Chapter 8: The Hook Army

"Old Hu, this coffin can't be moved, let's go", after saying that, Yan Wenbin pulled Hu Haitian and was about to leave.

"Why do you want to go, Xiao Gang, why", Lao Hu was about to open the coffin, and opening the coffin meant that gold could be found, but at this time, Yan Wenbin dropped the chain and left, saying that Lao Hu didn't agree.

"Why, why, because whoever opens the coffin will die, I can't afford to provoke the things in the coffin, take the things on the ground and leave quickly, even if you can't get the gold in the coffin, these things can make us worry about food and clothing for a while."

"I don't, I won't go out if I say anything, you're afraid but I'm not afraid, Xiaogang, otherwise, you're on the side, I'll open the coffin, and the two will be divided equally after I take out the things, what do you think" Lao Hu said with pleading eyes.

"None of us can open this coffin, it's too late to leave now, otherwise we miss the time, we can't leave if we want to, the time is almost up, there are still a few minutes before the morning, the morning is the heaviest cloud, don't open the coffin if you don't want to die, hurry up" Yan Wenbin said with a strong face.

But as soon as Yan Wenbin turned around, he heard the bell ringing, followed by the sound of iron chains shaking on the ground, as if someone was walking on the ground with anklets, and the sound came from far and near, but they couldn't see anyone appear at all, but the sound was getting closer and closer, as if someone was walking in front of them.

"Xiao Yan, have you cheated the corpse?" Lao Hu's face turned pale with fright.

"No, it's artificial", Yan Wenbin heard footsteps, and it was still far away.

"Is it a guardian or a ghost?" After Lao Hu said this word, Yan Wenbin's face was also pale with fright, this Lao Hu really knew how to pick the time, the two of them were originally very scared, and now Lao Hu said the ghost word, and Yan Wenbin wanted to run away immediately.

"It's not a ghost, it's a tomb robber", although Yan Wenbin is far away, he can smell the smell of mold and rot on the other party's body, that smell is too familiar, Yan Wenbin has been sleeping in all kinds of coffins dug out of other people's graves since he was a child, so he is very familiar with this smell.

"Then let's go", Lao Hu saw that the cooked duck was about to arrive but flew away, and his heart was not a taste, but someone came, and now he was caught without leaving, and he didn't have a life, even if he had gold, he didn't have a life to spend, although Lao Hu was greedy for money, but it hadn't reached the point where he didn't even want his life for money.

"Let's go, there's still time, it's too late" Yan Wenbin picked up the dart on the ground, this thing can save his life at a critical time.

"Damn, grandpa, even if I destroy it, I won't let this coffin be taken away by others", Lao Hu spat on the coffin when he left, and then kicked the coffin hard, and even wanted to burn the coffin, but Yan Wenbin had already stopped him, and Lao Hu also knew that there was not much time to escape, so he followed Yan Wenbin reluctantly left.

"Don't worry about the dead, he's dead, why bother, leave quickly, life matters."

But the sarcophagus was kicked by Lao Hu, and suddenly turned around in place, and the entire front hall began to tremble, as if the entire underground palace was about to collapse.

Yan Wenbin glanced back and found that yellow muddy water began to seep out of the gap above the tomb door, while the Broken Dragon Stone was slowly rising, I don't know if the people outside broke the mechanism of the Broken Dragon Stone, or Lao Hu touched the device that opened the Broken Dragon Stone.

Suddenly, one of the stone slabs on the high platform was removed, and there were five or six 38 large covers inside, two crooked handles and two military backpacks, and there were a lot of bullets and grenades next to it, but Yan Wenbin had already seen someone approaching outside.

"It's easy to do with this thing", Yan Wenbin picked up two 38 big covers and put them on his back, then picked up the crooked handle, skillfully replaced the magazine, and found that the place covered by the backpack was four or five Wang Ba boxes, and the bullets were sufficient.

But the Broken Dragon Stone had risen to a certain height, and they could all see people hurriedly spreading out in old cloth shoes, and the outside was already surrounded by people.

"On it, Lao Hu, you climb on the chandelier above, I hide behind the coffin, if those buried earth rats don't rush in, I'll shoot first, and when all my bullets are gone, they are all exposed, you take the opportunity to surprise them, remember not to be merciful, this time either you die or they live."

"But Xiaogang, I don't know how to use a gun", Lao Hu has only touched the 38 big cover, but the crooked handle has never been used, although his family is a landlord, but a crooked handle at that time asked for a big yellow croaker, not all landlords can touch, and there are very few crooked handles in the army.

At that time, both warlords and bandits mostly used Hanyang-made rifles (commonly known as old sleeves), Makqin machine guns, 6.8 mm rifles, 75 mm mountain guns and 75 mm field guns as standard weapons.

"This is the bracket, it can be opened and closed, this is the crosshair, this is the trigger, you can fire the bullet when you pull it in place, remember that it is better to put the butt against your shoulder when shooting, so that you can reduce recoil."

"Xiaogang, do you know how to play with guns"? Lao Hu felt that he didn't have much of a problem, but the thin and weak Yan Wenbin could be blown away by the wind, not to mention the use of guns, there was no big problem with the use of rifles, but could he use crooked handles? Lao Hu heard that the recoil of the crooked handle is very large, and people who can't use it are easy to get injured.

"Yes, when I was a child, I hunted with hunters, and I also specialized in hunting foxes, it's easy to use, and there's no problem with crooked handles, you be careful not to fall off, you still don't want to go above, just hide in the dark, don't be discovered."

Gang Wenbin often secretly and the old hunter in the village to go up the mountain to fight mink, mink is very harsh on the hunter's marksmanship, mink is naturally cunning and cautious, only when the day is just dawn, the ground is not very clear, is the best time to ambush mink.

Because many animals are still in a state of rest at this time, the mink takes the opportunity to forage for food, and the surrounding environment is relatively relaxed, but for the hunter is the most sleepy time, because the person has been guarding all night, in the most tired stage, and the line of sight is not very good, there will be a big error.

If the bullet is offset, it will hit the wrong part, and no one wants the mink that has been peeled off, so if you want to get a complete mink, you can only shoot the mink in the eye, so that the mink is intact.

Yan Wenbin has always been able to get a complete mink, so his marksmanship is very accurate, and he can hit the mink with a musket with poor stability, not to mention the 38 big cover with good stability in that era.

Although the power of the 38 big cover with 65 bullets is obviously insufficient, the 38 big cover that has galloped in Chinese mainland for decades is still used in the war, which shows that this rifle developed in 1905 still has a certain use value.

One of the most important advantages of the Type 38 rifle is that the recoil is very small, which is very important for novices, and the slender one is also advantageous in hand-to-hand combat, and its range is very long, compared to the Hanyang-made and musket at that time, it is already the best.

The broken dragon stone at the tomb gate had already risen to the top, and before Yan Wenbin could see who was outside, he saw two grenades flying towards them.

Gang Wenbin raised his gun and pulled the trigger twice in a row on the two grenades, and the grenades exploded in mid-air.

Five people wearing black leather cloaks, black boots, iron hooks in their hands, and masks on their faces suddenly broke into the door, they were wearing cloaks and masks, but the speed of action was very fast, almost only a few seconds, one of them broke in, standing on the coffin of Yan Wenbin's bunker, and the distance between him and Yan Wenbin was dozens of centimeters.

Yan Wenbin had already pulled out the Wang Ba box, that person just jumped on the coffin, and died tragically under the muzzle of Yan Wenbin's gun, Lao Hu also pulled the crooked machine gun on the top, and a half-meter-long fire dragon shot out in front of the muzzle, directly beating several people who broke in into a sieve.

"Xiao Gang, there are no others, if not, I should come down", Lao Hu was lying on the lamp, and if he was not careful, he would fall down, and that posture was a kind of torture for Lao Hu.

"No, but you come down first, if he hadn't found you hiding on it just now, I would have died, didn't he let you go up? Yan Wenbin looked up and found that Lao Hu was on the lamp, as for when Lao Hu went up, he really didn't know.

In fact, this person just now found Lao Hu above, and the dart in his hand was fired at Lao Hu, but it shook so much that the dart was hit by the lamp.

Otherwise, when he came in, he would face himself, and Yan Wenbin estimated that he was already dead, because these people acted very quickly, and they were in front of them in a blink of an eye, which caught people off guard.

If Yan Wenbin guessed correctly, these people are estimated to be in the lead, and there are many people behind, I hope the gunfire just now did not alarm them.

Yan Wenbin took out a bullet from his backpack to fill the chamber of the gun, and then walked towards the people who were killed.

"This is a hook soldier, I don't know which unit it is", Yan Wenbin looked at the clothes of several people lying on the ground, and knew the identities of these people.

"Xiao Gang, what is a hook soldier", Lao Hu heard such a name for the first time.

The hook soldier is the tomb robber, just obey the army, it is equivalent to Cao Cao's special tomb robbery troops, the hook soldier understands feng shui, tomb organs and various hidden weapons, and will also destroy the corpse, in short, it is the all-round elite of tomb robbing, they are recruited into the army to rob the tomb.

Legend has it that the nose of the hook soldier is very sensitive, and he can find the location of the tomb with his eyes closed, and they can know what era these antiques are when they smell them.

In addition to their noses, the most powerful thing about the hook soldiers is their eyes, their pupils are like cats', they will reflect light at night, and they can see everything in front of them clearly in the dark environment, just like night vision devices.

If you hadn't killed them just now, it would have been the two of us lying on the ground now, Yan Wenbin stood up, and the clothes on his chest were cut open by the darts, if he hadn't dodged just now, the darts would have been inserted into his heart.

These hook soldiers are not only fast, but also very vicious, they will not leave people a chance to survive at all, just now the darts were used as a cut can still cut their clothes, these people have enough strength in their wrists.

"No wonder you killed them all, there was a reason", Lao Hu stepped forward to take off the masks of a few hook soldiers, and sure enough, the pupils of several people were like cats, and their faces were all burned, and they couldn't tell their faces at all.

"Xiao Gang, why don't they have hands", Lao Hu took off the black leather cloaks on the hook soldiers, and found that several people did not have below the wrists, but two iron hooks.

"This is their uniqueness, because some coffins have poison in them, if people touch their skin, they will die on the spot, so they cut off their hands since they were young, and embedded iron hooks in their wrists, all so that after the coffin is opened, they will not be poisoned if they take the treasure inside the coffin."

"How do you know this", Lao Hu admired Yan Wenbin more and more.

Because they and I are mortal enemies, many people on the ancestors of Gang Wenbin died at the hands of the hook soldiers, so the ancestors have a testament, seeing the hook soldiers is like seeing the enemy, and there can be no mercy.

In fact, they are all the same sect, belonging to the thief door, the thief door is divided into three, up and down the thief, the tomb robbery is also divided into official thieves and civil thieves, the Republic of China period is full of wars, successive years of conquest is the people's livelihood, plus famine and plague are rampant, tomb robbery is also prosperous.

From the death of Yuan Shikai, the leader of the Beiyang warlord group, and then it evolved into a warlord melee, and the warlords snatched the chassis everywhere. In order to expand the supply of troops and purchase equipment, these need to be self-sufficient by local warlords, and many warlords have begun to extend their poisonous hands to the ancient tombs of various eras.

The common people also work during the day and steal at night, the purpose is to take away the things in the ancient tomb in exchange for a bite to eat, and they are all forced to do it in order to survive.

"Lao Hu, let's go, we must have a bottom line in life, it's enough to take these", Yan Wenbin picked up the backpack on the ground and found that there was still a lot of ocean in it, but he hadn't taken a step yet, I don't know who punched him in the back, and Yan Wenbin fell down as soon as it was dark in front of his eyes.

"Little Third Master, wake up quickly", an old man's voice sounded in Yan Wenbin's ears.

"Little Third Master, why aren't you awake yet", the old man sprinkled cold water on Gang Wenbin's face.

Yan Wenbin opened his eyes suddenly, but found that he was tied up, in front of him was the local famous old Yin Yang, I don't know what the name of the old Yin Yang is, maybe the old Yin Yang doesn't want to be a pawn in the hands of the warlord to rob the tomb, so no one knows their names, but the old Yin Yang surname is Shen, and Yan Wenbin calls him Shen Yin Yang, and Shen Yin Yang is the apprentice of Yan Wenbin's grandfather.

"Shen Yinyang, how can it be you", Yan Wenbin's grandfather and Shen Yinyang have a good relationship, so they are very familiar with teaching Shen Yinyang Feng Shui.

"It's not me, you're dead", Shen Yinyang looked at Yan Wenbin without much problem, and then stepped aside.

"Sir, he's awake, this coffin is a bit evil, I think only the third master can crack it", Shen Yinyang said on the side, in fact, the coffin is opened, Shen Yinyang can open the coffin, which means that he is not afraid of the contents of the coffin, maybe he is doing this to ensure the lives of Yan Wenbin and Lao Hu.

In front of Shen Yinyang, she is a big beauty who looks like a shy flower in the closed moon, but this big beauty feels very cold, although she is shy of flowers in the closed moon and has the behavior of not eating fireworks in the world, but her cold face always rejects people thousands of miles away, cold as frost, and she feels like falling into an ice cave at a glance.

"Since you've woken up, are all the earth rats so rich now? The ones used are all three or eight big covers, and the Wang Ba box has crooked handles, and the weapons in their hands are worth ten big yellow croakers", the cold female chief spoke, but did not look at Yan Wenbin, but said with the jade pendant on Yan Wenbin's body.

The female commander wore the military uniform of the French Protector Army, especially the military boots on her feet, which were polished and shiny, and she could almost look like a person, and a small pistol was inserted in her waist, which was quite the temperament of a strong woman.

"Xiao Sanye", this is the director of the Special Service Division of the General Staff of the Military Command Bureau of the Protector Army, the chief said, there is a reward for doing a good job", Shen Yinyang squeezed his eyes when he spoke, and hinted at Yan Wenbin.

"Xiao Gang, the chief said that there is a reward, then we will cooperate well, Lao Hu also said on the side, everyone has guns on their heads, their own life and death are not under their control, plus Shen Yin and Yang's eyes, Lao Hu also understands people.

Gang Wenbin also understands that in this place where birds don't shit, it doesn't matter how many people die, and it's not news that the soldiers kill the ordinary people, anyway, in this era of war and chaos, people are dying every day, and they are not bad, in troubled times, human life is the lowest thing.

Gang Wenbin took a look at the stone pier, the sarcophagus outside the stone pier was also put aside, the golden silk nanmu coffin inside was placed on the stone pier, the coffin lid was opened, and many soldiers were wearing gas masks and holding guns to stand aside.

"Shen Yinyang, what's the situation in the coffin", Yan Wenbin is not stupid, the other party hasn't done it yet, which means that they have encountered a thorny problem, but most of them are Shen Yinyang favoring him, or he would have died a long time ago.

In fact, how did Yan Wenbin know that the person who saved him was not Shen Yinyang, but the blood jade on his neck, because Yan Wenbin found that the blood jade hanging around his neck had been taken away by Leng Da Beauty, and he couldn't let go of it after observing it for a long time.