"Keep searching."

"Threesomes. They must be visible to each other. ”

Zhou Yang ordered.

The platoon of guards then spread out into the reeds.

In groups of three, divided into groups of a dozen. Carefully unfold the search.

Very vigilant.

The insurance of the flower mechanism has long been opened.

Everyone's fingers were on the trigger. As soon as there is a situation, fire immediately.

Fortunately, inside the reeds, the submachine gun is actually quite useful.

As long as you see the target, it is a shuttle.

This kind of close-range shooting is still very cheap.

Zhang Yong followed behind the team.

He had a shell gun in his hand. A long magazine of 20 rounds was used. For fear that the firepower will not be sustained enough.

In such a dangerous place, he didn't dare to take it lightly.

A radius of 200 meters is not completely safe. It's still possible to be sniped.

Even without a scope, some Japanese can shoot from a distance of 200 meters.

The Japanese veterans in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War were all perverts. It cannot be measured by ordinary people.

Zhou Yang gradually fell behind the team.

He also saw danger.

The enemy may be hiding in the reeds and shooting black guns.

His guard platoon only had flower traps and was probably no match for the enemy. The flower trap is too close.

"Sir!"

A second body was found.

Still shot in the back. It was also fatal with one shot.

After digging out the bullet, it is also a bullet from the 79 rifle. The warhead also cracked.

"Stop!"

Zhou Yang felt uneasy. You can't continue your search.

He had only a platoon of thirty guards. Facing the vast reeds. It's not possible to search them all at all. It's a wasted effort to get in.

In case of a sneak attack by the enemy and killing a few people, the losses will be great.

Now that it is certain that the patrol is all killed. The next thing is how to wrap it up.

Ordered to slow down and stop advancing.

"There could have been two murderers." Zhang Yong said thoughtfully.

"How do you know?" Zhou Yang was puzzled.

"I guess."

"That's two people."

"Yes."

Zhang Yong did not explain.

Zhou Yang is completely convinced.

Zhang Yong calculated it from the point of view of shooting.

There is a map display, and it is very convenient to calculate the angle of shooting. There are also obvious footprints on the tidal flats.

If there is only one murderer, after killing this security soldier, he must travel a long distance to get to another angle and shoot the last security soldier. Obviously, there was too much time.

Unless there are two people. One chased out from the left. One chased out from the right. The angle between each other is about 30 degrees.

Sure enough, continuing to walk forward, I found two rows of footprints that did not intersect at all.

At the same time, two more bodies were found.

Still shot in the back. It shows that the murderer is chasing them.

Well, the remaining five people must be in front. In the depths of the reeds. It's more dangerous over there.

At this point, no one dared to move forward.

Zhou Yang waved his hand quietly. Guards platoon soldiers dragged the body out.

Hanyang-made rifles carried by the soldiers of the Security Corps were also collected.

Zhang Yong inspects the rifle.

Both rifles have traces of firing.

The five bullets in the chamber of the gun have all been emptied. But no new bullets were loaded.

Presumably in a panic. Didn't have time to reload.

Then examine the body's body. Indeed, there are five more magazines. Five rounds each. A total of twenty-five rounds.

When they set out on patrol, each person carried five magazines. Five more rounds were loaded in the chamber.

What does this mean?

Explain that the time of the engagement should be short.

Otherwise, there will be no time to reload. It's not difficult to load a magazine.

Rise.

Hold up your binoculars and observe.

Only dense reeds could be seen. There are also crooked "passages" in the reeds. Maybe it was stepped on by the patrol soldiers.

Other than that, there are no other clues.

The murderer may have gone far. But it is also possible to continue to hide in the reeds.

Basically, it is certain that the other patrol soldiers should have died inside. Even if no body was found for the time being. Keep moving forward, and you'll definitely find out.

However, herein lies the quirkiness of the problem.

What was the murderer's purpose?

Or rather, why did the murderer do it?

Just to shoot nine patrolling soldiers?

It doesn't seem necessary.

Frankly, the soldiers of these nine patrols are worthless.

All are ordinary soldiers. It has been investigated before. No one has any special background. Killing them, there is little point.

If you say you want to demonstrate, how can you demonstrate if you kill people in such a reed?

You see the gun went off, and no one heard it.

Demonstrators!

So. Is the murderer simply boring?

Just want to kill a few people and vent your sins?

Can't figure it out.

There must be something critical in between......

"Usually, who would be haunting the reeds?" Zhang Yong asked casually.

Look at the reeds swinging in the eastern sky. Gloomy and gloomy.

Looks like a storm is coming?

Behind the reeds, it should be the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The map shows that in the middle of the mouth of the Yangtze River, there seems to be a large island?

Is it Chongming Island?

Unfortunately, the map does not yet display place names.

There are only blank maps. There are no place names.

"Except for the occasional pirate haunt." Zhou Yang replied, "But there is no road here, and the pirates are too lazy to go." ”

"Pirates?" Zhang Yong seemed to have heard a very strange term.

What age? And pirates?

Now it seems to be the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China. There are still pirates at the mouth of the Yangtze River?

"You're weird?"

"Isn't it?"

"Where is there no pirates on the beach now?"

"Really?"

"You're really informed."

"Uh......"

Zhang Yong was obediently taught.

He is indeed ill-informed. Not even much insight.

After coming to this era, many things have subverted his cognition. Pirates are also one of them.

"It's chaotic right now. You think about bandits everywhere. ”

"That's right. Brigand. Pirate ......"

Zhang Yong immediately understood.

That's right, banditry is now very serious everywhere.

Almost a little more remote, there are bandits running rampant. Some had two or three hundred people. Earth cannons are available.

But if you have a few guns in your hand, you dare to occupy the mountain and become king. Loot. Kill people and sell more.

Put this situation at sea. And so on. It's no wonder.

Rely on the mountain to eat the mountain. Draft by water. Since the grass can be laid on land. At sea, of course, you can do it too.

"There are several bandits on Chongming Island."

"You know?"

"Yes!"

"Then why don't you go and clean it up?"

"Why did you go to the purge?"

"Why ......"

Zhang Yong was asked.

I couldn't answer.

You're a staff officer of the garrison command, and you're asking me why?

What the hell am I ......

You are an officer and soldier! Isn't it a matter of course for officers and soldiers to suppress bandits?

And ask why?

If you are a team of instructors, you have to write at least 5,000 words of review for your awareness......

"Pirates are a matter for the navy. What's the matter with us? ”

"It's not. Navy ......"

Zhang Yong was speechless.

Just a few broken ships of the navy?

Counting on them to go to the bandits?

But I have to admit that there is really a huge rift in this.

No matter how many people there are in the army, there are no ships and no way to go to sea. No matter how elite the troops are on land, when they reach the sea, they are all landlubbers. Combat effectiveness is equal to zero.

The ocean is a bottomless pit.

No amount of land forces will fill it in.

You transfer elites like the 87th and 88th Divisions to destroy the pirates. If you don't do it, it's suicide.

This is something that the Japanese Army will deeply taste in the next few years.

Those fierce and dying-to death main divisions of the Japanese invaders, on land, one division can fight 100,000 people of the national army. But when it comes to the ocean, the combat effectiveness is zero. A few bombs can send a wing to feed the sharks.

In the great Pacific War, the Japanese army was sunk into the sea during transportation, not to mention tens of thousands of people.

If you count the establishment, there are at least fifteen main wings.

If it's on land, if you want to eliminate a main wing of the Japanese invaders, it's really too difficult, too difficult, too difficult.

But when it comes to the sea, it's a matter of taking the sheep by the hand.

U.S. planes bombed back and forth, and the devil's transport ships sank one by one. No amount of Japanese army is enough to die.

The same is true for the national army.

Who will use the army to clean up pirates?

That's a matter for the Navy.

However, the navy has so many people and so much strength, where can it be cleared?

Even if it is an important waterway like the Yangtze River estuary. As long as the pirates don't target important ships, the navy basically doesn't care. I can't manage it if I want to. I don't have that kind of strength.

The result......

Pirates are lawless!

As long as you don't target an important target, you're basically fine.

But!

The problem is still not solved.

What is this patrol doing here? No motive!

What's the matter with the Pirate Patrol?

If the patrol did not take the initiative to come here, no matter how arrogant the pirates were, it would be impossible for them to run to Baoshan County to kill them.

So, there must be some reason for this......

Suddenly, a red dot cuts into the edge of the map from the east.

Zhang Yong suddenly became smart.

There are Japanese!

Could it really be that the Japanese killed it?

I couldn't help but grab a handful of Hanyang Made. This is the standard equipment of the national army.

Except for a few main German armor divisions, equipped with the original Mauser 98K, the other general troops used are all made in Hanyang. Half-new, not old.

Oh, and a special mention. After the last Jinling Arsenal bombing, Zhang Yong learned that the original Chinese rifle had not yet been officially put into production.

The production line is not yet fully deployed. It may not be officially put into production until the end of the year.

The yield is also not high. 3,000 a month.

If it goes well, it will be 30,000 pieces a year. The yield is very low.

Therefore, two years later, the full-scale war of resistance broke out, and the number of equipment for Chinese formal rifles was less than 100,000.

Most of the army is made in Hanyang. Or some other home-made rifle.

Compared with the industrial powers, the output of this rifle is really shabby. Not even a fraction of what others do.

The famous Garand M1 is semi-automatic, but more than 5 million units have been produced.

Another M1 carbine, produced in much larger quantities. More than 6 million.

The famous Bobosha is also ferocious, and there are more than 5 million at every turn. It's just terrifying.

"What do you do?"

Zhou Yang noticed Zhang Yong's actions.

Without thinking, Zhou Yang himself also grabbed a handful of Hanyang manufacturing.

He saw the slight knowledge and sensed the danger from Zhang Yong's movements.

"There are Japanese."

"What?"

"I smell him."

"Where is it?"

"To the east, the distance is about fifty feet."

"Back off!"

Zhou Yang immediately ordered.

It's too dangerous to fight the Japanese in the reeds.

Hurry back to the reeds.

Zhang Yong stepped back. Come to a pile of sand. There is just one firing position here.

He lay down. Rack up the Hanyang-made rifle. Aim for the position of the Japanese Trojan. Fingers on the trigger. Quietly waiting for the Japanese to approach.

Unexpectedly, the second red dot entered the edge of the map.

Hehe, there really are two Japanese criminals.

They must have killed the patrolmen.

Perhaps, if they are captured alive, the answer will be known.

(End of chapter)