wind in the dark night

Chapter 222 Tiger Village

one day ago.

evening.

Yang Feng rode his bicycle to the Qiangangzi checkpoint. He brought some snacks and two bottles of liquor and said he was going to visit relatives in the countryside.

"Which village are we going to?"

"Yangcun."

"Whose family is Yangcun?"

"My cousin's house."

"What's your cousin's name?"

"Yang Enquan."

"What's in the box?"

“I bought some snacks for the elderly.”

"You didn't bring any contraband with you, did you?"

"You're joking. How dare I do that? Boss, judging from your accent, you must be from Binjiang. We're from the same village. Please help me."

Yang Feng stuffed two bills into his pocket.

After asking a lot of questions, the purpose was to make some money. The sergeant smiled and put the money in his pocket: "Okay, okay, what's the main thing? The higher-ups have been checking closely recently, and I'm just doing my job. You're lucky. The guy from the secret service just left. If he was here, he would have opened every package of your snacks for inspection."

Yang Feng's heart moved: Did the people from the secret service department just leave?
What are the people from the Secret Service doing at the checkpoint?
When Tiezhu passed the checkpoint, the people from the secret service department were also there. Could this be a coincidence? Or did the people from the secret service department come specifically for Tiezhu?
Thinking of this possibility, Yang Feng did not dare to be careless and asked tentatively: "Boss, why are you checking so strictly? What happened in the city again?"

The sergeant's deputy squad leader snorted, "Tsk, he's just showing off... He's so pretentious, and he has to check it himself to show how serious he is."

At this time, another vehicle arrived at the checkpoint.

The deputy squad leader, the sergeant, said to Yang Feng: "It's getting dark, let's go quickly."

Yang Feng thanked him and rode his bicycle through the checkpoint. With many years of experience in underground work, he sensed something unusual. Could the secret service department's visit to the checkpoint be related to Tiezhu?

If it is related to Tiezhu, then Tiezhu must have been exposed in the city. If the enemy is not caught after being exposed, what does he want to do?
What would you do if it were you?

I remembered what the sergeant said: He opened every package and checked it personally...

Yang Feng shuddered, because he finally realized that if the enemy had poisoned the traditional Chinese medicine, all doubts would be explained!

Although it was just a guess, it was entirely possible. Yang Feng was anxious and just wanted to rush to Kaoshantun as soon as possible to stop Zhang Zhaolin from taking Chinese medicine. At least he should check him first before he could feel at ease.

It would take another two and a half hours to arrive by the main road. Yang Feng knew that there was a small road nearby that could lead to Kaoshantun half an hour earlier. Although there was a possibility of encountering a patrol team on the way, he couldn't care less. Now was the time to race against time. If they were a step late, Zhang Zhaolin would have taken the Chinese medicine and the consequences would be disastrous.

The sky gradually darkened.

Yang Feng turned on the flashlight, tied it to the handlebars with wire for lighting, and rode along the path less than one meter wide towards Kaoshantun.

At the beginning, you could still meet one or two pedestrians on the road, but when you were halfway there, there was no sound except the rustling of leaves.

Suddenly, a man jumped out from the bushes and shouted, "Stop!"

Yang Feng was startled, thinking he had encountered a patrol team. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the person coming was a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, wearing a coarse cloth jacket and holding a half-new Hanyang-made rifle in his hand. With this attire, he couldn't be a patrol team, but more like a bandit.

"What?"

"… just passing by."

“Hands up!”

"I'm just passing by."

"Stop talking nonsense, turn around!"

"........."

Yang Feng had no choice but to raise his hands and turn around.

The man whistled sharply, and after a while, a young man with a rifle came out of the woods, walking one step at a time, and asked as he walked, "Brother Chen, what happened?"

"Xiao Wuzi, I caught a spy."

"How do you know it's a spy?"

"Looks like one. It's so late, and you're coming here instead of taking the main road. If you're not a spy, then what could you be? The boss has specifically instructed that if you encounter anyone suspicious, no matter what he does, you should arrest him first." Brother Chen took out a rope and tied Yang Feng's hands.

Xiao Wuzi stood guard with a gun in hand.

Yang Feng explained, "Brothers, you misunderstood me. I was just passing by. I took the small road because I was in a hurry..."

Halfway through his words, his eyes were covered with a black cloth.

Yang Feng hurriedly said: "I have money in my pocket, and there is wine and snacks in the car. You can take them all. I beg you to let me go..."

Brother Chen snorted coldly: "Who cares about your little thing? Wait until you meet the boss and explain everything clearly, and then I will let you go!"

"Excuse me, which gang are you from?"

"From the Tiger Village!"

Yang Feng couldn't help but secretly groan. He had originally wanted to take a shortcut and rush to Kaoshantun to report the news in advance, but he never expected to encounter the bandits' secret sentry.

"My two good men, I have something urgent to do..."

Yang Feng tried to persuade the two bandits.

Brother Chen poked him with the barrel of his gun and said impatiently, "You keep talking nonsense...Xiao Wuzi, shut his mouth!"

Xiao Wuzi blocked Yang Feng's mouth with a rag.

……

After one hour.

The three of them came to a col in Maoer Mountain.

The terrain here is dangerous and surrounded by mountain ridges on all sides, which forms a natural protective barrier. As long as we guard the pass and are in a commanding position, it will be easy to defend but difficult to attack.

This valley is the camping site of Menghuzhai.

Like Lao Heilong, Menghuzhai is the remnant of the Loyal and Patriotic Army. They pretend to be bandits in order to avoid being encircled and suppressed by the Japanese and puppet troops.

Two rows of thatched houses were built on the flat area of ​​the valley. On the stone stove stood a large pot with steam rising from it.

"Old Feng, what's in the pot? Why does it smell so good?"

Xiao Wuzi sniffed all the way over.

Old Feng was only about forty years old. He said as he added firewood, "The boss killed a roe deer and stewed the roe deer meat with potatoes... Who is this?"

"A captured spy."

Xiao Wuzi reached out to lift the lid of the pot.

Old Feng opened his hand and said, "It's not cooked yet."

"Hey, let me smell it first."

"I said, why are you so greedy?"

"You don't care about me."

"I care that you've grown up!"

"Hey, old grave, you're taking advantage of me!"

"What did you call me?"

"Old Feng, old Feng, haha."

"You little bastard, I think you deserve a beating!"

Hearing the noise, a burly man about thirty-five or thirty-six years old with a revolver on his waist walked out of the house.

His name was Li Wenbiao, a lieutenant in the National Army and the leader of the Tiger Camp.

The Military Control Commission was dominated by the Zhejiang Gang, and Li Wenbiao was marginalized both overtly and covertly, and because of his overly upright character, he was never given an important position.

In fact, he is very good at leading troops. At the beginning, there were only twenty or so people in the Menghu Village, but after several years of development, the size has reached nearly a hundred people.

Knowing that the autumn punitive campaign was about to begin, Li Wenbiao sent out several secret sentries, ready to move the Tiger Camp at any time if they found any trace of the enemy.

(End of this chapter)