Hearing the drum does not enter, smelling the gold does not stop, the flag cannot be raised, the flag is not subdued, this is called rebelling against the army, and the offender is beheaded!

——Excerpt from the ancient military law of seven prohibitions and fifty-four beheadings

As soon as the sky was bright, a long queue formed in front of the south gate of Qingle County. The farmer who hurried into the city early to sell some wood, the sick who was half-lying on a wheelbarrow with a thick handkerchief wrapped around his head, and who were going to go into the city to look for a doctor, were mixed with one or two outsiders who looked like they were looking for relatives and friends, all of them drooped their heads and slowly moved their steps forward, and they all looked like they had no energy at all.

In front of the city gate, several soldiers of the Imperial Association Army with big guns were carefully checking the luggage and goods carried by everyone who wanted to enter the city. Bundles of chopping firewood were scattered, and the picks were spread out and tested, and the few pieces of coarse noodles and dry food wrapped in the wrappers were also broken into slag. I groped up and down and searched all the work, and even a pair of rag shoes had to be taken off and beaten a few times before I stopped!

In addition to the Imperial Union soldiers who searched for passers-by in front of the city gate, four Japanese soldiers half-crouched behind the fortifications made of sandbags on both sides of the city gate, staring at the people lined up in front of the city gate with two machine guns. There were also three or four Japanese soldiers with 38 big covers, and they shouted at a few Imperial Army soldiers from time to time, as if they were supervising those Imperial Association soldiers to search for passers-by.

Seeing that the sun was rising higher and higher, in the queue that had been waiting outside the city gate for a long time, a young man with a strong stick who was dancing with a burden of chopping wood licked his dry lips very anxiously, and asked in a low voice to the old man in front of him: "Uncle, what happened to this Qingle County today?" On weekdays, when I enter and exit the city gate, although there are also people who search and check their bodies, they are not as careful as they are today? ”

Looking back at the young man with the strong stick who was carrying the chopping wood, the old man with a basket on his elbow sighed softly: "Hou Sheng, I'm afraid you haven't come to Qingle County for a few days, right?" Heard...... Just three days ago, the Eighth Route Army's military engineering team posted a notice at the gate of the Japanese barracks in Qingle County in broad daylight, saying that they would come to Qingle County to get the devil's machine gun in seven days! It's not ....... The two city gates in the north and south of Qingle County are all like grates to search and inspect the people entering and exiting, for fear that there will be people from the Eighth Route Army Martial Arts Team who have mixed into Qingle County! ”

Growing his mouth in surprise, the strong young man who was carrying the chopping wood platter lowered his voice and shouted: "The Eighth Route Army Martial Arts Team? It's the ....... again."

"Who else can scare the devils and the Imperial Association Army in Qingle County into such a person? Isn't that the Captain Mo Tianliumo?! I heard that two months ago, Captain Mo also posted a notice that he would take the head of Huang Village's maintenance chairman Huang Crooked neck within three days! The yellow crooked neck spent a lot of money, and invited the No. 20 Imperial Association Army spearmen and seven or eight devils to live in his own house to protect his life, and even the little wife was sent to the devil's house to wait. But at dawn on the third day, the head of the yellow crooked neck still hung on the big tree at the entrance of the village! ”

As if hearing the whispered discussion between the strong young man and the old man, a middle-aged man pushing a wheelbarrow and a few food pockets on the car also came over: "It is said that this Captain Mo is the reincarnation of the Buddha of the West Heaven Rulai under the Demon Golden Steel, and he knows how to call the wind and rain and shrink the ground into inches. came without a trace, went without a trace, and there was a judge's pen and a book of life and death in his hand, saying that the wicked would die three watches, and he would never leave his life to listen to the rooster's song......"

"Hi...... Where is this all gossip coming from? That Mo Tianliu Mo Captain, originally a bitter child picked up by the old lady Jiang in Dawu Village at the foot of Tieping Mountain, his father and mother were all starved to death, and he knew his surname Mo from the name tag hanging around his neck. In addition, this bitter child did not die in the heavy rain for three days and three nights, so Mrs. Jiang gave him the name of Tianliu, saying that God would not accept him, and he would leave him alive! ”

"Then I've heard of it...... There are three fierce and four biao under this Captain Mo, a total of seven heroes, all of whom listened to Captain Mo's prestige, so they came thousands of miles to join the ......."

"That's also a character in Dawu Village, a bitter child who grew up with Captain Mo when he was a child!"

"Huh? This big brother, how do you understand this Captain Mo so well? Could it be that you are ....... too"

"It's all from the villagers, what can you not understand about this short matter in the parents? My family lives in Xiaowu Village, and you can see the Jiang family ancestral hall when you cross Tieping Mountain, which can be regarded as a relative of the nephews and grandchildren of Mrs. Jiang! If you really want to talk about it in detail, then Mo Tianliu still has to call me a third uncle! ”

In the low voice, no one noticed that on the road leading to the city gate, a dozen Japanese soldiers with crooked armor came over at some point. A Japanese soldier led by Cao Cao, whose face was blackened by the smoke of gunpowder, gritted his teeth and cursed something in a low voice as he walked, and the southern-style pistol waving indiscriminately in his hand made the villagers waiting in line to enter the city avoid the plague!

Immediately behind the Japanese soldier Cao, several Japanese soldiers with a 38 cover surrounded a burly man who was a head taller than ordinary people, and from time to time smashed the burly man with the butt of his gun on the burly man who was tied behind his back, driving the burly man towards the direction of the city gate.

Seeing this scene, a low exclamation suddenly sounded in the crowd waiting in line to enter the city. And when the Japanese soldier Cao was still more than ten feet away from the city gate, he had already raised his voice and shouted in Japanese: "Are the guys in the Qingle County garrison all stupid? The people of the Eighth Route Army have infiltrated the city of Qingle County, and you are still at the gate of the city in vain? ”

Although listening to the Japanese soldier Cao speaking an authentic Hokkaido accent Japanese, several Japanese soldiers squatting behind the fortifications still did not relax their vigilance, and even those Japanese soldiers with 38 big covers on their shoulders quickly jumped into the bunker, aiming their guns at the Japanese soldier Cao who was striding forward, and one of the Japanese soldiers even raised his voice and shouted: "Stop!" Report your unit number and the name of your officer! ”

Very reluctantly stopped, the Japanese soldier Cao shouted at the city gate in a defensive posture: "Gongnan County garrison, Zhichuan Jingyi Army Cao!" Hurry up and inform His Excellency Yukikushi Jiro, I have with me a handwritten letter from His Excellency Yukikukutaro to him! ”

Listening to the shouts of the Japanese soldier, several Japanese soldiers who were squatting behind the fortifications with 38 large covers immediately believed seven points.

Gongnan County and Qingle County are next to each other, and the captains of the Japanese garrisons in the two counties happen to be two brothers. Perhaps because there were some things that were inconvenient to say on the phone, there was often a correspondence between Yukikushitaro and Yukikuin Jiro, which was already something that the Japanese soldiers in the two prefectures were accustomed to.

Slowly standing up, a Japanese soldier bowed respectfully to the angry Japanese soldier Cao: "Senior has worked hard......."

Before the Japanese soldier could finish speaking, the Japanese soldier Cao, who had just been forced to stop, had already strode towards the city gate, shouting loudly and scolding: "It's just a bunch of bastards!" The Eighth Route Army has already infiltrated Qingle County last night, and you don't know anything about it?! Immediately close the city gates, and send the eight roads we caught to the garrison for careful interrogation......."

In the midst of a series of shouts, the Japanese soldier Cao walked quickly to the fortifications at the city gate, raised his hand and slapped a Japanese soldier in the face: "Do you still want to be stupidly stunned?" Put the machine gun on the wall and close the gate immediately! ”

Perhaps unable to bear to see a low-ranking soldier like himself being wantonly beaten by a superior officer, several Japanese soldiers escorting the burly man also trotted to the fortifications, helping several Japanese soldiers pack up their machine guns and stack ammunition boxes aside. And the burly man with his arms tied behind his back was also pushed to the side of several soldiers of the Imperial Association Army who were at a loss.......

Under the chaotic scene, it was just a pot of smoke, and the two machine guns that were originally mounted on the sandbag fortifications were already on the shoulders of the two soldiers brought by the Japanese soldiers. And under the drive of several soldiers of the Imperial Army, the people who lined up at the city gate had to stay away from the vicinity of the city gate, and walked away reluctantly.

Looking at a few Japanese soldiers carrying ammunition boxes and preparing to walk into the cave of the city gate, Cao Cao, a Japanese soldier who still had a fierce look on his face, bared his teeth violently, and shouted at the burly man who was being guarded by the two imperial alliances: "Stick mallet, what are you waiting for?!" ”

Like the thunder of a dry day suddenly sounded on a sunny day, the burly man who was a head taller than ordinary people screamed like a thunderbolt, looking at the rope that was tied sturdily, and it was actually broken inch by inch in the blink of an eye. Before the two Imperial Cooperative soldiers who were guarding him came back to their senses, the burly man had already stretched out a pair of big hands like a fan and smashed them on the top of the heads of the two Imperial Cooperative Army!

In the crisp sound of bone cracking, the necks of the two Imperial Alliance soldiers suddenly slapped into the cavity, and they collapsed to the ground without saying a word. At the same time as the burly man made a move, several Japanese soldiers who were following the Japanese soldier Cao also drew their bright short knives from their sleeves one after another, and stabbed them into the heart of the target who was close at his side like lightning.

Seeing that his companions had succeeded, the Japanese soldier Cao proudly put two fingers to his mouth and whistled loudly. With the sound of the whistle, among the common people who had been walking away from the way back, dozens of strong young men with firewood pickers rushed to the city gate quickly, and familiarly erected the chopping firewood jumping on their shoulders into a firewood mountain in the city gate hole.

With another whistle, several young men pushing the wheelbarrow rushed to the side of Shiba Mountain, tore the sack on the unicycle in one fell swoop, and spilled some dead branches and leaves that looked unremarkable onto Shiba Mountain.

Taking off the kettle he was carrying, a young man who had completed the assassination mission poured the kerosene in the kettle on the firewood mountain, and then turned his head to the young man dressed as a Japanese soldier and shouted: "Captain, light the fire?" ”

With a wave of his big hand, the young man dressed as a Japanese soldier grabbed the Japanese combat cap buckled on his head and fanned the wind, while casually shouting in response: "Do you still need to ask me?" Hurry up and order it back, today's room is a good meal with white flour and hard buns, and I'm afraid there will be nothing left if I go back late! ”

"What are the clothes of these devils......."

"Take it away according to the old rules!"

Seeing that the firewood mountain piled up in the cave of the city gate was lit and the billowing smoke was burned, the young man dressed as a Japanese soldier Cao walked slowly and methodically in front of a few soldiers of the Imperial Association Army who were kneeling on the side with guns in both hands, and gently raised his chin: "You still know the rules?" ”

He didn't dare to raise his head at all, and among the soldiers of the Imperial Association Army who raised their guns and knelt on the ground before the incident, a rather old Imperial Association soldier responded in a trembling voice: "Understand! I know the rules - shoot and don't kill, and treat prisoners preferentially......."

"You know who I am, right?"

"I don't know ......."

"Huh?!"

"Know, know....... Eighth Route Army Martial Arts Team, Captain Mo! ”

"It's good to know! For the sake of you guys who still understand the rules, I won't kill you today, and I'll leave a few of you to give me a word! ”

"Captain Mo, your old man commanded ......."

"Tell the bastards in the Imperial Association Army who lead the devils to harm the villagers, and if the dog can't change its shit, just wait for the head to hang on the tree! Tell Yukiin Jiro again that his life belongs to Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will come to take it sooner or later! ”