The dignified prime minister of a country actually wants to command a battle to defend the county, which really makes Yang Rui very unaccustomed. If Ye Yunbiao was there, then Ye Yunbiao would naturally be responsible for these things, but now that Ye Yunbiao is not here, and there are some strangers around him, he has to return to his old business, reorganize his armaments, and plan the battle of Wendeng to defend the city.

There are mountains in the north of Wendeng, and there are moats as wide as two zhang on the east, west and south sides, and the city wall is two zhang high, which is not something that ordinary people can enter. It's just that the patrol police and peasants outside have artillery, even if there is only one, they can smash the three city gates, and then enter in a big way, so time is extremely important. Armament - Although the tax police were killed by the patrol on the eve of the previous day, the ammunition depot hidden in the IRS must still be there; Since the city gates are easy to be broken by artillery, it is necessary to set up a defensive line behind the city gates, and it is best to block the three city gates so that the enemy has no door to enter.

At the time when Ju Zhen risked his death to go out of the city to pretend to make peace, more than 2,000 people in the city were being organized by Lu Zhengsi, and sacks, stones, and beams were being transported to the three city gates; Yang Rui went to the IRS under the leadership of Cong Jingyue, and inside the broken gate, a corner of the courtyard was full of corpses that had been shot the night before.

"My lord, the night before yesterday, it was said that the director did not obey the orders of the county magistrate, so he was killed as a traitor." Although Cong Jingyue was not in the county seat the night before, it was still shocking to see all this after entering the city yesterday.

"Let's go find someone and clean them up." Yang Rui said. It was hot, and the pile of corpses was starting to stink. "Have all the 100 tax policemen been killed?" He asked again.

"There are dozens more in prison." Cong Jingyue said, when he saw Yang Rui's words, he explained: "There were some people who voted for Zuo Rulin the night before yesterday. I caught them, and some of them were in jail. I don't know their details, so I ......"

"They're all their own people." Yang Rui heard that there were dozens of people. The gloomy heart suddenly rejoiced. Relying on Cong Jingyue's dozen patrolmen and those mud legs, Wendeng can't be guarded, but the tax police are woven by the quasi-revival army, and the training is also a quasi-revival army, and among the remaining people, maybe there are gunners and machine gunners who survive, and with them, Wendeng has hope of holding on.

"They're all their own people!" Yang Rui said again, "Release them all out and bring them all here." ”

Yang Rui said that these are his own people, and Cong Jingyue will treat them as his own people. A quarter of an hour later, the surviving tax policemen were brought in, and there were forty-six people left, a dozen of whom had to be supported. Seeing them standing in front of him in embarrassment, Yang Rui was disappointed again.

"On the eve of the previous year, while Prime Minister Ben and other dignitaries were going to Tonghua, Cai Yuanpei, a rebel in Beijing, imprisoned Prime Minister Taiyan, staged a coup d'état, and massacred officials. Ask local governments and branches of the Renaissance Association to identify the traitors and shoot the suspects......" Yang Rui stopped everyone as soon as he opened his mouth, and they didn't know what happened from the night before until now. At this time, when they heard the original situation, and when they heard the words 'shooting suspects', everyone cried loudly.

"Silence!" Pressed for time. Yang Rui didn't come to deliver chicken soup for the soul, but asked these people to cheer up and fight immediately. He said 'quiet'. More than forty people fell silent for the moment, letting the tears flow silently.

"Last night. The countermeasures arranged by the Prime Minister and the General Staff Headquarters will be activated, the command of the National Reconstruction Army will be placed under the command of Baoding, and the tax police in various localities will carry out the predetermined orders, take over the city, and eliminate the rioters. At this time, I think that most cities in the country have been pacified, except for the capital, but because the telegraph office was smashed, the telegram could not be sent to the whole country, so there is the current situation. I am sure: as long as we hold on for three days, after three days, the revival army will march into Jiaodong, and those rebel parties outside will be wiped out.

You were originally the counterinsurgency force in Wendeng City, but I don't know why you were killed by the patrol police? Yang Rui said this, his eyes were blazing, and he looked at the people in front of him, those soldiers were at a loss, but the two tax police officers lowered their heads - if the director Zhang Sui'an had carried out the established procedures the night before, tore his face and fired at those patrol officers, everyone would not have fallen into this situation.

"The dead are gone, and the living are like that. Now there are patrols outside the city, and countless peasant soldiers are coming in. When they come in, no one will save you. Now I command you to do your duty and defend this city. Is there a problem? Yang Rui asked loudly, looking at these people again.

"Nope!" After all, they were formed soldiers, and the answers of more than 40 people were not only neat, but also loud.

"Good!" Yang Rui nodded, and he said again: "This is Cong Jingyue, my adjutant, and he was the one who laid down the county government and the patrol police station before, giving everyone a way to live." At this time there were more than 300 people in the city, but there was a great shortage of weapons, and a small half of them did not have guns, so you immediately opened the arsenal in the bureau and dragged out all the guns and cannons; Then there are more than 300 people who reproduce and weave and distribute weapons according to their skills, so that they can follow the step-by-step process. Who of you has the highest rank here? ”

"Humble... Song Zirui and Liu Weixin ......" Two police officers stood up, and one of them was lame.

"Good." Yang Rui nodded, "One of you is responsible for taking out the ammunition, and the other is responsible for discussing with me and Adjutant Cong to rearrange manpower and adjust the city defense." It is important to note that time is now precious, and the enemy may attack after noon. ”

"Understood!" Including Cong Jingyue, everyone saluted in unison. Song Zirui took people to open the ammunition depot, while the lame Liu Weixin discussed the manpower arrangement and city defense arrangement with Yang Rui, Cong Jingyue and others.

When the city was being urgently arranged, Ju Zheng, who was carrying a medicine box outside the city, was courteous to Cao Xubao, the secretary of the peasant association who led the team to besiege the city. Hearing that the gentry in the city were going to calculate Cong Jingyue and open the city gate to surrender, Cao Xubao had no doubt at the moment. He knew the gentry's temperament to protect himself when he was in the training class for peasant association cadres ten years ago, these rich men were all dough and dough, full of human affection and benevolence, and they really didn't shed tears when they saw the coffin, and they thought it was a joke when they entered the coffin. As everyone knows, this time the Jingshi is serious and wants to implement public ownership of property.

Holding the buns sent by the city, Cao Xubao asked while eating: "Doctor Ju, there are no strangers in the city, right?" ”

"Ah..." Ju Zhen's throat suddenly became dry, and he forced a smile: "It's a mess, it's too late for everyone to escape, how can anyone come in." From morning to now. All the people who came were vegetable farmers and vendors, so how could there be any strangers? ”

"Hmm.... That's right. Cao Xubao, who tossed around in the green gauze tent all night, only heard that the county was occupied by the gentry of the city, and the leader was Cong Jingyue, who did not listen to the orders of the patrol chief. Not surprising. And Cao Guizhong, who wants to be arrested, will not dare to enter the city according to reason, their biggest possibility is to go north to Weihaiwei, which is the territory of the navy, and there is no way to take them if they go there.

Thinking of Cao Guizhong, I couldn't help but think of Yang Jingcheng, thinking of Yang Jingcheng, Cao Xubao couldn't help but look at the watch he was wearing in his right hand, and after eating a bun, he was worried that he couldn't eat the second one. It's all this watch! So if Cao Guizhong really wants Yang Jingcheng, what should he do? I have no place to die.

Cao Xubao thought about his dark and lightless future, but after a while, he automatically and spontaneously began to comfort himself: Even if Cao Guizhong is really Yang Jingcheng, it will be out of power. There is a way that the phoenix that falls to the ground is not as good as a chicken. Maybe these people are really right in this speculation, then Premier Cai will be overjoyed to give himself a knighthood, and then he will have all the things that he didn't have before, and his family will become nobles, and he will no longer want to break his head and ask those grass people for money like before......

Meimei fantasized for a while, and Cao Xubao began to eat steamed buns again. But not far from the county seat, Yao Eryou, the patrol captain who had a fight with Yang Rui last night, was looking at a bloodstained hemostasis in a daze with more than a dozen patrol policemen. He almost caught someone last night, but he didn't know where he got a gun that was so powerful, and he suppressed a group of his own people by himself. If this were not the case, Cao Guizhong, who was caught in the front and back, would not have been able to run away at all.

"Captain, it is very likely that Yang ......" As soon as the subordinate said Yang, Yao Eryou, who was three big and five thick, snorted. It is that the subordinates immediately changed their words"...... It's Cao Guizhong, Cao Guizhong. Look at this cotton, it must be that Cao Guizhong was injured; If Cao Guizhong was not injured, his own soldiers were injured......"

"Don't grind. Say it! "Yao Eryou is a violent temper, and he hates to talk around corners the most. Now I listen to my subordinates babbling and talking, and I can't get an idea for a long time. Immediately angry.

"Captain, it is very likely that this Cao Guizhong hid in the county seat, but it may also be that his own soldiers were injured and deliberately went to the county seat in order to lure us away, so as to cover Cao Guizhong's escape to Weihaiwei...... Yes! Captain......" the subordinate suddenly shouted.

"Fuck off!" It was still nonsense, and Yao Eryou immediately kicked it over. He no longer looked at this bastard, and only asked the others: "We and that Yang Jingcheng have already torn our faces, and we are really going to be escaped by him, so I don't need to say what happened!" From last night to now, Wang Tuan has searched all over the place, and a lot of green gauze tents have been cut down, but there is no one at all. Tell me, will this Yang Jingcheng go to the county seat to find death, or go back to Weihaiwei to find a living......"

"Captain, it's more than seventy miles from here to Weihaiwei, but it's only thirty miles to the county seat. If you really want to treat your injuries, you should go to the county seat instead of Weihaiwei......" said a patrol officer.

However, before he finished speaking, someone retorted, "Don't forget the pro-soldiers around Yang Jingcheng who lured us away, only if Yang Jingcheng was shot, he could risk going to Weihaiwei." But if you want Yang Jingcheng to be shot...... "The patrolman was wearing a body armor that was taken from the pilot's corpse, he patted the body armor and said, "Wearing this kind of clothing will either hit the head or the limbs, I don't believe that Yang Jingcheng will be wearing worse than those who fly the plane, it can only be his own soldiers who are injured,"

"Enough!" It's still nonsense, Yao Eryou doesn't want to kick people anymore, he said: "Roll the dice, go to the county seat with a big one, and go north to Tie Village with a small one, and see if you can find someone over there......"

Yao Eryou was talking, the dice that he had been holding in his hand were revealed, and then he squatted down and put the dice in the palm of his hand, put his palms together and prayed, and when he was about to throw it down after shaking for a while, there was suddenly a huge plane in the sky roaring through the sky, and the plane threw out countless pieces of paper while flying, and the pieces of paper were colorful and green, flying and falling in the air like butterflies.

Without waiting for Yao Er's orders, several patrol officers quickly ran to pick up the pieces of paper, and grabbed a few after a while. Yao Eryou was muttering, and when he was caught, he was torn apart - a photo of Yang Jingcheng and a photo of an airplane were printed on one side of the paper, and the text was asking the people to protect him and report to the county officials; On the other side is a photo of Cai Yuanpei, but a big cross is drawn with a black rod on it, and there are ten big characters of 'rebellion' and 'suppressing rebellion and prohibiting killing' in blood red, as well as a dry of small characters. He didn't have the energy to read those small words anymore, and he knew that he was finished with these ten big words alone.

"Captain, this ......" patrol officers may not all be literate, Yao Eryou is still a quick member of the literacy class of the peasant association. But the leaflets are made so that people who are illiterate can roughly guess the meaning.

Seeing that everyone asked, Yao Eryou hurriedly arrested all those transmissions. Said: 'Hui Wangtong! ’

"Back to the pupils?" The men didn't know why, but they saw the captain going west. Just follow it to the west.

An hour later, smoke filled the village committee. Those present here are all the leaders who came out yesterday to arrest Cao Guizhong, including Yu Qingshou, deputy director of the Patrol Police Bureau, Yu Deshui and Yao Eryou, captains, and Zhou Henglu and Yu Tongzhi, secretaries of the peasant association. Everyone was in a daze at the flower leaflets on the table of the Eight Immortals. Things didn't turn out the way they had hoped, and things had reversed course and gone the way they least wanted them. If it's a big car, then you can turn the car around and go backwards, but how can they turn their heads......

"Did you kill all those who flew the planes?" He took a hard puff of his cigarette. As if to inhale the cigarette butt, Zhou Henglu, the oldest cadre of the peasant association, asked in a deep voice.

"It's all ......" Yu Tongzhi, who was sitting opposite him, glanced at his brother-in-law and replied in a low voice, "...... They were all killed. ”

As soon as he said this, Yu Qingshou of the patrol police deputy bureau stood up, he threw the cigarette he was smoking vigorously, pointed at Yu Tongzhi and scolded: "That's more than 30 people, all of them are fucking killed for you?!" You're pushing us into the fire pit! ”

"Who knows who those people are?" Relying on his brother-in-law to sit opposite, Yu Tongzhi immediately retorted. "At that time, as soon as I heard that it was flown from the northeast, the brothers thought that it was the Kuomintang who had betrayed the party, and those of them had guns and ......."

"Fuck you!" Seeing Yu Tongzhi lying to his face, Yu Qingshou was even more furious. He slammed his fist on the table and scolded, "At that time, you didn't know about the Northeast Rebellion." You don't even know that those are chaotic parties, how can the people below you know that those are chaotic parties? Don't think I don't know what you're up to. You must have killed those people because of other people's things......"

"Yu Qingshou, what am I doing?! Be! There's something shady on my side. But your ass isn't clean either! Isn't it true that Widow Liu over there in Gejiaji failed to rob her and killed her! What else 'miss my late husband.' So hang yourself'! Bah! What the hell! Everyone's butts aren't clean! I'm telling you, if something happens to Lao Tzu, you won't be able to get out of it! ”

As soon as Widow Liu came out, Yu Qingshou's face turned red instantly, he pulled out his gun violently, and shouted, "Lao Tzu killed you!" ”

As soon as Yu Qingshou pulled out his gun, the peasant soldiers behind Yu Tongzhi also raised their rifles, and Yu Tongzhi also shouted: "You fucking try!" His action provoked the patrol officers present to raise their guns. Outside the house, people on both sides also heard the noise, and they all raised their guns at each other.

The patrol police and the peasant soldiers raised their guns and fought among themselves, but Zhou Henglu, who was sitting in the chief, drank tea peacefully. He was silent for a while before he said, "Brother Qingshou doesn't want to get off the boat?" Without waiting for him to answer, he added, "But as far as I know, last night, your people, Yao Eryou's team, had already fought with Yang Jingcheng, so don't you ask him what he shouted at that time?" ”

"What?" Yu Qingshou was half-hearted, then looked at Yao Eryou, and asked, "What the hell did you shout last night?" ”

"I ......" Yao Eryou was stunned by the question, he thought of the things he said last night, and immediately slapped himself, and scolded: "Director, I was in a hurry, last night... Last night, in order to make Yang Jingcheng ......, no, no, let Cao Guizhong give up resistance and be captured, I said ......, also... Also ......"

"You ......" Yu Qingshou was shocked, he originally wanted to draw a line with the peasant association, but this Yao Er has a pig-like brain, and he actually messed things up. What the did you say?! Well! What the did you say?! Well! ”

Yao Eryou was so fierce that he couldn't hold the gun, he sat on the stool with his butt and said blankly: "I... I said......, yes, I said, 'Yang Jingcheng, you can't escape, you are already in the vast sea of peasants, ......surrender quickly.'"

"Haha......" As soon as they heard Yao Eryou say this, Yu Tongzhi and Zhou Henglu smiled at ease. Yu Tongzhi even shouted and applauded: "Captain Yao, what you said is so good!" That's great! Ha ha... Hahahaha......"

"You! You're a scourge! Yu Qingshou looked at Yao Eryou with a blank face, and he had the heart to kill him, but when things got to this point, it was not so easy to turn around.

"Director Yu..."Zhou Henglu said with a smile, "The matter is already very clear, everyone is Jinghaiwei's shrimp, and it takes purple feet to work (consciously) Since you are on this boat, you have to go to the end." This night's kung fu, regardless of whether he was injured or not, Yang turned out to be unable to run far. For the sake of the present. We still have to search every village, every house, maybe he will hide in that pile of thatch......"

"What if you find it?" Yu Qingshou glared at Yao Eryou again. I had to put down my gun and sit down, and light another cigarette. Since he took the lead in releasing the gun. The patrolmen inside and outside the house also lowered their guns, and the atmosphere returned to before.

"Kill if you find it, and then destroy the corpse." Zhou Henglu said unhurriedly. "Now Jingli is just spreading leaflets, I can't see that in two days, the revival army will have to find it, time is very tight!"

"What if you don't find it?" Yu Qingshou took a deep breath of cigarette and looked at Zhou Henglu with a provocative gaze.

"If you don't find it, then everyone will die." Zhou Henglu sneered, and then said. "It's impossible not to find it, a foreigner, who is not familiar with the place, where can he go? Weihaiwei is a direction, and from here to Weihaiwei are all our people. But those planes have to be dismantled and hidden, and then sold for an opportunity......"

Seeing that Zhou Henglu was still thinking about those planes at this time, Yu Qingshou suddenly smiled and said, "I said, brother, didn't you kill Yang Jingcheng and those people because of those planes?" ”

"Of course not." Zhou Henglu has nothing to hide at this time. He only said: "There are so many iron birds flying down from the sky suddenly, and the brothers were all panicked when they saw it, and the people who were listening to the accent were all southerners, and they were wearing watches that no one had ever seen before......." Zhou Henglu paused for a moment, then laughed again, and said, "That thing was only seen by adults in the provincial capital when the meeting was held in the provincial capital. None of us have seen each other. At the time, I wanted to borrow it and take a look, but I accidentally went off. This misfire can be ......"

Zhou Henglu didn't say anything more about the next thing, but Yu Qingshou was able to become the deputy director of the patrol police department. What happened next is of course clear. The peasant union cadres are known to be greedy for money, they are not official officials, and they have no chance of being promoted, so they naturally think about how to get more money. This must have happened when the two sides were scrambling for Western watches, and then it was ......

Not wanting to think too much about the scandal of the peasant association, Yu Qingshou asked again: "Now the county seat is occupied by the gentry, and the county magistrate is also dead. Should we go to the county seat to knock down the county seat, or should we go to Weihaiwei and find out Yang Jingcheng? ”

"The county magistrate is dead when he dies, anyway, he has to carry the black cauldron of murder, and the most important thing for us is to find Yang Jingcheng. If it has been lit for so long today, but people are nowhere to be seen, judging from the news coming from everywhere, Yang Jingcheng can only go to one place to hide. Zhou Henglu said.

As soon as he said Yu Qingshou, he asked, "Where to go?" ”

"The county seat!" Zhou Henglu didn't blink his eyes, and immediately settled on the place.

"The county seat?" Yu Qingshou thought about it sideways, and subconsciously said, "Is it possible in the county seat?" How did he know that the county town was occupied by the gentry? ”

"Of course he doesn't know." Zhou Henglu said, "But the sky has been bright for several hours, and we have been looking for several hours, except for the county seat, where else can he Yang Jingcheng go?" Most likely, he or his own soldiers were wounded, and in order to treat the wounds, he had to go to the county seat, and the county seat happened to be taken by the gentry, so he mixed into the county seat, and maybe he is now being treated at the Xincheng pharmacy.

We don't have to take back our manpower in other places, we have to continue to find it. But Cao Xubao alone in the county town is not enough, and we people also have to help. At least take back the county seat, and then search the whole city of more than 2,000 people. If not, then you and I will all memorize words; If there is, then kill it immediately, destroy the corpse with the others, and then divide the money of the big families in the city to the brothers who know about it, and no one will squeak in the future, as if this thing has never happened. ”

Zhou Henglu said all the methods in one breath, Yu Qingshou thought about it several times, and finally nodded heavily: "Then do what your brother said!" ”

"Good! It's still Brother Yu's pleasure. Zhou Henglu saw Yu Qingshou nodding, he seemed to be completely relieved, and he smiled again, "It's noon soon, let's eat first, and then go to beat the county seat down after eating, I don't believe I can't find that Yang Jingcheng." ”

It was indeed very late, and the village was already slaughtering pigs and sheep, and at this time, when it came to eating, everyone's stomachs were growling. Zhou Henglu had already arranged it, and as soon as he made a gesture, the wine and food were delivered one after another. Although they still had to fight the county seat in the afternoon, a group of people still made a few big bowls, but after the meal was finished and out of the yard, Yu Qingshou suddenly found that Zhou Henglu, who was greeted warmly behind him, was hiding far away at this time.

He was about to ask, but after two gunshots, he suddenly fell to the ground, relying on the last residual thoughts, he only heard one voice laughing: "Haha, brother-in-law, someone is carrying the black pot now." (To be continued.) )