Devil's Army

As the saying goes, to catch a thief, you have to seize the stolen goods. To catch Hu Erye, you have to catch him in person with evidence of collecting protection fees and various fees. Otherwise, Hu Erye is likely to turn around and accuse you of slandering him.

Gray Wolf personally led two special forces members to disguise themselves as grain merchants and rented a warehouse at the dock.

The food was allocated from the headquarters, and then distributed to the garrisons in various places.

Soon, the special forces responsible for investigating Hu Erye also brought intelligence. Hu Erye was a fierce bandit entrenched in Daqing Mountain and active in Xinkailing Township, Jianchang County, Huludao.

Since the time of Marshal Zhang, they have been active in Jianchang County and Huludao.

During the time when the Japanese occupied Huludao, he had become close friends with them, robbing and plundering people and selling out his country for personal gain.

"It seems that he still arouses great public anger and must be eradicated." Gray Wolf said to the special forces soldier.

"This Mr. Hu is very resourceful in his actions. He usually only seeks money and does not hurt anyone. Moreover, he only robs wealthy businessmen and does not harass ordinary people, so he does not cause much public outrage."

"Oh, so resourceful? Then why is he also coming to collect protection fees from the small vendors in our Huludao market?"

"Maybe our Huludao has been developing well recently, and he wants to come and get a piece of the pie."

"No matter how capable he is, if he dares to extend his claws to our Huludao, we will cut them off."

"Mr. Hu has seldom gone out recently and has been hiding in Daqing Mountain. His second in command has arranged for people to do all the work, so it is difficult for us to touch him, let alone catch him."

"Swap the grain back and forth, expand the grain business, and attract his attention."

The special forces immediately went to make arrangements. Gray Wolf also specially transferred a truck from the army, disguised as a civilian truck, and kept moving food to the Navy camp, the camps of the Fourth Brigade, the Fifth Brigade, and the Third Brigade. He immediately overshadowed Xu Maocai.

But after a few days, there was no movement in Gray Wolf's food warehouse. Instead, there was movement at Li Hongmei's place, who pretended to sell breakfast.

Around nine o'clock that day, Li Hongmei was selling breakfast at the market. Three scoundrels came to the stall in front of her.

These people stopped in front of every stall and talked to the stall owner.

"Sister, what are those people doing?" Li Hongmei asked a sister who was selling vegetables nearby.

The older sister glanced toward the other end of the street, then turned back and told Li Hongmei that she was collecting protection money.

"Protection money? Are you giving them all?"

"We don't collect too much, so we usually give it to them to avoid getting into trouble."

"There are patrolmen from the army at the dock. You can report to them."

"The patrolmen aren't around you every day. If you offend them, they'll find fault with you when they're not around, and you'll be in big trouble. Little sister, I advise you not to save that little money. Give it to them and spend it to avoid disaster."

Li Hongmei nodded.

Soon, the three men came to Li Hongmei's stall.

Li Hongmei obediently gave the money as they requested.

The second-rate guy who collected the money took a look at Li Hongmei and said, "This girl is pretty, not bad."

"Er Gouzi, my second brother told me that this is the territory of the First Army. We will leave after we collect the money. Don't cause any trouble."

Er Gouzi slapped the man who was talking to him on the top of his head and shouted, "I let you meddle with my affairs, don't I know?"

After the three of them left, the special forces soldier who was pretending to eat breakfast next to Li Hongmei followed them.

Hongmei said to the woman selling vegetables next to her, "Sister, can you help me watch the stall? I have something to do when I get home."

"You go ahead. Apart from those who collect protection fees, there is generally nothing going on here."

Li Hongmei wiped her hands and followed closely.

The three second-rate guys who collected the protection money had no vigilance at all. After collecting the money, they kept walking forward and no one looked back.

Li Hongmei and her friends followed them to a private house, from which they heard the sound of gambling.

A special forces member leaned over the door crack and took a look. The three second-rate guys who had just entered the room bowed and nodded to a big man who was lying on a chair with his eyes closed, and handed the money they had just received to him.

There were four other men next to the big man, shouting and gambling.

Li Hongmei and the other three retreated silently.

Li Hongmei returned to the breakfast stall, packed up the stall and went back to the special forces camp.

When they returned to the barracks, Gray Wolf was in the operations room. Li Hongmei and the others immediately reported to Gray Wolf.

After hearing the report, Gray Wolf ordered, "They are just small fry. Don't alarm them. Send someone to keep an eye on them. It would be best if we can find their lair."

The special forces team members took the order and went out, and Li Hongmei continued to set up her breakfast stall to see if there were any new discoveries.

Gray Wolf and the guards went to the Navy camp. It had been a few days, and it was unknown how the Navy's recruitment of new soldiers was going.

Gray Wolf came to the naval training ground where Fox Wolf was training new recruits, but there were less than three hundred of them.

"Why are there only so few new recruits? I have already ordered the nearby brigades to pick some veterans. Didn't they pick any?"

"Except for the 50 veterans arranged by the Fifth Brigade Commander Meilang, there has been no movement from the Third and Fourth Brigades."

"These bastards, I don't believe we can't cure them."

Since there were no telephone lines in the navy camp, Gray Wolf immediately returned to the special forces camp with the guards.