Chapter 54: The End
According to Tang Cheng's request, the regiment cut down a group of shrubs and grass branches, lit a fire and threw them into the soil cave, and then covered the hole with the bandits' shirts they had peeled off. "Alright, just wait now, and tell everyone to keep an eye on the smoke around them, maybe it's the other holes in this cave." At Tang Cheng's signal, the group members surrounding the entrance of the cave scattered and vigilantly searched the surroundings with guns.
After a battle, the regimental soldiers finally had some ideas, which made Liu Goat very satisfied, but he knew that if these guys wanted to be called a qualified warrior, they still needed to be tempered by the fire. "It's smoking, there's smoke coming out of here." The group members who scattered to search shouted, Liu Goat and Tang Cheng followed the shout, and sure enough, a thick smoke came out of the weeds. A few nimble men gathered around to clear the weeds with bayonets, and a hole the size of a basin was exposed, and smoke enough to choke people came out of it.
"There is smoke coming out of here too" found the smoke one after another, which made Tang Cheng very surprised, these holes that emitted smoke are all the size of a basin without exception, such a hole is not suitable for people to enter and exit, Tang Cheng can't think of why the guy hiding in the hole should choose such a place to hide underground. "Keep throwing firewood into it, don't stop." Now that it is safe here, there is no need for Liu Goat to let his men jump into the hole in the ground to find the enemy, and those choking smoke will solve everything.
Thick fireworks rose from the earthen hole, and the troupe members were still adding shrubs and grass branches to the earthen cave without hesitation, with the intention of completely filling the earthen hole. So far, Liu Goat and the others have not found any other holes that can drill out of people, so most of the group members are still guarding outside this hole that is constantly being thrown into firewood. "Someone came out, someone came out." There was a violent cough from the cavern, and an arm wrapped in a black coat brushed away the firewood that still carried the smoke of sparks in the sight of the group, and then a guy covered in smoke came out of the hole.
"Hold it down, tie it with a rope to make it stronger." Before the person who got out of the hole had time to catch his breath, he had been held down by several regiments and dragged aside, no matter how he struggled, after all, he was still unable to defeat the number of people in the regiment, and he was finally gagged by the regiments and thrown at the feet of Liu Goat with a rope. "There's another one, and it's coming out again." Before Liu Goat could react, another guy with snot and tears on his face came out of the smoke hole, and of course he couldn't escape being tied up by five flowers.
Four guys who were about to be killed by the smoke came out of the hole one after another, snot and tears flowed for a long time, they obviously couldn't bear the smoke before they took the initiative to sacrifice, Liu Goat was very satisfied and gave Tang Cheng a thumbs up. "Is there anyone down there?" Liu Goat reached out and grabbed a guy by the collar and lifted the person up from the ground, but the guy he asked was just panting and ignoring Liu Goat's question.
Tang Cheng next to Liu Goat suddenly ripped off the felt hat on the man's head, and the guy who was torn off the felt hat revealed a short layer of hair stubble, Liu Goat and Tang Cheng couldn't help but subconsciously glance at each other, they were all familiar with this kind of hairstyle, and almost all the Japanese soldiers who fought with them had such a hairstyle. "Japanese?" In the exclamation of the group members, Tang Cheng looked at the guy who was caught in his hands by Liu Goat in a bird-like but absolutely authentic Japanese.
The guy who got out of the hole obviously couldn't understand how a person who could speak Japanese could come out of this poor and remote ravine, and he looked back at Tang Cheng with a shocked face, his eyes already showing incredible shock and panic. "You may not admit it, but there are a few other people with you, and I think any of you should be willing to answer my question." Tang Cheng smiled and pointed to a few other guys who were tied up with five flowers, and with a wave of his hand, the guy who didn't answer the question was dragged aside.
"Slap" A man in black who was also unwilling to answer Tang Cheng's question fell under Liu Goat's gun, and after shooting two people in a row, the guy who was the first to drill out of the hole finally couldn't bear the fear in his heart, and began to struggle to shake his arm at Tang Cheng to signal that he wanted to speak. "Drag him over and see what he has to say." Liu Shangoat, who was merciful, also left two living mouths, if this guy who chose to speak could not satisfy him, the two living mouths left behind at the end were the guarantee of obtaining information.
"Tell me your identity and name" Tang Cheng had no experience in interrogating confessions, so he could only ask the man in black in Japanese according to Liu Goat's prompts, and then translate the other party's Japanese into Chinese and inform Liu Goat. The whole process of interrogation was on the battlefield full of blood and gunsmoke, Liu Goat did not want to avoid those regiments, in fact, he also needed these surviving regiments to bring the news of the Japanese soldiers in Beishan back to the county seat to spread.
"Don't kill them, I'm going to take these guys back with all their beards and tails and hand them over to County Magistrate Ge." After figuring out the whole thing, Liu Goat stopped the crazy regimental soldiers who had begun to become crazy, and he wanted to save the lives of these Japanese soldiers and send them to Ge Kunshan. After the militia suffered heavy casualties, the corpses of the three living Japanese soldiers and those bandits became Liu Goat's means to appease Ge Kunshan, and the money could only bring Ge Kunshan an income, but the three living Japanese soldiers were a great achievement for Ge Kunshan, and Liu Goat believed that Ge Kunshan would make the right choice.
"Do you believe what they just said?" Looking at the three Japanese soldiers with blue noses and swollen faces who had been beaten by the regiments, Tang Cheng and Liu Goat got together and whispered. The Japanese soldier confessed that he belonged to the 12th Search Wing of the Japanese Army, and that they were the only search team who went to Mengcheng together, and the whole team was only 21 people, except for the 7 Japanese soldiers and the four of them who had died in the hands of the militia, and 10 Japanese soldiers had already left with the property looted from the bandits' lair.
"Can you believe it?" Liu Shanyang took the cigarette handed by Tang Cheng and shook his head and said, "Little devils like to arrange their troops to disguise themselves as Chinese to infiltrate first, these people can ride horses and run so far to come here in Mengcheng, not just to get some money to go back." I guess the purpose of these Japanese soldiers is still for Mengcheng, or they came to this bandit den to do something, this is the outpost team that is ready to unite with the bandits of Beishan to open the way for their follow-up troops. ”
Tang Cheng didn't speak, nor did he cater to Liu Goat's words, he was just smoking silently. Tang Cheng, who was completely silent, secretly rejoiced in his heart, glad that these Japanese soldiers did not have the right to help those bandits, otherwise these regiments who were brought into Beishan by them really didn't know how many would survive. Although the Mengcheng militia is outnumbered, the 21 Japanese soldiers they faced were regular soldiers who had experienced battlefield battles, and the soldiers of the militia group obviously did not have the ability to retreat from the battle.
"Damn, I really don't believe it." Liu Goat suddenly threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and called a small leader of the militia under him. "Gather all the people to search the bandits' nest carefully, and tell the brethren that our militia can keep half of everything found here as a reward." The regimental soldiers who were cleaning up the battlefield with Jiujin cheered in unison, and people would die in battle, but they didn't want their companions and friends to die in vain, and they could leave some money to their families, and those brothers who died in battle would not die in vain in this North Mountain.
After Tian Kui's treatment, most of the injured Tuanding have been stopped from bleeding and bandaged their wounds, and a few seriously injured Tuanding are still in a coma, but their lives have been saved. The battlefield after the fierce battle was full of the smell of blood and gunsmoke, the wounded and bandaged regiments were still moaning, Liu Goat was leading a dozen regiments to rectify the cave entrance, and Tang Cheng, who was less injured, was cleaning up the battlefield with the rest of the people, cleaning up the bandits' nest that had become ruins.
Liu Goat has always been skeptical of the confessions of the three Japanese soldiers, and the horseshoe prints found on the fork in the road are far from reaching the scale of more than 20 horses, so Liu Goat does not believe that there are more than 20 Japanese soldiers in the Beishan bandits' den. Before the entire battlefield was cleaned, digging the hole in the ground that was still smoking became another way for Liu Goat to find answers.
"Pap" "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" The sudden gunshots made everyone who was busy on the battlefield subconsciously turn their heads to look, and several Tuan Ding who had been shot and fell to the ground were lying in front of the hole dug in the ground, twitching their bodies, and Liu Goat had also fallen to the ground on his back. "There's someone coming out of the hole again, shoot, shoot." Liu Goat, who had flipped to the ground, was shouting loudly as he tried to pull out his shell gun from his waist, and several quick-eyed men had already pointed their rifles at the mouth of the hole.
"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", "Bang" scattered bullets flew out of the hole, and some of the unprepared people were shot and fell down one after another, and several black-clothed people with gas masks covered their heads and faces turned out of the hole. The militia had never seen gas masks, so they all hesitated and stunned when they picked up their rifles, and only Liu Goat, who was lying on the ground, seized the opportunity to pull the trigger of the shell gun. The tongues of fire shot out from the muzzle of the shell gun, and the close-range shooting made it impossible for the black-clothed people who had just jumped out of the hole to dodge and react.
"Poof", "poof", "poof" After being shot, the blood mist splattered from the bullet hole kept blooming in the air, and the successive shots of the men in black woke up the stunned group members, and after a dense burst of gunfire, the black-clothed people who turned out of the hole in the ground all became lifeless corpses. "Damn, I can't imagine that these little devils have brought gas masks, they can really bear it, stay in this hole for so long." Liu Goat was very glad that he was not shot, if he hadn't stood a little back just now, maybe there would have been himself among the people who had been shot and fell.