"We have spent so much time in Lingao to handle the affairs of the country and done so much work. Of course it will be peaceful. This is not Lingao." Yu Zhiqian said, "I don't think you should take this matter too lightly."
While they were talking, a soldier suddenly rushed in:
"Report!" He saluted hurriedly, "Something may have happened to the work team in Zhaopu Village!"
"What?!" The two people shouted at the same time.
The information was provided by a long-range patrol team. During their routine patrol, they discovered a large amount of thick smoke in this direction.
Now is the rainy season, the climate is humid, and wildfires are rare. Therefore, the team leader sent forward soldiers to investigate. On the mountain road to Zhaopu Village, they encountered a large number of manually felled and piled trees. The team leader judged that there was a serious incident in the direction of Zhaopu Village, and tried to open a road.
On the one hand, they sent someone back to ask for emergency help.
"Quick, beat the rally drum!" Yu Zhiqian quickly ordered, "The entire light infantry company must assemble!"
Liu Yixiao ordered a health team to be immediately dispatched to accompany the army. He also put on his armed belt.
"What, you want to go in person?"
"Yes, I have to go and see for myself." Liu Yixiao realized something was wrong. He was eager to find out what happened at the scene.
"The situation is unknown, so you can't go." Yu Zhiqian stopped him, "You are the number one commander here in Danzhou and have a heavy responsibility. Let the company commander go with the walkie-talkie."
So it was decided that Lin Shenhe would lead the team. He was discussing some work issues in depth with confidential personnel in the tent, and was about to enter the port. The messenger coughed outside the tent:
"Company commander!"
"What's the matter?" Lin Shenhe leaned half out of the officer's personal tent for a long time.
"The battalion commander asks you to go there, there is an order to be issued!"
"I'll go right away."
Ten minutes later, he arrived at the headquarters wearing a neat and elegant uniform.
"Trouble is coming." Yu Zhiqian explained the task to him, "Take the light infantry company to check it out. If there is any situation, report it immediately through the walkie-talkie."
"Where is Teruura Village?"
"Here," Yu Zhiqian drew a circle on the glass plate of the large map, "the road is very difficult to walk, so be careful of being ambushed along the way."
"Okay, I'll get ready and leave in fifteen minutes."
Lin Shenhe led the light infantry company for more than ten miles, and then opened a path in the mountains to move wood. Finally, he finally opened a passage and arrived at Wangpu Village.
The large cloud of smoke has dissipated, but black smoke is still rising in the camp. The observation tower has been completely burned down, leaving only the charred remains of wooden pillars still standing. There are corpses scattered in the camp. The corpses are all wearing uniforms.
The heads were chopped off. Lin Shenhe held back his nausea and looked around, and saw all the heads hanging on the gate of the camp.
More than a dozen corpses were neatly dumped in the center of the camp, but it seemed that they had no traces of fighting. Could it be that they were killed after being captured? Although there were marks of stabbings with spears and slashes on their bodies, there were no traces of them.
How much blood.
A woman in a gray uniform huddled in the trench, her head hanging on her chest. There was a terrible wound on her throat, and a bloody bayonet fell to her hand. This was probably Liu Bin - she was on the task force list
The only woman on earth.
"Are you alive?"
"No." Sergeant Lian reported, "But the number of corpses can't be counted. Only twenty corpses were found in total. There should be thirty-five people in the task force."
Did someone escape? Lin Shenhe quickly denied this idea. If he escaped, he should have appeared by now. Maybe he was captured. At this time, he noticed traces of soil being turned on the ground.
Soon, they excavated another fifteen corpses. Lin Shenhe took a cursory look and found that except for a few people, there were no external injuries on the corpses.
Then, some buried personal belongings of the work teams and soldiers were found. Lin Shenhe noticed that there were a lot of paper ash scattered in the camp, which must be the remnants of burned documents.
"Report to the company commander that we have found the remains of 18 rifles, and all other rifles and pistols are missing."
"Where's the ammunition?"
"There are no traces of any ammunition left. They were probably all taken away."
There was not a single round of fixed-loading ammunition for the Mini rifle found at the scene. Lin Shenhe did not think that the work team had time to consume all the 100 rounds of ammunition rationed to each person. Most of them were taken away by the attackers.
"Now we're in big trouble." He sighed.
17 Mini rifles, if each had 50 rounds of bullets, would be enough to cause them a lot of trouble. Lin Shenhe didn't think that the other party would never learn the Mini rifle - many natives were confused when practicing shooting.
Have seen the loading method.
"Company commander! There are a lot of mini bombs on the ground!" a soldier suddenly shouted.
Lin Shenhe crouched down and paid attention. Sure enough, there were many Mini warheads scattered on the ground. He picked up one and looked at it. The projectile had no trace of friction from the rifling, but it was scorched. He moved four times further.
After searching, I finally found the place where the ammunition was set on fire. There were still many mini bombs in the ashes that had not been blown out.
"Fortunately!" He secretly exclaimed that he was lucky - these soldiers faithfully followed their original oath of enlistment: "Never leave weapons to the enemy."
"Pack up everything as soon as possible! Don't even let go of the wreckage. As long as our bodies can be recognized, take them back and cremate them."
He sent a squad to search nearby villages, but only found a few old men and women who had not escaped. They were so frightened that they could not say anything. It took a while before Lin Shenhe learned the general story from their mouths.
of the process.
But he still couldn't figure it out. With the strength of a platoon, relying on the defense of a defensive camp, it is not a problem to withstand 10 times the enemy. Why was the entire army wiped out in less than half a day?
He called over the old man who stayed in the village:
"Go and find the villagers right away. I have something to ask."
The old man timidly said, "Even the younger ones don't know where they are."
The sergeant had long been burned with anger by such a tragic situation. Seeing these old men pushing back and forth, he slammed the rifle with the bayonet upwards and pressed it against the old man's chest:
"Go quickly!"
"Even if you kill the villain, he won't be found." The old man seemed to have put life and death aside.
"Don't be like this." Lin Shenhe stopped the sergeant's move and slowed down: "I just want to ask the villagers. Our Fubo Army never kills people indiscriminately! You should know!"
"Yes, yes, my deputy, Qiu, has done nothing wrong and loves the people like a son..."
"So you have to find me all the people, even if you miss one." Lin Shenhe said slowly, "Listen, I will give you half an hour. If the villagers don't come back by then, I will set fire to the village.
." Lin Shenhe pointed to the field outside the village, "If you burn the village and don't come back, I will burn all the crops in the field and block the springs and wells here. Then I will plow the field three times, spreading it every time.
Salt. You should know: Lingao’s private salt is very cheap.”
Several old men stared at each other with frightened eyes. They were prepared to die, but they did not expect that the other party's methods were so vicious and did not use killing as the purpose of venting their anger.
If you don't comply, all the material basis for the existence of the village will be gone, and Zhaopu Village will be completely wiped out.
"Yes, yes, I'll go right away." The old men panicked and ran away one after another.
When Liu Yixiao heard Lin Shenhe's report, he couldn't sit still anymore. This accident was too serious! It was so serious that he could not explain it to the Senate - a work team protected by force was wiped out!
"...Things don't seem to be that simple." Lin Shenhe's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "There are many doubts in it, and I can't explain it at the moment. I suggest that a special investigation be conducted on this."
"Who was the attacker?"
"Currently we only know that they are bandits." There was an interfering crackling sound from the walkie-talkie - the signal in the mountains was very poor. "We are searching the bandits' graveyard, hoping to find something."
Liu Yixiao said: "It seems that we have to send another task force to Zhaopu and figure out this incident as soon as possible." He sighed as he said that he could almost foresee himself sitting in the hearing room of the Senate and being questioned by others.
It looked like they were taking turns bombarding.
"Strengthen security measures from now on!" He slammed his fist on the table. "Each work team must have a complete platoon protection! All work teams must carry walkie-talkies as long as they are within the communication range! It is too remote and cannot
No work teams will be dispatched to effectively fortified areas for the time being."
Lin Shenhe learned the complete story from the villagers who returned to the village one after another. He also understood why many people had no external injuries on their bodies - they were poisoned to death.
This made him feel extremely shocked.
"Where is the village liaison officer?" he asked bitterly.
"He ran away," an old man said quickly. "He did such a thing and did not dare to stay in the village anymore. He fled with the bandits."
“You don’t want your family members anymore?”
"Before he got married, I would have died long ago."
"He can't run away." He said, looking at the numb faces of the villagers. There was only a kind of undifferentiated fear on their faces, and their eyes were ignorant and confused. They just looked at the work to improve their people's livelihood with indifference.
The team was poisoned, besieged, and every last one was killed. No one even thought of reporting a message.
As long as he could come an hour or two earlier, he might be able to save some people's lives. Lin Shenhe breathed hard to calm down his anger.
"You guys, go back to the village first. But you are not allowed to go out. We are always at your disposal."
The mass grave where the bandits had hastily buried their own dead was found the next day. Lin Shenhe ordered civilian workers to be excavated, and a total of more than 70 corpses were unearthed. The top one was the missing liaison officer. Hu
Rotten Eyes was reluctant to part with the twenty taels of silver he had been given one after another, and when he was leaving, he simply killed this man who had lost his use value.