Hearing Ning Zhiheng's question, Old Hu coughed lightly and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Captain, I understand what you mean. You want to find these Japanese plainclothes from foreigners. However, along the Huangpu River, the most populous places in Pudong were originally in Pudong. Especially after the war broke out, there were countless people who fled from Shanghai to the countryside. Most of them were concentrated here. Now, as long as the house is full of refugees in Shanghai, it is difficult for us locals to understand clearly. I guess there are tens of thousands of refugees alone. This is not the case where people live in those small villages. The household registration here has never been taken care of, and it is in chaos! It is not easy to find these people!"

Ning Zhiheng couldn't help but feel a little headache when he heard what Lao Hu said. He didn't expect that the current population composition of Pudong is so chaotic. It was really difficult to find those Japanese plainclothes in this densely populated township.

Especially the Japanese plainclothes team is not a fool. If you want to hide in it, you won’t be gathered together. The best way is to break it into pieces, divide it into several small parts, and integrate it into civilians. How can you check so many foreign populations yourself?

This is not Nanjing, and it has complete and strict population and household registration management. That's it. The migrant population in Nanjing has always been difficult to manage, which seems to be a real problem.

However, Ning Zhiheng was not discouraged at all. This difficulty was not in his eyes. His thoughts flew around and his mind kept thinking.

After a long time, he spoke again and analyzed: "Don't care about those villages, after all, they are still far from our garrison and there are many, so we are not able to investigate.

However, these nearby towns are near the garrison. If the Japanese want to conduct investigations, they should hide in this area.

Besides, although there are many refugees, since they are fleeing, they must be with their families, including men and women, or elderly and young. However, the Japanese plainclothes team is entirely composed of young and middle-aged people, and such people will definitely have some traces to be found.

Lao Hu, think about it, are there almost all young and middle-aged people in these nearby towns, with about twenty to thirty or thirty people, or groups ranging from thirty to fifty people? Such groups may be the target we are looking for!”

Ning Zhiheng's analysis immediately made Lao Hu wake up. He slapped his thigh and said, "You are still a wise leader. There is really a way to say this. Please think about it!"

Speaking of this, he held his chin with his hands and lowered his head to think carefully. He wanted to find out the people in his impression that they met the conditions proposed by Ning Zhiheng. After a long time, he answered: "Captain, according to what you said, there are really many such people. The most common ones are those students or workers who come to the front line to express condolences and support."

Ning Zhiheng quickly asked, and Lao Hu explained the situation carefully to him. It turned out that in the early stage of the war, under the vigorous publicity and call of the government, the people of the whole country were in aroused their enthusiasm for the war of resistance, and people raised funds. Many citizens took out all their savings, and the money and materials raised were brought to the front line by their respective condolence groups and support groups.

These groups not only came to the front line to send money and goods, but also carried out propaganda in Shanghai, making great contributions to the War of Resistance. In the city of Shanghai alone, there were at least 200 such support groups. Because they had long journeys, most of them were composed of enthusiastic young and middle-aged people and young students. There were also many such groups on the battlefield in Pudong. They often carried out anti-Japanese propaganda, raised money, purchased food and medicine to support the soldiers on the front line. These people were very popular among the people.

Ning Zhiheng asked: "According to what you said, there is really a possibility. Do you know how many people are in such a patriotic group?"

"This is not fixed. There are dozens of people in the most, and there are more than a dozen people in the fewest. Not necessarily! Most of them are in towns, and some will enter villages to settle, but they are usually young and strong men." Lao Hu replied seriously.

Ning Zhiheng nodded. According to Lao Hu's current situation, it is very likely that some members of the plainclothes team will be hidden in these anti-Japanese patriotic groups. This is a reconnaissance direction. Now there are no other clues in his hands, so start from this direction.

As for how to investigate? Old Hu and other Green Gang disciples can be used, but those Japanese agents must be very alert. It would be a little bad if they were alerted.

How can we inquire about the news in the most natural way without arousing the other party's alertness? Ning Zhiheng's eyes couldn't help but look at the student soldiers who were nervously loading and unloading supplies not far away.

These student soldiers who have just joined the Rangers are all passionate young students from all over the world. They have just left school and many of them are still childish. You can see at a glance that they are students.

No one can see any flaws when playing such a true character. You can just go to various townships to search, and it is very likely to find out the members of the plainclothes team.

As for Sun Jiacheng and his team's aura, they were too strong, and it was easy to alarm the agents of the plainclothes team during investigation, and they could only wait for Ning Zhiheng's orders at any time.

The more he thought about it, the more reasonable he made, and immediately ordered all the student soldiers to gather. After that, Ning Zhiheng personally selected more than 20 student soldiers who were smarter and capable of talking, and asked them to change them all into student uniforms. It looked like there was no flaw at all.

Ning Zhiheng called them alone and arranged tasks for them personally.

"The main task of our spy brigade is to clear out the Japanese plainclothes team lurking behind us, but they are hidden among the people and it is difficult for us to find them.

Now we suspect that they will hide among some patriotic groups, and what you have to do is to pretend to be patriotic students who have not been able to join the army, and each two people are in a group, and go to various towns and even rural areas every day to find patriotic support groups, try to contact them, observe them, and even join them, try to understand some information, such as the origin and composition of the group, pay attention to their accent, and time to come to Pudong, etc., and then summarize all this information to me. We will summarize your intelligence to determine the goal. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" the student soldiers replied in unison.

Ning Zhiheng himself was not idle either. He also found a student outfit to wear it on his body, adjusted his disguise, and followed Zuo Rou's previous instructions to make his facial features softer, and his body shape and voice were treated. In his every move, his temperament suddenly changed.

Unfortunately, Zuo Rou is not around. If she put on makeup a little more, she would be almost the same as a student.

Ning Zhiheng also selected a student soldier. The student soldier was named Dai Junlun. He was one of the most outstanding students and had some prestige among the student soldiers. Ning Zhiheng looked at him smarter and took him with him.

The selected student soldiers left the garrison and left according to Ning Zhiheng's arrangement.

Ning Zhiheng took several groups of student soldiers and walked quickly, and soon arrived at Qingjiang Town, the closest to the base, which is the largest town nearby and the most densely populated area. It is the best place for plainclothes team to hide.

When they walked into Qingjiang Town, Ning Zhiheng and everyone agreed to meet at the town gate in the evening, and then several groups of people conducted investigations separately.

He himself took Dai Junlun slowly to the town. There were many pedestrians on the roadside. It was obvious that there was indeed a large population here. Ning Zhiheng and others walked curiously on the street and watched from side to side, as if they were two students who had just arrived here.

Qingjiang Town is very big, with streets everywhere. Ning Zhiheng and his two men came to a shop and asked about the patriotic groups in Qingjiang Town with kindness. However, the shopkeeper of this shop was unaware of it. He just said that he had seen someone give speeches and raise funds on the street, and he also donated a lot of money.

Ning Zhiheng couldn't see the key points, so he changed several pedestrians and asked, but no one knew exactly how many patriotic groups there were and their residences.

Looking at Dai Junlun's anxious expression beside him, she was still too young, Ning Zhiheng smiled slightly, then walked and chatted with him, and asked in a low voice: "Junlun, how old are you this year? Who are you from?

Dai Junlun looked at Ning Zhiheng and found that his close contact was not as harsh as everyone said. He also replied in a low voice: "I am twenty years old this year and I am from Jinhua, Zhejiang."

"Jinhua? Then how did you come to Shanghai to join the Rangers?" Ning Zhiheng asked.

Dai Junlun quickly replied: "I was studying in Shanghai. At the beginning of the war, our school had the Japanese planes exploded. Many students signed up to join the army, but the regular army did not accept it. They thought we were burdened and had no hope of joining the army. They were all going to go back to their hometowns. They also heard that the Random Movement recruited students to fight against Japan, so they discussed it with their classmates and they all came to join the Random Movement."

Ning Zhiheng felt relieved when he heard this, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Jinhua, Zhejiang! Then we are from Hangzhou! I just heard your accent a little like it, but I found that there was a Shanghai accent in your accent, so I was a little inaccurate."

Dai Junlun was also very happy. The captain turned out to be his fellow countryman. He smiled and said, "Hehe, I have been studying in Shanghai for two years. Sometimes it is a bit inappropriate to say in Shanghai and hometown dialect."

"Yes, I'm the same as you, from Hangzhou to Nanjing to study and went to military academy for two years. As a result, I've been talking about Hangzhou and Nanjing dialect, and it's like this, haha!"

The two of them smiled at each other and became closer. Ning Zhiheng deliberately restrained his edge today. Dai Junlun also felt that the new captain was much more amiable. At this time, he suddenly said boldly: "Captain, many old team members call you Ning Yanwang. I don't look at you at all, but I look like my senior, without any airs."

Hearing this, Ning Zhiheng was stunned. It was naturally the old team members below who were talking about it, which made these student soldiers hear it.

He didn't want to explain much, so he waved his hand and asked, "Are there many classmates in the Rangers with you?"

"Many, many of them are from our school." Dai Junlun nodded, but his face soon became dark. "Everyone said he was going to join the army to defend his country, but a few days ago, as soon as he went to the battlefield on the North Bank, many classmates left, and they didn't even have time to fire a shot."
Chapter completed!