There are two roads leading to the outside world in Phoenix Mountain and the surrounding villages and some fishing villages on the edge of Taihu Lake, one is to enter Mudu Town, go out from the east of the town, and the other road is to go south through the gate of the west archway of Mudu Town, but Xiao Zhenlei's military camp is located on a piece of wasteland next to the road leading to the south, and it is only a mile away from the entrance of the town in the west. There is also a checkpoint set up at the west archway of the town, that is to say, if Zeng Qinglin and others want to leave here, they must go through two checkpoints, either go all the way to the south, pass through two checkpoints, or turn and move towards Mudu Town in the west after passing through the first checkpoint, and then pass through a checkpoint at the entrance of the town, and there will be no checkpoint after entering the town, but Zeng Qinglin does not dare to go all the way to the south, and if he goes south, he must pass next to the military camp, which is too much of a threat to his small team of only a dozen people, so he decided to go to Mudu Town, As long as you enter the town, you will be safe. ○

Zeng Qinglin rode a horse to the front, several carriages followed, and six other people rode on both sides of the convoy, four people drove the car, and the other four sat next to the coachman.

Two hundred meters in front is the first sentry post, a sentry post nailed into a wooden plank is located on the left side of the road, which can accommodate five or six people to sit down and rest, in front is a horse that is crossed the road, the horse is wrapped with some barbed wire, the cavalry wants to cross the basically impossible, the consequence of forcibly ramming the horse must be that the horse's legs will definitely be scraped with thorny wire, and it will definitely not be able to afford to fall to the end after landing.

On each side of the road between the Horse Rejection and the Sentry Booth were two stone ring fortifications, each with two soldiers armed with rifles. On each side of the horse was a soldier, and four soldiers stood on either side of the road behind them with rifles. There was also a squad leader sitting in the sentry box, and the last soldier was standing by the door of the sentry post with a rifle on his back.

Seeing how tight this checkpoint is. Zeng Qinglin felt the pressure, and secretly prayed in his heart not to go wrong, he turned back to the others behind him and said: "It's about to arrive at the outpost, all Lao Tzu cheer up, don't look around, pay attention later, don't show the stuffing, if anyone doesn't pay attention to the stuffing, Lao Tzu will definitely scrape him alive afterwards." Walk! ”

Soon arrived at the sentry post, and the squad leader, who was resting in the sentry booth just now, saw a caravan of more than a dozen people coming and immediately walked out of the sentry box with rifles and shouted: "Everyone cheer up, the caravan in front of you stopped for inspection!" ”

The squad leader waved his head to the two soldiers standing on the side of the road, and the three of them walked around the rejected horse one after the other, Zeng Qinglin hurriedly dismounted and piled up a smile and arched his hand: "Oh, the official is auspicious, the small one is a dry goods collected from some fishing villages by the lake, you have to worry about it!" ”

The squad leader walked to the carriage with a rifle and asked, "Don't call the official, call the chief!" Where are you from? ”

"Yes. Sir! Oh, you are worried, the small ones are Jiangbei people, and it is not easy to eat these days. I can only go out and collect some goods and sell them everywhere, and earn a few small sums to support my family! ”

"Where's your guide?"

Zeng Qinglin hurriedly took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it over: "Here it is!" You see, it's absolutely fine."

The squad leader took the road and glanced at it and returned it to Zeng Qinglin. Zeng Qinglin put away the guide, and hurriedly took out a few silver bills from his arms, grabbed the squad leader's empty hand and stuffed the silver bills over. He said with a smile: "The chiefs have worked hard, this little meaning please drink herbal tea to quench your thirst." No respect, no respect! ”

The squad leader looked at a few silver bills in his hand, trembled, and the silver bills collided together with a dull collision sound, looked up at Zeng Qinglin and said: "Money is a good thing, but unfortunately I can't take it, and I don't dare to take it, you better take it out, if your goods are not contraband, and you are not bandits from the mountains, we will not embarrass you!" After speaking, he stuffed a few silver bills back into Zeng Qinglin's palm.

Yo he, what the hell is evil, the sun is coming out in the west, and it is the first time to see officers and soldiers who do not charge black money, Zeng Qinglin couldn't believe what happened just now, and he came back to his senses after the squad leader went to check the goods, and hurriedly walked over to accompany him.

Zeng Qinglin's group of short guns were hidden on their bodies, covered by clothes, and ordinary people really couldn't see if they didn't search their bodies, and the long guns were hidden on the reverse side of the bottom of the carriage, and they couldn't be seen if they didn't lie on their backs on the ground.

At this time, Yang Fei, who was halfway up the mountain, saw Zeng Qinglin and others swaggering past the sentry post with a telescope, and he was stunned for a while, and when he turned around, he scolded: "Damn, are those officers and soldiers blind?" actually let the kid surnamed Zeng pass like this, and those 2,000 bullets are equivalent to giving them in vain! ”

The young bandit leader hurriedly said, "Big boss, what should we do now?" Officers and soldiers may attack the mountain at any time! ”

"Send someone to keep an eye on the officers and soldiers, and report back as soon as there is any movement" Yang Fei thought for a while and said: "Inform everyone in charge to go to the Juyi Hall to discuss matters, and we must discuss a way in the morning!" ”

"Yes, boss!"

After passing the checkpoint, Zeng Qinglin breathed a sigh of relief, but he knew that he couldn't be careless at this time, because there was still a checkpoint at the entrance of Mudu Town.

After leaving this checkpoint and walking away, Zeng Qinglin turned around and warned his subordinates: "There is still a checkpoint at the gate of the town, you can't relax now, don't show your secrets, there are a few guys who can't walk when they see a woman, pay attention to me, and be honest when you get to the entrance of the town, don't stare at the woman, you will kill all of us if you show your feet alone, you know?" ”

There was no name, but everyone knew what Zeng Qinglin was talking about who couldn't control the lower half of the body, and the others couldn't help but laugh in a low voice, and the faces of the people who were said turned red, and they turned their heads involuntarily.

When I arrived at the entrance of the town, I saw uniformed soldiers standing on both sides of the archway, a total of ten people, all with guns, but these soldiers did not set up cards, but put the barricades vertically in the middle of the road to divide a road into entrances and exits, and let the people in and out go their own ways, and the squad leader led by the squad leader only occasionally stopped and checked suspicious people, and if no suspicious things were found, they would be released.

When he arrived nearby, Zeng Qinglin thought about it and turned his head to the people behind him: "All the riders get off the horse, except for the driver who is driving the car, everyone else gets off the car and leaves!" ”

Everyone listened to his words and did so, this situation made the sentry squad leader who had just turned around see it, and immediately felt good, and when Zeng Qinglin and others came over, the squad leader just observed, and did not come forward to stop and inquire about it, Zeng Qinglin and others entered the town without any danger.

Xiao Zhenlei, who heard some news from the teahouse, and the orderly pony were walking on the streets back to the barracks, how many people can there be in a small town? The street was not wide, and Zeng Qinglin's group had several carriages and seven horsemen, a total of fifteen people, and these people immediately attracted Xiao Zhenlei's attention.

The little pony who was following him saw Xiao Zhenlei looking at Zeng Qinglin and the others in front of him, and said, "This seems to be a caravan, how can there be such a big caravan coming over in such a remote town?" ”

The pony was talking, Zeng Qinglin and others rode over and passed by them, perhaps feeling out of danger, there was a guy on horseback who was uncomfortable, and when he stretched his waist, he pulled up the short clothes on his upper body, revealing the ten-shot box cannon inserted in the back waist.

Xiao Zhenlei was already a little suspicious, the scene just now made the pupils in his eyes shrink, and his feet stopped, and then the pony saw that Xiao Zhenlei was not leaving, but turned his head and kept staring at the caravan that had passed by.

"Commander, what's wrong?"

When Xiao Zhenlei heard this, he turned around and said to the pony: "Pony, you hurry up and run back and pass my order to let the guard platoon come with enough ammunition, the speed must be fast, I will follow them, if you don't see me, I will keep chasing forward!" ”

"Could it be? Yes, I'll go right away! The pony said yes and turned around and ran west of town.

Xiao Zhenlei saw that the pony was gone, he immediately turned around and slowly hung behind Zeng Qinglin and the others, and on the other side, Jiang Guodong took two patrol battalions to encircle and suppress Zeng Qinglin, but he didn't expect Zeng Qinglin to be here.

Zeng Qinglin walked all the way along the streets of the town, at this time the sun was already high, before going down in the morning, these people did not eat breakfast, not even a sip of water, so some of these people were hungry, and some were thirsty, before it was because they were worried about being discovered by the officers and soldiers at the outpost, so they didn't feel it, but now that they are out of danger, these people can't help it, one of the guys on horseback caught up with Zeng Qinglin and said: "Dongjia, I'm so hungry, you don't say that you have breakfast on the mountain in the morning and then go down the mountain, I don't know how far I have to walk out of town to have a place to eat, so I think I might as well find a tavern in this town and have breakfast before leaving. ”

As soon as the man finished speaking, two more people stepped forward to help: "Yes, the owner, we are hungry and thirsty, let's find a tavern in front of us to deal with it first, and after eating, we will go on the road immediately, without delay, don't you see that we are coming out now?" You don't need to be so careful, do you? ”

Zeng Qinglin looked back and saw that everyone else behind him was looking at him blankly, and after thinking about it, he agreed, "Okay, but give me honesty when you eat, let's get out of the tiger's mouth, Lao Tzu doesn't want to be caught up by the officers and soldiers behind him, if someone messes around while eating, hum, you know how to do it, right?" ”

"I know, I know, the owner, we only eat, we don't say a word, whoever the hell speaks, Lao Tzu will beat him to death first!" The strong man behind him clenched his fists as he spoke. (To be continued......) R527