Tang Guohui, the lieutenant of the second team, noticed that the military order didn't present much competition, so he decisively raised his hand and declared, "I am from Ji Province. My hometown is less than a hundred miles from the incident site. I am familiar with the terrain and speak the local dialect."
Indeed, with such exceptional conditions, he finally won over Geng Wei from the first team and Nie Zhengguo from the third team, securing this mission for the second team.
In addition, Wu Qingyun, Zhang Wanxiang, and Liu Xiangjun, all three from the Automobile Company who accompanied Ling Chengyan, received special assignments.
The time was tight, the task urgent; it was already the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. With the deadlines for solving the case, eliminating bandits, and purging before the Spring Festival, they didn't have much time left.
