Chapter 22 Knocking on the Mountain and Shaking the Tiger
"I don't know what this chief is called?" Li Shun, who jumped out of the carriage, saluted with a smile on his face and Liu Goat, completely without the tension or hidden knife in his smile as Liu Goat imagined, "The contemptible person is Li Shun, the housekeeper of the president of the Mengcheng Chamber of Commerce, my lord learned that there were anti-Japanese soldiers coming from afar, so he asked me to bring some food to the labor army, hoping that the military master would laugh." ”
Stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, this is a Chinese proverb, and it is also the usual means of treating people like Li Shun, but it is a pity that he is now facing Liu Goat, a veteran ruffian. Liu Goat is a person who can't play cards according to common sense, not only because he hasn't read, but also because he is a captain officer of the 88th Division, which is his pride, so when facing people like Li Shun, Liu Goat has always been self-centered. And he made such a big deal out of it, what he wanted to bring out was Li Linge, not a little minion like Li Shun.
"Nine catties, take all the things, since there are so many carriages here, just move those corpses into the car, let's go to Mengcheng, Lao Tzu has to ask them the county magistrate here, whether the Mengcheng militia is a bandit or a robber, if you can't give Lao Tzu a satisfactory answer, all these rabbit cubs will be rushed." Liu Goat ignored Li Shun, who was smiling all over his face, but just asked Jiujin and Lao Xu to count and receive those food and things, and directly put Li Shun aside.
"Go back and tell your master, these are all people from the 88th Division of the country, and they are here to receive the entire army of the stragged national army to go north to Xuzhou." Seeing that Liu Goat didn't pay attention to Li Shun, Zhu Shouwen, who came up at some point, muttered to Li Shun carefully, and motioned to Li Shun to look at the corpses of the national army. "Those are all national soldiers who were killed by the Zhou brothers, go back and tell your master, I'm afraid this matter is not easy to do."
As soon as Li Shun came over, he had actually seen the corpses that had been moved from the field by the defeated soldiers, but what he saw was only the corpses of the refugees, and the corpses of the national soldiers had already been placed in the carriage. This will Li Shun was pointed out by Zhu Shouwen and saw the corpses of the national army, and his heart was also frightened, although the militia group commanded by the Zhou family brothers has one hundred and ten people, it does not mean that they can shoot and kill the people of the national army in broad daylight, if the other party really talks about this, the Li family, who has been supporting the militia, will naturally be inseparable.
"Platoon Commander Zhu, where are the brothers of the Zhou family?" Li Shun looked around for a long time, but he only saw those regiments who were kneeling in a pile with guns on top of the gun, but the two brothers of the Zhou family didn't see it, and Li Shun couldn't help but be a little surprised. Although the Zhou brothers are not very successful, and they often rely on the relationship of the Li family to run rampant on the ground in Mengcheng, but the Zhou brothers and Ma San are very obedient to Li Linge's words. Compared with those who have become prisoners, Li Shun naturally needs to find the Zhou brothers first to ask the reason for the matter.
"Right here, don't you see?" Zhu Shouwen pouted with his mouth and pointed out the direction to Li Shun. Li Shun looked in the direction of Zhu Shouwen's lips in confusion, and the familiar figures of the Zhou family brothers were mixed with those corpses like you at this moment. "Don't look at me, when I arrived, they were already breathless, and I heard that they were killed by his soldiers because they wanted to attack Chief Liu." Zhu Shouwen was a little gloating, the people of the Li family in Mengcheng have always looked up at people with their nostrils, and the brothers of the Zhou family are even more so, they all died here this time, Zhu Shouwen was unhappy It was fake.
Knowing that the Zhou brothers had been killed by this group of national troops, and also saw the bodies of the Zhou brothers, Li Shun, who was shocked in his heart, couldn't continue to get close to Liu Goat, and went back to Mengcheng directly in the carriage, and he wanted to rush to report the matter to Li Linge. "Platoon Commander Zhu, please show us a way, let's go to Mengcheng County Government." When the angry Li Shun disappeared, Liu Goat, who deliberately ignored him, ordered to move towards Mengcheng, and pulled Zhu Shouwen, who was about to get out first, to show him the way.
"This Li Linge has been in Mengcheng for so many years, he shouldn't be a good person, as the saying goes, a strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake, we are outsiders, for them we are just crossing the river, it's better to be careful when we see Li Linge." Although Liu Goat said that he acted arrogantly, he was not a person who could not be persuaded to listen to it, Lu Yongqiang, who had not recovered from his injury, tried to persuade Liu Goat, and the latter nodded in agreement, but Lu Yong asked him to be a little low temporarily, but Liu Goat couldn't do it.
"When I first joined the 88th Division, a kid relied on his uncle in the military and political department, so he ran to the platoon where I stayed all day to find fault. At the beginning, I also thought that I would just settle the matter, but I was just eating a mouthful, and I couldn't make an enemy of him who had a backstage. Liu Goat threw Lu Yong a cigarette, lit the cigarette in his mouth and took a deep breath before he said with a smile, "But then that kid became more and more arrogant, and actually asked Lao Tzu to wash his feet every day, damn bullshit, Lao Tzu was already a second lieutenant at that time, can you give a little corporal water to wash his feet?" ”
Lu Yong and the wounded soldiers of the Sichuan army around him listened to what Liu Goat said interestingly, and they all listened attentively to Liu Goat's words, "Later, Lao Tzu found a suitable opportunity and beat this kid hard, guess what happened?" That kid was a coward at all, and ran back to his uncle to complain, but the person sent by his uncle was pushed back by our regiment commander, and the kid was directly driven out of the 88th Division, Lao Tzu's second lieutenant is still a second lieutenant, but he can't stay in the guard platoon, but was directly sent to the current second company. ”
"So, people, sometimes you need to fight, you can't just just endure everything, we have all become a rout now, and the military position may not exist for a long time, since there is nothing, I am afraid that he is a bird." Liu Goat, who was holding a cigarette, glanced at Lu Yong, "Li Linge is because he has been in Mengcheng for many years, so he is now a porcelain, and what we don't have has has become a worthless crockpot, porcelain touches a crockpot, do you say he is willing?" If I had been replaced, I would definitely not have touched the crockpot with porcelain, because it was not cost-effective. ”
"You mean, we have been biting the Mengcheng militia to shoot the national army, so that Li Linge does not dare to take revenge on us during our time in Mengcheng?" Lu Yong heard the key point from Liu Goat's words. That's right, Liu Goat has never shown weakness from the beginning, and the main reliance is on the corpses of the national army in the field, no matter what excuse Li Linge uses to find fault and talk about Liu Goat's shooting of the Zhou family brothers to capture Tuanding, Liu Goat can use those corpses as a basis to refute.
Although Liu Goat came to Mengcheng under the name of the 88th Division, the troops of the 88th Division who crossed the river had already been transferred to a resting place by the chairman of the National Committee at this time, and Liu Goat was an officer of the 88th Division, and these things were recorded in the military register, even if Li Linge contacted the 88th Division with his hands and eyes, he could not blame Liu Goat, because the regiment commander and battalion commander who commanded Liu Goat had already folded in Shanghai, and Xie Bo had already arrived in Chongqing at this time, and no one could prove that Liu Goat did not receive the order of the 88th Division to collect the rout.
Shooting the national army is a big crime, and the Zhou brothers shot and killed 5 soldiers of the national army at one time, not to mention that they set up a road card to collect road money privately, that is, they waited for an opportunity to sneak attack Liu Goat, which was enough for Liu Goat, an officer of the active national army, to kill them several times. "Doctor Tian said that Li Linge is the sitting tiger of Mengcheng, what we have to do now is to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger, if we don't lure the tiger out and slip around, we will not be stable in Mengcheng." With such a good handle, Liu Goat naturally planned to stay in Mengcheng for a few more days, and he had to wait for everyone's injuries to get better before continuing on the road.
"Then you must be careful, don't fail to hit the tiger, but be bitten by the tiger." Knowing that Liu Goat is not a person who easily changes his mind, Lu Yong also felt a little tired after saying so much, and then lay on the carriage and closed his eyes to recuperate, ignoring Liu Goat's nagging. Liu Goat, who was bored, turned his head to look at Tang Cheng again, Tang Cheng wanted to ride into the city like Jiujin, but his leg was injured, Liu Goat and Lao Xu only let him nest in the carriage, Tang Cheng was sulking, and naturally he turned a blind eye to Liu Goat.
"This kid's wings are stiff and he wants to rebel" Liu Goat scolded with a smile, but he was not angry with Tang Cheng in his heart, and along the way after leaving Nanjing, Tang Cheng has been performing very well, especially when dealing with Zhou Bing, he is full of domineering with the 88th Division. Liu Goat didn't expect to teach Tang Cheng everything he knew, but now it's such a world, it's better to kill someone than to be killed, and the current Tang Cheng is very different from the Tang Cheng he first saw in Shanghai a few months ago.
Liu Goat was leisurely, but Li Linge in Mengcheng smashed several favorite porcelain pieces in a row, and the news that the housekeeper Li Shun brought back made Li Linge angry. From the beginning of Li Linge's urgency, he has been trying his best to make friends with powerful people, and every time he sells tobacco and soil, he will take out a part of the money to tie up with the people in power, and it is precisely because of this that the Li family will rely on a huge network of relationships in Mengcheng to be called the sitting tiger.
In Li Linge's decades of career, it is not that he has not encountered a time when he was provoked or fell into a well, but it is the first time that someone who blatantly killed him has come to the door like today. "Prepare another big gift, I will personally go out of the city to meet these bold Qiu Ba for a while, and see if I, the head snake, is powerful or this group of dragons crossing the river is arrogant." After thinking about it carefully for a while, Li Linge decided to come forward to meet this Chief Liu for a while.
Although the current situation has reached a time when it is not suitable to fight with the national army, the name of the Li family in Mengcheng does not allow Li Linge to swallow this breath and not react, he wants to let these outsiders know that this is Mengcheng, and Mengcheng is his Li Linge's final say.