The mine protection team disappeared, not only the soldiers of the special operations brigade could not find them, but even the Japanese troops in Hebei did not find any trace of the mine protection team.

When the bright moon was in the sky, Ma Wanzhong stood on the dilapidated city wall and looked at the east, and there were already many people who couldn't see the moon in the sky. Ma Wanzhong stood alone in the dark, without a single soldier around, in front of him was the boundless darkness, and behind him was the powdered Jingcheng City.

Ma Wanzhong had already received news from Hu Guoshan about the mine protection team, and the reason why he stood on the city wall was that he hoped that a group of soldiers from outside the city would wave to him and tell him that they were mine guards. Their division owed Shen Zhengwen and the mine protection team a great favor, but the life and death of the mine protection team were uncertain.

The evening breeze was gentle, and this night was the most difficult night in Ma Wanzhong's life. He stood on the city wall like this, until the darkness disappeared and the first rays of sunlight shone on the city wall, and Ma Wanzhong walked down the city wall with difficulty.

Soldiers come and go in the city, they are still cleaning up the ruins of the city, and now they are building new houses for the people, but the bodies of the missing soldiers are still being dug up in the ruins.

Although it was noisy in Jingcheng City, no one spoke, thinking that most of them had lost their comrades, so they could only bury their heads in work and suppress the pain and sadness in their hearts.

After returning to the headquarters, Hu Guoshan submitted his resignation to Ma Wanzhong, now that the affairs of the city have been arranged, Jingcheng is Ma Wanzhong's defense area, and it is no longer appropriate for him to continue to meddle in the affairs of Jingcheng here.

"Regarding the battle of Jing Chen, I will also write a detailed report on the battle situation to Brother Fan!"

As the division commander, he is responsible for Liao Fan, and he must accurately report the situation of every battle to Liao Fan, of course, the situation about Ma Wanzhong is also indispensable, and he must answer Liao Fan truthfully.

"Are you going to leave right away?"

Of course, Ma Wanzhong knew that they had to report the situation here to Liao Fan truthfully, and as subordinate commanders, they were not only responsible for the soldiers, but also for the superior commanders.

"The troops are already assembled, and when they are assembled, we will go!"

The battle of Jingcheng is over, Ma Wanzhong and the Japanese army have returned to the state before the battle, but the wounds left by the war can never be erased, many ordinary people have been homeless, if it were not for the soldiers to build houses for them, I am afraid they would not know how to live.

Liao Fan also knew a rough idea of the matter of Jingcheng from Li Lingfei's telegram, and he believed that Ma Wanzhong would be able to handle the affairs of the Jingcheng area, at least the affairs of Jingcheng would be simpler than the affairs of Datong.

This morning, Sun Boyong had already liquidated all the properties of the Kang family in Datong, and he also came up with the news that someone in the Kang family actually served as a division commander in the national army.

This news can make Liao Fan embarrassed, there are people in the Kang family who shed blood for the country on the front line of the anti-Japanese war, which can make Liao Fan have an estimate, Liao Fan is not worried about what the division commander of the Kang family will do to him. What Liao Fan is worried about is that people are bleeding and dying in the army, and he kills the whole family in the back.

"Song Zuyi, do you know where the division commander of the Kang family is?"

Song Zuyi, as a native of Datong, and was on an equal footing with the Kang family in Datong City back then, must have known something about the Kang family's division commander, but Liao Fan overestimated Song Zuyi.

"This division commander should be Kang Hailong's third son named Kang Youting, he left Datong a few years ago, no one knows Kang Youting's situation, I heard that he seems to have studied at the Baoding Military Academy, and then I don't know his news."

Kang Youting was only a teenager when he left Datong, who would care about the situation of a teenage child at that time, and after leaving Datong for so many years, who knows what he will experience.

Liao Fan hesitated in his heart, if he wanted to cut the families of the anti-Japanese soldiers, he really couldn't do it.

"Changsheng, send a report to Chongqing to check the situation of this Kang Youting!"

Anyway, Liao Fan first had to understand the situation of Kang Youting, if he really led the troops to fight on the front line, Liao Fan decided to let the Kang family live.

"Brother Fan, there is a situation......

Just as Liao Fan and the others were discussing the situation of the Kang family, a soldier from a special operations brigade ran in to report to Liao Fan.

"What's going on?" Liao Fan asked.

"Brother Fan, the price of the rice shops in the south and west of the city has increased!"

"How much has it gone up?" Song Zuyi seems to be more concerned about the price of grain in Datong City.

"Quadruple, now a lot of people are gathered at the door of the grain store, waiting to buy food!"

Grain is the economic lifeblood of the country in both peacetime and war, and controlling grain is equivalent to controlling the lives of ordinary people in this region. Of course, Liao Fan would not let such a thing happen.

However, with the purchasing power of the people in Datong City, even if it has tripled, the people still have to sell grain to eat.

"Is it the grain store under the Kang family?" Liao Fan asked.

"It shouldn't be, the Kang family's grain stores are mainly concentrated in the north and east of the city, and the grain stores in the south and west of the city should be someone else's!" Regarding the situation in Datong City, Song Zuyi knows better than Liao Fan.

Liao Fan began to ponder, that is to say, there was movement in other directions, but there was no movement in the Kang family.

"Who owns the grain stores in the south and west of the city?" Liao Fan asked.

"The grain stores in the south and west of the city are relatively small, at least belonging to four or five families, and some of them have also invested, and the situation behind them is more responsible, and it is not clear who has shares in them!"

These grain banks are all built by everyone pooling money together, these businessmen are people who are unprofitable and can't afford to be early, everyone earns money together, and no one wants to swallow it alone, except for the Kang family, of course. Because when they had a little money, the Kang family had been standing in Datong for decades, and no matter how much they tossed, they couldn't toss the Kang family.

Moreover, the Kang family also has the plans of the Kang family, after these grain stores were ceded to these merchants, he used the means of dividends to limit everyone's interests, in case they really rose up and competed with their Kang family.

"There must be a big proprietor in this grain store, right?" Liao Fan didn't believe that they would be able to share the benefits equally, since they were doing business, some people would definitely take more and some people would take less.

"It should be a businessman surnamed Lu who is the biggest boss of the Chengnan Grain Store!"

In the past few days to investigate the situation in Datong City, Sun Boyong also found out the general situation in Datong City, and investigated those shops in the city that were a little strong, and one of the merchants surnamed Lu still had some strength in Datong City.

"The surname Lu?" Liao Fan muttered, he seemed to have some memory of this surnamed Lu, but he couldn't remember who it was.

"Brother Fan, there was a businessman surnamed Lu at the banquet who donated money second only to Kang Hailong!" Lu Liming reminded Liao Fan that Liao Fan had drunk too much at the banquet that day, but Lu Liming had written down everyone present.

After Lu Liming's reminder, Liao Fan suddenly remembered that there was indeed a businessman surnamed Lu, and he did donate a lot of money.

"In the opinion of the two of you, how should this matter be handled?" Liao Fan asked Sun Boyong and Song Zuyi.

"I don't think we should startle the snake, now the grain in the south and west of the city has risen, but the price of the Kang family's grain store has not increased, I believe that as long as the people get the news, there will definitely be no one in the grain store in the south and west of the city to buy food these days!" Sun Boyong said.

Their target is the Kang family, not these businessmen, dealing with these businessmen is just a big rabbit in the grass, and when dealing with the Kang family, they will rectify these illegal businessmen who only want to get rich.

"I agree with Minister Sun's opinion, as long as the people go to the Kang family's grain store to buy food, the surname Lu will definitely not be able to sit still, and then go to the Kang family to discuss countermeasures, if the Kang family is surnamed Lu, we will be easy to do!"

Liao Fan nodded and agreed with the two people's opinions.

When the surname Lu decided to raise the price of grain, the Kang family already knew about it. Those merchants are just a group of rabble, gathered together for money, of course, the Kang family has to arrange a person among them, first, to make some money from those grain stores that are not under the management of the Kang family, and second, to supervise these people by the way to see if they are a threat to the Kang family.

However, the price increase of grain made Kang Hailong a little unable to sit still, the price of other people's food has risen, and if the price of their food does not rise, the local people will definitely rush to grab the grain.

Sure enough, in just half a day, the people of the entire Datong got the news, poured into the streets, and went straight to the grain stores in the east and north of the city. There are 300,000 ordinary people in Datong, even if the Kang family's grain store stores more grain, it is not enough for these 300,000 to eat.

In just one day, the Kang family's grain depot bottomed out, and their Kang family could not transport grain from other places in a short time.

Kang Hailong looked at the dense crowd outside his family's grain store, and gritted his teeth at the surname Lu in his heart. If you want to raise the price of food, he Kang Hailong has no opinion, but at least you have to discuss it with him so that the Kang family can be prepared.

This change caught Kang Hailong off guard, and for the only little grain in the granary, Kang Hailong had to let the grain store close down.

But hundreds of thousands of ordinary people quit, they didn't know that there was no grain in the Kang family's grain depot, and they thought that the Kang family's grain store was going to increase in price, and the people blocked the door of the Kang family's grain store, asking the Kang family to open the door to sell grain.

In order to protect his family's grain store, Kang Hailong had no choice but to send his family's family members to stand guard at the door of the granary with guns.

The first thing Kang Hailong wanted to find was the surname Lu, and it was he who made the Kang family so passive.

"The surname is Lu, what the hell are you going to do!" Kang Hailong was furious, he has been cultivating himself for more than ten years, but today he lost his temper.

"Hey, it turned out that Mayor Kang was here, and if he missed the distance, the grass people deserve death!"

The surname Lu has always been resentful of Kang Hailong's removal of his official position, even if your Kang family is the head snake of Datong, his surname Lu is not a dry meal, today's results are not only a declaration of war on the new 33rd Army, but also a telling the Kang family that his surname Lu can also call the wind and rain in Datong.