It was late, the sun was sinking in the west, the sunset was shining obliquely on the green gauze tent, with a dazzling brilliance, making people unable to open their eyes, a gust of wind blew, the sorghum leaves were rustling, and the cry of the old eagle was heard in the distance, boom! Phew!

It was so quiet, it was frightening, Chen Zikun raised a hand, the convoy stopped moving, he took out the Hamilton silver-shelled pocket watch and looked, it was late in the summer, and it was already six o'clock in the evening.

The commander of the escort company came over and asked: "Chen Dashuai, why don't you leave, after this green gauze tent, you will arrive at Nantai County in another twenty miles, hurry up two steps, and you can spend the night in the county seat tonight." ”

Chen Zikun shook his head: "I can't go anymore." He raised his horsewhip and pointed at the green gauze tent, "There are bandits in here, waiting for us." ”

The company commander looked at the rustling green gauze tent in wonder, and said, "Why didn't I see it." ”

Chen Zikun smiled slightly: "I didn't see it either, I could smell the bandits." ”

Since the commander gave the order, the soldiers had no choice but to untie the cattle from the carts, set up tents, bury pots and cook food, and prepare for camping.

Chen Zikun personally instructed the coachmen to surround the cart in a ring shape, and after dark, he patrolled the periphery again, and then returned to the camp, handed the close-fitting flower mouth to Jianbing, and instructed Yao Yilei: "Load your shotgun with bullets, and protect Jianbing when you fight." ”

Yao Yilei patted the Winchester double-barreled shotgun next to her and said proudly: "It's ready." Then he glanced at Jianbing, triumphant.

Jian Bing said worriedly: "Will the bandits really come?" ”

Chan said: "I have a feeling that they will definitely come. ”

……

There was no moon tonight, no fingers could be seen, there was not a trace of wind in the air, the silence was unsettling, and suddenly, a scream came, and it was close at hand.

Two pillars of light lit up, and in the open space in front of the camp, a large group of ragged bandits could not hide, their weapons in their hands were varied, dung forks, sickles, kitchen knives, fire guns, all of them were barefoot, and the camp was sprinkled with triangular iron thistles on all sides.

The two headlights of Rover's car illuminated the bandits' eyes, and they covered their faces with their hands, and looked through their fingers, only to see rows of black muzzles of guns in the cart aimed at them, and the sound of pulling the bolt of the gun came and went.

"Brothers, run wow!" Someone shouted, the bandits turned around and left, the guns crackled, the muzzle flame was particularly eye-catching in the night, and the backs under the light of the car lights became excellent gun targets, seven or eight people fell in response, but more bandits still fled into the green gauze tent, and the dozen bandits at the back could not escape, and were frightened by the dense gunfire and the tragic situation of their accomplices and did not dare to get up.

The officers and men rushed out with guns in their hands, and opened fierce fire at the green gauze tent, beating the sorghum stalks in all directions, and after being convinced that most of the bandits had fled, they cleaned up the battlefield and found that five bandits had been killed on the spot, three were wounded, twelve were captured, and a large pile of tattered weapons were seized.

This battle was a big victory, and I also figured out the details of the bandits, but they were just a group of poorly equipped rabble, and they dared to fight the idea of fully armed officers and soldiers, which really ate the courage of the bear's heart and leopard.

The officers and soldiers were damaged when they passed the tiger's mouth, and the confidence was regained in this battle, and the prisoners were escorted to Chen Zikun and knelt down, trembling one by one and not daring to speak, and the commander of the escort company said: "Chen Dashuai, kill them all." ”

Suddenly there was a sound of begging for mercy, the bandits kowtowed like pounding garlic, Chen Zikun said: "It's boring to be killed, I want to escort the captives into the county seat." ”

"What about the wounded? Forget it. "The company commander seems to find it unpleasant not to shoot a few people.

Chen Zikun blocked him back with a sentence of "killing prisoners is ominous".

The long night, it was really difficult, especially after a short battle, no one knew whether the bandits would make a comeback, according to the interrogation just now, this place is called Kushuijing, this gang of bandits is about 300 people, the bandit leader is called Chen Shou, once served as Zhang Xun's pigtail soldiers, only because the township thieves are everywhere, the people are not happy, only to gather a group of people to do the business of cutting the path, it is said that this size of the bandits, there are about four or five nearby, if they unite, it is also a force to be reckoned with.

It was finally dawn, and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, the bandits were poorly armed, even if there were many people, they could not withstand the advantage of fast guns of the officers and soldiers, and they were finally safe.

After packing up and preparing to open the road, Chen Zikun suddenly saw five corpses lying on the ground, frowned and said, "Line them up and cover their faces." ”

The GIs went to carry the corpses, and when they moved to the last man, someone shouted, "Not dead!" And gas! As he spoke, he took off his gun and pulled the bolt to make up for it.

"Stop!" Chen Zikun turned over and dismounted, and stepped forward to check, there was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy lying on the ground, a layer of fluff on his lips reminded him of Guo'er, the boy was shot in the back, and the wound should be a pistol bullet, and he felt his pulse, which was very weak.

"Don't panic, I'm going to have surgery." Chen Zikun unbuttoned his military uniform and said to Jianbing: "Bring my rubber apron and surgical instruments." ”

The officers and soldiers vacated a cart to use as an operating table for Chen Zikun, Jian Bing took a full set of surgical instruments brought from the United States and worked as a part-time nurse on the side, Chen Zikun wore an apron, held a scalpel, and dug open the wound with a big grin, and the blood flowed out, Jian Bing couldn't help but say: "You are not afraid that he will die of excessive blood loss." ”

Chen Zikun didn't care, he had learned simple battlefield rescue when he was a student in the military academy, but he had never practiced it, and now he was just practicing his skills with this seriously injured bandit, even if he died, it didn't matter.

The officers and soldiers felt very strange, everything was worth anything these years, but their lives were not worth anything, especially the lives of such little bandits, which were really no different from ants, Chen Dashuai still bothered to save him, and the thoughts of the big men really couldn't guess it.

In the distance, more than 100 bandits were lying on the ground, staring at the convoy with bloodshot eyes, and one of the bandits asked, "Big boss, why don't they leave?" ”

"If they don't enter the green gauze tent, we won't do it." The big boss said, he is not very old, about thirty years old, with two box cannons in his hands, and a faint sadness between his heroic eyebrows.

Suddenly, a bandit hurried over and whispered in the ear of the big boss, who frowned and waved the box cannon: "!" ”

……

The wound was not deep, and the bullet was easily pulled out, it was a pistol bullet of point 4 or 5 caliber, and only Chen Zikun used this kind of bullet.

Sprinkled a bunch of gold creation medicine indiscriminately, tied gauze on the outside of the wound, the operation was declared over, and the wounded were put on the cart.

Just as he was about to set off, suddenly a group of people came out of the green gauze tent, and the officers and soldiers raised their guns one after another, but when they saw each other's clothes clearly, they were relieved, and it was a group of policemen in black uniforms who came.

However, it is better to be cautious in this kind of place, Chen Zikun asked the other party to lead the way to talk, and sure enough, a young man with glasses came over on the other side, who was polite and polite like a scholar.

"You're the newly arrived Jiangbei Protector, right?" The scholar asked politely, speaking an authentic official dialect.

"Exactly, dare to ask Your Excellency?" Chen Zikun hugged his fists, this person's temperament made him feel like a spring breeze.

"I am the county magistrate of Nantai County, Liu Youjin, and I am here to greet the military envoy." The scholar took off his straw hat and bowed to Chen Zikun slightly.

"It turned out to be County Magistrate Liu, disrespectful, disrespectful." Although the military envoy and the county magistrate belong to the two lines of military and political affairs, and do not belong to each other, people come from afar to greet them, and the minimum number of courtesies cannot be missing.

Liu Youjin saw the four corpses on the ground, and pretended to be surprised: "This is?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "Oh, the bandits attacked last night and were repelled by me, and these corpses were left for them, and I took them back to take them back." ”

Liu Youjin praised: "The protector army has won the victory, and the people of Nantai have finally been saved." ”

The two sides politely talked for a while, and drove back to the county seat, Liu Youjin brought not many people, only about 30 policemen, and the weapons and equipment were also very poor, the barrels of the old sleeve rifles were rusty, but it was better than nothing, with their joining, the entire convoy reached 200 guns, even the strongest bandits had to be weighed.

Even so, when crossing this green gauze tent, everyone was still like a great enemy, the bullet was loaded and the bayonet was unsheathed, and as they walked, a rough and desolate minor tune came from the distance, "Xue Ding Xiliang borrowed 100,000 soldiers......

The soldiers were very nervous, looking around, the dense green gauze tent, where to see people, the air flow in the green gauze tent was not smooth, the heat was unbearable, everyone was sweating, only Chen Hujun and Liu County Magistrate walked side by side, talking and laughing.

"What is this man singing?" Chan asked.

"Oh, he sings the local opera of Nantai, commonly known as pulling the soul cavity, taking the aftertaste for a long time, seducing the soul of the meaning, but this is just a beautiful word, in fact, most of the people who sing this are begging, alas, bandits are rampant, and the people are not happy." County Magistrate Liu talked eloquently, his expression relaxed, obviously not taking this inexplicable singer seriously.

"It's the bandits who are singing." Chen Zikun said leisurely.

The magistrate of Liu County seemed to be smiling: "Nantai County has been fierce since ancient times, the villagers farm during the day, rob the road at night, and are farmers and bandits, who can tell clearly, in fact, this world is not like this, the thief of the hook is punished by the thief of the country, and the coaxing of you to sing and I will appear, the city head changes the banner of the king, and the readers can't see the future clearly, and they can't distinguish between black and white, let alone these rural villagers." ”

Chen Zikun nodded and said: "County Magistrate Liu has a wide range of knowledge, and he has a lot of exports, and he even quoted a poem by Mr. Lu Xun, he is a left-winger." ”

Liu Youjin looked at Chen Zikun in surprise, obviously not expecting that the new military envoy turned out to be a learned person.

There is no danger all the way, and finally arrived at Nantai County, a boxy city is surrounded by a moat, the city gate building is engraved with two mottled characters: "Nantai", above is the arrow tower and the battlement, in the crack of the blue wall bricks, the weeds grow wildly, see the team coming, a sound, the suspension bridge slowly put down.