Chapter 384: Jing Cheng Pass 2
"Who would dare to do it?" With a loud shout, everyone couldn't help but look in the direction where the sound came from at the same time, especially the special investigators turned their heads in surprise, because the sound came from behind them, that is, the direction of "safety", if this sentence was not drunk by their own people, then it must be the enemy who touched it from behind. But when they turned their heads to look over, they realized that the voice behind them was indeed their own people.
But what surprised He Renlong and his entourage was that the person who roared out this sentence turned out to be from the same place as himself, although the voice of this sentence sounded a little strange, but it was certain that the person who shouted this sentence was definitely from Shaanxi like them, don't look at only these four words, the kind of own people who can only hear the taste of their own people can definitely be confirmed by listening.
The person who shouted this sentence was Hong Jie, just now Hong Jie walked over with Zhan Jie and the two officers of the Foreign Legion, and he heard the noise in front of him halfway and didn't know what was going on, but as the distance approached, Hong Jie clearly heard someone roaring in Shaanxi dialect, even if he accelerated his pace and ran over to persuade him, when he ran closer, he heard the sound of drawing a knife in front of him, and shouted that he was going to cut off the people on his side, so he immediately didn't care about anything and yelled loudly.
At this moment, Hong Jie was wearing a military coat that was no different from the soldiers, but the artillery badge on the collar was different, and he was also wearing an armed belt, but there was no back frame on his back, he rushed forward and stood at the front in three steps and two steps, and pulled out the revolver on his waist, but the muzzle of the gun was down and shouted, "No one is allowed to do anything!" What happened? ”
Lan Xiaoya was in front at the moment, and when she saw the patriarch coming, she hurriedly lowered the muzzle of the gun in her hand and walked to Hong Jie and nodded slightly, Hong Jie also nodded slightly in return, "Chief, they were already waiting for us here when we arrived here, let us show the paperwork, so we let people go back and get it." But they took a fancy to the weapons we had and wanted to requisition them, so they ......"
"Okay!" Hong Jie laughed, how could he not know what was going on when he heard this? It must have been a dispute between these officers and soldiers who wanted to requisition the weapons in the hands of the special investigators, so they deliberately said loudly, "Have they taken the weapons away?" ”
"Report chief, no!" Of course, Lan Xiaoya knew what Hong Jie meant, and hurriedly replied loudly, Hong Jie nodded, "Not bad!" If we don't embarrass the Senate, that's it, it's our own things, and we must firmly grasp them in our hands, otherwise, if our soldiers' own rights and interests have to be defended by others, then what can we do to defend the Senate? ”
The soldiers behind him replied loudly, "Yes! "That's it!" "The chief is right!" For a while, there was a lot of noise.
However, He Renlong's attention was no longer on those special investigators at the moment, and his eyes saw the large group of soldiers coming from behind. According to the habits of the Wu Dynasty, these spearheads at the forefront are often the best "night does not collect", and these elites as spearheads often have a big temper for a big reason, so their equipment is the best, for example, the armor is bright, the weapons are shiny, all of them are picking up the best to equip. He wasn't surprised when he saw the military coats and leather boots on these special investigators before, but as the group of soldiers who came from behind appeared, he almost didn't blind his dog eyes, and the soldiers who followed behind were almost the same as the clothes of the special investigators in front, the same heavy leather boots, many of them were also wearing thick cotton hats, and the strict ones really couldn't blow at all. On the other hand, the "personal soldiers" of hundreds of people brought out by himself, if there were no comparisons made by these foreign legion soldiers in front of him, it would have been forgotten, but in front of this group of people, they were all dressed in cotton armor, wearing thin clothes inside, and wearing all kinds of helmets on their heads, from phoenix-winged helmets, ink plates, pointed helmets to domed helmets, more just wearing vermilion lacquer Yongzi hats, some of the helmets on the top of the helmets have fallen off, some are intact, but those who are half and not half, The red helmet fluttered in the cold wind, and from a distance it looked very embarrassed, not at all as nearly identical as it was on the other side. The big red mandarin duck battle jackets on his own people are usually not washed, and they have already been stained with all kinds of mud and blood stains after many battles, compared with the group of people opposite, He Renlong felt as if he had brought a large group of people called Huazi out. Coupled with the fact that the soldiers shrank their heads one by one in the cold weather, the momentum dropped by half at the moment.
"Who are you?" He Renlong didn't care about fighting, and asked Hong Jie, who grinned, "We are volunteers from Dongfang Port in China, and we specially rushed here from Dongfang Port to assist the Shanxi Rebellion Suppression Camp to quell the rebellion. ”
"China?" "Port of the East?" "Volunteers?" These three words flashed in He Renlong's mind one after another, not to mention that he didn't know a few big words, even a few "staff officers" who acted as assistants around him could only shake their heads at him slightly, not understanding what these three words meant at all, but fortunately, Hong Jie was still talking to him in Shaanxi dialect, so that he at least understood the word quelling the rebellion. After thinking for a moment, he simply asked loudly, "Are you from Annan?" ”
"Yes......" Hong Jie replied a little unhappily, for him, the word from Annam was simply a shame, but he had to admit that they were indeed from Annam, after all, they set off in the name of Annam Province, no matter what the document was, it was specially marked with this article.
At this time, a few more people came up from behind, it was Maruyama Naoki, Ruan Wenyu and Zhan Jie, Maruyama held a paper tube in his hand, walked to the front, and stretched out his hands high. As soon as he saw the things unfolded in Maruyama's hand, He Renlong hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted, and hurriedly fell to the ground, "Welcome to the emperor's holy decree." ”
What Maruyama was holding in his hand was the holy decree issued by Zhu Youxiao through Wei Zhongxian, and the soldiers around He Renlong looked at each other, they didn't know if they should also kneel, because none of the soldiers on the other side knelt down. looked left and right, and finally someone couldn't help but kneel down first, and then knelt down in a big way, and said in unison, "Welcome to the emperor's holy decree." ”
Maruyama stepped forward with the holy decree and showed it to He Renlong with both hands, but He Renlong didn't know how to read, and he usually only followed Hong Chengchou to receive the holy decree a few times, but this was not difficult for him, he glanced at the side, and several staff officers around him hurriedly came up to take a look, and nodded again and again. Only then did He Renlong get up and say towards Maruyama, "This veteran is the leader of this Annan army?" ”
In the large group of Annan troops in front of him, everyone was beardless, young and vigorous, only Maruyama had a beard, and He Renlong naturally regarded Maruyama as the leader of this army. However, Maruyama looked ignorant, he couldn't understand He Renlong's Shaanxi dialect, so he could only look at Hong Jie for help.
Hong Jie smiled bitterly, "He is the chief of staff of the Foreign Legion, this ......" he said and pointed to Ruan Wenyu who was standing next to him, "This is the commander of the Volunteer Army of the Foreign Legion," he said and pointed to himself, "I am the commander-in-chief of the artillery of the Volunteer Army, and the Air Force has not come." ”
This time it was He Renlong's turn to look ignorant, the fellow in front of him was obviously speaking Shaanxi dialect! But why can't I understand it? Let Hong Jie explain it well, and finally figured out that this guest army was originally from four different units, according to the military system of the Wu Dynasty, it was an infantry army and an artillery team, and one was known as the elite night, and the last one made him unable to understand, why is it called the Air Force? Is it an empty team that makes people swagger?
Hong Jie didn't bother to continue to explain to him, so he asked, "I've finished introducing myself, I don't know what to call the general?" ”
"Oh! In Shimoga Renlong! Hong Jie said so many words, and there was only one sentence that He Renlong could easily understand, when he replied, "He obeyed Lord Hong's order, and specially rushed here from Taiyuan Starry Night to greet all the guests, just slightly offended, please ......."
Hong Jie hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I don't know where General He's team is, when will it be able to set off?" He Renlong hurriedly said, "You can leave now, it's just ......" He hesitated for a moment, looked at the group of soldiers on Hong Jie's side and asked with some curiosity, "Can you just follow He's team like this?" As he spoke, he nodded at the reconnaissance vehicle not far away and asked, "The horses from that cart should also be brought over, right?" It's better not to have this car than to push it like this! ”
Listening to He Renlong's words, Hong Jie couldn't help laughing, and beckoned to the reconnaissance car, only to see a black smoke spewing out of the rear of the reconnaissance vehicle, and saw the car driving over by itself. After driving closer, He Renlong found that there were several people sitting in the car, and there seemed to be a layer of ice covering the inside and outside of the car. He couldn't help but blurt out, "Doesn't this cart need mules and horses to pull it on its own?" ”
Hong Jie had already seen countless equally surprising performances along the way, and he nodded in surprise at the moment, but He Renlong's next sentence made him tremble, "Isn't that the same as a Rolls-Royce?" He Renlong didn't care about Hong Jie's reaction at all, but turned around several times next to the body, "This is completely different, the Rolls-Royce has four wheels, this car has no wheels, only a sled, and there is such a strange plate in the back, I don't know what it is for, it's really good, you can walk on it yourself without stepping on it." ”
After asking Hong Jie, I learned that since the "partner plan" was promoted in Zhaoqing and Mingzhou, the "vehicle factory" in Zhaoqing has been operating non-stop, and the vehicles produced are far from meeting the needs of Guangdong Province. But even so, it could not stop the rich gentry officials from pursuing "Rolls-Royce", even if the quality of Guangdong Rolls-Royce was far inferior to the same type of vehicles produced in Dongfang Port, but this kind of vehicles that could be pulled by cattle and horses without pulling still set off a "Rolls-Royce craze". Not to mention Hunan, Jiangxi and other places near Guangdong, even Hubei and Henan have begun to appear in many cities at this moment, and even in Taiyuan, Shanxi, there are several large families who have purchased "Rolls-Royce" to show off their wealth.
After listening to Hong Jie's translation, Zhan Jie couldn't help laughing, and explained the origin of this "Rolls-Royce" to He Renlong, who suddenly realized, "No wonder why I felt familiar when I heard about China, it turns out that these Rolls-Royces are your products!" Do you still have this car? I would also like to buy one. ”
"This is a trivial matter," Zhan Jie laughed, "We came to Taiyuan this time, mainly for the purpose of counterinsurgency, we didn't bring this kind of bulky car, and when the counterinsurgency is completed, I will give General He one!" ”
He Renlong was immediately excited when he heard this, and his mouth almost grinned to the root of his ears, "Great! Thank you brothers in advance, shall we leave now? Saying that, he beckoned the soldiers around him to lead the horse over, and enthusiastically handed the reins to Hong Jie beside him, to say that Hong Jie is his fellow countryman in Shaanxi, and he also expects to be able to pull more homely routines with him on the road.
Hong Jie skillfully took the reins, but with a gust of cold wind blowing over, he couldn't help but shrink his neck, and hurriedly handed the reins to the special reconnaissance soldiers next to him, and he said to the fellow in front of him, "No, no, we also have a car, which is bigger than this." As he spoke, he beckoned to the back and ordered, "You guys, let the transport detachment drive the car over, we are ready to go." ”
After speaking, he turned to He Renlong, "General He, please also send someone who is familiar with the road to lead the way for us, it is best to get into our car, if General He does not dislike it, take our car too." ”
As he was talking, with a roar of machinery, a rhinoceros transport truck drove from a distance, seeing this car, He Renlong's face changed, he never thought that there would be such a huge thing, driving freely on the snow, the two screw thrusters under the body were rumbling and rolling, pushing the body forward and galloping, came to them and stopped, only to see Hong Jie skillfully pull the door next to the carriage down, the door opened, the bright lights in the carriage shone, a hot wind came to the face, The corners of He Renlong's mouth twitched, "This...... That's how you came in this car? ”