Chapter 13: Changing Guards (4)

As a distinguished guest, Mo Di was left in Lujiang County by Ling Qianfeng, knowing that Mo Di was interested in traditional Chinese culture, he specially found an antique courtyard by the Ding family pool for Mo Di to stay. Wei Jiebo, who was not seen by Dai Qianfeng, was driven to Yefu Mountain by Ling Qianfeng and joined Li Benyi, but left Yan Junlong's field supplement regiment in the old green camp in Lujiangdong, on the grounds that Yan Junlong's team was more deserved. In fact, it is not Yan Junlong's team duty, it is their lack of arrogance. When the field supplement regiment came out of Huoshan Danjia Temple, it appeared in the image of a baggage transport team, except for a guard platoon, no one else carried weapons. After receiving the order to send troops to Lujiang, Yan Junlong's troops were divided into two routes, one battalion returned to Danjiamiao to transport the weapons of the whole regiment, and the two battalions traveled day and night from Wanfohu to Lujiang. Along the way, most of them were empty-handed, and what qualifications could such a team have to be arrogant, but they didn't expect to get a comment: this is also an unexpected gain. It wasn't until after the field supplement regiment stayed in the old green camp for a day that the team transporting weapons arrived, and the field supplement regiment was able to say goodbye to the situation of being empty-handed, although most of the weapons issued were old-fashioned Hanyang-made, but at least they could shoot bullets, so that they would not encounter the enemy with their bare hands.

Mo Di lived comfortably in Lujiang City, tasting the strong culture contained in the thousand-year-old city. The terrain of Lujiang City is relatively flat, surrounded by rivers and ponds, metasequoias, lush trees, and egrets soar and gather. After all the vicissitudes of life, most of the ancient city walls have been demolished, but the ruins are still the same, the ancient city is still landform, and the moat is still faintly visible. Clear and clear water, desolate artemisia grass, and the old site of the ancient city are accompanied by each other. Although time has passed, it seems that you can still see the war scenes of the candidates, the golden iron horse, and the sword and sword. During the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao, a generation of heroes, built a city here as the capital, hoarded grain and grain, trained the three armies, and wanted to fight to the death with the Eastern Wu across the river. In the early years of the Republic of China, Wu Baochu, one of the "Four Sons of the Late Qing Dynasty", once wrote a poem "Dacheng Fu" to sing about the ancient city of Lujiang. The ruins are bleak and empty, and the ruins and walls are red. The barren mound is thick and the bones are buried, and the war horses neighed and wept in the river wind. There are several emperors today, and I don't see the hegemony of the past. Fame has gone down in history through the ages, and the rise and fall of the family and country are in the midst of admiration. As if influenced by Wu Baochu's poetry, Mo Di's wandering also has a little nostalgic meaning.

Every day, Mo Di wanders in Lujiang City, big barren fields, small barren fields, old Cao Mountain, Xiao Cao Mountain, Zhou Po Dun, Qiao Cemetery, Golden Bull evening view, green curtain fishing fire, water and rain, Xiuxi spring rise...... Linger and forget, and never miss it. I didn't know that more than ten kilometers to the northeast, in the scenic land of Yefu Qinglan, a big war was about to start.

The news of Wang Xianlin's death in ambush quickly spread to the towns and villages in the south of the Lujiang River, and the five platoons of Wang Xianlin's second battalion scattered in the south flew separately when the disaster came, and two of the platoons fled in the starry night, bypassing Huangpi Lake, and going to Shengqiao to join Wang Zhanlin. There is a platoon that disperses directly, each running to something, you go back to your quicksand river, and I go back to my Gao Laozhuang. There were also two platoons, very single, who sent representatives into Lujiang, found the police chief Yan Kuan, and asked to join the gang, Yan Kuan took the deputies to the office of the county magistrate Ling, and the county magistrate Ling was overjoyed and immediately appointed the two platoons as the heads of the local police station and the finance and taxation office. Yan Kuan's wounded soldiers who stayed in the old green battalion before were all transferred to the county seat, and they planned to be put in various places to be responsible for security after being cured.

The two platoons that defected to Wang Zhanlin reported the latest situation of Lujiang to Wang Zhanlin, and the soldiers of the 138th Division pressed the border, which scared Wang Zhanlin to the point of distraction, and his first thought was to abandon Lujiang and withdraw to Chaoxian. When preparing to withdraw the troops, the order of the 116th Division of Chaoxian County arrived at Shengqiao, asking Wang Zhanlin to be on guard on the spot and drag the 138th Division of Lujiang.

Only then did Wang Zhanlin settle down and put the guard post directly on the side of Yefu Mountain to be vigilant against the enemy's attack. Li Benyi defended in Yefu Mountain, Wang Zhanlin defended in Shengqiao, and each side guarded one place, and they were safe and sound for a while.

Li Benyi lived in Yefu Mountain for two days, ushered in Wei Jiebo's 414 regiment, with 413 and 414 regiments, Li Benyi's confidence greatly increased, and he ordered Liu Qinglong and Wei Jiebo to do a good job of defense, and he and Gong Qingyuan went to Lujiang with the guards. I still drank two cups with Mo Di Xiao in Huoshan, and when I arrived in Lujiang, I didn't say that since I had won Lujiang County, it was necessary to have two drinks with Mo Di. In Li Benyi's view, the 138th Division took the Lujiang River and occupied a field in the south of Chaohu, and Mo Wei could be regarded as having completed the task of the military headquarters and should go back. Although he held the false post of director of the staff of the 48th Army, after all, he was still the commander of the 176th Division's Field Supplement Regiment, and the commander of the first regiment would cause trouble if he was absent from his post for a long time.

Walking into Lujiang City, Li Benyi was immediately attracted by the peaceful atmosphere here, Lujiang, there is no post-war scene at all, and there is no tension for the upcoming war in Yefu Mountain, the sun shines on the stone road of Kaizi Street, warm, the old street with a width of less than five meters, it looks very active, and the two layers of wooden red paint on both sides. Small black tiles and white buildings with fire-sealed hernias have become the most common main buildings. On the side of the street, dazzling all kinds of shop signs are hung in front of the door, and the banners are hunting in the wind, and the banners are enthusiastic shopkeepers, who loudly greet the passers-by and introduce their products. The literati in long robes, the students in youth clothes with stand-up collars, the porters on their shoulders, and the transporters pushing small wheelbarrows, all have a calm and comfortable mood written on their faces. The porter shoulders the road, the single-wheel grinding the stone ditch, the coal and salt goods are endless, the water is thousands of miles away, and Li Benyi was infected by the Lujiang River.

At the intersection of the fourth archway, a signboard with Lujiang Spring Break on it attracted Li Benyi's attention, and it was very lively under the signboard, with guests coming in and out. At the door, Li Benyi stretched out his head and saw that it was a rice noodle shop! I haven't eaten rice noodles for a few days! Gong Qingyuan, who was traveling with him, also smiled: This is a rice noodle shop, and there are many customers! Li Benyi said: Taste? Gong Qingyuan nodded, taste it. First ask the store what money to collect, the store smiled and said, as long as it is money, Gong Qingyuan jokingly asked, the Japanese do not accept military currency, the store one word: collect! Li Benyi looked at the store in surprise, his eyes were full of puzzlement, this is really enough for a traitor!

Perhaps seeing the uniform of the general of the national army on Li Benyi, the shopkeeper explained that this is Lujiang, not Chongqing, nor Nanjing, and that he received legal tender to do business with Chongqing, received Zhongchu currency to do business with Nanjing, and received military coins from the Japanese to do business with the Japanese. The border currency in northern Shaanxi is rare, but it is also collected, and after receiving it, it will be used to do business with the red area in the future. As for the silver dollar, it was received less, because few people took a piece of Yuan Datou out to eat a bowl of rice noodles. Li Ben smiled and took out a few silver dollars from his pocket, and said, I'll let you see if anyone uses silver dollars to eat rice noodles today. When the store knew that Li Benyi was going to buy thirty bowls of rice noodles at a time, he smiled, this kind of big customer, it is most suitable to settle with silver dollars.

Lujiang rice noodles are refined from high-quality indica rice, some people call it rice noodles, some people call rice noodles, the color is smooth, flexible and smooth, continuous strips, no paste soup, and the shape is beautiful. There are four ways to eat rice noodles in this shop: fried rice noodles, soup rice noodles, cold rice noodles, and fried rice noodles, each with a different flavor and style. Gong Qingyuan asked for fried rice noodles, and Li Benyi chose soup rice noodles, and as soon as the store brought it up, Li Benyi's saliva filled his mouth. In one bite, it has a long aftertaste and can be called a delicacy.

After eating rice noodles, Li Benyi has completely integrated into the peaceful atmosphere of the Lujiang River, looking east and west, as if the soil buns entered the city, touched the iron nails of the black lacquered gate, stroked the top of the stone lion's head on the railing, and tore off a weeping willow by the Dingjia Pond, turning himself into a shepherd boy. It wasn't until Mo Di greeted him that he withdrew his mind from Lujiang City, and it turned out that he had already arrived at the door of Mo Di's small courtyard.

"Brother Li Guang, is this a person into the scene, or is the scene into a person?" Mo Di said with a smile.

Li Benyi looked at the address of Mo Di, the delicate entrance arch, the door faced the clear water of Dingjia Pond, a few willow trees were hanging with long willows, the wind blew, the wicker swiped on the water surface, and the water waves were drawn. The bluestone pavement, because there are more people walking, smooth as a mirror, look carefully, it turns out that the bluestone slab is also carved with patterns, one is for beauty, and the other is for anti-slip. smiled: "Tianzhong, this is really a scene!" Living here, there is really the artistic conception in Wang Meng's "Forest House in the Gu District" in the Yuan Dynasty. ”

"Hehehehehe, that's too bad!" Mo Di smiled: "That's the scenery of the forest house cave in Taihu Lake, Jiangsu, far above the small place, just that goose yellow, it is also difficult for us to find." ”

"Although the scenery is not as good, the mood should be the same." Li Benyi sighed and said: "If I stay in this kind of place for a long time, I am afraid that I will get tired of the war, and the blood of conquest in my chest will be greatly reduced." ”

Mo Di nodded and said, "The East Ocean is not destroyed, I really don't dare to live here for a long time." The owner of this house moved to Shanghai soon after the Sakai detachment attacked the Lujiang River, and the house was left to the county government, which was regarded as a free loan to the county government. I lived here for a few days, facing the scenery in front of me every day, as Brother Li Guang said, the killing spirit in my chest was extinguished a lot, and after a long time, I really couldn't fight. Brother Li Guang, after taking Lujiang, I can be regarded as having completed the tasks assigned by the military department, if there is nothing else, I will go back to Yuexi. ”

"Don't worry, I'll ask Yang Shenzuo of the military department first, learn about the latest developments of the Japanese puppet army, if necessary, I want to keep you here to coordinate." Li Benyi said.

Mo Di nodded and welcomed Li Benyi into the courtyard.

At this time, Yan Kuan came over from outside, and after saluting Mo Di, he asked Li Benyi: "The chief is the 138th Division Li Shizuo, and the county magistrate Ling has already arranged the residence of Chief Li, and asked Chief Li to settle with the past, and the county magistrate set up a reception banquet in Xiuxi Building, and asked Chief Li to move to the place with his face." ”

Li Benyi looked at Mo Di in surprise, before he sat down on his buttocks, all the arrangements were already in place, and the county magistrate was really enthusiastic. Mo Di pulled Li Benyi with one hand and Gong Qingyuan with the other, and said: "If you come, you will be safe, and if you don't go to a banquet, that's not right!" ”

Entering Xiuxi Building, County Magistrate Ling was waiting here for a long time, and after a few words, County Magistrate Ling handed Li Ben a few pieces of paper, Li Benyi took it and took a look, jumped up like a spring, stared at Ling Qianfeng: Is this true?

Broken, broken, broken! Li Benyi left the table and said, the matter is too urgent, I want to rush back to Yefu Mountain, I can only waste this table of good dishes.

Mo Di took a few pieces of paper in Li Benyi's hand, glanced at them, smiled, and asked, "How long will it take for Brother Li Guang to march from here to Yefu Mountain?" ”

Li Benyi thought for a while and said, "Two and a half hours, the fastest." ”

"Then eat first, eat for two hours." Mo Di said: "In two hours, I will find a car to send you, and I will definitely be able to arrive in half an hour." ”

Li Benyi smiled and sat down, it turns out that this is okay.