The New Year in Nanjing was lively, but the atmosphere in Nanpi County, which is only more than 60 miles away from Cangzhou Capital, was a little tense.

The reason for the tension was that the Seventh Division was now stationed outside the county seat of Nanpi County, which had been captured by the Seventh Division as early as a few years ago, and Wang Qiang did not set up the division headquarters in the county seat, but lived with the troops in tents set up in the ice and snow.

Rows of green tents are neatly arranged in the snow, and it looks pleasing to the eye. It has already passed the third day of the first lunar month, and the troops have taken three days of annual leave, and today they have started training again.

Wang Qiang and Ma Qianjun, deputy division commander, stood next to the training ground with several staff officers of the division headquarters, and everyone kept stomping their feet, although the sun had come out, everyone did not feel the warmth from the sun, and the gusts of cold wind still penetrated into people's clothes.

"Division commander, it's really cold in the north, and many soldiers have chilblains, so we have to think of some way." Ma Qianjun sighed at his hand and said to Wang Qiang.

In fact, the Nanjing government has done a good enough job of guaranteeing the Seventh Division, the soldiers are wearing cotton hats, gloves, and cotton shoes on their feet, and the frostbite is because most of the soldiers of the Seventh Division are southerners and are not adapted to the cold climate in the north.

"What else can you do? Do you have a stove in every tent? Are we still troops? Wang Qiang glanced at Ma Qianjun dissatisfied.

"Division commander, I don't mean that, I want to go to the county seat tomorrow to see if I can find some medicine for chilblains, many soldiers' hands are so cold that they can't pull the bolt, this also affects our combat effectiveness, doesn't it?" Ma Qianjun hurriedly explained to Wang Qiang.

"Okay, don't do it tomorrow, you can take someone from the health team to see it now. If you have one, you will buy them all. Wang Qiang said.

Ma Qianjun agreed, turned around and left. Wang Qiang continued to patrol the training ground of the first regiment.

"Division commander. There you are? Xie Kui, the head of the group, ran over and saluted Wang Qiang.

"Leave us alone and continue to organize training." Wang Qiang stared at the soldiers who were attacking in the training squad platoon, and said casually to Xie Kui.

"I said brother, your posture is not right, how can you crawl forward like this, your ass is so high, and you are a target for the tartar?" Wang Qiang pointed at a soldier and shouted.

Wang Qiang walked over in a few steps, took off his gloves and took the rifle from the soldier. The cold body of the spear froze Wang Qiang's whole body.

"The division commander has demonstrated to everyone, and everyone has come to watch!" Xie Kui lowered his voice.

Wang Qiang picked up his gun and rushed forward and fell to the ground, although the snow was very thick, but it was already frozen hard, Wang Qiang did a complete tactical move, and his clothes were hung a few times.

Wang Qiang was about to give another lecture on tactics to the soldiers of the first regiment, but Ma Qianjun hurried back.

"Old Ma, didn't you go to the county seat? How did you come back again? Wang Qiang stopped lecturing on tactics and asked Ma Qianjun strangely.

"Commander, there's a guest here. I brought her to you, and I'm waiting in your tent now. Ma Qianjun said with a smile.

"Guests? Xie Kui. You continue to organize training, and I'll go back and see. Wang Qiang was a little curious, in this place, what guests would come to visit him?

When Wang Qiang hurriedly returned to the tent, there were two women sitting in the tent, one was a middle-aged woman, and the other was a woman in her early twenties.

"Wang Angel, the little woman Li Xiangjun has seen Wang Angel." Seeing that Wang Qiang was back, the woman stood up and blessed Wang Qiang.

"Are you Li Xiangjun?" Wang Qiang asked strangely, he recognized Li Xiangjun, he had been in contact with him in Nanjing, but then Li Xiangjun followed Hou Fangyu back to Henan and returned to Germany, and he never heard from her again, why did he come to the barracks today?

Wang Qiang did not know that Hou Fangyu had been appointed as the prefect of Cangzhou by the Manchu court, and if he knew the news, it would not be surprising that Li Xiangjun appeared here.

"It's the little woman, please save my child!" Li Xiangjun was about to kneel down as she spoke, Wang Qiang was a little at a loss, and wanted to step forward to support her, but he also knew that "men and women don't kiss each other".

"Li Xiangjun, you don't have to be like this, you have something to say slowly." Wang Qiang had no choice but to let Li Xiangjun kneel, and then said anxiously.

Li Xiangjun sat down on the chair and slowly narrated the origin.

Although Luo Jian and others came to this era, history has been completely changed, but Li Xiangjun's personal fate does not seem to have undergone more changes.

In another time and space, Li Xiangjun was disliked because her experience as a prostitute was known by Hou Fangyu's father, although Hou Fangyu still did not abandon her, but Hou's father drove her away from the Hou family, and finally died of depression.

Li Xiangjun also persuaded him when Hou Fangyu wanted to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but Hou Fangyu couldn't listen to him at all, so he could only follow him to Guide, and later Hou Fangyu participated in the imperial examination of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and was appointed as the prefect of Cangzhou, and the whole Hou family moved to Cangzhou, and Li Xiangjun also followed.

Li Xiangjun, who arrived in Cangzhou, gave birth to a boy to Hou Fangyu in the second year, thinking that he could have a good status in the family, but who would have thought that the child had just been a full moon, and Li Xiangjun's experience in Nanjing was passed on to Hou's father.

History was repeated again, Li Xiangjun was kicked out of the Hou family, and even the right to raise children was deprived, but fortunately, Hou Fangyu still had some affection for her at this time, and bought a suite in Cangzhou City to place her there.

At the beginning, Li Xiangjun could still secretly go to see her son, but later this was also known to Hou's father, and she never had the opportunity to see her son again.

Although he couldn't see his children, Hou Fangyu still came to her residence from time to time, but the relationship between the two didn't seem to be affected much.

Things changed after the Wehrmacht fought Texas, and Li Xiangjun's residence Hou Fangyu also came less, he used to always come five or six times a month, but since he lost Texas, he often didn't see Hou Fangyu for several months, and he didn't know what he was busy with.

Finally waited for Hou Fangyu to come, but this time it brought a news that Li Xiangjun never dreamed of, their son would be sent to Beijing City as a hostage.

This note was made by Feng Quan.

Since Wu Sangui led his troops to surrender to the Wehrmacht, the Manchu ministers below Dolgon began to be suspicious of the Han ministers and generals. It's full of mistrust. Although Feng Quan repeatedly returned to Dorgon to show his loyalty. But Feng Quan still heard from Dolgon's words that it was all perfunctory.

Feng Quan, who was unwilling to be left out in the cold, came up with such an idea to let the Han ministers and generals outside Beijing send their families to Beijing as hostages, and he believed that if they were really loyal to the Manchu court, all ministers and generals should do the same.

Although both Sonny and Fan Wencheng strongly disapproved of the idea, Dolgon still adopted Feng Quan's suggestion, which made Feng Quan proud for many days.

Hou Fangyu also received this will from the Manchu court a few years ago, which made Hou Fangyu's mind all scared. However, the old lady of the Hou family thought that the Manchu court was as kind to the Hou family as a mountain. It is not an exaggeration to send a person to the capital as a hostage, and it is not for the old lady to go as a hostage, according to the old lady's words, "It is most appropriate to send a child born to a cheap maid." ”

The old lady of the Hou family said everything in the Hou family, and Hou Fangyu did not dare to disobey, so he had to agree to send his and Li Xiangjun's children to the capital as hostages, regardless of whether the child was now less than two years old, according to the time limit given by the imperial court, after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the child would be sent by the Hou family to Beijing.

Although Li Xiangjun cried and made trouble in front of Hou Fangyu, the result could not be changed. Li Xiangjun did not wait for Hou Fangyu this time, and only went to the courtyard to cry in a low voice.

Li Xiangjun's cry made Hou Fangyu extremely impatient. walked into the courtyard and scolded a few times before brushing his sleeves away, leaving Li Xiangjun, who was completely cold-hearted, staring at his back blankly.

However, a woman who was waiting for Li Xiangjun helped her into the house, slowly comforted her, and while talking, the woman mentioned that the Wehrmacht had arrived in Nanpi County, not far from Cangzhou, and said that the Wehrmacht who came this time was also one of the former "angels", and she also heard that the surname was Wang.

Li Xiangjun remembered Wang Qiang who he had seen in Nanjing City, and began to estimate that it was him, and a thought came to his mind irrepressibly, that is, to ask Wang Angel to save his child.

Cangzhou City has become a large barracks, the streets are full of Manchu soldiers, Li Xiangjun had to use the name of the prefect's family to sneak out of the city, accompanied by a woman for dozens of miles, all the way to the barracks of the Seventh Division.

Although he had long been unaccustomed to Hou Fangyu, Wang Qiang really didn't expect Hou Fangyu to become like this now, listening to Li Xiangjun's crying, Wang Qiang was a little embarrassed.

The movement of the troops is planned, and now the Qing soldiers have gathered a large number of troops on the front line of Cangzhou, and the Seventh Division will not attack Cangzhou alone, although it is extremely confident in its combat effectiveness, but in the face of hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers, Wang Qiang does not have the courage to go deep alone.

Seeing Wang Qiang's embarrassed look, Li Xiangjun's heart began to sink, she had already thought about it, if even Wang Qiang couldn't save her child, she would be ready to die.

"Commander, I have a solution." Ma Qianjun also saw Wang Qiang's embarrassment, and now let the Seventh Division launch an attack on Cangzhou in advance in order to save a child, which is definitely unrealistic, Ma Qianjun also thought about it for a long time before saying to Wang Qiang.

Hearing Ma Qianjun's words, Li Xiangjun's face showed a look of hope again, and he looked at Wang Qiang with only one eye, waiting for him to speak.

"Commander, let's go to the side and talk." Ma Qianjun didn't say his way here, and pulled Wang Qiang into the command tent.

"Isn't there someone from our Ministry of Security in Cangzhou? Maybe they can find a way to steal the child out before it is sent to the capital? Ma Qianjun said to Wang Qiang, although generals in the army generally cannot command people in the Ministry of Security, but Wang Qiang is different, of course Ma Qianjun knows this.

Wang Qiang lowered his head and pondered, he was thinking about whether it was worth it to save Li Xiangjun's child and let the people of the Ministry of Security be exposed, and it was more likely to affect the next combat operations.

After thinking for a long time, Wang Qiang raised his head and said to Ma Qianjun: "You immediately go to Nanpi County to contact the people of the Ministry of Security, and let them steal Li Xiangjun's child without revealing themselves, if the danger is too great, forget it." Say to them, "That's what I mean." ”

Ma Qianjun agreed, and continued to rush towards Nanpi County with the people of the health team, and Wang Qiang returned to his tent.

"Li Xiangjun, I told you clearly, we are already thinking of a way, if we can be rescued, just in the next few days, I will arrange for you to live in Nanpi County, and you can wait for news there with peace of mind. If you really can't save it this time, it doesn't matter, after all, the child is going to the capital to be a hostage, and there will be no danger to his life. ”

After listening to Wang Qiang's words, Li Xiangjun wanted to get up and kneel for Wang Qiang again, Wang Qiang was a little annoyed again, "It's not that you don't know that we don't like people to kneel, if you kneel around again, I don't care about your business." ”

Hearing Wang Qiang's words, Li Xiangjun quickly stood up and blessed Wang Qiang.

"You don't have to say thank you, can you tell me in detail what you saw and heard in Cangzhou City?" Wang Qiang sat down and said to Li Xiangjun and the woman.

According to the operational arrangement, when Huang Dequan's 4th and 6th Divisions and Ma Yingkui's garrison division cleared the periphery of Cangzhou, they would launch an attack on Cangzhou. Information is being sent every day, Wang Qiang is not ignorant of everything in Cangzhou City, and asking them is just to make some confirmation. (To be continued.) )