A volley from the riflemen in the front row stunned the bandits at the foot of the mountain. No one expected that a team would come out from behind. Just as everyone was in chaos, a round of grenades flew into the crowd, thick smoke was everywhere, and the bandit team that had just arrived to reinforce the village was blown to pieces.
The right detachment that rushed down from the mountain used the power of this thunderous strike to instantly penetrate the bandit position, and the follow-up troops swept through the bandit team like a wave. Cries of death, curses, and wailing accompanied by the clash of swords and guns filled the entire valley.
Li Dong could no longer pay attention to the integrity of the team. He knew that only by setting an example at this moment could he arouse the courage of the new recruits. He roared and waved his command knife and was the first to rush towards the defeated enemy.
The enemies behind the fort were already in a mess. Some turned around and ran away, while others were waving knives and guns and shouting wildly. Li Dong rushed to a bandit - a tall man holding a big knife. He seemed to be frightened, until Li Dong seemed to remember something when he rushed in front of him, and raised his knife to stab him.
Li Dong slashed his knife at an angle - although the command knife was ceremonial, machine-made knives made of tool steel were comparable to the best combat knives in this time and space in terms of toughness, strength and wear resistance. The little bandit was instantly cut open with a long gash between his shoulder and neck, and the blood in his artery spurted out.
"Ama..." The little bandit let out a shrill scream and fell at his feet. The voice was sharp and clear, as if it was a woman, which made Li Dong tremble with fright.
However, at this moment, he had no time to care about who the other party was. He waved the knife and raised his arm back: "Brothers, come on!"
When he roared with his sword, the morale of the soldiers behind him greatly increased, and they roared and rushed forward.
Yang Erdong was a servant and had experience in hand-to-hand combat. He was calmer than "Brother Chu" who was still trembling with a spear next to him. When he saw the bandits in chaos, he knew that this was a good opportunity to decapitate him, so he immediately cheered up and stood up. He rushed over with a spear, stabbing people all the way. He was invincible and rushed into the fort in an instant. A firearmsman inside had already picked up a blunderbuss and aimed towards this direction. He quickly shouted and threw the spear Throw it out violently, piercing the enemy to the ground.
At this moment, he had successfully killed, pulled out a machete, and chopped up a large bandit who was fighting with his comrades with his back turned. Looking at the fort, there were already numerous corpses, and the smoke and the smell of blood rushed straight into his nose. Several recruits' balls were poked out of the corpses, and all of them looked pale and stunned.
"Don't be stunned, rush out and kill the enemy!" Yang Erdong shouted, and turned over from the fort. Unexpectedly, there was a pile of rocks below. He jumped down and was unable to stand, and he stumbled. Su, when he tried to get up again, he found that his left foot was in severe pain and he couldn't move at all.
"X your mother..." Yang Erdong uttered a local curse word, quickly dragged his body and crawled under the wall of the running base, and sat against the wall - lying on the ground would most likely be trampled by the insurrectionary soldiers, and his skin would have to peel off even if he died.
Luo Mao, who was commanding a small team, did not lead the men into the artillery fort, but went directly towards the bandit team that had formed a mess on the road to reinforce the village entrance. His spear was lost in the first thrust, so he charged forward with his machete.
The bandits fell into chaos, but a few brave elements still refused to retreat. Luo Mao saw a bandit with excellent sword skills slashing two National Army soldiers to death. He immediately swooped forward with a knife and struck him in the middle. Unexpectedly, the bandit was wearing armor, and Luo Mao's knife bounced away. Luo Mao was in a hurry, and he continued to move like a rugby ball without losing momentum. He knocked his opponent over with a shoulder-butt like an ox, turned over and pinned his opponent down, and then stabbed him in the neck to finish him off.
The right detachment's unexpected thunder blow destroyed the defense at the entrance of the village in a few minutes. The bandits turned around and fled to the entrance to the north of the village.
Seeing that the battlefield was under control, Li Dong hurried to the edge of the running base and blew the whistle agreed with the left detachment. Within a few minutes, Zhu Si rushed in with his team.
"How about it?"
"The enemy fled toward the entrance of the village to the north!" Li Dong said, "We pursue them and can wipe them all out!"
"Okay! You immediately lead the team to clear out the whole village, and I will lead the troops to pursue you!"
Now that the enemy has fled north, Lieutenant Mi's plan has been largely completed. As long as the fleeing bandits run out of the village, they will fall into the encirclement of the Fubo Army led by Mi Longtao, with no way out. At this critical moment, it was natural to act "brave" in front of Mi Longtao and others.
"Yes!" Li Dong didn't have the nagging feeling in his stomach. It just so happened that he had been marching and fighting all day today, and his flat feet were in severe pain. Not chasing him could be regarded as taking care of him, so he immediately took orders to eliminate the remaining bandits in the village.
Li Dong turned back to the artillery base. The soldiers of the right detachment had stopped fighting, and they were all panting. It was not so much fatigue, but a sense of relief after extreme tension.
"Clean up the battlefield! Pay attention to collecting weapons and treat the wounded!"
On the narrow road and beside the fort, there were about forty wounded and injured bandits scattered in various directions. Some of them had died, and some were still groaning. The soldiers began to clean up the corpses. Some people were seriously injured and it was obvious that there was no way to save them, so they used daggers to make up for it.
After walking to the artillery base, he saw at a glance the little bandit he had cut down for the first time. He was lying on the ground. At this moment, Li Pudun and another soldier had turned the body over and were digging around in his clothes.
Because the people being searched and suppressed this time were bandits who often carried plundered property with them, Mi Longtao ordered that whether they were prisoners or corpses abandoned by enemy soldiers, as long as time was not urgent, they should be searched and their belongings confiscated and handed over to the public.
Like the other bandits, this bandit's face was smeared with something like pot ashes or oil paint, making it black and blue - to scare people. At this moment, it was splattered with blood again, making it look even more ferocious.
The two soldiers opened their clothes, and an extremely thin body was instantly exposed to the sunset. Li Dong's heart moved, this bandit's arms were too thin! The hands are even smaller and pitiful.
"Slow down!" He stopped the soldier who was about to lift the body, walked over quickly, looked at the body carefully, poured water from the kettle, poured it on the face of the body, and wiped it with a rag. The plaster comes off instantly. A childish face was revealed below.
Li Dong's heart skipped a beat. The face that was distorted and pale due to fear in front of him indeed belonged to a boy. He looked to be no more than eleven or twelve years old.
Li Dong came from a humble background. Before he came to Hainan, seven or eight-year-old children herded cattle, teenagers and half-year-olds came out to carry labor, and five- and six-year-old children stole things on the dock... He had seen them all, but the teenagers This is the first time I have seen a child become a bandit.
The two soldiers also sighed, and one of them said: "It is really a crime for a person who has no hair to grow and become a god!"
"I don't know what happened to his parents..."
"If you can still do this, you should die. No one cares about your family, so why don't you go astray? Who in a good family would do this?"
"Do you have anything on you?"
"There is a bunch of money, five pieces of silver, and two changes of clothes in the bag," Li Pudun said, "and a hairpin - made of wood."
Li Dong looked at the child who died in his hands, and felt panic in his heart - not because of guilt. He is not as sentimental as the elders, pitying the old and the poor. He was born in poverty, and he had seen all kinds of ugly and cruel things when he was struggling to survive at the bottom. What's more, on the battlefield, swords and guns have no eyesight. It is a matter of life and death, and there is no room for mercy.
Picking up the hairpin, he remembered the "Ama" he said when he was about to die. At about the moment he was about to die, he thought of his mother. This worthless wooden hairpin was his last memory. What kind of misfortune had happened to his family, and to what extent had life forced him to do so before he painted his face with paint, picked up a sword not much shorter than his own body, and traveled around, eating and drinking. What about sleeping in the open and risking your life to become a bandit?
"Being a bandit at such a young age is definitely not a kind person!" Another soldier said, "He must have harmed many people! He deserves to die."
Li Dong shook his head: "He has probably done harm to the people, and maybe even killed people. But it's not his fault..." At this point, he couldn't go on. He remembered what he saw with his own eyes outside the porridge shed when he was running away from famine when he was a child. Seeing a seven- or eight-year-old child strangling a younger child to death for a bowl of porridge, "If I'm wrong, it's that his parents shouldn't have born him in this hell on earth... Give him the wooden hairpin and clothes." Just bury him with him - let him go to the underworld so that he can find his mother."
After the corpses were cleared, the casualties of the National Army were also revealed. Although the right detachment was invincible, two people were killed and seven were injured in the melee. When the left-wing team entered the village, three people were killed and more than ten people were injured.
"Quick! Transfer the bandaged seriously wounded to Xugang first," Li Dong urged. Several of the wounded were seriously injured. If they cannot be transferred to the field hospital in Fengchuan County as quickly as possible, they may not survive. down.
A dozen captured bandits knelt on the ground, daring not to move. Some people inside were slightly injured, and Li Dong asked the health soldiers to bandage them and wait for them to be evacuated together.
Yang Erdong was a little surprised and asked: "Isn't it polite enough not to kill them, but also to treat their injuries?"
"What's the use of killing him? Is he used as fertilizer?" The health soldier smiled, "After he's cured, he works for the Senate! You're talking about others, but haven't you been a servant of the Ming army yourself?"
Yang Erdong's face turned red and he argued forcefully: "I am an officer and soldier... Ming Army, these people are bandits!"
"Shit!" Someone behind him cursed unceremoniously, "The officers and soldiers are worse than the fucking bandits!"
Yang Erdong was angry in his heart - it was a fact that the military discipline of the officers and soldiers was not very good, but he used to be a servant, with sufficient food and salary, killing people for pay, and never did such things as raping prostitutes. How could he be willing to suffer this loss for nothing? He turned around and looked back at the past .
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