Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

"I didn't expect that the Japanese really sent people here as you said." Zhang Cheng said in the room.

"It's nothing. The Japanese originally planned to recruit bandits as puppet troops. I just asked people to spread the news." Li Jin said.

"This time, the plan can be implemented."

"Well, go and send a telegram to the brigade commander and the others so that they can be prepared." Li Jin nodded. Not long after he came over, the brigade commander specially sent someone to send him a radio station.

"understand!"

.........

On the way up the mountain, Li Shi was so frightened that he could no longer walk smoothly. There was nothing he could do. The more he went up the mountain, the more frightened he became. He found that he seemed to have underestimated the ferocity of these bandits.

Soon, he was taken to the mountain stronghold and into the cave by the bandits who led the way.

There were dozens of people standing on both sides of the wide cave.

After Li Shi came in, they all looked at Li Shi. At this glance, Li Shi stumbled and almost fell down.

What kind of fierce look was that, as if he was about to peel off his skin and bones, it was so terrifying.

There was a young man sitting on a big tiger-skin chair above, also looking at him quietly at this time.

"What's your name? Why do you come to our army's imperial mountain?" Li Jin asked with an expressionless face.

"Little Li Shi is the captain of the Imperial Alliance Army. This time he was sent by Major Ichiki." Li Shi took a deep breath to calm down his fearful heart, and then he spoke.

"Why did the little devil send you here? Could it be that you saw how miserable I was and wanted to send me some supplies?" Li Jin said with a smile.

"Um, are you from Head Lin, right?" Li Shi asked tentatively. Although the man was sitting on a chair, he still wanted to confirm his identity.

"It's me. If you have anything to say, just say it! If you don't say it, get out!" Li Jin looked a little impatient.

"Yes, yes," Li Shi was startled and said quickly: "Our imperial army values ​​Master Lin very much, so we specially invited Master Lin to serve for the imperial army."

"Serving for the imperial army? Ha, you are not sincere." Li Jin sneered.

"Ah? Why are you not sincere?" Li Shi was stunned. As the captain, he came to recruit people in person. Isn't this sincerity?

"If the Japanese were sincere, why would they send a Chinese to speak out? He was just a captain.
I'm in charge of over 1000 people, so if I send you here, aren't you looking down on me? "Li Jin snorted coldly.

"That is, what kind of person is our leader? How can you, a little person, recruit him?"

"Master, the little devil has no sincerity. How about we kill this puppet soldier?"

"that is!"

For a while, other brothers also spoke one after another.

Li Shi was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and said quickly: "If Mr. Lin dislikes the junior officials, you can put forward conditions, and we can meet them!"

"You can make any conditions?" Li Jin smiled.

Li Shi swallowed his saliva and said, "Okay!"

"Then let your Major Ichiki come and invite you personally." Li Jin said slowly.

"Ah? This may not work." Li Shi was stunned. How cruel is this bandit's heart? He actually wants Major Ichiki to come and invite him in person.

"You can raise any conditions, aren't you kidding me?" Li Jin's tone was cold and his eyes were sharp.

"No, Major Ichiki is a city guard and cannot leave the city casually." Li Shi explained, already starting to curse in his heart.

"Well, at least he is an official, and he has to bring gifts. Otherwise, he is not sincere." Li Jin said.

"Gift?" Li Shi was stunned for a moment, matching the previous anger, he was completely concerned about the gift.

"No matter what gift you give me, I will accept it. Does it matter whether the gift is light or the friendship is heavy?" Li Jin reminded him.

"Then, what kind of etiquette does Mr. Lin think is appropriate?" Li Shi asked, what the hell, etiquette is light on etiquette but friendship is overweight, maybe more money means more affection.

"Oh, I told you, any gift will do. Of course, it would be even better if it can be a gift to buy something." Li Jin said with a smile.

"Um, how much do you want?" Li Shi asked.

"I don't care how much I want from you." Li Jin stretched out two fingers as he spoke.

After seeing this, the corner of Li Shi's mouth twitched, and the lion opened his mouth. He would not be so naive as to think that two thousand oceans could bribe Li Jin. It would cost at least twenty thousand oceans!

"Okay, I understand. I'll go back and report it right away. What do you think?" Li Shi said tentatively.

"Go away, go away." Li Jin waved his hand and asked Li Shi to leave. At the same time, he also sent someone to escort Li Shi down the mountain.

Li Shi breathed a sigh of relief, his life was saved.

When they got off the mountain, the puppet soldiers were relieved when they saw Li Shi. They were afraid that they wouldn't be able to see Li Shi, and then they would go down to keep company.

"What's going on, Captain? Have they agreed?" a puppet soldier asked.

"Don't ask, leave first." Li Shi didn't want to say more. Staying in Junhuang Mountain, he felt that he would be killed at any time.

When the other bandits saw Li Shi, they were also very confused as to why the master let these puppet soldiers go.

All of a sudden, twenty captains all started to go up the mountain. They planned to ask the leader what was going on.

.........

They breathed a sigh of relief when Li Shi and the others were four or five miles away from Junhuang Mountain.

"It should be safe here." Li Shi said.

"Captain, tell me quickly, what's going on? Are the bandits not planning to join us?" asked a puppet soldier.

"They didn't reply, but I think they had this intention." Then, Li Shi told the situation in the cave.

"Fuck, this bandit leader is so crazy. He actually wants Major Ichiki to come and invite him in person. He really doesn't know how high the earth is."

"That's not to say, I also have crazy capital. A person who can unite a group of scattered bandits is naturally crazy."

When the puppet soldiers heard this, they commented on the bandits in Junhuang Mountain.

"Crazy, they are crazy, but they also intend to join us, but they still need to pay a price. They want [-] oceans." Li Shi said.

"I'll go, twenty thousand oceans!"

"They really dare to ask for it."

"Grandma, I will never make so much money in my life."

Hearing Li Shi's words, all the puppet soldiers were stunned. For them, [-] oceans was an unreachable number.

"Will the Japanese give it to me? So much money." A puppet soldier asked.

"How do I know, but I estimate that they should be given." Li Shi said. Since the Japanese wanted to recruit those bandits, they would definitely have to pay a price.

No one believes the Japanese when they talk without proof.

.........

At this time, in the cave.

Twenty captains also came in.

"Master, aren't we going to fight with the Japs? Why let those Japs go?"

"Wouldn't it be better if we kill them and let the Japs enter the mountain? We take the opportunity to destroy the Japs who enter the mountain?" these captains said one after another.

"What do you know? These two Japs have no weight among the Japs. If they are killed, the Japs will not send people into the mountains. I am just taking a long-term view to catch the big fish." Li Jin explained.

"The next time they go into the mountains, that will be a good opportunity to kill," Li Jin continued.

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized that the master had already planned it. Compared with him, they were still too young.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Li Shi left the mountains with a dozen puppet soldiers, but they were still quite far away from where the Japanese parked their cars.

On the road, a Japanese military vehicle was parked somewhere.

There was a Japanese soldier sitting in both the driving position and the co-pilot position of the military vehicle.

"Huh~" The two Japs puffed away, and the Japs sitting in the driver's seat said, "It's been so long and I haven't seen those Chinese people come out. They couldn't have been beaten to death by bandits."

His name is Zuomu Qingshan, and he is just an ordinary soldier.

"Well, it's very possible. I heard that the bandits in this mountain range are quite cruel. Of course, they are probably only cruel to the Chinese people." The Japanese co-pilot also said, his name is You Tian.

He has also heard of the reputation of bandits in the mountains, but in his opinion, the bandits are only cruel to the Chinese people themselves.

If we meet them, it's not certain who is more cruel.

"Then are we still waiting? The military camp has already served dinner. If we go back late, we will probably be hungry tonight." Zuomu Qingshan said. After waiting for a day, he was already hungry.

"Just wait. If they are not dead, come out alive, can't see us, and run to complain to the captain, it will be difficult for us to explain." You Tian said.

Although the captain would not punish a few Chinese people, it would leave a bad impression after all.

"Okay, let's wait for half an hour. If they don't come out, we'll leave."

"Ah."

The two of them made up their mind that if Li Shi and the others didn't come out in half an hour, they would drive away.

Soon, half an hour passed.

Zuomu Qingshan stuck his head out of the car window and looked at the mountains not far behind. It was almost dark and he couldn't see clearly. The trees were swaying and leaves were falling.

"Baga! It seems that they were really killed. Let's go." Zuomu Qingshan said as he started the car and turned on the front headlights.

Just as he was about to drive away, there was a sound from behind.

"Taijun! Wait! We haven't even gotten in the car yet!" As soon as Li Shi and the others came out, they noticed that the Japanese car was about to drive away. He was so frightened that he shouted quickly.

"Huh?" Zuomu Qingshan stuck his head out of the car window and saw Li Shi and a dozen puppet soldiers running behind him, still shouting something. Although he didn't understand it, it didn't affect his parking.

Li Shi and the others finally ran to the back of the military vehicle, and the puppet soldiers began to get on the vehicle. Li Shi took out a cigarette from his pocket, came to the front of the vehicle, and smoked for the two Japanese soldiers.

"Sorry for keeping Taijun waiting for so long. When I have time later, I will take you to play with the flower girls." Li Shi said while lighting cigarettes for the two Japanese.

Although the two Japanese soldiers couldn't understand Chinese, they still understood the word "flower girl".

"Qingshan Jun, it seems that these Chinese people want to invite us to play girl." Youtian guessed.

"Yeah! It should be right." Zuomu Qingshan also nodded.

Li Shi watched the two Japanese soldiers talking to each other and was stunned. He couldn't understand, so he could only stand aside.

"You, good citizen!" Zuomu Qingshan patted Li Shi on the shoulder and said in broken Chinese.

Li Shi smiled and nodded repeatedly. He pointed to the back of the car and said, "Taijun, should I get in the car first?"

Zuomu Qingshan nodded.

Li Shi quickly got in the car.

.........

Around 07:30 in the evening, a military vehicle entered Quyang County. Not long after, the military vehicle entered the Japanese military camp.

After getting off the car, Li Shi said to the puppet soldiers: "You all go back and rest first. I will report to Major Ichiki. I estimate that we will have to enter Junhuang Mountain tomorrow."

"Captain, let's leave first." After saying this, the puppet soldiers all left.

Li Shi went to Major Ichiki's office with a bitter look on his face.

"The bandits refused to join us?" Seeing Li Shi coming in alone in the office, Major Ichiki knew that this matter might have been screwed up.

"Taijun, you can't blame me. It's the bandit leader who doesn't know how to praise me. He looked down on me and said we were not sincere." General Li Shi told Major Yimu what happened at Junhuang Mountain.

Finally, he added: "The point is, they didn't give them gifts, so they refused."

"Giving gifts?" Major Ichiki frowned and said, "Did they tell us what gifts they wanted us to give?"

Li Shi swallowed his saliva and said, "They said they wanted money."

"How much?" Major Ichiki asked.

"Two, twenty thousand oceans." Li Shi said.

"Humph, what a lion." Major Ichiki snorted coldly, but this was actually to be expected.

If the bandits didn't ask for any conditions, he still wouldn't trust the bandits.

"It's just that those bandits are so outrageous that they don't even take the imperial army seriously." Li Shi cursed, as if he had been insulted.

"Give it to them." Major Ichiki said.

"Yes, give it, ah? Do you really want to give them money?" Li Shi was about to scold him, but when he heard this, he was stunned. Aren't the Japanese a little generous? Twenty thousand oceans, just give it to them?

"Well, give it to them. I will ask Eita-kun to accompany you to Junhuang Mountain tomorrow." Major Ichiki nodded.

Even if the money is given to the bandits, they can't take it away.

"Yes, then I will go back first?" Li Shi said.

Major Ichiki waved his hand and asked Li Shi to leave, and then called another soldier.

"Go and call Eda Ichiro." Major Ichiki ordered.

"Hi!" The soldier nodded and immediately withdrew. Not long after, a sergeant came in. He was Ichiro Eita. His original rank of second lieutenant was demoted to that of a sergeant.

"Major, are you looking for me?" Eita Ichiro stood up straight and asked.

"I will give you a task. Once the task is completed, you will be reinstated." Major Ichiki said.

"No matter what the task is, my subordinates will definitely complete it if they climb mountains of swords and seas of fire!" Eita Ichiro said.

"This task is not difficult. It is to go to the mountains, convince the bandits in General Huangshan, and bring them back to the county to work for us." Ichiki Major said.

"My subordinates will definitely complete the mission!" Ichiro Eita shouted.

"Rongtian, don't blame me for removing you from your post. Fifty soldiers died because of you, so I demoted you.

If it weren't for your brother's sake, you would probably have to go to court-martial. "Major Ichiki explained the demotion to Ichiro Eita.

"Major, I understand what you said!" Ichiro Eita nodded and said, a month ago, fifty of his soldiers were killed.

As a result, he didn't even know who killed him, so he was demoted to a sergeant.

(End of this chapter)