Before the last time when the Japanese and puppet attacked Sangyu Town, Li Qifan was not panicked when encountering trouble and handled it properly. Not only did he give the enemy situation to Zhang Ergou in time, but he also delayed the enemy's march as much as possible, which made Li Qinglin and Han Jizhong admire him very much.

Han Jizhong proposed that Li Qifan be responsible for the intelligence work of the Eighth Squadron. Li Qinglin agreed with Han Jizhong's opinion on the spot and asked Li Qifan to choose two subordinates to help him.

Li Qifan had only been in the army for a few months, and he really didn't expect the captain to value him so much, so he was very excited to promise that he would do his best in the future and would definitely live up to the captain's high expectations for him.

Even though he was excited, Li Qifan was quite calm in choosing an assistant. He named Ma Yunhai and Ma Yunqi as his assistants. The reason for this was very simple, that is, these two people had already experienced actual combat, and they were locals and were very familiar with the local situation. This was one of the biggest advantages of the two people doing intelligence work.

Li Qinglin and Han Jizhong of course agreed to his choice, but it took Li Qifan a lot of effort to pull these two into the intelligence team.

Ma Yunhai and Ma Yunqi are both from Majiazhuang. Although they are not old, they have already married and have children, so their parents are not willing to join the army. Both Ma families rented a lot of land at Ma Qianzhu's house, and the militia was hosted by Ma Qianzhu. Moreover, the militia only maintains local public order and generally does not go to wars, nor does they go to other places. Therefore, both families agree that they have carried guns in the militia.

Li Qifan found the two and asked them to join the intelligence team. Neither of them had any objection, but they all proposed that they needed their parents' consent to do it. In order to understand their parents' ideological work, Li Qifan had a lot of brains. It was not until Li Qifan finally promised that the two would not wear military uniforms and would never go away with the troops. They paid salaries according to the treatment of soldiers every month, and could go home to do farm work in their spare time, and other conditions that their parents agreed to join the intelligence team.

After Li Qifan fought over the two, he immediately started to do two things. The first thing was to establish the Sangyu Town Business Group. The Sangyu Town Business Group is actually the abbreviation of the Sangyu Town Business Protection Business Group. The reason why Li Qifan asked to establish the Merchant Group was exactly what he thought of when the last time the Eighth Squadron kitchen and the baggage squad persuaded the merchants to retreat.

The business protection militia group is under the name of Sangyu Town Business Association. The members are recruited or recruited by major merchants. The firearms and ammunition and daily expenses are expensed by the business association, and training is led by the Eighth Squadron. The business group tentatively sets a squad, and Ma Yunhai is designated as the squad leader. The business group is to protect business in the name of external parties. In essence, it is the Sangyu Town Security Group under the leadership of the Eighth Squadron.

The group managers of the business group are all locals, some are merchants, and some are hired by large merchants, so they have a very harmonious relationship with the merchants. Because they are locals and are very familiar with the local situation, some strangers will be immediately noticed by the business group managers once they step into Sangyu Town. The reason why the two dung pickers ran to the street and were suspected by Pi Xianqiong was because they were interrogated by the business group managers at the intersection of the street. Although the two barely passed the questioning of the group managers, they were still very guilty, so they were discovered by detour from the back of the street.

After receiving the order from Zhang Ergou, Li Qifan ran to the squadron headquarters. After listening to Pi Xianqie's story, Li Qifan asked Zhang Ergou for three people and asked Pi Xianqie to lead the way to identify him.

Half an hour later, Li Qifan and Pi Xianqie returned with a man with a manure pickup, but the other manure pickup was not found.

As Pi Xianqie said at the beginning, the manure picker was very young, dressed very ordinary but neatly, with no patch on his clothes, and the man looked fair and fair. He looked at it carefully and did not look like a farmer. What's even more terrible is that when Li Qifan and his friends took advantage of his inattention to control him, people found a German-made twenty sounds from him.

In the era of chaos, it is not uncommon for traveling businessmen or wealthy households to carry a pistol on their bodies, but why do you, a man who picks up manure, carry a gun? Are you afraid that others will steal the livestock manure in your manure basket? Especially this is very valuable in Germany. A man who picks up manure doesn’t know how many baskets of manure can afford this famous gun.

When the manure picker was pressed to the ground by Li Qifan and the others, he knew that he had been exposed. Anyway, he had never planned to really work hard for the Japanese. Now, as soon as Li Qifan asked, he poured beans into bamboo tubes and told them all about what he knew.

In order to obtain more information from the third brigade, Sasaki sent people to Sangyu Town every few days to spy on military information. Because the identity of the manure picker was very ordinary and had achieved results, Sasaki continued to let the members of the detective team dress up as the manure picker.

After walking around from behind the town, the two of them divided the work. The arrested one was responsible for understanding the situation of the Eighth Squadron, and the other was responsible for going to Zhujialou Village to learn about the situation of the Cavalry Squadron. Therefore, Li Qifan and the others only caught this spy.

Knowing that there was another spy going to Zhujialou Village, Li Qifan temporarily stopped interrogation and immediately sent someone to notify the militia along the way to strictly investigate the strange man carrying the manure basket.

It is said that the militia created by Han Jizhong played a very important role in preventing traitors and spies. As soon as the notice from the Eighth Squadron arrived, all the roads leading to Zhujialou Village were blocked by the militia. If the manure picker really went to Zhujialou Village, he would be caught halfway.

Seeing that the Eighth Squadron had really caught the spy, Pi Xianqiong said to Zhang Ergou proudly: "Captain Zhang, I came to report to you early in the morning. I haven't even had a sip of hot tea. Captain Zhang, you should pay for the tea money this morning?"

Zhang Ergou patted Pi Xianqian on the shoulder repeatedly and said, "Old Pi, I really didn't expect that you have this pair of eyes and you have made great contributions this time. I'll treat you to the tea money today.

Pi Xianqie said proudly: "You don't look at what I do. I have seen many fake antiques through my eyes. To be honest, there are not many fakes that can slip through my eyes."

Zhang Ergou sighed: "Old Pi, the old saying is good, 'All the most skillful, all kinds of things are clear'. Li Qifan, please ask Boss Pi more in the future. You should also be as clear as Boss Pi. My Eighth Squadron's anti-risprudence work depends entirely on you.

As he said that, he gave a slut and said, "Old Pi, go, have a tea."

Li Qifan was not in the mood to drink tea, and his mind was still on the spy he had not caught.

The person who was caught is just a small spy. Although he cooperated very much and told everything he knew, his status was too low and he knew was really limited. Therefore, after Li Qifan interrogated him, he locked him up.

After a hurry to have breakfast, Li Qifan took Ma Yunhai and rode his horse to Zhujialou Village. He still hoped that he would catch another spy with his own hands.

There were only a few roads from Sangyu Town to Zhujialou Village. Li Qifan and Ma Yunhai rode back and forth on horseback several times, but did not find another manure picker. The group members who set up checkpoints along the way did not seize the strange manure picker, which disappointed Li Qifan.

Has this spy disappeared? Or hadn't gone to Zhujialou Village at all? Li Qifan asked himself more than once.

Not only did this spy not disappear, he also went to Zhujialou Village and even basically completed the task of spying on the cavalry squadron assigned by Sasaki.

The spy just broke up with his companion and suddenly felt a little anxious. So he hid the feces basket and other items in the corner and ran to a large cesspool to facilitate it. Perhaps it was because his stomach was cold last night, so he couldn't solve the problem for a long time after squatting down.

Just when he regretted that he had too little covering his body last night, a noisy sound suddenly came from outside. He quietly stretched out his head and looked at it. This look almost scared his soul. It turned out that his companion who had broken up with him was escorted by Li Qifan and others.

Li Qifan and his group were naturally very happy when they caught the spy with their own hands. Someone kicked the spy and scolded with a smile: "Boy, can you be a spy like you? You don't need your pig mind to think about it. How many people who pick up dung are dressed as neatly as you?"

This sentence scared the spy squatting by the pit and sweated in a cold sweat. He looked down at his body and was dressed very clean and neatly like his companions.

This time, the scare actually cured the spy's disease. His problem of diarrhea immediately disappeared. When Li Qifan and his men walked away, the spy lifted his pants and he didn't even want the feces basket and ran back quickly.

I had just run a short distance, but this guy suddenly stopped running. This time they came out with two people together. Now there is only one person going back, and my mission has not been completed yet. The Japanese will definitely doubt themselves after going back. Once the Japanese suspect themselves, then going back will be a dead end.

If this spy is really not stupid and courageous, he thought about it and turned around and walked towards the busiest place in Sangyu Town.

In Sangyu Town, he carefully observed a young man with similar age and identity as his, and finally made a bold decision, which was to continue to go to Zhujialou Village.

The guy ran to the market to buy a basket and a shoulder pole, then bought some incense paper, firecrackers, dried fruits, snacks and other things in the basket, and also cut a pork from the meat case and hung it in front of the shoulder pole. The guy carried the load and walked towards Zhujialou Village.

The end of the year is approaching, and there are quite a few young people like him who carry a load to buy New Year's goods. Judging from his outfits and the goods in his load, this guy is a wealthy peasant family who buys New Year's goods from the market town and returns home. With this burden, this guy actually passed several checkpoints set by the group members and arrived in Zhujialou Village smoothly.

When he arrived at Zhujialou Village, this guy used the excuse to ask for a bowl of water to drink it and went to a family for water.

Although the rural people are poor, they are all very enthusiastic. There is naturally a bowl of hot water in this big winter. This guy took advantage of the opportunity to drink water and got close to the owner. Finally, he really asked the guy about the news about the cavalry squadron...
Chapter completed!