1039 Wild boar
The mayor, sheriff, two patrol officers, and the farmer and his wife have all six of them died at Aldington's hands, and Roque finally realizes that Aldington has gone mad.
"This bastard, send everyone out, dig three feet into the ground and find him out!" Henry shouted at the table and roared, if he didn't find Aldington as soon as possible, then he would definitely continue to commit crimes.
"Mobilize all the garrisons north of Pretoria, the National Guard, the members of the Rifle Association, search inch by inch, and shoot on the spot if you resist." Roque issued a killing order, and there was no longer a need to judge such a person.
With the approval of Roque and Henry, the scale of the search has increased dramatically, and the bounty of the federal government and the Orange government for Aldington has increased to 20,000 rand, in addition to the military and police around Pretoria, many bounty hunters have also heard about it, and Aldington is now a mobile gold mine.
Bounty hunters are a special profession in southern Africa, which is sparsely populated and full of wildlife, and with the opening of farms by new immigrants, wildlife injuries are common.
Although many newcomers have weapons, they do not have the ability to hunt wild animals, and more often than not, they can only shoot wild animals to scare them away, in which case bounty hunters come into being.
Aldington was last seen in a small town 40 kilometres north of Pretoria, where he had disappeared after the shooting of two Chinese farmer couples.
Roque and Henry judged that it would be difficult for Aldington to escape in time without transportation, and it was likely that he was still around the scene of the crime.
The terrain around the scene of the crime is not complicated, because it is relatively close to Pretoria, and the farm development is relatively developed, which is not conducive to the hiding of people, the only disadvantage is that the local river network is dense, and Aldington may use the river to escape.
However, this is not very likely, as the rivers of southern Africa are so full of wildlife that even Aldington will not be able to escape if it is targeted by large wildlife.
In order to capture Aldington, Roque and Henry mobilized a total of nearly 15,000 people, formed two encirclements centered on the crime site, and sent troops to conduct a carpet search, which was also participated in by a team of mercenaries from the Umbrella Company.
"Keep your eyes open, pay attention to your feet, tree holes, bushes, that guy may bury himself in the ground, don't take it lightly, if you find it, you can shoot directly, 20,000 rand is not a small number, if you win the lottery, you can retire directly-" The mercenary who led the team was also Jinhua, who retired after the end of the world war.
During the World War, Jinhua served in the 103rd Division, and the 105th Division served in Aldington can be regarded as a brother unit.
It is precisely because of this that Jinhua does not understand why Aldington did this, in southern Africa, if retired soldiers are treated unfairly, they can completely ask the military service club and the rifle association for help, and even go directly to the Ministry of Defense to find Roque, Roque's character of protecting his subordinates will definitely give Aldington the greatest help.
Now that Aldington has gone mad, if it is forgivable for Aldington to shoot and kill the mayor and sheriff, then killing the patrol officer has crossed the bottom line.
Now Aldington, who killed two Chinese, is unforgivable, Roque himself is Chinese, and will protect the interests of Chinese at all costs, and the order Jinhua received can reflect the change in Roque's attitude, before Jinhua received the order to assist in the search, and now it has been upgraded to kill on the spot.
"That guy is crazy, I pitied him a little bit before, and now I just want to kill him-" A Chinese mercenary chatted casually with a white mercenary next to him while searching.
"This kind of person is not worthy of pity at all, it is the hero who kills the mayor and the sheriff, and it is the bastard who kills the innocent indiscriminately, and if I see him, I will stab him in the chest with a bayonet-" The white mercenary had a bayonet on his rifle and did not spare every inch of ground under his feet.
The mercenaries are conducting a dragnet search.
The area north of Pretoria was originally owned by Roque's farms, which Roque later resold to new immigrants who had just arrived in southern Africa, and after more than a decade of development, the farms in this area have become quite large.
Now that the farmers had been mobilized, the men were on duty in search caravans, or in the encirclement, vowing to find the demon Odingdon; The women are armed with guns to guard their homes, don't underestimate the determination of those hostesses to protect their farms, any farm in southern Africa has three or five or a dozen hounds, even Oddington, in the face of a dozen hounds under siege can not escape with a whole body.
Imagine being besieged by a dozen hungry wolves, you can imagine how brutal it is to be besieged by more than a dozen hunting dogs, and it is also a dozen hunting dogs weighing more than 100 pounds, as long as they are pounced, they will be dead.
"What I still can't figure out is why he didn't go to the Lord for help, the Lord loves his subordinates so much that he will definitely administer justice for him." The Chinese mercenaries could not understand Aldington's thinking, and for most Chinese, they would not take risks as long as there was even the slightest possibility.
"You have to know that not everyone trusts Lord as much as you Chinese, will you give Lord Favart unreserved trust?" The white mercenaries saw through it, and Lord Favart was referring to Henry.
"Of course not, I have given my trust to Lord Nyasaland!" The pride of the Chinese mercenaries, Roque is the pride of all Chinese in southern Africa.
"Wait—" The white mercenary noticed that there seemed to be movement in a pile of bushes in front of him.
"Who's there? Get out of it yourself, or I'll shoot—" The Chinese mercenary immediately raised his gun and aimed it at the bushes.
The mercenaries around reacted quickly, and a dozen rifles were aimed at the suspicious bush almost simultaneously.
The area of the bushes is about a dozen square meters, more than half a person high, and it is very lush, and a person hiding in it cannot be found at all when he stands outside.
"Who's in there, come out!" Jinhua's palms holding the pistol were sweaty, and although there were dozens of mercenaries from the umbrella company around him, Jinhua didn't feel any sense of security.
At such a close distance, if Aldington had fired, it would have been almost nine times out of ten.
According to the information provided by the Department of Justice, it is likely that Aldington had two pistols and a rifle on his body, the number of bullets is unknown, and Aldington has been trained in the use of explosives in the army, but it is not certain whether Aldington has explosives on him, if so, then Aldington can make bombs or mines, which will greatly increase the danger of capturing Aldington.
No one spoke in the bushes, but after Jinhua shouted, there was obvious movement in the bushes, and there was a faint sound.
Bang!
Jinhua shot directly.
Woo Woo Woo –
More than a dozen mercenaries followed Jinhua and opened fire almost simultaneously.
A group of wild boars suddenly rushed out of the bushes, two big ones and a dozen small ones, and the wild boars that rushed to the front rushed directly towards Jinhua.
Jinhua didn't have time to shoot, so he pounced directly to the side, narrowly avoiding the impact of the wild boar.
Fortunately, the wild boar did not love to fight, and rushed through the desert from Jinhua's side and fled.
A large group of mercenaries were all stunned, watching the herd of wild boars rampant, and no one dared to step forward to stop them.
Jinhua got up and pointed to the pigs in the distance and scolded, the gunfire at this time was very sensitive, and it was estimated that someone would come to inquire later.
"Keep searching, don't miss an inch of land-" Jinhua didn't dare to be careless, he couldn't stop unless ordered to do so by the command.
The mercenaries did not even let go of the bushes where the wild boars were hiding just now, and searched very carefully, but they felt that they were not looking for Aldington, but for the wild boars that had not been shot, so that there would be a meal for the evening.
For three days, more than 5,000 military and police officers who participated in the search searched every inch of the encirclement, but found no trace of Aldington.
The news reached Command, and Roque and Henry were also under suspicion.
"Could it be that this guy has already run away?" Henry suspected that Aldington had broken out of the encirclement, or else he would not have found nothing.
"No, it should still be in the encirclement-" Roque firmly believed that Aldington did not go far, the transportation in this era was not developed, there were no railways in the encirclement, all roads were set up by military police, Aldington had received military training, and did not receive other special training, and it was very difficult to escape from the encirclement.
The era of hot weapons is different from the era of cold weapons, in the era of cold weapons, a knife can wander the world, but in the era of hot weapons, logistics support is needed.
A highly trained soldier like Aldington can only play its best role in a mature and well-established system, and this is actually the case without logistical support.
"Keep looking?" Henry is not sure, mobilizing more than 10,000 civilians and civilians to participate in the search, and the Ministry of Defence and Justice spend more than 10,000 rand a day.
The daily consumption of more than 10,000 people is not a small number, in addition to the consumption of people and horses, there is also a cash subsidy, 10,000 rand a day is essential, this money will not be reimbursed by the federal government, all paid by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Defence.
"Go on, search again from the outermost part of the encirclement, the divisional division and search carefully, unless Aldington has wings, he must still be in the encirclement." Roque did not give up, and the autopsy of the farmer couple showed that from the time Aldington killed the farmer couple to the formation of the outer encirclement, which was about thirty kilometers away from the scene of the crime, Aldington could not run that far in three hours.
Roque was right, and on the afternoon of the same day that Roque and Henry decided to do it again, one of the farmers in Pilamide discovered that someone had stolen fruit from his farm's orchard, and after being warned by the farmer, the thief fled into a wooded area next to the farm and disappeared.