Sometimes war comes silently. Of course, the conflict at Beiying Ferry cannot be called a war, but it did make the atmosphere in the south and north of the river suddenly tense.
New Year's Day is coming on January 1st in a few days. Lu Ming is preparing to return to Donghai to celebrate the New Year, and he wants to take Liuli with him.
This New Year, our big family got together for the first time to celebrate a reunion.
But I didn't expect such a big thing to happen.
On the second day after the conflict broke out, Lu Ming appeared in Beiying Town, but Ling Liuli had changed his appearance.
There is no way. A twenty-year-old man may pretend to be mature, but deep down, how can he not be curious about war? Don't you want to go there and see it for yourself
In particular, one of the armies obeyed his deployment. In his previous life, how could he have imagined that this day would come
This is the most important reason why Lu Ming came.
As for what they say about seeing what the people think, our own military defense situation, or even looking at the problem from another angle.
Although this factor is present, it is definitely not the main one. It may even be a bit self-deceptive and just an excuse for oneself to join in the fun.
Changing his face would not require mobilizing a large number of troops and would not affect his own strategy. Otherwise, if the garrisons in the south and north of the Yangtze River knew that he was here, many variables would arise.
The people around him have also changed. Yuluan and Heitou are always by his side. Who knows if he will be recognized by the intelligence personnel in the North Camp? There must be intelligence personnel from Jiangbei in this small town. Besides, being recognized by his own people would be a failure.
However, my current identity is certainly not an insignificant person.
He met with the commander of the infantry company stationed in the North Camp, and his letter of appointment stated that he was a special commissioner of the Intelligence Department of the Military Control Commission.
In addition, the chief of the intelligence station of the Intelligence Department stationed in Beiying also met with him.
The small hotel we are staying in now, called "Regent Hotel", is a contact point of the intelligence station.
Lijing Hotel is a large courtyard with several rows of bungalows. There are more than a dozen single rooms with four beds, and large dormitory beds with heated brick beds.
In the past few days, many merchants and travelers traveling from the south and the north have stopped here, and the small inn is full.
Lu Ming and his group of four asked for a single room, but the bedding, sheets, quilt covers, pillowcases, etc. were all replaced with new ones.
Lu Ming sat on a hardwood single bed the size of a military bed, looking through the latest intelligence summary.
The conflict with Jiangbei yesterday was caused by Jiangbei soldiers arresting "fugitives from the South". Dozens of soldiers chased them in two motorboats and wanted to go ashore to arrest people. The ferry manager was beaten and injured. Then the soldiers of the security company arrived and a conflict broke out between the two sides. The Jiangbei soldiers left in a hurry after leaving behind several bodies.
However, the Beiying Guard Company also suffered more than a dozen casualties. Given the firepower radiation and terrain, the Guard Company should have suppressed the Jiangbei soldiers who forced ashore from all directions. As a result, their own casualties were similar to those of the enemy.
Lu Ming sighed softly in his heart, the combat effectiveness of the new army is still a little lacking.
Now the brigade has sent a firepower battalion directly under its command to assist in the defense of a strategic location a few miles away.
The independent regiment with the strongest combat effectiveness has not moved. It is a deterrent force considered from the overall perspective, and it is also a force that will shock Jiangbei. Naturally, it must be deployed at the key point at the critical moment.
Hmm, a person who escaped from the south? Wang Jinchang, a trader? A match wholesaler in Jiangbei
Seeing this, Lu Ming sat up abruptly, pulled on his shoes and tried to get out of bed.
Two small figures had already run over, kneeling down on the left and right to help Lu Ming put on his shoes.
The two extremely pretty and lovely little girls are the two sword maids, Da Guo and Xiao Guo.
Besides, there was an old woman in the room, with a hunched back, gray hair, and cloth clothes and trousers. She looked like an old rural lady in her twilight years, but in fact, she was good at using double guns and her marksmanship was superb. The fierce bandit Yan Tuolong from forty years ago was actually her.
She was subdued by Master Liuli, and was the only one among the previous generation of Qing'e who continued to follow the new master. The others lost their memories and skills after the death of their old master and went their separate ways. Only Yan Tuolong was an outlier. He always stayed by Liuli's side, and his abilities became stronger with age.
However, according to Liuli, Granny Tuolong had already felt that her time was up, but after Liuli followed her, Granny Tuolong felt like she had a second spring in life and suddenly became full of energy.
Seeing Lu Ming's eyes, Grandma Tuolong went to the back wall of the room, lifted up a painting on the wall, pulled the mechanism, and pushed it gently. The wooden door panel opened to the side, revealing a small corridor.
Then Daguo walked in front, Lu Ming followed, and Xiaoguo came last.
Granny Tuolong stayed in the room to prevent anyone from coming in and discovering the secret.
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The corridor is not long, and actually leads to the woodshed in the side courtyard.
Lu Ming and the other two came out of the woodshed, and the fat man, who was lazily basking in the sun on a lounge chair on the patio, put down the small teapot he was sipping.
"I want to see the one who fled to the South." Lu Ming whispered as he walked up to him.
The fat man nodded calmly.
Lu Ming then entered a side room.
A few minutes later, the door curtain was lifted, and a thin old man with a dejected face came in.
Lu Ming sighed softly in his heart. It was the shopkeeper Wang whom he had met last time in Beiying Town.
At that time, he and his granddaughter, who was dressed as a man, asked about the situation in the north. What he said was so exciting that it was heard by people from the Nanping Security Bureau, causing a lot of trouble.
Currently, the team leader of the Nanping Security Bureau named Ma Rulong is still in prison, and Deputy Director Gao Dazhen, who later solved the matter, is also under house arrest.
"Why did you flee to the South? Are the Bureau of Secrets looking for trouble with you? Did the Bureau of Secrets find out what you said here last time and are they tracking you down?" Lu Ming asked with a frown.
Shopkeeper Wang, who had a dejected look on his face, looked up in surprise.
Lu Ming nodded: "Yes, I know about that."
"Ah, ah..." Shopkeeper Wang's face was immediately filled with anxiety. He wanted to say something, but he could only utter several "ahs" in a hurry, "Ah, I, I want to see, ah..."
Lu Ming stared at him. "Just tell me. I know the whole story. I will help you solve it. Did the Nanping Security Bureau come to you?"
Shopkeeper Wang nodded repeatedly, and suddenly burst into tears, "Dead, many people in my family died, and those who survived were also arrested. I, I am so hateful, just because I talk too much, because I talk too much!" He suddenly squatted on the ground, sobbing like a child.
Daguo and Xiaoguo beside Lu Ming suddenly felt something. The two little girls looked at each other in horror, because they felt that there was an extremely terrifying aura from their master.
Ordinary people cannot feel it, but in the eyes of these young maidens, their master is like a terrifying beast, and his joy, anger, sorrow and happiness all have omens.
Lu Ming sat quietly. Manager Wang's family was raided by the Bureau of Secrets, apparently because of what happened last time.
That means Ma Rulong still spread the news and described the appearance of Manager Wang and his granddaughter.
Manager Wang must have been a celebrity in the local area, so he was quickly targeted by the Bureau of Secrets.
The prison where Ma Rulong was imprisoned was the Black Mountain Detention Center. He personally met with the director and ordered him to treat him specially. If Ma Rulong and others leaked any information to the outside world, he would be held accountable.
Moreover, he knew that the officials here were unreasonable, so he specially sent an intelligence officer to infiltrate the jailer to keep an eye on Ma Rulong and others.
But obviously, there might be something wrong with the intelligence agent.
Lu Ming's heart was filled with sneers.
To be honest, since I came into this world, I had vowed to send little Renault, Kato Masakazu and others to the gallows, but it was not the hatred I have now, a hatred that is difficult to vent. They were a group of ignorant and stupid people whom I wanted to be my own people, but they just didn't live up to my expectations and betrayed my trust for a little bit of money. They didn't even know how serious the mistakes they made were.
"Sir, sir, please save my granddaughter. She protected me and was captured by them because of me!"
Shopkeeper Wang was in tears, wiping his nose, and came to hug Lu Ming's legs.