What a beautiful white lotus

Early in the morning, Ye Rongqiu and several soldiers disguised themselves as ordinary villagers and headed for Wuchang.

Huang Mu sent a squad of five people to protect Ye Rongqiu, and the six of them were divided into two groups and sneaked into Wuchang City.

Wuchang is controlled by the Japanese, and a pass is required to enter and exit. Huang Mu has already prepared the pass for Ye Rongqiu and the others.If it was a few years ago, it would not be so easy to sneak into the city, but now, it is not so difficult.As early as two years ago, the United States had declared war on Japan, and Japan and China have been fighting for five or six years. Their national strength has long been empty, and they can no longer plunder China's land and resources as madly as they did before. The place is not so easy, they themselves lack of troops, so they use the Chinese to manage the Chinese, that is, those traitors who serve the imperial army.All kinds of spies and secret agents have developed and consolidated their forces, which has actually made the situation in the theater even more complicated.

When Ye Rongqiu entered Wuchang this time, Huang Mu not only condoned him to find someone, but also arranged a task for him, hoping that he would investigate the Sichuan Army.

The Sichuan Army is a Kuomintang army, and it is also entrenched in the Ninth Theater.But the Sichuan Army is not an anti-Japanese team.

——This is not the same as saying they are traitors, but what they did is indeed disgusting.

The Sichuan army has been in southern Hubei for four or five years. During such a long time, it is not that they have not had conflicts with the Japanese, but compared to their methods of dealing with the Communist Party, those can only be regarded as trivial. It's just friction.Most of the time, they turned a blind eye to the Japanese who invaded the country, but put all their experiences on the Communist Party.Of course, this has something to do with the instructions given to them by their superiors, but the strength of execution is the will of the team leader himself.They did their best to cull the Communist Party. The famous Pingjiang tragedy was created by this team.

For these things, the Japanese army naturally enjoyed it.

Japan is small and sparsely populated, and they have been domineering in the huge Chinese land for too many years.With a long front line, a lot of occupied land, and the United States staring at the rear, Japan simply cannot spare too many manpower to manage the Chinese land they have occupied.From the very beginning of the war, until now, the Japanese have been trying to manage the Chinese by raising Chinese who are obedient to them.But not all Chinese are so easy to be controlled, so they try to stir up all kinds of disputes, so that the Chinese can fight themselves in dire straits and have no time to resist them.

Recently, Wang Ling, the chief of the Sichuan Army, got a batch of British-made artillery. It is said that relying on this batch of artillery can double the combat effectiveness of his team compared to the past.He also attached great importance to this batch of artillery, and sent heavy escorts along the way.It was originally a secret that Wang Ling delivered new weapons, but what is the real secret in this turbulent era, the news finally reached the ears of the New Fourth Army.The New Fourth Army was very afraid of their new weapons, and the chief was restless after hearing the news, wanting to find out the new cards of the Sichuan Army and see how their internal combat power had been improved.It is impossible for Ye Rongqiu and the others to directly touch the artillery, but it is a cannon after all, and its size is not small. If Ye Rongqiu can see clearly what kind of weapons those batches are from a distance, and what kind of power they have, the New Fourth Army can figure out a way to deal with them Come.

However, Ye Rongqiu and others didn't know what route the national army would take to transport the artillery. They just sneaked into Wuchang City first, and then looked for opportunities to investigate.

After sneaking into Wuchang, the scattered people gathered in a tavern.The owner of the tavern nodded to them, and everyone knew that this owner was also their comrade.

There were originally two comrades in the tavern. Ye Rongqiu and the others sat down at separate tables, and the two comrades left. When they passed by Ye Rongqiu and the others, they secretly slipped a note to their squad leader, Qiu Jinjin.

Squad leader Qiu Jinjin said: "They are comrades who took over from us, and now we are in charge of tracking them, and they left."

Taking advantage of no one's attention, Qiu Jinjin secretly opened the note, looked at it, and then hid the note.Ye Rongqiu and the others had already understood what they were going to do in this mission, but Qiu Jinjin explained it again in a low voice.He pointed to a residential house across from the tavern and said in a low voice: "Look at that red-painted door, there is an old man living inside, that is the old Guo Tou mentioned to you by Tuan Zuo before. He has a lot of knowledge in Wuhan." Luzi has also been working for the Kuomintang. This time, the national army transported weapons to avoid the Japanese and our eyeliner. There are many checkpoints to be cleared. The comrades just told us that the old Guotou has not come out in the past two days. Go through the door, I believe he will come out soon. We have to keep an eye on him, maybe there will be gains."

Ye Rongqiu looked at the door with complicated emotions.

At present, the power of the Communist Party is definitely not as good as that of the national army. It is unrealistic to fight recklessly. Besides, they have no intention of fighting recklessly with the national army. The Japanese invaders have not been eliminated. It is serious, the contradiction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party can be digested later.For the attacks of the Kuomintang army, most of the time they adopt an evasive posture, and only when they can't avoid it will they fight with weapons.

Ye Rongqiu's own feelings towards the national army are also very contradictory.He came out of the national army at the beginning, although joining the army was not his original intention, and his experience in the national army was less than a year, but that year also let him know a lot of things that he didn't know in the past thing.The Kuomintang is the party currently in power, but the forces in the National Revolutionary Army are complex and there are many factions, intrigues and intrigues among each other.Direct line troops are not the same as motley crews.Some teams actively fought against Japan and suffered heavy losses from the beginning of the War of Resistance to the present, and even the numbers of many teams disappeared.However, there were also troops who had no intention of resisting the Japanese, and even cooperated with the Japanese army internally and externally, with the intention of eradicating the Communist Party first.Ye Rongqiu joined Gu Xiuge's team at the beginning. Gu Xiuge was a general who had no aversion to the Redists. All the people he led died on the anti-Japanese battlefield in the end.This kind of experience made Ye Rongqiu unable to feel disgusted with the National Revolutionary Army. Even when he knew that some national army troops survived in this kind of country, he didn't think about how to beat the Japanese invaders, but put his experience on the slaughter of his compatriots. The feeling of heartbreak is really indescribable.

Xiao Zhao said: "That old Guotou, is he at home now? We are here to guard, what if he has gone out? Or I will knock on the door."

Qiu Jinjin and Ye Rongqiu hurriedly stopped him: "Don't act rashly."

This time they came out to carry out the mission and brought Xiao Zhao out as well.In fact, whether to bring Xiao Zhao is also controversial.Xiao Zhao is young, good at shooting skills, and his marksmanship is also one of the best. More importantly, he is loyal to Ye Rongqiu and is the best candidate to protect Ye Rongqiu.However, his problem is that his character is too impulsive, and he doesn't have much city power, so he is easy to be fooled by the enemy. Sometimes because of his unsinkable character, bad things may happen.Xiao Zhao heard that Ye Rongqiu was going to the city, so he wanted to go with him no matter what, Huang Mu discussed with Zhang Qing and Qiu Jinjin for a long time, and finally let Ye Rongqiu decide whether to take Xiao Zhao or not.Ye Rongqiu finally agreed to let Xiao Zhao accompany him, and promised to the organization that he would take good care of Xiao Zhao and not let him mess around. Xiao Zhao even patted his chest and said that he would absolutely obey Ye Rongqiu.

Seeing that Ye Rongqiu stopped him, Xiao Zhao obediently sat still.

While waiting for someone, a few people drank tea as if nothing had happened, while pretending not to care, they looked at the opposite door from the corner of their eyes.Qiu Jinjin said to Ye Rongqiu in a very soft voice: "I heard that you are looking for Shansi Xing?"

When Ye Rongqiu heard the name Yamadera Yuki, his body trembled slightly, but the amplitude was not large, but he couldn't escape Qiu Jinjin's eyes.Qiu Jinjin said: "According to the informant, Shan Sixing and Lao Guotou also have contacts. Lao Guotou is secretly an informant of the national army. On the surface, if he wants to survive in Wuchang, he has to share his nostrils with the Japanese and puppet elements. When the time comes Maybe we'll meet Yamadera Yuki."

Ye Rongqiu looked calm: "Really?" But his voice trembled slightly.

Qiu Jinjin narrowed his eyes and looked at Ye Rongqiu thoughtfully.

The purpose of his coming out this time is not only to help protect Ye Rongqiu to complete the task, but also to do another important thing.It's not that the organization doesn't trust Ye Rongqiu, but everyone knows how much influence that person named Heigou has had on Ye Rongqiu. Fake or still serving in the national army, once Ye Rongqiu finds him, will he do anything to affect the will of the revolution?His purpose is to be optimistic about Ye Rongqiu. If Ye Rongqiu steps on the cliff, he will help Ye Rongqiu rein in the cliff.

After waiting for half an hour, the opposite door suddenly opened, and a man in his sixties wearing a Chinese tunic came out.The man went out and closed the door, looked around vigilantly, then lowered his hat and walked south.

Qiu Jinjin said: "Old Guotou has come out, let's catch up!"

Several people hurried out of the teahouse and chased in the direction where old Guotou left.

There are six of them in a group, and it is too eye-catching to act together, so they immediately dispersed when they acted, Ye Rongqiu, Xiao Zhao, and Qiu Jinjin were in a group of three, and the other three were divided into two groups, pretending not to know each other, and divided into several groups Follow up, make an appointment at the meeting place and time, and if you get separated, go to the agreed place and wait.

Old Guotou was very vigilant along the way. When he walked, he would choose places with few people. Every time he came to a deserted alley, he would look back to prevent anyone from following him.He saw a comrade who was following him. In order not to startle the enemy, he had no choice but to leave on his own and gave up following him.

Qiu Jinjin was originally from Wuchang, and he was very familiar with the terrain of Wuchang. He made a prediction based on the route of the old Guotou, and followed it all the way smoothly, and he didn't let the old Guotou see through it.

Twenty minutes later, Lao Guotou came to a remote residential house.He looked around and saw no one around, so he knocked on the door of that residential house.His knocks were orderly, once, then twice, then three times, then twice.Then he began to wait quietly.

After a while, the door opened, and old Guotou walked in.

Qiu Jinjin whispered to a soldier who followed: "Go and contact our potential comrades in Wuchang City, and ask them to investigate who lives here."

The soldier responded and looked around silently, remembering this place.

After Ye Rongqiu and the others waited for about twenty minutes, Lao Guotou came out, lowered his head and hurriedly walked in another direction. Judging by his route, he didn't seem to be going back.

Qiu Jinjin said: "He came out this time, probably because he took the route of these weapons. Next, he may go to find other people. Let's keep up!"

Needless to say, everyone understands.For the artillery to pass through Wuchang City without being discovered by others, there must be more than one joint to be opened. As an informant of the national army, old Guotou must have many links and contacts.They can't let go of every clue, maybe in this way they can figure out the actions of the national army.

Old Guotou had already left, Ye Rongqiu and Qiu Jinjin hurriedly followed.When passing by the house that old Guotou had entered, Ye Rongqiu couldn't help but glanced at the closed door.He wished he could knock on the door and go in to see who lived inside, and whether it was the one he expected in his heart.

On the street, Old Guotou began to carefully detour again. Qiu Jinjin followed closely based on his understanding of Wuchang's topography, and was not noticed by Old Guotou.

After a while, Lao Guotou turned into a long and narrow alley.Ye Rongqiu and the others were afraid of being discovered and did not dare to follow.However, after a while, I didn't see Lao Guotou leaving, and he just stayed in that alley.

Ye Rongqiu and the others immediately became nervous.

There are several possibilities for the old Guotou not to leave. One is that he has already spotted the person following him, so he stopped on purpose to warn the follower; another possibility is that the person he is waiting for is on this road. Meet in the alley.

The first possibility is naturally the worst, but the old Guo head has not moved for the time being, and there is no strange behavior, this possibility is not very great.If it is the second possibility, it means that the person he is about to meet is a mysterious person whose whereabouts are erratic, and he is probably being hunted by some forces, so he refuses to even make an appointment with a definite place, but wants to Meet Lao Guotou outside this room.

This road is in the most remote corner in the east of Wuchang City. It was once bombed by Japanese artillery fire, leaving only a piece of broken tiles and no residents.Ye Rongqiu and the others didn't know where the person that old Guotou was waiting for would come from, and they were afraid that their figure would be exposed, so they quickly hid in the crumbling dilapidated houses.

They didn't even dare to breathe, they listened intently, watching the movement outside through the broken window.

After an unknown amount of time, footsteps were suddenly heard on the quiet street.

"Da, da, da." Someone came here unhurriedly.

Xiao Zhao hastily leaned over to the window to see who was coming.Qiu Jinjin quickly pulled him back and glared at him fiercely.This private house is dilapidated, it is not easy to find a place to cover the three people, Xiao Zhao's movement, he has seen someone else, but it is not guaranteed that others will see him too!Although they wanted to know who the person who came to meet with Old Guotou was, they should not be in a hurry at this moment. They should wait for that person to meet with Old Guotou before they sneaked closer. Xiao Zhao is really not good enough. More than a failure!

Xiao Zhao was pulled back, feeling a little wronged, not knowing where he was wrong.Ye Rongqiu shook his head at him, signaling him to wait quietly.Xiao Zhao pursed his mouth and had no choice but to shrink his body.

They listened nervously to the movement outside, for fear that someone who came would see Xiao Zhao, but the rhythm of the footsteps outside did not change, and they walked very leisurely. It seemed that no one had seen Xiao Zhao, which also made them relax. Take a breath.

But for some reason, Ye Rongqiu became more and more nervous as the man's footsteps got closer and closer. His palms were covered with sweat, and his heart beat faster and faster, almost jumping out of his throat.

He didn't know if he was crazy, he didn't see the man's face, he didn't hear the man's voice, but just listening to the footsteps, he felt a long-lost sense of familiarity, and the feeling of being ready to move filled his whole mind.