After lunch, Li Yunrui just thought of lying on the bed for a while, getting a good night's sleep, and relaxing his nerves, when the two panicked lookers rushed into his bedroom. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Oh no, Li Gongzi, it's not good." The first catcher just pushed open the door and started yelling. It looked like he was being chased by a ghost - but it was daytime, and everyone should know that no ghost would be active during the day, except ......

The second catch confirmed Li Yunrui's guess. "The foreign devils have surrounded the county!"

Like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail, Li jumped out of bed with the same panicked expression as the two catchers - no one knew how he did it, but he just jumped - followed by louder screams, of course. "The foreigners have surrounded the county seat?"

He could scarcely believe his ears: when they met in the morning, the fake foreign devil named Yi Shui also emphasized that the operation of his troops was only carried out within the concession...... Well, the statements and oaths of the fake foreign devil can't be trusted, not to mention that the guy didn't say that he wouldn't attack Suixi at all......

Great, now everyone is the turtle in the urn, and no one wants to run away.

That's great!

After cleaning up his mood a little, Li Yunrui looked at the two catchers who were about to collapse on the floor. "Waste." He cursed in his heart, and at the same time asked, "What do you command?" ”

At such a time, as the only translator in the county, if not the first, but not the last, he must have been one of the first people Li Zhongyu thought of; Only he could communicate with the Americans and protest on behalf of the magistrate...... Although this is meaningless to anyone, it is a necessary step.

Li Yunrui understands that the time has come to use his talents. Of course, hearing him mention Li Zhongyu, the two catchers also remembered their tasks.

"Master Li wants you to go to the county office to see him immediately...... Oh, it's not the county government, it's the south gate...... Wait, is it the South Gate or the county office? The first one looked at his colleague in bewilderment, but the brother gave him the exact same look.

Li Yunrui knew that these two wastes had been completely frightened, and it was impossible to get a reliable message from their mouths now, so he ignored them anymore.

He hurriedly got dressed, and then ran out of the house in the same hurry.

At this moment, many people had gathered at the gates and walls of Suixi County, a small number of them were members of the county's catchers and militia groups, and most of them were crowds watching the excitement - for them, the mercenaries were doing something they had never seen before, curiosity overcame fear, and gave them the courage to stand in a place that looked extremely dangerous, and at the same time they were in the mood to joke.

"What are they laughing at?" Jason. Wochs stopped what he was doing and turned his head in the direction of the city gates, but was immediately reprimanded by his companions.

"Leave them alone, dig quickly." Vince. Vane snorted dissatisfied.

Warhes shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly, but as requested, he sent a shovel of dirt into the pocket that Vane was holding, just enough to fill it. So Vane took out the rope and tied the mouth of the bag, and then placed the small sandbag on the outer side of the trench on a layer of sandbags that had been piled up.

This is what arouses the curiosity of the residents. With the exception of a small number of mercenaries on guard, most of them were digging trenches and making parapets in front of the trenches out of sandbags filled with dirt. At the same time, other mercenaries are collecting planks and logs to build fortified machine-gun bunkers.

They are skilled in their work. In the boot camp, each mercenary was trained for several weeks in the construction of field fortifications, and now they were able to complete in a very short time a system of barbed wire, trenches, and reinforced machine-gun bunkers, which was a strong and threatening field defense even by European standards, before which the Italians had suffered heavy losses; But for the Chinese people, it is natural for them to find it ridiculous to see foreigners doing something akin to digging a canal.

So they gathered together, looked at each other with smiles, and whispered about it, completely oblivious to the fact that the American army was blockading the county -- even some of the members of the Catchers and the Vigilante Regiment -- and no one thought of what should be done.

"It's funny." Kiprin said to one of his squadron commanders, "We could never have built fortifications so leisurely elsewhere, and the counterattack had already begun." ”

"The lieutenant colonel said that the Chinese usually do not take the initiative to attack foreign troops." said the commander.

"It's not 'the usual situation' now, we're blocking them in our own cities, it's an act of war." Kiprin shook his head, lamented his situation for a moment, and then asked, "How's it going?" ”

"Each gate already has two machine guns aimed at the fortified bunkers, and no one can rush out of the city. But we can't lock down the city yet. ”

"It doesn't matter, I don't think the Chinese will have any real action until it gets dark." Kiprin glanced at his watch, then added, "But the delegates who protested to us should have come." ”

As he spoke, Li Yunrui had separated from the crowd of onlookers at the gates of the city and walked out of the county seat—as he had guessed before, Li Zhongyu had asked him to protest to the Americans—but he was the only one to do this, and the county magistrate needed to stay in the city and study tactics with the county bureaucrats, and none of the remaining people were going to risk acting with him.

So he was the only one who walked out of the county town and, under the gaze of the people, slowly, little by little, approached the trenches dug by the mercenaries.

He hadn't been able to go far, and was less than ten meters away from the city gate when Wen Desi stopped in front of him with two mercenaries.

"Stop moving." Wen Deji shouted, and at the same time secretly cursed his superiors: he always did this kind of thing, and now he had become one of the most famous Chinese among the mercenaries, and his reputation was only slightly lower than that of the boss of Yi Shui—but unfortunately it was not a good reputation.

Can't they just do it with someone else? He grumbled, issuing a second warning: "Stop, you're about to cross the blockade!" ”

Cordon? Li Yunrui looked down at the ground, and there was a thin red line less than two steps in front of him. Is this the blockade?

He guessed, and wanted to take another step forward.

The mercenary led by Bundeji raised his gun, and he shouted again: "Stop, if you cross the blockade, we will kill you immediately." ”

Li Yunrui immediately retracted the right leg that was about to take a step. He could see that Wen Deji was not joking, and the expressions of the two mercenaries and the muzzles of the black holes also strengthened the persuasiveness of the warning; He had to stop, but he didn't take a step back.

"I want to see your Colonel Yi Shui." He shouted.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel isn't here." Wen Deji mechanically recited the prepared speech.

"Then I want to see your sir. Whoever commands you, I will see him. Li Yunrui then asked, but was again refused.

"I'm sorry, my chief is busy, he doesn't have time to see you."

"I can wait."

"I'm sorry," Moon-Tak-tsui mentioned the word for the third time, which made him feel sick, but the recitation had to continue. "I'm afraid you don't have time. Before I count to 'ten', you must return to the county seat or you will be arrested." If you resist arrest, you will also be beaten to death. ”

"Ridiculous! Outrageous! Li Yunrui finally couldn't help it, and his frustration made him start to shout hysterically, "This is a place in China, why do you arrest people at will?" Why surround the county seat? You can't do that......"

Although his emotions were completely out of control, he still miraculously controlled himself and did not take half a step forward, so Wen Deji ignored his shouting, but counted mechanically: "One! ”

Then he waited for a while, but Li Yunrui didn't seem to hear it at all, and was still shouting loudly, so he had to continue. "Two!"

Li Yunrui still didn't hear it. One of the mercenaries behind him made a gesture, and several soldiers who were digging trenches immediately put down their work and ran over with their weapons, while he raised his voice slightly. "Three!"

And then it was: "Four! ”

And then: "Five! ”

And then: "Six! ”

When he counted to "seven", several mercenaries who came to reinforce began to surround Li Yunrui, and it was only by this time that he finally realized that the situation had become very unfavorable. After thinking about it for a while, when "eight" was also shouted, Li Yunrui began to slowly retreat.

"Nine!" Under the effect of inertia, Wen Desi shouted again. This time, Li Yunrui had to change his attitude - he turned around and ran back to the city in a panic.

"It looks like the protesters have been driven back as well." Kiplin, who had been paying attention to the situation just now, now smiled mockingly, and then said to the commanders beside him, "Order the troops to speed up the construction of the blockade line." We have to make sure that nothing goes wrong. ”

"Understood, sir." After a pause, a squadron commander asked, "But if we lock this place down, how can the Chinese inform their governor of everything that is happening here?" ”

This was something Kiplin didn't expect, and after a moment of stunned, he asked a few subordinates uncertainly: "Won't the nearby villagers report to their governor?" ”

"I think it might be difficult for ordinary villagers to meet their governor."

"So...... Should we leave a gap for the Chinese? Kiprin thought for a moment, "Or will we send a telegram to their governor in place of the Chinese officials?" ”

In any case, it was a question that required serious consideration, otherwise the governor would have to wait until Colonel Mahan's fleet arrived in Canton before he could be warned.

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