Chapter 40: Preparing to Suppress the Bandits

Cai Shuisheng, who was driven out of the shelter with a gun in a daze, has not come back to his senses until now, such a fast gun is only available in their cottage with the big boss and his close men, and a small minion like himself is at most a rusty machete. The taste of being pointed at the back with a gun is not pleasant, and he always feels that the gun will go off at any time, although Cai Shuisheng has never fiddled with this kind of fast gun, but he has always seen the big boss shoot them, and even the coffin board can make a hole in the coffin board with one shot.

It wasn't until they went up the avenue that they were ordered to stop, Cai Shuisheng kept his head down and pretended to be smooth, after being in the bandit pile for a long time, Cai Shuisheng knew how to hold his own life. "What's your name?" Tang Cheng, who got off the carriage, looked at Cai Shuisheng who was still trembling, among the men, Cai Shuisheng, who was the thinnest and smallest, was undoubtedly the most conspicuous one.

"Report to the officer, my name is Wu Erniu, and I am from Wujia Village in front." Cai Shuisheng didn't dare to look up directly at the young man standing in front of him, but with the pair of military shoes on Tang Cheng's feet, Cai Shuisheng had already identified Tang Cheng's identity as a national army. Tang Cheng may not know where Wujia Village is, but Song Tieshan, who has been to Zouma Mountain, knows that Wujia Village is in the northeast of Zouma Mountain, only two or three miles away from Jingui Mountain. Ignoring Song Tieshan's nod to himself, Tang Cheng stretched out his hand and pulled out one of the shell guns in the holster on his waist, and pulled the hammer of the shell gun in front of Cai Shuisheng.

Cai Shuisheng thought that he was very smart by pretending to be a villager in Wujia Village, but he didn't know that he was smart but was mistaken by being smart, how could a ragged ordinary man like him call Tang Cheng an official? What's more, Tang Cheng only wore military shoes, but he was not wearing the military uniform of the national army, and he recognized Tang Cheng's identity just by the military shoes on Tang Cheng's feet, how could such a person be a coward who didn't dare to look at people trembling all over his body.

"Don't pretend, I haven't pretended to be afraid to deceive adults since I was 5 years old, because it's stupid, and adults will see through it at a glance." Tang Cheng took a few steps forward and slowly stretched out the barrel of the barge gun against Cai Shuisheng's chest. "With a snap of my finger, a bullet from the barrel of a gun can drill a hole in your heart, and if you're lucky, the bullet can break your heart entirely, and then make another hole in your back, and maybe I'll be able to see the man standing behind you."

When the barrel of the gun was pressed against his chest, Cai Shuisheng was already stiffened with fright, and when he heard Tang Cheng's words, Cai Shuisheng was so frightened that he almost forgot to breathe, and his throat was even more powerful like a dying person. Seeing that this guy who was being held with a gun by himself was really afraid, Tang Cheng looked around at the people who were captured by the scouts, "I want to know who you are?" What is it for? What's their name? There are 7 of you, and I only need 3 people to answer my question, whether you want to live or die, you choose. ”

The guerrillas with rifles had already surrounded Cai Shuisheng and his gang, even to give them courage, they did not dare to resist, Tang Cheng's words had just been finished, and Cai Shuisheng, who was pointed at him with a gun, fell to his knees with a thud. "I'm the first to say, I'm the first to say." With the first one, there will be a second, under the leadership of Cai Shuisheng, several other bandits rushed to kneel down and kowtow to Tang Cheng repeatedly, only the bald Zhao Baokun stood straight opposite Tang Cheng, neither speaking nor kneeling and kowtowing.

"Company commander, this bald boy handed it over to me, I estimate that this kid is also a gun eater, and I know by looking at that physique that he is a good player with machine guns, it's a pity that such a person becomes a bandit." Zhao Baokun, who stands still in the flock, is so conspicuous, if the old northeast can't see it. He is also a veteran like Liu Goat, and he has also seen a lot of bandits in the old forest in Beishan Heishui, and he can see at a glance that these people are all mountain bandits, but he can't bear to let a man like Zhao Baokun fall into the grass, so he stepped forward and bit his ear with Tang Cheng to ask for Zhao Baokun.

"You're a good idea, but let's talk about it first, if this man doesn't obey the command, you know that the warlord is ruthless." Tang Cheng didn't have the vision of the old Northeast, but he believed in the shell gun in his hand. Seeing that Tang Cheng promised himself, the old Northeast thief smiled very happily, stepped forward and pulled Zhao Baokun away, the latter had already been pulled out of the crowd by the old Northeast before he could figure out what it meant.

Starting from Cai Shuisheng, these bandits scrambled to answer Tang Cheng's questions, and Song Tieshan, who was sitting on the wheel, secretly helped Tang Cheng sort out the explanations of these guys. "It seems that our plan to go to Zouman is going to be changed, these guys are all asked separately, but the content of their answers is almost the same, which shows that what they said is not a lie. That Zouma Mountain has now been occupied by this gang of bandits, almost more than 200 people, we can't deal with them, otherwise, let's change places. ”

After asking these bandits separately, Tang Cheng's face looked a little gloomy, and Song Tieshan had no choice but to step forward and explain a few words, but Tang Cheng kept his head down and didn't know what he was thinking, and completely ignored Song Tieshan's words. "I said, Company Commander Tang, you should give me a word, don't ignore me." Tang Cheng was calm, but Song Tieshan couldn't bear it, it was his idea to go to Mashan, now that this thing happened, Song Tieshan's heart was somewhat self-blaming, the more Tang Cheng looked like he was bowing his head and saying nothing, the stronger the self-blame in Song Tieshan's heart became.

"What?" Tang Cheng, who had been holding his head down and calculating in his heart, came to his senses when he saw Song Tieshan staring at him, Tang Cheng said with a smile, "It's just some bandits, it's not a big deal, just go to Zouma Mountain to kill it." Although we don't have enough manpower, we have enough firepower, and I don't believe that bandits with only two dozen long and short guns can withstand the strong fire of light machine guns and grenadiers. ”

Like what Tang Cheng told Song Tieshan, he didn't have much worry about the gang of bandits that Cai Shuisheng confessed, and his silence just now was just thinking about what to do with the materials he got after the bandits. The guerrillas had a large number of rifles captured from the Japanese army, and the old rifles in the hands of the bandits were useless, but this was the south of the Yangtze River, which was different from the Mengcheng side, and Tang Cheng didn't know if the batch of things that were about to arrive would be able to go along with it.

The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, this is the most common sentence heard by those storytellers in the Beiping City Flyover, Xie Bo and Liu Goat are not around, Tang Cheng can only rely on himself. After handing over his passport and Xie Bo's war notes to Madam Huang to take away, Tang Cheng recalled the contents of the notes countless times before closing his eyes and going to sleep, strictly speaking, Tang Cheng was not only not a qualified officer, but also a qualified soldier. But he can't forget that Robert and Liu Goat both died at the hands of the Japanese, so he needs to keep the number of the second company, and only in this way can he kill the Japanese soldiers happily to take revenge.

It is easy to keep the number, but the military salary is a big trouble, since leaving Mengcheng, Tang Cheng has the number of the second company and the position of captain and company commander, but he has not received a penny of military salary and a grain of grain from the 88th Division. If you want the recruited soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy, you can't lose them, if you drink the blood of the soldiers and eat empty pay like other troops, you don't need to be defeated by the Japanese army, only the collapse of your own people can kill Tang Cheng.

Before the bandits in Mengcheng were used, they were all used on the garrison regiment, and the money from stealing and reselling arms in Macheng was also spent on the soldiers of the second company. Listening to Tang Cheng's words, he meant to go to Zouma Mountain to fight with this gang of bandits, although Song Tieshan knew Tang Cheng's skills and methods, he was also a little worried, for fear that Tang Cheng would lose his lives to the few members of his team who could still fight.

Tang Cheng, who had already made up his mind, gathered Cai Shuisheng and the others together, took out a pen and paper and simply hand-drawn a topographic map of Zouma Mountain according to Cai Shuisheng's confession. After drawing several pictures in a row, Tang Cheng called the three scouts to whisper and gave each of them a copy of the three hand-drawn drawings. "Remember, the three of you are the eyes and ears of all of us, the more detailed your reconnaissance, the smoother it will be when attacking the bandits' den, and the number of our casualties directly depends on the results of your investigation, the more detailed the better."

Seeing the three scouts leave, Tang Cheng asked Liu Shishi and a guerrilla to keep Cai Shuisheng and a few of them in check, and went to the old northeast by himself. I don't know what Lao Dongbei said to Zhao Baokun, when Tang Cheng came over, Zhao Baokun was chatting with Lao Dongbei. "Company commander, this kid's name is Zhao Baokun, and he is a machine gunner of the 82nd Division Zhang Guoxun. Zhang Guoxun's regiment met the Japanese army at Weiyuankou and almost all the troops were wiped out, this kid followed the rout all the way out of Huangshi, and happened to be coerced by this gang of bandits, so he fell into the grass and became a bandit for a few days, I think this kid is good, it's better for us to leave him behind, and directly give me a deputy shooter. ”

What is the idea in Lao Northeast's heart, Tang Cheng is clear, in front of Zhao Baokun, Tang Cheng deliberately embarrassed for a while, and then under Lao Northeast's "hard begging", he reluctantly agreed to take Zhao Baokun in. Zhao Baokun didn't know at this time that the second company that was repeatedly mentioned by Lao Dongbei was actually only the three of them in Tang Cheng, and Zhao Baokun, who was promised by Tang Cheng to stay, would only care about fiddling with the Japanese light machine gun that Lao Dongbei threw to him, and he would also pay attention to the eyebrows between Tang Cheng and Lao Northeast.