Chapter 695: Massacre and Ambush
The moon is dark and the wind is high at night, when people are killed and set on fire.
In the quiet of the night, on the periphery of the jungle village, there was a sudden sound of footsteps, and on the roads leading to the outside around the village, a group of black and pressed figures appeared, and the weapons in their hands occasionally reflected a few rays of starlight, adding a bit of murderous aura.
Kawashita's observation a few days ago revealed that the terrain of this small village on the hillside is dangerous, and it is surrounded by walls made of wooden stakes, which can prevent the entry of wild beasts, and at the same time has a certain protective effect, but it is not difficult for agile people to climb over.
In addition, there are three exits to the village, two of which lead to the bottom of the mountain, and the last one leads to the top of the mountain, and there is a road to the back mountain. From this point of view, the natives of this village are still very cunning and know to leave a way for themselves to escape, but this road has long been discovered by Kawashitashi, so it naturally loses the effect of escaping.
Kawashitashi divided his troops into three roads this time, two of which were only ten people each, and they were responsible for taking down the two gates down the mountain, and then guarding them to the death, not letting any natives escape, as for the remaining sixty people, Kawashitashi personally led the team, bypassing the village to the gate leading to the back mountain, and took this place as the main attack point.
"Chief, these natives are very lax in defense, and there is not even a guard here at the back door!" The man sent to find out the news soon came back to report. Now they are only a mile away from the back door of the village, and they can attack at any time, but in order to catch the other party, Kawashita Ishi is still very careful.
"Shadow, cheetah, you two climb in through the wall next to you and open the back door. Try not to alarm the natives inside! Kawashita Shi suddenly opened his mouth and ordered. Shadow and Cheetah are the two best wiggles on the team, and this kind of thing is best for them to do.
"Whoa!" Two short figures whispered. Then they sprang out like two tanuki, and the sound of their steps was almost inaudible. At this time, Kawashitashi also ordered the people behind him to follow quietly, and when the shadow and cheetah opened the door, they immediately killed them.
This small native village is located deep in the jungle, and no outsiders have ever found them before, and there are usually some wild beasts at most to harass them, so there is no major danger at all. In addition, after Kawashitashi discovered the village, he had been hiding from a distance to observe, and the natives of the village did not notice their arrival, so the defense of the entire village seemed to be very lax. The two of them jumped into the village with great ease, and then quietly opened the back door without alarming anyone.
Seeing the back door of the village slowly open, Kawashita Shi felt that the blood in his body was gradually boiling, and the huge sum of 50,000 guan seemed to be smiling and beckoning to him, as long as he took the money back to the family, then the next head of the family, absolutely no one could compete with him, and even he seemed to have seen himself leading the family to glory. and returned to the scene where the Su I clan was trampled under his feet.
"Ignition! Kill! With Kawashita's order, the team members behind him immediately opened the baggage they had brought, and placed the torches prepared in advance, and then lit them with two per person. Stormed into the village and started setting fires everywhere.
The houses in the village are all thatched huts common to the Nanyang natives, and the slopes of the hill are sunny and dry, and most of the surrounding trees have been cut down. This makes it easy for the houses in the village to set on fire.
At first, the natives of the village didn't know what was going on. All they heard was someone running outside, and their noses smelled a puff of fireworks. But then they felt a choking puff of white smoke suddenly rise from the house. At this time, many natives began to rush out of the houses to check, only to see strange figures setting fire to the village.
Some of the natives reacted quickly, and immediately began to shout, wanting to go back to the house and take up arms to resist, but their shouts also attracted the attention of the arsonists, and before they could turn around, someone rushed to them, and then a white light flashed, blood gushed out, and a human head rolled several times on the ground, covered with blood and dirt.
The same thing is happening throughout the village, the natives and men who were forced out of the house by the fire and smoke are facing the fate of being killed, although the later natives began to take up arms to resist, but they are faced with a group of vicious Japanese robbers, not only are the weapons prepared much stronger than them, but also the combat experience is incomparable, even the most brave warriors in the village are not an ordinary opponent of the Japanese people, let alone those old people and children.
The population of this village was about the same as Kawashitashi had estimated in advance, and there were only about sixty men in their prime, and in the first round of resistance, they were quickly slaughtered, and the remaining old people, women, and children together should have numbered more than a hundred. The environment in the jungle is harsh, it is difficult for the elderly and children to survive, coupled with the ravages of the plague in the past few years, the elderly and children with low resistance have died the most, so among the more than 100 people, the number of women is the largest.
In the past, Kawashitashi would have killed the old man and the child, and the women would have killed the elderly, and the remaining young women would have been taken outside and sold for a good price, but this time they only needed each other's heads, and just in case, all men, women, and children were killed, and the whole village was full of blood, and there were headless corpses everywhere, and under the light of the torches, it looked like a Shura hell.
The massacre lasted until dawn, during which the remnants of the natives tried to break through the gate several times to escape, but they were quickly killed by the Japanese people under Kawashitashi, not only failed to break through the gate, but also left a place of dead bodies, and finally when the sun showed a ray of light from the east, there was no living natives in the entire village except for the people of the Kawashita slave catcher.
"Leader Qiqi, all the natives who were killed have been counted, and a total of one hundred and seventy-two heads have been obtained. Two members of the team were killed and eleven wounded, but none of the injuries were serious. Kawashita was 20,000 excited to report to his brother that this time they had not only completed the employment of the dwarf black chieftain, but also obtained seventy-two more heads, and now Java was full of rich people who bought the heads of the natives, so they were not worried that these heads could not be sold.
Kawashita Ishi also smiled excitedly after hearing this, and the other team members whispered happily while calculating how much benefit they could get from it, although most of these benefits belonged to Kawashita, but they could also get a pretty generous reward. As for the two unlucky ones who died, no one would care at all.
However, Kawashitashi was relatively calm after all, and quickly calmed down the excitement in his heart, took a long breath and said: "Okay, let's stop talking about it, deal with these heads, and then take two of each back to the city!" ”
The team members also said yes loudly and began to help deal with the head. In this hot climate, if you don't deal with it, the human head will quickly rot, and it will be very uncomfortable to carry on the body, so you need to treat it with lime or salt, as long as it can be stored for a few more days, and then go into the city and sell it, and the rest will be left to them.
After disposing of the human heads, Kawashita Ishiki and the others ate something with their bloodstained hands, and after killing the people who had been killed all night, they were already hungry, and as for the situation of dead bodies all around, they had long been accustomed to it over the years, and it did not affect their appetite in the slightest. Some of the team members even found some bacon or fruit from the remaining houses of the natives, which was regarded as a meal for themselves.
After breakfast, Kawashitashi immediately ordered the team to start returning to the city, after all, the Han people have a saying called 'long nights and dreams', and it is better to sell these people as soon as possible and get the money in their hands.
The Kawashita slave hunting team walked along the path of the hillside to the jungle below the mountain, walking in front of the Kawashita Stone, also carrying two human heads, although from the canvas wrapped around the human head, exuding a disgusting bloody gas, but smelling Kawashitashi's nose, it seemed to have a smell of money, especially thinking of the scene when he returned to the family with money, which made Kawashita Stone even more excited and couldn't help himself, and even now he has begun to plan the family plan in his heart.
It's a pity that Kawashita Ishi was too careless, and he forgot that the Han people also have an old saying called 'Praying mantis catches cicadas, and yellow finches are behind'. Just as they had reached the foot of the mountain and were about to enter the jungle, suddenly there was a sound of bowstrings from the jungle in front of them, followed by a rain of arrows shooting from the front, left, and right directions towards the Kawashita slave catchers.
"Ah~" Caught off guard, the members of the Kawashita slave hunting team were hit by arrows one after another, and more than a dozen of them were shot at the vital point, falling to the ground and convulsing non-stop, seeing that they were not alive, and many others were also shot, but at least they could still move, screaming and starting to look for a place to hide.
Kawashita, as the leader, has experienced countless lives and deaths, and when the bowstring sounded in the jungle, he had already reacted and rolled on the spot to hide behind a tree next to the path, but even so, he was hit by an arrow in his left hand, and his entire palm was shot through.
But it's very unfortunate that Kawashita's younger brother Kawashita Yuji is a newcomer, and there is no such instinctive reaction of his at all, plus he is standing next to Kawashita Ishii, and the arrows that dodge to his side are also the most dense, so in the face of the arrows that are shot, Kawashita Yuji can't dodge at all, and the whole person was shot into a hedgehog at once, and the dead can't die anymore.
Although watching his younger brother die in front of him, this made Kawashita Stone very sad, but he knew that now was not the time to grieve, the other party was obviously prepared, and deliberately waited here to ambush them, if he didn't want to escape, then even he himself would die here. (To be continued......)