After a false alarm, Li Qiang's life finally gradually became dull. Apart from trying to contact the missing Yu Mei a few times through a specific frequency band as agreed every few days, it was almost a work unit, and the cruise ship had two points and one line.
, monotonous and bland.
At this time, Hangzhou, because it was close to Shanghai and not too far from Nanjing, not only had convenient transportation, but also had relatively weak Japanese troops. Naturally, it became an important base for the secret activities of the underground organizations of the military command and the Red Party. The anti-Japanese and anti-puppetry forces were developing rapidly.
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This was one of the final reasons why Wang Jingwei finally agreed to locate the East China Bandit Suppression Headquarters in Hangzhou.
Therefore, after Qian Huyi took office, his first task was to eliminate these anti-Japanese and anti-counterfeiting organizations.
The outbreak of the Wannan Incident was a god-given opportunity for him. In his opinion, the Red Party and the Kuomintang were already inseparable and inseparable. As long as they used clever tactics to alienate each other, they could achieve quite good results.
But he never expected that he only guessed the beginning, but not the ending.
Although Qian Huyi's plan to sow discord was so successful that the bandit suppression brigade repeatedly made new achievements and carried out large-scale raids in Hangzhou and nearby towns, causing heavy losses to the underground organizations of the national and red parties, it was precisely because of this that Qian Huyi
Yi himself and his troops have also become the common enemy of the underground organizations of the two parties, so that both sides want to put him to death quickly.
The time came to the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, the day before the Lantern Festival. That night, Li Qiang was about to try again to contact Yu Mei, who had been out of touch for nearly a month, when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then Ah
Cheng opened the door and walked in and said excitedly: "Aqiang, come and see who is back?"
Before he finished speaking, a dusty figure walked in, and surprisingly it was Yu Mei!
"Yu Mei, Hangzhou District, please return to the team! Team leader, I'm back!" Yu Mei, who had lost weight several times at this moment, forced out a smile and said feebly.
As soon as these words came out, Li Qiang was overjoyed at first, but then he suddenly lowered his face and said to her seriously: "You act without permission, Comrade Yu Mei, you really have no organizational discipline."
There’s no sex at all!”
However, in the face of Li Qiang's severe criticism, Yu Mei did not give any explanation. Instead, she silently took out a stack of blood-stained translation paper from her arms and handed it to Li Qiang tremblingly.
Li Qiang took it and took a look and couldn't help being surprised. Each of those translation papers recorded the same message: An urgent message from the Central Plains Bureau, ordering all latent teams to immediately send a traffic officer to carry the radio into the southern Anhui area.
Looking for the headquarters of the New Fourth Army, be sure to re-establish contact as soon as possible. The target priority is above all else, no matter the cost!
Seeing this, Li Qiang quickly counted again. There were eight pieces of telegram paper recording the same content, and except for the one with Yu Mei's name on the top, almost every one of the remaining seven pieces had different degrees of authenticity.
Stained with blood.
Yue Shijie from Nanjing District, Yuan Dongjun from Shanghai District, Guo Xiao from Jiaxing District, Chen Lian from Zhenjiang District...
Looking at the names stained red with blood, Li Qiang's eyes became moist unconsciously. Behind these names are living lives that are not afraid of sacrifice and charge towards death. Maybe they also know,
They clearly understood what it meant to do so, and their feats may never be known to others, but in the end they all made the same choice without hesitation!
After carefully putting away the telegram papers, Li Qiang learned about Yu Mei's experience during this period from her intermittent narration.
Not long after Yu Mei managed to sneak into a caravan with the radio and passed through the blockade of the stubborn army and entered the encirclement, she was bombarded. As a result, the radio hidden in the box was accidentally hit by the shell.
It was blown up, and the people in the caravan ran away to death and dispersed on the spot.
In desperation, Yu Mei had no choice but to risk being bombed, collect as much dry food as possible, and head into the forest.
It took about three more days before we met a team of five people in a ravine.
Although both sides were very cautious at first, they soon confirmed each other's identities. Only then did Yu Mei know that this team was also temporarily formed. The leader's surname was Li, who had the highest official rank, and there was also a director named Yu.
and a division chief named Qian, as well as two lower-level cadres of the teaching team.
Next, the group of people moved around and hid for several days. Sometimes they met some New Fourth Army stragglers. The number was sometimes large and sometimes small. However, because they were not familiar with each other and had to avoid being hunted by the Kuomintang township and security forces, they did not get together in the end. But even though
In this way, the number of telegraph newspapers in Yu Mei's hand continued to increase as time went by. It was also at this time that she found out about Ming Jing's distress.
Originally, Yu Mei planned to return immediately to report to Li Qiang, but except for her, the team was all male and could easily become the target of the stubborn army, so she had no choice but to ask Xiao Wang to do it for her, and also gave her her pass.
Got him.
In this way, Yu Mei and others hid in the mountains of Jingxian County until late January. Then she got in touch with a local farmer who sympathized with the New Fourth Army. During the day, she lurked in the woods and quietly went to the farmer's house to eat at night.
dinner.
It was approaching the Lunar New Year, and most of the Kuomintang troops participating in the war had been ordered to retreat to their original defenses.
Everyone then discussed that it might not be a long-term solution to stay in the mountains, but they should try to get out as soon as possible to contact their superiors and report the details of the incident to the Party Central Committee.
Yu and Qian planned to go from Ningbo to Northern Jiangsu via Shanghai to the Eighth Route Army Headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Central China to meet with Mr. Liu; Chief Li decided to go to the Eighth Route Army office in Chongqing via Guilin to meet with Mr. Zhou; the remaining person expressed his wish to return
Fujian origin.
So the group first went south to Tunxi via Taiping County, and then split up at Tunxi and went their separate ways.
Although they encountered Kuomintang troops taking temporary rest on the march twice on the way, fortunately they all escaped without incident.
On the evening of the third day, the group arrived at Qiankou Town. Since they did not have a pass, they did not dare to stay in a hotel, so they had to stay in a small thatched shop outside the town. Although Yu Mei was accompanying them, the shrewd shopkeeper could tell at a glance that he was
It was the New Fourth Army that was broken up by the Wannan Incident.
Fortunately, the New Fourth Army had been operating in southern Anhui for three years and had a good reputation. Therefore, the shop owner not only did not tell him in person, but also did not embarrass him. On the contrary, with the cover and help of the shop owner, the group not only solved the problem of food and accommodation, but also succeeded in getting it at a high price.
A pass from Qiankou to Guilin.
With the pass, you can basically travel unhindered in the Kuomintang-controlled areas.
The shopkeeper later helped everyone hire a car to go to Tunxi. When they were about to leave, the shopkeeper smiled and revealed the identity of the New Fourth Army to everyone.
Hearing this, Li Qiang's eyes lit up. You must know that Tunxi at this time was not only located in the rear, but also the seat of Huizhou Prefecture. dignitaries from Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuhu and other places who escaped from the war gathered here.
In addition, there were numerous wartime government agencies in exile at all levels in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces, which led to abnormal prosperity and even earned the reputation of "Little Shanghai."
When he helped Mingjing transfer assets, this place had become Li Qiang's first choice. However, such a good place is naturally also an area that Chongqing focuses on prevention, and the main target of prevention is naturally the Red Party, and even the intensity of prevention
Bigger than the Japanese and puppet spies.
Thinking of this, Li Qiang quickly asked: "Wait a minute, you said you went to Tunxi? How is the situation there? Tell me carefully."
Although she felt a little strange, Yu Mei recalled it carefully before she said: "The first impression that Tunxi gave me was that it was lively. You can see well-dressed rich people coming and going everywhere on the street.
The shops on both sides of the street are right next to each other, and there is no hint of a war going on."
"'Business girls don't know the hatred of the country's subjugation, but they still sing in the backyard across the river.' This Tunxi is truly AH's 'Little Shanghai'. Even the drunkenness and dreams in the concession have been copied without any application. It's really a bit
I don’t even have a long memory!” Having said this, Li Qiang paused for a moment before continuing to ask, “What about after we get to Tunxi?”
"After arriving in Tunxi, Yu and Qian bought a ferry ticket to Ningbo and transferred to Shanghai. The remaining junior cadre got on the bus back to his hometown on the same day, while I and the officer surnamed Li pretended to be
The tea sellers took a bus from Tunxi to Jinhua and then transferred to a train to arrive in Guilin. But when we got there, we learned that Comrade Ke Gong, the original director of the Eighth Route Army Office in Guilin, had long since the incident occurred and the domestic situation had suddenly changed.
Shortly after the change, he was ordered to withdraw to Chongqing on January 20, and the other two people who were familiar with Chief Li also moved to Hong Kong. After several twists and turns, he finally got in touch with an old friend. Counting the days,
He should have arrived in Hong Kong safely by now."
Hearing this, even Li Qiang and Acheng couldn't help but admire Yu Mei's legendary experience. In addition to admiration, they couldn't help but feel admiration, so they sorted out the whole thing overnight.
It became a long report and was submitted to the Central Plains Bureau.
Not surprisingly, this report immediately attracted great attention from the leaders of the Central Plains Bureau, and even sent a special correspondent to understand the situation.
Although based on the principle of confidentiality, Li Qiang did not have direct contact with the special correspondent, but it still took him three days to fully understand the entire incident through letters.
Early on the fourth day, I returned to the Central Plains Bureau with the detailed report and the eight blood-stained messages.
But on this day, as soon as the special commissioner left, the city of Hangzhou suddenly went into martial law without warning.
At first, Li Qiang thought that the identity of the special commissioner was exposed, which led to martial law in the city, and he secretly rejoiced in the office.
However, not long after, Haitang rushed in and told him a shocking news: Qian Huyi was dead, and dozens of members of his family were not spared!
Although Li Qiang had always believed in the saying "Anyone who commits unjust deeds will be punished by his own death", he did not expect that Qian Huyi's retribution would come so quickly! You must know that just a few days ago, he was still having fun in the officers' club.
A celebration dinner was held to take credit for Wu Zhiguo's leadership in destroying three secret military reunification sites in one fell swoop.
Who would have thought that in just a few days, Qian Huyi, who was still complacent and fantasizing about being promoted to a higher position, would be killed so suddenly!
After many inquiries, Li Qiang finally got some news. It was said that late that night, someone sneaked into the backyard of Qiuzhuang and killed everyone who lived in the two small western-style buildings at that time, no matter whether they were men, women, old or young.
, and then set a fire in the west building, but it was this fire that attracted the attention of the guards outside. Although the fire was quickly controlled, Qian Huyi in the room had already stopped breathing.
Regarding his death, everyone in the headquarters, except Wu Zhiguo, reacted surprisingly unanimously with indifference, as if it was just a cat or a dog that died.
On the other hand, Colonel Morita, as a military adviser, was extremely busy in ordering martial law and hunting down the murderer.
The day after Qian Huyi's mysterious death, Jiming Temple quickly transferred a guy named Zhang Yiting to take Qian Huyi's place.
Naturally, Colonel Morita was extremely dissatisfied with this decision. While protesting to the military headquarters, he immediately retaliated. He openly convicted Cao Yan of the Secretariat on an unfounded charge and sent him directly to the Standing Committee of the Central Committee without explanation.
Although this move was severely condemned, including by the Japanese military minister, the rice had been cooked, and in the end, he could only be given a serious warning and let it go.
In order to keep the peace, take the overall situation into consideration, and express its attitude to Morita, Jiming Temple did not continue to send someone to take over Cao Yan's position. Instead, they simply changed the name of the secretariat to the Attendant's Room, and
The newly appointed Commander Zhang personally appointed a young man named Bai Xiaonian as an aide-de-camp. The turmoil finally calmed down.
And to say that the person in this headquarters who was most affected by Qian Huyi's death was not the unlucky Cao Yan who was sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, but Li Qiang!
Because everyone in the headquarters knew that Qian Huyi was originally planning to upgrade the General Affairs Section to the General Affairs Office. Even Colonel Morita had already informed him and was waiting for the announcement after the year, but it turned out to be such a delay.
thing.
However, it was a blessing in disguise. Although the matter at the General Affairs Office fell through, it indirectly eliminated Li Qiang's suspicion, which made him dumbfounded.
A month passed in a blink of an eye. On this afternoon, Li Qiang was handling the official affairs of the General Affairs Section in the office as usual. A voice suddenly rang at the door, "Hey! Section Chief Ming, are you busy? Why don't you even open the door?"
Isn’t it closed?”
After hearing this, Li Qiang quickly looked up and saw that the speaker was none other than Jin Shenghuo, the director of the Confidentiality Department!
