After leaving the city gate, Zhou Weihan and Dong Jiang each drove a small car towards the scheduled meeting point. There was a burst of dust on the road and they disappeared.
Zhou Weihan and Zhang Fangyin drove a car in front, followed by Dong Jiang, Zhang Yuanlan, and guard Lao Qin.
Not long after, I came across a roadblock with two little Japs and seven or eight puppet soldiers, and next to it was a stronghold.
"Captain Zhou, there is Luka ahead. Did the Japanese in the city find out that we killed Harada Kazuya and ran away?" Zhang Fangyin said worriedly.
"It's so fast. I guess Harada Kazuya's body is not cold yet. Don't panic. We are riding in the Xinminhui's car, and there is a sun flag hanging on the car. How dare the little devils dare to be so bold?" Zhou Weihan said.
"These little devils and puppet soldiers who set up roadblocks obviously haven't received the order yet, otherwise they would have mounted their machine guns."
The sun flag cannot be displayed on ordinary cars, and only a few Japanese consultants in the Xinminhui Association have it on their cars.
A little devil saw a car approaching with a sun flag hanging on it, stretched out his hand to stop it, and stood in front of the car window on the small runway.
"Excuse me, sir, for a routine inspection." The little devil said with a respectful military salute.
"Baga, in the car is Kazuya Harada, the consultant of the New People's Association. He has important things to go to Qingxu County. If you delay the important things, you will die." Zhou Weihan rolled down the window and said in Japanese.
"Hi, Sir, the routine inspection is official, please show me your ID." The little devil said still rigidly.
Zhou Weihan, who was wearing an action team uniform, took out the special pass that Kazuya Harada had touched from his driver's body and handed it to the little devil who was inspecting it.
After the little devil looked through it, he confirmed that it was correct, handed it back to Zhou Weihan with both hands, lowered his head and said, "Sorry for disturbing you."
"Hey, soldier, your actions should be greatly rewarded. The Empire of Japan needs soldiers like you." Zhou Weihan seemed to be moved by its serious behavior and praised it.
"Hi"
In this way, Zhou Weihan and others headed south and broke through the fourth level of the little devil in a little over an hour. Not only did the little devil who checked found no flaws, they also respectfully let him go.
At this time, he had arrived at the outskirts of Taiyuan. Seeing that there were fewer pedestrians on the avenue and Li Daben and others had not yet been found, Zhou Weihan couldn't help but said with some worry: "Lao Zhang, how far is it from the reservation?"
These days, the little devils have stricter blockades in various places, and strict inspections on the road. All ordinary people are moving around in their own areas.
"I haven't been to this place for a long time. It should be not far ahead." Zhang Fangyin also said ambiguously.
As Li Dabenji and others left the city at least three hours earlier than Zhou Weihan and others, they had just arrived at the scheduled location to wait.
After hearing this, Zhou Weihan was very angry. He stepped on the accelerator and sped down the road. It was not his car anyway, so there was no need to feel bad.
Not long after, he saw four carriages parked on the side of the road and several people standing on the side of the road. Zhou Weihan took a closer look and saw that it was Li Daben and others.
He braked and stopped in front of Li Daben. Zhou Weihan got out of the car and said hurriedly: "Where are the others?"
"They are all hiding in the woods on the roadside." Li Dafeng said.
"How many people came?"
"There are seventeen workers in total, and most of them have families. Captain, I sent someone to check. Seven or eight miles ahead is the intersection of Qingxu and Jinzhong. To the south is Qingxu and to the east is Jinzhong.
Which way are we going?"
Zhou Weihan thought for a while and said: "Go to Jinzhong."
What Zhou Weihan and the little devils along the way said was to go to Qingxu, and simply have some reality within the imaginary, and some imaginary within the reality.
At this time, Dong Jiang, who was standing by, said: "I will lead the soldiers in the car and lead the pursuing Japs to Qingxu, and then I will look for you later."
"No, I have a way to get rid of the little devil's pursuit."
"It's past twelve o'clock now. The little devil has probably discovered that Harada Kazuya is dead, so he quickly gathered people to evacuate." Zhou Weihan said loudly.
Children and the elderly were sitting on the carriage, women and young adults were trotting, and Zhou Weihan and Dong Jiang were following behind in their cars.
The conversation was divided into two parts. It had been more than two hours since Harada Kazuya's death. The people waiting for him at the New People's Association headquarters did not see Harada Kazuya come back at noon, and they couldn't help but become suspicious.
"Why hasn't Harada-kun come back yet? Are we supposed to just wait for him?" said Saburo Ono, a consultant to the Japs.
"Consultant Harada visited his friend Zhang Fangyin's home," said an informed Xinminhui official.
"Baga, hurry up and find her."
Several plainclothes officers from the Xinminhui immediately rushed to Zhang's house. After a search, they found the bodies of Kazuya Harada and others in the corner.
"Captain, Harada is dead."
"What the hell are you saying? I can't see. Why are you still standing there and not telling the Japanese?" said Zheng Sanchun, the deputy captain of the action team, kicking the agent who had just spoken.
Zheng Sanchun was also startled and broke into a cold sweat at this time: "Damn it, why did this unlucky thing happen to me?"
"Captain, this is a bad thing. Ma Wu is dead, so you can straighten him out. Besides, the Japanese are not monolithic. Isn't your backer Ono Tai-kun also keeping an eye on Harada's position?" said a spy next to him.
"Then you have to get through this damn thing. Maybe the Japanese will take it out on some of us, and the Japanese will be smarter when they come." Zheng Sanchun said.
Not long after, after receiving the news, Saburo Ono, the Japanese adviser to the Xinminhui Association, and Akima Yoshida of the Military Police arrived.
"Baga, the Chinese people in this family are dead." Saburo Ono cursed angrily, but there was no trace of sadness on his face. After receiving the news, Saburo Ono was the first to express his intention to kill the Chinese people in front of the senior officials of the Xinmin Congregation.
This matter will be investigated to the end.
After inspecting the scene, Yoshida Akijin said: "Judging from the wounds, the murderer used a bayonet. There were no signs of fighting in the room. These plainclothes men were all killed with one knife. At first glance, they were veterans of the Chinese army.
The sheets were torn. The Zhang family must have been kidnapped and happened to be bumped into by Harada-kun, but I’m very confused as to why the murderer kidnapped them during the day and how they evacuated in broad daylight.”
"Taijun, his clothes were stripped off. The murderer should have disguised himself as a plainclothes member of the action team and left in a Xinminhui car. I'm afraid the checkpoints along the way will not question him more." Zheng Sanchun took over the words at the right time.
"Yo Xi, Zheng Sang, what you said makes sense. You are responsible for tracing the whereabouts of the murderer with Yoshida-kun, and you must give an explanation to Harada-kun's family." Saburo Ono said.
"Yoshida-kun, please do everything."
"Captain Yoshida, we just contacted the city gate defenders. Two Xinminhui cars left the city gate three hours ago. The checkpoints along the way reported that the people in the vehicles said they were going to Qingxu for business." A guard from the military police said.
Guizihui report.
"Yo Xi, gather the people and set off immediately." Yoshida Mingzhen said with great joy.
The Military Police is responsible for the security of the city, and a person of Harada Kazuya's stature died. As the person in charge of this aspect, Akima Yoshida is also under a lot of pressure.
Two little Japanese military vehicles drove out of the city gate and sped along, getting off the car constantly to check the ruts on the road.
At this time, Zhou Weihan and his party had passed the fork in the road and walked more than ten miles towards Jinzhong.
When Zhou Weihan saw that the fire was almost done, he asked Dong Jiang and others to push the car into a ditch on the side of the road.
"Hurry up and speed up. The little devil must be chasing us in a truck. He is going very fast." Zhou Weihan said.
More than an hour later, Yoshida Mingzhen led people to the fork in the road.
Yoshida Mingzhen got out of the car to check. Looking at the fork in the road in front of him, there were two avenues in front of him. Yoshida Mingzhen couldn't help but frowned.
"Taijun, the car's tracks are heading towards Jinzhong." Zheng Sanchun said from the side.
The vehicles on the road are basically owned by the little devils themselves, and the cars are basically not driven out of the city. The ruts of the cars are obviously different from those of the trucks, so it is easy to distinguish them.
"Yo Xi, you stupid Chinese people fled in a hurry without even clearing the traces. They also wanted to lure me to Qingxu and chase me."
While walking, Akima Yoshida, who was sitting in the car, suddenly found that the ruts on the road were broken, and there were only dense footprints in front of him.
"Stop." Yoshida Akima hurriedly ordered and quickly jumped out of the car.
After a few kiddies searched, they found the car that had fallen into the ditch.
"Taijun, the murderer must have abandoned the car and fled." Zheng Sanchun said.
"No, there is still gas in the car. There is no need for the murderer to abandon the car and walk." Akima Yoshida said after checking the condition of the car.
"Do you think two cars can seat so many people? Will there be so many footprints?"
Yoshida Mingzhen never expected that Zhou Weihan would be accompanied by 70 or 80 people.
"Baga, we were deceived. The cunning murderer clearly told us that we were going to Qingxu, which made us subconsciously not believe it. He deliberately drove the car here without clearing the ruts leading to Jinzhong just to take us to Jinzhong.
Lead in the direction of Jinzhong."
"Baga, pursue in the direction of Qingxu."
A group of little devils changed direction and were successfully led astray by Zhou Weihan.