1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2387
Sun Zhen took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, opened it, took out one and handed it to Gong Shiqi.Gong Shiqi took the cigarette and felt in his pocket with the other hand, but he couldn't find the fire, but Sun Zhen had already lit a match and handed it to him.

Gong Shiqi smiled, tilted his head and leaned forward to borrow the fire to light a cigarette. After taking a deep breath, he raised the cigarette in his hand to look at it and said, "The cigarettes issued by your troops are better. I went back last time The whole pack of cigarettes I went to get from Fushan County was all damp, and I couldn't smoke at all!"

Sun Zhen said with a smile: "It takes a month or two for cigarettes to be transported to the north by sea. If they are not packaged well, they will inevitably get damp. It depends on luck! It's okay. I'll ask someone to bring you two more cigarettes later. Remember me." On account!"

Gong Shiqi said with a smile: "It's better to be respectful than to obey, then I won't be polite!"

Cigarettes are one of Haihan's newly-emerging hot commodities in the field of foreign trade. However, due to the limited tobacco planting area and low production capacity, this stuff has not been sold to the north of Daming through official channels.However, many official personnel stationed in the northern colonial area also smoked and had a certain demand for cigarettes, so paper cigarettes were listed as one of the ration materials for official personnel and garrisons.

These special groups will also enjoy a certain number of free quotas according to their positions. For example, Sun Zhen is currently a captain and battalion commander. He enjoys a free ration of two cigarettes per month. If he wants to smoke more, he has to do it himself. I have paid, but even if I pay myself, there is a limit, otherwise it will be easy for this kind of rationing system that exists as a welfare to breed a huge underground black market.

The value of two cigarettes is not much, or a lot less, and the size is also a matter of personal preference.Gong Shiqi understood why Sun Zhen wanted to give him a gift, because after interrogating Hu Lusha, they all realized that they should have made a lot of credit this time, and two cigarettes were really nothing compared to it.Gong Shiqi worked with Hao Wanqing, and of course the room for promotion was not as great as that of Sun Zhen, and the Ministry of Security has never given any public incentives, so Sun Zhen will definitely get more benefits from it, and these two cigarettes can be regarded as His little payback for Gong Shiqi's help during the interrogation.

Sun Zhen exhaled a puff of smoke, and asked slowly: "Speaking of which, if you didn't scare this guy out just now, he still gritted his teeth and refused to let go. Are you really going to cut him alive?"

Gong Shiqi said with a smile: "I just learned a little bit from others. It's not that simple if I really want to do it. I have to pay attention to where I can and can't put a knife on my body. I'm just talking Kung fu...fortunately, it works, if it doesn't work, then I can only drive ducks to the shelves and practice on that guy!"

When encountering a master with many methods and rich experience like Gong Shiqi, it is really difficult to keep his mouth shut. That Hu Lusha is not a cowardly person, but under Gong Shiqi's threats and persecution, he still He was so frightened that he confessed.Sun Zhen watched the whole process, and naturally knew that what Gong Shiqi said just now was just modesty.His acting skills and fire control are so proficient that even Sun Zhen believed it, let alone the object of his threats.Although Gong Shiqi claimed to have only learned superficially, and only used his words to scare people, Sun Zhen had no doubt that he was really capable of performing this kind of torture.

Sun Zhendao: "Originally, I was worried that the troops in Fushan County would not be enough, but if this happened, I'm afraid the higher-ups will send more troops to Shandong soon."

Looking at the refugee settlement in the distance, Gong Shiqi said with emotion: "It's a blessing in disguise, but it's not a blessing. It's not necessarily a bad thing...Let's take a step and wait for the arrangement from above!"

After they captured Hu Lusha and his gang, they thought that they were a group of defeated soldiers from the Ming army pretending to be refugees and sneaking away. They might even be troops sent by Dengzhou to Fushan County to make trouble. Even more serious.

According to Hu Lusha's confession, he did not work for the Dengzhou government or other local officials of the Ming Dynasty, but was a subordinate of the Ming rebel General Geng Zhongming.

Yes, it was Geng Zhongming who worked under the command of Shandong Governor Sun Yuanhua back then.He served as a general in the Chinese army in Dengzhou, and later cooperated with Kong Youde to capture Dengzhou City during the Denglai Rebellion. Tai Chi crowned king.

And this Hu Lusha, who was one of Geng Zhongming's navy commanders when he was a general in Dengzhou, later defected to Liaodong with Geng Zhongming and was incorporated into the Qing army, still doing his old job.

However, during the Qing army’s invasion of North Korea the year before last, almost all the warships were concentrated on the Yalu River line. As a result, they were blocked by the Haihan Navy on the Yalu River and wiped out. In the end, a large number of rafts were improvised to serve as the Qing army’s crossing. Tool.And Hulusha has no warships to use since then, leaving only one sailor to hold the title of general.

Due to the continuous suppression of the Liaodong coastline by the Haihan army, the Manchu Qing could hardly build warships near the coast. Even if they could build a few ships secretly in the inland river, they would not dare to venture out to sea.A sailor like Hu Lusha, who was born in the navy, could not find a place to use his talents, and became a completely idler.

Until the end of last year when Huang Taiji decided to send troops to invade the south, and appointed Geng Zhongming to lead the expedition, Hu Lusha finally got a job after a long absence.But all the way southward was by land, and he could only eat ashes behind the cavalry's ass.It wasn't until all the way into Shandong that Dorgon decided to cross the Yellow River to attack Jinan City, and Hu Lusha and his navy finally came in handy.

However, due to Ming's strategic decision-making mistakes, all the main forces were transferred to the front line of Dezhou for deployment, and there was a serious lack of defense methods against natural dangers such as the Yellow River. Therefore, Hu Lusha did not encounter any trouble in the process of crossing the river. Not even a decent resistance was offered.After crossing the river and attacking Jinan City, there is nothing wrong with him.

Just being a boatman has no military merits to speak of, but he marched all the way from Shenyang to Jinan, and ran for more than 2000 miles without getting any credit. Naturally, Hu Lusha was unwilling to accept such a result.So he took the initiative to challenge Geng Zhongming, hoping to get a slightly more difficult job.

Geng Zhongming happened to have such an action plan on hand, and Hu Lusha's experience, expertise, and ability all fit the requirements of this plan very well.So Geng Zhongming asked him to consider whether to take on this task. If he succeeds, promotion and fortune are absolutely indispensable. Maybe he can reach the sky in one step, and he will become the fourth person to be the king in the future.

Hu Lusha has been in the army for many years, so he is naturally courageous and experienced. After careful study of this plan, he also felt that there was a great chance of success, so he gritted his teeth and took on this rather dangerous task.

The core content of this action plan formulated by the Qing army is to let a group of people disguise themselves as refugees and follow the refugee tide into Dengzhou to see if they have a chance to enter Fushan County controlled by Haihan. Lurk down and wait for the right time to do it.

Whether to create a civil uprising in the local area, assassinate important figures in Haihan, or seek opportunities to steal Haihan's advanced weapons and warships, there is no definite goal in this plan, and everything will be decided by Hu Lusha according to the situation.He has absolute autonomy during the mission, and can decide how to choose according to the development of the situation. If it is really impossible to raise an incident in Fushan County, then he can choose to transfer the operation location to Dengzhou City, or simply look for an opportunity to withdraw to Liaodong.Withdrawing without doing anything is nothing but futile at best, but as long as one of the many hypothetical goals can be achieved, then rewards and promotions afterwards will definitely be indispensable.

But the risk is that the Qing army will withdraw from Daming before the beginning of spring, and they will not be able to provide him with timely support at that time. If you want to use a hundred or so people to make a big move under the noses of Daming and Haihan, it is not a big deal. easy thing.

However, the current situation in Shandong is obviously more beneficial to the side in the dark. Tens of thousands of refugees are the best cover for Hu Lusha and his gang. Neither Daming nor Haihan can deal with such a large number of refugees. With strict screening and monitoring, they can travel around in Shandong as refugees, and they will not have much problem if they want to go to Fushan County.Moreover, they served as soldiers in Dengzhou in their early years, and they are relatively familiar with the local environment. Their speech, behavior, living habits, and professional skills will not be easily revealed. It is difficult to see their true identities through ordinary contact.

So Hu Lusha and his gang changed their outfits outside Jinan City, got a few carriages to load food, and hid weapons in the carriages by the way, and then followed the fleeing people all the way eastward.From Jinan City to Zhaoyuan County, it was six or seven hundred miles all the way, but I really didn't encounter any trouble.During the period, although some people coveted their carts and food, Hulusha's group of people were not vegetarians, so it was no problem to deal with the rogue robbers of the people.

Just stop and go to Zhaoyuan County, Hu Lusha and his gang had just settled down, and before they noticed that the Haihan army had entered the area, they were attacked by another group of robbers who followed them all the way.

Because the other party used a sneak attack, Hu Lusha and his gang lost two people and a grain truck before realizing the situation, and then quickly organized a counter-kill against this group of daring robbers.Without even using their hidden weapons, they successfully dealt with their opponents and took back the robbed food.

Although they had resolved the trouble as quickly as possible, they still attracted the attention of the Haihan Army because of the noise.Hu Lusha never expected that there would be a Haihan Army in Zhaoyuan County that was openly active, which was obviously different from the information he had before, and these Haihan Army were obviously not easy to fool, although he tried hard , but still failed to dispel the suspicion of the Haihan people.

Hu Lusha had no way of judging how many Haihan troops there were, so he didn't dare to try unnecessary resistance.After confirming that the Haihan army would not let him go, he could only give a signal to escape from this place and let his subordinates flee for their lives.

Now that Hu Lusha has taken on such a risky task, he naturally has the determination to die on the battlefield, but he really did not expect to meet a monster like Gong Shiqi, who aroused the fear in his heart in the simplest way, and was killed alive. Scared to confess.

Most of the contents of Hu Lusha's confession have been verified through cross-interrogation of other prisoners. Both Gong Shiqi and Sun Zhen believed that their credibility was very high, and sent a telegram of the general conclusions back to the commander of Fushan County. Ministry, ask Chen Yixin for instructions on the next step.

After finishing these things, the two had time to get out of the tent to smoke a cigarette and take a rest outside.At this time, Hu Lusha and other survivors have been detained in a nearby private house. This house was brought back by Gong Shiqi. Gong Shiqi did not say how much it cost, but he just told Sun Zhen not to worry about it. The funds of the Ministry of Security shall be borne.Sun Zhen felt sorry, so he took the opportunity to give Gong 17 two cigarettes to express his gratitude.

"Although the principal culprit has been caught, I don't know how many secret operations like this are lurking outside. If these people are allowed to sneak into Fushan County, it may really become a big trouble!" Sun Zhen thought about it, or Feeling a little uneasy about the current situation.

Gong Shiqi said: "Although I haven't returned to Fushan County this trip, I still know how the refugee camp works. After these refugees arrive in Fushan County, unless there are people who can take refuge in them, most of them will be taken in as refugees. Unified resettlement of the camp. It is not as easy as you think to do things in the refugee camp... And the higher-ups will definitely call on professional officials who are more familiar with this aspect of affairs to direct the work. In fact, there will be corresponding loopholes in the loopholes we can think of. monitoring measures."

Sun Zhendao: "General Chen transferred back Mr. Liu Shangliu who was in charge of civil affairs from Jinzhou. He seems to have worked in the refugee camp in Fushan County before."

Gong Shiqi knew Liu Shang's situation better than Sun Zhen, so he responded immediately: "Although Mr. Liu was born as a propagandist, he also has some skills in managing refugee camps. A few years ago, the refugee camp in Fushan County was After similar incidents, a group of people mixed in to make trouble. It is said that Master Liu discovered the clues, dealt with them in time, and won the favor of General Chen by virtue of his performance during this period, and was later transferred Golden State takes office."

Sun Zhendao: "Master Liu also went to North Korea to assist in the management of refugee affairs last year. It seems that the superiors really trust his ability."

"Professional things are left to professional people. We caught everything we could. If there are still fish that slip through the net and go to Fushan County, then we will hand them over to the local officials." Gong Shiqi responded. On the contrary, he is very open, because he still has a reassurance here: "Don't forget that Director Hao of my security department is also in Fushan County. If you want to play tricks in front of him, it is no different from playing tricks in front of the class!"

Sun Zhen said with a smile: "I forgot about this! Well, I don't worry about it anymore, I just stay here and wait for the notification."

(End of this chapter)