Chapter XXIII Escalation of the conflict

"Sir Liu, there is Mengcheng ahead." Zhu Shouwen, who led the way for Liu Goat, was still riding his red-maned horse, and Zhu Shouwen had already seen the carriages guarding outside the city gate from afar, but thinking that he wanted to watch from the wall, he naturally would not directly tell Liu Goat that it might be Li Linge sitting on the carriage. Liu Goat, who was groggy walking on the wheel, looked at Zhu Shouwen's line of sight, and sure enough, he had arrived in Mengcheng, like Zhu Shouwen, Liu Goat also chose to ignore the carriages outside the city gate, in his opinion, those carriages sitting on them may also be refugees.

"Sir Liu, please slow down" Zhu Shouwen deliberately slowed down and let Liu Goat's carriage go ahead, and sure enough, Li Shun, who had a relationship with Liu Goat just now, came out again. "Chief Liu, please go slowly, my lord has heard of Chief Liu's name for a long time, and he has come to pay a visit." Li Shun no longer had the smile on his face when he first saw Liu Goat, and there were several men with big shoulders and round waists standing behind him blocking the road, so that Lao Xu, who was driving the car, had to stop the carriage.

"Ah, I remember you, you're the one who came to deliver something just now, what's your name?" Liu Goat looked at Li Shun with a smile, but he didn't mean to get off the wheel. "Lao Xu, what are you stopping for? The injured brother was still waiting to go into the city to find a doctor to see the injury, so he hurried into the city. Liu Goat didn't look at the black-clothed men who were blocking the road, but just lightly lit the back of the Chinese medicine doctor Lao Xu with the shell gun in his hand, and the flower mechanism in Tang Cheng's hand was already flat on his leg.

"Hahaha, just now Li Shun told me that Chief Liu is a person with a temperament, and now that I look at it, Chief Liu is indeed a person with a bold personality." Li Linge, who had been sitting in the carriage, finally appeared, if he didn't come out again, Liu Goat might really go into the city. Lu Yong, who had already opened his eyes, quietly gave a thumbs up to Liu Goat, and then signaled to the people of the Sichuan army to be careful, Mengcheng is Li Linge's territory, if this guy is really in a hurry to jump over the wall, he can only take the initiative by striking first.

Waiting for His Excellency Li Lin, who looked like a squire, to get out of the carriage, Liu Goat jumped off the wheel and looked at Li Linge who came over with a puzzled look, "Could it be that you are the chairman of the Mengcheng Chamber of Commerce that you said just now?" Hearing Liu Goat's words, Li Shun, who was standing aside, couldn't help but roll his eyes, and when he heard this, Liu Goat deliberately said so. Liu is just a soldier, and President Li has to donate so much money and give us so many materials, so that my old Liu Ke will have to stay in Mengcheng for a few more days. ”

"Oh, does Chief Liu have military affairs to do when he comes to Mengcheng?" Li Linge also pretended to be very surprised and looked at Liu Goat, the handshake between the two just now was just a touch, in the eyes of outsiders, the meeting between the two was quite pleasant, in fact, Li Linge hated Liu Goat to death in his heart.

"Yes, Shangfeng has an order for me to bring some brothers to gather the scattered brothers in the area of Mengcheng to return to the team, and by the way, find doctors for those injured brothers." Li Linge never asked Liu Shange about the number of the unit to which Liu Shange belonged, and Liu Shange knew that Li Linge already knew Lu Dao, and the only person who revealed the news to Li Linge was Zhu Shouwen of the newly formed 20th Division.

"I see." Li Linge couldn't stop nodding, and then looked at the group members behind Liu Goat who were tied with their arms behind him, and said in surprise, "Chief Liu, these seem to be the members of our Mengcheng militia group, right?" I don't know what they have done, and they will be escorted back with a gun, Chief Liu? These people are all local children of our Mengcheng, why don't you buy me a thin noodle and hand them over to Li for disposal? ”

"What does President Lee mean by that? Could it be that your Mengcheng Chamber of Commerce still supervises the security of the entire Mengcheng? All those who commit adultery will be dealt with by your Mengcheng Chamber of Commerce? Isn't there a police station in the county? Liu Goat looked at Li Linge knowingly, and the latter was a little speechless by Liu Goat's questioning. But Li Linge's temperament is also a little domineering, and besides, this is Mengcheng, which is his territory, so Li Linge once again proposed to let Liu Goat hand over those regiments to him for disposal.

"Nine catties, come and collect all these things sent by President Li, it's rare for the fathers and villagers in Mengcheng to be so enthusiastic, if we don't accept it, it will be a little unkind, Lao Xu, you write down the number of things, and when we go back to Xuzhou, these are all to be reported to the division." Since Li Linge came with things, Liu Goat also pushed the boat down the river to accept the things first, anyway, they are all things that don't cost money, don't want them in vain.

Instructed Jiujin and Lao Xu to accept the things brought by Li Linge, Liu Goat turned around and pulled Li Linge to the carriage of the two corpses of the other party, pointed to the corpses of the national army on the carriage and said in a deep voice, "President Li, it's not that Liu wants to refute your face today, it's really that your militia in Mengcheng is too arrogant, not to mention the private management card, and killed 5 of my brothers in broad daylight." These are all anti-Japanese soldiers who have gone through a lot of hardships to kill from the city of Nanjing, and they died in the hands of this group of miscellaneous people in vain, do you think I can hand them over to your Chamber of Commerce to deal with? ”

When Li Linge saw the corpses of those national soldiers, he already knew that this matter was not easy to do, even if he moved out the name of the new 20th Division to put pressure on Liu Goat, it might not be to help, after all, it is now the death of 5 national soldiers, this matter can be big or small, just see what Liu Goat will do. "Not only did they shoot the people and the soldiers of the national army at will, they even wanted to kill me at that level, if it weren't for the quick eyes of my subordinates, I'm afraid that you, President Li, wouldn't be able to see my Lao Liu." Seeing that Li Linge vigorously motioned to Zhu Shouwen to come over and help him speak, Liu Goat pointed out the corpses of the Zhou brothers to Li Linge, and added fuel and vinegar by the way.

"Chairman Li, although Lao Liu is only a captain and company commander, I am also an officer of the national army, you Mengcheng a small militia dare to draw a gun at me, and even move out a machine gun to kill me and my brothers, I don't know if you are a militia or a bandit." The dozen or so national army routs who were found out of the refugee pile by Liu Goat made a fuss according to Lu Yong's instructions, and beat Niu Lao Er and the Li family's family members in front of Li Linge, and Li Linge, who was angry, trembled vigorously.

Tang Cheng didn't participate in this, just sat in the carriage and kept staring at the black-clothed men brought by Li Linge, there were more than 40 of them now, and Li Linge only brought a dozen black-clothed men, no matter whether Li Linge wanted to clash or not, the flower machine in Tang Cheng's hand was always aimed at them. Although there was not much ammunition left for the Flower Machine, Tang Cheng had harvested 120 rounds of shell gun ammunition, and even if the bullets of the Flower Mechanism were consumed, he still had two shell guns to use.

"Little bunny, what the fuck are you looking at? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu gouged out your eyeballs and stepped on them as a cannon. Tang Cheng's fierce gaze made a man in black on the opposite side widen his eyes. These people from the rivers and lakes collected by Li Linge are used to being rampant and domineering in Mengcheng, and seeing such a small child as Tang Cheng staring at him, some people are immediately unhappy, and Li Linge is also happy to see such a thing, just to try the depth of this group of national army Qiu Ba.

Tang Cheng, who was scolded, subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Liu Goat, he was not afraid, but wanted to see what Liu Goat meant, after all, this is Mengcheng, Tang Cheng didn't want to cause trouble for Liu Goat. Liu Goat won't worry about Tang Cheng, this little guy has long become a battlefield veteran who is accustomed to life and death, the other party is just an ordinary person who is brave and ruthless, if Tang Cheng can't even deal with such a guy, what else is there to talk about killing the little devil to avenge Robert.

Seeing that Liu Goat didn't care about himself at all, Tang Cheng already knew Liu Goat's attitude, and then turned his head and bared his teeth at the black-clothed man who scolded just now, and then said two words silently with his mouth - miscellaneous. Although Tang Cheng just didn't make a sound and used his mouth to draw two words, the man on the other side understood the two words that Tang Cheng drew out, and immediately roared angrily and pulled out a shell gun from his back waist to aim at Tang Cheng.

"Da Da Da" The short and coherent gunfire sounded, and the man in black who had just drawn out the shell gun and didn't even have a bullet on the fire flew upside down, Tang Cheng and him were only a few meters away, such a distance was fired with a flower trap, and the kinetic energy of the bullet was enough to make the thin man in black fly into the air. Li Linge and his men in black were all dumbfounded, and when they were trafficking tobacco and soil, they would also clash with other forces and even exchange fire, but it was the first time they had encountered them watching the people around them being hit by bullets flying into the air.

"If I don't shoot, I'll die" Tang Cheng got out of the carriage expressionlessly, muttered to Li Linge, who was also expressionless, and then slowly walked to the black-clothed man who was shot in the chest and squatted down. Tang Cheng wanted to just shoot a point, but his fingers were not well controlled, and all the half-box bullets in the magazine were shot out, and the chest of the man in black was beaten into honeycomb coal used by the people of Beiping.

"This is my trophy, can I take it?" In front of Li Linge and those men in black, Tang Cheng didn't care that his hands would be stained with blood, and carefully searched the body of the man in black, and put the shell gun. The spare magazine and some bits and pieces were all put into the pocket of his coat, and then he slowly returned to the carriage, and it was only then that Li Linge noticed the sergeant's logo on the collar of Tang Cheng's military uniform.

If it weren't for the blood stains on Tang Cheng's hands and the hem of his coat, I'm afraid no one would have associated the dead man on the ground with Tang Cheng. "President Li, my nephew killed at least 30 little devils in Nanjing City alone, you'd better tell your subordinates not to jump in front of him, if this kid really makes a mistake, I'm afraid I won't be able to suppress it." Seeing that Li Linge's face had become extremely ugly, Liu Goat did not forget to continue to add fuel to the fire for a few words.