"Company commander, something happened!" Hong Linfeng rushed into the headquarters and shouted anxiously.
"A platoon returning with recruits and food was attacked by unknown enemies. Five recruits died and three were seriously injured. There were no casualties among the escorting troops!"
"Also, the enemy who attacked them ran away without giving the escorting troops a chance to counterattack!"
Li Hao couldn't sit still anymore and stood up from his seat, his face becoming extremely solemn.
Staring at Hong Linfeng, he asked, "Do you know who did it?"
"They are definitely not little devils. They are dressed in civilian clothes and are very familiar with the terrain around the battlefield. They can disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye. It is probably the locals who did it!" Hong Linfeng replied.
Li Hao's brows suddenly wrinkled, and a very bold idea came to his mind.
Being attacked twice in one day cannot be an accident or coincidence.
Maybe it was a premeditated move by the little devil.
On the frontal battlefield, there was no help for the independent company, and the Japanese troops in the county town were insufficient, so they could only secretly attack them through secret agents.
Just when he was frowning and deep in thought, the guard platoon leader Xiao Yuan suddenly broke in: "Company commander, all the people in Hongquan Village have been screened!"
"In addition to the people in this village, there are eight foreigners, but they are all relatives. Each foreigner can find at least three people from the village to testify for them..."
"The people in the village didn't find anything suspicious!"
Hong Linfeng, who was standing next to him, reminded: "Company Commander, could it be that we are thinking too much! There is no internal enemy response in the village. It's because we are too nervous!"
Li Hao frowned and asked: "Have you brought the common people to identify the two sneak attackers who were killed by us? Does anyone know them or have seen them coming and going in the village?"
"I identified it... There are more than 200 people in the village, not a single one is left behind, they all went to see it!" Xiao Yuan replied immediately.
"However, what is surprising is that no one in the village knows them."
"These sneak attackers are like falling from the sky. They have never appeared in the village!"
Li Hao immediately affirmed: "I can guarantee that there must be an enemy in the village!"
"Three enemies appeared out of thin air in the village. This inference is definitely unrealistic. There is only one possibility: these sneak attackers entered the village under the cover of night, hiding from all the people, and then hid in Ying's house to wait!"
"Before dawn, while the people have not gotten up, leave the hiding place and lurk at the sneak attack point, and then suddenly launch a sneak attack!"
"If there were no internal response, there would be so many people in the village that we wouldn't be able to find three strangers!"
"It's true!" Xiao Yuan suddenly realized and shouted.
Then he appealed to Li Hao: "Some of those people must be lying, and the insider is among them!"
"Company Commander, I will go back now and interrogate them one by one. I must find this spy!"
Surprisingly, Li Hao did not agree.
He shook his head and replied: "No need to interrogate, immediately lift the blockade of the village, tell everyone that the enemy has been eliminated by us, and there are no internal agents in the village, so that everyone can feel at ease!"
"Why?" Xiao Yuan asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"You know that there is an insider in the village, but you still contact the blockade. What should you do if he escapes? Isn't this just letting the tiger go back to the mountain?"
Li Hao asked directly: "Are you sure that the security platoon can find this spy after another interrogation?"
"If they can avoid your first interrogation, they can definitely avoid your second interrogation~"
"You are combat troops, not intelligence agents."
"It is very difficult to find a traitor hidden in the crowd among more than 200 people!"
"So even if you re-examine both sides, you may not be able to find the internal culprit, and it will also make everyone panic and create resistance to our Eighth Route Army!"
Xiao Yuan felt aggrieved, but what Li Hao said was true. After hesitating and struggling for a long time, he decided to try again.
With a look of unwillingness, he shouted: "Then let them go like this? Let them continue to lurk around us, acting as a time bomb and looking for opportunities to attack us!"
A flash of mystery quickly flashed across Li Hao's face, and then he shook his head and replied: "Contacting the blockade does not mean letting the tiger go back to the mountain!"
"In order not to cause panic among everyone, and in order to allow the insider to relax his vigilance and reveal his flaws, we must lift this blockade."
"However, the investigation of this insider cannot stop!"
"We just need to transfer the investigation from the outside to the secret, and find out the insider through secret visits!"
Xiao Yuan suddenly realized and shouted: "I understand, this is called practicing secret ways and crossing Chencang secretly!"
This sentence describes it very well!" Li Hao affirmed.
"To combat this kind of enemy lurking in the dark, we cannot fight head-on with the enemy with guns. Instead, we should change our tactics. Since the enemy is hiding in the dark, we should also look for them in the dark, attack them, and let them
If you can’t figure out our true situation, it’s hard to guard against it!”
"During this period, our attention and energy were focused on how to fight the Japanese. We neglected two equally important things, which led to two consecutive attacks on us today, resulting in heavy losses!"
Hong Linfeng asked subconsciously: "Company commander, what two things are you doing?"
"Establish a base and form a security and intelligence department!"
"Only by establishing base areas and integrating with the people can they fully support us and be of one mind with us."
"With the unconditional support of the people, the spies and traitors lurking in our base areas will have nowhere to hide. They will be reported and exposed by the people, and then we will kill them!"
"Set up a security and intelligence department to fight against the intelligence agents planted by the Japanese and puppet troops in our base areas, dig them out, completely solve the potential dangers in the base areas, and ensure the safety of all soldiers and civilians in the base areas."
"At the same time, the intelligence department can also insert the tentacles of the intelligence network into the areas occupied by the Japanese and puppet troops to collect all information that is useful to us!"
Hong Linfeng also showed an expression of sudden realization on his face.
"It really is!"
"If we set up base areas in several surrounding villages and mobilize the people, as long as strangers enter the base area, they will be targeted by us immediately."
"If you want to sneak attack us again, the possibility is almost zero!"
"If there were an intelligence network and security department, the intelligence officers and traitors lurking in our base would have nowhere to hide and be found by them!"
"Without the cooperation of internal agents and intelligence personnel, the possibility of the enemy rashly entering our base and then sneaking up on us is almost zero!"
"Company Commander, we must seize the time to perfect these two things!"
"Then let's start by establishing a security and intelligence department!" Li Hao made a decision at that time.
Then he began to give orders: "Xiao Yuan, please go back to the village immediately, lift the blockade of the village, and tell everyone that the enemy has been killed by us. Everyone can sleep peacefully tonight!"
"After dark, we will go into the village and find a few fellow villagers whose families have joined our Eighth Route Army to make secret visits. The effect of this will definitely be better than an open investigation!"
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