The next morning, three Toyota SUVs drove out of Muangla with a Mercedes-Benz S600 in between, and sped west along the east-west highway that runs through the Golden Triangle.

In the Mercedes-Benz bulletproof car sat An Ruizhi, Commander Kang and his adjutant, Kang Liansheng took eight personal guards, took two Land Cruisers respectively, plus An Ruizhi brought an off-road vehicle A total of four vehicles went straight to Mandalay.

For convenience, An Ruizhi pretended to be the chief of guard of Commander Kang, and the people in the car on the road rarely spoke, each thinking about their own thoughts. An Ruizhi noticed a faint worry between Kang Liansheng's eyebrows, and couldn't guess whether he was worried about the safety of the trip or about the negotiations.

After arriving in Mandalay, the group first went to Kang Liansheng's office here, a beautiful villa in the eastern suburbs of Mandalay. Later, Kang Liansheng asked his adjutant to go to the army headquarters in the city to make contact.

There is a reason for Kang Liansheng's vigilance, because of the problems left over from history, the Golden Triangle National Alliance Army and the government army at that time were incompatible, and they fought countless battles for turf, and Kang Liansheng was also the target of the government army's bounty for capture. Later, when the government forces saw that it was difficult to eliminate the Allied forces, they acquiesced to their existence, but still isolated them politically.

After receiving the news of Kang Liansheng's arrival, in order to show its sincerity, the Army Command sent the lieutenant general and chief of staff to the office to visit Commander Kang, and set up a welcome banquet that night to wash away Kang Liansheng's dust.

On the morning of the second day, Kang Liansheng took An Ruizhi and his adjutant to the army headquarters to begin discussions on the matter of jointly fighting against Lang Hongxian.

Kang Liansheng's worries were not unfounded, and he didn't expect an accident to happen that night.

Because the conversation was very successful, Kang Liansheng was in a good mood, and when he returned to the office in the evening, he insisted on having a drink with An Ruizhi. Several people in the office were Kang Liansheng's cronies, his adjutant, plus An Ruizhi and the four of them, everyone gathered in the living room to talk happily and enjoy a good wine at the same time.

Commander Kang's adjutant whispered to An Ruizhi: "It has been more than three years since the old man came out of the old city to today, and it is the first time that he has been so happy that he has drunk two glasses of red wine. ”

Although An Ruizhi drank a lot, he didn't dare to drink happily, and his nerves have been tense since he entered the Golden Triangle. For a long time, the wine glass he was holding in his hand was still half a glass of wine, he didn't want to spoil everyone's interest, so he was embarrassed, and when he heard the adjutant say this, he smiled and nodded, "The success of this matter indicates that Commander Kang's wish is expected to come true, and he is naturally happy." ”

"The old man has been fighting all his life, and I really hope that he can settle down after this victory, and people in his sixties should enjoy their old age when they are in their sixties." The adjutant said with emotion.

"The content of this discussion with the government army included the government's recognition of you, and I believe that after the recovery of the old city, you will be able to settle down after you establish an autonomous government, and the people are looking forward to a stable life, which is the result that all parties want to see."

"Mr. An is not like a soldier, but more like a politician." The adjutant said meaningfully, with a look of admiration in his eyes.

"Haha...... In fact, the two should not be separated in the first place. ”

People pass very quickly when they are happy, and before they know it, it is close to eleven o'clock, and An Ruizhi is about to go to the bathroom, and he has just walked to the corridor leading to the inside, and he glances out of the window, intentionally or unintentionally.

The shutters on the windows were open, and through the cracks in the shutters, you could see that the lawn outside the villa was sporadically dotted with lawn lights, as if something had blocked the light of a lawn lamp, although it was only a flash, it still aroused An Ruizhi's vigilance.

An Ruizhi knew that the guards brought by Kang Liansheng were on guard outside the villa, but the shadow just now flashed too fast, and he walked to the window to see what was going on.

As soon as he approached the window, he heard a popping sound outside the window, although the sound was slight, An Ruizhi could immediately hear the gunfire of a pistol equipped with a silencer.

An Ruizhi instinctively shouted, "There is a situation." Then he rushed to the entrance of the hallway, where there was a switch on the wall of the living room light, and he snapped and turned off all the large group of chandeliers in the living room.

At the same time, the glass window on one side shattered with a thud, and a burst of miniature submachine gun bullets swept into the living room, all of which had silencers on the guns, and the dense bullets shattered the objects in the living room.

At the same time as An Ruizhi turned off the light, his right hand also pulled out the M9 pistol from his armpit, and An Ruizhi immediately fired back at the window, and the gunfire suddenly broke the silence of the night. At this time, the same gunshots rang out on both sides of the living room, and An Ruizhi knew that it was Wu Fenbin and Da Jiang who were firing at the attacker, and the two of them suppressed the shooting outside the window at once.

An Ruizhi took the opportunity to bend down and touch the side of the living room, the living room was pitch black, he still remembered the direction where Kang Liansheng was, he asked in a low voice: "Commander Kang, where are you?" ”

Immediately, Commander Kang's voice came from the side of the sofa, "I'm here." Although Kang Liansheng was over sixty years old, he was very alert and quick to react after a long period of fighting, and when he heard An Ruizhi's warning, he quickly lay on the sofa, and then rolled to the floor.

"Are you okay?" An Ruizhi had already touched Commander Kang's arm.

"I'm fine." Despite the sudden attack, Commander Kang's voice remained calm.

"Come with me." While speaking, An Ruizhi grabbed Kang Liansheng's arm, pulled him to the entrance of the corridor, and then helped him to avoid entering the corridor, there was no outward-facing window in the corridor, and it was safe for the time being.

An Ruizhi pointed to the bathroom at the end of the corridor and said to Kang Liansheng, "Quick, go to the bathroom to take shelter first." ”

The bathroom only has a small window, and there is a protective net on it, people can't enter from the outside, Kang Liansheng knew that the target of the attacker was himself, he nodded and hurriedly walked towards the bathroom.

As soon as Kang Liansheng left, An Ruizhi heard a slight sound on the stairs on one side, and he hurriedly dodged to the corner of the wall, and sure enough, two black shadows slowly descended from the second floor with miniature submachine guns in front of him.

An Ruizhi raised his hand to shoot twice, and the two people fell down the stairs with a muffled sound, the first person just fell to An Ruizhi's feet, An Ruizhi reached out and picked up the miniature submachine gun, and then he saw that these people were wearing civilian clothes. He then gently stepped up the stairs with a submachine gun.

As soon as he reached the corner of the middle of the stairs, a string of bullets came down from above, smashing the wood wrapped around the wall, splashing wood chips, and smashing An Ruizhi's face painfully, he raised his gun and swept upward.

As soon as An Ruizhi stopped shooting, he heard Wu Fenbin say on the top of the stairs: "Head, it's me, everything on it has been cleaned up." ”

An Ruizhi walked up and saw a person lying on the stairs, Wu Fenbin held a gun in his hand and said with a smile: "The few who climbed up have been killed." ”

"Is there anything out there?"

"It should be wiped out by the river."

As they spoke, they walked up the stairs to the top of the villa, where two round tables and a few rattan chairs were placed on it, like a relaxation area. Next to it was a corpse that was shot dead by Wu Fenbin.

An Ruizhi walked around it, there were no more people around the villa, only a few corpses lying on the lawn, and he said to Wu Fenbin: "Let's go, go to the living room and have a look." ”

The ceiling light in the living room had been turned on again, and there was a wolf trail inside, and there were two people from the office lying on the ground, which seemed to be no longer working, and the others were fine.

Dajiang walked in from the outside and whispered to An Ruizhi: "The other party came by two off-road vehicles, and the car was parked at the intersection over there, and now it has driven away." ”

"Let's find out how many of them we've killed, and then look at the casualties on our side." After speaking, An Ruizhi turned back to Lao Yang and said, "Commander Kang is in the bathroom, go and invite him out." ”

Kang Liansheng came to the living room, saw the tragic situation around him, and said to An Ruizhi: "Thanks to you here, otherwise the old man would be in danger." ”

"Do you know who the other person is?" An Ruizhi asked softly.

Kang Liansheng shook his head, "It's not certain who did it yet. ”

Oe walked in and said to the two of them: "Seven of them were killed by us, and there are four guards and two people from the office on our side, a total of six people died. ”

An Ruizhi pondered for a moment, and then said to Kang Liansheng in an inquiring tone: "Commander Kang, my opinion is that we evacuate immediately, the other party may not have expected us to have such a strong counterattack, and if they send someone again, they will definitely strengthen their strength, so we should leave here as soon as possible while the other party is still reacting." ”

"Okay, everything is up to Brother An's arrangement." Kang Liansheng immediately agreed with An Ruizhi's opinion.

Seeing that Commander Kang agreed to go, An Ruizhi turned back to his adjutant and said, "Immediately ask someone to drive three off-road vehicles over, and Mercedes-Benz will store them in the office first." ”

Everyone understands what An Ruizhi means, riding in a Mercedes Benz is too conspicuous, in case of an ambush, it will become the target of attack. An Ruizhi said to Da Jiang and Wu Fenbin again: "Da Jiang, you are responsible for driving, Wu Fenbin, you will protect Commander Kang step by step, do you understand when you get into the last car?" ”

The two nodded vigorously, and at this time, the three off-road vehicles stopped at the door of the villa building, and An Ruizhi said to Lao Yang: "Brother Yang, you follow me to the first car." ”

At this time, the adjutant returned to the living room, and An Ruizhi said to him again: "You take two people in the second car, and the others go out and scatter into the three cars. ”

"Understood." The people in the living room replied in unison, and at this time, everyone consciously obeyed An Ruizhi's instructions.

Finally, Ann asked the people in the office, "Are there any umbrellas?" Take them all. ”

It rains very hard in the rainy season here, so the umbrella is a standing fixture, and soon seven or eight umbrellas were brought over, An Ruizhi said to everyone: "Now turn off all the lights, after I go out with Lao Yang, the monkey and Dajiang will cover Commander Kang to follow behind, and after walking out of the living room door, everyone opens the umbrella to cover the upper body and starts to move." ”

The purpose of this is to be afraid of the sniper hiding around, and to cover the body with an umbrella, even if the sniper uses an infrared scope, it is difficult to distinguish the target.

An Ruizhi and Lao Yang came out first, and immediately opened the umbrella after going out, and the two walked directly to the first car, and the people behind also rushed out, walking to the two off-road vehicles in the back, making it difficult to distinguish everyone.

After getting into the car, An Ruizhi began to inspect the surrounding situation, observed for a while and did not find anything abnormal, at this time the people behind also got into the car, and he said to the driver: "You can drive." ”

Three identical Toyota SUVs drove out one after another, as it was early in the morning, the streets were empty, and the SUVs drove out of the city at a brisk pace.

They had been a few hundred kilometers away from Mandalay at dawn, and An Ruizhi felt that there was no danger, so he took a break in the town by the road, and everyone had something to eat and fill up the car. After that, he returned to Mengla non-stop.

When they got home, they were relieved and began to analyze who had attacked them, with most speculating that government forces were responsible. Kang Liansheng and An Ruizhi disagreed with this statement, An Ruizhi believed that if it was really the military who did it, there was no possibility for them to escape. However, it cannot be ruled out that someone in the military revealed the news of Commander Kang's arrival in Mandalay and let those who hated him come to attack.

Commander Kang agreed with An Ruizhi's statement, and he said thoughtfully: "The last thing to see us unite with the government army is naturally Lang Hongxian, in order to maintain his position in the old city, he will definitely pay a huge amount of money to buy people in the government army, I estimate that it is possible that the people who were bribed by Lang Hongxian leaked the news to him, and then he sent people to Mandalay to attack us." ”

Commander Kang's words reminded An Ruizhi of what Boba Man had said about Gaokan's fifth aunt, if someone within the government army sent a message to Lang Hongxian, many things would be really difficult to get in the back, and they suffered losses in this regard in the early stage, and he felt that the complexity here was beyond his imagination.

An Ruizhi thought for a while and then said to Kang Liansheng: "If this matter is really within the government army, there is nothing we can do, and it is impossible for us to investigate this matter. All we can do is pay more attention later. In addition, our action plan should also be divided into two parts, the content that can only be submitted to the government forces by both sides, and the part that we act alone cannot be submitted to them, so as to prevent the leakage of some operational contents. ”

"Yes, in addition, I am worried that the government army will not be able to send troops, ostensibly to assist us in attacking Lang Hongxian's troops, but I am afraid that there will only be thunder and no rain at that time." Kang Liansheng said worriedly.

"There is such a possibility, but as long as the government army is willing to send troops, it will definitely contain part of Lang Hongxian's troops, which will be of great help to us, to be honest, it is up to us to recover the old city." An Ruizhi said confidently.

An Ruizhi's words gave Kang Liansheng and the people here a lot of encouragement, because everyone understood that An Ruizhi's words did not only represent himself, but also had an incomparably powerful power behind An Ruizhi. Kang Liansheng said in high spirits: "Yes, with the strong support of Brother An, I have the confidence to recover the old city." ”

The next day, the Army Command sent people to Mengla to visit Commander Kang to express his condolences and apologize.

Because the joint agreement between the two sides had not yet been signed, Kang Liansheng proposed that the signing of the document should be carried out in China, and finally the government army also agreed.

With the joint efforts of the government army and the Kang Lian Sound Division, the plan to regain the old city officially entered the implementation stage.