Early in the morning, Tang Cheng took Liu Shi out of the city to ride a horse, which has almost become a morning exercise activity that Tang Cheng can't move, and Liu Shishi, who was forcibly pulled out of the bed by Tang Cheng, was sleepy-eyed and shook his body with the horse moving forward, although he was very dissatisfied with Tang Cheng's behavior of disturbing his sleep, but Liu Shishi could only hide this dissatisfaction in his heart but did not dare to show it.

"If you had gone to bed earlier last night, you wouldn't have dozed off now." Turning his head to look at the listless Liu Shishi, Tang Cheng curled the corners of his mouth to show a smile, after encircling and suppressing the horse bandits in Wangzhuang Town, Liu Shishi, who had money in his pocket, followed the old northeast and a few of them around the county all day long, and last night it was because of the old northeast's greed for cups that they returned to cyclamen four hours later than usual.

Liu Shishi, who was on horseback, yawned a lot, and then lazily returned to Tang City, "It's not that Lao Dongbei is sitting in the tavern and not leaving, and he doesn't have no money in his pocket, so he has to pour those few sips of wine for free." Seeing that he was already drunk, I didn't dare to leave, so I had to stay there with him, and I wouldn't drink. Liu Shishi's angry complaint made Tang Cheng laugh, but he also knew that Liu Shishi and Lao Dongbei had a good relationship, and there was no real complaint between the two, Liu Shishi was just excusing himself by saying that.

"What tavern did you drink at last night?" I remember it was past 1 o'clock in the night when you all came back. "It's summer now, this is not a northern land like Beiping, in Macheng, the sky will be bright at 5 o'clock in the morning. The taverns and private prostitution parlors in the county town are generally closed at about 11 o'clock at night, and Tang Cheng is very curious about this tavern that can be open until 1 o'clock in the morning.

"Isn't it the Liufu family in the east of the city, the people of the garrison group like to go to Liufu the most, and Uncle Liu, the shopkeeper of that family, also likes to sit with the people of the garrison group and drink and chat." Liu Shishi stretched out his hand and rubbed the back of his neck with a seemingly boring appearance, "If he hadn't sent a pot of wine and two side dishes to Lao Dongbei last night, we wouldn't have gone back so late." ”

"You kid, don't always follow the old Northeast and them out all day long, if you have time, you should practice your rotten marksmanship, but the hemp head said that you are too hungry for bullets." After encircling and suppressing the horse bandits, Ma Tou and a few of them officially joined Tang Cheng's team, and Tang Cheng, who had manpower in his hands, threw the heavy responsibility of training Liu Shi directly to Ma Tou and a few of them, as Liu Shi's shooting instructor, Ma Tou complained to Tang Cheng several times, saying that it was to equip Liu Shi with a gun was simply to spend bullets in Lang.

Steward Huang, who was sent to Wuhan, has not yet returned, so the large number of bullets needed by Tang Cheng and the garrison regiment still have not landed, if it were not for the encirclement and suppression of bandits some time ago and the seizure of some bullets, the garrison regiment's daily shooting training would have stopped. "I'm your account office now, I'm in charge of the accounts, you don't want me to fight with the little devils like the old Northeast." Liu Shishi, who was on horseback, turned sideways to look at Tang Cheng, his eyes full of eager inquiry.

The cruelty of the battlefield left a deep impression on Liu Shishi, the 800-man Mengcheng garrison was broken up within two days, and in the end, only 7 of them were able to escape to Macheng, such an experience made Liu Shishi, a guy who was three years younger than Tang Cheng, precocious like an adult. "If the Japanese really call, we all have to fight, one more person will have more strength, and if one more Japanese soldier is killed, we will have more safety." Tang Cheng knew what Liu Shizi was worried about.

He can't guarantee that he will be able to get out of battle from now on, nor can he guarantee that Liu Shishi will not face the Japanese soldiers one day, so he just hopes that Liu Shishi can make himself stronger, only in this way will Liu Shishi's chance of survival be greater. "I also want to shoot the gun accurately, but every time I aim at the target, my hands tremble." Liu Shishi cried and lost his face, and secretly looked at Tang Cheng from the corner of his eye.

"It's okay, when I first shot a gun, I was the same as you are now, just practice more, and having a good marksmanship on the battlefield can protect you very well." Tang Cheng was not surprised by Liu Shishi's remorse, when he was taught by Robert to shoot, his marksmanship was even worse, and when he was fighting with the Japanese army at the intersection of Shanghai, Tang Cheng used a 5-round bridge to concentrate on a target, and that target could only hit him after being injured by others.

Nodding with the soldiers of the garrison guarding the city gate, Tang Cheng, who had finished his morning exercise, took Liu Shishi into the city on horseback, and the sight of a nonchalant sight in the crowd made Tang Cheng on horseback very irritable. Without dismounting, Tang Cheng just turned around on horseback and stared, looking around the crowd at the city gate, and Tang Cheng didn't find out whose eyes the gaze that annoyed him came from. "Company Commander Tang, is there something wrong?" Tang Cheng and Liu Shishi's two horses blocked most of the city gate, and the soldiers of the garrison regiment guarding the city gate thought that Tang Cheng had discovered something unusual, so they came over and asked.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just that I just thought of something, and I was a little stunned." Greeting the soldiers of the garrison regiment who came around, Tang Cheng beckoned Liu Shishi to open the city gate, but he himself turned over and got off his horse. Tang Cheng, who was holding the reins, seemed to be walking slowly without intention, but his eyes were paying attention to the crowd that had been looked around by him just now, just like the people who were waiting to leave the city in the past, there was nothing unusual about these people who were taken into Tang Cheng's sight, and Tang Cheng, who was in vain, shook his head vigorously, maybe he was too sensitive.

Jiujin's injury is getting better day by day, and the doctor invited by Mrs. Huang said that in another half a month, Jiujin will be able to get out of bed and move, but as the day of leaving Macheng is approaching, Tang Cheng always feels that something is wrong in his heart. Maybe Mengcheng left too deep an impression on Tang Cheng, after gaining the trust of Commander Huang, Tang Cheng repeatedly said that he wanted the garrison regiment to do a good job in the defense of the county, until Tang Cheng, who had not found anything, got on the horse again, and he suddenly realized what he had been worried about in his heart.

"Do you want me to go to the county magistrate and search the entire county according to the county government's population records? Are you crazy? Do you know how many people there are in Macheng? Even if we put our garrison regiment in its entirety, it will not be enough for manpower. "Captain Huang thought that Tang Cheng would take the initiative to come to the door and something good would come to the door, but he didn't expect Tang Cheng to put forward a request that was almost devastating. It is said that with the current prestige and power of Commander Huang, it is not worth mentioning at all, but unfortunately Captain Huang does not believe what Tang Cheng said at all.

"Commander Huang, I'm not saying that there will be spies from the Japanese army in Macheng, but there is no harm in us being careful, when I was in Mengcheng, if I hadn't happened to go out hunting, maybe the county magistrate of Mengcheng had been assassinated by the Japanese soldiers lurking outside the city, but they bought spies in the city early in the morning, and bribed traitors and scum to provide them with intelligence, but the Japanese are the best means, I said that I wanted to check the county seat to make sure that there were no spies in the city who were bought by them." Tang Cheng didn't tell Commander Huang about the scene that happened at the city gate just now, in fact, Tang Cheng was already suspecting that the gaze that probed him came from the eyes of a traitor spy, but he didn't have any evidence to prove this.

"Company Commander Tang, you yourself are just suspicious, do you want me to go and tell the county magistrate like this, saying that you suspect that there are Japanese spies in the county, and then we have to search the households in the entire county with great fanfare?" Commander Huang obviously still can't believe Tang Cheng, after all, it is not a trivial matter to search the entire county, even if the garrison regiment can get the support of the county government, those big families in the county town will not agree in the first place, not to mention that Commander Huang's current reputation is completely equivalent to that of a warlord in the eyes of those big families.

After spending time and energy and still not being able to convince Commander Huang, Tang Cheng had no choice but to retreat and put forward another request of his own, "Then we can put this matter aside for a while, and you can lend Huang San's team to me first." Seeing that Captain Huang seemed to be glaring again, Tang Cheng felt like he was dangling at Captain Huang with three fingers, "It's only borrowed for three days, and after three days, no matter whether there is a result or not, I will let Huang San take his people back to the Huang family, and I will never make trouble for you." ”

Commander Huang knew what Tang Cheng was going to do when he opened his mouth to borrow Huang San, Huang San was the head of his family, and he was in charge of more than 30 heavily armed family members, and those family members were all Macheng locals, maybe Tang Cheng took a fancy to the fact that they were all locals. "Then let's talk about it first, people, I can lend it to you, but I can't give it all to you, I can only give you half, after all, they are all members of my family, and this family still depends on them to protect them."

"I hope I'm wrong, but if there are Japanese spies in Macheng, it will be difficult for your garrison to hold Macheng alone." It was impossible for Tang Cheng to tell Captain Huang that he had made this judgment based on his feelings alone, but before Huang San took someone to the cyclamen, Tang Cheng knew what he had to do to confirm his judgment. Tang Cheng, who said goodbye and left the Huang family, did not immediately return to the cyclamen, but wandered around the streets and alleys of the county town with confidence, and Huang San, who secretly followed Tang Cheng, had no idea where Tang Cheng was going.

It wasn't until the residents of the county town began to light up the lights that Tang Cheng, who had been wandering around the county town, returned to the cyclamen, and Tang Cheng, who returned to the cyclamen, did not stay in the hall with everyone, but closed the door and locked himself in the room. "Company commander, Huang San brought someone over, saying that you asked them to come." Liu Shishi, who was chewing steamed buns in his mouth, knocked on Tang Cheng's door and spoke vaguely to Tang Cheng inside through the door, but Tang Cheng in the room never responded.

Liu Shishi continued to knock on the door, but there was still no response from inside, and Liu Shishi, who was a little anxious, changed his knock to smash, which finally made Tang Cheng in the room open the door. Ignoring Liu Shishi, who looked puzzled, Tang Cheng, who was carrying a roll of white paper, went down the stairs to the hall, and spread out the white paper in his hand on the two tables that were merged, which was a sketch of the county seat that Tang Cheng had just completed.