The matter about Howard was settled for the time being, and afterwards Li Qingzhu also asked Phillips to tell him about it, and as Li Qingzhu expected, Phillips also agreed with the decision to put Howard on the front line, and also gave Howard a list, which was full of Hydra's internal responses.

"Li, your intelligence department's investigation of them shouldn't end here, right?"

After Phillips handed the list into Howard's hands, he looked at Li Qingzhu and said,

"Of course, I have to keep track of their movements, otherwise how can I know if this little sapling has grown again?"

Li Qingzhu chuckled and said, because he didn't know how to complete this third task, Li Qingzhu's investigation of this intelligence has never stopped.

"Very well, we need to talk to Howard regularly about the future so that he can keep up to date."

Phillips nodded with satisfaction, now he really felt that it was the right choice to recruit Li Qingzhu in, otherwise their ears and eyes would never be as clear as they are now.

"Sir!"

At this time, Peggy suddenly walked in from outside, and seeing her hurried steps, there should be something urgent to say.

"Sir, Steve is back."

Sure enough, as soon as Peggy opened her mouth, it was a heavyweight news, and Phillips was taken to heart as soon as he heard it, he turned to Howard and said, "Mr. Stark, this matter will be fully entrusted to you, remember to be careful." ”

"Anyway, now I can't get off the ship, right?"

Howard shrugged his shoulders and looked resigned.

"Alright. Don't sigh, let's go meet our Captain America. ”

Li Qingzhu patted Howard on the shoulder, and then followed Phillips to welcome Steve's return.

In the war room. Steve and his comrades had been waiting for a long time.

"You're back a little late than some, Captain."

Phillips said as he walked in from the side door, and seeing Li Qingzhu beside him, Steve naturally understood who Phillips was talking about.

Steve walked up to Phillips and gave a standard military salute and said, "Sir! Mission accomplished! ”

"Good work, Rogers."

Phillips gave him a military salute in return, then reached out and shook it heavily to show his gratitude to Steve.

"Steve. What about Bucky? ”

Li Qingzhu frowned and looked through the crowd, but did not find Bucky's figure.

As soon as Li Qingzhu's words fell, he found that the atmosphere between Steve and his comrades-in-arms instantly fell. Looking at their grief one by one, Li Qingzhu already knew the result.

"For what?"

Li Qingzhu looked at Steve and asked in disbelief,

"I'm sorry, Lee. I didn't protect him. ”

A tear welled up in Steve's eye. He lowered his head and looked very painful, and he felt that he had an unshirkable responsibility for the death of his best friend since childhood.

"No, Steve, it's not your fault, it's me who is bad, I forgot to remind you."

Li Qingzhu looked at his sad appearance, and suddenly remembered in his heart that he knew the plot of the Dao. But forgot to remind Steve that he should actually be really responsible. It's Li Qingzhu himself.

Steve didn't know what Li Qingzhu was thinking, he just felt that Li Qingzhu should have said this to alleviate the pain and self-blame in his heart.

“Im_sorry……”

Steve's sadness could only turn into such an apology, he was apologizing to Li Qingzhu, he was apologizing to Bucky, and he was apologizing to himself.

Because the news of Bucky's death made the originally festive atmosphere seem a little sad, everyone didn't know what to say for a while.

Steve was the first to ease up, he collected his mood, then turned to look at Phillips and said, "Sir, I caught an important person this time, and I should get a lot of news." ”

Phillips nodded knowingly, and then said to him: "After that, we will interrogate for a while, you should have a good rest, there are still tough battles for you." ”

With that, Phillips patted Steve on the shoulder and led someone to receive what Steve had brought back.

"Steve......"

Peggy looked at her lover with a look of pity, and Steve smiled slightly, "Don't worry, I'm fine." ”

Steve came back to rest for two or three days, and because Phillips had been interrogating Dr. Zola he brought back, he had not given Steve and Li Qingzhu a task, so the two of them also stayed quietly in the base and did not go anywhere.

"Remember the first time you guys came to my ranch? The guy seemed to be riding a horse for the first time. ”

In Li Qingzhu's ecological park, there were only two people, him and Steve, and there was a table of foreign wine in front of Steve, and he looked drunk.

Li Qingzhu was no better, and the gourd in his hand was never put down.

"Of course, we haven't ridden since we were kids, okay? Novelty, of course. ”

Steve chuckled, then took a sip of his beer.

Li Qingzhu glanced at him, and then said with a smile: "I really envy you, no matter how you drink, you won't get drunk." ”

"What's there to envy about this? I just want to get drunk, but I can't. ”

Steve's eyes looked a little erratic, and he probably remembered the day when he watched Bucky fall to the bottom of a cliff.

"Steve, I'm serious, maybe you were searching at the bottom of the cliff at that time, at least you would see people alive and corpses when you died."

Li Qingzhu glanced sideways at him and said.

Steve was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and said, "Why didn't I think of that?!" ”

Li Qingzhu patted him on the shoulder, comforted him and said, "Forget it, it's the same in a few days, let the colonel send someone to search, Bucky is also our person after all, and the colonel will agree." ”

Steve nodded, feeling a little more settled.

"A general offensive is about to be launched, do you have any ideas?"

"The only thing I want to do right now is kick Schmidt's ass!"

Steve looked ahead with fierce eyes, as if Schmidt was standing right in front of him.

"Hey, I'm different from you, Steve, do you need a flush toilet at home? Maybe I can cut off Schmidt's head and give it to you. ”

Li Qingzhu lifted his gourd and stretched it out to Steve, Steve smiled, picked up the wine bottle and touched Li Qingzhu's wine gourd, and the two raised their heads and drank.

Three days later.

"Based on the comparison of Zola's information with Lee's previous information, we have determined the specific location of Schmidt's base in Alaska, and now the question is how to capture it."

In the battle room, in addition to Phillips, Peggy, Li Qingzhu and Steve, there were also Steve's team members and other senior staff officers, everyone sat together to discuss how to attack.

"Sir, I'm still planning from before." Li Qingzhu raised his hand to express his opinion, in his opinion, following the original plot is tantamount to the easiest and safest road.

Phillips shook his head and said, "No, your plan is too risky. ”

Li Qingzhu was stunned, but he didn't expect Phillips to veto this plan because of the danger factor.

Just when Li Qingzhu wanted to argue with reason, Steve suddenly said, "Sir, what is Li's plan?" Can you tell me about it? ”

Phillips thought about it for a while, and then said Li Qingzhu's proposal that day.

Steve listened and fell into deep thought.

"The uncertainty of this plan is too high for me to give such an order."

Phillips said with some regret.

"Not necessarily!"

Steve spoke suddenly, and everyone's attention was focused on him.

"Steve, do you have a way to perfect my plan?"

Li Qingzhu looked at Steve and asked, although this is a question sentence, but Li Qingzhu asked very surely, he believes that with Steve's military talent, he will definitely be able to do this.

Sure enough, I saw Steve nodding with a smile, then looked at Phillips and said, "Sir, please agree with our plan this time, Lee's plan is effective and very feasible, I have already thought of ways to improve the success rate." ”

Phillips looked at Steve fixedly, maybe it was Steve's past military talent that conquered him, and then Phillips nodded and said, "Okay, Rogers, I'll leave it to you." (To be continued......)