Warlords: Rising from the Northwest Border and Sweeping Across the Powers

Yan Shuangying sneered: "If you were an ordinary sesame cake vendor, would you be willing to buy so much good wine and meat during the New Year or other festivals? This is equivalent to your monthly income, right?"

"To tell you the truth, I have been watching you for a long time. If you don't tell me your true identity, you may not be able to leave this alley today."

Yan Shuangying slowly pushed the safety button, and the crisp sound scared the man.

"No, no, no, I'm from the Jiangbei Intelligence Bureau's special operations team."

"What is your purpose for appearing in Zhongshan County, Yunzhou Province this time?"

"We have been ordered by the higher-ups to kidnap the commander of the Northwest Revolutionary Army, Su Zhengyang's biological sister, Su Zhenghong."

Yan Shuangying nodded. As he expected, the boy in front of him was quite honest.

"How many of you are here in total? Where are they now? Apart from the dilapidated house in Liulin Lane, are there any other contact points..."

Half an hour later, in the dilapidated house in Liulin Lane, Qian Lushan, the captain of the special operations team of the Jiangbei Intelligence Bureau, muttered impatiently: "This Apeng asked him to go buy some wine and food, why hasn't he come back for so long? Could something have happened?"

"For Xiaolin's safety, please notify our people to change the contact point immediately and have the people who are stalking at the entrance of the Wang family's ancestral home withdraw immediately."

It has to be said that Qian Lushan was quite alert. He realized something was wrong when his subordinate Apeng had not returned for such a long time.

Unfortunately, he reacted too late. He only heard a loud bang, and the gate of the house was kicked open. Qian Lushan reacted very quickly and took out a pistol from his waist. Yan Shuangying, who was the first to enter the house, shook his wrist. A palm-length dagger instantly shot through Qian Lushan's wrist at lightning speed.

More than 20 elite personnel from the Northwest Intelligence Bureau filed in and immediately pointed guns at more than a dozen members of the Jiangbei Intelligence Bureau's special operations team in the house.

Qian Lushan cried out in pain, and the pistol in his hand fell to the ground. Yan Shuangying strode forward, took out his pistol and pointed it at Qian Lushan's forehead.

"You're from the Jiangbei Intelligence Bureau, right? Looks like we have to talk somewhere else. You'd better obey me, or I'll kill you right here."

In a Wang family mansion in Zhongshan County, Yan Shuangying sat opposite Qian Lushan, who was tied up on a chair.

"Name, identity information, purpose of coming to Yunzhou this time. I'm telling you, the others have been interrogated separately. If what you say is different from what they said, I will cut you into pieces and feed you to the dogs."

Qian Lushan couldn't help but shudder when he saw Yan Shuangying's murderous eyes, and the little thoughts in his mind also disappeared.

"My name is Qian Lushan. I am from the Jiangbei Intelligence Bureau and am the deputy chief of the Special Operations Division of the Jiangbei Intelligence Bureau. I came to Yunzhou this time to carry out the order from above to kidnap Su Zhengyang's biological sister, Su Zhenghong."

Yan Shuangying stared at Qian Lushan's eyes. He had a vague intuition in his heart that the purpose of this special operations team coming to Yunzhou might not be as simple as kidnapping Su Zhenghong.

Otherwise, given the distance between Yunzhou and Jiangbei, this special operations team should have arrived in Yunzhou before him.

"It seems that you are still not honest. How about letting me bleed you and then we can talk?"

Yan Shuangying was playing with a short knife with a cold glow in his left hand. He walked casually to Qian Lushan and stabbed the knife into Qian Lushan's thigh. Blood gushed out instantly.

Qian Lushan suddenly turned pale and let out a scream.

Yan Shuangying looked at Qian Lushan's wound with cold eyes and said slowly: "At this rate of bleeding, you still have 20 minutes. If you tell the truth, I will have someone bandage you to stop the bleeding. Otherwise, after 20 minutes you will feel colder and colder and die from excessive blood loss."

Blood continued to flow out from the wound on the thigh, flowing on the chair and dripping onto the ground. The sound of the dripping blood was like a heavy hammer, constantly and fiercely hammering Qian Lushan's heart.

Three minutes later, Qian Lushan felt cold all over, his face turned extremely pale, and his demeanor began to become listless.

"I'll tell you, please stop the bleeding immediately. I'll tell you anything as long as you don't kill me."

Yan Shuangying waved to the interrogator on the side, who nodded, turned and walked out of the room, and soon came back with a roll of hemostatic bandage. Yan Shuangying bandaged Qian Lushan with quick and simple movements to stop the bleeding.

"Can you give me a cigarette?"

Amid the smoke, Qian Lushan spoke slowly: "Actually, this time when I came to Yunzhou, in addition to the mission of kidnapping Su Zhenghong, I also have a secret mission."

"Governor Pang knows about the relationship between the head of the 711th Regiment, Wang Xiangdong, and Su Zhengyang. He suspects that Su Zhengyang will ask Wang Xiangdong to cooperate with him and take over the military aid from the Fuso Empire."

Yan Shuangying frowned and asked, "Since Pang Junhong suspected Wang Xiangdong, why did he let Yan Baoguo use the 711th Regiment to help the Pang family's escort troops in Zhongshan County to send this batch of military aid out of Zhongshan County?"

Qian Lushan paused and spoke again: "In fact, this is a trap. Governor Pang has secretly contacted Yan Baoguo. When the escort troops arrive in Zhongshan County, the 713th and 712th Regiments of the Yan warlord will act secretly and follow the escort troops. Once Wang Xiangdong makes any unusual moves, they will immediately take down the 711th Regiment and control the Wang family. In this way, we will have one more bargaining chip to clamp down on Su Zhengyang."

Yan Shuangying frowned again and asked, "Since Yan Baoguo has agreed to your request, why don't you just take down the 711th Regiment, control the Wang family, and let other troops help escort them."

There is nothing wrong with Yan Shuangying's question. If we do this, the risk will obviously be much smaller.

"Because someone in the upper echelons of the Yan faction's warlords is trying to protect Wang Xiangdong, Yan Baoguo can't do anything to him without evidence."

"Keep an eye on him. I'll contact the headquarters."

Yan Shuangying didn't expect that his trick would actually lead to such important information.

Sure enough, the Jiangbei Pang family was no fool. They had long thought that there might be problems with Wang Xiangdong. After all, Wang Xiangdong and Su Zhengyang had a relationship.

If Yan Shuangying had not followed the clues and obtained this important information, the Longcheng Special Operations Team and the 711th Regiment would have suffered a great loss if they had acted according to the original plan. Not only would they have failed to complete the mission, but they would have also gotten themselves into trouble.

After Yan Shuangying passed this important message to the headquarters, the two sides conspired and discussed all night and formulated a new plan.

In the Northwest Revolutionary Army Headquarters, Su Zhengyang frowned and muttered to himself, "I originally wanted to wait until this matter was done before negotiating with Yan Baoguo. Now it seems that this matter cannot be bypassed by the Yan faction warlord. If we want to accomplish this, we need to win the support of Yan Baoguo."

"Send a telegram to Yan Shuangying and ask him to go to Dayuan City, the capital of Yunzhou, to visit Yan Baoguo in person on my behalf."