Chapter 1469 Disaster Relief (Part 2)
What was beyond Tang Dao's imagination was that the telegram he sent directly to the general surnamed Jiang did not receive a reply until the third day of the Chinese New Year.
"After investigation, this matter may involve important members of the Military Control Commission. It has been reported to the superiors for decision. Deputy Commander Tang has worked hard on this trip. You can return to Zhengcheng to rest first."
Tang Dao frowned at the reply from the general surnamed Jiang, and smelled a hint of something unusual.
Although Tang Dao found it hard to believe that the commander-in-chief of the generals would be involved in this major corruption case, the telegram clearly meant to stop him from continuing to investigate.
"Sir, what should we do now? Should we go directly to the counties we have investigated to arrest people or return to Zhengcheng first?" Yuan Xiao, who had become the highest commander of the guards around Tang Dao, asked in a low voice.
Yuan Xiao had seen what poverty and hunger looked like in North China in recent years, but he never thought that the Central Plains, which should have been rich, would be so miserable. If it was a natural disaster, he could only angrily curse the sky for "the thief God", but now it is clearly a man-made disaster that is worse than a natural disaster.
In the eyes of some people, human life is far less important than the money. This made Yuan Xiao begin to doubt whether it was worth it to fight the Japanese on the front line to protect such a group of people.
"These corrupt officials usually take some money, but now it's time, they are still drinking the blood of the people. They deserve to die!" After 3 and a half years on the battlefield, the former teenager Xia Dayu is now a young man of almost 18 years old, with green hair growing on his lips and his eyes full of fierce murderous intent.
"It's not that easy. Those county governors and security chiefs are easy to catch, but the people behind them are difficult to deal with. After all, this is not North China, but the territory of the First War Zone. Once we use force and cause a fight, it will be bad for Chief Jiang. I'm afraid this is the subtext of his sending us this telegram." Old Tan Tai, who insisted on following Tang Dao to the disaster area and hoped to do his part, shook his head and sighed.
Originally, according to his temperament of not being able to tolerate any sand in his eyes, he was probably the one who was most in favor of his son-in-law to cut the Gordian knot and catch all the high-ranking officials of the county government involved, and then track down the mastermind behind the scenes and bring him to justice.
In the past few days, he and Tang Dao led a convoy to visit various counties respectively. The results of the visit were shocking. It has been found that there are big problems with the distribution of grain in five counties. Each county involves the sale and distribution of at least 300,000 kilograms of grain, and the people behind the scenes can at least profit hundreds of thousands of silver dollars from it.
The military inspection team sent by the guard regiment of the theater command is neither blind nor deaf. Can they really not see any wind at all? Moreover, the military orders are strict, and those who take bribes and pervert the law will be subject to wartime military law. The only reason that they can take the risk of being beheaded but just pretend not to see it is that there is someone behind them who they cannot afford to offend.
And the telegram sent by General Jiang seems to indirectly confirm this point.
With his authority, he actually has to retreat and keep it, which can only mean that at least he does not want to offend those people.
If it were in North China, even if he was a lieutenant general or a general, Tang Dao would have investigated him impartially, but this is the First War Zone, and Tang Dao has less than a thousand men under his command, of which five or six hundred are a security battalion equipped with Hanyang-made weapons, and their combat effectiveness is worrying.
He knows that in today's chaotic world, those people can do anything for their own interests.
However, Lao Tantai has a good sense of proportion. He knows that his son-in-law is a very opinionated person. They are just providing opinions. It depends on Tang Dao's own choice as to what to do.
"Haha! It is said that if the water is too clear, there will be no fish. Now the water is almost muddy. Shouldn't the fish be suffocated to death? I thought it was only military officials involved, but now I didn't expect that the military control was also involved. This money! It's really a good thing. Both humans and ghosts want to get involved. Very good, I was just worried that the little ghosts were not enough to sacrifice the flag, and they came over on their own initiative." Tang Dao lit the telegram with a match, lit a cigarette for himself, and smiled.
Whenever Tang Dao showed this expression, people who knew him well knew that the Japanese on the other side were going to be in trouble.
In this scenario, it was natural to start killing chickens.
I just didn't know who would become the chicken.
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In Luoyang City!
"Have you done what I asked you to do?" A gloomy voice sounded in the inner room of an ordinary courtyard.
"Report to the commissioner, all have been cleared out, leaving no one alive." A man in a suit and politely bowed his head and bent over to report.
"Very good, let those mud legs see, it's good to have a stutter, but they dare to report behind the back, this is the end of reporting.
So what about Tang Dao? Without his Four Lines Regiment here, I don't know how he can turn the world upside down with the two or three hundred people under him? This time he has come to my territory, and the tiger is lying down, and the dragon has to be coiled for me!" In the darkness of the inner room, a smug face was revealed.
Who else could this person be but Zhao Lijun?
Ever since he suffered a setback in the Fifth War Zone in June and had to leave in disgrace after six of his subordinates were sniped by the sharpshooters of the Fourth War Zone, Commissioner Zhao hated the Fourth War Zone to the core. However, the prestigious Fourth War Zone was able to fight against a Japanese division head-on, and the assassinations and sabotages of the Military Control Commission were not taken seriously by the Fourth War Zone. Seeing that there were no opportunities in the Fifth War Zone, Zhao Lijun applied for transfer and returned to the First War Zone in September.
Although Henan Province is poor, it is definitely a good place to make money. Zhao Lijun originally relied on the special power of the Military Control Commission to win over a large number of officials for his use. Exploiting the people is already commonplace.
This time, millions of kilograms of relief grain came from above. This is pure silver. Who among the officials of Henan Province would not be drooling?
However, the attitude of the theater headquarters is very firm, and Shancheng has also sent a well-deserved commander, Tang, as the deputy commander of disaster relief. This makes the officials in the officialdom of Henan Province somewhat cautious. Even Zhao Lijun watched coldly at first and did not take the initiative to stand up and make trouble.
Because he knew that there would always be someone who couldn't help it.
Sure enough, when the people around the group army commander contacted him privately, the highest person in charge of the Military Control Commission of the First Theater knew that the time was ripe.
If Tang Dao didn't care, he could at least make 300,000 yuan from this "business", 100,000 yuan to honor his own director, 50,000 yuan to share with his capable subordinates, 50,000 yuan to enrich the funds of the Investigation Bureau in the First War Zone, and 100,000 yuan for himself, which was really great.
If Tang Dao cared, he would have hit a wall.
It is said that the commander surnamed Tang had friction with Tang Dao in Xuzhou, and it was later suppressed by the commander Li. This time, he took the initiative to let his subordinates propose to cooperate with him to make money, which may be the intention of regaining the place of the past.
The military and the military control have joined forces. Not to mention that Tang Dao does not have the Four Lines Group around him, even if he does, he can be crushed to death.
"It's the New Year's Day. The brothers who participated in the operation have worked hard. Give each person 20 yuan. Remember to report all the expenses of Qingde Building at night. Just say that it is overtime pay for tracking down the murder case." Zhao Lijun said.
"By the way, strengthen the monitoring of Tang Dao's convoy. I want to know what he does every day, even if it's just taking a shit."
"Yes!" The man in the top hat nodded his head and said yes.
Zhao Lijun smiled and waved his hand to signal his subordinates to leave, and lay back on the comfortable recliner with satisfaction. Whether it was the money that was about to be in hand or the fact that he could make Tang Dao, a fierce general in the army, suffer a setback, it made him extremely happy.
The most wrong thing that 'Zhui Ming Tai Sui' did in his life was not to overestimate himself, but to underestimate his opponent.
Just like Tang Dao also underestimated the evil of human nature.
Just as Tang Dao and others were on their way back, Xia Dayu suddenly received a report from the reconnaissance company, and his face changed instantly.
After a long time, when the convoy stopped to rest, the telegram was delivered to Tang Dao. Tang Dao took a deep breath and remained silent for a long time.
The guards around felt that their superiors were abnormal, and their faces became solemn and dignified.
"Zhoujiazhuang was attacked by bandits who robbed grain a few days ago. All the villagers were killed and no one survived. A family of four was hanged on a tree at the entrance of the village. When the county security team arrived, the bandits had already fled!" Lao Tantai took the telegram from Tang Dao and read it softly.
Yuanxiao and Shi Dakuan beside him were already wide-eyed.
Needless to say, the family of four who were hanged in the telegram was the first farmhouse that Tang Dao and Laura set foot in on New Year's Eve.
The happy smile of the seven or eight-year-old girl who ate milk candy for the first time in her life, and the grateful tears of the disabled man and woman who received 50 kilograms of white flour seemed to be still in front of us, but in this New Year, they have become a few cold corpses.
"Father-in-law, do you believe the bandits mentioned in this telegram?" Tang Dao's voice was three times colder than the biting cold wind at this time.
"It's not uncommon for bandits to rob food and harm the people, but slaughtering a village is like farmers digging up their own land. How could there be such stupid bandits?" Old Tantai's eyes flashed with anger.
"There must be something fishy about this!"
"It's not fishy. This is a declaration of war. Someone is telling me that I should stop now and not investigate further, or more people will die. These people don't care about the lives of the people at all. As they said, even if the people on this land are gone, the land will still be there." Tang Dao turned and walked towards his jeep.
"Order the reconnaissance company of the security brigade to enter the county. I want the county magistrate and the head of the county security regiment alive. Anyone else who dares to stop me, regardless of their official rank, will be killed on the spot! I care about the people they don't care about! I also want to let them know that without them, the land will be more fertile!
Also, let the security battalion protect Miss Laura and the two reporters back to Zhengcheng, and help me tell Commander Jiang that the Military Control Commission is nothing special. I was able to enter Jiangxia and kill Tanabe Moritake back then, and I could also take away the head of the so-called Chunfeng Bureau Chief, even if he hid in the Military Commission. In this world, no one can escape from the people I want to kill."
Tang Dao's cold voice made even Lao Tantai and the two guard squad leaders who were familiar with him feel cold all over!
Last time, because the guard squad lost 13 soldiers, Tang Dao brazenly ordered the killing of a major general brigade commander of the 70th Army, and personally sneaked into Jiangcheng to kill Tanabe Shengwu, which was a silent deterrent to the highest authority of the Military Control Commission!
And this time, because of the people of a village, the furious Tang Dao finally told the person openly that if he did it, even if he was the biggest spy chief in China and the person's confidant, he would be dead.
Zhao Lijun couldn't imagine what kind of enemy he had provoked!
Tang Dao didn't even take his immediate superior seriously, let alone him, the so-called four great kings of the Military Control Commission?
As long as Tang Dao traced the evidence pointing to him, he would be dead even if he was heavily protected by the secret agents of the Military Control Commission.
Tang Dao may have a warrant from the commander of the war zone. Anyone involved in embezzlement of food funds, commissioner, major general or above, will be escorted to the war zone headquarters to report to the Military Commission for approval to implement military law. Those below commissioner, major general, etc. do not need to report, and military law will be enforced on the spot.
As for whether he happens to be a commissioner or a major general, that depends on Tang Dao, the deputy commander. If he has definite evidence and wants to kill him, he will kill him!
Because of the cold weather, the Chinese and Japanese armies had a tacit understanding of a truce and rest. Coupled with the New Year, the county's security was even more relaxed. The reconnaissance company that entered the county in disguise barely took 30 minutes to find out who the county magistrate and the security team were. Where he went, the two brothers were having fun in a brothel. There were only five or six guards outside. In front of the wolf-like officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance company, they were simply vulnerable. Two of the county's top military and political officers were directly killed. He was knocked unconscious and put into a sack and taken away.
The local garrison was not alerted at first, but a boy from the brothel ran to the county garrison to
The security team reported the news.
Thousands of soldiers came out to pursue the daring attackers. The reconnaissance company, which used several hills as blocking positions, was not polite at all. They did not report their names or origins, and directly output firepower and targeted kills with precision.
In just 15 minutes of fighting, the reconnaissance company with a strength of only 230 men killed more than 160 members of the security group at the cost of injuring 6 of its own, directly defeating the security group with a strength of more than 1,200 men.
Normally, the security team that is okay for the common people has only gone to suppress bandits, but have you ever seen such a bloody scene where someone can be shot in the head from more than 300 meters away? There is also that terrifying machine gun, which shoots down a series of bullets and kills people like mowing grass, but it’s still a feather in the cap!
Not to mention that the county magistrate and the security team leader were kidnapped, even if the daughter-in-law was robbed, she still had to admit it!
When the news that the county magistrate and the head of the security team were kidnapped reached Zhao Lijun's ears, it was already the afternoon of the next day.
This is not to say that the intelligence system of the military commander is not powerful. In fact, at eight o'clock that night, the military commander in the county had already passed the news to the higher-level intelligence station.
However, before the intelligence station could continue to report the information to the Luoyang Intelligence Station, it was attacked by an unknown force.
That night, of the 16 people at the military intelligence station, only 3 were kidnapped, and none of the others survived.
The military intelligence officers who still didn't wait for a reply reported again and discovered the anomaly. By the time they learned about the situation at the intelligence station, 16 hours had passed since the incident in the county.
On the contrary, the local garrison got the news earlier because of a call from the remnants of the security group. However, because the dignified security group leader and the county magistrate were kidnapped by kidnappers who entered the county, this was really too embarrassing, so the information was kept secret and not announced to the public.
The military commander, who had always relied on the dense intelligence network, had lost an important person this time. Zhao Lijun's first thought after receiving the news was not that he was furious. Instead, his face changed drastically and he shouted "fuck".
‘Chasing Ming Tai Sui’ is ruthless but not stupid. He immediately realized that this was not a robber, but Tang Dao.
Except for a ruthless person like Tang Dao, who could sneak into a county with a thousand garrison troops and kidnap all the military and political officials of the county?
Instead of the commander of the war zone arresting people openly and openly, he used this unconventional method, which shows that he will use unconventional means to deal with his "war letter" that specifically disgusts him.
If Tang Dao had used normal official methods, he could have dealt with it in a hundred ways. Even the commander of the theater who had received benefits from General Tang had to smooth things over and cover up the matter.
But Tang Dao is so simple and direct, that would be bad.
Thinking of Leng Feng who looked at him with a sneer in the restaurant that night and killed six of his subordinates with a wave of his hand, Zhao Lijun felt a sense of fear again: "Te Liang's Four Elements Group are all a group of desperadoes who only know how to fight. Kill! Send more people to be vigilant. I have been out for the past two days. Stay with me. Anyone who dares to break in, no matter who he is, will be killed by me!"
Before he finished speaking, fierce gunshots and explosions came from outside the house.
There were explosions of rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and even grenades. The movement was like entering a battlefield.
Cao Cao is indeed the fastest man in the world. As soon as he was mentioned, Tang Dao came.
The faces of the two people in the room instantly turned pale as paper!
"Go through the secret passage!" Zhao Lijun was very decisive.
He knew that with the fighting power of the Four Elements Regiment, his subordinates who made a living by carrying out assassinations in the dark would not be able to stop them for long.
And since Tang Dao dared to charge in with such open fire, he certainly wasn't a stupid boy sleeping on the bed - it all relied on his strong firepower. He must have first ordered the local garrison to cooperate with the commander of the theater commander's warrant.
If a good man doesn't suffer immediate losses, he, Commissioner Zhao, will not risk his life with a desperado. As long as he runs away, he will find this place back sooner or later. The crimes Tang Dao committed are not light.
This secret intelligence station, which he has been running for more than 2 years, required 4 batches of workers just to dig the secret tunnel. Even the last batch of workers had no chance to go to the ground and had no idea about this secret tunnel. Where does the secret passage lead to?
Only Commissioner Zhao and a few of his close subordinates knew that the exit of the secret passage was actually not far from the intelligence station. It was in a tofu shop less than 300 meters away from the intelligence station. The old couple who didn't like to talk much, They are the parents of Zhao Lijun's closest subordinates and are absolutely reliable.
Then, Commissioner Zhao, who had just climbed out of the well in the backyard of the tofu shop, looked around and saw a man squatting not far away, holding his face with his right hand and looking at him seriously.
"I have always heard of the name of Zhui Ming Tai Sui, and today I finally see him alive. It is really an honor for Tang to meet him!" The man smiled brightly.