"Grandpa Wei is here, it's Grandpa Wei who is here!"

The officers and men of the imperial army, who were organizing a squad to carry out the task of searching for the Pingpu people, broke out into collective cheers.

Accompanied by the cheers of the officers and soldiers, Gonggong Wei, who was wearing a bullfighting suit and a red cloak on his shoulders, came to a hill surrounded by many guards.

According to the Thangkas, Aganon may have been hiding in front with the rest of his people. The Taiwanese volunteers and security forces found signs of human activity in this area, so it can basically be judged that Aganon and others, who they have been searching for for three days, are in this area.

"Father-in-law, it's too dangerous here, you can't stay here, and your subordinates ask your father-in-law to go down the mountain immediately!"

Xu Xing, the captain of the First Infantry Brigade, was both excited and uneasy about the arrival of Gonggong Wei. Because this place is too close to the Pingpu savages who are hiding, if there are savages lurking around and not being discovered, then Grandpa Wei is very likely to be in danger.

"Our son-in-law can face danger head-on, but our family can't face danger!"

Father-in-law Wei waved his hand, pinned the short-handled firearm to the waistband of his trousers, and looked at the dense forest in front of him with a stark gaze.

Xu Xing said: "Father-in-law, Thangka they said that Aganon and the others must be there!" ”

"How many more savages?"

"About six hundred to seven hundred."

The figures given by Xu Xing are based on the situation of the Pingpu people explained by Thangka, and they are relatively accurate. Compared with the nearly 4,000 population that the Pingpu people had before, the current Pingpu people can be said to be less than eighty percent of the population, if the other party is an army, then it is obvious that they have been completely defeated.

However, the problem is that the Pingpu people are not an army, and their resistance is very resolute, using the familiar dense forest terrain to bring a lot of trouble to the encirclement and suppression of the imperial army. Moreover, the remnants of the Pingpu people are mainly young and strong men, and most of their old and weak women and children have been "abandoned". Without the drag of the old and weak women and children, these young and strong men in Pingpu can support until now.

Gonggong Wei nodded, he believed in Xu Xing's figures, after all, he had seen many Pingpu women and children hanging themselves or committing suicide by throwing themselves into the pool, and roughly estimated, this Pingpu tribe is probably really left with men.

"Tell the Taiwan Volunteers and the security teams of various townships that today is the last battle for the Pingpu savages, and our family doesn't want any of them to betray the imperial army!"

The father-in-law's eyes were full of fierce light, and this sentence was said to the "familiar" of the security team, but it was better to say it to the volunteers of Thangka.

In the past few days, although the Taiwan Volunteers have cooperated with the Imperial Army to carry out a clean-up campaign against Aghanon, there are some signs that not every Taiwan Volunteer is willing to help the Imperial Army. Especially when more and more suicide sites of women and children in Pingpu are discovered, this sign has a tendency to spread and expand.

My father-in-law understands this phenomenon, but he absolutely cannot accept it. Therefore, he must tell the Taiwanese volunteers that if any one of them betrays the imperial army, the end result will be the death of all the women and children in Pingpu under the mountain.

If one person is opposed, the whole family will be punished.

My father-in-law hoped that this strict order would allow the Taiwan volunteers to supervise each other, and his old man still recognized these volunteers in his heart. The moment they came down from the mountain and surrendered, it showed that they were worth saving.

"All the troops must make persistent efforts, tightly encircled, and the iron barrels are tightly bound, and not a single bird is allowed to fly away from their lines!"

After speaking, the father-in-law casually bit a piece of sugar cane and ordered Xu Xing to immediately organize troops to narrow the encirclement, so that there was no need to wait in front of him.

At noon, a detachment of Taiwanese volunteers discovered their people, and the two sides engaged in a hand-to-hand encounter, and then the first infantry squadron of the Imperial Army quickly surrounded them, and finally the Pingpu savages retreated, leaving more than 30 corpses.

The 1st Infantry Squadron and the Taiwan Volunteers followed the retreating Pingpu savages, and finally found their hiding place half an hour later.

Countless shrill whistles suddenly sounded in the jungle, and smoke bombs shot into the sky one after another, and 2,000 imperial officers and soldiers and hundreds of Taiwan volunteers and security forces came from all directions. The remnants of the Pingpu people were compressed step by step, and eventually, they were enclosed on a cliff less than three or four miles in circumference.

Knowing that he had surrounded the Pingpu savages, Gonggong Wei was overjoyed, and insisted on going up to the top of the mountain to make the final persuasion to the Pingpu people, regardless of the high mountains and dense forests.

This is a manifestation of the father-in-law's humanity, the battle in Pingpu has lasted for nearly a month, the imperial army has suffered more than 100 casualties, and seeing that victory is in sight, the father-in-law does not want any more unnecessary casualties among the officers and soldiers.

Although these Pingpu savages are incompatible with civilized society and are very barbaric and ferocious, if they can be grouped together for an expedition to Japan, they will also be a batch of qualified cannon fodder.

Historically, didn't the Japanese like to use these two devils?

There are hundreds of thousands of people on the island of Taiwan, such as Pingpu Yefan, and if they are killed in one go, it is bound to be impossible to end the pacification of Taiwan in a short period of time, so it is an inevitable means to pay equal attention to suppression and appeasement.

The father-in-law hopes that Aganon can recognize the overall situation and stop making senseless resistance, as long as he is willing to lay down his arms and surrender, the father-in-law can give him a chance.

On the way up the mountain, from time to time you can hear the loud sound of guns on the top, thinking that the officers and soldiers are fighting with the savages who want to break through.

"Quick, quick!"

The father-in-law used both hands and feet, and the sugarcane in his hand had already been gnawed off by his old man, and he couldn't use it as a crutch in his hand. In addition, the slope of the hill began to be steep, and the father-in-law had no choice but to drag and climb, but fortunately, there were always loyal guards below to support his old man's buttocks, which made the father-in-law climb very fast, but not very easy.

.........

After a few days of fleeing, Aganon and the remnants of the tribesmen were hungry and tired, most of them had completely exhausted their strength and spirit, and they wanted to lie down on the ground and sleep for a while, but the Han army of snakes would always appear when they were just breathing.

The young Ketu couldn't remember the last time he had eaten, and his eyes were a little glazed with hunger. Naru took two fruits that he had picked out of nowhere and handed them to Ketu, who hurriedly grabbed them and stuffed them into his mouth and devoured them.

However, the two fruits did not fill the stomach at all, but caused the stomach that was almost numb to have a more intense hunger response.

However, they had nothing to eat, so they could only silently grit their teeth and endure the hunger in their stomachs.

In the distance, the Han army approached, and from time to time the sound of iron guns and the miserable screams of the clansmen could be heard. Ketu and Naru are numb to this, they don't even know where the head man is, they just want to run into that traitor in Thangka now, and then shoot him with an arrow, cut off his head and sacrifice to the ancestral spirit!

If it weren't for that traitor of Thangka, the tribesmen would not have been beaten so badly by the Han army, and their grandmother and mother would not have hanged themselves in the jungle!

All because of the damned traitors!

Ketu vowed to kill the thangka, so he and Naru hid in the trees and allowed two Han Chinese armies to pass under them.

They don't want to startle the snake because they only have one chance.

Unfortunately, Thangka was clearly not in this area, so Ketu and Naru were never able to take revenge. They wanted to go back to find the leader, but the way was blocked by the Han army in the past, and in desperation, they could only continue to hide here.

After another group of Han troops numbering about a few dozen cautiously passed by with firearms, Nalu finally decided to give up guarding here, he wanted to take Ketu to find the leader and them, and then fight the Han army to the death. Even if he can't find the leader, he has to fight to the death with the Han people.

If he hid any longer, he and Ketu would have no strength.

Just as he was about to stretch out his hand to greet Ketu, Nalu saw a group of Han Chinese troops approaching at the bottom of the slope, and it seemed that there were quite a few of them, including hundreds of people. One of the officers wore clothes that were obviously different from the other Han officers, and they looked very conspicuous. The soldiers were also very respectful to the Han man, and it was obvious that the soldiers had been protecting him during the march.

"Ketu, shoot that Han official!"

Naru decided that the brightly dressed guy must be a senior officer of the Han army, as the soldiers were lifting his ass.

If it weren't for the officer, who would do the soldier?

Ketu let out an "um" and silently moved the bamboo arrow from the side to the front little by little. His archery skills are very good, and he is the best archer of the younger generation in the clan, even if he is hungry and has no strength now, as long as the Han official approaches, he is still sure to shoot him.

Ketu was a little excited, the people on the top of the mountain were fighting with the Han army, if he could shoot this Han official, maybe the Han army would be able to retreat.

Nalu also had this idea, he was worried that Ketu would not be able to shoot, so he signaled him with his eyes not to worry, and waited for the Han official to come closer.

The two of them just lay on the branches, looking down motionlessly, their hearts beating fast, as if they could come out of their throats at any time.

Finally, with the help of the guards, the Han officer climbed up, and was only two or three feet away from Ketu in the tree.

Probably tired and sweating, the Han official stopped and took a few breaths, then looked up and looked around, looking at the top of his head.

His face looks so young.

"Shoot!"

Naru slapped Ketu violently, and Ketu immediately straightened up, and with the last of his strength, he shot the arrow at the Han official.

He had a hundred confidences that this arrow would definitely shoot through that Han official, even if it was an arrow made of bamboo!

But a scene that Ketu didn't expect happened, just when his arrow was just off the string, the Han official suddenly turned around and bent down to look at his legs.

Immediately after that, a miserable scream was heard, and the Han official fell to the ground with a "plop", and the guards around him instantly rushed up to surround the big official, and more than a dozen fire guns hit Ketu and them. Dozens more soldiers ran madly with their weapons under the tree where Ketu was hiding.

With the sound of the gun, Ketu, who straightened up, was hit and fell to the ground, "plopping" and falling heavily to the ground, and before he lost consciousness, he seemed to hear what the Han official was calling.

Isn't this man dead?

Ketu had some regrets, but there was no more chance for him to replenish the arrows.

"What's the panic, our family is not dead! ... For the sake of Your Majesty, what is an arrow in the ass! ”

Gong Wei is so angry, it's really a boat capsized in the gutter!