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Ahem!
After just one puff, Li Kaiyang started coughing.
After Jia Liu noticed it, he smiled and asked, "General Li doesn't know how to smoke?"
"Once raw and twice cooked, just smoke it a few more times and it will be better." When Li Kaiyang spoke, white mist-like smoke came out of his mouth.
Jia Liu smiled and said: "I still have some crushed tobacco here. I will give it to you later. From now on, we will be smoking buddies. Unlike him, he doesn't like to appreciate such good things."
As he said that, he glanced at Feng Changcai next to him.
"If you take a puff of a cigarette, what's the point of smoking? That's why you treat it like a treasure." Feng Changcai replied with a smile.
Jia Liu blew out a puff of smoke from his mouth and said with a smile: "Deputy Master Gao also smokes, and now there is another General Li, that is, you, who does not understand the beauty of smoking."
"Hey, hey, hey, you smoke here, I'll go out and take a look." After saying that, Feng Changcai stood up from his seat and walked out of the tent.
Seeing that Feng Changcai didn't like the smell of cigarettes, Li Kaiyang hurriedly said: "Since Chief of Staff Feng doesn't like it, I will kill it right now."
As a newcomer who was about to join the Tiger Banner, he didn't want to offend an important general in the Tiger Banner's army as soon as he arrived, so he quickly reached out to extinguish the sparks in his pipe.
"No, no, you smoke. I have something to do and it has nothing to do with your smoking." Feng Changcai waved to Li Kaiyang and left the tent immediately.
Li Kaiyang holds a pipe in his hand, whether he smokes it temporarily or not.
"Don't worry about him, let's smoke ours. He is not lucky enough to enjoy such a good thing." Jia Liu greeted Li Kaiyang warmly and continued smoking.
Li Kaiyang hesitated for a moment.
The General Jia in front of him was one of the first batch of old men from the Tiger Flag who followed Liu Heng. He didn't want to offend him for this trivial matter, so he picked up his pipe and continued smoking.
After taking a few puffs, although I didn’t feel that there was any enjoyment in smoking, it was not like the first puff that made me choke and cough.
"Hasn't General Li ever been exposed to tobacco before?" Jia Liu asked casually.
Li Kaiyang glanced at the pipe in his hand and said, "I have come across it a few times before, but I have never smoked it myself. I have seen others smoke this thing."
Tobacco has been sold in the Ming Dynasty a long time ago. Before the intervention of the Tiger Character Banner, the amount of tobacco sold was not large, especially in the north of the Ming Dynasty. Only the powerful and wealthy gentry could afford to smoke.
As the deputy commander-in-chief of Yansui Town, he had been an official in Datong for many years before, and he saw smoking officials and wealthy gentry more than once.
However, although he had come into contact with officials and gentry who smoked, he did not like this thing himself. If he did not want to get closer to the Jia Shizheng in front of him, he would not accept the pipe offered by him at all.
While the two people were fuming, the big tent was opened from the outside, and several people walked in.
"General Li, do you know this guy?"
The person who came back was Feng Changcai, who had just left the tent. He pointed at a prisoner behind him with his hands tied.
Li Kaiyang looked over.
"Liu Chun!"
When he saw the prisoners being escorted into the tent, he exclaimed.
Feng Changcai said with a smile: "It's good that General Li knows him. It means he didn't arrest the wrong person. This guy is Liu Chun, the commander of the Yulin Guards. He put on civilian clothes and tried to escape, but was caught by a corps commander from the Second Battle Barracks." Right on."
The following words were said to Jia Liu.
"Deputy General Li didn't expect you to actually defect to them." When Liu Chun saw Li Kaiyang smoking in the tent, the bitterness on his face flashed across his face.
Although he had long known that Li Kaiyang had defected to the Tiger Flag, when he saw it with his own eyes, he felt mixed emotions.
Jia Liu knocked the ashes from his pipe and asked casually: "Did Wu Zimian, the commander-in-chief of Yansui, catch him?"
"Run away." Feng Changcai said, "The general soldier of Yansui Town abandoned the city directly from the west gate and fled. The cavalry has been sent to catch him."
Jia Liu said contemptuously: "He can run very fast."
He was somewhat disappointed because he failed to capture the commander-in-chief of Yansui Town and the personal army division failed to do its full work.
"Jia Shizheng, can I ask what you will do with Liu Chun next?" Li Kaiyang asked cautiously.
It was because of him that Liu Chun came to Yulin City from Yulin Guard to participate in the defense of the city. Now that he was arrested, he couldn't bear to see Liu Chun killed.
Liu Chun, who had his hands tied, also looked at Jia Liu expectantly.
He knew that the Jia Shizheng in front of him was the bandit commander who had broken into Yulin City. Whether he could survive or not all depended on the opponent's attitude.
Jia Liu glanced at Liu Chundao and said, "Whether he dies or not depends on him."
"I am willing to join you. As long as you don't kill me, I can do things for you." Liu Chun knew that his chance to survive was right in front of him, and he immediately knelt on the ground and begged for a life.
Li Kaiyang felt a little distressed when he saw a third-grade guard commander looking like this.
He then said: "If he can come forward at the Yulin Guards, the army can take Yulin Fort without any blood."
"Yes, yes, yes, I can help you capture Yulin Fort, and I know where Yansui Commander-in-Chief Wu Zimian escaped." Liu Chun kept emphasizing in front of everyone that he was still useful.
Jia Liu looked thoughtful.
Feng Changcai on the side asked Liu Chun, "Where did Wu Zimian escape?"
"Well," Liu Chun hesitated for a moment, then said immediately, "if I tell you other than his whereabouts, can you let me go?"
When Feng Changcai heard this, his face sank and he said, "It's not your turn to bargain here."
He had already made a cross in his heart for Liu Chun's ignorance of life and death.
"Hurry up and tell me, do you really want to wait until the head is moved before you tell me?" Li Kaiyang was furious when he saw that Liu Chun was still making his own plans at this time.
Liu Chun realized that he had blackmailed the wrong person, so he quickly changed his words and said, "I said, I said, Wu Zimian escaped to Fushi."
"How do you know he escaped to Fushi?" Feng Changcai asked.
Liu Chun said: "There is still a group of troops in Yansui Town that are suppressing bandits in the Luochuan area. The leader of the army is General You Shichang. This person always obeys Wu Zimian's orders, so Wu Zimian had no choice but to escape to Fushi. Only by contacting You Shichang can he have troops at his disposal."
"Bring the map?" Feng Changcai ordered his guard.
The guard took out a map from his satchel and spread it on the only table in the tent.
Li Kaiyang was sitting next to the table and recognized at a glance that it was a drawing of the entire territory of Shaanxi, and the entire picture of Shaanxi on it was clearer than any drawing he had ever seen before.
"This is Fushi, this is Luochuan, Wang Er, Wang Jiayin and others are in this area." Feng Changcai pointed at the Luochuan area on the map.
Jia Liu looked at the map and said, "First send a group of troops to Ansai."
"I'll make arrangements." Feng Changcai nodded.
