Remnants of Section 129

"How much effort we have spent on handling Li affairs and doing so much work in Lingao, of course it will be calm. This is not Lingao. Yu Zhiqian said, "I don't think you can take this matter too lightly." ”

While they were talking, a soldier suddenly rushed in:

"Report" he hurriedly saluted, "the team in Zhaopu Village may have an accident"

"What?" Both men shouted at the same time.

The information was provided from a long-range patrol who, while carrying out a routine patrol, noticed a large amount of smoke in this direction.

It's the rainy season, the climate is humid, and wildfires are rare. Therefore, the captain sent sharp soldiers to investigate, and encountered a large number of artificially cut and piled up trees on the mountain road to Zhaopu Village. The captain judged that there was a serious incident in the direction of Zhaopu Village, and while trying to open the way, he sent people back to urgently ask for help.

"Quick, play the assembly drum" Yu Zhiqian hurriedly ordered, "All the light infantry companies are assembled"

Liu Yixiao ordered a health team to be immediately dispatched with the army. He himself was belted with arms.

"What, you're going to go in person?"

"yes, I'll have to see for myself." Liu Yixiao realized that something was wrong. He was anxious to find out what was really going on at the scene.

"The situation is unknown, you can't go." Yu Zhiqian stopped him, "You are the first commander here in Danzhou, and you have a heavy responsibility, let the commander of the company go with the walkie-talkie." ”

So it was decided that Lin Shenhe would lead the team. He was in the tent and had an in-depth discussion with the confidential officer on some issues related to his work, and he was talking about entering the port. The herald coughed outside the tent:

"Company Commander"

"What's the matter?" Lin Shenhe leaned out of the officer's personal tent for a long time.

"The battalion commander asks you to go, there is an order"

"I'll go."

Ten minutes later, he arrived at the headquarters in a neat and well-dressed uniform.

"Here's the trouble." Yu Zhiqian explained the task to him, "You take the light infantry company to check it out." Report anything immediately via the intercom. ”

"Where is Teruiura?"

"Here," Yu Zhiqian drew a circle on the glass plate of the large map, "the road is very difficult to walk, beware of being ambushed on the way." ”

"Okay, I'll get ready, and I'll be on my way in fifteen minutes."

Lin Shenhe led the light infantry company to drive more than ten miles, and then opened the road in the mountains to move wood, and finally opened the passage and rushed to Wangpu Village.

The smoke had cleared, black smoke was still rising from the camp, and the lookout had completely burned down, leaving only the charred remains of wooden pillars standing. The camp was littered with corpses. The bodies were all uniformed, and some had their heads cut off. Lin Shenhe held back his nausea and looked around, and saw that all those heads were hanging on the gate of the camp.

More than a dozen corpses were neatly left in the middle of the camp, but it seemed that they had no signs of battle, could it be that they were captured and killed? Although there were marks of spear stabbing and slashing on his body, not much blood was shed.

A woman in a gray uniform is curled up in a trench with her head hanging over her chest. A terrible cut was made in her throat, and a blood-stained bayonet fell into her hand. This is probably Liu Bin - she is the only woman on the task force's list.

"Did you live?"

"Nope." Sergeant Lian reported, "But the number of corpses is not right." Only twenty bodies were recovered. The task force should consist of thirty-five members. ”

Has anyone escaped? Lin Shenhe quickly denied this idea, and if he escaped, it should have appeared by now. Maybe it was captured. That's when he noticed that there were marks of dirt on the ground.

Soon, they exhumed another fifteen corpses, and Lin Shenhe took a cursory look at them and found that except for a few people, there were no external injuries on the corpses.

Then, some of the personal belongings of the team and soldiers that had been buried were found, and Lin Shenhe noticed that there were many scattered paper ashes in the camp, which must be the remnants of burned documents.

"Report to the company commander, we found the wreckage of 18 rifles, and all the other rifles and pistols are missing."

"Where's the ammunition?"

"There was no trace of any ammunition, probably all of it was taken."

Not a single round of Mini rifles could be found at the scene, and Lin Shenhe did not think that the team would have time to exhaust all the ammunition rations of 100 rounds per person. Most of them were taken by the attackers.

"It's a big problem." He sighed.

17 Mini rifles, if each with 50 rounds, would be enough to get them into a lot of trouble. Lin Shenhe didn't think that the other party would ever learn the Mini rifle - many natives had seen the loading method during shooting drills.

"There's a lot of Minnie on the ground, company commander," one of the soldiers suddenly cried.

Lin Shenhe squatted down and paid attention, and sure enough, there were many Mini warheads scattered on the ground. He picked one up and looked at it, the projectile showed no signs of rubbing against the rifling, but it was charred. He searched around a little further, and finally found the spot where the ammunition had been lit. There were still a lot of Minnie bullets in the ash heap that hadn't been blown up.

"Fortunately," he secretly cried out to himself as a fluke - the soldiers had faithfully fulfilled their original oath of enlistment: "Never leave weapons for the enemy."

"Pack everything up as soon as possible, even the wreckage. As long as we can recognize our body, we will take it back and be cremated. ”

He sent a squad to the nearby village to search, but only found a few old men and women who did not escape, they were so frightened that they couldn't say anything, and it took a while for Lin Shenhe to know the general story of the incident from their mouths.

But he never understood that with the strength of a platoon, it would not be a problem to rely on a defensive camp to defend against 10 times the enemy. Weishenme was wiped out in less than half a day?

He called the old man who remained in the village:

"You go and get the villagers back immediately, I have something to ask."

The old man winced and said, "The little ones don't know where they are." ”

The sergeant had long been burned with anger by such a tragic situation, and seeing these old men pushing back and forth, he slammed the rifle with the bayonet upward, and pressed it against the old man's chest:

"Go Soon"

"You just killed the villain, and the villain can't find it." The old man seemed to have put life and death on the line.

"Don't do that." Lin Shenhe stopped the sergeant's move and slowed down: "I'm just going to ask the villagers." You should know that our Fubo Army never kills people indiscriminately."

"Yes, yes, the vice-masters have not committed any crimes in the autumn, and they love the people like children......"

"So you have to get all the people back for me, not one less." Lin Shenhe said slowly, "Listen, I'll give you half an hour, and if the villagers don't come back, I'll set fire to the village." Lin Shenhe pointed to the fields outside the village, "If I burn the village and never come back, I will burn all the crops in the fields and block the springs and wells here." Then plow the field three times, sprinkled with salt each time. You should know: Lingao's private salt is very cheap. ”

Several old men stared at each other with frightened eyes, they were ready to die, but they didn't expect the other party's methods to be so vicious, and they didn't use murder as the purpose of venting their anger.

If it is not complied with, all the material basis for the existence of the village will be gone, and Zhaopu Village will be completely erased.

"Yes, yes, the villain will go." The old men panicked and slipped away.

When Liu Yixiao heard Lin Shenhe's report, he couldn't sit still anymore. The accident was so serious that he could not account to the Senate - a task force protected by force was wiped out

“…… Things don't seem to be that simple. Lin Shenhe's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "There are many doubts, and I can't say it clearly for a while." I suggest that this should be investigated specifically. ”

"Who is the attacker?"

"At the moment, it's only known that it's a bandit." There was a crackling sound of interference from the walkie-talkie - the signal in the mountains was very bad, "We are searching the graves of the bandits, hoping to find something." ”

Liu Yixiao said: "It seems that we must send another team to Zhaopu to clarify this incident as soon as possible." He sighed, he could almost make it look like he was sitting on the Senate hearing seat and being bombarded in turn.

"From now on, security measures will be strengthened," he slammed his fist on the table, "each task force must have a complete platoon to protect all task forces, as long as all the task forces are in the communication area, walkie-talkies must be carried in places that are too remote and cannot be effectively fortified, and no task forces will be sent for the time being." ”

From the mouths of the villagers who returned to the village one after another, Lin Shenhe knew the complete story. It also understood that many people in Weishenme had no external injuries - they were poisoned.

This made him feel unusually shocked.

"Where's the village liaison?" He asked hatefully.

"Ran away," said an old man, "he did such a thing, did not dare to stay in the village any longer, and fled with the bandits." ”

"Don't want your family anymore?"

"He didn't get married, and Lao Tzu Niang would have died a long time ago."

"He can't run." He said as he looked at the numb villagers with only an indiscriminate fear on their faces and a foolish look in their eyes. They just watched indifferently as the team that came to improve their livelihoods was poisoned and besieged, and none of them were killed, and no one even thought to report it.

If only an hour or two had been earlier, some lives might have been saved. Lin Shenhe breathed hard, calming his anger.

"You guys, go back to the village first. However, you are not allowed to go out. Ready to call. ”

The mass graves in which the bandits hastily buried their fallen were found the next day. Lin Shenhe ordered the people to be called to excavate, and Zuihou exhumed more than 70 corpses in total. The top one is the missing liaison. Hu Rotan was reluctant to give him the twenty taels of silver, and when he was able to withdraw, he simply killed this person who had lost his use value.