Since Li Mancang had given the order to take down the machine gun in the bandit's hand as soon as possible before the secret raid began, when his two soldiers rushed in front of the bandit shooter who had been killed by the indiscriminate gun, and grabbed the machine gun in his hand, he immediately shouted loudly.

However, when the platoon commander of the Jin army rushed over in person, he found that the two soldiers were muttering with the captured "big guys" in confusion.

"Platoon commander, it seems that there is a mistake, what we took down is not a machine gun, it is a small cannon, and the machine gun should still be in the hands of the bandits!" A soldier saw Li Mancang arrive and immediately reported to him.

The platoon commander of the Jin army was taken aback, and hurriedly looked up ahead, lest the machine gun still in the hands of the bandits would suddenly fire at this time.

However, this concern was apparently unfounded, and there was no more roar of machine guns around, only the sporadic sound of rifle fire—the rest of his men were chasing down the bandits who had slipped through the net.

"Order, keep searching me, make sure you find that machine gun!"

Li Mancang nervously gave the order. At the same time, in the dark, he approached the small cannon mentioned by his subordinates, thinking that the equipment of this group of bandits was really unusual, in addition to the machine gun, there was also a small cannon!

When he touched this trophy with his hand, the platoon commander of the Jin army was stunned for a moment: the feeling of this big guy touching his hand clearly had a handle and a trigger - where did such a cannon come from in the world! - However, when I touched the front end, it was clearly a thick barrel.

Li Mancang, who was full of curiosity, simply grabbed the handle and picked it up, and suddenly felt the heavy weight. In order to find out what it was as soon as possible, he carried this inexplicable big guy and ran to the nearest house with lights on.

A torch had been lit in the courtyard of the house, and under the light of the fire, six or seven guys who were obviously bandits knelt side by side in the courtyard, and three Jin soldiers were guarding with spears.

"Platoon commander, what are you carrying?" His second-class leader, who had just come out of the hall of this mansion, stared at Li Mancang in surprise and asked.

At this time, Li Mancang had already vaguely seen the whole picture of the big guy in his hand in the light, and as soon as he heard the second squad leader ask, he handed over this thing that was like a gun and a cannon to the other party: "I can't see it for sure, take it into the house and take a closer look." ”

In this hall that had just been ransacked by bandits, under the bright wind lamp, the platoon commander of the Jin army finally figured out the big guy on the table: there is no doubt that it is indeed a machine gun, and what is surprising is that the barrel of this machine gun is covered with a thick metal barrel, which at first glance definitely looks like a cannon barrel - no wonder the two subordinates claimed to have captured a small cannon just now.

What the Jin officers and soldiers saw at this moment was actually an old British-made gun: the Lewis light machine gun. This kind of machine gun with a round drum above the gun body and a radiator on the outside of the barrel is rare now, and it is not equipped with the domestic army, so the officers and soldiers, including the platoon commander of the Jin army, are fortunate to know it for the first time.

"Good fellow, this thick plate above turned out to be loaded with bullets!" The second squad leader gently rubbed the drum of the Lewis light machine gun, praising the gun's strange and delicate construction.

"What the hell are the bandits of Blackstone Cliff?" Li Mancang also looked amazed: "Even this kind of big guy can get it!" ”

Suddenly, not far away, gunfire began to rage again, the Jin army platoon commander and squad leader looked up at each other, the former said to the latter: "I'll go over and take a look, you are here to take a good look at the machine gun and the prisoner, the machine gun must not be lost, if the prisoner dares to resist, simply correct the law on the spot!" ”

Rushing out in the direction of the gunfire, Li Mancang didn't run far before he joined up with several of his subordinates, who told him that the courtyard in front of him had just been surrounded by them, and the platoon deputy was commanding on the other side; There were probably two or three bandits in the courtyard who opened fire from time to time and resisted.

The platoon commander of the Jin army listened attentively to the sound of the entire village, and then determined that the bandits surrounded by the courtyard in front of him should be the last group still stranded in the village. The rest are either dead or captured, or have fled the village.

"Bang!"

Another shot was fired from the courtyard, and it quickly provoked a flurry of gunfire in return.

With the help of the cover of night, Li Mancang quietly touched the other side of the courtyard and found his deputy platoon commander.

"How many bandits are there, can you estimate it?"

"Three at most, all of them are rifles," replied the deputy platoon commander in a low voice, "They just tried to smash open the door of this house and hide in the house, but we opened fire and pushed them back." ”

"Well done!" Li Mancang praised from the bottom of his heart: "From time to time, there is a little movement on all sides to attract the bandits to shoot—they won't have too many bullets on their bodies, just wait to be captured when they run out!" ”

The strategy of the platoon commander of the Jin army was really successful, and after several rumors, the bandits' guns were completely dumb. After waiting a little longer, several soldiers began to crawl boldly towards the courtyard, until they crouched at the base of the outer wall of the courtyard and struck the stone wall with *, and no fire was seen from inside.

Li Mancang then yelled: Rush in! Suddenly, six or seven soldiers climbed into the courtyard wall, which was not very high. Fights, roars, and curses soon rang out from the courtyard, confirming the bandits' predicament of running out of bullets.

As the deputy platoon commander led several more people to rush into the courtyard, the fierce hand-to-hand combat finally ended.

One of the three bandits who stubbornly resisted until the last moment and was captured alive was the big leader of the Black Rock Cliff Bandit Gang and the leader of this trip: Iron Hand.

Hearing this, Mai Village returned to calm, and the Jin platoon commander let out a sigh of relief—it seemed that this group of bandits was not very capable of resisting by force—and ordered the various combat teams to escort the prisoners towards the wheat field. Also pay attention to the search for remnants.

After this toss, almost the whole village was disturbed, and the sporadic lights reflected from the window lattices of most of the houses. In the northeast corner of the village, the houses that were broken into by the bandits were crying and wailing.

In the threshing field in the village, more torches were lit, and the Jin officers and soldiers counted the number of prisoners, and a total of seventeen bandits were captured alive and four were killed. A batch of military rifles was confiscated, plus a peculiarly shaped machine gun.

Li Mancang ordered all the captives to be searched, tied up with hemp ropes, and sat on the ground, and arranged for six soldiers to be guarded and wait for dawn.

At the same time, he had the deputy platoon commander send a whole squad of men to the village to set up a sentry around the village—according to the bandits' accounts and comparing the number of prisoners and the dead, it was clear that almost ten people had escaped from the village, and they had to be guarded against returning again.

Finally, it was dawn, and the villagers who came to find out gradually surrounded the wheat field three layers inside and three layers outside, and the legendary bandits in the past have become a reality today, which makes everyone particularly shocked, panicked and angry.

After overnight interrogation and extortion of confessions, the identity of the big boss of the iron hand has been revealed, and Li Mancang has detained him in solitary confinement in the village office.

At present, there are two difficult problems facing the platoon commander of the Jin army: first, whether the troops who have successfully completed the task of requisitioning grain will leave the village today; Second, what to do with these captives?

Soon, the old patriarch of Maicun personally intervened and tried his best to keep Li's troops for a few more days—he was worried that although the Jin army had subdued this bandit, the escaped bandits were very likely to lead a large group of men and horses to retaliate. If there were no troops stationed in the village, the entire village would be looted.

It was both warm and difficult, and felt the responsibility on his shoulders, so the platoon commander of the Jin army decided to temporarily station the team in the village to observe the situation.

At this time, the bandit's big leader Tie Shou began to have an emotional outburst, feeling that the end was coming, he simply let it go, loudly scolded the Jin officers and soldiers for their sneaky attacks, and shouted to threaten the other party to release them immediately, otherwise, the Black Rock Cliff Cottage would send more brothers to wash the village in blood.

After receiving the report of the soldiers guarding the iron hand, Li Mancang, who returned to the village office, was also insulted, and the angry Jin army platoon commander slapped the other party several times.

Unexpectedly, the fierce leader of the bandit not only did not give in, but instead challenged Li Mancang, who was carrying a big knife on his back, claiming that if he was a good man, he would fight with him alone, and if he lost, let the Jin army kill him; But if he wins, he must be let go of the mountain.

How could the arrogant former members of the 29th Army's broadsword team swallow this evil breath, and immediately accepted the other party's challenge, ordered the iron hand to be untied, and returned the cold weapon he was carrying, which was a short and thick iron sword.

In order to destroy the prestige of the bandits in public, Li Mancang even deliberately chose the location of the two-person fight in the wheat field where the crowds gathered at this moment.

After learning of the situation, the deputy platoon commander was taken aback and hurried to dissuade him, but Li Mancang had already made up his mind and could not say much at all.

In this way, a cold-weapon battle of the leaders of the two warring sides unfolded in full view of everyone.

The big boss of the Black Stone Cliff, Tie Shou, also practiced martial arts in his early years, and the iron sword he carried with him was less than three feet long, but it was black and heavy, and the blade was also very sharp. And the broadsword of the Jin army platoon commander never leaves his body, and it is a treasure made of stainless steel. As soon as the two of them lit up on the wheat field, they immediately set off a soaring murderous aura.

Seeing that he could not stop the situation, the deputy platoon commander of the Jin army quietly planted two soldiers with good marksmanship among his subordinates in advance, and the bullets were loaded to aim at the big leader of the bandits.

The iron hand who has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time knows in his heart that the burning, killing, and plundering of the village by him and his minions at night is a major crime, and now it has fallen into the hands of the officials and soldiers, and even if he wins the competition, the possibility of the other party practicing a way to let it live is very small; But it's better to let go of the fight than to wait for death, and if you can gain the upper hand in the fight, capture the commander of the Jin army, and coerce him into hostage, there will be room for maneuver. With this thought, he was armed with an iron sword, and even though he had the ability to watch his family, he began to attack like a mad tiger.