my bright sword career

Chapter 266 Intelligence Work
That night, the commanders of the 386 Brigade headed by Brigadier Chen hosted a banquet in Zhaojiayu for Gao Hongming and Xie Wenqian who came from afar.

At the banquet, Gao Hongming sat at the table with Brigadier Chen, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Kong Jie, Ding Wei and other commanders of the 386 Brigade, while Xie Wenqian sat at the table with Xiuqin and several female cadres of the Eighth Route Army.

Gao Hongming's heart warmed when he saw this place. You must know that in many places in Shanxi in this era, the women in the family do not sit at the table when entertaining guests. The table next to it is obviously for taking care of Xie Wenqian.

Look at the dishes on the table again. There are large plates of hares, pheasants, roe deer, and Chinese cabbage. So sour and bitter.

Brigadier Chen, the highest-ranking cadre of the Eighth Route Army present, raised his glass first, "Come on... Let's take this first glass of wine to the head of Gao, who came from Liantai County hundreds of miles away to attend Li Yunlong's wedding. Thanks to his wife, Ms. Xie, for his support to our Eighth Route Army, and we drank this cup together."

"Dry!"

Everyone raised their glasses and drank it down, even Xie Wenqian was no exception, but because she drank too quickly, and it was the first time for her to drink the farm's homemade corn wine, she suddenly felt a hot taste coming from her stomach. It reached her throat, causing her to cough several times.

Brigadier Chen laughed when he saw this: "Oh, this is our negligence. We forgot that Ms. Xie is different from our gang of elders. It is our fault that I can't get used to this corn wine."

Xie Wenqian, whose pretty face was flushed by the alcohol, wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry, it's the first time in my life to drink such strong alcohol, I'm really not used to it, I'm really sorry everyone. "

"Hey... Ms. Xie, what are you talking about? We are the ones who should say sorry. We didn't greet you well." Brigadier Chen scratched his head in some embarrassment: "It stands to reason that we should treat you to a softer drink. Foreign wine, but our Eighth Route Army does not have that condition, and the red wine given by Commander Gao last time has already been drunk.

Hey... I'm really sorry. "

Xie Wenqian pursed her lips and smiled: "Brigade Commander Chen, Hong Ming and I brought some red wine here this time. If you don't mind, I'll let someone bring it over. What do you think?"

Brigadier Chen was overjoyed, "Since there is good wine, why didn't you tell us earlier, bring it here and let everyone have a feast together. It's Ms. Xie who is thoughtful. Unlike Li Yunlong, who is married, he just uses some bad wine to fool us. .”

Everyone laughed, only Li Yunlong dared not speak with a mournful face.

He felt wronged too, did he not want to entertain everyone with good wine?The problem was no, the corn wine was the best he could get his hands on.

Soon, more than a dozen soldiers from the guard battalion came in carrying several large boxes. Xie Wenqian asked people to open two boxes, inside which were neatly placed a whole box of red wine, and the other box contained a box of camels and Marlboro cigarettes. .

That's all for the red wine. Everyone cheered when they saw the cigarettes.

But all the soldiers who don’t smoke. When the conditions were tough, the cigarettes they smoked were either purchased and rolled by themselves, or captured. Although it was difficult, it has been like this for so many years.

But since getting to know Gao Hongming, Li Yunlong and even the heads of the headquarters can smoke the cigarettes he sent every now and then.

I am most afraid of comparison in everything. I am used to the good cigarettes sent by Gao Hongming, and I am not used to smoking the spicy tobacco leaves.Now seeing the cigarettes that Gao Hongming sent again, everyone was naturally very happy, and the huge room suddenly became smoky.

Everyone is not stupid. After a box of red wine was brought, everyone removed the corn wine and replaced it with red wine.

Li Yunlong, as the groom's official to be married tomorrow, was naturally the target of everyone's drinking. He was drunk three bowls in less than 10 minutes.

Fortunately, everyone knew how to measure, and with Brigadier Chen present, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and others let him go.

After a few glasses of wine, the nature of the crowd became even higher.Since they are all soldiers, the conversation naturally talked about the current situation in Shanxi.

At this time, the news that Shinozuka Yoshio was transferred back to the mainland and that Okamura Ningji served as the commander of the North China Front Army had spread, but the new First Army commander Yoshio Iwamatsu was not well understood by everyone.

Speaking of this, Gao Hongming said: "I have heard something about this Yoshio Iwamatsu. This Yoshio Iwamatsu was the commander of the Central Taiwan Defense Force before he was transferred to Shanxi as the commander of the First Army. .,

This person is not very good at talking about his skills, but one thing is that this guy is very greedy for money, and he is also a loyal implementer of Japan's "mainland policy", so everyone should be extra careful with him.

Not only that, but Naozaburo Okabe, the chief of staff of the First Army, was transferred back to Japan, and he was replaced by an old devil named Yoshito Muto. This guy was inferior to Naozaburo Okabe in terms of experience and cunning. It is also good news. "

Listening to Gao Hongming's eloquent talk, everyone's eyes were a little strange. After a long time, Li Yunlong asked: "Brother Gao, let me ask you a question, how do you know so much about the little devil? Could it be that you have an eyeliner inside the devil? "

"That's not true." Gao Hongming laughed: "But I have also set up an intelligence department, which is responsible for collecting information on devils, so I can still get general information. Of course, I can't do anything about information that is too confidential. gone."

"This is already remarkable." Brigadier Chen on the side sighed: "Since the official war with the little devil, we have discovered that the little devil's penetration into our China is simply impenetrable. Sometimes the shopkeeper passing by you Or the shopkeeper of a grocery store might be a spy sent by the little devil.

But we know very little about little devils. The most important point is that there are too few people in China who can speak Japanese. "

Gao Hongming was silent for a while before he said, "There is no other way. Since the late Qing Dynasty, the Japanese have set their sights on China. After more than half a century of infiltration, no one knows whether the Japanese sent to China. How many spies have been caught, how many things have been detected by detectives.

Just like in July of the 36th year of the Republic of China (1937), Lao Jiang held a secret meeting in Nanjing and decided to scuttle a large number of ships to block the waterway at the Jiangyin River in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

At that time, all the senior generals and important officials of the national government attended the meeting. I never thought that just after the meeting, the Japanese would receive the news the next day, so that the Japanese sent a merchant ship to Wuhan first, and brought the overseas Chinese who were stranded in Wuhan with them. The Marine Corps took back Shanghai, and the plan to blockade Jiangyin failed. "

(End of this chapter)