Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2120 Information in the City

It is a bit difficult to use four companies to intercept and arrest more than 1 refugees. Fortunately, the refugees move slowly at night, and there is nowhere for those who are in the dark to run. Often, a dozen soldiers stop and wait for shelter as soon as they shout out with torches.

Each company has many veterans who have participated in the engine operation. They have special skills in commanding and sheltering the refugees. They only use bayonet force to surround the refugees.It took four hours before and after to escort the more than 1 refugees to the foot of the mountain east of Beishan Mountain, where they were temporarily guarded by three companies.By this time it was broad daylight.

Zhu Quanxing was in a state of desperation. While he was planning to attack, he also had to deal with the refugee issue.The follow-up reserve team and civil cadres are on the move, ready to take over the mess.

He was so busy that the orderly came to report that an old man among the refugees leaving the city wanted to hand him a letter.

"He insisted on submitting it in person."

"Find out the letter and bring it here." Zhu Quanxing was not interested in listening to the old man's murmurs, and if he was talking about "Anmin" with him, he had no time to waste.

"He said he was sent by the Lone Wolf!"

Zhu Quanxing was taken aback. He knew about the lone wolf. It was arranged by the Foreign Intelligence Agency to sit in Wuzhou, and not long ago, it sent information on the city wall.

In this way, he didn't pay attention to it.

"Okay, bring him here." Zhu Quanxing said, "Go and report to Chief Xu and ask him to come over quickly!"

Sun Sancai was from Shandong, and he was recruited into the army because he was a refugee taken in by Operation Engine.Now Sun Sancai has become a corporal and a squad leader.However, his achievements were few. Apart from participating in a few times to suppress bandits, Sun Sancai had never really fought a battle.It wasn't until the start of the Continental Raiders that Sun San really entered the battlefield. He originally wanted to go to battle and kill the enemy to make great contributions, so that he could be promoted and make a fortune in the future, and he would marry his wife and son.

It never occurred to me that Sun Sancai did not fire a single shot until he arrived in Wuzhou after landing, and traveled all the way by boat with a gun on his back.Half of his desire to make contributions was extinguished.

When he arrived in Zhaoqing, he heard that Wuzhou had assembled tens of thousands of Ming troops, and a big battle was bound to happen. Sun Sancai was very excited, thinking that his chance to make contributions had come.Unexpectedly, on the battlefield, the first combat mission of Sun Sancai's company turned out to be to intercept the refugees leaving the city.

Now the refugees are surrounded by a cordon composed of wire and wooden sticks at the eastern foot of the Northeast Mountain. The refugees are sitting on the ground, while the health team patrols and bandages some injured refugees.Sun Sancai's company received another mission to carry out security missions on the outskirts of this temporary refugee camp.

Sun Sancai was in a bad mood. If he kept looking at these refugees, he would have nothing to fight in Wuzhou.At this rate, he will be promoted in the year of the monkey.

Complaints belong to complaints, and the task must be carried out.This is "iron discipline".Sun San didn't dare to neglect, and led his soldiers to patrol along the cordon.In particular, we should pay attention to whether there are people in the refugee group who are "doing evil" - such things have happened many times in the past. Fights, rapes... all kinds of cases happened.

Suddenly, across the cordon, an old man suddenly squeezed in front of him, waving his arms, chirping, and speaking a bird song he couldn't understand, which made him feel even more depressed.He scolded: "Be honest!"

The old man was none other than Li Wensheng, the old treasurer under Luo Yangming.Although Li Wensheng is a shopkeeper, he can only speak Guangzhou official dialect. Sun Sancai, who is from Shandong, of course can't understand him--he only understands the local dialect of his hometown in addition to the Newspeak commonly used in the army. The people of Sanfu couldn't understand.

Because Newspeak is commonly used in the army, and as a soldier, he has little contact with the outside world, so he naturally knows very little about Cantonese Mandarin.

At this time, Li Wensheng became more and more excited, and even made a move to cross the cordon. Sun Sancai raised the rifle in his hand in desperation, and forced Li Wensheng back with a bayonet.

Li Wensheng thought of his master's instructions, so he was distracted, ignoring the persuasion of the people around him, and squeezed up again, waving his arms and gesticulating at Sun Sancai, calling for the chief.

However, Sun Sancai still didn't understand a word. Seeing that the old man didn't know what to do and refused to obey the management, he was about to resort to "coercive means" according to the rules - direct stabbing with a bayonet was not acceptable, but the butt of the gun was ready, so turning the gun would be the right thing to do. Gave the old man a gun butt.

Li Wensheng was hit hard this time, and fell to the ground with a thud, and the surrounding refugees were commotioned, and immediately avoided far away.

Unexpectedly, Li Wensheng had the spirit of "being entrusted by others and being loyal to others". After being hit by the butt of the gun, he immediately got up again and yelled again.

Sun Sancai was annoyed by this, and immediately ordered: "Come on, tie him up! Pull a handful of grass and gag his mouth!"

"what's up?"

Sun Sancai turned his head to see that it was the platoon leader Lin Gongyong.Quickly stood at attention and saluted: "Report to the platoon leader, there is an old man who does not obey orders and is causing trouble!"

According to the genealogy, Lin Gongyong's former descendants of the Lin family in Baitu Village are Lin Xianming's nephew and Lin Gonglao's younger brother.After Baitu Village was dispersed, the entire Lin family was dismantled, some moved to Sanya, and some stayed in Lingao.As the area ruled by the Senate grew larger, the branches of the Lin family in the two places were further split.Lin Gongyong's father was relocated to Kaohsiung because he was a shipbuilder, and the whole family went to work in the local naval dockyard.

Because Baitu Village used to repair boats for people from all over the world, all the villagers in Baitu Village knew several dialects.After arriving in Kaohsiung, Lin Gongyong has been in contact with people from all corners of the country, so he can not only speak his native Hokkien, but also Lingao dialect, Qiongshan dialect and Cantonese vernacular, all of which are authentic and difficult for others to hear.It is precisely for this reason that he entered the non-commissioned officer teaching team during the general conscription before the mainland invasion.

He could understand Li Wensheng's words, and when he heard him repeatedly shouting to see the chief, he felt strange in his heart - the honorary title of chief for the Senate should be known very little in the prefectures on the border between these two provinces, how could this old man know? ?Immediately, he comforted him in Guangzhou vernacular and asked him what was the matter.

Li Wensheng was very excited when he finally saw a person who could understand and speak Cantonese. He didn't care about the gleaming bayonets. He moved forward and firmly grasped Lin Gongyong's hands, and kept saying: "I have important information to send to the Chief Minister of Australia."

"what?"

"Please tell the chief, I have information that Lone Wolf gave me!"

Hearing the word "information", Lin Gongyong didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately took him aside, and began to question him. Unexpectedly, the old man said "I have important information for the head of Australia" and "I am sent by a lone wolf". Apart from that, he refused to say anything more.

Lin Gongyong was afraid that this was a spy of the Ming Dynasty, and he wanted to meet the chief to assassinate him.He also asked the soldiers to search his whole body carefully, even opened his bun, but found no murder weapon, except for some sundries, only an ordinary family letter was found.

He looked at these things over and over for a long time, but he couldn't see anything strange.In the end, he had no choice but to order the person to be locked up alone first, and send someone to report to the battalion headquarters.

Li Wensheng was placed in a tent, and sat anxiously on a marching chair, with beads of sweat already oozing from his forehead.I feel like I'm getting old, and I've never been so nervous before.

Standing outside the tent is a soldier carrying an Australian gun with a gun sword, no doubt once he tries to escape, he will definitely be shot to kill.The owner has always been in contact with Dachang Rice Company, and it is an open secret that Australians are behind Dachang Rice Company. Wuzhou Trading is based on the rice trade, so it is impossible not to deal with Dachang, and some rumors about Dachang are naturally known.

Since the owner has contacts with Dachang, it may have some unclear relationship with the Australians.But if the boss doesn't say anything, Li Wensheng won't ask—it's the boss's private matter.However, Li Wensheng is still not very clear about the details of the Australians. For the sake of his boss, he should be more cautious, and it is better not to reveal too much information about his boss.So Li Wensheng simply kept on doing nothing, saying nothing except "I have important information to send to the head of Australia" and "I was sent by a lone wolf" explained by his boss.

After waiting for a long time, a sedan chair arrived—Kuu heard that someone had brought a lone wolf, and immediately asked Zhu Quanxing to send him to the headquarters in the south of the city.

"Use a sedan chair, and bring him up immediately!"

In order to facilitate command, Zhu Mingxia set up a former enemy command post in the south of Wuzhou City, and Changzhou Island was used as a logistics warehouse and a repair site for troops. Now Yang Zeng's 8th Battalion is being repaired on Changzhou Island.Preliminary counts of refugees were carried out in various places. There were more than 8000 people in total, most of them were old people, children and women, and some young adults ran out while they were in disorder. Just in case there are Ming army spies mixed in.

Zhu Mingxia is now worrying: Xiong Wencan's skill at throwing pots is really good!

Wuzhou City has developed commerce and trade, and most of the people in the city are engaged in business and various industries. They rely on the business opportunities brought by Wuzhou as a rice distribution center in northern and western Guangxi. There is nowhere to go to his own field and farm now.Most of the things on them now have been looted by the Ming army who expelled them. In addition, Xiong Wencan consciously collected grain from the four townships and eight fields outside Wuzhou before the war. Most of the grain stored in the village can only protect itself, and it is even more difficult for them, the old and weak, women and children, to get food.

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