The car was stopped and Hu Yongqiang and Tang Biao in the carriage were nervous, especially Tang Biao, whose breathing involuntarily became a lot rougher, and at the same time he felt the pistol out of his trouser pocket.

Just as he was about to open the safe, a hand reached out from the darkness and pressed on Tang Biao's pistol, preventing Tang Biao's next move.

Hu Yongqiang did not speak, but silently pressed Tang Biao's pistol, he was also very nervous, not only worried that the car would be inspected, but also worried that Tang Biao would alarm others and cause a firefight when he opened the pistol's safety, in which case everything would be over.

After inspecting the Japanese military police officer Cao Cao who was inspecting the front of the car, he carefully checked the logistics material transport order issued by Nomura Hideki Shaoza of the Logistics Department of the 18th Division in Stone Town with a flashlight, and then checked the documents of the driver and the passenger cab Juncao and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, the special high school has asked us to check carefully in the past two days, so I'm going to go to the back to have a look." ”

Because according to the original inspection mode of the gendarmerie, Japanese military vehicles like this have regular transportation procedures and are accompanied by regular Japanese soldiers, generally speaking, the Japanese military police will not inspect so carefully.

However, due to the special high school department's search for and arrest of the military commanders who have slipped through the net in the past few days, it has ordered that the checkpoints outside the city must be strictly inspected, so this Japanese military police officer Cao Cao can only be loyal to his duties, and he has to apologize to the 18th Division stationed in the logistics department of Stone Town.

And this Japanese soldier Cao who was sitting in the passenger seat was a henchman of Hideki Nomura, and naturally knew that this time he went out of the city for some inconvenient exposure of goods transactions, although he loaded a lot of normal Japanese military supplies as a cover, but he still did not want this military police officer Cao to go to the back to check the carriage.

Therefore, the military officer of the 18th Division stationed in the logistics department of Stone Town looked a little impatient and asked: "Isn't your gendarmerie only inspecting personnel?" Why did the military vehicles of the Imperial Army also have to be checked? I have a transportation task here, I can't delay it, and our 18th Division has no choice but to ask the Stone Town Special High School to give an explanation! ”

Generally speaking, in the Japanese army, the officers and soldiers of the field troops are more arrogant than the officers and soldiers of other auxiliary services, because the successive victories on the front line are the merits of the field troops, so generally speaking, the gendarmerie that flaunts its might in front of the Chinese can only be regarded as a garrison force, and naturally the officers and soldiers of the field troops are shorter.

The Japanese military police officer outside the car had to reply with some embarrassment: "I'm very sorry, I'm also duty." I'll just go to the back compartment and take a look, so I won't lose too much time. Sorry to bother you! ”

After saying that, he ran to the back of the carriage alone, lifted the hanging canvas, looked at the two Japanese soldiers who were sitting on the edge of the carriage and smoked, and shook the black carriage with a flashlight, and found that it was carrying some large wooden boxes, so he ran back to the railing of the checkpoint and shouted: "Release!" ”

The car restarted, slowly passed through the checkpoint, and continued to drive into the darkness.

It was Hu Yongqiang who took his hand away from Tang Biao's pistol, Tang Biao also put away the pistol, and there was no talk between the two people, and there was silence in the carriage.

The car soon arrived at the cargo inspection checkpoint set up by the Anti-Smuggling Investigation Department in the west of the city, where Ye Longfei, the head of the Second Section, was on duty.

Originally, he also summoned all the anti-smuggling team members at this checkpoint to prepare for the inspection and wait for the arrival of the car, but when he saw the Japanese sun flag hanging on the front of the car, he hurriedly shouted: "Quick, quickly move the barricade, it's the car of the imperial army." ”

For a time, the people on this hanging card were in a hurry, clearing the road as quickly as possible, and everyone here did not dare to provoke the Japanese military vehicles, because they were afraid that their slow movements would cause the Japanese soldiers on the military vehicles to be dissatisfied, and there had been incidents in the past where the people of the Anti-Smuggling Investigation Office were shot and killed by the Japanese soldiers accompanying the vehicles because of the slow action of clearing the roads.

The Japanese car did not slow down at all, and the Japanese soldier driving the car drove through the checkpoint with disdain on his face, and at this checkpoint all the officers of the Anti-Smuggling Investigation Department saluted and drove away with dust.

After another half an hour, the car finally arrived at Hakumado and stopped on a flat ground not far from the ferry.

The Japanese soldier Cao in the co-pilot opened the door and got out of the car, walked to the back of the car, and said to the car: "Manager Hu, get out of the car and unload the car." ”

Only then did Hu Yongqiang rub his legs that were choked enough and got out of the car, and Tang Biao also silently followed behind Hu Yongqiang and prepared to get out of the car.

After Hu Yongqiang jumped out of the car, he scolded Tang Biao, who was about to get out of the car: "I said, why don't you have any eyesight? Do you want the Imperial Army to help you move your goods? Go, bring those four cardboard boxes over and hand them to me. ”

Tang Biao had no choice but to listen to Hu Yongqiang's order to turn around and go back to move the cartons, but fortunately, the cartons were not too heavy, and they were unloaded to the ground after a while.

After Tang Biao also got out of the car, Hu Yongqiang smiled at Cao Xiang, a Japanese soldier who had been watching the unloading process, and said, "Taijun, the goods have been unloaded." Great work. ”

The Japanese soldier Cao nodded, ignored Hu Yongqiang, and got into the car directly, and the car quickly drove away and disappeared into the darkness of the night.

It was Hu Yongqiang who turned his head and said indifferently to Tang Biao: "Okay, you can go." I don't know you from now on, and you don't know me, as if tonight's events hadn't happened. ”

"Where is this?" Tang Biao asked.

"White Horse Ferry outside the west of the city."

"Thank you! Say goodbye. Tang Biao clasped his fists and saluted, didn't say much, turned around and left.

It was not until this moment that Tang Biao relieved his mind, he finally got out of the city, and now he had to rush to a military command traffic station outside the city to establish contact with the military command headquarters in Chongqing.

As for the military commander agent he had never met, Tang Biao was full of curiosity in his heart, this person was so powerful, and he could also use the Japanese army's military vehicles to take people out of the city, which really surprised him, because even the military commander Shicheng Station he originally led could not easily send people out of the city under the strict control of the Japanese.

But now is not the time to think about it, anyway, there will be a chance to find this Zhongtong agent in the future.

After Tang Biao disappeared, Hu Yongqiang struck a match, and looked at the time on his pocket watch by the light of the fire, which was only ten minutes away from 12 midnight in the trading time.

Hu Yongqiang waited silently in the moonlight for the buyer Li Yixin said to come to pick up the goods, and after about a few minutes, the sound of oars paddling came from the river, and then a small fishing boat docked at the ferry, and four people got off the boat, slowly walking towards Pingba, where Hu Yongqiang was.