Zhaojia Town is a big town, with more than 3,000 households and more than 10,000 people in the town.
As the name of Zhaojia Town suggests, most of the people in this town have the surname Zhao. There is a strong atmosphere of martial arts practice in the town. This is probably the reason why the Red Spear Club has been able to stand here for hundreds of years. Moreover, the construction of Zhaojia Town is also quite impressive.
It is an ancient style, surrounded by a three- to four-meter-high wall made of bluestone. There are people guarding it with spears. Therefore, it is more like a castle than a town.
It can be seen that the Red Spear Society is indeed the local overlord that has been entrenched in Zhaojia Town for a hundred years. As soon as Su Rui and others arrived outside Zhaojia Town, they saw figures flashing everywhere on the wall, and flashes could be seen from time to time.
A spear head with a cold light flashed somewhere. Su Rui estimated that there were at least a thousand young men armed with spears ambushing in the town.
Seeing the cold light flashing everywhere, Su Rui was not worried. Instead, he smiled at Zhao Xiajuan who was standing aside: "It seems that your old man is not very friendly to our arrival!"
Zhao Xiajuan curled her lips and said: "It's not because you national troops are scaring you. You national troops are bound to do no good when they come. They either levy food or conscript soldiers. If we weren't prepared, the Red Spear Association would have dispersed long ago."
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Su Rui touched his nose and stopped talking. After all, the reputation of the army is not very good these days. It can do anything to get rid of the enemy. It's hard to blame others for having objections to the national army.
"Just wait, I'll call the door for you!"
Zhao Xiajuan came to the gate and shouted: "First cousin, open the door quickly. There are officers from the national army here who are coming to visit our father."
There was no immediate answer on the city wall. After a while, a young man came to the top of the city and shouted: "Sister, your father said that in addition to our people, you are only allowed to bring three officers over.
The others can only stay outside and wait!"
"What?" Wu Chengfeng next to Su Rui was immediately annoyed. The Red Spear Club felt too good about itself. A place like a country rich man dared to let a colonel and brigade commander like Su Rui wait for him, and only allowed him to wait for him.
Send three in. Who do you think you are?
"Sir, for your safety, we must not listen to them. At least one battalion must be transferred in." Wu Chengfeng said worriedly from the side.
Unexpectedly, it attracted a look of disdain from Zhao Xiajuan who was standing beside her. Zhao Xiajuan said disdainfully: "Cowards, we in the Red Spear Club are all men with arms that can run horses. We will never do such dirty things."
"Not necessarily?" Wu Chengfeng retorted, "I wonder who was ambushing us by the roadside this morning?"
"you……"
Zhao Xiajuan couldn't help but was speechless for a moment, and said in an angry voice: "If you have the ability, let's go into the town and practice one-on-one. I want to see how much ability you have!"
"No need, I don't fight with women." Wu Chengfeng waved his hands disdainfully. Only a fool would do such a thing, which would be disgraceful to win and even more embarrassing to lose.
"You bastard!"
Zhao Xiajuan was so angry that she rolled up her sleeves and wanted to look good to this guy who had always been against her. In the end, Su Rui stopped them.
Just as the two guys were arguing, the castle gate opened.
A man in his thirties walked out of it. He was wearing a pair of hiking shoes and a set of black shorts. He looked very clean and neat.
As he approached, he quickly fixed his gaze on Su Rui, who was surrounded by the crowd like stars holding the moon. He cupped his hands and said, "I, Zhao Xiaotian, the vice president of the Zhao Family Red Spear Club, has met this officer. I am in the lower hall."
If I have offended my sister in any way, I hope you will forgive me, sir. I would like to apologize to you on behalf of my sister. I wonder what I call this sir?"
Zhao Xiaotian spoke in a typical Jianghu tone, which made Su Rui very uncomfortable and also made him curious about the Jianghu of this era.
He bowed his hands lightly and said, "Vice President Zhao, you're welcome. This is Su Rui, the commander of the 300th Brigade of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Army. Originally, I was busy with military affairs, so I didn't have time to come here to disturb you, but my sister leads the Red Spear Association.
People ambushed our convoy halfway, causing several brothers to be injured. Although I already understand that this is a misunderstanding, don't you, the Red Spear, need to give me an explanation?"
Facing Su Rui's domineering posture when he went straight in, and looking at the thousands of troops watching eagerly outside, Zhao Xiaotian could only hold up his hands and smile bitterly: "Everything is Zhao's fault. If you have anything to do, please go into the town and talk about it."
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Seeing that the other party was convinced, Su Rui didn't want to go too far, otherwise it would be very detrimental to his plan later. So he nodded, turned around and said, "Okay, Battalion Commander Wu, bring two people with you.
Come with me." After saying that, Su Rui also made a gesture to Bai Jingran on the other side.
"yes!"
Seeing that Su Rui had made up his mind, Wu Chengfeng had no choice but to lead two people and follow him. Bai Jingran, who was behind him, directed the troops to start their arrangements.
Entering the gate of the castle, Su Rui found an atmosphere that was completely different from the outside. The streets in Zhaojia Town were unexpectedly neat. Although the streets were not big, they were all paved with bluestones. They were exceptionally smooth and tidy. Walking on the streets
The pedestrians are also much stronger in spirit than most of the sallow and skinny people Su Rui sees these days.
Seeing this, Su Rui couldn't help but nodded secretly, this Zhaojia Town was managed very well.
While visiting and walking, the group soon came to an old house that looked very old. When Su Rui walked to the door, he saw a row of people standing in front of the door holding long guns and wearing the same clothes as Zhao Xiaotian.
They were wearing black shorts and looking at their heroic appearance, Su Rui knew that these people were definitely good businessmen. Although there was no evidence, Su Rui's intuition told him so.
There was an old man in his sixties at the door looking at his group with a smile. Su Rui knew that this was probably Zhao Xiajuan's father, Mr. Zhao.
Although Mr. Zhao is over sixty years old, he looks strong, with a straight back and bright eyes.
After seeing Su Rui and his entourage approaching, he immediately walked down the stairs and walked up to Su Rui and said loudly in a loud voice: "Sir, I have come a long way. I am sorry for the delay in greeting you, please forgive me!"
Su Rui also bowed his hand, "I don't dare to take it seriously. Su came here uninvited. I hope the old man won't be surprised!"
Mr. Zhao must be a cheerful person. He stretched out his hand and said, "Hahaha... Sir, I was joking. Please come in!"
Everyone entered the house and sat down in a hall. Mr. Zhao and Su Rui sat on the left and right respectively. After someone served tea, the two began to chat. Wu Chengfeng, two guards and Zhao Xiaotian
and Zhao Xiajuan stood behind them respectively.
After having finished talking about this, Mr. Zhao said with a smile: "Since this matter is a misunderstanding, in my opinion, this matter is over. I wonder what Mr. Su's intention is?"
Of course Su Rui has no objection. Anyway, his men were only slightly injured in today's conflict and no one died. On the contrary, a few of the other party's men were killed, but these days, those who dare to attack the army will die.
, do they still want the army to pay for their lives?
Su Rui then nodded: "Of course. Since it's a misunderstanding, it's natural to look forward. Of course I agree with you."
"Well...that's good, that's good!"
Mr. Zhao seemed to be in a good mood. He picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea and asked casually: "Sir Su is still young, but he is already commanding thousands of troops. He has to be admired. But you are alone.
During the war, your family must also be worried about you day and night. Who else is there in your family?"
Su Rui sighed softly, and after a while he said: "Alas... Mr. Su has put life and death aside ever since he put on this military uniform, but he still has... a grandfather and... and a good wife at home.
, there is no one else around."
Speaking of this, Su Rui thought of the grandfather and daughter-in-law of the guy he replaced. If he met them now, would he be exposed by them immediately? Although he was lucky enough to get through when he was in the 36th Division.
, but if you meet the grandfather who has been with you for decades and the daughter-in-law who sleeps with you, it will definitely be exposed.
Su Rui, who was full of thoughts, did not notice the fleeting look of disappointment flashing in Mr. Zhao's eyes at the side.
However, when people live to the age of Mr. Zhao, many things have already been ignored. He smiled randomly and said: "Sir Su, since you have come to our Zhaojia Town, it is fate. The young man has an unkind invitation here, but also
I hope you won’t be offended.”
Su Rui's eyes narrowed, then he smiled randomly and said: "Oh? Please tell me, as long as it does not violate the laws of the Republic of China and I can do it, I will never refuse!"
"This little fox!"
Mr. Zhao cursed secretly in his heart, but still said with a smile on his face: "That's right, I have two things to trouble Mr. Su, I hope you won't be offended!"
Suri nodded: "Please speak!"
Mr. Zhao said: "You also know the current situation. There are wars and chaos everywhere. The Japanese are about to attack, but we in Zhaojia Town have no firearms except some local guns.
If the Japanese come over, we can't let us use long guns and foreign guns and cannons to fight with the Japanese, right?
So the first thing I want to do is to ask the chief to sell some guns to our Red Spear Club at a good price. Just ask. Although our Zhaojia Town is not rich, we can still afford the money to buy guns."
"You want to buy a gun?" A look of embarrassment appeared on Su Rui's face, "Mr. Zhao, you don't know that buying and selling guns is against military regulations. If the superiors find out, I won't be able to bear the consequences.
Walk."
Mr. Zhao waved his hand and said, "Please let me finish the second thing."
"Speaking!"
Mr. Zhao smiled and said: "The second thing..."
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