Suppressing bandits is not as simple as talking about it. Intelligence is the most important part of it. If you don't even know where the bandits are, then Liu Yangyang's actual battle against bandits will be like a pure spring outing. Ge Kunshan has never known the bandits.
The regiment member who was transferred from the military camp said that he was transferred to investigate the whereabouts of the bandits. In fact, they were transferred by Ge Kunshan to help him traffic in smuggled goods, so Liu Yangyang, who had already guessed this, did not believe Ge Kunshan.
Provided bandit information.
"Xiao He, I know that your father and two uncles died at the hands of bandits, but you have to remember that after discovering the whereabouts of the bandits, what you have to do is not to rush up and fight them, but to return immediately to find the bandits.
Only in this way can we defeat all those bandits, otherwise we will fail." Not all of the regiment members trained by Liu Yangyang dared to fight against the bandits. The four of them, He Guang and others, were sent out by Liu Yangyang in advance.
These are the outliers among the regiments, because they all have relatives who died at the hands of bandits, so the four of them are regiment members who unswervingly support the suppression of bandits.
He Guang is the only one of these regiment members who has attended school. If his father and two uncles who went to the provincial capital to return goods had not died at the hands of the bandits who took the goods, He Guang might still be sitting in school reading and writing. "Damn it.
Bandits." The sweaty He Guang looked up at the dazzling sunlight, and naturally reached out to grab the kettle at his waist. But just when his fingers had touched the kettle, He Guang withdrew his hand. There was no more water in the kettle.
The friends who set out with him were about to come back, and He Guang wanted to leave the few remaining water to them.
Eager to find the bandits and eager to take revenge, when they set off, they did not carry enough food and drinking water as Liu Yangyang asked. Exhausted from mountain climbing, He Guang and the others had already drank a bottle of water, and he had only the water left on him.
Halfway through, he saw his three companions appearing on the hillside not far ahead. He Guang, who had been worried, breathed a sigh of relief. Among the four, He Guang was the youngest, but he was the youngest.
The one who makes the decision among the four.
"We found it. It's on Qinglong Ridge in Beishan. Hua Zi saw smoke there." Sun Yang, the oldest, took the kettle handed by He Guang without drinking it, but handed it to He Guang, who kept breathing heavily.
Zhao Jiayong. "The road in Qinglong Ridge is not easy to walk. Hua Zi and I took a look. There were four bandits guarding the mountain road. There were ruts and horse hoof prints on the mountain road leading to the back mountain. It looked like the marks were still fresh.
Yes, maybe the bandits on the mountain have gone down to rob the road again."
A good memory is not as good as a bad pen. This is what He Guang's father often said, so He Guang was using a pencil and paper to write down everything Sun Yang just said. "The task assigned to us by Chief Liu
Just to find the bandit's lair. Now that they have been discovered, let's leave two people here to guard the place. The others will go back and inform Chief Liu that they should leave the city now. Go back along the road and designate a place halfway down the road.
Meet them."
According to Liu Yangyang's instructions, He Guang decided to stay here with Sun Yang, and asked Zhao Jiayong and Ma Hua to go back to find Liu Yangyang and report the situation. "Hide the gun. If you encounter bandits, don't think about fighting them head-on.
The most important thing is to take the situation here and tell Chief Liu about it, you know?" As the youngest of the four, He Guang did not speak, and any instructions he gave before leaving were all given by Sun Yang.
Sun Yang and the others didn't actually find the bandit's lair. They just saw the bandits guarding Qinglong Ridge from a distance and returned the same way. If Liu Yangyang had led people to investigate the bandits, they would definitely have done it.
He continued to search along the Qinglong Ridge and back up the mountain until he found the bandit's lair. Sun Yang and the others' timidity made the information they brought back incomplete, because the Qinglong Ridge they discovered was not the only way for the bandits to return to their lair.
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The anxious Zhao Jiayong and Ma Hua did not know this. According to what Sun Yang had explained before leaving, the two of them ran along the road towards the county seat. They did not know where Liu Yangyang and the others had gone, but they knew that their
The faster the speed, the sooner they will meet Liu Yangyang and the others. "No, I can't run anymore. Let's rest for a while. I can't breathe." Zhao Jiayong, who was breathing heavily, stopped.
Zhao Jiayong lost his pace and ran desperately for two miles. Zhao Jiayong's physical strength was exhausted too quickly.
Ma Hua, who was also panting, suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhao Jiayong, who was about to sit on the roadside. Before Zhao Jiayong could ask why he was holding him back, Ma Hua stretched out his other hand and covered his mouth tightly.
And vigorously dragged Zhao Jiayong to the wild field on the roadside. "Don't make any sound, I heard the sound of horse hooves in front of me, at least a dozen of them." Ma Hua dragged Zhao Jiayong towards a depression in the wild field, while clinging to him.
Zhao Jiayong whispered in his ear.
There are also horses in the military camp, but apart from a few draft horses used to pull carts, there are only 6 horses that can be ridden. The sound of horse hooves heard by MCA is definitely larger than that of a group of more than 15 horses, so MCA concluded that riding
The person who appeared was definitely not one of theirs. With Ma Hua's explanation and reminder, Zhao Jiayong no longer tensed up his body, nor did he care about his physical strength, which was about to bottom out. He lowered his head and followed Ma Hua as he ran desperately into the wilderness.
That depression.
If the distance of more than 100 meters had been placed just now, Zhao Jiayong might have collapsed after running a few tens of meters, but this would be related to his life and death and the success or failure of the mission. Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong ran before those people on horseback appeared.
They entered the depression and lay down close to the ground. Trying to control their beating hearts and not daring to breathe loudly, the two people lay quietly in the depression. They even looked up.
I don't even have the courage to take a look.
Not all families can afford to raise horses, and the sound of horse hooves that will occur is at least the scale of more than 15 horses. Those who have such ability are either rich and wealthy families, or they have been struggling.
The Beishan bandits were looking for. The sound of horse hooves came from far and near. The sound of strong horse hooves hitting the ground seemed to directly hit the hearts of Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong. The sound of horse hooves that sounded like drums sounded to them like
The sound of war drums frightened them.
The depression where Ma Hua and the others were hiding was only a hundred meters away from the main road. This was the only place he could find to hide himself and Zhao Jiayong. No matter what, he had to save his own life first. This was what Liu Yangyang personally said when the four of them set off.
The honest and steady Ma Hua kept this sentence firmly in mind. Ma Hua heard it well. There were indeed more than a dozen tall horses on the road, but these people riding on horseback were not bandits from Beishan, but
They are men pretending to be ordinary people.
If Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong in the depression looked up at this time, they would definitely find that the men on horseback were different from ordinary people. The difference was not the men, but the horses they were riding. Those tall horses were obviously different from what Ma Hua and the others had seen.
The horses are different. First of all, they are much taller than the horses in the military camp. Moreover, the way these horses run shows that they have been strictly trained. If Liu Yangyang were here at this time, he would definitely recognize those horses.
They are all military horses.
"Ozawa-kun, how far do we have to go before we get to the place you mentioned?" Kuroda on the horse held the reins with one hand, put his already stiff right hand to his mouth and breathed, trying to use this
The method restored the flexibility of his right hand. The weather had warmed up in early spring in March, but they were riding fast against the wind. The high speed of the horses and the oncoming wind were enough to heat them up on the horses.
The body becomes stiff when lowered.
"Shut up, Kuroda. When we set off, Colonel said that we should talk in Chinese and our identities must not be revealed. This is not our occupied area yet." Ozawa, who also slowed down his horse slightly, turned back and glared.
He glanced at Kuroda, and then looked at the others with a warning look, "The same goes for you. You must remember what our mission is this time. We must not reveal our true identity before receiving the order from the colonel."
"Yes, boss, we remember." The rider who had been warned by Ozawa nodded on the horse and called Ozawa boss according to the status that had been agreed upon long ago. Only Kuroda, who was the first to speak in Japanese, was
He looked unconcerned. Kuroda and Ozawa were soldiers in the same year, and both of them had served in Manchuria. If Kuroda hadn't violated military orders and secretly let go of a fellow countryman who secretly hid gold, he might be a soldier now.
The team leader will not be Ozawa, but him, Umitsu Kuroda.
It is precisely because of the imbalance in his heart that from the day Ozawa became the captain of the team, Kuroda never called Ozawa by his official rank, but continued to call Ozawa by his first name as before. Ozawa always thought about his old relationship.
Sawa did not quarrel with Kuroda because of this. In his opinion, the squad leader was just a foothold for him to advance. For a small second lieutenant, the squad leader would quarrel with Kuroda, who was in the same year as a soldier. It was really not worth it.
Tian is one of the few veterans in his team, and Ozawa also needs his help.
"Let's go, speed up. Qinglong Ridge is not far ahead. Once we reach the mountain, we can have a good rest." As he spoke, Ozawa reached out and touched the sacks lying horizontally behind him. Among the dozen of them, only Ozawa was the one.
There was a sack lying across the back of the horse, and a part of the radio station was installed on the horse's back. This was their only way to contact the main force, so Ozawa was always paying attention to the safety of the horse behind him.
"It's finally time to leave, let's leave too." Ma Hua in the hollow listened to the sound of horse hooves on the road gradually disappearing, and hurriedly urged Zhao Jiayong, who was lying with him, to get up and leave. The careless Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong only remembered to find the place from where they came.
Liu Yangyang and the militiamen who set out from the county town completely ignored that the direction of the cavalry was exactly the Qinglong Ridge they had just left, and that Sun Yang and He Guang were still guarding the Qinglong Ridge at the moment.