Chapter 47: The Empty City
After understanding what Ren Laifeng meant, Sichinbari smiled heartily and explained: "Cattle can provide meat and milk for us steppe people. We came to the mainland to help you, we can't eat all of you, right? Take a herd of cows with you, and the problem of eating is solved. If you tie all these horns with sharp knives, how can you milk cows, slaughter cows and eat meat? ”
It turns out that these cows are people's rations! Ren Laifeng looked in the direction of Siqinbari's finger, and there were Mongolian knights cutting the corpses of bulls killed in battle, including the Mongolian bull with broken horns and blindness. These oxen traveled thousands of miles from the prairie to help in the war, and when they died, they could be used as rations for the soldiers to feed their hunger. Cows are indeed the most faithful companions of human beings!
Qinggang County was occupied by devils, and Ren Laifeng decided to regain the lost territory. After discussing with Si Qinbari, all the Mongol-Han coalition forces returned to Laifeng to be under unified command, and the troops were sent to Qinggang!
Tens of thousands of Mongol-Han coalition troops, even people and horses drove cattle and cannons in the direction of Qinggang County, and the devils occupying Qinggang County fled when they heard the news! Ren Laifeng led the army here and met an empty city. The people in the city let Ren Laifeng mobilize before the war, and as soon as the devil puppet army left, the county town became an empty city, and all the people left behind in the city added up to less than 200 people.
This is a county seat, not a barracks. There are no hawkers on the streets, restaurants and shops are closed, and there are only a few pedestrians on the streets. Ren Laifeng walked towards the city, looking at the deserted streets, his heart was full of taste. When this battle is over, the people must be allowed to move back as soon as possible. It's too uncomfortable to stay in a city without people!
"Welcome to the commander-in-chief!"
"Warm congratulations to the commander-in-chief on his victory in a hundred battles!"
Turning the corner, there were twenty or thirty people standing on both sides of the street waving small red flags waving flags and cheering. "Huh-" Ren Laifeng stopped his war horse, and after a closer look, these people were the ordinary people in the original city, and two of them he still knew, and they were the shopkeeper and buddies of the Defeng Lou Restaurant in Qinggang County.
Seeing that the shopkeeper and the guys were also looking at him, Ren Laifeng turned over and jumped off the war horse, and this time the group of flag-waving welcomes were even happier, some people clapped their hands, and more than 20 people crackled and applauded quite warmly.
"Shopkeeper Wang, are you here too? When did you come back? ”
"When will you be back? I didn't leave at all! I knew that the commander-in-chief would not give up Qinggang, and you would come back sooner or later, so what am I moving around? It's cumbersome and costly. Hey, Commander-in-Chief, you're not going to leave again when you come back this time, are you? The shopkeeper looked at Ren Laifeng with blank eyes, and everyone present stared at the commander-in-chief without blinking.
Being stared at like this seems to be a lot of pressure. Ren Laifeng puffed up his chest, looked at the shopkeeper Wang, and looked at the people around him, although there were not many people, but these people were all local residents. "Don't go! The shopkeeper Wang let him go, please rest assured, I will not leave this time! From now on, Qinggang County will be my hometown! ”
"Wow!" The welcoming crowd erupted in cheers again. Although there are not many people, these people have already represented the voices of the vast majority of the people in Qinggang County.
Ren Laifeng's statement to these people today soon spread all over the nearby ten miles and eight towns. It didn't take long for the original residents of the county town to begin to move back on a large scale, and people from nearby townships also settled in the city. When there are more people, the city will naturally prosper. Qinggang County ushered in a rare opportunity for development, so much so that a year later, it became a well-known economic county in Northeast China.
That's all for later. After Ren Laifeng cordially met with the representatives of the people left behind in the county, he led the team directly to the former Japanese occupation army headquarters, that is, Kono Yusuke's lair.
It turns out that although Kono is not looking for trouble, Qinggang County, which is the base of the guerrillas, is actually a devil in charge, and Ren Laifeng will feel awkward when he thinks about it. Now that Kono and his devils are all gone, Qingoka County is finally back in the hands of the Chinese themselves! Thinking that all of this was brought about by himself, Ren Laifeng was inevitably a little proud in his heart.
The devil's barracks are very clean, the tables, chairs and benches are placed quite neatly, and it seems that the devils are ready for the handover. Now that everyone has packed everything up, then let's not be polite, Ren Laifeng directly assigned this military camp to the sixth detachment.
Feng Wenying will not be polite. Brother Feng assigned this place to her, and that was her territory. Feng Wenjing directly ordered the troops to march into the barracks and assign barracks. Of course, she will definitely not do such work as assigning barracks, and there is a deputy detachment Liu Wenju who has a lot of brains and ideas in the sixth detachment. Leave these things to Liu Wenju, she is absolutely relieved.
After leaving the barracks and going to the county government, Ren Laifeng and Feng Wenying walked side by side. Jin Haitang was a few steps behind and followed behind Ren Laifeng. There was a beggar sitting under a tree by the roadside, dirty all over his body, his hair sticking into locks of hair, this guy was covered with dirt, and he didn't know how many years he hadn't bathed.
Ren Laifeng saw the beggar, and he just glanced at it and passed. During the war, the people's lives were miserable, and many poor people who could not survive lost their land and property because they were far from their hometowns during the war or were robbed by bandits and plundered by Japanese invaders, and were forced to become beggars and live by begging.
In recent years, there have been many beggars, and you can see beggars in almost every city, and sometimes you can see people begging for food in the countryside. Therefore, Ren Laifeng just glanced at it, and didn't take the person who asked for food seriously at all.
Feng Wenying looked at it twice, the more she looked at it, the more she felt that something was wrong, and just wanted to open her mouth to remind, Ren Laifeng suddenly called Jin Haitang, "Haitang, what is your sister doing now?" ”
Jin Haitang rode a jujube red horse and followed behind, and when she heard Ren Laifeng calling her, she hurriedly lifted the reins and urged her to dismount and accelerate forward, and hurried a few steps forward side by side with Ren Laifeng. On the right of Ren Laifeng was Feng Wenying and Jin Haitang, and he walked to the left. When the three of them just walked in a row, "Smack! The gunshot rang out!
This is a human assassination! Ren Laifeng knew that he was not injured, so he hurriedly looked to the left and right. Feng Wenying on the right was looking at him with anger on his face, and then turned his head to look left, Jin Haitang's little face was white, and he obviously couldn't sit still when he rode on the horse, and his body was shaking from side to side.
"Begonia, what's wrong with you?" Ren Laifeng helped Jin Haitang's shoulder.
"She's been shot! Drive! Feng Wenying took the reins, and the war horse accelerated violently to overtake Ren Laifeng's horse's head and turned sideways, rushing towards the side of the street.
The beggar under the tree jumped up and shot Feng Wenying, turned around in a panic and ran. Feng Wenying hurriedly urged the war horse, and then chased after it.