When they arrived at the brigade headquarters, Li Mancang asked several militiamen to pour water for the soldiers and arrange for them to rest.
Everyone sat down in the conference room. Ma Guoqiang saw that everyone was seated. He glanced at his wrist and said seriously, "It is 5:20 in the morning. Our meeting begins now. Platoon Leader Wang and Secretary Cui will take the minutes of this meeting."
"Yes!" The two opened their notebooks and prepared to record the content of the meeting.
Ma Guoqiang paused for a moment and continued, "The first item of the meeting is the announcement of discipline. Before the end of this military operation, no one is allowed to disclose the content of this meeting to anyone without permission."
“The second item of the meeting is to declare the following orders:”
"First, I order Comrade Li Mancang, the captain of the Sandaliang Brigade, that for the sake of the confidentiality of the operation, your production team will temporarily suspend work until the operation is completed. No one is allowed to leave the village."
"Second, order Comrade Gong Liang, the captain of the Red Flag Commune militia, and Comrade Li Erniu, the captain of the Sandaliang militia, to immediately assemble all militiamen and seal off all exits to the village. Only entry is allowed, no exit. The militiamen will work in pairs, and supervise each other."
"Three, order Comrade Yang Liwu to post sentries. No one is allowed to approach within five meters of the conference room without permission. These orders are to be executed immediately."
"Yes!" After receiving the order, everyone agreed and left quickly.
Not long after, the voice of the village chief Li Mancang was heard from the loudspeaker of the Sandaliang Village Brigade.
"Attention all villagers, attention all villagers, I am Li Mancang, and I am here to announce the following emergency notice. Due to special circumstances, all work and production are suspended today. No one is allowed to leave the village. If it is not necessary, please stay at home. Anyone found leaving the village without permission will be severely punished and will bear the consequences at their own risk."
"Attention all villagers..."
"All..."
Li Mancang broadcast it three times in a row before stopping.
Then Li Mancang walked towards his yard and asked his eldest son and Li Haizhu to notify every household.
When he arranged everything and returned to the door of the conference room, he found that two armed soldiers were guarding the door, and at this time there was a burst of warm applause in the conference room.
In the conference room, Ma Guoqiang said to Xu Jianguo:
"Comrade Xiao Xu, can you draw a topographical map of the area near the pond?"
Zhao Weiguo said, "Old Ma, last night at midnight, Jianguo took the militiamen up the mountain to survey the situation and brought those two Japanese soldiers down. This is the map drawn by our militiamen." As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from his jacket pocket.
Ma Guoqiang took the paper Zhao Weiguo handed over, opened it and began to read it. After a while, he handed the paper to Xu Jianguo and said, "Comrade Xu, please take another look at this map to see if there are any problems. When the others come back, please explain it to everyone."
Xu Jianguo asked Secretary Hao for a red and blue pencil and said, "No problem. Let me take a look at this picture first."
Ma Guoqiang nodded, looked at Wang Dajun and Yang Liwu and said, "Platoon Leader Wang, Platoon Leader Yang, go call the squad leaders of each squad."
"Yes," the two turned and left. After a while, two more people came in with six soldiers.
"Report! Squad leaders from the first and second platoons!"
"Okay, comrades, please take a seat. Comrade Xu Jianguo will explain the topographic map to us in a moment."
"Yes!" After everyone sat down, they looked at Xu Jianguo who was writing and drawing there.
After a moment, Xu Jianguo raised his head and said, "Minister Ma, I'm ready here."
"Okay, let's get started!"
Xu Jianguo spread the sketch on the conference table, and everyone stood up to examine it. "Look, this is the location of the pool. Its diameter is about 80 meters. To the east of the pool is a waterfall, about 20 meters high. At this point in the waterfall is a crevice. The supplies I found are inside this crevice. The red arrow here is the entrance to the crevice... We checked before, and there are no other exits from the crevice... The west side of the pool leads to a ravine. After exiting the ravine, go north over this ridge, and walk another 20 miles to reach Shilibao Village... The road to the south leads from our village to the pool... Our village is now blocked, so entering the pool from the south is unlikely. We can ambush people above the waterfall to the east. About 5 kilometers north of the pool is a canyon about 30 miles long and 100 meters deep... So, do you understand what I mean?" Xu Jianguo asked, and when everyone nodded, he continued:
"Let me summarize. To the south of the pool is... to the north is..., to the east is a waterfall. Only the ravine to the west leads to Shilibao Village. Shilibao Village is the closest village to the county seat in the entire Hongqi Commune. So if I were a Japanese soldier, I would probably enter from this direction."
"Also, the biggest problem right now is that I just felt like those two devils were waiting for someone last night. If they weren't, they wouldn't have needed to sleep in the crevice. But I'm not sure if they have any accomplices, nor do I know when their accomplices will arrive. If we assume the worst-case scenario, I think we need to proceed in two steps. First, we must seize the opportunity to interrogate those two devils and obtain accurate intelligence. Second, we must arrange for some military comrades to enter the crevice and cooperate with the militia comrades left behind last night to provide vigilance. Even if we can't catch these spies, we can't let them take the supplies away."
In fact, when Xu Jianguo eavesdropped on the conversation between the two Japanese soldiers, he knew that they were waiting for someone to come and get supplies, but they had not confirmed the time, and he did not want to expose his ability to speak too early, so he said that.
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