Chapter 6: Fighting (4)

Company Commander Liu Qinglong, as the military commander of Centipede Mountain second only to Xu Ping, has been quite proud of the spring breeze these days, his company is the most powerful combat unit on Centipede Mountain, looking at this area, except for the Japanese army, it is his strongest strength, he is a little intoxicated.

With the entire company of soldiers, followed by more than 300 logistics personnel, they went to Chuzhou.

"Chuzhou, I'm here, I'm Liu Qinglong and I'm back!" Liu Qinglong escaped from Nanjing half a year ago and passed through Chuzhou, what a loss of soul, Liu Lang came again today, changed his mood, and felt completely different.

Liu Qinglong's troops, very distinctive, the hat on the head is neither the national army's ski style cylinder hat, nor the Japanese army's lower big and small spire style, but the old Gui Army's large-sided soft-top "scout hat", is a kind of military hat between the big cap and the cylinder cap, when the invincible troops set out from Guangxi, all of them are this kind of hat, after arriving in Xuzhou, they are dressed as the cylindrical ski style cylinder hat of the national army, but the inventory of the large-sided soft-top scout hat is still a lot, and the inventory is cleared out, and it has become the standard military hat of the Eastern Anhui Volunteer Army. The clothes and pants are all Japanese, even the backpack on the back, the armed belt on the waist, and the leather shoes under the feet are all Japanese-style. The gun must be the 38 big cover of the Japanese army, and among the guns captured in the Three Realms, the best equipment for the volunteers is selected. Liu Qinglong had a southern fourteen kings and eight boxes pinned to his waist, and a delicate Japanese short knife hanging from the side, Gong Qingyuan told him that this knife was called rib cha, which was specially used by the Japanese to commit suicide, which was unlucky. Liu Qinglong said with a smile, this knife molten steel is good, sharp, shaved fruit, shaved beard, and does not have to be used to cut the stomach.

From Centipede Mountain to Chuzhou, first to Nanqiao, this road Liu Qinglong has walked many times, very familiar, not long after, to the place where Wu Lanqiu and other women were rescued last time. In less than two months, the scenery in front of us is very different, spring has arrived, farmers are ploughing the land, there is spring planting to have autumn harvest, Chinese farmers are the hardest working group. Seeing Liu Qinglong coming, a farmer greeted him and asked, "Where are the bosses going?" ”

Hu Sande walked out and replied in a local dialect: "Walk around, spring is coming, cats are walking in spring, dogs are walking in grass, we men have to walk everywhere, otherwise it will be wasted." ”

The peasants smiled, knowing that people were reluctant to tell themselves the destination, so they didn't ask more, the Chinese peasants are the most cautious people in the world, they are hospitable but very able to grasp the measure, two thousand years of cultural upbringing, has cultivated them into a real obedient people, no matter who is their boss, as long as there is a bite of food to eat, they will not have too many opinions, these years have passed a few years of stable life, in eastern Anhui, after the Northern Expedition, there are few military disasters, and suddenly the Japanese are fighting here, They were more or less curious.

Liu Qinglong walked into the village, and once again saw the familiar Rendan poster posted on the fork in the road, Liu Qinglong looked at it casually, and knew what it meant, and how to go next, it was not far from Nanqiao.

A man who was engaged in small business came over, and when he saw Liu Qinglong's appearance like a housekeeper, he quickly nodded and said, "Sir, do you want to go to Chuzhou to find trouble with the Japanese?" ”

"How do you know?" Liu Qinglong didn't answer, but Hu Sande, who was following on the side, asked strangely, this is what was said before, what do you have to say, let Hu Sande deal with it first, he is a local, and he speaks a local dialect, Liu Qinglong speaks a Sichuan accent, and he reveals his bottom as soon as he opens his mouth.

"Everyone around knows that the Japanese army is heading for Bengbu, Chuzhou only has a warehouse, a hospital and a propaganda department, leaving a squadron to garrison in Chuzhou, you go to Chuzhou fully armed, it will definitely not be to find the Japanese to drink bars!" As the man in small business spoke, he took out a pack of foreign cigarettes and handed one to Liu Qinglong and Hu Sande.

Hearing the man who was doing small business talking about the situation of the Japanese army in Chuzhou City, Liu Qinglong was interested, and asked the soldiers to rest on the spot, and he and Hu Sande pulled the man who was doing small business aside and asked in detail.

No one saw that behind the house where the small business was done, a man gently pulled the horse out of the village, jumped up, and ran towards Chuzhou as if flying.

When Liu Qinglong said goodbye to the man who was doing small business and walked to the road to Chuzhou, the man looked at them with a worried eye, an expression that did not know the blessings and misfortunes.

It is getting closer and closer to Chuzhou, Liu Qinglong is a very cautious person, although he has already understood all the situation in Chuzhou, he still sent an outpost to explore the road first.

After a while, the outpost came running back quickly, panting and saying, "Coming, coming, there are many people." ”

"Who?" Liu Qinglong asked.

"Ordinary people." The outpost said.

Liu Qinglong hurriedly greeted him, turned a big tree, and saw a large group of people coming in front of him, all of whom seemed to be local people, most of them were empty-handed, and only a few people were carrying the burden, with a hurried look. At the back of the group, there were many people following him, and there were people joining the crowd in the distance, and the number was still increasing.

The crowd was getting closer and closer, and at the front of the crowd, it was obvious that there were two leaders, one was wearing a set of Japanese-style military uniforms, but there was no hat, no collar badge and badge, and no weapons on his body. The other is a Xiangkun, with a robe and a small melon skin hat, probably because he walked fast, he hugged the hem of the caftan and tucked it around his waist, revealing the crotch pants inside. The man in the military uniform obviously saw Liu Qinglong's team, waved his hands vigorously, quickened his steps, and turned into a trot.

Finally ran to the front, looking at Liu Qinglong with a blank face, the man in military uniform bowed slightly, introduced himself, and said: "In Huang Xinong, the county magistrate of Chu County, I heard that there was a national army arriving at the border, so I came to greet him. ”

Liu Qinglong smiled and didn't speak, but asked Hu Sande to say, "County Magistrate Huang is here to greet us?" ”

"Exactly!" Huang Xinnong said: "When the main force of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army left Chuzhou to the north, I knew that someone would come to attack Chuzhou's idea, so I laid an eyeliner in all the surrounding places, and once an army entered, it would immediately report to me, so that I could meet it at any time, lest I be slow." ”

Hearing the county magistrate say politely, Liu Qinglong was a little puzzled, as for the eyeliner all over the place, monitoring whether there are national troops coming, what does this mean?

Huang Xinnong pointed to the squire beside him and said to Hu Sande: "This is Mr. Shi Huazhai, the president of the Chamber of Commerce in Chuzhou, I heard that a large army has crossed the border, and I have come to express some thoughts. ”

Shi Huazhai smiled, beckoned to the back, and immediately someone picked up the burden, several large loads of food such as pigs and raw fish, and someone held a small plate, and in the plate was a tube of silver dollars, as many as a thousand.

"What does that mean?" Liu Qinglong couldn't help but speak.

Hearing Liu Qinglong speak, Hu Sande introduced: "This is our former army commander Liu. ”

Huang Xinong and Shi Huazhai glanced at each other, and they could hear that this was a Sichuan accent, and thought to themselves. Could it be that this is Janssen's troops? Yang Sen's troops are famous for being greedy for money and lustful, and if it is Yang Sen's troops, such money is enough to send them away.

There were more and more people from Chuzhou, and soon seven or eight hundred people were concentrated, and Liu Qinglong's more than 100 people were surrounded in a semicircle shape, although Huang Xinnong and Shi Huazhai were very polite, but these people did not have a good face, and they looked cold, obviously regarded Liu Qinglong's people as enemies. Liu Qinglong's subordinates also felt that the atmosphere was abnormal, and all the 38 big covers in their hands were quietly loaded, but the bayonet hanging on their waists was not too embarrassed to take it out and put it on the barrel of the gun.

"Small meaning, small meaning, just a little greeting gift, nothing else. Not a tribute, not a tribute. Shi Huazhai said that he went south and north, and he could still make three points of Sichuan accent.

Huang Xinnong walked up to Liu Qinglong and said very seriously: "It doesn't matter which part your army belongs to, but it must be the Chinese army, and it is a mortal enemy of the Japanese in Chuzhou City." You entered Chuzhou City for no more than one purpose, that is, to take advantage of the weakness to take the Japanese logistics base in Chuzhou and kill the lone Japanese. Right? ”

Liu Qinglong nodded.

"You weren't wrong in doing that. Killing all Japanese is something that every Chinese should do, and it stands to reason that we should support it. Right? Huang Xinong continued.

Liu Qinglong nodded again.

"However, there is one thing I don't know if you have thought about it, sir, in addition to a squadron of Japanese elite soldiers and less than 1,000 logistics personnel in Chuzhou, there are also more than 100,000 people in Chuzhou, unarmed and powerless in Chuzhou. Right? The more Huang Xinong spoke, the more serious he became, one sentence by one was right or wrong, and the momentum was not weak.

Liu Qinglong nodded in addition to that. I don't know what else to do.

"You plan to enter Chuzhou, kill the lone Japanese, burn down the warehouses, loot the supplies, and then report to the Nationalist Government, and fight another great victory to recover Chuzhou under the iron hoof. And then how far to go and how far to go. Right? When Huang Xinong said this, he was obviously a little disdainful.

Liu Qinglong wanted to nod his head, and then wanted to shake his head, but he was there.

"You are gone, we can't go, more than 100,000 people in Chuzhou can't go, in December last year, we also walked through, fled into the mountains, and joined relatives and friends. As a result, those who rely on relatives and friends can't get by, those who flee into the mountains can't get by, those who die die, those who die, and finally have to return to their hometowns and live on this one-third of an acre. We can't go, so we can only wait here to die. Because you are gone, the Japanese army returns, and we become the target of their anger. Right? Huang Xinong's voice became more and more severe, this time he did not let Liu Qinglong digest it, but kept saying: "Nanjing Tang Shengzhi beat it, what is the result?" Killed hundreds of thousands of ordinary people, Chuzhou Hu Zongnan beat it, as a result, there were more than 10,000 dead, in front of the Guandi Temple, on the bank of the Luohong Bridge, the corpses were criss-crossed, the blood flowed like a river, and the dead were all ordinary people. We, the common people, pay attention to living and working in peace and contentment, and what we ask for is one meal at a time. Therefore, we beg you to fight outside, do not enter Chuzhou City, and do not provoke the Japanese in Chuzhou City, so that our people can live in peace and stability for a few days. Spring planting is about to begin, and if you don't plant at this time, you won't be able to harvest anything in the fall, and what will be the result, it will be a death in patches, more than in battle. ”

Liu Qinglong was completely speechless.

"County Magistrate Huang's words are wrong!" Another standard Sichuan dialect came out of Liu Qinglong's body.

Huang Xinnong looked up, the scene in front of him was very different, before the people faintly formed an encirclement of Liu Qinglong's more than 100 people, this time there was another standard of people outside the encirclement, the number far exceeded Liu Qinglong's people, loaded with guns, and the momentum had overwhelmed the people. It was a quiet scholar-like person who spoke, with a shallow smile on his face and a calm face, Huang Xinong knew that this was his opponent, and those previous words might make the bearded Liu Qinglong retreat, but it was difficult to make this scholar-like soldier retreat, quite difficult.