Chapter 19: The Bounty
On the other hand, on his side, a total of 16 people died and two were seriously injured.
If such a record spreads, I'm afraid Ono Taro will no longer have any hope of promotion.
At this time, there was a knock on the door of his office:
"Report!"
Ono Taro tried his best to calm down and shouted "Come in".
A Japanese soldier pushed the door open and entered, holding three steel crossbow arrows.
"Report to the captain, this was found on the corpse of the soldier."
Ono Taro took the crossbow arrow, looked at it carefully, and waved his hand at the soldier.
The two crossbow arrows from last time were still on the table, and now there are three more, who is this person?
As soon as the Japanese soldier reached the door, Ono suddenly stopped him:
"Wait, bring someone back all the blacksmiths in the neighborhood, I want to know who this person is!"
"Hayi!"
The Japanese soldier agreed, turned and left.
Li Min led everyone to retreat until near Rolling Horse Ridge before stopping.
The faces of the guerrillas were full of despair, and this was the first real battle between them and the devils.
Although he successfully escaped the pursuit of the devils, he also paid a heavy price.
Everyone knew very well in their hearts that those who didn't follow must have died, including their captain Zhang Zhenguo.
Li Min was also sad in his heart, but he knew that at such a time, he had to cheer everyone up.
He slowly walked in front of everyone and said in a solemn tone:
"Comrades, I know that everyone is sad in their hearts, but the more we are at this time, the more we must be strong, otherwise, the sacrifice of those comrades will lose its meaning!"
As soon as his words fell, a young man of about twenty years old immediately stood up and said in a loud voice:
"Lao Li, don't worry, we will not be discouraged, we are resisting, we are fighting, sacrifice is inevitable, the blood we shed, the injuries we suffered, and even the lives we paid were all in order to drive the Japanese invaders out of China! Therefore, we must turn our grief into strength, and then use this power to kill the enemy! ”
Li Min nodded and glanced at Meng Jiemin approvingly.
He knew the young man and admired it.
Meng Jiemin was originally a student of Panshi County High School and the chairman of the Student Government Association, and he had already formed an anti-Japanese salvation association with some progressive classmates, and had been actively participating in anti-Japanese activities, and was the first batch of students in the cadre training class.
Although everyone was sad in their hearts, under the joint encouragement of Li and Meng, they finally cheered up and rekindled their fighting spirit.
Li Min immediately counted the number of people, counted the materials, and prepared to take the people to further transfer to Blackstone Town.
Liu Cheng and the others were quickly choked by the turbulent and icy river water after falling into the water, and it was precisely because of the turbulent water that they did not sink to the bottom of the river, but were washed on the river beach downstream after rolling in the river for more than ten minutes.
I don't know how long it took, Zhang Zhenguo woke up first, saw Liu Cheng lying not far away, and immediately struggled to move to Liu Cheng's side to wake him up.
Although he picked up half of his life, if he didn't handle it well after choking on water, he would be taken back by Lord Yama at any time.
The two of them helped each other out of the river and into the mountains again, intending to find a place to warm up.
But just after entering the mountain, a gunshot suddenly rang out in front of him.
Before the two of them could react, a dark shadow suddenly appeared in the bushes not far away.
Liu Cheng fixed his eyes and saw that it was an injured wild boar.
The wild boar seemed to be enraged, and after discovering Liu Cheng and the others, he rushed straight towards them.
The speed of the wild boar is very fast, and with the current physical condition of the two of them, they can't avoid it at all.
Zhang Zhenguo suddenly pushed Liu Cheng away, and ran in the other direction with a strong step.
Liu Cheng knew what he meant, in this case, the wild boar would inevitably only choose one of them as the target of attack, and one person would have a chance to escape.
I wanted to run, but this body was not very strong, and I fell to the ground as soon as I took a step.
Although the barge gun was still on his body, there were no bullets in the gun, and it was too late to unload the bullets.
The wild boar also seemed to know how to pick soft persimmons, so instead of chasing Zhang Zhenguo, he rushed straight towards Liu Cheng.
Liu Cheng's mouth was bitter, full of helplessness.
I didn't expect that this time I wouldn't even be on the real battlefield, and I was going to die at the hands of this beast.
Angry boars are no joke, those two tusks can easily pick a person's belly.
Just when Liu Cheng felt desperate, a gunshot rang out again in his ears, and the running wild boar shook twice before finally falling.
An old man in his fifties walked briskly towards them with a shotgun on his shoulder.
Liu Cheng struggled to get up from the ground, coughing for a long time and couldn't say a word "thank you".
The old man stared at them for a moment, then suddenly asked:
"You were the one who put the gun in the mountains last night, right?"
Zhang Zhenguo, who had just walked back, shrank his pupils, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded slowly.
Seeing this, a smile suddenly appeared on the old man's wrinkled face.
He stretched out his hand to help Liu Cheng up, and said while tying the wild boar with a rope:
"I secretly went to see it in the morning, those devils are pretending to be dead in the car, and more than a dozen devils are dead, tsk, really, I am happy to look at it!"
After tying up the wild boar, the old man put the rope on his shoulder, turned to Liu Cheng and said:
"Let's go, kid, go back with me first."
Liu Cheng glanced at Zhang Zhenguo, a little helpless.
He still carried the machine gun with no bullets in his hand, and anyone who wasn't stupid could see who they were.
What Liu Cheng is thinking about now is: How did Zhang Zhenguo hold a machine gun and not sink to the bottom of the river?
The old man's wooden house was in a dense forest on the mountain, not too far from the place where he had exchanged fire with the devils last night.
After choking on water, there are many hidden dangers, which are easy to cause gastrointestinal bleeding and pulmonary edema, Liu Cheng and the two tossed for a while, and spit out a lot of river water.
Under the conditions at the time, they could only do this, and as for whether there would be complications in the end, it depended on luck.
The old man boiled ginger soup for them and stewed a wild boar leg, and the two of them were indeed unable to walk in their current state, so they could only live here first.
They didn't know that at this time, the people in Panshi County were already panicking.
Ono has already put a bounty on him, so naturally someone will definitely go to collect the money.
Jin Datou is the first one.
This kid is a gangster in Panshi County, and he lives by bullying the weak all day long.
There are many people in the bigger shops and restaurants, so he doesn't dare to go, so he picks up those tofu shops, pancake shops, and some small vendors who set up stalls to sell vegetables to extort money.
has been beaten for so many years, but this kid is a hob meat, as long as he can't die, it's over, and after a long time, everyone doesn't dare to provoke him.
Jin Datou has a nickname, called Bailitong, which means that there is no place within a hundred miles of Panshi County that he has not been.