The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 1896: Insights in the Roughness

There are stupid people and smart people in this world, but the vast majority are ordinary people.

I can’t say I’m stupid, but I can’t say I’m smart either. If there’s something I can’t understand, just think about it more and you will eventually figure it out.

So, based on the eyewitness description of how Mo Jianchen died that night, both Shang Zhen and his men as well as the Eighth Route Army turned their attention to Fan Tongzuo who was with the Northeast Army.

If Fan Tongzuo is found, the murderer of Mo Jianchen will also be found. Who killed Mo Jianchen? Whether it was an accidental killing or a deliberate act will be revealed.

The result of Shang Zhen's investigation was naturally that the people from their camp who participated in the battle were still those three people.

Wu Ziqi, who was chasing the Japanese troops rushing out, first ambushed Fan Tongwu and Fan Tongzuo outside the town.

Wu Ziqi was taken away by the Eighth Route Army as a witness, but Fan Tongwu was still there. He confirmed that Fan Tongzuo had indeed disappeared with the people of the Northeast Army.

With the end of the battle in Shuiquan Town, Shang Zhen's soldiers gathered towards Shuiquan Town.

Shang Zhen naturally had to ask about the whereabouts of these people, whether anyone came to Shuiquan Town for support, and whether they shot at the Japanese troops rushing out and accidentally killed Mo Jianchen.

The answer he got was naturally that no one participated in this battle.

Shang Zhen believed in his soldiers, so he ruled out the possibility that Mo Jianchen was accidentally killed by someone in his own camp.

Shang Zhen also suspected that it might be Zhao Mingxuan, that is, Zhao Tieying's group, who did it, which would mean that another Northeast Army unit appeared outside Shuiquan Town.

However, this kind of investigation was similar to the investigation in solving cases in later generations. He mobilized all the soldiers and Chen Laocai's men to find the common people who were hiding in the fields at that time to inquire.

But there were many different opinions at the time, and Shang Zhen neither found any exact information nor found Fan Tongzuo's body.

Fan Tongzuo and the Northeastern Army that had helped them but ended up doing more harm than good seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. Shang Zhen also felt that it would not be possible to find out in a short time.

  Since he has tried so hard but still cannot find Fan Tongzuo's whereabouts, Shang Zhen can only take things one step at a time. Anyway, the next time someone from the Eighth Route Army comes to ask him for the murderer, he will definitely not admit that it was their battalion that did it!

At this time, in a small farmyard thousands of miles away, someone was talking about Fan Tongzuo's story.

The man was of medium build and dressed like a farmer, but due to his age, his back was a little hunched, making him look a little thin. But when he started shouting, his voice was very loud. It turned out to be Wang Laomao!

"Then let's find that good-for-nothing! Can he be a fart? Once the smell is gone, no one will be able to find him." The way Wang Laomao spoke was indeed like Wang Laomao.

Just opposite Wang Laomao there were two people, one was Wu Ziqi who had also changed into casual clothes, and the other was an Eighth Route Army soldier.

"Uncle Wang, I know that, but wasn't I captured by the Eighth Route Army?" Wu Ziqi defended himself aggrievedly as he looked at Uncle Wang's furious expression.

"You were captured?" Wang Laomao looked Wu Ziqi up and down and felt strange. "You were captured, and they didn't hold you with a gun, but you had a box gun on your waist. Do you think I'm old and blind?"

"Oh, it's not an arrest, but it's not an invitation either. Anyway, I brought him here!" Wu Ziqi said, scratching his head.

He didn't know what to say. It was just as he said, he was not invited by the Eighth Route Army and he didn't want to come.

But it cannot be said that he was captured by the Eighth Route Army, after all, they gave him all the box guns and bullets.

Moreover, when people heard that he was coming to see Wang Laomao, they didn't stop him. They just sent someone to follow him without even a gun.

However, although Wu Ziqi did not explain it clearly, Wang Laomao knew what was going on through Wu Ziqi's previous description.

So he didn't dwell on how Wu Ziqi got here, but continued loudly, "Then you can just give your testimony in front of our people and the comrades of the Eighth Route Army. Why are you still following me here?"

"That's not it, wasn't it Special Envoy Xu who told me to come?" Wu Ziqi said in a low voice.

Although Wang Laomao is no longer in Shang Zhenying, it does not mean that his words are no longer effective.

The person is gone, but his influence remains.

Among the veterans of Shang Zhenying, there are certainly a few who are not afraid of Wang Laomao and can even talk back to him at critical moments, but Wu Ziqi is definitely not one of them.

  How many years has Wu Ziqi been with Shang Zhen? Compared with Qian Chuan'er, Qiu Bo, Chen Hanwen, and the now missing Xiao Boji, he is not just a little bit immature, but too much immature!

"Fuck! He's a piece of crap!" As soon as Wang Laomao heard Wu Ziqi mention Special Envoy Xu, he started to curse. "Now we haven't found the good-for-nothing you mentioned, but even if we did, what would happen? The shots were fired by people from our battalion, so it was definitely an accidental killing!

  What is the relationship between these old people in our camp and Mo Jianchen?

Although the Communist Eighth Route Army doesn't talk about this, the guy surnamed Mo and our battalion have a life-and-death friendship, which is no different from sworn brothers! We have known each other for many years. When we were with Lu Cao, he and Leng Yatou fought the Japanese together with us!

  How could we possibly shoot him?

If it was really our mistake, what can we do? When we were fighting the Japanese devils, our own people in the back accidentally fired their guns and killed the people in front. Can we still pay with one life for another?

Besides, who dares to say that Mo Jianchen was definitely killed by our camp? We have a lot of people in the Northeast Army, and that good-for-nothing has only been in our camp for a short time. How many people does he know? If he meets the Northeast Army, he will think it is from our camp.

Just because that idiot was with some Northeast Army men, they said those men were from our battalion. I think that's bullshit!"

Wang Laomao became more and more excited as he spoke, and his voice became louder and louder, but after a certain point, his voice became hoarse from shouting too loudly.

In the current situation, Wang Laomao cannot be said to be a bomb that will catch fire at any time, but he is also an old pepper, the kind of chili pepper that gets hotter and redder as it gets older, until it turns black!

He was so angry that to put it in written language, he had become "furious". To put it in the language of Northeastern people, he had become fat from anger!

  Mother Wang didn’t know who the Special Commissioner Xu that Wu Ziqi mentioned was or how high his rank was, but she really didn’t think much of the so-called Special Commissioner!

Wang Laomao has been living in seclusion under Baodui for some time.

Then the question arises. Now, the Baodulai area has become an anti-Japanese base, and Baodulai has also become an extremely important headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

You know, Wang Laomao brought his young wife, and several of their future wives were also here. At the beginning, there were soldiers protecting him, and he even had a platoon of soldiers under his command.

As the saying goes, there can't be two tigers in one mountain. The Eighth Route Army set up its headquarters on Baodugu, but right under Baodugu, there is an armed force that does not belong to the Eighth Route Army. How can the Eighth Route Army feel at ease?

However, after the leader of the Eighth Route Army learned about Wang Laomao's situation, he went down the mountain to talk to Wang Laomao in person.

Although Wang Laomao is stubborn, he is also cunning and magnanimous.

He simply let that platoon take guns and follow the Eighth Route Army!

  Most of the soldiers in that platoon were veterans, and they had been through many battles, so they were quite good at fighting the Japanese! After being inspired and educated by the Eighth Route Army, they quickly grew into the combat backbone of the Eighth Route Army!

For this, the No. 1 and No. 2 leaders of the Eighth Route Army at the Baoduqiao Command, who was right above their heads, specially praised Wang Laomao.

In addition, the soldiers he led took their guns and joined the Eighth Route Army, but Wang Laomao's own gun was allowed to stay.

This is even more amazing. What is this like? For example, it is like the sword-carrying guards beside the emperor. Except for the emperor's own people, who else can stand beside the emperor?

  Wang Laomao is not a member of the Eighth Route Army, but he has the right to carry a gun. Doesn’t this mean that his identity is more important!

It is said that it is nice to enjoy the shade under a big tree, so even though Wang Laomao didn't know what the title of Special Envoy Xu was, there was no need for him to indulge him!

Laomao Wang was staring at Wu Ziqi who was talking excitedly. Just when he wanted to say something else, he suddenly looked up and found several people standing at the open gate of his house.

  He didn't recognize the others, but how could he not recognize the female Eighth Route Army soldier among them? That person was Leng Xiaozhi!

There were three other people with Leng Xiaozhi. One of them was an Eighth Route Army soldier carrying a rifle, but the other two were dressed as Eighth Route Army cadres, whom he did not recognize.

It’s just that the faces of those two people were not very good, but Wu Ziqi knew them because he was a witness. One was Minister He, and the other was Special Envoy Xu Lang!

Leng Xiaozhi wanted to know the specific circumstances of Mo Jianchen's sacrifice, so he could only ask Wu Ziqi who was brought back by Xu Lang.

As mentioned before, Wu Ziqi gave testimony that was unfavorable to Shang Zhenying as a member of Shang Zhenying. The Eighth Route Army was not an unreasonable place and there was really no reason to detain him, so they just sent someone to follow him every day and did not restrict his personal freedom.

Wu Ziqi also didn't expect that Xu Lang would bring him to Baoduqiao.

Of course he knew that Wang Laomao and his family were in Baoduqiao, so he thought that if he had the chance, he must come and see Uncle Wang from their entire camp.

Although he didn't know where Wang Laomao's home was, Wang Laomao was well-known in Baoduqiao for having his guards join the Eighth Route Army, so he came to his house after asking around.

The fact that the Eighth Route Army did not confiscate Wu Ziqi's gun does not mean that they do not know his whereabouts. So Leng Xiaozhi and Minister He Xu Lang came here to look for Wu Ziqi, but they never expected to run into Wang Laomao having a tantrum in his own yard.

Minister He didn't say anything because he wanted to know what Wang Laomao, the former deputy battalion commander of Shang Zhen Battalion, thought about Mo Jianchen's sacrifice.

Xu Lang heard Wang Laomao cursing and realized that he didn't take him seriously at all, and was even contemptuous of him. Although he was extremely angry in his heart, he didn't say anything. I wonder what kind of nasty words an old soldier like you can say!

As for Leng Xiaozhi, when they came over, they heard Uncle Wang cursing, so they let him curse, since he was not the one being cursed anyway.

Moreover, although Wang Laomao's curses were vulgar, they were full of insights and words that Leng Xiaozhi wanted to say but was unable to say. So why should she say anything?