Luo Yue frowned and said, "Who are these people, are they bandits?"

Qian Guoyu said: "It's hard to say, we haven't seen what bandits look like, but if they are really bandits, then we can't let them go, they want to make trouble on our land, and they don't even have a door." ”

Luo Yue said: "But if it is a bandit, then the difference between the armaments of these two bandits is too big, but whether it is a bandit or not, we must strengthen vigilance, and when they walk a hundred meters away from us, shoot to warn." ”

At this time, the group of people who fled was less than 150 meters away from the KPA cordon, and at this time, three or four people had been shot down by the pursuers behind, and they did not know whether they were alive or dead. I heard one of the taller men shouting, "Quick, go into the woods and go up the mountain, after we enter the woods, they won't be able to beat us." ”

And at this moment, among the people's troops on guard in the forest, a person suddenly stood up violently and shouted: "Is it Big Li, Brother Li?"

As soon as he finished shouting, Qian Guoyu's face suddenly sank, and he said sharply: "Jiang Haidong, what are you doing?"

It turned out that the person who shouted was Jiang Haidong, who was a supplementary soldier of the first battalion, and turned out to be one of the former Boxer members who were hiding in the Laoshan area, and after the People's Army was stationed in the Laoshan area, they had asked them to lead the way. Because he learned that the People's Army was here to fight the Germans, Jiang Haidong and 12 others were willing to join the People's Army. At the beginning, they followed the artillery battalion to work, several people to show very hard work, quite praised, after the People's Army captured Qingdao, urgently need to replenish the source of troops, so Jiang Haidong and others scattered to join the People's Army, because Jiang Haidong participated in the Boxer Rebellion, practiced martial arts for more than a year, strong body, can also a few strokes, so was assigned to a battalion.

Hearing Qian Guoyu's reprimand, Jiang Haidong also knew that he had violated discipline, although he had not joined the People's Army for a long time, but he also knew that the People's Army attached great importance to military discipline, so he knew that he was ashamed, and he lowered his head and did not dare to meet Qian Guoyu's gaze.

However, Jiang Haidong's shouting had already alarmed the group of people who fled, and the big man immediately stopped, looked around, and shouted: "I am Li Zhuangyong Li Big Man, is that brother?"

At this time, Luo Yue said: "Jiang Haidong, do you know this person?"

Jiang Haidong didn't dare to raise his head, but he still replied: "Yes, his name is Li Zhuangyong, nicknamed Li Da Xiao, he is my brother when he was in the group before, and now he must be being hunted down by the government, please ask the battalion commander to save them." ”

Luo Yue looked up and looked again, and said, "Platoon Commander Qian, you take a team, advance 30 meters, go to pick them up, and find out who is chasing them next, but try not to conflict with them, I will cover you here." He pointed at Jiang Haidong again and said, "Take him with you too." ”

Qian Guoyu glared at Jiang Haidong fiercely, and said, "Let's go, I'll settle accounts with you when this matter is over, wait for the punishment, the first group will come with me." ”

At this time, the gunshots continued under the mountain, and among the people who fled, two more people were killed, and Li Zhuangyong, who shouted just now, was also quite anxious, because someone just shouted the nickname "Li Da Da", only the brothers of the former Boxers knew this nickname, so they thought that they had met the brothers of the former Boxers, and now they could be saved, and the other party only shouted, and there was no response, and the chasing soldiers behind were coming, Li Zhuangyong was so anxious that he shouted again:" The brother who shouted just now, I am Li Zhuangyong, if the brother doesn't come out again, we won't ......."

Before the words fell, I heard a person emerge from the woods in front of me and said, "Brother Li, I'm Jiang Haidong, come over here." ”

Li Zhuangyong was stunned at first, and then said with great joy: "It turned out to be Brother Haidong, you are here, it's really good, brothers, come over here." ”

At this time, there were only a dozen people left around Li Zhuangyong, and they all hurriedly followed Li Zhuangyong into the woods. Li Zhuangyong rushed to Jiang Haidong in a few steps and laughed: "Brother Jiang, I didn't expect to meet you here, why are you here?"

Jiang Haidong said: "This is a long story, I ......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Qian Guoyu and said: "Jiang Haidong, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and tell them all to hide themselves, and the people behind will catch up." ”

Jiang Haidong heard this, and hurriedly said, "Yes, platoon commander." Then he said to Li Zhuangyong: "Brother Li, hurry up and tell the brothers to hide, the people behind have already caught up, and other things will be talked about later." Although Li Zhuangyong had something to ask, he also knew that now was indeed not the time to talk about these things, so he hurriedly beckoned everyone else to hide.

After Qian Guoyu finished speaking, he immediately ordered a soldier to fire a warning shot at the sky. The soldier raised his rifle and fired three shots into the air.

Sure enough, after the gunshots rang out, the pursuing group immediately stopped the pursuit and hurriedly found a place to hide, but the action was quite chaotic, and it seemed that it was not a regular army. If the KPA had opened fire at this time, it would have killed many of them. However, without knowing the identities of these people, Luo Yue naturally did not want to easily cause trouble, so he did not shoot, but let the other party hide.

After a long while, after all the people on the other side had found a cover and hidden, someone said loudly: "On the other side is a friend on that mountain, why do you want to shelter the boxers, this is a capital crime." ”

Qian Guoyu snorted and said, "Who are you, report your name first." ”

The other party quickly responded, saying: "We are from Wangjiabao, our old man is the famous Wang San master in this area, if you know the image, quickly hand over those boxing bandits, there will be nothing to do with you, if you must protect those boxing bandits, then don't blame us for being polite, guns don't have long eyes." ”

In fact, Qian Guoyu didn't know what Wangjiazhai was, he just wanted to find out the origin of the other party and then inquire slowly, at this time Jiang Haidong came to his side and said: "Platoon commander, you must not hand over people to them, Wangjiazhai is a famous Yanwangzhai in the Jiaozhou area, if you hand over people to them, you will definitely die." ”

Qian Guoyu glared at him and said, "Don't talk nonsense, I know it in my heart." ”

At this time, Luo Yue's voice came from the earphones: "Don't hand people over to them, let the people of Wangjiazhai leave, but be careful that they fire first." ”

It turned out that their conversation, Luo Yue basically heard it clearly, even if the other party's attitude was polite, it was impossible for Luo Yue to hand over people to them without figuring out the details of Li Zhuangyong and others, not to mention that the other party's attitude was so bad, although Luo Yue didn't know the details of Wangjiazhai, but listening to the other party's tone, he was quite arrogant, obviously not a kind person, it is estimated that it should be a force like a landlord and bully in this area, this kind of person was originally the target of the traverser's key attack, and it was naturally impossible to hand over people.

It's just that before getting the order from the headquarters, Luo Yue didn't want to make more trouble, so he still let the other party live, if the other party left like this, Luo Yue didn't plan to pursue it more, but went back and reported to the headquarters, and the headquarters decided to act.

And after hearing Luo Yue's instructions, Qian Guoyu immediately said: "People won't give it to you, now you give me to get out of the way immediately, otherwise don't blame our subordinates for being ruthless, just your twenty or so people are not enough for us to stuff our teeth." It turned out that the other party's threatening words just now made Qian Guoyu's heart very unhappy, so when he replied, he also choked the other party.

The other party obviously didn't expect the attitude of this group of people to harden up, the three shots of the previous warning of the People's Army did make the other party have a lot of jealousy, after all, both sides have guns, and no one can occupy the Bian, so the other party does not want to really clash with the People's Army, as long as they can catch a few people who are being pursued by them.

After listening to Qian Guoyu's rather provocative reply, the other party paused for a moment before saying: "So, the friend on the other side is determined to protect the boxers, this is not ......"

Before he finished speaking, another voice sounded in the opposing formation: "Don't talk nonsense, if you don't hand over people, you will start fighting, until they hand over people, brothers, open fire to me." As he spoke, he only heard a "bang", and the other side hit him, but he didn't know where it went.

In fact, Luo Yue is only a 23-year-old young man, his anger is not small, but his personality has always been stable, and he is a battalion commander, of course, he should be calm, but since the other party fired first and provoked the war, Luo Yue was not polite. In fact, he has been aiming at the other party, although the other party's people are looking for a place to hide, but there are actually many places exposed, after all, the other party's people are all holding rifles, ready to shoot, and the distance between the two sides is less than 200 meters, with Luo Yue's marksmanship, at this distance is almost a hundred shots.

"Bang!"

A man who was hiding behind a stone with a rifle on top of it didn't even snort, and his head tilted and he died, except for a bloody hole in his forehead.

Luo Yue's firing was also an order to the People's Army to fire, so the other soldiers opened fire one after another, and the other party also fired back.

The number of people on the other side is more than 20, and the People's Army plus Luo Yue and Qian Guoyu are only 14 people, it should be said that the other side has a very obvious advantage in numbers, but after the two sides opened fire, the firepower of the People's Army completely suppressed the other side.

It turned out that the opponent's rifle was a single-shot rifle, and the People's Army's Mauser Type 98 rifle was designed with a magazine, which could be loaded with 5 rounds at a time, plus one round in the barrel, a total of 6 consecutive shots could be carried out, so the firepower of the two sides was not at the same level at all, not to mention that there were two QZ95 assault rifles in the People's Army formation, Luo Yue and Qian Guoyu. As a result, although the KPA was small in numbers, its firepower was actually more than four or five times that of the other side, which was enough to suppress the other side.