under fire

Chapter 838 Rescue
The dog traitor Wu Lantian has served as the secretary for many years, and he is very good at local governance!
What's even more astonishing is that this traitor has completely copied the Eight Routes' model of forming an anti-Japanese government!

Not only set up the county council to conduct open elections, but also set up the secretariat, the civil affairs bureau, the finance bureau, the education bureau, the construction bureau, the security command, and the audit office in the county
It's just that all the heads of departments are selected from the spy missions organized by the traitors.

For the remaining spies, [-] people are stationed in the county seat, and most of the rest are scattered in the towns around the county seat to ensure the safety of the county seat!

In towns and villages farther from the county seat, the number of special agents arranged is correspondingly reduced.

All township chiefs and town chiefs are all acted by cronies of dog traitors, and then arrange cronies to act as pawns of the pseudo-township government.
The strange thing is that in the villages under the jurisdiction of the pseudo-township, there are not many ordinary people left behind, and even the number of ordinary people in several villages in the countryside is not as large as the number of spies in the countryside!
In this way, the daily affairs that the township mayors have to deal with are naturally very few, and besides, how do those dog spies know anything about governance?
Of course, the mayor of the township, who was born as a bandit and a hooligan, has the fundamental goal of making money to satisfy his selfish desires. Without the common people in the jurisdiction, the spies naturally have their own ideas. The fastest way to buy money!
Secretly ordered his subordinates to imitate the early working methods of our party and beat up the local tyrants in the county first. The secret agents installed people everywhere to maintain order, and sent people to neighboring counties to preach the fairness of the county government.

The dog traitor also established a strange rule that all township officials at all levels, including the mayor, must go to the villages in the jurisdiction to patrol every three days to maintain law and order in each village.
In fact, all the villages have already been emptied out of ten rooms, and those left behind are basically old and weak. They are villagers who are not even qualified to flee!

Even if you flee, you still have to bring some food to fill your belly on the way to escape, right?

If you can't even raise food on the way to escape, what else can you do but stay and wait for death?
The remaining villagers are in a desperate situation, and their only hope is that it will rain someday!
There are endless ways for dogs and traitors to win people's hearts. If you have money, you can get food, and even start to organize your subordinates to occasionally distribute some relief food to the leftover villagers who are dying of starvation. Life.

The remaining villagers were deceived and turned into spies of the Wu brothers in a short period of time!

Therefore, when there was a new face in the town, it was quickly conveyed to the ears of the deputy head, Wu Hexiu.

The guard of the city gate of the security team led a villager, and the two stood up straight, carefully looking at the deputy head who had just washed his face: "...the leader is a member of the Mei County detective team, his name is Hu Yi, he is here There are eight people in total, there should still be meat in their mule cart, I can smell it very clearly!"

Wu Hexiu stared at him: "Meixian? So far away to sell food and meat in this poor village like Lao Tzu? Do you really think Lao Tzu is a fool?"

The security guards were a little puzzled: "Could it be that they come here because they think the price is affordable?"

Zhao Hepi smiled without laughing: "You idiot, the leaders of the Eighth Road will be shot tomorrow. Of course they are here today to inquire about the news. Hehe, let's catch them all tomorrow."

"But... there is no writing on the face of Balu, what if it is not Balu?"

"What does it matter if it's not Eight Roads? As long as he stays in Lao Tzu's territory for two days, won't he still give us money for eating and drinking?"

"How about I arrange someone to arrest them directly? According to the news from their brothers, they have a lot of money with them!"

Wu Hexiu was furious: "You bastard! How many times have I told you? When we are in charge of the government, we must ensure the safety of the people on the other side. Only in this way can we collect taxes, collect fees for entering the city, and keep rolling money. Money source! You must not kill chickens to get eggs, your mother must go back quickly, and warn those bastards who are planning to do something wrong, whoever dares to do something on my territory, then chop off their hands, and those who use their legs will directly control their legs."

The security guard curled his lips, and hurriedly bumped his shoulder against the civilian man next to him who had been afraid to speak, and had more than a dozen patches on his clothes.

Facing the murderous second son Wu, the dirty-faced civilian husband was extremely nervous: "I know one of them, from Jiujianfang Village, surnamed Geng, one of his two sons joined the national army and died. In the battle in An County, the other ran errands for the Eighth Route Army, and was caught and shot last year by Mr. Wu, the Eighth Township Chief."

"Okay, I got it, I'll give you ten yuan, haha." Wu Hexiu smiled, took out a stack of bills from his pocket, and handed one to the man.

The middle-aged civilian husband took the money tremblingly: ten yuan!
In the early years, the soldiers who went to the battlefield as a death squad bounty may not even be ten yuan!

The security team glanced sideways, and immediately dragged the peasant husband away.
After the two went out, Wu Hexiu still had a smile on his face: "Interesting, this family is not peaceful."

...

Under the sunshine of spring, the city of An County is completely gray.

Dressed in plain cotton clothes, with short neck-length hair swinging from side to side, Su Qing quickly turned into an alley.

Looking back inadvertently, the monkey who followed far behind nodded to her.

Immediately turned around and walked into a deeper alley.

She received an emergency contact signal from the intelligence team directly under the headquarters in An County.

This was the first time she had connected with the superior independent intelligence system personnel. There was no one in the alley, and she casually looked at the house number.

No.18, the door god is posted on the upper part of the gray gate. It should be posted on the New Year's Day. It is very new, but someone dug a hole.

Judging by the scale, the yard behind should not be big.

Su Qing suddenly felt a little uneasy, the intelligence team directly under the headquarters would not look for her for no reason.

He took a deep breath, walked to the door, raised his hand and knocked twice in a row according to the agreed signal, one heavy and four light.

Then wait.

After a while, the door opened.

A very ordinary-looking middle-aged man appeared, and asked with some doubts, "Who are you looking for?"

Su Qing didn't answer the other party's question, and handed over the half-folded dime wrapped in a copper coin that had been prepared earlier: "This is your wages for odd jobs last month, a total of ten cents!"

The banknote folded on top was missing a corner, the middle-aged man reached out to take it, took out the money from his pocket, sandwiched the banknotes together, but shook out the copper coin and returned it to Su Qing: "Thank you for your hard work." , this copper coin, you take it to the alley to buy a bowl of sugar water to drink."

Su Qing remained calm: "A penny is not enough."

The middle-aged man took out another copper coin from his pocket: "Is this enough?"

"Enough, I can buy two bowls of water!"

The middle-aged man's face remained unchanged: "Please come in!"

Su Qing quickly stepped into the courtyard, and the middle-aged man immediately closed the door behind him.

Su Qing was a little excited, and habitually looked at the layout of the yard.

The middle-aged man went to the room in the courtyard first: "Speak in the room!"

Following the middle-aged man into the house, the middle-aged man poured a glass of water and pushed it in front of Su Qing who was standing: "Please sit down and drink water!"

Holding the cup in both hands, Su Qing hesitated and asked, "Are you Mr. Zhou?"

Putting down the kettle, the middle-aged man stretched out his hand and shook Su Qing: "Zhou Tongle, show your identity. The tax collector at the station in Jiuxing Hutong, North Street, North Street of the Taxation Bureau, remember clearly. If you have important matters in the future, you can come to me directly! Remember, it can only be Important things!"

The middle-aged man opened the chair and sat down opposite Su Qing, took out a cigarette, hesitated for a while: "I smoke a cigarette, do you mind?"

Su Qing froze for a moment: "It's okay!"

The middle-aged man took out his cigarette calmly, and an exquisite lighter appeared in the middle-aged man's hand, and flames burst out with a crackling sound.

Su Qing looked at all this and said nothing. Chief Lin told her that the Eighth Route Army had three independent intelligence systems in An County!
What she knows is that the anti-Japanese democratic government has a system, the Minister of the Public Security Bureau Zhang died, and the division's own system is actually in her hands. The leader, in her capacity, has no right to know.

This time, the intelligence officer of the headquarters intelligence system contacted her suddenly.

Zhou Tongle raised his head and spit out a smoke ring into the air, and said directly: "This time there is an important task!"

Speaking of intelligence, Su Qing immediately became calm: "Please instruct."

Zhou Tongle pushed the document on the table over.

Su Qing quickly read the contents of the paper.

There are not many words on the document, it is about the arrest of Secretary Li Fengtian.
Zhou Tongle looked serious: "This is the situation that the comrades of the division directly called to report the situation through the enemy's artillery tower. It may not be detailed, but the current situation is urgent. In order to pass the information to us in time, the division lost an intelligence line for this! "

Hua County?Isn't Jiuying in that area?

Su Qing's eyes widened when she heard this, and she asked a little puzzled: "Can I think that the matter of Secretary Li is very important?"

Zhou Tongle's face turned cold: "I remind you, this is not a question you should ask! Now, what we have to do is to launch a rescue operation!"

Su Qing's face turned pale when her superiors pointed out her mistakes face to face. She is an old underground worker, so she lost her mind for some reason.

Quickly adjust your mentality.

The intelligence work in her hands focuses on the work against the enemy in towns and villages outside the county seat.

And Hua County is about 80 kilometers away from An County, and it is within her working range!It was only because of some reason she didn't want to admit that she often looked at the map of that area.

However, she did not refuse: "What do you want us to do, you give the order!"

Only then did Zhou Tongle nod his head: "The armed task force originally operating in Hua County was ambushed by traitors and suffered heavy losses. Our mission this time is to cooperate with the sub-region to launch a rescue operation."

Su Qing has been engaged in underground work for many years, and she knows very well that this operation is definitely not just about rescuing a secretary!
The task arranged by the superior only needs to be carried out, so she didn't ask any more questions.

(End of this chapter)