The country is broken

Followed the shop assistant into an elegant room on the second floor of the restaurant, a table of Eight Immortals was already filled with food and wine, and a person was standing beside him, when he heard Li Wei and the others coming in, he turned around and made a bow, unusually He said familiarly: "Mr. Li is here, please, please, please take a seat."

Li Wei was stunned, the other party recognized him, but he didn't recognize the other party, racking his brains, he couldn't remember where he had seen this person before.

As if seeing Li Wei's hesitation, the man smiled and said: "My surname is Tan, my name is Youwei, and I'm in the match business. It's rare for Mr. Li Wei to come to this place. I'm here to help Mr. Li Wei, please." Reach out to the seat.

Reaching out and not hitting the smiling face, at least this Tan person doesn't seem to have malicious intentions, Li Wei still cupped his hands very politely, and said, "Then it's a lot of trouble!"

Both the host and the guest chatted a few words and took their seats. [

The business of the restaurant is still good, and the dishes that can be served on the table are all unavailable in the base area. Li Wei is not polite, and has a drink with this slightly fat, like a rich businessman, Tan Youwei.

It would be a fool not to eat a free dinner, and Li Wei, who has no psychological burden, drags Ding Heyang, Lin Cheng, and Guo Sanwu together to corrupt.

Although I met Li Wei for the first time, Tan Youwei was very talkative. He chatted with Li Wei, Ding Heyang and others very openly about the customs and customs of various parts of Henan, as well as stories about business contacts, but he didn’t mention anything about it in his words. Regarding the situation of the arms, the private room is completely a dinner party for members of the church.

Although Ding Heyang had doubts in his heart, it seemed that Tan Youwei was simply treating guests to a meal, holding a glass of wine and talking about the mountains, it didn't seem like he was meeting with them at all, but Ding Heyang still didn't say anything, what kind of medicine was sold in the Zhao family's gourd? , you can only know by taking one step at a time.

Until they were full of wine and food, the clerk cleared up the leftovers and served a few cups of tea, after chatting for a few words.Tan Youwei called the store clerk to settle the bill, and then left in advance.

Watching Tan Youwei leave, Ding Heyang finally couldn't help but say what was suppressed in his heart: "Li Wei, is it just to treat us to this meal?! Nothing else?"

"Well, are you full?! We should go when we're full." Li Wei shook his head mysteriously.

When he first sat down, he had the same doubts as Ding Heyang. While toasting to each other, Li Wei's hand felt cold, but there was an extra cold metal key. Suddenly stuffed a key into Li Wei's hand.After Li Wei quietly put away the key, the next thing he did was to eat and drink like the other party, without revealing any flaws.

Ding Heyang still didn't want to understand, but Li Wei's expression made him feel that something must have happened between Tan Youwei and Li Wei. He nodded, drank the tea in front of him, and said, "Let's go!"

out of the restaurant.Li Wei and the others walked directly back to the inn.It was late at night, and the door of the inn was still open.

After entering the guest room and closing the door, Li Wei took out the key that Tan Youwei had given him, shook it in front of Ding Heyang, and said, "See?! This is the result of a meal!" Unique, different from common keys, should be specially customized.

Ding Heyang suddenly realized, but asked: "What does this key open? Do you know?"

"I don't know!" Li Wei shrugged, and said again: "People in the Zhao family are very cautious. The person who holds the key and the person who knows where to use the key check each other. Where to go to drive, know where to open but don't have the key, hehe, the Zhao family also sent us a message at the same time, that is, the rumors are very tight now, so they are so cautious."

"It should be, otherwise it wouldn't be so complicated!" Ding Heyang heard Li Wei's words, and suddenly he could understand that the Zhao family would be so cautious and complicated with this batch of arms joints. In a cold sweat, this seemingly normal handover operation may not be as safe as imagined before coming here, as if there are many dangerous and murderous intentions hidden in it.

Bang bang bang bang!

Suddenly someone knocked eagerly on the door.

Li Wei was startled.Who came to knock on the door so late, with a fighting thorn in his hand, and said in a lazy and sleepy tone: "Who is it! You don't let people sleep."

"Mr. Li! Something has happened, please leave immediately!" The voice was that of Xiaohu, the shop assistant.

"What?!" Li Wei and Ding Heyang looked at each other, really thinking of something, just thought that the situation was weird, but it happened at this juncture, it was beyond their expectations. [

"Understood!" Li Wei opened the door, and saw the shop assistant standing outside the door eagerly.

Li Wei patted open the other two rooms one after another, called the four soldiers out, packed their luggage and prepared to leave, from the time the shop assistant knocked on the door to when they packed their luggage and prepared to leave, it took less than a minute to hear the sound Someone was shouting: "Surround me here! The shopkeeper wakes up everyone, I want to do a round of the house!"

At the same time, there was a rush of footsteps rushing towards the guest room.

"Mr. Li, go through the back door. Quickly, come with me!" The store clerk seemed a little flustered, and hurriedly led Li Wei and the others to the back of the inn.

The loud shouting in the front hall was extremely harsh in the already silent inn, and immediately woke up most of the people in the guest rooms. Oil lamps were lit in the originally dark rooms to see what was going on. Take it easy.

Dozens of soldiers in national army uniforms rushed into the back of the inn lobby, broke into every guest room that barely opened the door to see what was going on, or kicked open the room that had not had time to open the door, regardless of the guests in the room. The unsleeping guests in the room directly dragged people out of the bed, and drove them into the yard of the inn like a flock of sheep. The black muzzle of the guns threatened those who had been disturbed from sleeping and immediately quieted down.

At this moment, outside the back door of the inn, the shop clerk handed over a small paper sign sealed with wax paint to Li Wei, saying: "The shopkeeper asked me to give it to you. You keep going to the left, the third alley entrance Go right, then go left, it will be safe, I can only help you here, let's go." "Xiaohu, thank you so much!" Li Wei waved his hand, without unnecessary nonsense, directly took Ding Heyang disappeared into the alley behind the inn according to the shop assistant's words.

The store clerk looked around cautiously, quickly closed the back door, plugged the bolt, and then went straight to the kitchen behind, pretending to be boiling water. After a while, several national army soldiers rushed in, searched randomly, and also used gunpoint Take the shop assistants to gather.

Every room, all the cabinets and boxes were roughly searched by the soldiers. I don’t know how many pieces were broken, and even the guest’s package would doubt whether there were any suspicious people or items hidden inside. All the guests in each guest room in the inn were driven into the yard, and the soldiers all around were loaded and surrounded the people in the inn with murderous intent.

The leading officer, a major of the National Army, glanced at the disheveled tenants in the yard, and said to the adjutant beside him, "Is everyone here?"

The adjutant took the lodging registration book that he had taken from the shopkeeper, counted the people standing in the yard, and said: "There are two shop assistants, one cook, and one shopkeeper. All the people in the inn are here. 34 people boarded, and there are only 22 residents here."

"Hmph!" The major of the national army snorted coldly, and said, "Take everyone back and interrogate them slowly!" He obviously didn't have much patience.

As soon as the major of the national army said this, some of the tenants were dissatisfied and shouted: "Why are you arrested? Is there any law? I have friendship with the county magistrate."

By someone showing up, other people's tenants also made a fuss.

"Take away all the lifeless things!" The major of the national army waved his hand, and the surrounding soldiers rushed up, smashed the disobedient tenants with gun butts, and forced them out of the inn with guns. There was still a little bit of blood left, and besides the shopkeeper, there was still a small group of soldiers left in the inn. Anyone who stepped into the inn would be arrested and interrogated.

This inn seemed to be like a fuse, and the entire Xinxiang County became lively. There were constant gunshots like fried beans. There seemed to be a fire broke out inside the local garrison soldiers. The explosions and gunshots resounded throughout the county, as if inside There was a small-scale war, and national army soldiers and police went from house to house to search for suspicious people. Every family was strictly interrogated, and the entire county fell into chaos.

After leaving the inn, Li Wei and others escaped from the national army's pursuit along the alleys of the county town. Still in shock, they took advantage of the chaos in the city and stole ropes to climb over the city wall and escape from the county town, avoiding the sudden search and arrest.

It wasn't until two days later that Li Wei and the others heard from a well-informed roadside teahouse that on the night they fled Xinxiang County, the national army stationed in Xinxiang County rebelled after a long-planned rebellion. Immediately there was an exchange of fire with the rebel troops, but the number was small and all died for the country. The rebel troops then all surrendered to the Japanese army. The commander-in-chief of the 24th Army on the front line, Pang Bingxun, and the commander of the new Fifth Army, Sun Dianying, took advantage of the mobilization of troops. At the same time, he led his troops to launch a mutiny and stationed in Xinxiang County.

For a while, there was a huge gap in the national army's front, and the Japanese army took the opportunity to advance, causing the entire Henan theater to fall into an extremely tense situation. These were not the incentives that Li Wei and his party could restore.Both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are trying their best to fill the gap in the theater created by Sun Pang's two rebellions, and prevent the Japanese army from driving straight into the Kuomintang-controlled area.

In addition to the national army's rapid mobilization of troops to make up for the disadvantages caused by the rebellion, the CCP's Eighth Route Army and local guerrilla forces quickly took corresponding remedial actions against the rebellion of the national army, dispatched elites to infiltrate enemy-occupied areas, established guerrilla areas, and replaced the rebellious administrative government. Organize anti-Japanese work.