"We're going to see Chief Liu, right away." The panting Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong finally met the outpost sent by Liu Goat before they completely collapsed, although these outpost scouts were not very skilled, which made people look a little nondescript, but Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong still lay down on the avenue with their hands and feet open and face down according to their requirements.

Exhausted, Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong were carried by the outpost to meet Liu Goat, who was standing with a frown in front of a fork in the road near the avenue and looking down at the ground. Although Ge Kunshan has not yet received the news of the fall of Bengbu, Liu Goat privately guessed that the forward troops of the Japanese army must be not far from Bengbu, or they have sent infiltration troops into Bengbu.

It may be the nervousness in his heart and the inexplicable sense of urgency, Liu Goat is very attentive to all the abnormal things that happen in Mengcheng, just like the fork in the road under his feet at this moment is the most attractive one among the many anomalies. When Liu Goat discovered this fork in the road, he had already asked his subordinates, and after learning that there were not too many people who were used to walking on this fork in the road, Liu Goat ordered the militia to stop advancing.

"What does it mean that a lot of horseshoe prints suddenly appeared on a fork in the road that not many people walked? There are only a few large families in Mengcheng County that have many horses in captivity, and we have not met any horseback riders all the way from the county seat, so where did these horseback riders come from? Where are you going? Looking carefully at the horseshoe prints on the ground, Liu Goat's heart was full of questions, but unfortunately not only could he not find the answer, but there was no one who could solve his doubts here.

"Sir Liu, MCA, they're back." Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong, who were pale, were carried by the outpost, and it could be seen that the current situation of the two of them was not very good, and the pale and bloodless faces were symptoms of fatigue at first glance. Liu Goat did not ask the two of them for the first time, but called Tian Kui and them over for the first diagnosis and treatment of the two, in Liu Goat's memory, many of the recruits of the 88th Division died suddenly on the training ground due to overwork due to excessive training intensity.

"We found where the bandits' nest is, He Guang and Sun Yang stayed over there to guard, and we came back to report the news." Half a pot of underwater belly, Ma Hua spoke first, compared with Zhao Jiayong, Ma Hua's physical strength was obviously slightly stronger. "Qinglongling, we found traces of bandits in Qinglongling, there is a trail leading to the back mountain, and those bandits on Qinglongling should be guarding that trail." Ma Hua, who had recovered a little, looked at Liu Goat eagerly, but he didn't know that the latter was scolding the four of them in his heart at this time.

After listening to MCA's vague information, Liu Goat's first reaction was to drive these two guys back to the county seat, how could he be so rash to do enemy reconnaissance, just found a few bandits arranged on the periphery and thought that he had found the traces of the bandits, if it was in the war, his team was likely to suffer a catastrophe. Looking at Ma Hua, who was paralyzed on the ground and still looking at him, Liu Goat had to suppress his anger first, to be honest, he couldn't blame the four of them, but he was only trained for 2 months, and it was already very good to find bandits.

"We also met a horse team on the road, but we didn't see their appearance clearly, looking at the direction they went, it should be going to Beishan, I don't know if it is the bandit we are looking for." Ma Hua was ashamed to mention that he and Zhao Jiayong were hiding in the depression, but Zhao Jiayong didn't care about this, and directly told all the things they encountered with the horse team, which really attracted Liu Goat's attention.

According to Zhao Jiayong, they met the horse team an hour ago, and now Liu Goat can be sure that the horses' hoof prints on the fork in the road are left by the horse team that went to Beishan, because the horse manure on the fork in the road cannot deceive people. Liu Goat checked the horse manure on the fork in the road, and the temperature and freshness of the horse manure were enough to prove that the horses that left the manure would not leave here for more than 2 hours, and the information provided by Zhao Jiayong could just confirm Liu Goat's speculation, but now I don't know if the horse team in Ludao is a bandit on the North Mountain.

"What should I do?" Liu Goat, who was secretly thinking about it, moved his eyes to Tang Cheng, who was sitting on the big green horse safely, he didn't expect Tang Cheng to help him think of a way, and looking around when thinking had already become Liu Goat's habitual action. Liu Goat's inexplicable gaze made Tang Cheng on horseback a little surprised, and raised his eyebrows, Tang Cheng asked Liu Goat with his eyes, but the latter had already looked away.

"Qinglongling, let's go." After weighing left and right, Liu Goat still decided to go to Qinglongling to see what was going on. Although He Guang and the others did not find the real lair of the bandits, they at least found bandits on the Qinglong Ridge. It is good to find the bandits, Liu Goat never doubts his means of extorting confessions, as long as he can catch the live mouth, Liu Goat has a way to know the location of the bandits' den from their mouths.

The outpost of the group of 6 was re-sent by Liu Goat, and walked left and right in front of the team, once the outpost found an anomaly or the whereabouts of the bandits, two of them would immediately return to join the group, and the remaining four people would follow and pursue all the way until the team behind followed. Tang Cheng also looked at those horseshoe prints in the appearance of Liu Goat, but he didn't see anything from those horseshoe prints, but Xu Yang, a traveling doctor brought by Tian Kui, said that his opinion was the same as that of Liu Goat.

"This Xu Yang has been to Inner Mongolia and has been there for several years, if it weren't for the war, I'm afraid that even Mongolian women would marry home." Tian Kui's carriage was next to Tang Cheng, and the two people who were extremely bored could just talk together. Like Tang Cheng, Xu Yang is also a person who doesn't like to talk much, but he has a good relationship with Tian Kui, and among these doctors, I am afraid that only Tian Kui knows Xu Yang best.

Knowing Xu Yang is just out of Tang Cheng's curiosity, it may be because of his personality, Tang Cheng, who has fully recovered his body, has a kind of vigilance and precaution against the people and things that appear around him, Xu Yang is just a traveling doctor, but he is the head of those horse manures, which makes Tang Cheng wary of him. Tian Kui's introduction made Tang Cheng's vigilance relaxed, but it was only lax, Tang Cheng's defense in his heart had not completely dispersed, and the corner of his eyes was still scanning the silent Xu Yang in the carriage.

"Tang Cheng, come to the front." Tang Cheng and Tian Kui chatted without a word, but Liu Goat didn't want Tang Cheng to be too comfortable, so he directly called Tang Cheng to the front. The 300-member Mengcheng militia was transferred by Ge Kunshan, 120 people were trafficked in smuggled goods, and less than 100 of the remaining 180 people were equipped with weapons, but the information provided by Ge Kunshan showed that there were only more than 40 bandits in Beishan, and Liu Shanyang was full of confidence in exterminating this gang of bandits, so he planned to let Tang Cheng command the 60 regiments of the first squad.

"Among our people, there are only three of us who have fought, and Jiujin has been arranged by me to protect those doctors, I will be in command, and the first team will be handed over to you to command." In Liu Goat's plan, the first team does not mean that it is the role of the top soldier death squad, and Tang Cheng had the experience of commanding the regiment when he was in Qiandeng Town, although the number of people at that time was not as large as it is now, but with Tang Cheng's performance in Nanjing City, Liu Goat would never treat Tang Cheng as an ordinary soldier.

This is not the first time Tang Cheng has commanded Tuanding, but it is definitely the first time he has led his troops into battle, fortunately there is Xie Bo's diary, otherwise Tang Cheng's first reaction is to refuse. "You are a member of the second company, the second company has no seeds and cowardices, you are the sergeant squad leader of the national army, you are fully qualified to command those regiments, you must believe in your own ability, and you must also believe in Lao Tzu's vision." Afraid that Tang Cheng would be timid, Liu Goat, who was a little uneasy, whispered a few words to Tang Cheng after that, but Tang Cheng's expression didn't seem to care very much.

"Leading troops to fight is not only about their own life and death, but also about the life and death of their soldiers, and being bold and careful is the right way." Tang Cheng silently recited the words in Xie Bo's diary in his heart. Although he still didn't quite understand the true meaning of that sentence, Tang Cheng knew what it meant to be bold and careful. After the Battle of Nanjing, Tang Cheng no longer resisted fighting, on the contrary, he still looked forward to the smell of gunpowder during the battle, because only at that time could he forget many things that he did not want to recall.

"First team, speed up." Putting the rifle in his hand back into the saddle bag, Tang Cheng lightly knocked the horse's belly and sped up to the front of the entire team, and the 69 regiments assigned to the first team began to speed up according to Tang Cheng's order, and soon distanced themselves from the Chinese army commanded by Liu Shanyang. The Mengcheng militia brought out by Liu Goat was not very numerous, and only half of the regiments were equipped with guns, so it was taboo to divide the troops, but Liu Goat did not stop Tang Cheng's command of the first team.

"If you haven't experienced failure, how can you know the difficulty of success, and besides, there are only about 40 bandits in the north, so we don't have to be so careful." Regarding the question raised by Tian Kui beside him, Liu Goat looked indifferent. He hoped that the bandits on the northern mountain would take the initiative to attack against the first team commanded by Tang Cheng, so that he would not have to worry that the bandits would flee along the mountain, so as to achieve the goal of killing the bandits in one fell swoop.

Liu Goat didn't care much about whether the first team commanded by Tang Cheng would be defeated when it encountered bandits, and he believed that in Tang Cheng's dictionary, there was no such thing as failure. He also didn't think that 60 regimental soldiers armed with rifles would be beaten by more than 40 bandits with short guns, and he knew what kind of combat effectiveness the regimental soldiers he had trained were, although it was not the best, but it was not vulnerable.