"Guess if that soldier can hit? I'm sure I'll hit it for ten bucks. Vasily whispered.

"Comrade Vasily, don't be joking at this time, we should discourage Wu's reckless behavior!" Li Da was very anxious.

"As a manager, I don't take my life too seriously!" Qingtong shook his head.

"As a general, you must give full trust to your subordinates, which is to know the soldiers. Let's just take a look at how well the direct military is doing in this regard? ”

The soldier raised his gun, and everyone held their breath and focused their eyes on Wu Peifu. Wu's face was calm, and his body remained immobile. "Don't think about anything, treat me as air, your goal is the wine cup on my head."

The soldier silently counted three numbers in his heart, "Three, two, one!" The bullets sprayed out, the wine cup shattered, and Wu Peifu's head was still on his neck.

Adjutant Hong was so frightened that he was about to collapse, and he hurriedly ran to Wu's side, but Wu took the lead and walked over laughing all the way. "Well, no matter what injuries you have inflicted on your body, the soldier's determination to win must not change. Listen, all of you, if you don't have this determination, don't be in my stormtroopers. ”

Vasily walked up to Wu's side and gave him a thumbs up, "General Wu is really a big hero. With that, Vasily stretched out his hand to Li Da and Chen Qingtong, and the two of them each took out ten yuan from their bodies and handed it to Vasili.

Wu did not understand the meaning of their move, and Vasily explained, "Wu, you have brought me good luck! Hahaha. ”

At this moment, a gong and drum suddenly sounded on the east side of the training ground, and about seven or eight people wearing white filial piety clothes and holding a large piece of white cloth came over, and there were red handwriting on the white cloth. Wu asked Adjutant Hong, "Who are they?" ”

Adjutant Hong did not answer, "All assembled, the bullets are loaded." Hong rushed forward with a part of the soldiers, and the other part of the soldiers consciously surrounded Wu and Vasily to prevent others from attacking.

When those people saw Adjutant Hong coming with a gun, they all cried and knelt on the ground to hold their grievances. Adjutant Hong then discovered that their white flag was a petition written in blood. "The bandits of Lao Yashan are rampant, killing fifteen of my villagers, hoping that the army commander will uphold justice...

The leader is the teacher of Xiaohe Village at the foot of Lao Ya Mountain, and his name is Wang Kneeling, and he is in tears.

Hong helped this person up, "Old man, don't cry, what's going on, you tell me carefully." ”

Wang knelt down and wiped a handful of snot, "Report to the chief, there are more than 200 people in our Xiaohe Village, and last year, the bandit leader Old White Wolf gathered a group of people to occupy the mountain as the king. At the beginning, they did shameless kidnapping, and several wealthy families in our village were kidnapped by them, and they blackmailed us for dozens of yuan and hundreds of yuan. There was a rich man who died a few days after he was redeemed because he was abused. Later, we begged the nearby security group to suppress the bandits, but the security group used the excuse that they needed money and food, and after we paid the money, the security group secretly changed guards. ”

Wu said angrily when he heard this, "These bastards, needless to say, this gang of bandits must collude with the security group, and let the security group get a piece of the pie through the bandits' atrocities!" I saw this kind of trick in my hometown at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but at that time, it was the county yamen who colluded with the bandits, but now it has become a security group. ”

"Why don't you ask the army for help in something like this?" Vasily asked the king to kneel down.

The old gentleman shook his head, "Hey, we have found our county magistrate, and the county magistrate said that the army does not listen to him, and once the army comes, all the military expenses must be borne by the local government, and the taxes paid by the local government every year are not enough, how can we have the money to suppress bandits!" ”

"Well, I can't imagine that just near Beijing, the military and political personnel in the direct line are all doing this way, so who can the people count on?" Qingtong said angrily, it was obvious that he deliberately said this sentence to Wu.

Wu looked at Adjutant Hong and asked, "Is that the case?" ”

Adjutant Hong nodded, "Dashuai, you don't have to worry about these local, I'll go to their county magistrate to deal with it when I go back." ”

"Fart, is this a trifle? The people's hearts are desperate to such a field, and if the bandits are rampant again, there will be ordinary people who will fire black guns at me in the future. Where is Old Duck Mountain located? Today we are going to suppress the bandits. ”

Wang Jianfu heard Adjutant Hong shouting at this man in civilian clothes, and the marshal knew that this must be a chief, so he ran forward, "Sir, twenty miles west from here is Lao Yashan." The terrain of that mountain is treacherous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. This gang of bandits is terrible, they came from Henan, as soon as the winter they came to our village to collect grain, our village of sixteen people raised a part of the rations and sent them up the mountain, because the number was not enough, they killed fifteen of us in a fit of rage, this young man next to me was sent back by them as a living mouth, saying that if we could not pay the food they wanted, our village would be razed to the ground. ”

The young man's name was Lei Datou, and he had bruises on his face, apparently left by bandits.

Wu grabbed the young man's hand and asked, "You have been on the mountain, what is the situation with them on the mountain?" ”

Lei Datou said, "There is only one trail down the mountain that you can go up. There is an intersection on Erli Road, and there are two roads at the intersection, one leading to the cave where they live. There was also a road leading to a very high hill, and when we came to the fork in the road, there were so many shots fired on the hillside like thunder, and we were all stupid in the spot. At this time, a number of bandits appeared on both sides of the road behind us, each with a gun. ”

According to Lei Datou's account, Adjutant Hong had already roughly drawn the situation of Lao Yashan with straw paper. He handed the cardboard to Wu, "Dashuai, I didn't expect this gang of bandits to have heavy weapons like machine guns." They occupy the favorable terrain of Laoyashan, and set up an unknown number of hidden points on both sides of the road. ”

Wu stroked his beard, he turned to Vasily and asked, "Representative Vasily, I was going to let you go back to the city and start negotiations after inspecting our stormtroopers." But the appearance of this gang of bandits made me determined to destroy them. I'll ask Adjutant Hong to send you back first, and I'll go back to meet you when I'm done dealing with it, okay?" ”

Vasily asked, "Wu, you are going to personally command this campaign?" ”

Wu nodded.

"Okay, let's not go, let's join your actions together." Vasily said heartily.

Wu's face revealed joy, "Okay, when this gang of bandits is killed, let's talk in their cave." ”