Everyone looked for prestige, but no one expected that it was the dog and his father who spoke. As he spoke, he walked towards the front, and everyone got out of the way.

came to the dog's face. He said to him: "You compare with him, you are a little oldest, you know how to shoot some hares and raccoons, and you are also compared with him, he specializes in killing devils." You know? ”

The dog looked at his father, then looked at Lu Gang and said, "Aren't I also going to follow them to fight devils?" ”

"Old man, are you here to persuade the dog to go back?" Lao Yang asked the old man with a smile.

"Whereever, wherever, I ask you to take him away. When the dog went back, he said that you would not accept him, and he followed you quietly, and I was afraid that he would cause trouble, so I caught up with you. I said that you guys are too underestimating people, I'm a dog, looking at him like this, he is born to fight devils, isn't it? If you don't accept it, which one will accept it? The old man replied.

His words made everyone laugh.

"Old man, we will receive your wishes, but there is only one seedling in your family, I think it's okay, we" Lao Yang was interrupted by the old man before he finished speaking.

The old man said: "Where did you break the rules, don't say it, I won't stop him if he wants to go, it's too late for me to be happy." I don't care, you have to accept it or not. Son, don't hurry up and say thank you. When the dog heard this, he said thank you to Lao Yang.

Lao Yang had no choice, seeing that they were resolute, he had to take the dog away. He said to the old man: "With the strong support of you ordinary people, why don't you worry that China will not beat the devils away?" I have to thank you. ”

The dog was accepted by Lao Yang, and he was naturally happy. Not to mention for the time being, after saying goodbye to my father, they left with Lao Yang.

In less than a pillar of incense, their team came to Qingxiu Mountain.

Qingxiu Mountain, located in Yiyang Cangshuipu Town, is one of the 72 peaks of Hengyue, the peak is 502 meters above sea level, more than 100 kilometers in radius, it is really "a peak intercepts the sky and is blue, and the clouds soak the clothes". Looking at the appearance of the whole mountain, the shape resembles Jiujiang Kuanglu, so it has the name of "Little Lu Mountain" since ancient times.

During the walk, what appeared in front of Lu Gang and them was the secluded mountains, steep rock walls, beautiful trees and onion cages, lush medicinal herbs, and waterfalls.

What a great place. Lao Yang exclaimed as he walked towards the mountain.

Lu Gang and the others were also surprised, to be honest, the mountain in Master's place is not as beautiful as this mountain.

"Old Yang, look, it's here, Captain Liu." Gang Master Cao saw a group of people on the top of the mountain looking here, and he screamed at a medium-sized person in the crowd, this person was Liu Jing'an.

The two people are naturally happy to meet.

Lao Yang introduced himself. Captain Liu smiled and said, "It's good that you guys are here, we have the backbone to lead us to fight devils, and we have enough courage." "He was about forty years old, dressed in a simple attire, and he didn't look special, similar to what the Cao Gang Leader and the others were wearing.

Cao said that they all had to be miners. The devils came, and their jobs were smashed. Captain Liu listened and said to Lao Yang that Gang Leader Cao was right. If these devils are not eliminated, there will be no peace in our lives.

Lao Yang said, it's almost there. As long as we all work together, the devil's tail will not grow. I said, Captain Liu, you really know how to choose a place, how beautiful this place is.

Captain Liu smiled and said, "It's really beautiful." How many literati and scholars once liked to visit here, leaving a lot of poems. Li Gang, a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, left a poem that compared this place to Xiaolu Mountain in Jiangxi. ”

"Between the white clouds, the wind and the rocks are full of spots. The peaks and ridges are oblique and self-respecting, and it is really a small Lu Mountain. This was written when he was in charge of Huguang Xuanfu, wasn't it? Lao Yang groaned softly.

Captain Liu and Gang Leader Cao both widened their eyes. Seeing their expressions, Lu Gang said: "What's so strange about this, our Teacher Yang taught us this." ”

When they heard this, they quickly said, admire, admire, admire. Then they were invited to a temple.

Lao Yang asked Captain Liu some specific information. Captain Liu said that this team had only been pulled up for a short time, and some weapons were also asked from the national army, some were picked up at the place where the national army had finished fighting with the devils, and some were still their own earthen guns, and a short gun was inserted in his waist.

Lu Gang said that this can also fight devils?

Xiao Lin took out the gun and lit it up, saying, this one is definitely better than yours.

Captain Liu showed envious eyes.

All right. What are you dragging? We have our own guns, and as for yours, we can only fight the devils in the future, and you will take them from the hands of the devils by yourself. Captain Liu, what's the situation with this devil? I knew that there were devils in Shatou Town, and I really couldn't figure out the situation here.

"The devil has it. There are devil activities in the Nianjia River and the south bank of the Zijiang River. I heard that there are also devils there on Huilong Mountain near the river, and there are also devils stationed there in the Yuanjiang River in the north of the river, and I don't know how many devils there are. Captain Liu said.

"We can't fight an unprepared battle, Lu Gang, Xiaolin, the snow will stop in two days, follow me to these places to see the movement, and then take action after understanding the situation." Lao Yang said.

"Yes." Both replied at the same time.

"Lao Liu, you are familiar with this place, do you want to come with us. Gang Leader Cao, you will be in charge here for the next few days. Lao Yang asked Cao Gang Master again.

Of course Captain Liu would be willing. Gang Leader Cao also nodded and said that he wanted it.

In this way, there was nothing to discuss, and under Captain Liu's arrangement, they each settled down in the homes of some retail people on the mountain.

Lu Gang was going to lead the horses to a grass hut halfway up the mountain, and Xiao Lin said that it was too cold here to do it, and he wanted to leave them in the temple. He also slept in the temple. Lu Gang said that they simply slept in the temple, there were walls that were impermeable, and they would not feel cold.

Lao Yang didn't say much when he saw them like this, and followed Captain Liu and them to a family's house to rest.

There is no story.

After two days, the snow stopped, and they went out as planned. Before leaving, Xiao Lin and Lu Gang rode horses and took another horse from Lao Yang to Lao Yang's residence in the middle of the mountain. Lao Yang saw and stopped them and said, there are only three horses, how can there be four people riding horses?

Captain Liu said that it was okay, they happened to have a horse here, which was left by a merchant who took the ancient tea horse road, and he didn't give it to a family because he thought they were a little old. It doesn't hurt to borrow it.

After borrowing the horses, they headed for the foot of the mountain.

The first target they chose was Nianjiahe.

The sun was already shining high, and taking advantage of the rare good sunshine this winter, the four prancing horses galloped on the muddy path. In a few moments they came to the edge of a river.

"Teacher Yang, look, there's a tower there." Kobayashi shouted on his horse.

Everyone looked at his hand, and sure enough, there was a tower with seven levels in eight directions standing on the flat ground by the embankment.

Captain Liu said: "This is the Kuixing Tower, which was built by the squires in the second year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty. ”

Lao Yang became interested and said, "Let's go, take a look." ”

Go up and down to get Malay to look around the tower to see a circle, only to see that this tower is a pavilion type brick tower, blue brick structure, sit in the south and face north, there is a gourd treasure top, there is a granite pedestal below. When you look at the south tower, the first level is a door that opens to the south, and then you look at the various levels facing the south, south, west, and northwest, and the windows are staggered. On the south-facing window of the second level, there is a clear inscription in regular script: "Kuixing Tower".

Layer by level eaves and covered with green tiles. The tower is made of granite strip stone, there is no ladder, and it is estimated that there should be a spiral ladder to climb up before. When they entered the tower, they saw that there was a bluestone inscription embedded in the inner wall of the first level, engraved with "Qianqing Tanhua Huda Yuanba", and the text was difficult to distinguish.

Captain Liu said again, a big official in the Qing Dynasty is also from here, named Hu Linji, and asked Lao Yang if he recognizes it?

When Lao Yang heard this, he hurriedly said, why don't you recognize it? He's a great guy.

Xiao Lin asked Lao Yang, what kind of character is Hu Linji? Lao Yang said that he would tell him later, and then said to Captain Liu: "I really didn't expect such a place to be a place to raise talents." At this time, he saw that Lu Gang was still going up to the first layer of the tower, and Lao Yang stopped him and said, "Forget it, don't go up." ”

Lu Gang had to reluctantly return, and the four of them paused for a while, went to the river to wash their faces, got on their horses and continued to move on.

On the way, Captain Liu also said that there was a strong woman in Jiaohe in this year, called "Xiang Sanniang". In fact, her surname is Qiu, her name is Guixiang, and because she ranks third, she is known as "Xiang Sanniang". It is said that he joined the Communist Party in the 15th year of the Republic of China and was a member of the Agricultural Association. This woman has the ability, and she is also the president of the Nianjiaohe Women's Federation and a member of the picket team.

In November of one year, she was ordered to lead a group of pickets, driving small boats pretending to be fishermen, and intercepting a batch of guns transported from Changsha by the regimental defense sub-bureau in the Luhua River. Since then, "Xiang Sanniang" has been powerful in all directions. After the "Mari Incident", he was killed, and he was only in his thirties when he died.

"For the sake of the interests of the broad masses of the people, the sacrificed communists did not hesitate to throw their heads and shed their blood, for what? In order to make the future China a brand-new China, without oppression, reactionaries, and bullying by foreigners. Lao Yang said.

"That's communism, right? Mr. Yang. Lu Gang asked with a smile.

Lao Yang didn't answer, laughed and shouted: "Drive." The horse went straight on.

After running for a distance, Captain Liu stopped Lao Yang and them, asked them all to get off their horses, led the horses into a forest, and when they came to the edge of the forest and sat in front of a towering mountain bag, he vigilantly asked them to lie down, and said: "See, there, the devils are there." ”

Captain Liu said that there are many houses there, and this is a village, called Caijia Village.

"Have you been?" Lao Yang asked.

Captain Liu replied, "I haven't been there since the devil came. I heard that there used to be a place where the national army lived, and after blocking the attack of the devils, fifty or sixty people died, all of them were young men, and then the national army came, and when they collected the body, they pulled away the body of the company commander, and the others were buried here. After speaking, he pointed to the dirt bag next to him and said.

"Oh my God, why didn't you say it earlier?" As soon as Xiao Lin heard that he was about to get up, Lu Gang pressed him down and said, "Don't move, there are devils." ”

When I looked into the village, there were really devils walking there, and one of them was walking towards the river with a basin.

Lao Yang asked again: "Captain Liu, are you familiar with this village?" ”

Captain Liu said: "I'm familiar, but I don't know where the devil lives." ”

"Teacher Yang, why don't we go in and have a look." Lu Gang said.

"How do you get in? You are not familiar with the place. Lao Yang said.

Lu Gang had actually thought about it a long time ago, and he replied without thinking: "With Captain Liu here, we can borrow the name of going to the village to find relatives to go in and have a look." ”

Lao Yang looked at Captain Liu. Captain Liu suddenly said: "Don't talk about it, there is really a distant uncle of mine in the village." But I haven't been in touch for a long time, and I don't know if I can find him. ”

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you can find it, the important thing is to find out where the devils live, find out their troops and weapons, as well as fortifications and the like." Lao Yang agreed with Lu Gang's suggestion and decided to enter the village, while Xiaolin stayed behind to watch the horse.

After the three of them had cleaned up, they came out of the forest and swaggered up to the riverside embankment, walking in the direction of the village. Xiao Lin saw them go, although he was a little unhappy, but looking at these horses, his unhappy mood was temporarily eased, he took the horse away from the mountain bag, oh, to be exact, it should be a grave, he was still a little afraid of being alone here, he cautiously led the horse to the other end of the forest, leaned against the tree and watched the horse flick its tail, thinking in his heart that when the devil was killed and ran away, he would go to raise the horse.

Lao Yang followed Captain Liu into the village.

When they met a devil, they passed by.

As they continued on their way, the devil turned around and stopped them.