territory. He can just leave if he wants?"
"But if our brothers behind us stop us from collecting money, we can only watch them take the big shot..."
"Be careful in everything. They have about the same number as us. We have to guard against these guys playing dirty tricks..."
Another man next to him asked with a loud voice: "Since he is wearing the clothes of the Imperial Alliance Army, he must be one of Commander Wu, playing dirty tricks on our territory? Isn't that enough?"
"You know what the heck, it's just because they are wearing the clothes of the Imperial Alliance Army that they are suspicious! They are just delivering goods, how could they send someone from the team here?"
"Boss, what do you mean?"
"Xiao Si'er hasn't come back now. What if it's the guerrillas who came..."
"Boss, are you really talking about...the guerrillas? He dares to run around with torches in the middle of the night? Besides, the captain has already made an agreement with the guerrillas. If he dares to attack us, the captain will burn them at any time. kennel."
"hold on..."
"You are afraid of wolves in front of you and tigers in the back. Brothers who follow you will have to drink from the northwest wind sooner or later..."
"How about you take the lead?"
Jiaozi shook his head: "Brothers are new here, so we still have to abide by the rules..."
"Then tell me...what should we do now?"
"According to the rules of the cottage, as long as you pass through our territory, you will be paid directly."
The thin voice raised the shell gun in his hand, raised the brim of his black hat, and gritted his teeth: "Okay... you take your two brothers up, and ask where Xiao Si'er is. I'll hold the line for you here. ..."
"That's right, just keep an eye on it. Even if it's a rock, I'll knock out the oil... extort money..." After sawing, the man jumped out of the ditch with the two brothers and rushed to the bridge. , raised his pistol and shot into the sky.
With the sound of gunfire still ringing in his ears, this man opened his mouth and shouted to the team still in the middle of the bridge to start the saw: "This way... everyone coming, please listen. The investigation team will handle the case, inspect the goods, pay the money and leave."
Hearing the gunfire, everyone on the bridge was startled and fell to the ground subconsciously.
Everyone on the bridge saw only three people coming and stood up slowly when their scalps went numb when they heard the horrifying sound like an iron file sharpening a saw.
A dissatisfied voice scolded: "If you want money, you need money. Why are you shooting? It's a waste of my bullets..."
Your bullet? It seems that this guy was so frightened that he couldn't even speak, and shouted proudly with a saw-like voice: "Hey, what did you guys give me today? The old rule is, one piece for each person, eh, eighteen people. ..I’ll charge you twenty yuan...”
Zhang Jiu glanced at Captain Yang and whispered: "Are you going to give me money or take advantage of me?"
Captain Yang shook his head: "Hey, twenty yuan? I don't even have two yuan in total in my team..."
"Poor guy..." Zhang Jiu cursed and took out a stack of bills from his pocket: "Hey, we've already prepared them. Why are you here to collect money today?"
Jiaozixiao was stunned for a moment: "Who are you? I've never seen you before?"
"I've worked with your boss? Why haven't I seen you?"
"Brother, what should I call you?"
"You ask me? It will scare you to death if I tell you...Forget it, you have been with our boss, but it's a pity that our boss has been so stubborn in the past few days..."
"Dead? God hinders talents..."
"I said, you'd better stop trying to make friends, give the money and leave as soon as possible, so that you can have a safe journey..."
Zhangjiu was just trying to deceive this person. Seeing this two hundred and fifty idiot, Ba Ji couldn't help but smile and handed the banknotes to Jiaozishou: "Give me some incense sticks for you, Mr. Liu..."
"You mean Master Liu? Well, I just joined the Night Raid Team. I haven't seen Master Liu here yet. What I just mentioned was my former Master." After accepting the money, I was relieved, and the other party said The new head of the family has become a new leader, and his mouth is full of words.
"Then...who was your former boss?"
"Have you ever heard of Ma Da Bangzi?" Zaw's voice became much lower.
"Ma Da Bangzi?" Qian Jiu was shocked: "Isn't he over there in An County?"
"Well, a few days ago, two guys came from nowhere and cut off the head of the boss. We offended the Eighth Route Army, so everyone dispersed immediately."
"Did they break up?" Qian Jiu suddenly remembered something: "I heard that you two masters were flying on grass..."
I stopped here on purpose.
"Do you still know our second boss? Hey, he is now with Commander Yu. The commander looks down on us country bumpkins from the mountains... so the second boss let us work with the night raid team to make ends meet."
"It seems like you're not doing well."
"Hey, it's good to have food these days. By the way, big brother, what's your name?"
"Just call me...'Ma Liang'..."
"It turns out to be Ye Bo Yuntian's Ma Ye..." He didn't know what Ma Ye was, but he heard that he had worked with the boss, so he must be a big player.
"It's easy to talk!" Zhang Jiu said: "Just wait for me..."
Suddenly he turned around and walked back a few steps, looked at Captain Yang who was sitting on the mule cart, and lowered his voice: "Tell brothers to hold off for now, this thing will be of great use to us..."
"What use can a bunch of traitors do?" Captain Yang looked at the shell gun in the hand of the fellow opposite and said with enthusiasm: "How about you give me the twenty yuan, and I will help you kill these traitors who are working for you!"
"This matter is related to Director Zhang's death..."
"Ah? But, the prisoner just now knew that we were the Eighth Route Army!" Captain Yang was shocked. Of course he knew about Director Zhang's death.
"Just now? Where were the prisoners just now?"
"Hey, did you see our two brothers on your way here?" The voice that made people's hearts tremble again as they were waiting impatiently at the bridge.
"Two?" Captain Yang and Jian Jiu looked at each other. It was clear that the only one on the cart was the one they caught...
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