Once a person becomes suspicious of another person, even the other person's fart is suspicious.

Deng Xiaogen's previous performances have fully demonstrated that his encounter with the reinforcements of the Japanese army was by no means a deliberate request for help, so he can't win the trust of the Japanese squadron leader by saying anything now.

The death of a Chinese is not a big deal for that Japanese squadron leader at all, even if it is really Deng Xiaogen's work, it is not a big deal.

But if it was really Nagahira Masao, he wanted to kill Deng Xiaogen before, and it happened that at this time, the Panshi gendarmerie was attacked by anti-Japanese forces; Then Deng Xiao is more likely to take advantage of the chaos to escape.

Naturally, the Japanese squadron leader linked the disappearance of Nagahira Masao with Deng Xiaogen's escape.

Qian Lu on the side lowered his head slightly, observing the change in the expression of the Japanese squadron leader without a trace.

At this moment, a Japanese soldier suddenly ran out of the house and handed the bloody epaulette in his hand to the Japanese squadron leader.

It was a second lieutenant rank, and before the arrival of the two reinforced Japanese squadrons, the only Japanese with the rank of second lieutenant in Panshi County was Nagahira Masao.

The Japanese squadron leader's face changed, and he gave Deng Xiaogen a big mouth with his backhand, and directly knocked him to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, he stepped forward and stepped on Deng Xiaogeng's head, and asked with a hideous face:

"Yaga! I ask you, Changping Shaozuo, where is it?! ”

Deng Xiaogeng's tears fell, and he lay on the ground and begged for mercy:

"Taijun spares his life, Taijun spares his life! At that time, Changping Taijun asked the small one to take the security team out of the city to fight the team attacking the rock, and the little one was scared, so he ran away, and later, he met you, and the other small ones didn't do anything! ”

"Yaga!"

The Japanese squadron leader stomped Deng Xiaogeng's head, and said angrily to the soldier next to him:

"Bring him back first!"

Then he turned his head to look at Qian Lu and said:

"You land, go back together!"

Qian Lu hurriedly nodded and said:

"Hayi, Hayi, but Taijun, can you let me go back and give injections to a few patients first? These days, there are twenty or thirty people in Panshi who have been suffering from malaria one after another, and Changping Taijun personally gave me medicine and asked me to inject those who are sick on time......"

Before he could finish his sentence, the Japanese squadron leader interrupted him in surprise:

"Nani? Malaria?! ”

Qian Lu hurriedly nodded:

"Yes, yes, yes, Taijun, it's malaria; But don't worry, the disease doesn't spread quickly, and there are only two ways to spread it, so you and the other Taijun won't be in much danger. ”

The Japanese squadron leader took two steps back and waved his hand impatiently at Qian Lu:

"Go back first; If you need to, I'll send someone to you! ”

Five days later, Liu Cheng finally returned to Suizhong.

Since they picked the kind of inaccessible and uninhabited places along the way, they didn't run into trouble.

Although Noma Heiji immediately strengthened the troops at various checkpoints in Jilin after receiving the news, and at the same time asked the Japanese puppet troops stationed in some garrison points to conduct a large-scale search, he was still one step too late.

Because Liu Cheng had a very good grasp of the timing, when Noma Heisi was busy arranging the transfer of troops, Duan Jinghe and the others had quietly left Jilin and went north directly into the grassland.

Noma Heiji was not unsure of the route Liu Cheng would take, but once he entered the grassland, even if he sent all the forces he could mobilize to pursue him, it would only be in vain.

This time, Liu Cheng's injuries were very serious, not counting those few bone cracks and fractures, and the flesh injuries alone had to be recuperated for at least a month.

Originally, he had already planned, and when he returned to Suizhong, he would immediately ask Xu Zhi to take someone to retrieve some of the gold to speed up the expansion of the team.

But unexpectedly, as soon as he and Duan Jinghe arrived in Chifeng with people, they met Hao Dabao.

Hao Dabao came back this time to invite credit.

He left some of the gold, and the rest was all sent back to Liu Cheng, as well as ten tons of brass.

However, when he arrived at Chifeng, he did not find the second company and ammunition base; Just as he was about to go back first, he ran into Liu Cheng and Duan Jinghe.

Seeing Liu Cheng's injuries, Hao Dabao was angry at that time, and he had to take someone to kill him back to the rock.

He came back with one hundred and fifty cavalry this time, and seventy or eighty on the copper mine.

In other words, he recruited nearly 200 recruits within a week or so of mining the gold mine.

Although the recruits had not been trained much, the young men of the steppe, who had grown up on horseback since childhood, even without guns, with the speed of cavalry and their exquisite riding skills, could have an absolute advantage with broadswords alone.

After listening to Hao Dabao's story, Liu Cheng couldn't cry or laugh.

In his previous life, when he heard the sentence "Sometimes you have to have it in your life, and you can't force it in your life", he still thought it was just a; But now, he believed.

Although he had the business that Qian Lu was in charge of as a backing, he only barely solved the rations of more than a thousand soldiers in the independent battalion, otherwise he would not have given Gao Yuan and Tian Liuwa only a little money.

But now, money is no longer an issue.

This time, Hao Dabao brought 200 catties of gold.

The number of two hundred catties doesn't sound like much, but with the addition of the word gold, the meaning is completely different.

Hao Dabao did not hide anything, and directly told Liu Cheng that he had left a hundred catties, of which more than half would be used to buy horses, and the rest would be used to complete the expansion of the team.

At that time, gold bars were generally stored as hard currency, and even those who had the most money rarely used gold for their expenses.

One tael of gold can be exchanged for about 30 oceans, and the monthly living expenses of a "well-off standard" family only need about 15 oceans.

Hao Dabao left a hundred catties of gold, that is, one thousand taels, which can be exchanged for about 30,000 pieces of ocean.

It costs about ten to thirteen oceans to buy a three-year-old horse, and seven hundred horses is about ten thousand oceans.

As for the remaining 20,000 yuan, he wanted to expand the cavalry company to 500 people according to Liu Cheng's requirements, and ensure that these 500 people would not starve.

Therefore, it sounds like you can't spend a lifetime of money, but in fact, you can only last for three to five months at most.

After Hao Dabao reported the whole process of his discovery of the gold mine, he looked at Liu Cheng with a smug face, waiting for his praise.

It's a pity that Liu Cheng just said "not bad" lightly.

If it weren't for Liu Cheng's injury, Hao Dabao would definitely have to "talk" with him.

After Hao Dabao's excitement gradually calmed down, Liu Chengcai said to him very formally:

"You kid hurry up and take people back, complete the expansion as quickly as possible, and then immediately come back with the team, go to Phoenix Mountain to find Zhao Dayong's company, wait for me there, and concentrate on training!"