In March 1931, outside the city of Shenyang, Wicker Lake, only 2.5 kilometers away from Shenyang.

In Shenyang in March, the sky is still full of snowflakes, and the white world, cold and gloomy are two themes that coexist. It's just that the weather is cold, and it's hard to endure. It is said that the two scourges of myself and bandits are rampant in almost half of the Northeast, coupled with God's lack of beauty, famine every year, it is really bitter cold every year.

In the snow and ice, you can occasionally see peasants driving carts along the South Manchurian railway line, ready to enter the city to exchange a little salt or the worst noodles. This road into the city is not easy, life is hard, even those peasants who sell turnips, will be bullied by the railway garrison, snatching a little gross ticket or carrying a basket of radishes is common, beating the peasants to the ground in the ice and snow for half a day and not being able to get up is also happening.

On the land of China, I am really a big evil animal. More fierce than a wolf, no one has a surname than a dog.

In the heavy snow, two people dressed in cotton coats got out of the garrison's barracks, with big hats, cotton clothes, armed belts, binoculars bags, dressed as standard garrison troops, and walked along the railway with 38 big covers on their shoulders.

"It's disgusting that the empire went to great lengths to help the people of China build the railway, but some of them did not understand it, and instead became hostile to the empire. Why can't they be like the North Koreans, and how nice it would be. It is really an inferior people who are not as good as the Koreans. ”

Seishiro Itagaki kicked the railroad tracks that were half covered by snow and said gloomily.

Ishihara let out a sigh of relief, and the white mist was clearly visible by the freezing of the cold sky, "The people of China have been closed to the country for a long time, and they have a natural resistance to foreign things, and we can't rely on their conscious gratitude, but we should make them submit." Just like North Korea and Taiwan, provide enough blood for the empire to become strong. ”

Seishiro Itagaki looked along the railway line, which was built by the empire and brought too many benefits to the empire, and with the extension of the railway line, the chain of interests of the empire was also strengthened.

"I heard that there are some bandits in China who deliberately damaged the railroad tracks, forced the passing trains to stop, and grabbed a lot of supplies." He said meaningfully.

Ishihara Wan'er laughed, "Itagaki-kun, you have just arrived, you haven't seen the bandits all over the mountains of the Zhina people, the people of China call them beards, not to mention trains, some emperor [***] people should also be extra careful when they go out on patrol, a few days ago, a place called Toushantun, a team of soldiers went to buy food, met them, and in the end, if it wasn't for the rescue and scared away those beards in time, I'm afraid they would have been robbed." ”

"The chaotic China, with its incomplete laws, inaccessible government decrees, weak military, and rampant bandits, is really an inferior nation."

Seishiro Itagaki spat disdainfully, as if he remembered something, and turned back to his colleague and asked, "Ishihara-kun, as an excellent Kwantung Army staff officer, you won't take me to see the snow scene, right?" The snowy scenery of Shina is not as beautiful as Hokkaido. ”

Ishihara Waner shook his head, what the two were thinking, they knew each other, and immediately stretched out his hand and pointed to the distance, "500 meters further east, is the Chinese's Northeast Army North Camp." You see, the blue sky and white flag was changed after Zhang Xueliang defected to Chiang Kai-shek. ”

"Yo Xi, Ishihara-kun deserves to be the new star of our Kwantung Army. From the map, I also saw that the Beida Battalion of the Northeast Army was in this area, but I didn't expect it to be so close. ”

In the distance, you can see a blue sky and white flag fluttering in the ice and snow above the building, what is it that is not the Beida Battalion of the Northeast Army.

"Let's go and have a look."

When the two of them walked for a while, they were only 200 meters away from the duty point of the camp wall south of the Beida camp.

It was almost 9 o'clock in the morning, and Qu Zhongyi looked at the sky with some snow, and found that the visibility was still very low. In the middle of winter, the soldiers of the Northeast Army just gathered symbolically and quickly hid back in the barracks.

Qu Zhongyi is the commander of the second company of the first battalion of the 620th regiment of the seventh brigade of the Northeast Army. After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, he did not enter the Kuomintang army, but returned to his hometown in the Northeast and joined the Northeast Army under Zhang Xueliang. With his qualifications and military talents, he was promoted to the post of company commander in just two or three years. The Seventh Brigade is one of the ace units of the Northeast Army, and the company commanders of the main forces will have the opportunity to take charge on their own in the future.

Two days ago, regiment commander Wang Tiehan talked to him, saying that the brigade commander was very satisfied with the results of the company he led, and had already reported to his superiors, and he was afraid that as soon as the autumn came, he would be promoted to the battalion post, and he would be one of the officers of the Seventh Brigade in the future.

The set of leading soldiers was learned in the military academy, but Qu Zhongyi's soldiers performed better than the other companies under the commander who were also military cadets. In Wang Tiehan's words, Qu Zhongyi, this kid, is a modern soldier with both wisdom and bravery, skilled in combat command, and a few brushes under management.

Qu Zhongyi silently accepted these praises or potential promotions, as well as the inadvertent exclusion of his peers, and was not greatly affected.

Taking off the military hat and binoculars on the wall, Qu Zhongyi walked towards the sentry post of the second company. The location of the second company is relatively close to the southern barracks.

"Company commander!"

Although it was cold, the soldiers at the sentry stood straight. The sentry post of the second company is the strictest in the entire Beida battalion. Even on snowy mornings, when there is a briquette stove in the house, the soldiers still stand guard.

"What's the case?"

"Report to the company commander, there is no situation."

Qu Zhongyi nodded, first opened the protective cover of the telescope, let the lens get used to the cold temperature, and then picked up the telescope and stood in the sentry to look into the distance. Snow is not big, but small is not small. At this time, in the snow, it is impossible to effectively use telescopes unless you are a professionally trained soldier.

As a soldier, a person who has received many years of higher education and higher military education, Qu Zhongyi has an intuition about being a soldier. The Beida camp is so close to the South Manchurian Railway that some of my garrisons often come to the barracks under the pretext of excuses.

He was worried that these people had bad intentions and might be investigating the terrain and sentry arrangements of the Beida Camp.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, the originally slow-moving telescope in Qu Zhongyi's hand suddenly moved back a little, and behind an unsightly earthen bun, there were actually two people, and the other party was also using a telescope to look at this side.

"Damn, I said myself. You guys come with me!! ”

Qu Zhongyi put down the binoculars, snapped out the arms on his waist and brought other pistols, and rushed out with two sentries. What he saw in the telescope was that the other party was two people, and he had three people, and he was so close to Beidaying, he was not afraid that he would make trouble.

These beasts are simply not human, in the northeast, in Lushun, they commit bloody crimes everywhere, slaughtering Chinese like pigs and dogs. In the past, other sentries saw that they were provocative, but it was just a warning, but today, Qu Zhongyi wanted to give them a little color.

"Baga, we were discovered by the people of China."

Itagaki Seishiro was originally observing the terrain of the North Camp and the arrangement of sentry posts and firing points, but he noticed that a Chinese was also looking in this direction with a telescope on the opposite side. On the spot, he was so angry that he slapped the ice cube on the soil bun next to him, and smashed the ice cube into a splash.

"This [***] officer is different from other Chinese officers, early in the morning, he actually came to check the sentry." Ishihara Wan'er was also a little annoyed, the original reconnaissance behavior seemed to be about to be exposed, but fortunately, with his understanding of the Chinese soldiers, especially the Northeast Army, these will not be a problem, "Itagaki-kun don't be impatient, the Chinese soldiers are all soft-footed shrimp, as long as they are handled properly, nothing will happen." ”

Itagaki Seishiro looked at the officer who was running over with two Chinese soldiers in the distance, and couldn't help but relax his vigilance, the people of China are still not good, what can a few officers do, they still have to succumb to the general situation and environment.

Spy on the garrison camp at close range, if it is discovered in the Imperial Kwantung Army station, it will be the least likely result to be detained on the spot, and the worst will be treated as a spy.

"Yaga, what are you!"

Ishihara made a preemptive move, straightened up from behind the bun, stabbed the gun forward in his hand, pulled the bolt, and looked like a dog, really like a soldier of the railway garrison, not a pampered staff officer in the general staff.

Seeing that the other party's Chinese was so good, Qu Zhongyi was not in a hurry, the pistol was still aimed at Ishihara Wan'er, and scolded: "Eight your mother is big, Lao Tzu hates this sentence the most." Do you know what place this is? This is the Northeast Army's Beida Battalion station. If you dare to spy on the military, you must be a spy, arrest me. ”

With a wave of his hand, the two soldiers behind him aimed at one by one, and at close range, the bird gun could kill people, not to mention that these soldiers were still holding standard rifles in their hands, Ishihara couldn't help but be slightly stunned, this soldier seemed to be different from the Zhong [***] officer he knew.

Ishihara Waner's Chinese is better than Itagaki Seishiro's, and seeing this, he had to continue to bite the bullet, "There were two people just now...... Ah......h

"China, are you going to say a word to me again? Lao Tzu will make your head bloom now. "How Ishihara and Itagaki are the opponents of Qu Zhongyi, who is strong in blood, I saw Qu Zhongyi shout loudly and kick it, and Ishihara Wan'er rolled into the ditch like a fat ball, stained with snow slag.

"You, you're stirring up an international dispute." Seeing that the [***] person in front of him was soft and hard, Ishihara Wan'er was also a little afraid, for fear that he would meet a middle-aged [***] person who was not enlightened. Death, the two of them are not afraid, but if they are killed by a stunned soldier unclearly, it is the most wronged. "Just now we found a few Chinese intending to damage the railway line, and just chased it to the vicinity and disappeared. I now suspect that [***] of you are trying to sabotage the South Manchurian Railway! ”

In the face of Ishihara's sharp accusation, Qu Zhongyi was not angry, and with a wave of his hand, the two sentries fired two guns, "I heard that my best trick is to reverse right and wrong." Everyone can lie, and now Lao Tzu has shot you with one shot, and he said that you were killed by a beard, but it just rounds your lie. ”

Ishihara Guaner saw that this major company commander was soft and hard, and he was extremely hostile to Yueben, and he no longer called it strong at the moment, and only waited until he saw a higher-level officer in China. Judging from his experience, after all, the stunned Qing is a minority, and most of the soldiers are afraid of himself.

At this time, the support personnel of the second company in the distance also arrived, and more than a dozen guns were pointed at the two of Ishihara, who were still talking about how to deal with the people of Shina a few minutes ago, and immediately suffered a big loss.

Not to mention his previous impression of Yue himself, just what he saw and heard after coming to the Northeast, Qu Zhongyi hated Yue himself, and whether it was as a professional soldier or for other reasons, it was necessary for him to rectify the anger of these two people.

"I just heard you say, bearded? That's incredible. Those beards come and go like the wind, and the two guns don't even dare to let go of a fart. You didn't get beaten? It's really unreasonable. ”

Qu Zhongyi is very clear about what is going to happen next, there is no luck, once he returns to the barracks, letting him go will be the only result.

Turning his back, he glanced at the third squad leader, who immediately understood.

The third squad leader kicked Ishihara Wan'er in the face, and then another roundabout kick imprinted a big footprint on Itagaki Seishiro's face, and the two of them couldn't help it, even if they were caught by the soldiers of the Northeast Army, they were kicked to the ground on the spot, "Fuck, the beard is really ruthless." ”

Not much to say, it's two feet again, this time the two feet went directly to the waists of the two of them, the third squad leader was born in a Lian family, and there would be a kind of dark energy, Ishihara Waner and Itagaki Seishiro only felt a sharp pain coming, and they were almost kicked and fainted.

Don't look at it as just four feet, the first two kicks kicked in the face, swollen like a pig. The dark strength of the last two feet was injured by the third squad leader's accurate ...... Seeing the two of them humming and chirping on the ground like dead pigs, Qu Zhongyi and his soldiers were very happy.

"Come on, send someone to deliver a letter, just say that these two friends were injured by their beards, and they happened to be rescued by us, and let the garrison come to collect people."

Qu Zhongyi took off his gloves and asked the sentry to escort Ishihara and the two to the sentry, fortunately, the second company was on duty on this side of the camp, otherwise the news would have been lost.

Hurriedly returning to the company, Qu Zhongyi shouted: "Traces of beard have been found near the camp wall, gather urgently!" ”

Keishiro Kobayashi is the squad leader of the wicker lake section of the South Manchurian Railway, and yesterday, two seniors from the Kwantung Army said that they wanted to inspect the nearby terrain, and he thought that the Kwantung Army was checking the vigilance of the garrison. On the spot, it was like a chicken blood, and he led the team out to inspect the railway line early in the morning.

In less than an hour, two radish sellers and one firewood seller were arrested, and they were arrested on charges of obstructing the normal operation of the railway. The beard is really hard to catch, and catching a few Diao people can also show that the garrison can still do things.

However, when he received the report that a [***] person had come to deliver the letter, things changed beyond his imagination.

"Baga!! Bearded? Wounded two important members of the Kwantung Army??"

Kobayashi Keishiro jumped up in fright on the spot, all his net worth and surname could not escape the control of the Kwantung Army, and if something happened to the two important members of the military department, he would have to apologize.

When he learned from the translator that the two important members of the military department were "rescued" by the Chinese [***] people, the cunning and changeable Kobayashi Keishiro felt on the spot that he had to make the matter bigger, otherwise, it would be difficult to shirk the responsibility.

"Assemble, assemble urgently!!"

The Wicker Lake garrison was quite numerous, and the size of a squad was quickly assembled. With a few trailer motorcycles as the lead, and others in trucks, Keishiro Kobayashi led his troops to Beidaying as fast as possible.

He was only afraid of the Kwantung Army headquarters, but he was never afraid of the North Battalion of the Shina people. Only by imposing all the responsibility for this matter on the Chinese can the crime of dereliction of duty in taking care of themselves be minimized.

The convoy followed the railway line and soon came to the vicinity of the camp wall of Beidaying, the terrain in this area is a little more partial, if you take the direction of the main gate, I am afraid that the entire Beidaying will be alarmed. Kobayashi Keishiro couldn't help but secretly say, fortunately, this location is relatively remote.

The convoy stopped in front of the barracks, and the soldiers jumped out of the car one by one, carrying the 38 large covers with bayonets, and marched towards the sentry posts.

However, when he got closer, Keishiro Kobayashi was a little dazed.

"Two ......"

Ishihara Waner and Itagaki Seishiro were huddled in the sentry, not lightly wounded, although there were only two sentries and one officer next to them, but behind the officer, it was a simple fortification belt.

On the makeshift sandbag fortifications, a whole company of [***] men popped up, holding loaded rifles and even heavy machine guns.

Kobayashi Keishiro looked at his subordinates again, but there were more than forty people, and they were pointed at guns by a whole company of Zhina, saying that they were not afraid was false.

"Baga, what's going on, you have to give Taijun an explanation."

Keishiro Kobayashi's second devil Chinese translator, proudly translated his words to Qu Zhongyi. In his opinion, what is a person in a company? Usually, the entire Beida battalion didn't dare to do anything to the garrison, for fear that it would be a stunned young man.

Qu Zhongyi didn't say a word, took two steps forward, raised his foot was a standard side kick, and kicked the two devils out several meters away on the spot. With a heavy kick, he almost kicked the translator to death.

Kobayashi Keishiro's face darkened on the spot, and he subconsciously wanted to wave his hand and order to shoot like he usually did with the civilians of China, but when he looked up and saw the firepower of the entire company of the other party, and then saw the two important members of the Kwantung Army, he was in a cold sweat.

"You translate to him and ask him what's going on." Keishiro Kobayashi said to the translator.

The translator struggled to get up, his face was fierce, and he didn't speak, but he heard Qu Zhongyi say, "Don't give Lao Tzu a crooked mind, let you translate, you can translate well, although Lao Tzu doesn't like to speak, but he can understand." ”

The translator was afraid of this, and he was going to add oil and vinegar to the underground eye medicine, but he didn't dare to translate it honestly.

"The two men in the garrison, who were wounded by their beards, happened to be rescued by my soldiers, and it was as simple as that." Qu Zhongyi simply and clearly explained what 'happened'.

"It's impossible, our patrols didn't find the bandits at all." Keishiro Kobayashi retorted on the spot.

Qu Zhongyi smiled and said, "According to what you say, they are not your patrol members anymore?" Could that be a spy? The conspiracy to spy on the military stronghold should be punished as espionage, and it seems that it needs to be arrested, and we will talk about it after the interrogation! ”

"You ......," Keishiro Kobayashi was speechless for a while.

At this time, Ishihara Wan'er, who was huddled in the sentry, muttered a word, but before he could finish speaking, he was pointed at the head by Qu Zhongyi with a gun, which frightened Kobayashi Keishiro and Ishihara Wan'er for a while.

He leaned down, leaned in front of Ishihara Wan'er, and said a string of words in a joking tone: "Bullying Lao Tzu doesn't know how to speak, right?" Lao Tzu said that he understood the language. Still want to wait for my boss? If you're a soldier, there's a kind of battlefield to see. We all know that there will be a war between China and China, and we will naturally see high and low on the battlefield in the future. You're betting that Lao Tzu won't dare to kill you now, are you interesting? ”

Ishihara Wan'er blushed, Qu Zhongyi's words were only heard clearly by him and Itagaki Seishiro, but he was shocked in his heart, he didn't expect that there would be such a character in the [***] people. He is just a company commander, in case he is a division commander or a general, there will be a battle in the future, and I am afraid it will not be as smooth as I imagined before.

After exchanging two words in a whisper, Ishihara Waner said to Keishiro Kobayashi: "A group of horse bandits intended to sabotage the railway, and we found out, there were too many horse bandits, and the speed was fast, we didn't have time to shoot, and we were injured by them." It was this [***] man who saved us. ”

Kobayashi Keishiro's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it, the two important members of the Kwantung Army actually let this matter pass like this, even if all the soldiers on the spot believed it, he would not believe that the truth of the matter was like this.

"Hello, I just misunderstood!" Kobayashi Keishiro bent down to apologize to Qu Zhongyi, the matter has come to this point, and it is urgent to bow his head and admit his mistake and take the two dignitaries back to heal.

"That's right, let's say Fang Chang, come and say Fang Chang. We don't need to keep small favors in mind, we should take a long-term view. Don't send it, don't send it. ”

Qu Zhongyi, who looked impulsive on the surface, flashed a fierce light in his eyes at this time, he said that he would slap you in the face today, and he would kill you tomorrow, and when he saw him on the battlefield, everyone would naturally be divided into high and low.

The person who learned the lesson said that he had relented a lot. The garrison did not dare to show off its might again during the regular patrol, for fear of encountering the commander of the company who was not open-minded. The peasants and traders passing by in Pingyue said that they no longer had any more difficulties, and it seemed that just taking care of the railroad was their only job. Not to mention the easy provocation of the Beidaying station, which often happened before.

Ishihara and Itagaki Seishiro were sent to the Kwantung Army headquarters on the same day, and the military doctor examined them and found that in addition to their faces being very swollen, there were no injuries on their bodies, and even Ishihara and the two did not find anything abnormal on their bodies.

But at that time, I clearly remembered a sharp pain in my body, which made the military doctors very puzzled, and the young Zhuang officers of the Kwantung Army who originally wanted to provoke for the sake of provocation also because they could not get evidence, and it was impossible to settle accounts with the Chinese because of two slaps, and this loss was eaten. It wasn't until a month later, when Ishihara and Seishiro Itagaki finished drinking and were about to have something beyond the scope of friendship with the two Katsuki, that they discovered a serious problem: Katsuki was beautiful, but he didn't react below...... At the same time, an order came to Qu Zhongyi.

"I hereby order: Qu Zhongyi, the former commander of the second company, is now promoted to lieutenant colonel and battalion commander of the 620th Regiment because of his meritorious service in handling emergencies."

(To be continued)