Indiana Jones

Chapter 322 Crossing the Highway (11)

Escaping was not an easy task. When they were completely exhausted, they were finally surrounded. When they were desperate, they were lucky to find that it was not the Japanese army that surrounded them, but the identity of the other party had not yet been clarified. A spontaneous armed force, from the point of view of weapons, there are 38 types, as well as medium and old sleeves, absolutely no-name equipment, the only thing they can do now is to put down their weapons, it is not wise to arm them here and there, there is no It is necessary to have a conflict with any anti-Japanese armed force. It is unwise to start a war with the other party here. The Japanese army will soon catch up. At that time, no one will be able to escape. As long as these people have nothing to do with Japan, they would rather take the risk of laying down their weapons After all, it is not wise to go all out, and you will run into the Japanese again later, so it is a good choice to disarm these people.

But it’s not that they will be fine if they put down their weapons. They are also facing huge troubles, because they are wearing Japanese military uniforms. These militants are still full of doubts about their identities, so they were tied up and taken away. Any explanation, in fact, you don’t have time to explain too much here. After all, they are in a dangerous situation, their physical strength is exhausted, and they have no ability to resist. At the same time, they have no chance to say anything. Chance to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese army. After being controlled, they found that there were more of these people than they expected. There were five and no. 60 people.

Here, the old horse played a sufficient role. He kept getting in touch with these people, and quickly figured out that this was an anti-Japanese team composed of villagers from several villages, and the leader was a veteran , a former company commander of the 74th Division of the National Revolutionary Army.

After Lao Ma revealed his identity, although these people were suspicious, they did not dare to execute them without authorization, and immediately escorted them back to the superiors.

After several hours of negotiations between the old horse and the famous veterans, they were no longer tied up, given food, and locked in a room, but they were still under strict supervision.

In the early morning of the next day, the old horse came back tired and told them that everything was done.

"You are really capable." Zhao Chenggong said to the old horse, "I didn't expect you to be able to negotiate."

"Fart..." Lao Ma gave him a blank look, "I promised to recruit them, support them in the anti-Japanese war, and provide weapons and military pay."

"So it was a bribe?" Zhao Chenggong suddenly realized.

"Otherwise, do you think these people are easy to deal with? Fortunately, he was retired from the national army, otherwise you thought it would be so easy to talk about?" the old horse said angrily.

"Then when can we leave?" Si Xuanyi asked.

"You can leave at any time. As for me..." the old horse shook his head, "To show my sincerity, I must stay as a hostage until the appointment and supplies from above are available to me."

"No wonder they agreed so happily." Li Siming nodded, "That's reasonable."

"You have made a lot of contributions to recruiting such a team. There are no less than a hundred of them." The farmer said, "I think the higher-ups will reward you."

"In fact, they have more than 300 people. Although their combat capabilities are not very good, they can be regarded as a new force. Under the premise of resisting Japan, they are not confused as leaders." Lao Ma said helplessly, "Although I am a By the way, I have achieved some results, but I disdain this kind of work the most. The risk is too high. If it is not forced to this point, I will not come if I am given 1 oceans. I just explain the devils on us. The leather goods wasted more than an hour, and his grandma's was almost dragged out and killed."

"No matter what, the results are outstanding." Si Xuanyi patted him on the shoulder, "Then tell us the meeting place and the way to meet, and we will go by ourselves."

"The people here will arrange for people to take you there, and I will tell you how to connect..." Lao Ma described in detail how to go later, as well as the specific location and method of the street.

Things seemed to be going smoothly suddenly. They rested here for half a day, and more than a dozen people sent them all the way to the meeting place. It didn't take much effort to get in touch with those people, and then transferred to a car and went straight to Nanjing. Simple It is said that they did not connect with the local military commanders until they reached the outskirts of Nanjing.

"It's really the right time for you to come." The person who connected them looked at them and said with disdain.

"What do you mean?" Li Siming asked in a low voice, he noticed the unfriendliness in the other party's words.

"We have been preparing for a few days, and you all come here. Now the situation has changed. It is more troublesome to enter the city than before. Let's make arrangements tomorrow night." This guy left without even introducing himself.

"What do you mean?" Zhao Chenggong said unhappily, frowning.

"Forget it, go to sleep." Si Xuanyi was also annoyed, and sighed, "Use this time to rest."

Everyone is very tired after these two days of tossing. Finally, I have the opportunity to take a good rest. I don't know what kind of situation I will face later, so I should hurry up and take a good rest.

"Is it so difficult to enter a city?" Zhao Chenggong felt that these people made a fuss out of a molehill.

"Now there are not many people in the city, and they were all killed by the little Japanese. Those who are active in it are either Japanese or Wang puppet spies. It may not be so easy to get in. Strange faces are easy to be noticed." Li Siming lay on the side and said.

Not long after, someone came to deliver things to them, and their attitude was very indifferent. Later, they learned that in the past two days, the local military command had done a lot of preparation work, and carried out a new round of recovery for the lost items. However, due to the strict precautions of the Japanese army, the operation failed, and the losses were very large. Six people died in the operation. It was originally an auxiliary investigation work, and it has all come to such a point. This is what no one expected. .

"It seems that they are still very enthusiastic to help us do a lot of preparations." Zhao Chenggong said while yawning. Although he was very sleepy, he couldn't fall asleep for a while.

"This should be explained by the superiors. They have no obligation and responsibility to help us do these things, unless it is to complete the tasks of the superiors." Si Xuanyi said, "After all, we are not familiar with the place here, and we have to rely on them for everything."

"Then why don't they let them complete this task, why do we have to come for a trip? Isn't this superfluous?" Zhao Chenggong didn't understand this very much.

"Others can do it, why do you want you?" The farmer rolled his eyes and said, "The establishment of your department must reflect the value of your department. Is it possible that the higher-ups are free to support you? Don't forget You are the victims of the struggle for power and profit from above. Whether you can get back the Suihou Pearl is not the point. The point is that you can let the above see the value of existence. Your existence has always been concerned. Give up, they hope that you will make mistakes, hope that you will do nothing, and hope that your establishment will be cancelled, so you must be dispatched, you must complete the task, and you must play a certain role. It is of course best to get it back with Hou Zhu. If you can’t get it back, at least prove it You are fighting bloody battles, and let the higher-ups understand that you are not worthless, you are just paid for nothing.”

Everyone who said these words is speechless. They are in an extremely delicate situation now. They can be said to be the bargaining chip of the game above, or they can be said to be victims. As for what they will eventually become, it depends on how hard they work and whether they can prove the value of their existence. For people like them, no matter what they do, everything is not as simple as it seems on the surface. It is closely related to the struggle of the upper class. Although the country has reached the point of life and death, the internal struggle and internal friction at the upper class have not stopped. The theme of the struggle, the forces of all parties seek the greatest benefit in the scramble for one another, and they are just one of the pawns. The tasks completed in the early stage prove their existence, but with the appearance of Hou Zhu , but they smashed their achievements to nothing. Many people are waiting to see their jokes, waiting for them to fail and make a fool of themselves. It has to be said that this is a kind of sadness, but no one can change this reality. In the eyes of these people, national interests are already in a secondary position, and everything is based on maximizing their own interests. It has never stopped. Perhaps this is the situation that the Chairman is happy to see in balancing the relationship between the two parties. Although the consumption has not stopped, he absolutely does not want to see a situation where one family dominates. The balance he seeks between the two, Let the two organizations restrict each other and then use it for others. This is a political struggle.

"No matter what the higher authorities consider, we must complete this task. Suihou Zhu is my Chinese treasure, how can it fall into the hands of the Orientals?" Si Xuanyi is not interested in this kind of intrigue from the upper echelons. Although the enemy also lamented that the internal friction above was too intense, he was powerless to deal with all of this. He was only a small company commander, so how could he understand these games above?
"You will always be guns in the hands of others. You will fight endlessly, and the internal friction will not decrease. When you are in danger, you will not use your strength in the war of resistance. Alas... the sorrow of the country and the misfortune of the people!" The farmer sighed, and he could see his I hate this kind of struggle.

"As long as the salary is paid, whether he fights or not?" Zhao Chenggong didn't care about it.

"Although this matter is related to us, we are also the key to it, but all we can do is to complete the task at hand, what else can we do? In front of them, we are just ants, ants with a little use." Li Siming is very clear that the role they can play now is very limited.

After saying these words, several people couldn’t fall asleep, and the way ahead was confused. Although the passion to fight the Japanese to the death could not be said to be gone, it was almost gone. Most of them came from soldiers who defended the land and killed the enemy. I have no sensibility towards the upper class struggle, but no one wants to be someone else's pawn. It doesn't feel good to be played and used by others, but fate happens to play tricks on people like this. Many things can't be chosen. It's not because I don't want to fight, but because I don't have a chance , their existence in this group is meaningful, so what if they leave this group?What should we do?At least their current fighting purpose is to protect the country's important cultural relics from being leaked out. Although this result will be used by the higher authorities, they can make contributions. Although a large number of cultural relics have been looted, they can play a considerable role It is limited, and it is only one thing if you can keep one. In the face of war, an individual's ability is small, but if everyone does not make their own contributions to jointly affect the entire war situation, then the entire country may be hopeless...

"Little people have things that little people should do. We are powerless to change the overall situation, but we can change the things we can, to contribute to the overall situation, and to the nation." Si Xuanyi said silently.

"You are so knowledgeable?" Zhao Chenggong said with sarcasm.

"No..." Si Xuanyi shook his head, "I'm just a small person, and I've fulfilled the responsibilities and duties of a small person. No matter how the higher authorities fight for power and profit, we must keep the Suihou Pearl from falling into the hands of the Japanese."

"Oh... We have gone through so many twists and turns, it can be seen that this task is not so easy to complete, and we still don't know how to enter the city." Zhao Chenggong poured cold water on him at the right time.

"Let's take one step at a time. There is no detailed information yet, so it is impossible to make a reasonable plan." Li Siming lay on the side, "No matter what, we have to continue, otherwise we really have no meaning of existence. "

"Perhaps the success or failure of this time determines whether your system exists. If the above-mentioned game of military command fails, then you have no reason to exist. Lao Jiang may directly hand over this department to the Central Command, which is impossible. Use you, and no one will know where you will go when the time comes," said the farmer.

"Old man, why don't you seem to be worried at all." Zhao Chenggong was a little strange to the old man's behavior.

"What am I worried about? It doesn't matter to me whether this organization exists or not." The farmer rolled his eyes and said, "We are here to help you. You recruits don't understand anything. If it wasn't for Dai Li's repeated pleas, we would It’s impossible to wade into your muddy water.”

"I still don't understand, what is the origin of you guys?" Zhao Chenggong asked without losing the opportunity, and several other people also pricked up their ears, and they were all very interested in this question. After all, no one has joined this organization since they joined this organization. Know who these three old men are from.

"There are some questions that you are not qualified to know, and it is not difficult to know. You will naturally know after you are accepted by the military commander." The farmer said unhurriedly, then turned his back to them, obviously not wanting to answer this question .

Speaking of this point, no one asked any more, and they didn't dare to torture the old man to extract a confession, so they could only put away their curiosity, and ended this topic amidst Lin Feng's snoring. Three hours later, they were arrested Wake up, someone brought them a shocking news, Suihouzhu has been transported to Shanghai...

(End of this chapter)