With the defeat of the Kuomintang Army, the smoke of war gradually dissipated like remnants of clouds, and the Base of Resistance welcomed a hard-won dawn of peace. However, what lay before them was a landscape of devastation, a home in desperate need of reconstruction. Lin Feng, a hero forged in the fires of conflict, had barely brushed off the dust of battle when he took on the new responsibility of coordinating intelligence efforts to rejuvenate the Base of Resistance. In a turbulent situation, he aimed to weave a more intricate and expansive web of intelligence.
Lin Feng first turned his attention to the intelligence stations affected by the war. Once hidden in the mountains and villages, many small outposts had been reduced to ruins, their equipment destroyed and documents scattered. The personnel stationed there had either perished or were injured. Leading a skilled team, he traversed familiar mountain paths, visiting each site for assessment. At every location, seeing the remnants of intelligence fragments and the wreckage of destroyed transmitters filled Lin Feng with a heart-wrenching pain; yet his eyes reflected determination and resolve.
At one critical station deep in a valley, what used to be concealed by dense bushes had been burned away by artillery fire. Half of the wooden cabin's wall had collapsed, and inside, an Intelligence Agent was grimacing through pain as he rummaged through the debris for salvageable supplies. Lin Feng quickly approached him, patted his shoulder, and said solemnly, "You’ve worked hard! Together, we will rebuild this place." With everyone working together, they cleared rubble and repaired the framework of the building. Lin Feng also urgently dispatched new transmitters and codes from behind and selected several experienced and astute light warriors to train them in intelligence transmission and decryption: "These are our eyes and ears; we cannot afford to relax for even a moment. Any slight movement could affect the safety of the Base of Resistance."
As they rebuilt the station, Lin Feng keenly sensed that the current peace was merely a brief respite. The international and domestic situations remained tumultuous; enemy-occupied areas were shrouded in foggy peril, concealing hidden dangers. It was essential to leverage the morale gained from their recent victory at the Base of Resistance to launch an offensive into enemy territory, establishing a broader and more covert Intelligence Network to seize future opportunities in their ongoing struggle.
To this end, Lin Feng carefully selected a group adept at disguise and well-versed in local dialects within enemy-occupied areas to form multiple Action Teams for infiltration. Some posed as street vendors carrying loads filled with needles, threads, and daily necessities while subtly observing troop movements and supply loading at military camps; others disguised themselves as wealthy young men or ladies frequenting social venues like restaurants and theaters to gather valuable intelligence from drunken conversations among Kuomintang Officers and politicians; still others pretended to be down-and-out scholars employed as clerks in enemy propaganda offices, extracting deep information hidden behind mundane documents.
One team successfully established contact with a potential anti-fascist group after infiltrating the capital of enemy-occupied territory. This secret organization comprised progressive students, patriotic merchants, and Italian officers who had long been dissatisfied with the Kuomintang's corrupt rule and appeasement policies towards Japan. They had been quietly amassing strength while waiting for an opportunity. After meeting with them, the team leader conveyed the determination and victory spirit of the military and civilians at the Base of Resistance. They quickly aligned their goals and established mechanisms for intelligence sharing and collaborative action. The students utilized campus activities and street speeches as cover to distribute flyers exposing Kuomintang's dark rule and Japanese atrocities, inciting public sentiment; merchants leveraged their business dealings to uncover enemy procurement channels and transportation routes, providing precise targets for strikes; Italian officers used their internal connections to steal troop deployment maps and fragments of operational plans from enemy forces, continuously supplying critical intelligence to Lin Feng's team.
To ensure secure and efficient transmission of intelligence, Lin Feng also cleverly set up multiple secret relay stations between the Base of Resistance and enemy-occupied areas. These stations were either hidden in remote mountain temples where disguised agents received and forwarded messages or relied on fishermen's cottages by rivers where fishermen cast nets during the day while secretly ferrying Intelligence Agents through reeds at night, delivering sealed messages hidden in bamboo tubes or fish bellies.
Through Lin Feng's relentless efforts, within just a few months, a new Intelligence Network quietly spread like an invisible yet resilient web across enemy-occupied territories. Intelligence flowed like streams into the Base of Resistance, providing solid foundations for organizational decision-making. Meanwhile, Lin Feng remained tirelessly busy between intelligence stations and command centers, gazing deeply into the distance. He understood that this was merely a small victory on a long road of struggle; many more challenges awaited ahead. As long as the flame of intelligence remained lit, the dawn of victory would surely pierce through layers of fog, illuminating every inch of land.
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