under fire

The anti-Japanese war behind enemy lines faces sacrifice at any time.

The lack of funds and materials made the conditions difficult.

The hard days of living frugally and eating only two meals a day may be over.

The Donggu police station, bank, and security corps will soon be under the control of the division. Secretary Zhao's heart is burning with excitement when he thinks that with food, guns, and money, the base behind enemy lines will be developed and expanded in no time.

It was not until I left the police station that I suddenly remembered that during the entire negotiation process, the Ninth Battalion Commander Hu Yi hardly said a word.

He took another look at the thick stack of house deeds and land deeds in his hand, shook his head, and quickly left the police station with brisk steps.

Next, there were a lot of things to do, such as arranging people to take over the police station, the town office, and the security corps’ artillery tower.

After the Ninth Battalion left Donggu Town, the most urgent task was how to deal with those people in the Town Maintenance Committee, the traitors in the detective team, and the security guards. It was not easy to complete the actual occupation while hiding it from the eyes of the devils.

The second floor.

Seeing Secretary Zhao disappear, the little girl brought a small iron box in the corner to Hu Yi and opened it.

Hu Yi was surprised to find that the small box was filled with neatly stacked gold bars!

I estimate it to be about 20 to 30 kilograms!

"Hehe, we've made a fortune this time!" The little girl couldn't help but sigh: "It's as good as what we robbed... in the county!"

"I can't understand it. Knowing that the bank has money, why doesn't the district take action?" Liu Yuanqing didn't seem particularly excited because he had known about the existence of the gold bars.

"Secretary Zhao is too honest. He has secretly developed a base in the enemy-occupied area for so many years. His position as the district secretary is a waste. If it were me..."

"I heard...you also robbed a bank in Xinglong Town?" Liu Yuanqing muttered in a low voice.

"That's not true, don't talk nonsense..." Xiao Hongying's expression turned from proud to angry in just a moment: "Wait, who told you that?"

"I guess... everyone knows it!" Liu Yuanqing said with a smirk on his face.

"Really?" Xiao Hongying felt that her glorious image was somewhat dimmed.

Suddenly he thought of something and started laughing again: "Secretary Zhao probably didn't know that the bank had so many gold bars. He just gave them away with a few worthless deeds..."

"Oh, you prodigal son, do you know how much those property deeds are worth? They are more than ten times more valuable than these gold bars."

"No matter how much money it is worth, it belongs to the poor villagers. You should not take the property deed to the villagers to ask for money, but do something immoral and cause trouble for the district!"

"Headache? You are a yellow-haired girl who doesn't understand economics at all."

"Who do you say is the yellow-haired girl?" Xiao Hongying got furious.

Liu Yuanqing glanced at Hu Yi, who was habitually looking at the map, and quickly said in a humble tone: "Uh, it's me, isn't it okay for me to be me?"

After saying that, he reached out and placed the gold bars in the box on the table.

While Xiao Hongying was following his gaze to look at Hu Yi, he stuffed one into his pocket.

As for the little action, it should have been seen by Chief Hu. As long as he doesn't say anything on the spot, it should be fine.

"One is a little over six taels, fifty-two of them, one pound is sixteen taels, almost twenty pounds!" Liu Yuanqing looked at the gold bars and sighed: "It's such a small town bank, but it actually has so many gold bars hidden. I'll rob them a few more when I get a chance."

Hu Yi, who was looking at the map, suddenly looked up and said: "Give half of the gold bars to the districts."

The little girl, who had barely caught her breath, immediately screamed, "Are you trying to kill me?"

Liu Yuanqing advised: "Girl, I think money doesn't seem to mean much to us!"

The girl raised her eyebrows: "Mr. Liu, now, this has nothing to do with you..."

Hu Yi explained in a low voice: "We need to develop the base area in different areas, but we are short of funds. In addition, the Japanese used cholera and many people died. We really need this money!"

"Speaking of funding, the vixen is still in Hexi, so it seems like he needs some money as well." Xiao Hongying suddenly changed the subject.

The little girl's thinking changed so quickly that Hu Yi almost couldn't keep up.

Actively give Su Qing funds. This girl shouldn't be that generous.

Hu Yi stood at the table in a daze, as if he was trying to organize words to say something, but he didn't know what to say.

Partitioning moves quickly.

More than ten minutes later, Secretary Zhao returned with a large group of people.

The district squad leader arranged for people to enter the pseudo security corps camp.

The Minister of Enemy Work arranged for people to take over the town office and sent someone to take over the "acting" position of the mayor of the Maintenance Association.

The logistics department contacted Liu Yuanqing to negotiate the handover of the captured guns and ammunition of the artillery tower security team.

The Ninth Battalion did not relax its vigilance in the slightest.

Hu Yi spoke at length, giving a general account of the deployment of the Ninth Battalion outside Donggu Town.

Secretary Zhao, with messy hair and sweat on his forehead, looked at the people in front of him and said, "Are you saying that there are mines buried everywhere on the main road in the east of the town and in the fields?"

"Can you understand it?" Xiao Hongying asked, pointing at the map.

On the map, there is a long strip of space from north to south circled in pencil outside the blockade ditch in the east of the town, with dense black dots and several circles.

Secretary Zhao frowned deeply, turned around and shouted at the communicator: "Hurry up and ask the district team leader outside the town to arrange for someone to invite Captain Han of the Ganqi Working Team to come over!"

Hu Yi was stunned for a moment: "Armed work team? Their people are not in the town?"

Secretary Zhao nodded: "There is a large amount of food hidden in the nearby villages. The task of the work team during this raid by the Japanese is to strike down the traitors in the detective team who are wandering around and ensure that the food is not discovered by the enemy."

"So how many people did you stuff into the turret?"

"To be a security guard, you have to check three generations of your family, and you have to spend money to build connections. It's not that locals can't be a security guard, but the district is so poor."

"Wait." The little girl was so stunned by these words that she almost fell off the bench. "In other words, not many of the security guards in the artillery tower are ours?"

Secretary Zhao was a little embarrassed: "Hehe, there are some, but very few..."

Liu Yuanqing looked frustrated: "We originally thought that those cowards in the security team didn't resist because there were our own people among them, but in fact they are really cowards!"

"You still said that it was all your misjudgment."

"Now, we have to find a way to make all those fake security guards who know our identities shut up..." Liu Yuanqing made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Liu Yuanqing's words and actions shocked Secretary Zhao so much that he didn't know what to say.

Hu Yi frowned and looked at Secretary Zhao: "You mean you don't have enough manpower?"

Secretary Zhao was somewhat helpless: "The division has always followed the instructions of the superiors to surround the town with the countryside. Most of our people are active outside the town..."

Hu Yi continued to ask: "If I remember correctly, the higher-ups have already started to pilot the occupation of some towns and villages and attack county towns if conditions permit!"

"The superiors informed us that the pilot project is in northwest Shanxi where the Japanese have weak control, right? This is an enemy-occupied area. If any information leaks out, it will cause great losses to the base and the people."

"Let's not talk about anything else. We took down Qinghe County together a while ago." Xiao Hongying sighed, "I say, Lao Zhao, we have taken down the county several times. Can you be a little braver..."

"You are a combat unit, you don't understand how strict the Japanese and traitors are in the core area of ​​the enemy-occupied area. Ordinary people can't go more than 20 miles away from home when visiting relatives with their good citizen certificates!"

"There is such a thing? I seem to have never heard of it..." Xiao Hongying felt that the range of activities could not exceed twenty miles. Is it possible for a human to do such a thing?

"It was all the ideas of those traitors in the maintenance association..."

"The traitor who came up with this idea deserves death!"

The Minister of Enemy Work hurried into the room and asked, "I have a question. None of the police officers who went out to gather information last night have returned yet..."

Secretary Zhao looked at Hu Yi and asked, "Did the news leak out?"

Liu Yuanqing glanced at Hu Yi, then curled his lips and muttered: "They will come back sooner or later, we just need to wait and catch them all and kill them..."

Secretary Zhao shook his head: "Many police officers do not deserve death..."

There were footsteps at the door.

Li Laosi hurriedly walked in and looked at Hu Yi: "Captain, all the troops have assembled and are ready to go..."

Secretary Zhao said goodbye to Hu Yi, hesitated for a while and whispered: "The main force of the division received an order from the superior yesterday to cross the canal to the west overnight... It should be a mission." (End of this chapter)