novelonline Chapter 1241: Compassion does not command troops
Chapter 1241: Compassion does not command troops
Chapter 1241: Compassion does not command troops
In the sentry tower at the gate of the mountain stronghold, a bandit with pockmarks on his face leaned half of his body out and squinted his eyes to look down. Under the moonlight, "Er Kuizi" was seen limping in front, followed by a dozen ragged "bandits", all of whom were covered in dust and looked miserable.
"Where is the boss?" asked the pockmarked man vigilantly.
"Boss," Er Quezi said in a choked voice, "We encountered an ambush just after we came down the mountain. Boss... disappeared in the blink of an eye. We had a hard time fighting our way out and escaping..."
The pockmarked man's face changed drastically, and he turned around and shouted to the people in the village: "Open the door quickly! Second in command, something big has happened!"
The wooden door of the cottage slowly opened, making a sore creaking sound.
Qin Hao signaled with his eyes, and Heiwa quietly moved behind Mazi. The rest of the regiment soldiers also entered the stronghold. After seeing that there were less than five or six bandits guarding the entrance of the stronghold.
"Do it!"
Before Ma Zi could react, Heiwa slashed his neck with a dagger. He covered his neck with both hands, but could not stop the blood from flowing out from between his fingers. Before he died, he wanted to shout out a warning, but he only spat out a mouthful of blood, fell down, and was no longer able to move.
The bandits guarding the stronghold were obviously stunned when they saw this scene. When they realized something was wrong, they were about to fight back, but they were shot dead one by one by the brave soldiers of the regiment.
After easily seizing the gate of the mountain stronghold, the militiamen hiding nearby rushed into the stronghold.
"Squads one and two will guard the main gate, and the rest of you will work in platoons to search the stronghold and eliminate the remaining bandits. Anyone who resists will be shot dead."
"Yes."
Sporadic gunshots rang out in the mountain stronghold, and soon the outer area of the stronghold was completely under control. When Qin Hao was about to lead the regiment to continue to advance the encirclement, suddenly a burst of rapid and continuous gunfire rang out.
The three brave soldiers were caught off guard and fell in a pool of blood in an instant.
"Get out of the way!"
The rest of the regiment's soldiers sought cover to hide, their faces pale. They had never encountered fire suppression before, and were stunned by the sudden machine gun fire.
Hei Wa grabbed the bandit captive by the collar and pressed him to the ground. "How dare you lie to me, you son of a bitch? Didn't you say there were less than 20 bandits in the village and no heavy weapons? What the hell is this? Two machine guns. I think you are tired of living!"
The captive bandits were so scared that they begged for mercy: "How dare I lie to you, sir? I didn't know that the second in command had hidden machine guns in the mountain stronghold..."
Qin Hao was too lazy to talk nonsense with him and just shot him dead.
The outer wall of the largest building in the mountain stronghold was built with stones. It was obvious that Li Heihu had put a lot of effort into building this mountain stronghold. There were also shooting holes on it. A sturdy man with a scar on his forehead shouted like a madman after a burst of crazy shooting.
"Come on, if you are not afraid of death, come up, grandpa will treat you to peanuts!"
Heiwa licked his cracked lips, suddenly opened his shirt to reveal the grenade on his waist: "Hao, how about I go over there?"
"No!" Qin Hao pressed his shoulder and said, "Machine gun fire suppression is not a joke."
Qin Hao listened to the rhythm of the machine gun fire with his ears tilted and his brows furrowed.
The three-eyed leopard's fierce laugh could be heard from the inside of the stone wall again: "Why don't you dare to come up? Don't you want to kill me? Come on!"
The machine gun then swept towards the low wall where the regiment's soldiers were hiding like water, pressing them down so that they could not raise their heads.
Qin Hao put the pistol in his hand into the holster on his belt, and then asked a soldier next to him for a rifle.
"Heiwa, cover me!"
"it is good!"
Heiwa understood what he meant, pulled the fuse of a grenade, waited for a few seconds, and then threw it towards the stone wall.
"boom!"
The smoke produced by the explosion instantly blinded the three-eyed leopard and the remaining bandits inside the stone wall, but they were not alerted by this. Instead, they laughed loudly.
"How dare you attack the Black Tiger Village with such little firepower? Get out of here if you don't want to die."
Under the cover of the explosion smoke, Qin Hao came to a wooden house on the side of the stone wall like a civet cat, and Heiwa followed closely behind him.
"Hei Wa, ask me to go up."
Heiwa understood, half bent his legs and placed his hands on his knees, waiting for Qin Hao to run over, then he raised his hands with all his strength.
Qin Hao successfully climbed onto the edge of the eaves, exerted force with his hands, turned over and landed on the tiles, then reached out to pull Heiwa up.
The two of them crawled on the roof to the highest point of the wooden house. From their vantage point, they could see the situation inside the stone wall. The three-eyed leopard and another machine gunner were on high alert. If anyone in the regiment dared to show his head, he would be shot into a hornet's nest immediately.
Qin Hao and Heiwa looked at each other and nodded, then loaded their rifles in tacit understanding.
"I'll take care of the three-eyed leopard, and I'll leave the machine gunner to you."
Heiwa said confidently: "No problem, Hao brother, just wait and see."
Seeing that Tuan Yong was suppressed and dared not show his head, the three-eyed leopard immediately mocked: "You are only capable of this, why don't you get out of here quickly? Are you waiting for grandpa to open your eyes?"
The voice just fell.
"bang bang"
Two gunshots were heard, and a bloody hole suddenly appeared on the three-eyed leopard's forehead, and the whole person fell backwards with his back to the sky. This time, it was truly worthy of its name, and it really had three eyes.
At the same time, the machine gunner also fell to the ground with a bloody hole on the side of his temple.
"The Third Master is dead!"
The bandits suddenly became chaotic. Some of them fired at the roof of the wooden house where Qin Hao was, while others turned around and fled to the back door.
After Qin Hao and Heiwa succeeded, they immediately flipped down from the roof. Without the suppression of machine guns, the regiment soldiers launched a charge and threw several grenades at the stone wall. The explosion made the inside of the stone wall even more chaotic. The bandits who had originally planned to fight back were completely frightened and ran to the back door, dropping their guns.
Little did they know that Qin Hao and Heiwa had already gone around to the back door.
"bang bang"
"Put your hands on your head and surrender your guns, and you won't be killed!"
Bullets from the two Mauser pistols poured out, and except for the ones lying on the ground, all the remaining bandits squatted aside with their hands on their heads.
Soon, the regiment soldiers also rushed to the back door and drove all the bandits together.
Qin Hao brought Heiwa into the stone wall, and after checking that the two machine guns were intact, they both breathed a sigh of relief.
"Damn, this thing is so useful in defending a city!"
After seeing the power of the two machine guns, Heiwa couldn't let go of them.
After the battle, Qin Hao ordered his men to count the results of the battle. In this battle, 23 bandits were killed, 15 were captured, more than 30 rifles, 5 pistols, the two machine guns, and several thousand rounds of bullets were seized.
Among the regiment's soldiers, 8 were slightly injured, 3 were seriously injured, and were sacrificed.
After the excitement subsided, the soldiers couldn't help but show sadness on their faces.
Qin Hao walked up to the bodies and closed their eyes. "Brothers, go ahead with peace of mind. Your parents, wives, and children will be taken care of by the village. The family tree of the clan will open a separate page for you to record your heroic deeds for future generations to admire."
"Brother, let's go!"
Heiwa took out his pistol and fired three shots into the air, and the rest of the regiment also fired three shots into the air.
"Captain, we found where the bandits hid their money and food."
A soldier from the regiment came to report.
"Let's go over and have a look."
Qin Hao brought Heiwa to the bandits' treasure house. Even Qin Hao couldn't help but be surprised. Although the room was not big, it was filled with various wooden boxes. Some were filled with ocean dollars, some were filled with gold, silver and jewelry, and some were full of opium paste.
After counting, there were more than 30,000 dollars in silver alone, and the gold, silver and jewelry were worth at least 50,000 dollars.
"Damn it, no wonder these bastards are bandits, they're all so rich!"
Heiwa cursed, saying that his father had been an honest man all his life, but he had never even seen so much money, let alone owning it.
"Pack all these things up and carry them back to the village. The opium paste will be lit together with the cottage."
"Yes."
Just when the soldiers were loading all the useful things in the village into the truck, a soldier came with a dozen women to report.
"Captain, they were all robbed by bandits..."
More than a dozen women were crying, and after seeing Qin Hao, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
Qin Hao asked Heiwa to help them up, but he, who had never blinked an eye when killing someone, was at a loss as to what to do. His originally black face turned purple.
"Look at how little you have accomplished. When you get back, I'll let Da find you a wife."
Faced with Qin Hao's teasing, Heiwa couldn't say a word for a long time and ran away.
This actually made the crying women laugh.
Seeing that they had calmed down, Qin Hao asked about their situation and learned that they were all captured by bandits from nearby villages.
So Qin Hao offered to send them home, but the women, who had just calmed down, started crying again.
"We are already in this state. If we go back, we will only be despised. We might as well just die."
Qin Hao was a little overwhelmed for a moment. Nowadays, reputation is more important to a woman than life.
"Stop arguing. How about this. If you want to go home, I'll send someone to escort you back. If you really have nowhere to go, just come back to the village with us. I'll find some work for you. I can't say you'll become rich, but at least you'll have something to eat."
The women thanked Qin Hao profusely, and in the end more than half of them decided to go back with him, which was really sad.
After making sure that there were no living people in the stronghold, Qin Hao led the regiment's soldiers to evacuate the stronghold and then set it on fire.
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The regiment warriors escorted the prisoners and carried the bodies of their fallen comrades and slowly came to Xishui Township. Upon hearing the news, the villagers of Xishui Township rushed over and saw Li Heihu's body. Some of them burst into tears while others knelt down and kowtowed.
"Benefactor!" A white-haired old lady pulled Qin Hao's clothes: "The revenge of my son and daughter-in-law has finally been avenged..."
Qin Hao helped the old man up, looked at the villagers on the hillside with tears in their eyes, and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, we are the Bailuyuan Security Group. If there are bandits who dare to bully you again in the future, please come to Bailu Village to find me at any time. My name is Bai Hao, and I am the head of the security group."
"My Lord."
"Thank God, there is finally someone who can make the decision for us ordinary people."
Along the way, more and more villagers from Xishui Township came rushing over after hearing the news. Some brought freshly steamed buns, some brought fresh fruits, and the poorest ones used the only teapots left in their homes to bring water to the regiment warriors.
The brutal battle just now left many brave soldiers in fear, and some even wanted to retreat. After all, this was a life-threatening situation. A comrade who was alive and kicking one second turned into a cold corpse the next. This shock was too great for ordinary people.
However, at this moment, he was faced with the villagers who lined the streets to see him off and were reluctant to leave.
The soldiers in the regiment straightened their backs one by one, and the rifles on their shoulders seemed to become one with them at this moment.
It was already evening when we returned to Bailu Village. The villagers spontaneously gathered at the entrance of the village to welcome the victorious regiment. When they saw the body covered with a white cloth on the stretcher, the cheers stopped abruptly.
"Oh my god, what's wrong with you? Get up quickly..."
"Si Xi, what's wrong with you? This is..."
Bai Jiaxuan stood in the center of the ancestral hall and said in a heavy voice: "These warriors died to protect the people. According to the clan rules, their families are supported by the whole village..."
Before he finished speaking, the crowd at the entrance of the ancestral hall made way for a path.
"Mr. Zhu."
"Saint Zhu."
Mr. Zhu came to the center of the ancestral hall and said word by word: "All the fallen soldiers lived up to their mission of protecting the country and the people. I will personally write epitaphs for them and open a separate page in the family tree to record their heroic deeds for future generations to admire."
Qin Hao came to Mr. Zhu and bowed deeply: "Uncle..."
However, before he could finish his words, Mr. Zhu raised his hand to interrupt: "I'm not angry at you, but at what you did."
Afterwards, Mr. Zhu bowed deeply to the soldiers and said, "I am just a scholar. It is my honor to write an epitaph for the heroic spirits who sacrificed their lives."
At this moment, the cheeks of the regiment warriors who were originally in a low mood turned rosy when they heard this. Although no one wanted to die, if they died like this, it seemed that this life would be worth it?
As the night deepened, the villagers had all dispersed, but Qin Hao was still busy providing accommodation for the homeless women.
Grandma Bai Zhao saw that her grandson was squandering money again and couldn't help but complain: "Why bring these women who were abused by bandits back to the village? Isn't this just asking for trouble?"
Xiancao had just sorted out the old quilts at home and was about to give them to the women when she suddenly stopped.
"Mom, you are a woman too."
Upon hearing this, Bai Zhao was stunned at first, then became furious. As a result, Xiancao went straight out of the door holding the quilt, leaving Bai Zhao so angry that she could only vent her anger on Bai Jiaxuan.
"Look, this is the wife you married..."
Bai Jiaxuan stood on Xiancao's side this time: "Mom, since Hao'er did this, he must have his own intentions. Don't worry about it."
Seeing that no one in the family stood on her side, Bai Zhao returned to the inner room angrily.
Looking at the old lady's back, Qin Hao and Bai Jiaxuan smiled at each other.
"Don't blame your grandma. This woman has a lot of gossip around her. You brought back so many this time. Tell me what you were thinking."
Bai Jiaxuan knocked on his pipe.
Qin Hao said seriously: "Da, you also know that they were all kidnapped by bandits. It may be more painful for them to go back than to die. Now the security team is fighting bandits, and it is inevitable that there will be injuries. I plan to teach them some methods to treat wounds and let them help take care of the wounded, at least so that they don't have to worry about food and clothing."
Bai Jiaxuan praised: "Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. This is a good idea."