The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 205 You are exposed
After hearing this, Sun Zhengnan just smiled and didn't respond. Instead, he called on these frozen brothers to run over there.

Because they had money on them, they found a family to take them in without much effort.

"Come home and give us some food and drink."

After receiving the money, the man happily asked his wife to go to the village to borrow food. However, Jiang Cheng dragged Hai Pingchuan out of the village. After a while, they brought back two wild rabbits and threw them to the man.

After huddling on the heated kang for a while, they gradually regained some color. Wu Taixun rubbed his hands and said, "Feilan, I really admire you. You followed my dad to Jilin Province to fight bandits. You must have been freezing, right?"

Isn’t that right?
But many brothers have been frozen and frostbitten. I have a large patch of frostbite on my big toe now...

Jiang Cheng pretended not to care, spread out the map on the table and took the oil lamp from the bedside: "I just asked the man, we are now close to Goubangzi County, at most three and a half miles away."

"I've thought about it again and again, and I think we still have to stay near Goubangzi and then go to Jinzhou."

He scratched his hair and continued, "I now finally understand why Instructor Guo left so much time... He must have calculated that something bad would happen in the Jinzhou section, so we have to rush to Jinzhou in our own way."

Once they arrive in Jinzhou, it will be the territory of the fifth brother Zhang Jinghui. With Zhang Hanqing's status, it will be no problem for him to get a team of soldiers to escort them to Shanhaiguan.

"So according to what you said, the real test for us is the journey to Jinzhou?"

Zhang Hanqing nodded meaningfully, "Okay, then we'll go to Goubangzi early tomorrow morning to find a car!"

Bao Yulin was shocked: "You can't go! Now the commander wants to recruit them, and if you fall into their hands, you will become a hostage."

Sun Zhengnan interrupted and said, "Everyone, I think it's better for Fei Lanpingchuan and I to find a car. The cadet uniforms you're wearing are too eye-catching."

"This is truly a collective action. We're bound to be targeted."

Jiang Cheng looked at him meaningfully again, smiled calmly and said, "Okay, take a break after dinner;"

"When it gets light, we'll do as Brother Sun said and go find a car."

As they were chatting, the cornmeal porridge and fried rabbit meat were ready. They were all starving, so they ate the cold noodles and pancakes they brought with them, then spread out their bedding and went to sleep.

Until now, those wealthy young men who have lived a comfortable life have never suffered such a hardship.
They had to sit on hard seats and escape from bandits; they had to sleep on the big earthen kang in the countryside which was cold, hard, smoky and hot... Everyone except Zhang Hanqing was complaining.

Jiang Cheng took things as they came and soon began to snore loudly. At daybreak he woke Hai Pingchuan and Sun Zhengnan up.

After quickly packing up their things, the three of them changed into casual clothes and tiptoed out.

After a whole night of hard work, these guys are still asleep. It will take at least an hour or two to find a car, so let them catch up on some sleep.

After asking the man the direction to the city, they quickly walked along the country road towards Goubangzi County.

"You are the one assigned by Chief of Staff Yang, right?"

When they could see the county town in the distance, Jiang Cheng suddenly said to Sun Zhengnan, "Oh, I knew that Master Shuai must be worried."

After a brief surprise, Sun Zhengnan responded immediately: "Good tricks! You are worthy of being the one that both the commander-in-chief and the chief of staff like."

"But I want to ask you, Feilan, how did you find out?" Glancing at the shocked Hai Pingchuan, Jiang Cheng shook his head and smiled, "Actually, I've always been a little confused. Why is it such a coincidence that you can meet someone from the same hometown when you strike up a conversation, and you can hear Guo Guizi's conversation."

"Besides, you were calm and collected last night, and you led us to a village in the middle of the night."

At this point, Jiang Cheng suddenly reached out and grabbed his right wrist, taking off his leather gloves. "And this gun callus, does that explain the problem?"

Sun Zhengnan was startled by his action, and put on his gloves with an awkward smile: "So, then you can tell from these alone that I was sent by the Chief of Staff?"

Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "You have calluses on your hands, but you also have a scholarly air; just like my brother Chao Liu...more or less similar."

"Besides, Guo Guizi will definitely report the plans for studying abroad and actual combat to the General Staff. My grandfather often told me that if we encounter a strong enemy, we have to run away. If we take Han Qing with us, how can we not have someone keep an eye on him along the way?"

Sun Zhengnan looked at him with a little respect: "It really lives up to his reputation. It was the commander who arranged for me to come here, but I am indeed from the General Staff... The Chief of Staff also gave the nod."

Jiang Cheng kept walking quickly and said, "I think Mr. Shuai is worrying too much."

"With my intelligence and vision, I can spot you as a fake. Guo Guizi is so smart... It's very likely that he told Staff Officer He to get off the car at Goubangzi just for you."

"Besides, he arranged for us to go out and study, not to risk our lives—"

"He should have arranged a 'leader' in each carriage in case of emergency... The fact that there is no leader among us only represents a possibility,"

"He had guessed it a long time ago and was sure that the General Staff or the commander must have arranged for this."

Sun Zhengnan didn't say anything, but Hai Pingchuan was a little unhappy when he heard it: "What a damn Guo devil! If Master Shuai doesn't make any arrangements, forget about us, but if something really happens to Han Qing, can he take the responsibility?"

Sun Zhengnan smiled bitterly: "Hey, he was spreading fake news to me at Fengtian Railway Station. He must have discovered me!"

Jiang Cheng turned his head and looked at this honest and straightforward brother: "Don't forget, in addition to Staff Officer He, there are two assistant teachers——"

This was the so-called double insurance: if there was no such imperial envoy, Guo Maochen would definitely let He Yongqing or one of the two teaching assistants secretly follow them;

After all, the young master of the governor's family is no joke.

Soon they entered the city: as expected, there were armed insurance teams in the county town;
The governor of Fengtian Province is Zhang Yuting. Logically speaking, all the troops in the territory should be under his jurisdiction.

But this is only in theory. Except for larger cities such as Fengtian, Jinzhou, and Fushun, which have the "Fengtian Army" under his jurisdiction, all counties, large and small, have their own private armed forces.

Let's talk about Xinmin, not to mention the distant past. Father Jiang Lanxuan was not under his jurisdiction before... So since the Marshal took the top position last year, he began to rely on these big cities and began to "negotiate" and "recruit" them one after another.
They can even use the method of beating them until they are subdued to take control of these individual armed forces.

Goubangzi County was obviously one of them, and from Jiang Cheng's point of view, this group of people were well-equipped and well-trained. It would not be easy for Zhang Jinghui, who had just secured his position in Jinzhou, to eat them up.

But this is none of my business right now. Our purpose of going into the city is to find a car as soon as possible.

Not only do I not want to delay the gathering, I also want to get the "first place"!

(End of this chapter)