The meeting room of the headquarters of the Chengde Gendarmerie.

"Zhang Jun, you are really good at managing the army, I really didn't expect that your subordinate Zhen Sifei was also so good, and actually defeated our third squad of special operations, captured the captain of the fighting team, Takeno-kun, and admired it," Fujita Ichiro said, "According to the information provided by our intelligence department, Zhen Sifei is the junior brother of your guard captain Chen Jia, and can only be regarded as a second-row general, it is conceivable that your first-row generals, like Chen Jia, Ma Longtan, Li Tieniu, and Ren Zhanbiao's master Tang Dalong, who followed you to watch the exercise today, are even more amazing. There are also Dongfeng, Hongzhong, Cai Yongzhen, Huo Tingying, Fan Yong, Sun Baojin and others are also brave, and they are really full of talents. ”

"Fujita Ichiro Shaozuo, you have won the award, Zhen Sifei is just a fluke to win, your special operations team's climbing, shooting, grappling and other skills are very good, and they are worth learning." Zhang Tianhe thought to himself that this Japanese was really good, and he had a clear understanding of the staffing situation of the security team.

"Zhang Jun, we also heard that some time ago, you only sent Tang Dalong, Dongfeng, Chen Jia and a female general named Tian Xiaoting to pack up the team of 200 people led by the Meng bandit Dilong, Black Tiger, and White Leopard, which is really amazing," Fujita Ichiro added, "I don't mean anything else when I say this, I just admire your wisdom and courage." ”

"Fujita Ichiro Shaoza, I think your information may be wrong, and that incident was not our doing." Zhang Tianhe said.

"Zhang Jun, our intelligence work is also world-class, how can it be wrong?" Fujita Ichiro confidently said, "If our intelligence work can also go wrong, then there is only one possibility, and that is that you are not telling the truth." ”

"As I said, it wasn't our doing." Zhang Tianhe insisted.

"Fujita-kun, this matter has passed, there is no need to argue anymore, not to mention that even if Zhang Jun and them did it, it is also a matter between them and the bandits, and it has nothing to do with us." Kawamoto interrupted Fujita Ichiro.

"How can it not matter? That batch of arms is ours, the leader of the Mongolian bandits, Bai Yin Dajiao, only paid a small part of the deposit, and the rest of the money has not yet been fully paid, and now they have killed 200 people, and the arms have been robbed, so he wants to pay the balance of the arrears, "Fujita Ichiro said, "Now Shangfeng has handed over this matter to our special operations team to deal with, you say, how should we deal with it?" ”

"This matter is not an urgent matter, let's talk about it later," Kawamoto Shaozo said, "Zhang Jun, from now on, you and Ren Zhanbiao are our good friends, I hope you can put aside your past suspicions and work together for our imperial army." ”

"Please rest assured, Mr. Kawamoto, Your Excellency Osa, that we, Hongmakan, will do our best to cooperate with the work of your army and obey the command of your army." Ren Zhanbiao stood up and nodded and said.

Zhang Tianhe looked at his servile appearance, and he was angry.

After dinner, Zhang Tianhe returned to the room, Chen Jia, Ma Longtan, and Li Tieniu were all in a hurry, and when they saw that the captain was back, the three of them hurriedly gathered around and asked long and short questions.

Zhang Tianhe briefly told the three of them about the situation during the banquet.

"Captain, they didn't do anything to you, did they? If they dare to touch a single hair of you, I'll play with them. Li Tieniu said.

"No, don't you think I'm coming back well?" Zhang Tianhe said.

"What about the agreement?" Ma Longtan asked.

"I'll wait until I'll get back tomorrow morning." Zhang Tianhe said.

"What about Zhen Sifei?" Chen Jia asked.

As they were talking, at this moment, Kawamoto Shaozo flew in with Zhen Si.

After entering the door, Kawamoto Shaozo laughed and said, "Zhang Jun, I always count when I speak, I said that if I let him go, I will definitely let him go, now you will see if he is intact?" ”

"Thank you, Mr. Kawamoto." Zhang Tianhe said.

Zhen Sifei: "Plop!" He knelt down and said, "Captain, senior brother, I've caused you trouble." ”

"You get up first, your business, we'll talk about it when we go back." Zhang Tianhe said with a sinking face.

"Zhang Jun, then I won't disturb your rest, I will leave first, and I will send you out after breakfast tomorrow morning." Kawamoto said.

"Thank you." Zhang Tianhe said.

Sure enough, the next morning, after breakfast, Kawamoto Shaosa led a group of five of them out of the gendarmerie headquarters.

At this time, someone had already brought their horses over, including the horse that Zhen Sifei rode when he went to Pingquan Mansion, and they were also returned.

Zhang Tianhe and others bid farewell to Kawamoto Shaozuo and returned to the Chenjiayu security team.

Along the way, no one spoke to Zhen Sifei, and Zhen Sifei was uneasy in his heart.

When they returned to the security team, everyone was very happy when they saw that they had come back safely, and even Zhen Sifei brought them back.

"Meeting!" Zhang Tianhe immediately commanded, and a double post was added outside the door.

In addition, someone was sent to take care of Zhen Sifei and prevent him from attending the meeting.

Zhang Tianhe told Liu Bodu, Tang Dalong, Li Sizhe and others about the experience of going to the gendarmerie headquarters to watch the spring exercises.

"What? More than 100 people were all sudden? When Tang Dalong and the others heard this, they were all taken aback, "These people are really cruel, they actually drove out these unarmed people, and from then on, there is no Zhong'an Fort on the rivers and lakes." ”

"At that time, if Zhen Sifei had broken Zhuye's arm, it was estimated that his life would not be guaranteed, but fortunately, the captain stopped it in time, which saved him from death." Chen Jia told everyone that in fact, he was also very worried in his heart, and he didn't know what the captain was going to do with Zhen Sifei, after all, they were brothers in the same sect.

"Everyone, look at this agreement, how should we respond?" Zhang Tianhe said and took out the agreement and circulated it to everyone.

"Captain, in my opinion, what kind of bullshit agreement is this, it is clearly an overlord clause, a deed of sale, everything is up to them, as long as you sign it, then, we all sold it to their gendarmerie with you, from now on, just like Ren Zhanbiao's kid, be a dog slave, and do whatever the master tells him to do." Tang Dalong was the first to say.

"Their intentions are obvious, they want to gradually unify all the surrounding colts through division, disintegration, bribery, and co-optation, and serve them, and if they can't do it, they will be eliminated, at present, the rest are mainly our security forces, Tianjiazhai and Heiyunzhai," Li Sizhe said, "If we sign this agreement, it will be no different from the Red Horse Kanren Occupy the standard, and from then on they will become the minions of the gendarmerie, and we will do whatever they tell us to do, but if we don't sign, And they will unite with the men of Red Makan against us. ”

"What then?" Tang Dalong asked.

"Captain, according to my observation, on the one hand, that Kawamoto Shaozuo personally admires the captain and sincerely wants to make friends with us, on the other hand, Tian Xiaoting of Tianjiazhai is the captain's sister, in other words, Tianjiazhai and our security team are one family, where to go is also a matter of the captain's words, and Judge Du of Heiyunzhai is the captain's godfather, they should also have about a thousand men and horses now, and the fortifications are also very strong, last time they took the new weapons of the Meng bandits from us, and now they are not badly equipped, so, The three of us are less than two thousand, which is about the same, and it is not so easy for the gendarmerie to destroy us, so I don't think Kawamoto will turn against us unless it is absolutely necessary. Liu Bodu said.

"Mr. Liu's analysis is correct," Zhang Tianhe said, "Chuan originally invited us to watch the exercises, which was to give us a dismount and force us to submit, and it was precisely because we were not aggressive and had the value of use that we would be released, otherwise there would be no return." ”

"Captain, therefore, my suggestion is to inform Tianjiazhai and Heiyunzhai to take precautions in advance on the one hand, and on the other hand, we will give him a 'drag' word, we don't say sign, we don't say no, just drag it on, drag it until which day it is." Liu Bodu said.

"What do you say?" Zhang Tianhe asked everyone.

"Yes, that's it." Everyone said.

"From today onwards, we will continue to recruit troops, but we will not be able to use them if we are less manpower," Zhang Tianhe said, "Only when we are strong and they can't move us, will we have the right to speak." In addition, it is necessary to strengthen training, in my opinion, their stabbing is indeed very powerful, let's study it, if you start a white-knuckle battle, what method should be used to crack their stabbing. ”

Sure enough, as Liu Bodu expected, three days later, Kawamoto Shaozo came with the translator.

Zhang Tianhe hid.

Liu Bodu came out to receive him warmly and ordered someone to serve tea.

"Mr. Liu, may I ask where you Captain Zhang are?" Kawamoto asked as soon as he entered the door.

"Back to Mr. Kawamoto, our Captain Zhang has something to go out." Liu Bodu said respectfully.

"He's out the door? Where did it go? ”

"Our captain went to Tianjiazhai to do their ideological work and persuade them to return to your army as soon as possible." Liu Bodu said.

"I see, that's good!" Kawamoto said, "Then when will he come back?" ”

"Mr. Kawamoto, I can't say for sure."

"Did he sign the agreement I asked him to bring back?"

"This, I don't know." Liu Bodu said.

Mr. Kawamoto couldn't ask anything, so he left.

"Mr. Kawamoto, there are still two boxes of good Huangshan Taiping Monkey Kui here, you can take them back and drink them slowly." Liu Bodu gave him a ride and gave him two boxes of tea.

After another five days, Kawamoto Shaosa and the translator came again.

"Captain Zhang should be at home this time, right?" Kawamoto Shaozo asked when he saw Liu Bodu.

"Back to Mr. Kawamoto, it's unfortunate that you came today, our captain just went to Heiyun Village in the morning, and he went to persuade his godfather to return to your army as soon as possible." Liu Bodu was very polite.

"Is that true?" Kawamoto Shaosa said, "Why is he not there every time I come?" He couldn't be avoiding me on purpose, was he? ”

"Mr. Kawamoto, you think too much, how can it be?" Liu Bodu said with a smile, "Our captain often nags you, and he praises you quite a lot, if he is at home, he will definitely come out to meet you, drink hard, and get drunk." ”

"Really?" Kawamoto Shaozo was skeptical, "Then did he sign the agreement?" ”

"To your point, this is not yet." Liu Bodu said.

"And what do you captains mean? Isn't he going to sign it? When Kawamoto Shaozuo heard this, he was already a little displeased, "If this is the case, I can't bear it on Hetian Dazuo's side, if the time comes, Hetian Dazuo is angry and sends troops to attack you, I can't stop it." ”

"Mr. Kawamoto, I think our captain means that he wants to wait for the work of Tianjiazhai and Heiyunzhai to be completed before signing, and at that time, won't it save a lot of trouble?" Liu Bodu said.

"What you said seems to make sense, then tell him to hurry up and do the work of the two of them, the time is prolonged, but no." Kawamoto said.

"I understand this, when Captain Zhang comes back, I will definitely convey it," Liu Bodu said with a smile on his face, "You can stay here to eat." ”

"No need, I'll go first, and I'll bother him next time he comes back." Kawamoto said.

"Then you go slowly." After Liu Bodu finished speaking, he gave him some silk.