Outside the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China, in a lush jungle, a team of pack horses is walking hard in the mountains.

It belongs to the Hengduan Mountains, located in the central and southern section of the Panxi Rift Valley, and belongs to the erosion and erosion of the mountains and hills, the mountains and valleys are staggered, the mountains are high and the valleys are deep, the basins are staggered, the terrain is inclined from northwest to southeast, and the mountain range is close to the north and south, which is the southern extension of the Daxue Mountain.

There were about 100 people in this group, and at the opposite end of the line were more than 40 armed men wearing dark green training uniforms and armed with Suomi submachine guns, and they formed a formation to protect the people in the middle. At the forefront were two men in the prime of life armed with machetes, who kept cutting down the dense thorns and small trees that stood in front of them, while clearing the way for the team behind.

Walking in the middle of the procession were more than 70 young and old, also wearing dark green training uniforms, but they were holding guns in their hands, carrying not guns, but hammers, shovels, and various measuring instruments, and the horses around them were only piles of ores of different sizes and shapes.

This is a prospecting line that was ordered by Su Tong and the Ministry of Industry to be jointly formed by the geology colleges of Chahar University, Jinling University, Beiping University and other universities, and this prospecting team has more than 1,000 people, divided into more than 10 groups, respectively, in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places to explore minerals. Since the war has just subsided, although the domestic situation has gradually stabilized, there are still bandits, clan forces, and other armed groups active in remote areas, and the central government has no energy to take care of them for a while. In view of this, the Ministry of Industry has also applied specifically to the Ministry of Defence for armed protection, and each team has a mine protection team to ensure their safety.

Su Tong did not forget the large-scale steel base of Panzhi Huā in later generations when he was actively developing industry, so under his active promotion, the Ministry of Industry ordered the formation of such a geological exploration team to enter Sichuan and Yunnan provinces for exploration, so as to prepare for the establishment of a steel base.

A young man in his twenties, sweating profusely and with a tanned face, said to his companion next to him: "Brother Zhenchen, I really didn't expect it, we have gained so much this time, if we say it, we will definitely envy the people in the other group." I'm sure that of the seven groups in our prospecting team, "our group has definitely gained the most."

The young man known as Brother Zhenchen turned his head and smiled lightly, revealing a pair of snow-white teeth, and said softly: "Dahai, don't underestimate the people of the other groups, the gains of the other groups are also very large, and they may not be smaller than us." ”

At this time, a young girl with a big straw hat next to her interjected, "Zhao Dahai, you are bragging again, the day before yesterday we just talked to a group of teacher Chen, and I heard that they found a large titanium magnetite vein two days ago, where the iron ore reserves have reached more than 500 million tons, which is a sensational discovery." Although the iron ore we found was not small, it was still a little smaller than the vein that Mr. Chen and the others discovered. You're just bragging. ”

Zhao Dahai smiled a little embarrassedly, "Although it is a little smaller than the ore vein they found by Teacher Chen, it is also a rare ore vein." With this vein, we can build a large steel mill there. Besides, who knows if we will be able to find another vein, "If we can find another vein, then won't we compare Mr. Chen's group?" ”

"Zhao Dahai, I think you should just change your name to Zhao Dazui!" Hearing Zhao Dahai's stiff words, it caused a few laughs like silver bells from the girls next to him.

The young men in the group were arguing with each other when suddenly a low horn sounded next to them.

At the same time as the sound of the horn was remembered, countless armed men in different costumes appeared around the team.

One of the officers of the prospecting team immediately changed his face, "shouted loudly, ordered the exploration team members in the team to hurry up to find cover, and the remaining forty or so mine guards were led by a lieutenant to cover the team."

Soon, the small team was surrounded by unidentified forces that suddenly appeared.

"Who are you, and why are you surrounding us?" A mine ranger poked his head out from behind a tree and shouted loudly. Now that the decrees of the state have begun to be unified, the armies in all parts of the country have begun to be reorganized, and even in a remote place like Yunnan, the pace of reorganization has begun, and there has never been such a thing as a large group of armed men openly attacking a prospecting team before. It was only then that the armed man concluded that it might have been a misunderstanding.

But this time his judgment was wrong, and the answer was a cold bullet. When the inexperienced mine ranger's face was hit by a rapidly flying bullet, his face still had an incredible expression, and he didn't seem to expect these people to fight as soon as they said it, and they didn't talk nonsense with him at all.

As soon as the gun rang out, the mine guards knew that this matter could not be good, and under the order of the leading officer, the Suomi submachine guns in their hands also began to pour out tongues of fire.

In this dense jungle, "the fire of the Suomi submachine gun was greatly used, and for a moment the sound of gunfire in this small valley covered with trees became a lot.

"Click, click, click" Sommy's distinctive gunshot, accompanied by a dense rain of bullets, swept down a dozen of the unknown armed men who had just wanted to rush down, and for a time frightened the remaining unknown armed personnel back.

Among the crowd of armed men in different costumes was a middle-aged officer wearing a light gray old abandoned military uniform, and those who were familiar with the old military uniform knew that this was the clothing of the Dian army. This man was about forty years old, burly and full of flesh, and if he took off his military uniform and changed into a black hexagram suit, he would be a standard bandit. This officer's name is Liu Sitang, and he was originally the commander of a regiment under Xi Longyun, the lord of Yunnan Province.

Liu Yuantang is an authentic Yi people, when Su Tong took office as president and ordered the army all over the country to accept the reorganization, Liu Sitang resolutely opposed the Yunnan army to accept the reorganization, when he learned that Long Yun ordered to accept the order of the central government, the whole Yunnan army accepted the order of the reorganization, and then took more than 100 subordinates to break away from the Yunnan army and returned to his hometown of Xiliang in Yunnan, and pulled up a team of more than 1,000 people to occupy the mountain as the king.

Although Long Yun got the news, Long Yun, who was busy reorganizing the team for the sake of everyone being a Yi person, didn't bother to pay attention to them, and turned a blind eye to this army.

Liu Sitang is irritable and murderous by nature, although he has pulled up a team of more than 1,000 people, but Xiliang is a poor place, and there are no caravans passing by on weekdays, so naturally there is no oil and water. He was so poor that he couldn't take the next meal, and he heard the news from his men that there was a team near them, and this team was so strange that they didn't do business or deal with the locals, but just wandered around the neighborhood to find strange stones and other things, and there were some women in their team.

Liu Sitang, who had no knowledge, immediately concluded in his heart that these people must have a lot of valuable things on them, and there should be a lot of them, so he started the idea of looting this team. However, according to the reports of his subordinates, this team is not very good, and they find that there are armed men in this team, and they are very well-equipped and have a huā mechanism (the old name for submachine guns), which may not be easy to gnaw on.

At first, Liu Sitang was a little undecided, but when one of his subordinates inadvertently said that there were more than a dozen young women in this team, and they didn't look bad, Liu Sitang, who was still a little hesitant in his heart, immediately made up his mind.

In the old days, the Yi people originally had the tradition of robbing relatives, and the rule that the strong was the king was pursued in this mountain, even marrying a daughter-in-law was no exception.

Although Liu Sitang, who is in his forties, already has three wives, but now he is very tired when he sees several wives who have now become yellow-faced women, and he begins to yearn for women in big places outside the mountain.

Therefore, Liu Sitang, who had the intention of gaining both people and money, gathered all the more than 1,000 people and quietly surrounded this team. However, although Liu Sitang has a fierce and lustful personality, his brain is not stupid, he knows that there must be someone behind the swaggering of this team who dares to come here to hang out, maybe it is still sent by the government. With a brutal temperament, he gave the order at that time that no one should be left alive except for those women. The mine guard who poked his head out and shouted just now was killed by Liu Sitang himself.

Now after the two sides started fighting, Liu Sitang found that the firepower of this team was really not weak, in addition to the huā machine guns, there was actually a light machine gun in their team. It was the ferocious fire of this light machine gun that held down his men from looking up.

"Bastards, Nilangs, attack me, attack with all your might!" Seeing that the attack was not going well, Liu Sitang was so anxious that he jumped to his feet. He knew that this mine protection team was definitely not alone, and if it dragged on for a long time, they would definitely bring in reinforcements.

Under Liu Sitang's continuous kicking, his subordinates slowly pressed down against the favorable terrain, on the other hand, those mine protection teams were pressed to the bottom, their firepower could not be fully exerted, and the number of people was far less than that of their opponents, so they were gradually suppressed together.

Looking at the enemy approaching more and more in front, the lieutenant of the mine protection team led by him was anxious, he turned around and ordered the team members behind him loudly: "Immediately ask the brigade for help, if we are slow, we will not be able to hold on!" ”！ ~！