In the consciousness of Li Mancang, a second lieutenant of the Jin army, the concept of "bandits" was still very weak, but he heard people from the occupied areas talk about the Japanese army's burning, killing, lewdness and plundering of the civilian people. Therefore, the fire and gunfire in the northeast corner of Maicun made him judge that the Japanese were coming at the first time!

This thought made the second lieutenant of the Jin army both nervous and excited - the Japanese devil with a milk leg can finally face each other again! - He immediately began to deploy the limited forces at hand, and a squad rushed to the wheat field to protect the collected grain and grass; He himself led a squad to search in the direction of the incident; The deputy platoon commander led the last squad to follow fifty meters apart.

However, after running for a short distance in the pre-dawn darkness, the oncoming cold wind of the early morning cleared his mind, and Li Mancang suddenly realized that the fire and gunfire were coming from the northeast, and the Japanese troops stationed along the Tongpu Road and the Hanchang Highway in the intelligence should be located due west and south of this village! If the Japanese were attacking, their strikers would have emerged from these two directions.

Thinking of this joint, the second lieutenant of the Jin army waved his hand back violently, asking the soldiers to stop marching, and at the same time sent someone to order the deputy platoon commander to move forward immediately. At this moment, the sparse gunfire rang out again, and this time Li Mancang also faintly felt from the gunfire that it was not much like the Type 38 rifle commonly equipped by Japanese soldiers.

If it weren't for the Japanese army, who would be the one who broke into the village with this black light?!

The deputy platoon commander ran up panting, and they climbed a courtyard wall together to look at the heights, the fire in the direction of the incident flickered and flickered, and the fire seemed to be small, and the faint sound of surprise and the woman's terrible screams, mixed with the occasional gunshot, made the situation more and more confusing.

"The people who broke in were definitely not good people, and the number of people didn't seem to be large, so we rushed over in two ways!" Li Mancang made up his mind.

The Jin army jumped down from the wall with two platoon commanders, each with a squad of soldiers, separated from the left and right, and outflanked them in the direction of the fire.

The first person to come into contact with the intruder was Li Mancang's way. They followed the sound to the outside of a house, and looked through the open front door of the hall, which was already lit up, and wore the heart-rending cries and cries for help of a young woman. Li Mancang waved his hand with a formal rifle, and four or five soldiers rushed into the courtyard like a whirlwind, and with a burst of scolding and drinking orders and ping-pong fights, by the time the Jin army platoon commander personally broke in, his subordinates had already controlled the situation-

In the bedroom on one side of the hall, a few men were knocked down on the ground and on the fire kang, all of them were dressed in civilian clothes, but what they seized from them were two Hanyang-made rifles and a fire gun, as well as a bright machete. In the corner of the kang, a frightened huddle of four, young and old, apparently the head of the household, one of whom was a young woman who had been stripped of the almost*, and another elderly man with a bloody head lying motionless on the edge of the kang.

Li Mancang, who witnessed this tragic situation, was furious, and flew up and kicked a man who was pointed at a rifle and squatted on the ground with his head in his hands: "Who the fuck are you?!" ”

Unexpectedly, all the subdued men were silent, and the platoon commander of the Jin army was in a hurry, and roared "give me a fight", and suddenly, seven or eight rifles* struggled towards the bodies of this group of men, and the beaten people snorted and wailed for a while, and finally began to beg for mercy:

"The military master spares his life! We are the people of the Black Stone Cliff of Guanmen Mountain, and we were forced to do it by the master, and it is none of our business! ”

Hearing the unfamiliar title of the Black Stone Cliff of Guanmen Mountain, Li Mancang didn't wake up for a while, and a soldier next to him blurted out: Damn, they are bandits!

The truth was revealed in an instant, and it was the gangsters in the mountains who ran out to rob the house. Li Mancang himself served in the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army for more than two years, and almost never heard the legend of bandits at the Black Stone Cliff of Guanmen Mountain, so he immediately put his gun against the temple of a bandit who had been beaten to the point of a bruised nose and swollen face, and asked: "How many bandits have you come?" Where's the leader? ”

The bandit was afraid that the muzzle of the other party's black hole would shoot him a bullet, so he hurriedly confessed the truth like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

There were more than 30 of them! The platoon commander of the Jin army was secretly taken aback, and at the same time, he noticed again the Hanyang-made rifle that his subordinates had seized from this gang of bandits, and alertly asked what "guys" the other party had brought. This question didn't matter, and I learned that the bandits not only had more than 20 military rifles on hand (most of them were made in Hanyang, and a few were Zhongzheng), but they even had a machine gun! But when I asked what type of machine gun it was, the guy who was beaten couldn't understand it.

Li Mancang felt the seriousness of the situation, not only were the number of bandits in Guanmen Mountain almost equal to their own, but the number of rifles was also amazing, the most lethal thing was that they had a machine gun with superior firepower, and their side was all rifles. If you really want to go head-to-head at a distance, it's hard to say who has a bigger chance of winning!

The former members of the 29th Army's broadsword team who rolled out of the battle felt from experience that they had to only stick to their opponents in melee combat at this time, so as to prevent their machine guns from exerting their power. At present, the biggest advantage of the Jin army is that they have the origin of the other party, but the other party obviously does not know anything about the appearance of a regular army platoon - otherwise they would not have recklessly broken into the village.

Li Mancang immediately issued an order, urgently contacted the squad led by the deputy platoon and the squad guarding the wheat field, informed them of the actual situation of the bandits, and the whole platoon moved closer to the place where the incident occurred; In view of the situation that the bandits had already broken up into six or seven units and were breaking into their homes, each squad was divided into two, and six people were a combat group, under the command of the squad leader and the deputy squad leader, and they followed the sound and light to pounce on the target. The enemy is in the light, I am in the dark, try not to open fire and act quietly to solve it; Among them, pay attention to search for a light machine gun in the hands of the bandits, and once found, be sure to take it down with all your might.

The order of the second lieutenant of the Jin army was quickly carried out, and the three squads that arrived one after another were divided into six groups, and all the rifles were bayonet. In the darkness, a silent contest began.

As it turned out later, this set of tactics formulated by Li Mancang on an emergency basis was quite effective. The bandits of Black Rock Cliff, led by the big boss Iron Hand, believed that the village they had invaded had no force to fight back, and were completely immersed in the joy of forcibly breaking into the house and looting and lust, and even the minimum vigilance was thrown into Java.

The six combat teams of the Jin army platoon, faithfully carrying out the platoon commander's action plan, quietly approached every house where the bandits had entered the house, launched a sudden attack, and subdued a group of bandits with sharp bayonets and heavy * solutions. It was not until one of the groups was caught by an opponent that a rifle was grabbed by the opponent during the assault and fired a warning shot after the two bandits who escaped from the chaos.

The leader of the gang, Iron Hand, was in a deep mansion compound to inspect the gold bars and jewelry found by the minions, and ordered the young aunt of the large family to be tied to a rope to be taken away. The news of the discovery of the "official army" in the village that suddenly flew to the newspaper surprised Tie Shou. For a while, he even thought that his minions had looked away: in the middle of the night, in a village at the foot of a big mountain, where did the "official army" come from!

But the gang leader soon realized that something was wrong, because then he heard a not-so-dense gunshot—not a firearm that the villagers could possess, even if it wasn't dense!

Although he is a habitual bandit, the opponents that Iron Hand has faced in the past are nothing more than the families of large families and civilian armed forces such as village guards, but he has little experience in fighting with the regular army. Therefore, after discovering that the situation was not good, Tie Shou's first reaction was to flee, but he didn't expect to quickly use the machine gun controlled by a minion next to him - it was a Lewis light machine gun from the First World War, the range was not long, and the firepower was powerful.

So, he took a few minions and packed up the plundered gold and silver, and hurried out of the mansion with the young Peugeot's aunt and wife. As a result, it didn't take long to run out, and the bullets of the pursuers flew behind him.

The night was still very thick, and it was the first time that Iron Hand and his minions had entered the village, and in a panic, they quickly lost their way, and not only failed to exit the same way they had entered the village, but plunged headlong into the direction of the village.

At that time, the Jin army's platoon was divided into parts, and the four bandits who broke into the house had been successfully eliminated and were rounding up those who had escaped. One of the groups bit the Iron Hand tightly; Soon, the battle group that came from the other direction blocked the way of the Iron Hands.

In a hurry, the bandits finally remembered the Lewis machine gun in their hands, and the shooters set it up on a grinding disc and fired blindly.

The continuous firing of automatic firearms immediately provided a direction for the soldiers of the Jin army who were searching for this machine gun with all their might, and the platoon commander Li Mancang personally rushed over, and led a few people to touch the back of the machine gun erection point, and a volley of guns fired over, killing the machine gun shooter on the spot. Immediately, two soldiers charged as they fired, and went straight to the direction of the Lewis machine gun, which was successfully captured.

By the faint light of the fire, the platoon commander of the Jin army saw this scene and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: if the machine gun is solved, there is nothing to fear - the bandits lack the military qualities of professional soldiers, and with rifle weapons alone, they simply cannot be the opponent of the regular army.

Finding that the machine gun was seized, Tie Shou felt more and more that great danger was approaching, and at this time he was already fully convinced that the men and horses he led had really encountered a tough "official army" today, looking at the charming woman who had been caught in his hand, the big bandit leader gritted his teeth, left her and turned to run.