The Spy

Chapter 272 Rescuing Comrades
"Yes."

Zhao San stood up and accepted the order. If they could complete this mission, it would definitely be no less than catching Japanese spies in Wuhan, or even better.

Chen Tangji was rebelling, something that the rulers of any era would never tolerate.

Zhao San took his men away and Xu Qingyun started working.

He had some information on hand, which was from a previous investigation at the Guangzhou station. Xu Qingyun had already read all of it on the way here.

The information is not very comprehensive, especially the preferences of the officers here, etc., which are not written very completely.

It’s a pity that Yan Ming couldn’t come with us, so we can only investigate these things slowly.

The Guangdong Army has a large number of troops, and most of the senior officers have followed Chen Tangji for many years, so it is not easy to instigate them to rebel.

However, Chen Tangji is essentially a warlord, and his subordinates naturally have their own plans. They are looking for people with ambitions or who have national justice in mind, so there is a chance of inciting rebellion.

Chen Tangji was fighting against the Japanese in the name of resistance, but he was secretly colluding with the Japanese. He could deceive the lower-level soldiers, but the top leaders must have understood what was going on.

Xu Qingyun was not in a hurry. He investigated slowly and tried to understand the situation in Guangzhou first.

In Nanjing, the old man was mobilizing troops and the director was also busy.

Now in Guangzhou, in addition to the Guangzhou Station, there is also Xu Qingyun, the most capable and best fighter in his military intelligence department.

It is not difficult to find out Chen Tangji's true strength and collect enough intelligence.

However, the director wanted more. If Chen Tangji's rebellion was thwarted this time, as long as the Military Intelligence Department performed well, it would completely suppress the Party Affairs Investigation Department and become the most important intelligence department.

As for the status in the old man's heart, he has already surpassed Xu Laogui.

Xu Laogui belongs to the Erchens, and he is their true confidant.

"Trash, all trash."

In the Party Affairs Investigation Office, Old Ghost Xu was cursing people, and Tan Xianglin didn't even dare to raise his head because something had just happened on his side.

A big incident happened in Wuhua Prison. A group of imprisoned Red Party members were rescued from there.

Wuhua Prison was under the jurisdiction of their Intelligence Department, but Tan Xianglin usually did not pay much attention to Wuhua Prison. A heavily guarded prison outside the city had no other function except to help them detain some diehard elements.

Who could have thought that the Red Party would suddenly take action there.

After his investigation, he found that two people were instigated by the Red Party and participated in the rescue. One of them was the team leader. Now the whereabouts of these two people are unknown, and their families are long gone.

But even with the two of them, it would not be easy to rescue the heavily guarded prisoners. Not to mention Xu Laogui, even Tan Xianglin wanted to kill someone now.

"Track them down immediately. They are in poor health and can't get far. You must find them for me."

Old Ghost Xu roared, saying that something was happening in Guangzhou right now and they had received a mission to keep a close eye on the situation in Guangzhou.

Especially with regard to the Red Party, Chen Tangji must not be allowed to unite with the Red Party.

Fortunately, Chen Tangji has always been against the Reds, so Xu Laogui is not too worried about this.

"Yes."

Tan Xianglin breathed a sigh of relief. It was difficult to arrest someone, but at least Xu Laogui did not continue to pursue his responsibility, otherwise this incident might have caused him to step down.

"What's the warden's name?"

Before Tan Xianglin left, Xu Laogui suddenly asked. Tan Xianglin was slightly startled and immediately understood that the warden was in trouble.

In Wuhua Prison, even the warden was not his confidant.

"Hangbai."

"Shoot him. Wuhua Prison is undergoing internal rectification. If something like this happens again, I will shoot you too."

Old Ghost Xu glared at him and said this. Tan Xianglin did not dare to refute and nodded immediately.

Even if Old Ghost Xu didn't punish Hang Bo, he wouldn't let this guy go. With just two insiders, he sent away more than a dozen jailers. What's even more outrageous is that when they took the people out, the sentry at the door actually let them go.

These people all deserve to die.

Forty miles south of Wuhua Prison, Niu Yuanxiang was waiting anxiously.

Last year he came to Nanjing from Shanghai to carry out a mission and opened a pharmacy. After nearly a year of hard work, he finally managed to instigate a captain in Wuhua Prison to defect.

The captain came from a poor family and had sympathy for the poor. Several of his men had suffered persecution from the KMT.

Even though he works in the Party Affairs Investigation Office, unfortunately he is just a prison guard. Except for the warden and a few other people in Wuhua Prison, the rest of the people are not even in the Party Affairs Investigation Office. To put it bluntly, they are just temporary workers.

Because of the exploitation from above, my monthly salary is not even enough to support my family, so I have to find ways to earn extra money.

The family's land was occupied and the old father was beaten to a disability, all because the other party was rich and powerful and there were high-ranking officials in the Kuomintang in the family. The local authorities protected these people.

He went to see the prison warden, but unfortunately the warden was afraid of trouble and was unwilling to stand up for him.

The officials above protected each other and no one came to his rescue, so he had to swallow his loss.

The warden even advised him that they were a wealthy family and they were just weaklings, and if they really pissed them off, their whole family might be in trouble.

How could he not be disappointed by such a party?

After Niu Yuanxiang established himself in Nanjing, he secretly investigated the people in Wuhua Prison. Three months later, he had identified the captain. Through his understanding, he decided to slowly get in touch with this person.

He was the first one to come to buy medicine.

This is not difficult. After the captain's father was beaten and disabled, he was brought here by him. He often needed to take medicine. He deliberately let people spread the word that his pharmacy had the right medicine, which was effective and cheap.

This will easily attract people.

After he arrived, Niu Yuanxiang first had a brief chat with him, listened to his complaints, helped him to resonate with others, and won his favor.

We also provide care and help to their families by making home visits.

At first, Niu Yuanxiang didn't say much. He just accompanied him in denouncing the injustice of the Guo Party. After he really got to know them, he slowly spoke out the Red Party's ideas.

This concept also starts with the other person himself, then gradually expands to other similar people, and finally to all poor people.

Get the other party's approval little by little.

Niu Yuanxiang did not dare to be careless in the work of instigating rebellion, otherwise he would be finished immediately once the other party reported it.

Fortunately, the other party did not let him down. After half a year of hard work, he completely accepted the Red Party’s ideology. Under his leadership and introduction, he gloriously became a Red Party fighter.

Not only did he join himself, he also brought someone who looked similar to him.

With the help of these two people, Niu Yuanxiang finally got a detailed understanding of the situation of his comrades in prison and had the opportunity to rescue them.

The prison is full of people who have not surrendered and have firm beliefs.

The Fruit Party did not get anything useful from them, and since they were stubborn, they kept them locked up.

They did not surrender, so you can imagine how they were treated.

There were originally more than twenty people, but only seven are left due to the deaths over the years.

All seven of them were sick, and not one of them was in good health.

Niu Yuanxiang and they worked out a detailed rescue plan. He originally wanted to show up in person, but was stopped by two people in the prison.

He is an outsider, and it would be bad if he showed up.

The two were confident that they could rescue the people.

As for their families, arrangements were made in advance to avoid being persecuted by the Guo Party spies after the success.

Niu Yuanxiang agreed to their request and waited for them outside.

Even though it was only 40 miles, there were several of them, and they were injured, so they couldn't walk fast, so it would take at least a day to get here. According to the plan, they could only hide from the Party Affairs Investigation Office for a few hours at most, and they would definitely be discovered after that. The first day was the most critical, and whether they could rescue their comrades depended on this day.

And Niu Yuanxiang can only wait here for one day.

In secret, Niu Yuanxiang finally noticed that several people were walking towards him from a distance.

There were nine people in total, supporting each other, seven of them were particularly thin.

Niu Yuanxiang's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. It was them, it must be them.

The two of them really rescued all seven comrades.

In fact, their method is not complicated, it can even be said to be very simple.

They knew the situation in Wuhua Prison very well. Guarding the prison was an extremely boring job. Everyone inside liked to gamble. One of them would lead all the prison guards to the gambling table and let them win money so that they would have no intention of doing anything else.

The captain used forged documents and lied that the department wanted to interrogate several people and sent them there.

They knew the sentries on duty at the gate very well. The action would take place yesterday evening. One of them would definitely go home early, and the other had poor eyesight and liked to drink.

Let him drink alcohol in advance and don't check it at all.

In this way, he successfully brought the man out, and an hour after he came out, the other man ended the gambling and returned immediately.

This hour is the golden time to leave.

For this purpose, the captain drove a broken truck out of the prison, but they couldn't keep driving away, and the tire marks were too obvious. After leaving the prison, they had to walk.

Fortunately, they made sufficient preparations in advance.

Clothes, food and medicine were placed outside in advance.

Including the precious sulfonamide.

Niu Yuanxiang opened a drugstore, which provided him with convenient conditions to get some good Western medicines.

His drugstore has been transferred out, and he will evacuate after the rescue is successful. If the drugstore is not transferred, it will only benefit the spies of the Party Affairs Investigation Office.

He usually has contact with these two people many times. Once they disappear, the Party Affairs Investigation Office will definitely be able to find him.

However, he has been in Nanjing for so long, and his mission is to rescue. If the mission is successful, his nearly one year of time will not be wasted.

"It's them."

When the others came closer, Niu Yuanxiang became even more excited and immediately ran out from the dark to meet them.

"Brother Niu."

The two were very happy to see him. The seven people they brought with them already knew that it was Niu Yuanxiang who recruited the people in Wuhua Prison and finally succeeded in rescuing them.

The person who came to pick them up was Niu Yuanxiang, who would take them to a safe place.

"Let's go first."

Niu Yuanxiang didn't waste any time talking to them. He had two horse-drawn carriages prepared not far away. They would use the carriages to transfer first, and then change to other means of transportation when they were farther away from Nanjing.

The spies will not give up tracking them down, so from now on, they must be careful at all times.

Seven comrades have received good news.

The organization that had been hunted down by the Guo Party finally found a place to stay. After rescuing them this time, they will also be sent to Yanzhou.

Yanzhou has become a holy place in the hearts of countless people.

They had been arrested before, and the Party Affairs Investigation Office had their detailed information. They were no longer suitable to continue working behind enemy lines, not to mention that they were in poor health and needed a safe place to recuperate.

All seven of them were thin, with long hair and beards.

When they were in the carriage, Niu Yuanxiang helped them tidy up one by one. Their appearance easily attracted other people's attention.

It would be much better if it were cleaner.

Tan Xianglin's investigation was quick, and he first found the broken truck they drove away.

Although the car was there, the tires were deflated and there was no gasoline inside. This was to prevent them from finding the car and using it to chase after it.

There were several roads next to the car, leading to different places, and these roads were often used by people. Tan Xianglin sent people to track them separately and inquire about their whereabouts, while he personally investigated the situation of the two people from Wuhua Prison.

As for the prison warden, he had shot him.

Niu Yuanxiang's worries came true, and soon the investigation was traced back to him. He had contact with both of them, and more than once, and there was no way to hide it.

After discovering that the drugstore had been transferred, Tan Xianglin immediately realized that the original owner was a member of the Red Party and had instigated people from the Wuhua Prison to defect.

Unfortunately, the person had already disappeared, and he was so angry that he closed the pharmacy.

The new boss kept protesting his injustice, saying that he had no idea about the previous boss's situation and that he had bought the pharmacy in a normal manner. Tan Xianglin was upset and directly ordered him to be arrested and sent to jail.

This boss has no chance of getting out of the Party Affairs Investigation Office unless he bleeds some money.

The people sent by Tan Xianglin finally found a clue. Someone saw a group of nine people passing by, but it was the third day after they were rescued.

After such a long time, I have no idea where the person is.

After searching for several days in a row, Tan Xianglin still couldn't find the person and was scolded by Xu Laogui again.

We haven't found the person for so many days, and there is basically no hope of finding him.

The investigation into Niu Yuanxiang was not going smoothly either. They found out that Niu Yuanxiang was from Shanghai, but the people sent to Shanghai brought back bad news.

Niu Yuanxiang’s property in Shanghai has been sold and his wife is also missing.

Normally, Niu Yuanxiang doesn’t contact many people in Shanghai, and this year he is in Nanjing, so it is not easy to check his past.

Everyone was missing and Tan Xianglin was completely at a loss.

In Yanzhou, Niu Yuanxiang brought nine people and looked at the city gate in front of them, feeling very excited.

After rescuing the people, they immediately set off, traveling day and night, covering all routes, including land, water, and train.

It finally took seven days to get here.

"Here we are."

This was the first time that Niu Yuanxiang came to Yanzhou. After this rescue, he was definitely exposed. The organization ordered him to bring his comrades to Yanzhou to work and live.

He and the families of two of his comrades in Wuhua Prison had arrived here in advance.

"Yeah, here we are."

The seven comrades were equally excited. They had been arrested for many years, some for seven or eight years. They thought they would die in the dark prison, but they did not expect that the organization had not forgotten them and had arranged for people to rescue them.

And it was so easy to rescue them.

They never expected that there would be a day when they would return to the organization.

"Hello, my name is Niu Yuanxiang, and I'm from Nanjing..."

When he arrived at the door, Niu Yuanxiang took the initiative to speak to the sentry, and the sentry immediately raised his head when he heard his name.

They had received orders that if Niu Yuanxiang came to Yanzhou, he should be brought to see Mr. Ke immediately.

The person who was specially instructed by Mr. Ke and was waiting for him must be no ordinary person.

Four thousand words. I have a lot of things to do these two days. I will update it tomorrow.

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(End of this chapter)