Chapter 118: After the Victory
"Brothers, rush into the enemy's lair!" Adjutant Hong took the lead.
The stormtroopers had no worries on their heads, and armed with weapons went down another path at the intersection to the bandits' cave. Enemies in the cave have also noticed an unusual noise outside. By the time the team reached the entrance of the cave, dozens of bandits had already jumped out.
Twenty fighters of the stormtroopers formed a fire blockade in a row. Most of the bandits' weapons are earth guns and artillery, and many of them are armed with large blades and red tassel guns. Half of the dozens of bandits died, and the rest barely defended using the bunkers on both sides of the cave.
Adjutant Hong and the rest of the team used frontal fire to suppress and snipe the bandits on both flanks, and the good marksmanship that the stormtroopers usually practiced came in handy at this time, because the bunkers outside the cave were very irregular, and many of them were built up of clods of earth. Adjutant Hong's strategy was to shoot at the clods of dirt first, and the bullets penetrated these loose bunkers very smoothly, and the bandits behind saw that they could not hold on, so they got up and were about to run into the cave.
The frontal fire was suppressed, the flanks were shrinking step by step, and the bandits could only use the cave as a defensive obstacle. The attacks on both sides were at a stalemate.
"Sir, this mountain pass is too small, and these people are just like Wang Ba and shrunk in a turtle shell and don't come out." A soldier reported.
"All the grenades have gathered to me." Adjutant Hong shouted.
Dozens of grenades gathered, and Adjutant Hong tied them up and pulled several ropes out of his waist, ten tied together. "You guys, don't cease fire, press the hole and fight!" With that, Adjutant Hong carried several bundles of grenades on his back and moved towards the entrance of the cave against the stone wall on the same side of the cave.
"Sir, I'll go!" A soldier shouted.
"No, I'll do it. After a while, I'll throw a big guy to completely block their view outside their cave entrance, and then I'll take advantage of the chaos to throw another bundle of grenades into the cave, remember that at this time you will follow me and rush in, kill anyone you see, don't hesitate! ”
The bandits in the cave were all focused on the fireline outside, and they didn't expect anyone to make a small move right under their noses. Adjutant Hong pulled out the lead of a grenade and threw it hard, and a powerful shockwave was generated outside the cave, and the bandits were pushed into the cave, and before they could react to anything, another bundle of grenades was thrown into the cave.
"Brothers, rush." Adjutant Hong rushed into the cave first with a submachine gun.
The fight on the mountain was so lively, but Wu Peifu at the bottom of the mountain closed his eyes and looked unusually calm.
"The gunfire has stopped!" Li Da shouted.
Vasily looked out the window, "The speed of the attack is faster than we thought, General Wu, it seems that your stormtroopers have won!" ”
Wu stood up, "Let's go!" ”
Qingtong asked suspiciously, "What for?" ”
Wu smiled and said, "Let's go to the bandits' cave and have a meeting to talk about the future of China." ”
The old gentleman and the villagers were already waiting in the courtyard with torches. Wu shouted to them, "Folks, your enemies have been wiped out by us, follow me up to Lao Yashan to retrieve your stolen grain!" ”
Wu and his entourage were surrounded by the cheers of the villagers and went up the mountain.
Seeing this scene, Vasily exclaimed, "As long as he stands with the people, he can become a real leader!" ”
Qingtong didn't completely agree, "How many bandit dens are there like Laoyashan in China?" Is he Wu Peifu in charge alone? ”
Li Da nodded, "Yes, it's not enough for the upper-level head and the lower-level people to have a heart-to-heart, the key is these people in the middle." The Beiyang authorities, the biggest leaders are the president and the prime minister, and there are also local economic history, patrol history, governors, assistants, town guards, Daoyin and county magistrates, if these people do not play a good role, then the country is like a barbell, sinking at both ends and thin in the middle! Sooner or later, it will be crushed. ”
Walking to the intersection, Wu raised his head and waved his hand to the artillerymen on the mountain, "Good job, how many shots?" ”
The soldiers shouted, "One shot to kill their heavy machine guns!" ”
The common people cheered, "The direct army is mighty, the straight army is mighty." ”
Wu sighed, "Hey, it's a pity that this is a heavy machine gun, I originally wanted to pull it back for the troops to use!" We're running out of weapons right now! ”
Vasily patted Wu on the shoulder and reassured, "Don't worry, General Wu." There will be milk, and there will be bread. ”
The closer they got to the bandits' lair, the more restless the team became. This gang of bandits killed so many innocent lives in the village, and the villagers were eager to drink their blood and skin them.
Outside the cave, the stormtroopers stood in two rows to welcome Wu Peifu into the cave, but the sensitive Wu seemed to feel something unusual. The soldiers' faces did not show the smile he expected. Several soldiers bowed their heads listlessly.
"What's wrong?" Wu asked.
The soldiers responded to Wu with silence.
Wu looked at the soldiers on both sides, and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. Walking into the cave, it was full of bandit corpses. The stormtroopers fought very fiercely, and only a dozen bandits were still alive, and they were held by the soldiers with guns and kneeled in a row. In front of them lay a corpse horizontally, beaten beyond recognition. When Chen Qingtong saw this corpse, his sense of fear and nausea rose to the extreme, and he hid to the side and opened his mouth to vomit. Li Da stood beside him and took care of him, and from time to time he beat Chen's back a few times, and he didn't dare to look behind the corpse, it was too cruel and terrifying.
Wu half-squatted on the ground, wiped the soil off the man's neck with his hand to reveal a military badge, Wu suppressed his emotions, "What's the matter." ”
The soldier who knocked off the wine cup on Wu's head with a gun when he was practicing shooting rushed up, and he choked with tears on his face and said, "Adjutant Hong rushed into the cave with us, and in two clicks he cleaned up these bandits, and their bandit leader hid in the corner and fired a black gun at me, and I was carrying my back at the time, and Adjutant Hong pushed me away, and then I was beaten by that person... Beat... ”
"Don't cry!" Wu only said two words.
The soldier wiped tears from his eyes. "That bandit leader is over there, waiting for the big man to fall."
The bandit leader has a scar on his face and looks fierce. His head was on the ground, and his arms were steered by soldiers as if they were taking off.
Wu walked up to his side, "Let him go!" ”
The bandit raised his body and looked at Wu.
"Why be a bandit?" Wu asked.
"If you don't become a bandit, I'll starve to death!" The bandit was not timid, he shouted.
Wu pointed to the villagers behind him, "If you rob them of their food, they will starve to death!" ”
The bandit said nonchalantly, "Lao Tzu can't control so much, these days it's a cannibalism, if I don't kill you, you have to kill me!" ”
Wu closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "Then you don't have to suffer this anymore in the future." ”