Chapter 4 Refugees?
Soon it was completely dark, and the soldiers found their place to stay, in a three-story house not far from the road.
The veteran didn't know where to pick up a pile of firewood, so fifteen of them huddled into a room to warm up by the fire.
Although the southern part of the country is in the south, and it is now June, for some unknown reason, the temperature drops dramatically at night, sometimes at zero degrees Celsius, and the further north you go, the more frequent it becomes.
In everyone's small talk, Li Zicheng knew that these three civilians went to Chengjiang to do business, don't ask why there are still businessmen in this era, because whether it is a war era or a peace era, there will be no fewer businessmen.
And looking at the dress and conversation of the three of them, Li Zicheng knew that they should be food merchants who were going to Chengjiang to do food business. This type of merchant specializes in buying food at a low price and then selling it at a high price to inflate the price of food.
Of course, doing this business is so profitable, so there are many people. However, gangs still make up the majority, because they have some local governments as backers, so they are not afraid of offending people.
And those food merchants who have no backing, some of them were assassinated because they offended people, some were directly looted, and some were arrested by the central government.
For this crime of disrupting the market price order, the government will also suppress it and impose fines.
However, in some areas, because of the protection of the local government, some black-hearted businesses have not been disposed of.
However, for this kind of food merchant, Li Zicheng felt in his heart: If you die, you will be innocent of death, and you will do this kind of thing of eating human blood steamed buns.
After a small talk, everyone simply ate some biscuits and drank a little water, and then they all fell asleep.
However, for the sake of safety, two soldiers were left to keep vigil, and some gravel was scattered near the house, which made a loud noise when stepped on. This is to prevent some refugees in the vicinity from running to steal supplies while they are asleep.
The theft of military materiel is also frequent, because the number of people in a squad is only 10, and the number of people in a squadron is only 50.
The supply team responsible for distributing supplies to civilians and refugees consisted of only 12 people. Therefore, there are often some refugees who form gangs to grab supplies, and they form teams of at least 30 people.
Many of the more fortunate material teams did not encounter the kind of outlaws, and they could threaten them with guns to drive them away, while the unlucky material teams were either emptied or wiped out, which was quite bad in nature.
Despite this, the government has not increased the number of troops in the supply team, so this has led to frequent incidents of robbery.
Sometimes, they didn't even spare the oil and some parts of the car, so the veteran was not worried about his precious truck, fearing that he would wake up tomorrow morning and there would be only one wheel left, so he ran to the car with his gun in his hand and went to sleep.
Li Zicheng and others were left here to rest, and to guard backpacks and other items.
In the middle of the night, when everyone was asleep, there seemed to be countless pairs of greedy eyes staring at the people in this room in the dark night.
They are the masters of this town, the refugees. From the moment Li Zicheng and the others entered the town, these refugees had been eyeing them.
The two soldiers on guard were still chatting, talking about some topics, and they didn't notice the anomaly in the night.
The refugees soon approached the house in the darkness of the night, and one by one they seemed to have adapted to the night, avoiding all the scattered gravel on the ground, as if they could see everything clearly in the darkness.
Each of them had wooden sticks in their hands, and some of them had axes and kitchen knives, as if they were ready to die.
The leader of them was a young man who didn't look very old, and when he waved his hand, the two refugees beside him picked up their axes and walked towards the two soldiers who were chatting enthusiastically.
At this time, on the side of the two soldiers, a soldier who looked tall and thin suddenly turned around and wanted to urinate, so he said to the other soldier who looked fat:
"You turn around first, I want to make it easier..."
Because the two of them were standing on the steps at the door of the room, because the steps were relatively high, about half a meter, he was going to pee directly from this step.
"Yo, what a bird! They all turned their backs, and they were afraid that they would leak out for me to see? ”
Seeing that he was a little shy, the fat soldier couldn't help but smile obscenely, and turned his back and said in a mocking tone.
"Go, go... While going, Lao Tzu is in a hurry! ”
The tall and thin soldier saw that he had turned his back, and did not press him too much, and walked to the edge of the steps.
But just as he took off his pants and was about to open the floodgates to release the water. Finding that less than a meter away from the steps, there were two black shadows, and he squinted his eyes to take a closer look, and there were two people staring at him with murderous intent.
Just when he thought he was mistaken, one of the two men, picking up the axe in his hand, slammed it at him, just hitting him in the head.
The tall and thin soldier just died.
Another fat soldier saw him soaking urine and grinding and chirping, so he impatiently urged him:
"Okay, no? After peeing for so long, you still want to taste it, don't you? ”
Seeing that he did not reply, he called out his name in confusion, and when he found that there was still no sound, he turned and saw the tall, thin soldier, standing there straight and motionless.
Puzzled, he stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, but as soon as the hand that patted him on the shoulder was removed, he saw the tall and thin soldier fall straight down.
When the fat soldier saw this scene, he was shocked, but he was the same, and he was also solved by the oncoming axe before he had time to call someone.
Seeing that the guards had been dealt with by their men, their leader followed with the rest of them, and they soon surrounded the house. The leader took ten people and quietly sneaked into the house, and when he saw Li Zicheng and the others who were still asleep, he smiled evilly.
He made a gesture, and one of them, an old man with gray hair and beard and a black mask, stood up tremblingly.
I saw that he was holding a glass bottle filled with black liquid in his hand, and then motioned for everyone to put on their masks, and then opened the glass bottle filled with black liquid.
When the glass bottle is opened, the black liquid in the bottle comes into contact with the air, and slowly volatilizes a green gas. This is a drug that can quickly stun people, and when it touches the air, it will produce a poisonous gas, which can make people faint in just a few tens of seconds.
The raw materials of this medicine are easy to find, but it is extremely difficult to make, because it requires fifty production processes, and the slightest mistake will have to start all over again, or die, and there are not many people in this world who can do it, but this old man can have a whole bottle, so his identity is definitely not simple.
This green gas soon filled the entire room, and the breathing sound of Li Zicheng and the others who were asleep in the room gradually decreased.
Seeing that the medicine was working, the leader of the refugees waved his hand to signal that it was time to call it a day, then turned around and left the room, asking the people under his hand to clean up Li Zicheng and the others.
"Handcuff them so they don't come to their senses and run away after the drug has taken effect, then count the supplies they have brought with them and make a list for me."
The leader said to the man who was carrying the backpack and some supply boxes:
"Guns and bullets should also be checked clearly, and no items must be hidden privately, otherwise you will bear the consequences..."
"Yes."