Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1469 Disaster Relief (Part )

What was beyond Tang Dao's imagination was that the telegram he sent directly to General Jiang did not receive a reply until the third day of the New Year.

"After investigation, this matter may involve important members of the Military Control Commission. We have reported it to the higher authorities and are waiting for their decision. Deputy Commander Tang must have had a hard time on this trip. You can return to Zhengcheng to rest first."

Tang Dao frowned at the reply from General Jiang, as he smelled something unusual.

Although Tang Dao found it hard to believe that a commander-in-chief like Admiral would be involved in such a major corruption case, the telegram clearly meant to stop him from continuing the investigation.

"Commander, what should we do now? Should we go directly to the counties we have investigated to arrest the people or go back to Zhengcheng first?" Yuan Xiao, who had become the highest commander of the guards around Tang Dao, asked in a low voice.

Yuanxiao had seen what poverty and hunger were like in North China in recent years, but he never imagined that the Central Plains, which was supposed to be prosperous, would be so miserable. If it was a natural disaster, he could only angrily curse "Damn God" to the sky, but now it is clearly a man-made disaster that is worse than a natural disaster.

  In the eyes of some people, human life is far less important than money. This makes Yuanxiao begin to doubt whether it is worth it for him to fight the Japanese on the front line to protect such a group of people.

"These corrupt officials usually just want to take some money, but at this time, they are still drinking the blood of ordinary people. They deserve to die!" After three and a half years on the battlefield, the former boy Xia Dayu is now a young man of almost 3 years old, with green fuzz growing on his lips and his eyes full of murderous intent.

"It's not that easy. It's easy to catch those county governors and security chiefs, but it's hard to deal with the people behind them. After all, this is not North China, but the territory of the First War Zone. Once we use force and cause a gunfight, Commander Jiang will lose face. I'm afraid this is the subtext of his sending us this telegram." Lao Tan Tai, who insisted on following Tang Dao to the disaster area and hoped to do his part, shook his head slightly and sighed.

In fact, given his intolerant temper, he would probably be most in favor of his son-in-law cutting the Gordian knot and arresting several high-ranking county government officials involved, and then tracking down the mastermind behind the scenes and bringing him to justice.

In the past few days, he and Tang Dao each led a convoy to visit various counties. The results of the visits were shocking. They had discovered that there were major problems with grain distribution in five counties. Each county was involved in the sale and distribution of at least 30 kilograms of grain, and the people behind the scenes could make at least hundreds of thousands of silver dollars in profit from it.

The military inspection team sent by the theater command guard regiment were neither blind nor deaf. Could it be that they really could not see anything? Moreover, the military orders were strict, and those who took bribes and broke the law were subject to wartime military law. The only reason they could risk being beheaded but pretended not to see anything was that there was someone standing behind them whom they could not afford to offend.

The telegram sent by General Jiang seemed to indirectly confirm this.

With his authority, he actually retreated and reserved, which only showed that at least he did not want to offend those people.

If it were in North China, even if he was a lieutenant general or a general, Tang Dao would have investigated him impartially. But this is the First War Zone, and Tang Dao has less than a thousand men under his command, including five or six hundred of them, a security battalion fully equipped with Hanyang-made rifles. Their combat effectiveness is worrying.

He knew that in today's chaotic world, people would do anything for their own interests.

However, Old Tan Tai had a good sense of proportion. He knew that his son-in-law was a man with a very strong opinion. They were just providing suggestions. It was up to Tang Dao himself to decide what to do.

"Haha! They say that if the water is too clear, there will be no fish. Now the water is almost turning into mud. Will the fish suffocate to death? I thought before that only senior military officials were involved, but now I didn't expect that people from the Military Control Commission are also involved. This money! It's really a good thing. Both humans and ghosts want to get involved. Very good, I was worried that those little ghosts would not be enough for the sacrifice, and they came over on their own initiative." Tang Dao lit the telegram with a match, lit a cigarette for himself, and smiled.

Whenever Tang Dao showed this expression, people who were familiar with him knew that the Japanese on the opposite side were in trouble.

In this scenario, the natural thing to do is to start killing chickens.

I just don’t know who will be the chicken.

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In Luoyang city!

"Have you finished what we asked you to do?" A gloomy voice sounded in the inner room of an ordinary courtyard.

"Reporting to the commissioner, they have all been cleared out, leaving no one alive." A man in a suit and polite manner hurriedly bowed his head and bent over to report.

"Very good, let those peasants see that having a stutter is good enough, but they actually dare to tell on others behind their backs. This is the fate of telling on others behind their backs.

So what if he has a Tang sword? Without his Four-Line Regiment here, I wonder how he can turn the tables with his two or three hundred men? This time, he has come to my territory, and I have to keep him there even if he is a tiger lying down or a dragon coiled up for me! "In the darkness of the inner room, a smug face appeared.

  Who else could this person be if not Zhao Lijun?

Ever since he suffered a setback in the Fifth War Zone in June and had to leave in disgrace after six of his subordinates were sniped by the sharpshooters of the Fourth War Zone, Commissioner Zhao hated the Fourth War Zone to the core. However, the prestigious Fourth War Zone was able to fight against a Japanese division head-on, and the assassinations and sabotages of the Military Control Commission were not something they would take seriously. Seeing that there were no opportunities in the Fifth War Zone, Zhao Lijun applied for transfer and returned to the First War Zone in September.

Although Henan Province is poor, it is definitely a good place to make money. Zhao Lijun relied on the special power of the Military Control Commission to win over a large number of officials to work for him, and exploiting the people was commonplace.

  This time, millions of kilograms of relief grain came from above, which is pure silver. Who among the officials of all ranks in Henan Province would not be drooling over it?

However, the attitude of the theater headquarters was very firm, and the mountain city also sent a well-known military commander, Captain Tang, to serve as the deputy commander of disaster relief. This made the officials in Henan Province somewhat cautious. Even Zhao Lijun just watched coldly at first and did not take the initiative to make trouble.

Because he knew that there would always be someone who couldn't help it.

Sure enough, when someone around the army group commander contacted him privately, the highest-ranking official of the Military Control Commission of the First War Zone knew that the time was ripe.

If Tang Dao didn't care, he could at least make a profit of 30 yuan from this "business". He could use 10 yuan to honor his own director, share 5 yuan with his capable subordinates, use 5 yuan to enrich the Investigation Bureau's funds in the First War Zone, and get 10 yuan for himself, which would be really great.

Tang Dao Guan, then he has hit a wall.

I heard that the commander surnamed Tang had some friction with Tang Dao when he was in Xuzhou, and it was later suppressed by Commander Li. This time, he took the initiative to let his subordinates propose to cooperate with him to make money, which may be an intention to regain the former advantage.

The military and the Military Control Commission joined forces. Even if Tang Dao did not have the Four Line Regiment by his side, they would be able to crush him.

"It's New Year's Day, and the brothers who participated in the operation have worked hard. Each of them will be given 20 yuan. Remember to report all the expenses in Qingde Building at night. Just say that it is overtime pay for the brothers for tracking down the murder case." Zhao Lijun said.

"By the way, strengthen the monitoring of Tang Dao's convoy. I want to know what he does every day, even if it's just taking a shit."

"Yes!" The man in the top hat nodded his head and said yes.

Zhao Lijun smiled and waved his hand to signal his subordinates to leave, then lay back contentedly on the comfortable recliner. Whether it was the money that was about to come or the fact that he could make a powerful general like Tang Dao suffer a setback, it made him extremely happy.

The worst mistake Zhui Ming Tai Sui made in his life was not to overestimate himself, but to underestimate his opponent.

Just like the Tang sword underestimated the evil of human nature.

Just as Tang Dao and others were on their way back, Xia Dayu suddenly received a report from the reconnaissance company, and his face changed drastically in an instant.

After a long while, when the convoy stopped to rest, the telegram was delivered to Tang Dao. Tang Dao took a deep breath and remained silent for a long time.

The guards around sensed that something was wrong with their leader, and their faces became solemn and serious.

"Zhoujia Village was attacked by bandits who robbed grain a few days ago. All the villagers were killed, and no one survived. A family of four was hanged on a tree at the entrance of the village. When the county security team arrived, the bandits had already fled!" Lao Tantai took the telegram from Tang Dao and read it softly. Yuan Xiao and Shi Dakuan beside him had already opened their eyes in anger.

Needless to say, the family of four who were hanged in the telegram were exactly the first farm house that Tang Dao and Laura visited on New Year's Eve.

The happy smile of the seven or eight-year-old girl who ate milk candy for the first time in her life, and the faces of the disabled host and hostess who received 50 kilograms of flour seemed to be still in front of our eyes, but in this New Year, they have become a few cold corpses.

"Father-in-law, do you believe the bandits mentioned in the telegram?" Tang Dao's voice was three times colder than the biting cold wind at this time.

"It's not uncommon for bandits to rob food and harm the people, but to massacre a village is like farmers digging up their own land. How could there be such stupid bandits?" There was a flash of anger in Old Tan Tai's eyes.

"There must be something fishy about this!"

"It's not strange. This is a declaration of war. Someone is telling me that either I should stop now and not investigate further, or more people will die. These people don't care about the lives of ordinary people. Just like they said, even if the people on this land are gone, the land will still be there." Tang Dao turned and walked towards his jeep.

"Order the reconnaissance company of the security brigade to enter the county. I want the county magistrate and the head of the county security regiment alive. Anyone who dares to stop us, regardless of their official rank or military rank, will be killed on the spot! I care about the people they don't care about! I also want to let them know that this land will be more fertile without them!

Also, have the security battalion escort Miss Laura and the two reporters back to Zhengcheng, and help me tell Commander Jiang that the Military Control Commission is nothing special. I was able to enter Jiangxia and kill Tanabe Moritake, and I can also take away the head of the so-called Chunfeng Bureau Chief. Even if he hides in the Military Commission, it is useless. In this world, no one can escape from the one I want to kill. "

  Tang Dao's cold voice made even Lao Tan Tai and the two guard squad leaders, who were familiar with him, shudder all over!

Last time, because the guard squad lost 13 soldiers, Tang Dao brazenly ordered the killing of a major general brigadier general of the 70th Army, and personally sneaked into Jiangcheng to kill Tanabe Moritake, which was a silent deterrent to the highest authority in the Military Control Commission!

And this time, because of the people in a village, the furious Tang Dao finally told that man openly that if he did it, even if he was the biggest spy chief in China and the man's trusted and beloved general, he would be dead.

  Zhao Lijun couldn't imagine what kind of enemy he had provoked!

Tang Dao didn't even take his immediate superior seriously, let alone him, one of the so-called Four Vajras of the Military Control Commission?

As long as Tang Dao finds evidence pointing to him, he will be dead even if he is heavily protected by the Military Control Commission's secret agents.

Tang Dao may have the war zone commander's warrant in his hand. Anyone involved in the embezzlement of grain funds, whether commissioner or major general or above, will be taken to the war zone commander to report to the Military Commission for approval and execution of military law. Anyone below the commissioner or major general does not need to be reported and will be executed by military law on the spot.

  As for whether it happens to be a commissioner or a major general, that depends on the deputy commander Tang Dao. If he has definite evidence in his hands, he will kill him!

Because of the cold weather, both the Chinese and Japanese armies had a tacit ceasefire and rest, and because of the New Year, the county's security was even more lax. The reconnaissance company that had disguised itself and entered the county took less than 30 minutes to find out the whereabouts of the county magistrate and the head of the security regiment. The two brothers were having fun in a brothel, and there were only five or six guards outside. They were simply no match for the ferocious reconnaissance company officers and soldiers. The two highest military and political leaders in the county were knocked unconscious, put into sacks and taken away.

The local garrison had not been alerted, but a servant from the brothel ran to the county garrison.

The security team reported the news.

Thousands of soldiers came out to chase the daring attackers. The reconnaissance company, which used several hills as blocking positions, did not show any courtesy and did not even announce their names or origins. They just unleashed a barrage of fire and killed the attackers with precision.

In just 15 minutes of fighting, the reconnaissance company, which had only 230 soldiers, killed more than 6 members of the security regiment at the cost of 160 casualties of its own, directly destroying the security regiment with a strength of more than 1200 people.

  The security groups that were usually good at killing the people had only fought against mountain bandits. How could they have seen such a bloody scene where a person could be shot in the head from more than 300 meters away? And the terrible machine guns, which fired a series of bullets and killed people like mowing grass, were useless!

Not to mention that the county magistrate and the head of the security team were kidnapped, even if his wife was kidnapped, he would have to admit it!

When the news that the county magistrate and the head of the security team had been kidnapped reached Zhao Lijun, it was already the afternoon of the next day.

This is not to say that the Military Control Commission's intelligence system was not powerful. In fact, at 8 o'clock that evening, the Military Control Commission personnel in the county had already passed the news to the higher-level intelligence station.

However, before the intelligence station had time to report the information to the Luoyang Intelligence Station, it was attacked by an unknown force.

That night, of the 16 people in the Military Intelligence Station, except for 3 who were kidnapped, the rest were killed.

The Military Intelligence Bureau intelligence officers, who had not received any response, discovered the abnormality only when they reported it again. By the time they learned that there was a problem with the intelligence station, 16 hours had passed since the incident occurred in the county.

On the contrary, the local garrison received the news earlier because of a phone call from the remnants of the security corps. However, since it was too embarrassing for the head of the security corps and the county magistrate to be kidnapped by kidnappers who entered the county town, the news was kept secret and not announced to the public.

The Military Control Commission, which had always been well-connected thanks to its dense intelligence network, had lost a great figure this time. When Zhao Lijun received the news, his first thought was not to get furious. Instead, his face changed drastically and he shouted, "Oh no!"

Zhuimingtaisui was a vicious but not stupid person. He immediately realized that this was not a robbery, but the work of Tang Dao.

Apart from a ruthless man like Tang Dao, who else could have done such a thing as sneaking into a county town with a thousand garrisons and kidnapping all the military and political leaders of the county?

He didn't use the theater commander's warrant to arrest people openly, but used this unconventional method. It means that he will use unconventional means to deal with his "declaration of war" that was specifically sent to disgust him.

If Tang Dao used normal officialdom methods, he could have dealt with it in a hundred ways. Even the theater commander who had accepted benefits from the general named Tang would have to smooth things over and keep the matter under wraps.

But it would be bad if the Tang sword was so simple and direct.

Thinking of Leng Feng who sneered at him in the restaurant that night and killed six of his subordinates with a wave of his hand, Zhao Lijun felt fear again: "Teliang's Four Ranks Group are a bunch of desperate criminals who only know how to fight and kill! Send more people to be vigilant. Don't go out for the next two days. Stay here honestly. Whoever dares to break in, no matter who he is, I will kill him!"

Before he could finish his words, there were fierce gunshots and explosions outside the house.

There were the sounds of rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and even grenade explosions. The noise was like entering a battlefield.

Cao Cao is indeed the fastest man in the world. As soon as he is mentioned, the Tang sword appears.

  The faces of the two people in the room turned pale as paper in an instant!

"Go through the secret passage!" Zhao Lijun was very decisive.

He knew that with the combat effectiveness of the Four Element Regiment, his subordinates who made a living by assassinating in the dark would not be able to hold out for long.

Moreover, since Tang Dao dared to charge in so brazenly, he was certainly not a fool - he relied entirely on his firepower, and he must have first taken the war zone commander's order to order the local garrison to cooperate.

A hero never suffers a loss in front of him. Commissioner Zhao will not fight to the death with a desperado. As long as he runs away, he will get back at him sooner or later. The crimes committed by Tang Dao are not light.

He had been running this secret intelligence station for more than two years. Just to dig the secret passage, four groups of workers had changed. Even the last group of workers did not have the opportunity to go to the ground, and had no idea where this secret passage would lead to.

Only Commissioner Zhao and a few of his trusted subordinates knew that the exit of the secret passage was actually not far from the intelligence station. It was in a tofu shop less than 300 meters away from the intelligence station. The taciturn old couple were the parents of Zhao Lijun's trusted subordinates and were absolutely reliable.

Then, Commissioner Zhao, who had climbed out of the well in the backyard of the tofu shop, looked around and saw a man squatting not far away, supporting his face with his right hand and looking at him seriously.

"I've always heard of the name of Zhui Ming Tai Sui. Today I finally see him alive. It's such an honor for me, Tang!" The man smiled brightly.