Chapter 20: The Tiger Emerges from Its Cage (Part 2)
If you want to get rid of this person, you must figure out his living rules. However, in Li Xinmin's heart, he not only wants to get rid of him, but also won't let go of those people like Xiang Lan and Guo Qing. In Li Xinmin's heart, these people are just as hateful as the Japanese devils. Now, the ordinary people in the base area hate the traitors more than they hate the Japanese devils.
Li Xinmin's mind was racing with ways to assassinate, his previous training had instilled in him a habit of being meticulous and cautious. After careful consideration, he finally determined the course of action, but the specific details would have to be finalized after entering Liao County.
Li Xinmin then made a report to headquarters, and after listening to his presentation, the head of headquarters agreed with his plan.
"Commander! I have some personal opinions about the previous actions. I'd like to make a small request," said Li Xinmin to the Chief of Staff.
"Oh? Whatever the request is, as long as you can get rid of this traitor for me, I agree." "I just want to ask the commander to keep our secret and also to have other troops not act when we take action, so as to avoid startling the snake by hitting the grass," Li Xinmin explained.
"Alright!", "Also, the code name for your mission this time is 'Tiger', when you arrive in Liaoyang County, you can contact the underground organization there, they can provide you with the greatest assistance." The Chief of Staff instructed further.
"Yes! Thank you, Commander! Please be assured that I will complete the task!"
The leader still didn't know that the liaison point in Liao County he had discussed with Li Xinmin was now being monitored by Zhang Shaodong's people. In fact, Zhang Shaodong had long known that the liaison point in Liao County was at Tongfu Pharmacy, and it was precisely because he had been monitoring the liaison station all along that he could always successfully evade the assassination attempts of the action team. The route and intentions of our liaison personnel had already been detected by the enemy every time they took action. This was also one of Zhang Shaodong's cunning moves, which they unexpectedly learned from a captured Eighth Route Army soldier during an encirclement campaign around Liao County.
"Speak! Who sent you?" In the prison of Liao County's "Bao An Tuan", Kong Lin, under Zhang Shaodong, was questioning a man who had been hung up. The man's body was covered in lash marks and his wounds were bleeding fresh blood. The man lifted his head to look at them before lowering it again.
"You don't have to be so stubborn! As long as you confess your situation, our captain will definitely let you off. Who knows, we might even become brothers then!", a man dressed in puppet army uniform said with temptation.
"Pah! Give up that idea! Grandfather has come, never thought of going back!", the man raised his head and spat a mouthful of blood at this fake soldier.
"Isn't that a big temper!", Kong Lin said with a smile. "Does it still hurt here?", she asked, touching the man's wound, and the man forcefully twisted his body to avoid Kong Lin's dirty hand.
"Does it not hurt?", Kong Lin said, suddenly waving his fist and continuously punching the man. The man was beaten by Kong Lin until he kept yelling, "You have a kind, kill Grandpa!"
"Are you not here to kill me?" Zhang Shaodong came to his front, "You don't say I also know, you must be sent by the Travel Department! Is it the intention of the Travel Chief to get rid of us?", Zhang Shaodong said while wiping this person's face with his hand. At this moment, this person had been beaten by Kong Lin and his facial expression was distorted, the intense pain made him suffer. It is only at this moment that a person's willpower can be revealed, but the source of willpower is this person's faith, and his heart's faith is communism! Therefore, under the cruel interrogation, he never gave out any party-related things, keeping the party's secrets safe, and at this moment, he was a qualified communist fighter!
"Do you know why you will fail?" Zhang Shaodong asked with a smile. Seeing that the man didn't respond, he continued on his own.
"Because your contact point has long been monitored by my people, all your moves are under my control! Can you succeed?" Zhang Shaodong said with a self-satisfied smile, and his subordinates on the side also burst out laughing wildly.
"Sooner or later you will be eliminated, although we failed this time, don't forget, there will be ten, a hundred times of actions against you!", the man said fiercely.
"I look forward to their arrival, waiting for them to fall into the trap!" Zhang Shaodong saw that this person would not surrender and could not get anything out of him for the time being, so he took his men and left. When leaving, he specifically instructed his subordinates to closely monitor him, not allowing him to commit suicide, because Zhang Shaodong hoped to obtain intelligence about the base from his mouth. Due to his betrayal, headquarters had already made adjustments to various places in a timely manner, and the intelligence he previously grasped had changed. Their previous actions were all in vain. Therefore, he attached great importance to capturing this assassin.
The man just now was the one who failed to assassinate Zhang Shaodong last time and was captured by them. They were a group of people sent by the headquarters, but unexpectedly, they were all killed by Zhang Shaodong before they could take action. Originally, they planned to assassinate Zhang Shaodong in the teahouse, but as soon as they entered the teahouse, they discovered that they had fallen into a trap, and everyone inside was Zhang Shaodong's man. They immediately broke out of the encirclement, and during the crossfire, one gunman hit Zhang Shaodong, but all members except him were shot dead by Zhang Shaodong and the Kempeitai. Originally, Zhang Shaodong's plan was to capture these people alive, but it was discovered in advance, shattering Zhang Shaodong's beautiful dream.
In the third battalion headquarters beside Wangjiayu East Village, Li Xinmin was discussing with two subordinates about the personnel for this operation. Since Battalion Commander Huang Yuke had gone to escort the leader with Gao Dabao and others, only Liu Wendao and Zhang Dawei were left in the third battalion now. Many of the good fighters in the battalion had also been taken away by them, but fortunately, there were still some good fighters among the remaining people, and Li Xinmin planned to lead these people to carry out the task.
"These few people should all be fine! They are all old folks who crawled out of the pile of dead bodies with us." Liu Wentao said.
"Hmm! I think so!", Zhang Dawei supported Liu Wentao's view.
"Alright! It's just these few people!", Li Xinmin saw that the two old subordinates were very affirmative about this list and agreed. The three of them unified their opinions, and Li Xinmin made detailed arrangements for his family again.
"This time's action must be doubly kept secret! It absolutely cannot be leaked out!", Li Xinmin asked the two of them to pay attention to keeping the secret in order to avoid the message from being leaked out.
"Don't worry, Battalion Commander!", "Hmm! In our battalion I'm still relatively at ease, but it's different with others. Through the previous actions, I suspect someone is providing information to traitor Zhang Shaodong. Otherwise, how could he always manage to dodge assassination so smoothly?", Li Xinmin continued to express his own judgment.
"Hmm! There's a possibility! Don't worry, Captain! Our camp will absolutely not leak it out!" Zhang Daweiguo patted his chest to guarantee.
