Chapter Fourteen: Yamaguchi

  "Was it here that you caught your last fish?" Ruan Yi stood by the stream, looking at Long Chen who was holding a double-headed fishing rod.

  "You can also think of me as being dug out from the earth, I don't object."

  Long Chen stood on the rock and quietly observed for a while, discovering that there were indeed many fewer fish here, and this area was completely still.

  Also, how many fish can this stream raise? To know that Liu Dezhong in order to curry favor with Mao Youjun, he came here "sweeping" every three or five days. The other day, Long Chen led Hu Meng and others to come here and caught more than a dozen fish. I estimate that the "fish household" in this small stream has already become "ten rooms and nine empty".

  "Hey, don't act like nothing's wrong, okay? You go upstream and I'll go downstream. Let's see who catches more fish."

  "What am I supposed to tie with? That pointed stick of yours is quite convenient, anyway it has a sharp head on both ends, can you spare half for me?" Ruan Yi pointed at the pointed stick in Long Chen's hand.

  "Isn't that thing on your back more suitable for you to carry?" Long Chen gave Rang Yi a white eye, jokingly splitting the sharp stick in two. How short would it have to be? Wouldn't he himself have to use a dagger to stab fish?

  "I told you, my gun, once it's out, it must see blood." Ruan Yi smiled, he wasn't willing to use his life-relying-on gun as a fishing spear.

  Long Chen held the pointed rod in his hand, turned around and walked downstream, but still didn't forget to turn back and shout: "I don't believe that with one shot, what flows out of the fish's belly is old white wine."

  Tieshan is called a mountain, but the terrain is not actually treacherous. The road up the mountain is actually an open area, which can be considered a slope, enough to accommodate hundreds of people rushing together. Unlike other mountains, where the roads are rugged and narrow, with some places only allowing one person to pass through sideways, that's what truly deserves to be called a heavenly hazard.

  Although Long Chen thinks that Tieshan Troop is like a guerrilla, Tieshan Troop is not a real guerrilla in the true sense of the word after all. This troop was registered with the Ministry of War.

  Counting Mao Zunjun's direct subordinates, the entire Tieshan department has around 800 people. Naturally, they had to choose a relatively open area to build their camp. If it were just over ten people with a few big knives, they could have gone into any mountain cave.

  Actually, since being carried up the mountain by Hu Meng after crossing over, Long Chen had never come down from the mountain. At this time, walking along the stream for a while, he found that the further downstream he went, the shallower the water became. Probably because there was an underground cave or the terrain was relatively empty, until he walked to the very bottom, where the stream had only a shallow pool of water left.

  "It's no use catching fish anymore, this little water can only raise tadpoles." Long Chen let out a breath, feeling that he had made a wasted trip.

  He inserted the sharp stick into a nearby stone peak, and Long Chen stretched his waist, "I don't know if Ran Yi is willing to use his treasured long gun to catch fish."

  Just as Long Chen was stretching his waist, three armored warriors suddenly appeared on the rocky outcropping in front of him, each drawing their bows and taking aim at Long Chen.

  Long Chen had no choice but to continue stretching his waist, lest he cause a misunderstanding. In fact, Long Chen had already discovered the hidden whistle here earlier, and the rock wall below was obviously darker in color than the surrounding rocks. It was impossible for water and rain to drip alone there, forming an imprint. That was urine stain, it must have been "watered" frequently for some time to have such a dark mark, and it was very civilized to stare at one place, that is, human.

  But even if you find out that there is a trap there, you can't do anything about it and still have to pretend not to notice. Are you going to go over and say hello?

  Before long, a team of soldiers also walked out behind Long Chen, one of whom looked like a small flag officer and walked to Long Chen's side, asking in a low voice: "Who is it?"

  Soldier.

  Except for Mao Youjun's direct troops, the rest of the Iron Mountain Department had relatively few armored soldiers. Generally, only low-ranking officers like Xiao Qi wore a set of cotton armor. Most soldiers just put their armor in a pile with the refugees and then went to "escape". Long Chen was only wearing a jacket and long pants, and Hu Meng naturally didn't have a second set of cotton armor for him to wear.

  "Report your own affiliation." The small flag commanded in a cold voice.

  "Ma Baihu's subordinate general flag officer Long Chen." Long Chen was very disgusted with the other party's attitude, but still reported his own affiliation, after all, this was also within the other party's duties.

  "Long Chen?" The little flag touched his chin and gave a wink to the soldier beside him, "Go call Xu Cheng over to take a look, is it that Long Chen."

  The soldier nodded and ran off, soon returning with another soldier, who was naturally Xu Cheng.

  Xu Cheng looked at Long Chen for a moment before nodding towards the small flag and saying, "It's undoubtedly General Long's flag."

  That little flag heard this, and only then did it put away the coldness on its face, becoming somewhat more enthusiastic. "Dragon General Flag, I am Song Gang, a low-ranking officer directly under Military Officer Xiao Qi. I was rude to you just now, please forgive me."

  Mao Youjun's direct military position was relatively transcendent, and the small flag inside had a similar status to Long Chen's general flag officer, so Song Gang did not perform subordinate courtesy.

  This is also reasonable, looking at the soldiers in their hands, armor is strict, this is a real team that can fight. Long Chen thought that if he and Ruan Yi did not participate, just take the small flag of others to compete with the five small flags under his own hand, he would have no chance of winning. Since then, don't expect others to be more respectful to you.

  "It's nothing, it's also Brother Song's responsibility." Long Chen wasn't someone who didn't know what was good for him. Since the other party had apologized for his previous offense after understanding his identity, there was no need to pursue the matter further.

  "Heh heh, if it weren't for the fact that I'm in charge of a law enforcement team under my command, having met Commander Long before, this matter would indeed be quite troublesome. Are you planning to come out of retirement?"

  The soldiers in the law enforcement team are all on duty from Mao Youjun's direct army, after all, you need to rely on these fierce soldiers to hold the scene. This Xu Cheng should have been seen by Long Chen when he accompanied Liu Zong to come before.

  "Go down the mountain? Can we just go down the mountain?" Long Chen was puzzled, could this military camp be so easy to enter and exit?

  "We're the ones in charge of the rear mountain, just my brother and another small flag team. We're all on our own, so if someone comes out of the mountain to cause trouble, can't we brothers give each other a bit of convenience?" Song Gang patted his chest lightly, quite righteous.

  The officers and soldiers are also human, how can they be like monkeys hiding in the mountains all the time? How can they spend their salary? Sometimes at the main gate of the camp, there will be some peddlers carrying a little liquor to sell. Generally, those who sit above the general flag have face and go down from the back mountain to buy things in nearby Korean towns. Of course, if you let them go, when they come up again, they also have to give these brothers guarding the back mountain a share, this is also an unwritten rule.

  And every time you go down, there can't be many people, at most two people, and the interval between times is not allowed to exceed one day, that is, if you go down the mountain now, you must come back before dawn tomorrow.

  Song Gang whispered to Long Chen, who also smiled and nodded. It turned out that there was such a rule. The news of Long Chen's fight with Zhou Kefeng and Lu Han had spread throughout the direct army, and the general also highly appreciated him. It is estimated that this guy will definitely enter the general's direct army in the future. Since they would be brothers-in-arms in the future, Song Gang was particularly enthusiastic towards Long Chen at this time.

  "Long Zongqi, since you won't come down from the mountain, what are you doing running here?" The back of the mountain is quiet, but there's nothing good to come for.

  "To be honest with you, I originally wanted to catch a few fish and head back, but who knew that following the stream all the way down would lead me to this mountain pass."

  "Heh heh, I said so too. Some time ago, Liu Dage also often caught fish and walked all the way down. It's just that now it's winter, the creek water in the back mountain has become shallow, and by the time it gets to our place, there's basically no water left. So I haven't seen Liu Dage for a while either."

  Song Gang's mention of Liu Dage's fishing is actually referring to Liu Dezhong. It seems that Liu Dezhong has put in some effort to cater to the general's appetite.

  "This little stream has also been exhausted by me and Liu, I haven't seen a single fish all the way down. But I did discover something else that made me happier than the fish."

  "What's that? Did you discover something under the Dragon General Flag?" Song Gang was surprised, this place behind the mountain was said to be so barren that even birds wouldn't shit here, except for a small stream where there might be some fish jumping around, everywhere else was just bare rocks.

  "Brother, can you lend me some personal money?"

  Song Gang hesitated for a moment, "Borrowing Dragon General's flag is no big deal, I'm more worried about it. Xu Cheng, follow Dragon General's flag later and do whatever he tells you to do, got it?"

  Xu Cheng promised.