Early in the morning, Tang Cheng took Liu Shitou out of the city to go horse riding. This had almost become Tang Cheng's unshakable morning exercise activity. Liu Shitou, who was forcibly pulled out of bed by Tang Cheng, swayed sleepily as the horse moved forward.
, although he was very dissatisfied with Tang Cheng's behavior of disturbing his sleep, Liu Shitou could only hide this dissatisfaction in his heart but did not dare to express it.
"If you could have gone to bed early last night, you wouldn't have dozed off now." He turned to glance at Liu Shitou, who was listless. Tang Cheng raised the corner of his mouth and showed a smile. After encircling and suppressing the horse bandits in Wangzhuang Town, he had something in his pocket.
Qian Liu Shitou followed Lao Dongbei and the others around the county town all day long. Last night, it was because of Lao Dongbei's greed for drink that they returned to Cyclamen four hours later than usual.
Liu Shitou, who was on horseback, yawned loudly, and then lazily returned to Tangcheng. "It's not that Old Dongbei was sitting in the tavern, and he didn't have any money in his pocket, so he still insisted on drinking those few mouthfuls," he said.
Free wine. Seeing that he was already drunk, I didn’t dare to leave, so I had to stay with him there, and I don’t know how to drink.” Liu Shitou’s grumpy complaint made Tang Cheng laugh, but
He also knew that Liu Shitou had a good relationship with Lao Dongbei and there was no real complaint between the two. Liu Shitou said that just to excuse himself.
"Which pub did you drink at last night? I remember it was past 1 o'clock at night when you came back." It's summer now, and this is not a northern land like Peking. In Macheng, the sky will be open at 5 o'clock in the morning.
Brighten up. Taverns and prostitutes in the county usually close around 11 o'clock at night. Tang Cheng is very curious about this pub that can stay open until 1 o'clock in the morning.
"Isn't it the Liufu restaurant in the east of the city? The people from the garrison group like to go there the most. Uncle Liu, the shopkeeper of that restaurant, also likes to sit with the people from the garrison group to drink and chat." Liu Shitou seemed to be bored and stretched out his hand to rub the back of his neck.
"If he hadn't sent Lao Dongbei a bottle of wine and two side dishes last night, we wouldn't have gone back so late."
"You kid, don't hang around with Lao Dongbei and the others all day long. You should practice your bad marksmanship when you have time. Ma Tou says you waste bullets too much." After encircling and suppressing the horse bandits, Ma Tou and the others just don't care.
It was a team that officially joined Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng, who had manpower in hand, directly gave the important task of training Liu Shitou to Ma Tou and the others. As Liu Shi Tou's shooting instructor, Ma Tou complained to Tang Cheng several times.
To say that equipping Liu Shitou with a gun is simply a waste of bullets.
Butler Huang who was sent to Wuhan has not returned yet, so the large number of bullets needed by Tangcheng and the garrison are still not there. If some bullets had not been seized during the round of encirclement and suppression of bandits some time ago, the garrison's daily shooting training would have stopped. "
I am now your accountant and the person in charge of the accounts. You don’t want me to fight against the little devils like the old Northeastern people did." Liu Shitou on horseback turned sideways and looked at Tangcheng, his eyes full of urgency.
Explore.
The cruelty of the battlefield left a deep impression on Liu Shitou. The 800-man Mengcheng garrison was maimed and dispersed within two days. In the end, only seven of them managed to escape to Macheng. This experience made Liu Shitou
This guy who is three years younger than Tang Cheng is as precocious as an adult. "If the Japanese really come, we all have to fight. One more person will give us more strength. Kill one more Japanese soldier, and we will have one more force."
It's safe." Tang Cheng knew what Liu Shitouzi was worried about.
He could not guarantee that he would be able to escape from the battle, nor could he guarantee that Liu Shitou would not face the Japanese soldiers one day, so he just hoped that Liu Shitou could make himself stronger. Only in this way would Liu Shitou's chance of survival be better.
Bigger. "I also want to shoot the gun more accurately, but every time I aim at the target, my hands tremble." Liu Shitou cried, and secretly looked at Tang Cheng with the corner of his eye.
"It's okay. When I first started shooting, I was just like you now. Just practice more and you'll be fine. A good shot can protect you well on the battlefield." Tang Cheng didn't feel Liu Shitou's regret at all.
Strangely, when Robert taught him how to shoot, his marksmanship was even worse. When he was fighting the Japanese army at the Shanghai Street Entrance, Tang Cheng used a 5-round bullet bridge to focus on a target, and that target had to be shot first.
Only after being injured by others can Tang Cheng hit him.
Nodding to the soldiers of the garrison guarding the city gate, Tang Cheng, who had finished his morning exercise, rode into the city with Liu Shitou. A vague glance from the crowd made Tang Cheng on horseback very irritated. He did not dismount, but Tang Cheng just
Turning back and staring on the horse, he looked around at the crowd at the city gate. Tang Cheng could not find out whose eyes the sight that made him irritated came from. "Captain Tang, is something wrong?" Tang Cheng and Liu Shitou said.
The horses blocked most of the city gate. The soldiers guarding the city gate thought that Tang Cheng had discovered something strange, so they came over to ask.
"It's okay, it's okay. I just thought of something and I was a little stunned." He greeted the soldiers of the garrison who were surrounding him. Tang Cheng asked Liu Shitou to let go of the city gate, but he himself turned over and got off the horse.
Tang Cheng, who was holding the reins, seemed to be walking slowly and unintentionally, but his eyes were paying attention to the crowd that he had just looked around. Just like the people waiting to leave the city in the past, there was nothing strange about the people caught in Tang Cheng's sight.
, Tang Cheng shook his head vigorously in vain. Maybe he was too sensitive.
Jiu Jin's injury is getting better day by day. The doctor invited by Mrs. Huang said that Jiu Jin will be able to get out of bed and move around in half a month. But as the day of leaving Macheng gradually approaches, Tang Cheng always feels that something is wrong in his heart.
.Perhaps Mengcheng left too deep an impression on Tangcheng. After gaining the trust of Captain Huang, Tangcheng repeatedly asked the garrison to defend the county, until Tangcheng, who found nothing, mounted his horse again.
Only then did he suddenly realize what he had been worrying about.
"You want me to go find the county magistrate and search the entire county based on the county's population records? Are you crazy? Do you know how many people there are in Macheng? Even if we put our entire garrison in, there won't be enough manpower." Huang Tuan
The commander originally thought that good things would come to Tang Cheng’s doorstep when he took the initiative, but he didn’t expect that Tang Cheng made a request that almost made him collapse. Ordinarily, with Commander Huang’s current reputation and power, it wouldn’t be worth mentioning that he could do such a thing, but it’s a pity that Commander Huang
The chief didn't believe what Tang Cheng said at all.
"Captain Huang, I'm not saying that there will definitely be Japanese spies in Macheng, but there is no harm in us being careful. When we were in Mengcheng, if I hadn't happened to go out hunting, maybe the county magistrate of Mengcheng would have been lurked in the city.
The Japanese soldiers outside were assassinated. They had bribed spies in the city early in the morning. Bribing traitors and scum to provide them with information is the best method the Japanese are good at. I said that I searched the county town just to make sure that there were no spies bribed by them in the city.
." Tang Cheng did not tell Captain Huang about the scene that had just happened at the city gate. In fact, Tang Cheng had already suspected that the look that was looking at him came from the eyes of a traitorous spy, but he had no evidence to prove it.
"Company Commander Tang, you are still just suspicious. Do you want me to tell the county magistrate that you suspect there are Japanese spies in the county, and then we will conduct a grand search of the entire county's households?" Captain Huang is obviously still worried.
Tangcheng cannot be trusted. After all, searching the entire county is not a trivial matter. Even if the garrison can get the support of the county government, the big families in the county will not agree in the first place. Moreover, Captain Huang's current reputation is in the eyes of those big families.
It is completely equivalent to a warlord.
After spending time and energy, he still couldn't convince Captain Huang. Tang Cheng had to do the next best thing and made another request of his own, "Then we can let this matter go for a while. You can lend me Huang San's team first."
Use it." Seeing that Captain Huang seemed to be glaring again, Tang Cheng felt like three fingers were dangling at Captain Huang, "You can only borrow it for three days. No matter whether there are any results after three days, I will let Huang San take it with him.
His people will never cause trouble for you when they return to the Huang family."
Captain Huang knew what Tang Cheng was going to do when he borrowed Huang San from him. Huang San was the head servant of his family. He was in charge of more than 30 heavily armed servants, and those servants were all locals of Macheng. Maybe Tang Cheng
The city took a fancy to the fact that they were all locals and asked to lend them. "Then let's make an agreement first. I can lend you the money, but I can't give you all, I can only give you half. After all, they all
They are my servants, and the whole family depends on them for protection."
"I hope I'm wrong, but if there are Japanese spies in Macheng, it will be difficult to defend Macheng with your garrison alone." It was impossible for Tang Cheng to tell Captain Huang that he made this judgment based only on his feelings, but in
Before Huang San took people to Cyclamen, Tang Cheng knew what he should do to confirm his judgment. After bidding farewell to the Huang family, Tang Cheng did not return to Cyclamen immediately, but wandered freely in the streets of the county town.
Wandering around the alleys, Huang San, who was secretly following Tang Cheng, had no idea where Tang Cheng was going.
It was not until the residents in the county town started to light up the lights that Tang Cheng, who had been wandering around the county town, returned to Cyclamen. When he returned to Cyclamen, Tang Cheng did not stay in the hall with everyone, but closed the door tightly.
He locked himself in the room. "Company Commander, Huang San brought people over and said you asked them to come." Liu Shitou, chewing a steamed bun, knocked on the door of Tangcheng's room and muttered vaguely across the room.
He opened the door and spoke to Tang Cheng inside, but Tang Cheng in the room never responded.
Liu Shitou continued to knock on the door, but there was still no response. Liu Shitou, who was a little anxious, changed the knocking to smashing, and then finally let Tang Cheng in the room open the door. Ignoring Liu Shitou, who looked puzzled, he carried a roll of white paper
Tangcheng went down the stairs to the hall and spread out the white paper in his hand on the two tables that were merged together. It was a sketch of the county town that Tangcheng had just completed.