Xie Yucheng and the others hid in a citrus grove on a hillside, brushing the branches and leaves of the citrus trees, and looking down the mountain for a long time.

After the gunfire stopped, the twilight shrouded mountains and rivers quickly returned to quiet, and the late birds rushed over the wilderness and disappeared into the curling smoke of the villages below.

After observation, Xie Yucheng already knew that the militia was divided into two groups of men and horses, and they surrounded two hills four or five miles apart. The barge fire had stopped for the time being, and he couldn't tell which hill was the red head, which hill was the men and horses of Jieyunzhai, or whether the two groups of men and horses had been completely mixed and then scattered in the fierce battle?

He decided to take a prisoner and learn about the battlefield.

So, he came to the junction of these two battlefields, this village called Shawei at the foot of the mountain, to try his luck.

At this moment, two groups of cavalry galloped from outside, attracting his attention.

It was getting late, and the distance was a little far, and I couldn't see people's faces clearly. But the first two horses were undoubtedly sitting on two guys who looked like officials, and the entourage behind them were all loaded with guns.

I saw them galloping into the entrance of the village, collecting the reins in front of a small farm yard, dismounting, and being led into the small courtyard.

Xie Yucheng instinctively felt that this Shawei Village had come to the right place.

He loosened the branches and leaves of the citrus tree, beckoned to Qiao Feiyan and the others nearby, turned back to squat in the sparse grass under the tree, and the two gathered over and looked at him intently.

"Pretty boss, you all saw those two teams of cavalry, right?" He picked up a dead branch and drew it quickly on the ground.

"See, it looks like two heads." Qiao Feiyan recognized him as drawing a simple map of the village at the foot of the mountain, and the slightly thicker line was supposed to be the main road that crossed the village, and a small bridge connected by the main road was drawn as a dotted line with arches. She also picked up a dead branch and gestured it over the map.

Lu Qing didn't speak, he saw that the dead branch in Xie Yucheng's hand was drawing towards his feet, so he hurriedly retreated a little, and easily pulled out a clump of weeds that was in the way. As Xie Yucheng painted, he quickly recounted:

"At present, there are at least three or four thousand enemies, and the people of our cottage and the red letter head are combined, I am afraid that there are less than four hundred, and now we are surrounded by them to death...... And we...... There are only a few people around us, and they can't be counted, let alone saving people, if they are discovered, they may not even be able to escape! ”

Qiao Feiyan twisted her eyebrows and said hatefully: "Since we came, we didn't think about running away...... Later, take advantage of the darkness of the night to touch in, fight for a while, and lure away the Jingwei Regiment, Brother Hao and Brother Hu, and they will be able to take the opportunity to run out. ”

"Isn't that a death for nothing?" Xie Yucheng drew a small square with a withered branch, which was considered a house, and glanced at her disapprerovingly, "Isn't this just fulfilling the wish of the Luo butcher?" Clean sweep! Cut the grass and eradicate the roots! ”

"Then ......, what do you say? Fight, can't beat, can't be ...... Watching Tiger Brother and them being eaten? At the beginning, he swore to live and die together. Qiao Feiyan glared at Xie Yucheng and said angrily.

Xie Yucheng sighed, drew faster, and frowned: "If you want me to say, the jade palm plate them, they shouldn't come to wade into this troubled water...... Moths throw fire, throw themselves to the enemy's favor! ”

"You ......" Qiao Feiyan looked at Xie Yucheng steadily, as if she wanted to see his true intentions from his face, and after a while, the expression on her face suddenly relaxed, and she pouted, "Oh, that's right." I almost forgot. Your Mr. Xie is a son-in-law from Nanjing, and he has never bowed to us......" The corners of her good-looking mouth floated a sneer, "Then for a while, I really have to thank you." Helped us such a big favor! As she spoke, she turned to Lu Qing next to her, "Qing'er, let's go," shook off the dead branch in her hand on the ground, twisted her waist and stood up, "Our own muddy water, we will find a way to wade by ourselves!" ”

Lu Qing's face was stunned, his eyes went back and forth on the faces of the two, and he didn't know what to say.

"Stop!" Xie Yucheng didn't look up, but continued to paint. Qiao Feiyan didn't move, didn't snort, just watched him draw quietly.

In a few moments, the map was drawn. He pointed the dead branch in his hand to the entrance of the village in the map, and nodded near the small bridge, "The two who started just now, I bet they are two officials." Now, they went into this little yard, where they were cooking. I want to gamble......" He raised his eyes to look at the two siblings in front of him, and said softly, "Bet on whether the headquarters of their regiments are located in this small courtyard." ”

"Which is the small courtyard? Is this it? Although Qiao Feiyan was still puffing up, her face began to be cloudy and clear, and she leaned down and looked at the dead branches in his hand, and seeing that he was serious, she couldn't help but stare at the picture on the ground. However, when she saw that there was a crooked square on the map, a half-circle drawn at random in front of the square, she couldn't help but pout her lips with disdain, "This is a small courtyard?" Fish, fish, your painting is too ......, too ......."

Xie Yucheng glanced up at her: "What?" Do you have an opinion? ”

Qiao Feiyan saw that his face was not good, and she hurriedly shook her head like a rattle: "No, no, how dare you have any opinions!" We...... Are you still counting on Mr. Xie's clever calculations......"

"It's good to know! I can't say that I can't say that I have a magic machine, but at this time, one more person, one more power, you know? Don't drive people out! Xie Yucheng snorted from his nostrils, "Pretty palm, it's also a shame that you are famous all over Luo Xiao, opening a mountain and erecting a flag, such a big person, you can't look at your face!" Don't interrupt! As he spoke, he lowered his head and continued to point to the hut on the map, "Well, I don't know if you two noticed, just now, there were two people standing at the gate of this small courtyard to greet you...... Well, they were standing here just now...... I think...... They should also be two officials. ”

"Well, I think so, too!" Lu Qing, who was squatting opposite, glanced up at Xie Yuzhen, then lowered his gaze again and continued to look at the place.

Qiao Feiyan was stunned, thought about it for a while, and then nodded again and again, expressing her agreement, and then said anxiously: "Yu'er, then what should we do next?" Oops, you say it quickly. ”

"You guys are waiting here, Lu Qing and I will go into the village and feel the situation!" Xie Yucheng said with a straight face, stood up, and handed the dead branch in his hand to Qiao Feiyan, "You and your brothers are here, take a good look at the map, and then compare it with the terrain in this village, it's best to keep the terrain in this village in mind......

He walked a few steps away, came to a few mules under a large citrus tree, took out a coarse cloth gown from the willow rattan basket on the back of the mule, then took off his long shirt three times and divided by two, changed his clothes, carefully pinned M1911 and the Uzi dagger to the belt, tidied up his clothes again, and then swung his chin to Lu Qingyi:

"Let's go, Brother Lu Qing."

Lu Qing was overjoyed when he heard this, jumped up, and checked the guns and short knives on his body like Xie Yucheng, and then walked side by side with Xie Yucheng.

Seeing them walking out of the citrus grove without looking back, Qiao Feiyan suddenly smiled, but immediately put away her smiling face, quickly turned around and pushed aside the citrus tree, and looked down the mountain.

Dusk had come, and the village below the hill was a little hazy, with dogs barking from time to time, and occasionally a few calls for children and daughters, but the whole village was still full of smoke and peace.

Xie Yucheng and Lu Qing quickly walked out of the citrus forest, stepped down the hillside, and disappeared behind a row of dense chestnut trees, and when they reappeared in the field of vision, Xie Yucheng actually carried a small bundle of firewood on his shoulder, and at a cursory glance, it was the same as a villager who returned late from collecting firewood.

Qiao Feiyan stared at the backs of the two of them intently, and smiled slightly in her heart: This fish, can't you talk well...... You have to make people angry to be comfortable, it's really underwhelming...... Only, can they catch the captives quietly? What if the militia found out as soon as they entered the village? Thinking of this, she suddenly came to her senses, and quickly turned her head, called the six or seven brothers scattered nearby, gathered around the simple map on the ground, and explained to them carefully.

It soon became dark, and the village below began to be lit up with few lights, and the evening breeze brought the aroma of food.

But Xie Yucheng and the two never returned. Qiao Feiyan stretched her neck anxiously, looked into the village below the mountain, put her hands on her waist, took out the box gun, and didn't go back, and so on, I don't know how many times.

I don't know how long it took, it seemed like a long time, and it seemed like a while. Just when she couldn't help but take her brother into the village, two vague figures suddenly appeared on the hillside, and she couldn't care about anything, and hurried out of the citrus grove to meet them.

The distance was getting closer and closer, Qiao Feiyan found that the two figures striding up the hill were a little strange, and their walking posture was different from Xie Yucheng and Lu Qing, so she was taken aback, and pulled out the box gun with a whoosh, and at the same time, her whole heart slammed, and it seemed to sink into very heavy water, and the whole person froze.

But the two rushing figures seemed to recognize her and made a gesture to him, and Qiao Feiyan recognized from that action that it was Xie Yucheng's usual action, and her heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, as if she was alive again.

At this moment, the two of them came closer, and when she looked closely, she realized that they were carrying a bundle of struggling living creatures.

She quickly understood—it was a captive!

She ran a few steps quickly, rushed to meet it, and hurriedly helped.

The interrogation went very smoothly.

As soon as the captive was put down, Lu Qing took out a large ball of straw that was stuck in his mouth, and he fell to his knees with a puff, crying out for mercy.

Then, it became a bamboo tube to pour beans, and all questions were answered, and the answers were refreshing and neat.

It turned out that the special commissioner Yuan from the Nanjing State Government really planned to set up his headquarters in the village at the foot of the mountain and arrange the combat affairs of the two small battlefields in the center. However, Luo Butcher only cared about leading the Longquan Jingwei Regiment, and with the assistance of the Yanyou Regiment Defense Bureau, he tried every possible way to attack the people and horses of Jieyunzhai in the encirclement, and ignored his words.

Commissioner Yuan had no choice but to let Tan Chu lead a team and station in this village to contact the two small battlefields.

Now, several officials, including Commissioner Yuan, are eating at the farmer's wife's house at the entrance of the village, talking and laughing.

On top of that, there were only three squads of about thirty people in the Bodyguards.

This captive was one of them, he had just drunk half a catty of rice wine brewed at the farmer's house, and he was a little anxious to urinate, so he went to the vegetable field outside the back garden to relieve himself, and was caught by Xie Yucheng and Lu Qing who were lying there.

After the interrogation, everyone was overjoyed.

Xie Yucheng immediately issued an order to inspect his weapons and prepare for battle. Qiao Feiyan took out a few flower traps and Ying Qiqi from the bamboo basket on the mule's back and distributed them one by one. Suddenly, he found that Xie Yucheng, who was a few steps away, was grabbing Lu Qing and pushing him fiercely, causing Lu Qing to retreat again and again.

She suddenly lost her face, hurriedly ran over, untied the two of them, and whispered in a panic, "What are you doing, you guys?" Let it go! In the dark, Xie Yucheng's face was quite ugly, angry, since they met, Qiao Feiyan had never seen him like this, she instinctively knew that it must be Lu Qing who had done something wrong, she turned to Lu Qing while separating her body between the two: "Qing'er, what did you do?" ”

Lu Qing lowered his head and did not answer.

She glared at him, turned her head, faced Xie Yucheng, took his hand, and whispered: "Yu'er, what's going on?" …… Qing'er, Qing'er, he's still a child......"

"Kid?" Xie Yuzhen's deep voice sounded, "You can be a sister, take a look...... " he said, and he pouted into the ground a few steps away from him.

Qiao Feiyan looked down and saw the captive on the ground lying on the ground like a rag, his whole body twitching violently, and there was a bubbling sound in his throat.

She suddenly understood, turned her head and glanced at Lu Qing behind her with disgust, sighed, turned around and hugged Xie Yucheng, dragged some away, and pleaded softly: "Okay, this is what Qing'er did wrong!" You said it earlier...... You must not hurt the captive ...... casually, and I am to blame for this, alas, I, I promise...... Promise there won't be a next time, don't be angry, huh? ”

Xie Yucheng glared at her fixedly for a while, and snorted heavily: "There will be a next time, don't blame me for not being a child!" Shaking off her hand, he turned and walked towards the seven or eight brothers a few paces away.

Xie Yucheng shook his hand, using a lot of force. Qiao Feiyan knew that he was really angry, and couldn't help but look at his face, anxious and ashamed. Although he knew that Lu Qing did something wrong, Xie Yucheng seriously warned the sisters and brothers yesterday that they should not make this kind of mistake again, at least not in front of him. The rule in the cottage is that if you make a mistake, you will be punished. Just like the night she hit the cold puddle a few days ago, she had to raise her dagger and stab herself.

People are in the rivers and lakes, and there are no rules. This has always been a matter of course.

However, I don't know why, I seem to feel the disgust when he shook his hand suddenly, and now an unspeakable grievance suddenly welled up in her heart, and the sourness suddenly overflowed her eyes like a tide, and tears almost burst out of her eyes.

But Xie Yucheng was completely unconscious, only to see him walk up to the seven or eight brothers by himself, checking the preparation of their weapons one by one. Tuck the grenade on his waist for this one, straighten the strap of his weapon for that one, and whisper what to pay attention to after rushing into the village later.

Lu Qing behind him was silent, Qiao Feiyan knew that her younger brother, like most of the brothers in the cottage, had a ruthless and ruthless habit, how easy was it to correct it all at once?

In the blink of an eye, Xie Yucheng had finished the inspection, and without even looking this way, he led the seven or eight brothers to take light steps, along the hillside, and rushed towards the dimly lit village.

Looking at the capable figure walking in the front in the hazy darkness, Qiao Feiyan suddenly felt that there was an invisible wall between the two, and her heart suddenly panicked as if she had been drained of blood.

At this moment, Lu Qing, who was beside her, approached her and reminded in a low voice: "Let's go, sister." Xie commanded them all to leave. We're going to keep up. He seemed to notice her strangeness, lowered his head, and muttered, "Let's go, sister...... I know, and I will ...... I don't make Commander Xie angry. ”

Lu Qing said as he tugged at her sleeve and shook it gently, just like when he was scolded for doing something wrong before. He...... Actually, it's still a child.

It was at this time that Qiao Feiyan suddenly discovered that although the child in front of her was still a little thin, her body was as tall as herself.

She smiled suddenly, and a few tears could not hold back any longer, and large ones rolled out and rolled down her pearly cheeks. She quickly raised her sleeve and rubbed it, and pulled the half-grown child in front of her: "Go, keep up...... What about those who come from the big cities? How many brothers and sisters are we, who are we worse than? ”