Chapter 47 Visiting Niu Zhuang
"I'll ask you, who is the boss of the Niuzhuang puppet army?" Gou Tianxiao sat on the big chair in the Qiao family's main hall and asked Qiao Xingwang with a mouth curled his mouth. Bu Hui next to him was holding a notebook to make records.
"Our company commander is called Liu Mancang, and there is also a town commander named Zhao Zhiqiang."
"Stop talking nonsense! I'll ask you who the boss of the puppet army is. What do you think the mayor is doing?" Gou Tianxiao slapped his armrest with a "squeak" and the chair under his butt almost broke up! Gou Tianxiao quickly stood up, but he forgot about the financial situation of this family. It seems that this chair is also in disrepair and has passed the retirement age!
"Xingwang, please answer Lord Tianxiao's words well, and you dare not talk nonsense and fool people." Aunt Qiao followed him with a worried look on her face.
"I don't! Lord Tianxiao, aunt, I'm telling the truth! There are only one and a half companies in Niuzhuang's Imperial Army. The biggest official in the company is Liu Mancang. The original mayor of Niuzhuang was Niu Jingui. He usually doesn't care about the matter of the Imperial Army. The mayor Zhao Zhiqiang came from Tianzhuangtai. Since he came, another company of the Imperial Army came to Niuzhuang."
Zhao Zhiqiang, the mayor of Tianzhuangtai, Gou Tianxiao's face changed at that time. He followed him when he was hitting Tianzhuangtai. Gou Tianxiao knew exactly what happened to Mayor Zhao! Unexpectedly, Brother Fei was kind enough to let him go, but this guy didn't want to repent and ran from Tianzhuangtai to Niuzhuang to continue to be his traitor!
After saying that, Qiao Xingwang looked at Gou Tianxiao nervously. Aunt Qiao looked even more nervous than her nephew, and the old lady's body was a little shaking. Bu Hui couldn't stand it anymore, so he took a small stool and helped the old lady sit down. Such a good old man can't be so angry that she, her unscrupulous nephew, would be angry!
"How many Japanese troops are there in the town?" Since there are puppet troops, there must be Japanese! After digesting the information just now, Gou Tianxiao continued to ask.
"Fifty-four." Qiao Xingwang answered this question simply. The number of Japanese devils was there, so there was no need for him to discount it.
"How many people are there in your one and a half company?"
"Two hundred and sixty-three people."
"You know it's quite detailed. Then what official are you?" Gou Tianxiao looked at Qiao Xingwang with a slight smile. He knew that the number of puppet troops and the Japanese was definitely not an ordinary puppet army! You can't blame Gou Tianxiao for being ugly. He has been a beard for so many years. Can that smile look good?
"I? Report to my master, I am the deputy of the Niuzhuang Imperial Army Company! Before Liu Mancang and his company came, the Niuzhuang Imperial Army was under my jurisdiction."
It turns out that this person is the former head of the puppet army in Niuzhuang! It seems that he really caught a big fish today! After knowing Qiao Xingwang's true identity, Gou Tianxiao's eyes were bright. If he had such a person in his hand, he would have been useless to have been doing so many years of beards!
"You are the deputy company commander of the puppet army? Well, good, not bad! It's rare that you come to see your aunt with filial piety. Okay, Aunt Qiao has just made a pot of wild vegetables, but it's still hot. Come on, let's eat a bowl each of us and try my aunt's skills! Mancang, come on, let's eat together." Gou Tianxiao happily pulled Qiao Xingwang to taste the wild vegetables together.
Although the rice was simple and even shabby, the original fragrance of wild vegetables and grain was fully utilized, and everyone present ate a big bowl of delicious food.
This time, Qiao Xingwang brought his aunt a bag of corn. The old lady ate alone. The hundred kilograms of grain were probably enough for her to eat for three months, right? When Qiao Xingwang put the corn on, Gou Tianxiao suddenly proposed to go for a walk in Niuzhuang Town. Is this a proposal? It was obviously an order! Qiao Xingwang dared not object to what Gou Tianxiao said.
After drinking Aunt Qiao's wild vegetables, the other five soldiers also entered the Qiao family courtyard. Gou Tianxiao ordered several soldiers to wait at the Qiao family. He, Bu Hui and Qiao Xingwang, left the mud wall courtyard together, and followed the path he had just returned to the direction of Niuzhuang again. In short, this was the third time Gou Tianxiao had walked on this road in half a day.
When he walked to the gutter, Qiao Xingwang did not go down the gutter. He led Gou Tianxiao and the other two to the right. The three of them walked out for about two hundred steps, turned an inconspicuous small bend, and then appeared in front of him, a small stone bridge was flush with the ground, connecting the two sides of the gutter more than ten feet wide. Since the small bridge was flat with the ground, Gou Tianxiao and Bu Hui did not see a road here at all two hundred meters away.
When he saw Qiao Xingwang carrying more than 100 kilograms of grain into the yard, Gou Tianxiao thought that this guy was carrying grain to cross the ditch. At that time, he admired Qiao Xingwang's strength, but he didn't expect that he had a straight-up silence!
When they arrived at the city gate, Qiao Xingwang followed. Not only did the puppet army not investigated the three of them, they also issued a pass to Gou Tianxiao and Bu Hui, one of them. This is also good. With this pass, if Qiao Xingwang is not required to follow him in the future, Gou Tianxiao and Bu Hui can also enter and exit Niuzhuang Town freely.
It can be seen that Qiao Xingwang, the deputy of the puppet army, was doing well in Niuzhuang, a 3-point land acre. Not only did no one block the road while walking on the street, but puppet army also came to say hello from time to time. There were not many streets in the city but they were very clean. Like other counties and towns occupied by the Japanese army, there were very few pedestrians on Niuzhuang streets.
This is the barracks of the Japanese army; this is the machine gun position, with a Type 92 heavy machine gun inside; this is the barracks of the puppet army; that is, the Japanese army sentry; while Gou Tianxiao's eyes were carefully observed, his brain was also running at high speed, desperately trying to carve everything he saw into his mind. Unfortunately, there are no mobile phones with cameras these days, so the most real situation cannot be recorded in real time.
"Oh, isn't this Deputy Qiao Lian? Why? Deputy Qiao Lian is taking a friend to visit our defense today?"
When he turned a corner of the street, several people appeared next to him, two puppet troops and one Japanese. The puppet troops who walked with the Japanese suddenly spoke up and said hello to Qiao Xingwang. Gou Tianxiao saw that Qiao Xingwang seemed a little nervous.
"Company Commander Liu, these are my two former friends. You are busy, and we have something to do when we go back to the barracks." Qiao Xingwang said perfunctorily and turned around and was about to leave.
"Slow down!" The Company Commander Liu suddenly raised his voice, and the Japanese with him also showed some vigilance, "What big thing does Deputy Qiao Lian have to leave so urgently? I wonder where the two friends are getting rich?"
"Liu Mancang! I don't need to worry about my business!" Qiao Xingwang was obviously angry by the attitude of this Company Commander Liu, but his expression and what he said at this moment looked a bit harsh and cowardly.
Chapter completed!