Chapter Forty-Eight: They Are Besieged
Lin Tao and Long Ji led armed shipwrights and were responsible for cleaning up the battlefield of the Siamese rout.
Long Ji ordered the engine to collect all the small boats and tie them to the back of the big boat for later use. On a small boat in front, two seriously wounded Siamese routs were directly thrown into the water by tribal warriors, and there were immediately screams and fierce rolling and biting sounds of Siamese crocodiles on the river.
"Brother Long, order everyone, don't kill prisoners!" Lin Tao shouted angrily.
Mei Xue and Su Ji took two little maids to rescue and take care of the wounded. Seeing that Yu Songyuan closed his eyes, lowered his head and smoked, and fired a shot at the reeds behind him from time to time, there was immediately a howl.
"There are a lot of bandits in the back too? You can hit without aiming? Mei Xue asked as she bandaged the wounded.
Yu Songyuan suddenly raised the gun, "bang" a shot, and another person was hit by a scream. After the fight, he lit another cigarette before Gu Shang replied, "There are one or two hundred people behind, surrounded by us." ”
"Huh?!"
The four girls opened their mouths wide in fright, and they could all stuff a blue ball. Here is a hundred and ten meters from the shore, a large black reed thicket, very dense. One or two hundred people, just one person and one gun sitting on the boat, how can we talk about surrounding? Isn't that a fantasy?
"Are you kidding, why don't they run away? Why don't you fight back? Sugi asked.
Yu Songyuan shot another "bang", and then explained to the wail of a man on the shore, "The place where they stayed was a low-lying place of death." To escape, you have to climb over the high embankment, and you have to go through our guns! They didn't dare to show their heads, and as soon as they showed up, my gun was named! ”
Mei Xue actually walked up to him, sat down on the side of the boat, hugged his head with gratitude, and kissed his forehead and lips. Another encouragement award, Yu Songyuan still couldn't finish his lips.
"You can be very good, too." In order to divert his embarrassment, Yu Songyuan picked up a rifle at his feet, handed it to Mei Xue and said, "The reeds are less than 200 square meters in size, and one or two hundred people are hiding inside and behind, all of them are piled up, you can aim and fight!" Be careful not to show your head. ”
Mei Xue lay on the deck, "bang bang bang" after firing five bullets in the chamber, and a howl and cry of being shot sounded in the reeds on the shore. Su Ji also picked up the gun and hit it, and the two little maids were only fourteen or fifteen years old, and they also shot a few times each, and they were too addicted.
Living in the Lancang tribal society, where tribal wars are constant, these girls are very young and can shoot guns.
The bandits in the reeds on the shore were unlucky, they were going to come to pick up the ocean, and everyone was crowded in and behind the reeds. The embankment behind was so high and long that if you wanted to escape, you had to be exposed to the guns of the big boats, and a few people tried to escape, but they were killed, and they no longer dared to move.
Actually, these bandits are not trained. If it is a well-trained army, throw down a few corpses at most, and a charge will rush across the embankment.
Lin Tao and Long Ji rowed to the shore in a small boat with a few armed boatmen, and Lao Zhou followed behind with a boatman rowing another boat. When I went ashore, I saw that two of the five mortarmen had been killed, and three of them were slightly injured but holding their heads, pouting and shivering on the ground, and did not dare to move.
Lin Tao tied up the three wounded soldiers and bandaged their wounds. And asked Lao Zhou to get the three prisoners and the captured five M16 automatic rifles and three boxes of ammunition on the small boat and transport them back to the big ship.
After sending them away, Lin Tao carried an M19 mortar, a box of M55A1 grenades, a box of M502 white phosphorus bombs and M91 flares onto the boat. Then the two dead bodies were dragged about seven or eight meters downstream, thrown into the water, and with a "hulong" sound, they were quickly rolled and dragged into the deep water by the two predators.
Back on the big ship, Long Ji had already interrogated him clearly.
This is a Siamese straggler who was defeated from the Golden Triangle anti-drug battlefield, and they broke away from the Siamese army and fled to the banks of the Mekong River, where they were powerful and harmed the people on both sides of the river. I happened to see that there were four large cargo ships staying on the shore of Lancang overnight, and the draft was very deep, and it was estimated that they were full of goods, so they robbed the people's boats and secretly crossed the river, ready to make a vote. But I didn't expect to meet a nemesis and put myself in.
"And don't let them be killed, keep the medicine and food they need, so what to do with these captives?" Long Ji was quite embarrassed and asked Yu Songyuan.
Yu Songyuan was inconvenient to answer, and Lin Tao said indifferently when he saw this, "Brother Long, you are the boss of the clan, and we are just guests on your ship." They are your captives, and I emphasize again, from now on, the Long Dai tribe is not allowed to kill prisoners. Of course, once they go back, they will definitely report to you, and the Siamese Army will remember you, and your fleet may be in big trouble in the future. ”
Long Ji looked at Yu Songyuan again, hoping that he could say something.
Yu Songyuan suddenly raised his gun, fired a shot at the rear very casually, and said with certainty in the howl of a man, "Everything in the fleet is up to you, and your decision is my opinion!" However, we have one rule, we can't kill prisoners! ”
As he spoke, he carefully examined the seized weapon. Together with the rifles seized from the boat, a total of eleven, all M16A1 assault rifles, all of them are new. The Siamese Army was originally all equipped with the standard equipment of the M Army.
Seeing that they didn't say what to do, Long Ji had no choice but to discuss with Lao Zhou, and decided to drag the captives to the cabin and hold them, and then take them to the forest farm and let them do hard labor.
"This M19 portable mortar has a shortest range of 200 meters, but the longest range is nearly 2,000 meters. All kinds of armed forces are rampant here, and law and order are very chaotic, and if we have it, the deterrent power will be great in the future. Lao Zhou touched the mortar and said happily.
"Rest assured, in the coming months, we will strive to equip your shipwrights with first-class equipment no less than the Siamese and Annam armies. It's really strange, just such a group of gangsters, bandits, stragglers, and rangers with no tactical literacy are riding on the head of the fleet, and the waterway is blocked by people, you are simply laughing and generous! Lin Tao rebuked disdainfully.
Lao Zhou was speechless and speechless. He was just an agent, he had never been a soldier at all, and he had no battlefield training. Against the regular Siamese Army, he and his team of shipwrights completely opened their eyes to the tactics like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves just now, and they usually dare not think about it.
Lin Tao was open-mouthed, ignoring Lao Zhou's embarrassment, but set up the M19 portable mortar, aimed at the embankment behind the reeds on the shore behind, and fired two shells "Dong" and "Dong". On the embankment behind the reeds, after two explosions, a man cried out in Lancang:
"Stop fighting! Please, stop fighting! We surrender!! ”
Yu Songyuan and Lin Tao aimed at the reeds very casually, "bang" and "bang" two shots, and two more screams came from inside.
"Stop fighting, please stop fighting, we surrender! Really surrender right away! A man shouted again with tears in his voice.
"Little bandits also have today, forget how majestic they are when they rob and kill! They should all be killed, it's not a good thing at all! The little maid muttered to the side.
"Brother Long, report your name and order them to assemble on the river beach outside the reeds and throw away their weapons!" Lin Tao said.
When Long Ji heard this, he quickly stood on the deck and shouted loudly: "Listen, people in the reeds, I am Long Ji Feng, the great leader of the Long Dai clan!" You have been surrounded, and if you want to live, now all of you are out of the reeds! Throw away your weapons, hold your head, and surrender now! ”
Long Ji shouted majestically, and after a while, the people inside obeyed the order, the big fat man in the lead carried the white shirt with a reed pole, and the little bandits came out of the reeds one by one. He walked crookedly to the edge of the riverbank, threw his weapon into a heap, held his head, and knelt on the beach in an orderly manner.
Lin Tao made two more "knocks" and "knocks", and fired two cannons at the reeds. "Boom" and "boom" twice, and the shells exploded in the reeds. A large group of bandits kneeling on the river beach were so frightened that they cried out in unison, and fell to the ground with their heads in their hands, not daring to move.
In this beating, these little bandits were scared to death, and they all regretted their deaths, and many people were scared out of their feces and urine. Most of them turned out to be just local peasants, and they had no choice but to join the gang in the midst of a shortage of soldiers. It's okay to bully a merchant ship at times, but you must know that Lu Dao will encounter the killing gods of the Long Dai tribe, and you won't dare to be bandits if you kill them.
"What's next? I want to cremate the remains of martyrs on the shore! Long Ji cautiously consulted Yu Songyuan's opinion.
Yu Songyuan ignored him, Lin Tao said, "It's dark, the fleet is moored in the bandits' den, Brother Long, you can't leave the ship." Lao Zhou and I took the boatmen to the shore in a small boat and cremated the bodies of the sacrificial boatmen. Then bring their big leader and second leader to the ship, Brother Long, you have to take out the big leader and teach the bandit leader a lesson, you must be prestigious. To order them, they must obey the orders of the great leader of the Long Dai tribe, and they must no longer do any more work that hurts the heavens and reason. Otherwise, the next time you catch it, you will cut off your ears first, and then kill your head! ”
Long Ji nodded frequently, and Lao Zhou ordered four boats to anchor by help. Mei Xue and Su Ji took the two little maids, with tears in their eyes, to wipe the faces of the martyrs one by one, and then Long Ji personally wrapped the bodies of the dead shipwrights with military blankets. All the shipwrights lined up on the deck to bow and say goodbye to the fallen boatmen!
The funeral custom of the Lancang Longdai tribe is cremation, and the funeral ceremony procedure is cumbersome and lengthy. However, in times of war, everything can only be kept simple, and all things are done according to the rules of wartime.
Long Ji personally packed up the bodies of the fallen shipwrights, stood up and shed tears and said, "Warriors, you are all good men of my Long Dai tribe!" The clan will not forget you, we still have to fight, we can only see you off here! You owe it to your tribe, and your tribe will take good care of your family, and they will be honored because of you! ”
Long Ji is a big leader with affection and blood, and his words have made many shipwrights shed tears. Mei Xue, Su Ji and the two little maids cried even more!
After the memorial ceremony, Lin Tao and Lao Zhou took more than a dozen boatmen and the remains of four dead boatmen wrapped in blankets to row a small boat to the bank of the big river.