Chapter 36: The Raid

Not far from the stone where the black tiger was lying is an open field, and on the other side of the open land is Gutang Village, and the black tiger with a rifle has vaguely seen a figure shaking at the edge of the village. The black tiger concluded that the village's mobile sentinel must have noticed something and came to check on the movement, but it may also be just a routine patrol and found nothing.

The black tiger moved his body slowly, his right hand went down to look for a point of borrowing on the stone, who knew that the bottom of the stone suddenly hung in the air, the tip of the black tiger could not find a place to focus, and his body shook, if he didn't grab a protrusion on the stone with his left hand, the whole person might slide down the stone and fall to the ground. Such a distance is not enough to break the black tiger, but in this way, it is bound to make a loud noise and alarm the enemy in front. The black tiger steadied himself at the last moment, but the rifle in his hand swung and swung, and the barrel hit the stone with a crisp sound.

Not only the black tiger, but even the bandits behind him were also startled, and the black tiger himself was even shocked into a cold sweat, and his hairs stood upside down. The black tiger stiffened and remained motionless, but this kind of waiting made the black tiger's nerves highly tense, and sweat gradually appeared in the palms of his hands, and the black tiger's breathing unconsciously became heavy. The black tiger waited quietly against the big stone for a while, but nothing happened, and the footsteps he heard just now seemed to have disappeared, and the black tiger was finally able to relax his body and breathe a long sigh of relief.

On the outskirts of Gutang Village is a circle of abandoned fields, and the black tigers coming down from the hillside are lying in these abandoned fields at this time. The black tigers were lying on their stomachs in the grass at the edge of the field, looking at the village and carefully observing the movements, but there were no lights or voices in Gutang Village at this time, and there was a dead silence. The Black Tiger did not suppress all the bandits under his command, but left some of them to guard his back road, and the others followed him along the separation ditch dug between the fields.

Finally leaning back against the wall, the black tiger who was secretly gasping for breath stopped, and two bandits flashed out from behind him and continued to walk, and in the blink of an eye they were already at the door of the courtyard in front of them. This house looks very dilapidated, and the so-called courtyard gate is also nailed up with a few wooden boards, which looks like there is a big gap, but I didn't expect it to be latched inside. found that the courtyard door was latched, and the bandit who stretched out his hand to push the door was not surprised, and the courtyard door was latched, which means that there are people in this courtyard. This is great, the bandit who pushed the door motioned to the people who followed him to be on guard on both sides, holding a gun in his left hand, holding a dagger in his left hand and gently reaching through the crack in the door, and picking the dagger up along the crack in the door, ready to pick the latch of the door.

The dagger that touched the latch of the door slowly moved upward, and the latch was provoked little by little, and there was still no movement in the courtyard, it seemed that the people inside were sleeping quite dead, and they didn't expect that death was approaching. The bandit with the dagger in his hand couldn't help but look happy, and the dagger in his hand suddenly lightened, and the courtyard door had been opened. The bandits standing at the gate of the courtyard didn't have time to think about it, so they were the first to touch it. Compared to the outside, the small courtyard was dark, and nothing could be seen, not invisible, but nothing for anyone to see.

Several bandits standing on both sides of the courtyard gate also followed into the small courtyard, and several people were about to touch to the left to open the door of the house, wanting to enter the house and search for a while, but suddenly heard a bang, and a fire suddenly broke out in the dark courtyard. Before the bandits who were completely exposed to the flames could dodge, they were knocked down in the courtyard by gunfire from the house, and even the bandits who came to stand at the gate of the courtyard were knocked down several times.

The crisp sound of gunfire in the quiet night was by no means an illusion, and the sound of gunfire so close seemed particularly harsh in the otherwise silent village. The black tiger who was leaning against the courtyard wall did not expect that there would be gunfire suddenly in the village, looking at the bandits under his command who had been shot rolling on the ground and screaming, the black tiger had already been shocked into a cold sweat, if he had entered this courtyard just now, he would not have said that one of the people who would be lying at the gate of the courtyard would be himself.

"Big boss, I'm afraid we've been ambushed." Several small leaders under the Black Tiger rushed over and persuaded the Black Tiger to withdraw immediately. The sound of the fierce gunfight also sounded in the open field behind, and in the midst of the gunfire, there were still people shouting loudly again and again: "Don't save bullets, leave all these bandits here, don't let the bandits run away." "It's not good, it's really an ambush, the black tiger was shocked, and then rushed towards the road with his bandits.

As soon as he rushed back to the field, fierce gunfire rang out from the big rock where the black tiger had been hiding before, and more than a dozen bandits from the black tiger Liu Zi also rushed towards the black tiger in battle. "Big boss, it's not good, we were attacked by someone, and we can't go over there." The little bandit who fled back shouted loudly all the way, making the black tiger, who was already a little flustered, even more overwhelmed. The black tiger was originally just a bandit leader who occupied the mountains as the king, relying on the strength of the people to do some looting things everywhere, and when it came to the ability to command the war, I am afraid it was not as good as Liu Shishi.

The bandits who had been left by the black tiger to guard the big stones heard the gunshots coming from the village, so they naturally looked at the village, but they didn't want three people to suddenly appear from behind them and fire at them again and again. The bandits used nothing more than the old-fashioned Hanyang-made rifles, where would they be the opponents of the other party's three shell guns, and the other party killed four people just by looking at them, and the remaining bandits ran to the Black Tiger in a panic to flee for their lives. There were gunfire flashing out of the village and Dashi for two days, but at this time it was already dark, and the black tigers did not know the reality of each other, and the bandits from Huanglongshan and Tanjialing were all blocked in the fields outside the village.

The black tiger was naturally not willing to be forced back by the other party like this, but the large area of gunfire at the entrance of the village looked very scary, so the black tiger could only take people to move in the direction of the village entrance where the manpower had been arranged before. The bandits were completely confused, some followed the black tiger and moved towards the village, some were still shooting at the entrance of the village, and some had already thrown away their rifles and just collapsed in the fields.

The black tiger took most of the bandits all the way to the entrance of the village, and finally went around the entrance of the village along the fields outside the village, and quickly joined the bandits who came to meet while fighting. "Mother, I'm losing a lot of money this time." After carefully counting the number of people, Black Tiger found that his losses were really heavy. Originally, there were more than 60 bandits who followed him down the mountain, but now there are less than 40 bandits around him, counting the dozen or so people in Tanjialing, which means that he has lost more than 30 people in Huanglong Mountain.

"Fire" The black tiger was about to say that he would kill back into the village, when he heard a sudden loud shout not far from them, and the bandits who had no time to dodge were immediately hit by a dense burst of bullets. The black tiger also let out a miserable scream, and pounced to the side, his right shoulder blade had been pierced by a bullet, and he was a bandit under the command of the commander in severe pain at this time, and he couldn't even hold a gun. The bullets from the shadows kept firing and strafing, hitting the mound he occupied, and the black tiger couldn't lift his head at all.

"Big boss, no, the machine gun is used in the dog days, the brothers have too many casualties, let's evacuate quickly, if it's too late, you won't be able to leave." A small leader under the Black Tiger quickly rolled twice, and shouted from the side that climbed down to the side of the Black Tiger. didn't give the black tiger a chance to speak at all, beckoned a few bandits around him, and pulled the black tiger to retreat in the opposite direction, those bandits who didn't know it were still free to raise their guns to shoot back, but fortunately they contained the machine gun fire in the distance, otherwise the black tiger would not be able to retreat at all.

The panicked black tiger fled, but the bandits he brought could not escape, Liu Shishi who was ambushed in the village and they had already killed according to the plan, and Hou San and the dice hidden in the outskirts of the village had also appeared, waiting for these bandits to surrender or be killed. The battle in front of the village was extremely hot, and in the sound of various gunshots, there were constantly screams of people who were shot and dying, and there were at least fifty or sixty bandits trapped in this open field, but fortunately, they had been firmly suppressed in this abandoned regimental field, and there was no possibility of escape.

The blazing torches were thrown out of the village one after another, and the hay that had been splashed with oil early was lit one after another, and under the reflection of the firelight, the bandits in the open field had nowhere to hide, and those bandits who were still holding guns and frantically returning fire could only become the target of the veterans of the Yunnan army. In this plan set by Tang Cheng, the only shortcoming is that he has too few soldiers who can be used for battle, but fortunately, he still has dozens of wounded soldiers who can still pull the trigger, and the young and strong among the civilians only need to help these Yunnan veterans to load the bullets and pull the bolt, and pull the trigger to shoot the bandits.

After the fierce battle, the choking smell of gunpowder has not yet dissipated, and there are corpses of bandits everywhere, and there is no time to count them at night, and they cannot be counted. The only thing left to do now was to pursue the bandits who had been dispersed and mend the corpses of those bandits. A premeditated sneak attack turned into a blocking battle, which was the misfortune of the Black Tiger, and the hundred and ten bandits he brought suffered heavy losses, and in the end there were less than 30 bandits who left Gutang Village with the Black Tiger alive.

"Chase down, we can't waste those bullets in vain, we must always take something to offset our losses." Hou San didn't calculate how many things could be exchanged for those weapons and ammunition that were seized, he was just annoyed that such a vulnerable guy actually dared to ambush along the road yesterday and prepare to attack him, Hou San had already made up his mind to chase these guys' lair and loot them once to relieve his hatred.