Chapter 186: Li Zuyou's dilemma
Li Zuyou has been exiled to this Qing army camp for seven or eight days, and he himself can't say whether it was seven days or eight days. www.biquge.infoAbandoned in this cage in an impenetrable tent, he completely lost his sense of time, and he estimated his time in prison by the number of prison meals brought to him by Qing soldiers.
However, this algorithm does not necessarily accurately estimate the number of days he will be imprisoned, and when the Qing soldiers first coerced him into writing a letter to his family for ransom, they gave him three meals a day. But where was Li Zuyou willing to write the letter to his family asking his family to send a ransom, even if the Qing soldier who tortured him broke one of his legs, he still refused to write. When encountering this kind of smelly and hard toilet stone, where will the Qing army send him prison food on time.
When the Japanese were heading towards the undefended city of Fuzhou, Li Zuyou fled with his family in the direction of Lushun, thinking that he could catch the ship of the Beiyang Naval Division in Lushun and return to the mainland. I never thought that I would meet the horse team sent by Lian Shun to drive the people into the city near Jinzhou, and these Qing troops who went out of the city did not take military discipline into account, and while driving the people into the city, they also grabbed some property.
When Li Zuyou was in Fuzhou City, he was buying northern goods and dealing in daily miscellaneous goods, and he had some savings, and when he saw the Qing army's horse team driving the people into the city and looting property, he took his family to hide in the bushes on the side of the road. Unexpectedly, his father Li Duofu had inconvenient legs and feet, so he was separated from their family.
Hiding in the bushes until it was getting dark, Li Zuyou took his wife and daughter out and continued to Lushun. In this era, there was very little meat in the food of the Chinese people, and most people had night blindness, and unfortunately Li Zuyou's family was too. Seeing that it was getting late, Li Zuyou's family couldn't distinguish the direction again, so they walked back in the direction of Fuzhou.
It wasn't until dawn the next day that Li Zuyou found himself back near Fuzhou City. However, at this time, the Japanese had already occupied Fuzhou City, and patrols were walking around on the road from time to time. Seeing that the road to Lushun had already been set up by Japanese soldiers, Li Zuyou did not dare to take his family to break through, and instead walked in the direction of Haicheng, where the defense was relatively lax. It's just that Haicheng was also occupied by the Japanese, so he had to take his family to take refuge in a northern merchant who had business dealings with him on weekdays.
At this time, Northeast China was not a heavy industrial area in the 21st century, it was full of forests and wild animals. The people who are not trapped in the city can get some food when they walk in the mountains and forests, and the northern goods merchant that Li Zuyou took refuge in is also a big family in the vicinity, and he can afford to pay for their three mouths, and Li Zuyou is not eating for nothing, he takes his belongings with him when he runs.
Three months have passed in a blink of an eye, and the Qing army still has not been able to drive the Japanese out of the Liaohe Plain, and all the communication between here and Guannai and the Liaodong Peninsula has been cut off by the Japanese, and Li Zuyou can only be trapped in this small mountain village with his family.
However, ten days ago, a passing merchant told him that his father had bought northern goods in a small village between Haicheng and Liaoyang, saying that he had invested in a new owner and was working for the caravan of the Great Song Dynasty.
Li Zuyou wondered if this Great Song Dynasty had already destroyed the country for almost a thousand years, how could there be another Great Song Dynasty? But it doesn't matter if you can't make trouble, now that there is news from your father, Li Zuyou hurried to that small village to find someone.
Many northern merchants came back safe and sound with the goods caravan station, but this Li Zuyou, who only brought dry food, was fished out by the Qing army horse team.
The merchant who brought the northern goods had a heavy treasure, of course, he sent someone to investigate in front first, and only after finding that there was no danger did the person with the goods show up and hurry. Li Zuyou is good, he is worried about his father who only cares about hurrying along the way, how can he take care of those safety issues.
As a result, Li Zuyou was arrested by the patrolling Qing army, and a search found that Li Zuyou had nothing else except dry food.
In the barracks, the Qing army tortured him in every possible way, asking him to write a letter to his family and ask his family to send a ransom, but Li Zuyou would rather die than give in, no matter what punishment the Qing army subjected, he was stunned and did not give in. He knew very well in his heart that if he threw the letter to the house of the northern merchant where his wife and children lived, most of the soft goods that his wife carried would be lost by the northern merchant. This is still not the main thing, if the wife goes to the Qing army camp alone, it is really sending sheep into the tiger's mouth, although his daughter-in-law has a daughter with him, but the appearance is still good, if you come to the Qing army camp here and there can be good?
Li Zuyou is now betting that his father is also looking for their family, if the person who goes to sell northern goods tells his father the news that their family lives in a small mountain village, the old man will definitely go to find their mother and daughter, which is also the best ending for his wife and daughter. In any case, the end of his wife's absence is better than coming to the Qing army camp to pay the ransom to save himself, so Li Zuyou refused to write a letter to his family to send the ransom no matter how the Qing army tortured.
The words were divided into two ends, and this Wu Dashi sent people to attack the caravan unsuccessfully, and Liu Kun called to ask for help, and he also felt very bored in his heart. He couldn't understand what the Qing army he was doing was eating, and the men and horses ten times larger than the other party were finally defeated by the caravan of the puppet Song Dynasty. You must know that he sent cavalry, this is a pursuit battle in the wilderness, and it doesn't matter if you can't capture Haicheng, but the caravan chasing only about 200 people on the plain has been beaten into this virtue, which makes the advantages of the Dajin Shi family unbearable.
The captives who were released said that the puppet Song demanded the release of a man named Li Zuyou, but Wu did not take the matter seriously. As a military white, the Jin Shi family did not connect the incident of crossing the attack on the Beiyang arsenal at Yingkou with his own attack on the caravan, the time of these two things happened too close, Wu Dayi thought that it was a coincidence, no army could launch a retaliatory attack on another Qing army camp hundreds of miles away within a few hours after being attacked and succeeded, anyway, what I Wu Dayi couldn't do didn't exist.
In fact, even if Wu Dayi wanted to release Li Zuyou, he couldn't find anyone. The Qing army on the Liaohe Plain is scattered all over the place, and the Jin Shi family is a layman in military affairs, and he still can't figure out how many people he has under him, and every time he attacks Haicheng, he can't unify the order.
Crossing the crowd to let the Jin Shi family find someone in one of the combat units under him, it is really too high to think of his ability, if he really wants to find Li Zuyou, he doesn't know how to start, except for writing a warrant and sending it down, he can only sit and wait.