Wei Ran gave a gentle persuasion, then took off the cannon box slung over the other's shoulder, and dragged him step by step back to the shack where they were originally imprisoned.
"You ask"
As Wei Ran spoke, he handed the box of cannons to Hu Bazhi, then took out the red rope belt from the bandit's waist and tied his hands and one foot to the railings of a cage.
After finishing all this, Wei Ran got out of the shack in the dark again, stepped on the footprints left by the bandits on the snow, and touched the edge of the illuminated shack.
Glancing in through the breathable window, I saw two kang tables supported on the big pit in the shack, and two Eight Immortals tables supported on the ground. On each table, there was a stick of pine tar as thick as a wrist.
Candle.
At this time, these bandits were either eating and drinking around the table, or they were busy pushing Pai Gow while drinking.
A rough count showed that there were 17 bandits in this shack alone, several of them were wearing nine-dragon belts, and there were box cannons on the table.
More bandits used long guns, and almost all of these long guns were placed in a wicker basket in the corner.
Without being in a hurry to do anything, Wei Ranmao ducked around to the other two unlit dens and took a look.
Although there was no lamp in the other den next to it, a clay stove was lit.
It was through this faint red light that he could vaguely see that there was also a wicker basket in this shack, and there were also several guns stuck in that basket, but there was no one in this shack.
After looking around, Wei Ran got into the shack and walked to the bamboo basket with a lit lighter in his hand to observe.
The guns in this frame are really all kinds of guns, including Maozi's dragoon rifle and Bertin II gunpowder gun, the Japanese's golden hook rifle, 38-gauge and even 38-year-old cavalry rifle, and even the domestic Liao Shi
Sanhe Hanyang old sleeves, and imported horse fourth rings.
He even found a flat-double shotgun that seemed to have strayed from Maozi. The gun had a Tsarist Russian carved shotgun belt, and 10 copper-cased shotguns were fixed on the gun belt.
After thinking for a while, he first pulled out the double-barreled shotgun, then picked out three Type 38 cavalry rifles, and carefully checked to make sure there were bullets in each gun, and then dumped them all.
On his shoulder, he turned off the lighter and left the cave.
Wei Ran carefully walked a few steps towards the last den. After listening for a moment, Wei Ran carefully opened the door a crack.
There was no clay stove lit in this shack. He took out the lighter to light it again, and he could barely see clearly. There was also an earthen kang occupying half of the area in this shack, but what was placed on the earthen kang was a
Stacks of animal skins.
In addition, there are several ropes hanging from the beams, and a series of animal traps of different sizes are hung.
He even saw a row of water tanks against the wall in this shack, but he didn't know what was in the tanks.
After a slight hesitation, Wei Ran had no intention of going in and taking a look. He extinguished the lighter and took back the metal book. Then he carefully closed the shack door and followed his footsteps back to the door of the den where they were once imprisoned.
After a while, Hu Bazhi had finished his interrogation and was waiting for him at the door of Diwozi.
"Ask clearly"
Hu Bazhi put his finger against his ear and whispered, "Including those we caught, there are a total of 20 bandits here, and two of them are watching in the den at the bottom of the mountain.
This group of bandits used to be notorious... They all have a background of digging graves and robbing graves. They don't want to go to the human circle, so they come here to do it."
Having said this, Hu Bazhi paused and continued, "In addition, this was also a nest dug by the nearby villages with the help of the Anti-Japanese Federation. One of the bandits in this group even helped dig it with his own hands.
Later, the Anti-Japanese Alliance moved around, and all the people in the nearby villages were driven into human settlements by the Japs, so they secretly occupied Maodong here. They hunted openly and robbed people secretly, especially the hunters who had no money.
Buy and sell.”
"Do you know why we are being arrested?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.
"I first planned to kidnap the kidnappers and see if I can get some ransom money. If I can't get it, I'll give it to the Japanese or the puppet army in order to find a way to make money." Hu Bazhi explained in a low voice angrily.
"The remaining 17 are eating and drinking in that shack."
Wei Ran gestured his thumb towards the lighted shack, and then distributed the gun on his shoulder to the four Qiu brothers, "This gun was also found in another shack."
"How are we going to deal with it?" Boss Qiu asked in a low voice as he took the gun.
"Are there any other bandit dens around?"
While Wei Ran was speaking, he took out the box cannon from the metal book under the cover of his one-piece flight suit.
"The closest one is only two miles away."
Hu Bazhi replied in a low voice, "Almost all the big palms are gone in this forest, but the little ones are nesting next to each other."
"If this is the case, then we can stop moving the gun if we can." Even so, Weiran still pressed down the nose of the box gun.
However, the plan could not keep up with the change. Before they could even make a thorough plan, two crisp gunshots suddenly sounded in the distance!
Looking at each other, Wei Ran and Hu Bazhi ran towards the lighted den one after another, almost in front and back, and the four Qiu family brothers also ran over.
Before Wei Ran, who was running at the front, could stop, the wooden door of the underground den had been pushed half open from the inside. A bandit in black clothes, black pants, a black cotton hat, and a red belt tied around his waist.
He also ran out cursing.
"Bang!"
With the sound of a gunshot, the bandit was shot in the door and fell back. Wei Ran, who pulled the trigger, didn't even wait for the bullet shell to fall to the ground. He and Hu Bazhi rushed to the door and fired the box cannon that had been adjusted to burst.
The position of the breathable window was stretched in and the trigger was pulled!
"Da da da——!"
After a rapid and intensive series of gunshots, the four Qiu brothers finally rushed over.
"Give me!"
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he had already taken away the flat-shuang shotgun from Yongwen's hand, and while pushing the barrel into the ventilation window, he had already depressed the left and right hammers.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Bang! Bang!"
After two more dull gunshots, along with the smoke of black gunpowder, two copper-cased shotguns sprayed out a large amount of iron sand, covering the hole tightly.
After returning the double-barreled shotgun to Yongwen, Wei Ran and Hu Bazhi cautiously hid on both sides of the door of the underground house and waited for a while, while also reloading the box cannons in their hands with bullets.
"I'll go in first"
Before Hu Bazhi finished speaking, Wei Ran was the first to open the door and walk into the den of wandering people.
At this time, there were still some people alive in this underground cave filled with the strong smell of blood, but without exception, all of them were injured.
The lucky ones here were sprayed with iron sand on their hands and cotton-padded clothes, leaving some minor injuries. The unlucky ones were sprayed all over their faces. Not only did they lose their teeth and ears, but also became blind.
"Boss Qiu, go take a look at the other dens." Hu Bazhi said, already raising his foot and hitting the neck of a bandit who was shot, "Give them a good time."
After a crisp "click" sound of fractures, the bandit who was wailing just a second ago had completely stopped moving.
Seeing this, knowing that the other party wanted to ask something, Wei Ran raised his foot and kicked the injured bandit on the back of the neck, as if to show off something.
When the crisp sound of fractures passed, Hu Bazhi finally couldn't help but asked curiously, "I learned this half-stirring kick from Miss Hongxia. Which master did you learn from?"
"My hometown is Cangzhou, Hebei Province. Who do you think I learned from?"
Wei Ran replied matter-of-factly, no matter how you say it, his hometown is the hometown of martial arts, which is known as "the escort does not call Cang". Especially in this era of war and chaos, knowing a few kung fu skills is justified in every aspect.
"You hid it well enough." Hu Bazhi kicked another one to death before he could finish his words.
"How can you use a gun with your feet?" Wei Ran said, and also kicked one to death.
Amidst the crackling sounds of bones coming from time to time, the two of them killed the last few bandits who could still breathe, and successfully recovered their confiscated Kowloon belts and box cannons.
“These stinky food are so damn good.”
As Hu Bazhi said, he had already picked up a piece of big bone meat and took a bite. However, before he chewed it twice, he covered his cheek and bared his teeth and spat out a piece of iron sand that was about the size of a match head.
"What does it mean to eat stinky?" Wei Ran asked casually while inspecting the corpses of these bandits.
"Grave digger and tomb robber" Hu Bazhi threw away the big bones and meat in his hand and continued to pick things off the corpse while explaining, "In black words, they call them stink eaters."
Before he finished speaking, he pointed to the red cloth belt around the waist of a bandit and said, "They all wear a red belt to ward off evil spirits, and there is this one, guess what it is for?"
Looking in the direction of the other person's finger, Hu Ba pointed at the only one among these bandits who was wearing a cotton robe and a melon-pipe hat. This bandit looked to be about fifty years old, but on his left arm he had
Wrapped with a piece of white cloth.
"Is this a death in the family?" Wei Ran asked in confusion,
"What the hell, these are talkative people who want ransom. Not only do these scoundrels make money from dead people, but they also kidnap people and make money from living people."
While Hu Bazhi was explaining, he was also completely sure that Wei Ran really didn't understand these Jianghu rules, and he still didn't understand them after so many years.
"Is there one alive?" Wei Ran asked while searching for loot, "I have to ask where this place is."
"I'll go right away," Hu Bazhi said as he walked out.
"Let the four little brothers come in and look for useful things."
While Wei Ran was talking, he also followed him out of the den with a pine oil candle. He was satisfied with just finding his leather hat, box cannon and Kowloon belt. He had no use for the rest.
"We found quite a few xiangzi!"
At this time, the four Qiu brothers also emerged from another shack. Each of these young men carried several guns on their shoulders.
“Let’s go and have a look inside”
Wei Ran pointed behind him and said with a smile, "See if there is anything you like in those dead people."
"Is there any box cannon?"
Before Boss Qiu finished speaking, he ran in first without waiting for Wei Ran's answer.
"Go and look for it yourself, maybe there is one."
Wei Ran said with a smile, "Of course there are box cannons, and there are enough cannons for these young men to make themselves rich."
Carrying the candle that was blown out by the cold wind, he got into the den filled with animal skins. Wei Ran closed the door, lit the candle again and looked around. Then he lit two kerosene lamps hanging on the load-bearing pillars and adjusted them.
reached maximum brightness.
With the light of the kerosene lamp, he was able to see clearly that there were a lot of animal skins here. He even saw more than one tiger skin, several bear skins, and even blankets sewn with beautiful fox skins.
He also saw that in the corner of the earthen kang, there was a small pile of used jade shoes, as well as animal skin coats and hats that were ripped off from someone's body.
Wei Ran opened the water tanks in the corner and looked at them. Wei Ran shook his head and sighed. One of these water tanks contained more than half of the solidified white grease, and the other was filled with frozen, hard animal meat.
In the remaining large water tanks, there are either pickled sauerkraut or pickle lumps that can be used as salt, or bundles of vermicelli, strings of dried mushrooms and dried chili peppers, which are almost even with the edge of the tank.
Complete corn noodles, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other items.
Compared with these "farm dishes", the big vat at the end contained various medicinal materials that Wei Ran knew or didn't recognize, such as ginseng.
There is no need to think about it. Whether it is the animal skins or most of the things in the tank, even the wild boar cubs in the den where they were imprisoned, I am afraid that 99% of them were snatched from the hands of hunters.
Even within the bandit community, robbing poor people is definitely a fucking job that cannot be put on the stage and is shameless.
Having said that, it did not delay him at all. He took out the sleigh from the metal book and threw a bear skin and the beautiful fiery red fox skin blanket into the car. He also did not forget to fill the box with frozen food.
of hard animal meat and a few pickles, pickled radish, and filled the gaps with stick noodles.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He even stuffed two ginseng sticks wrapped in birch bark and a bunch of red peppers into the second layer of the food box.
Seeing that the sleigh could be put away smoothly, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief.
When he said goodbye to Tian Xiaohu and the unconscious girl Hongxia, he left behind all the supplies he could on the sleigh.
Now that he could make up for the losses on the sleigh, he was naturally happy, but he could not help but secretly frown at the false generosity of the metal book.
The good deeds of giving charcoal in the dog days, ice in the first month of the year, and crucian carp soup in the back are only possible for those living ancestors who have no bottom line.
Carrying a kerosene lantern and leaving this den that was considered a warehouse, Wei Ran walked back and couldn't help but start to wonder about another thing, who had just shot from a distance.
Could it be that Zhao Jinyu or Unakan came here?
While Wei Ran was thinking about it secretly, Hu Bazhi also walked out of the shack, "I just asked, the people around this place call it Hu Naogou. It was a bandit den in the early Republic of China, so it got such a name.
About 20 miles to the southeast is the river ditch. It is separated by several mountain ridges and is far from the main road. You don't have to worry about the Japanese coming over for a while."
"Who do you think the guy who just got shot was?"
Wei Ran greeted the other party into the shack and asked, "Could it be Zhao Jinyu and Unakan?"
In just a short time, the four Qiu brothers had stripped off everything they could from the bandits and were busy carrying the bodies out.
“Not sure”
Hu Bazhi said ambiguously, "I'm sure it's true."
"How about we shout a few times and ask?"
Wei Ran suggested, "You take the four brothers and hide them in the shack next to them. I'll stand in the open and yell. If they..."
“No need to bother”
Before Hu Bazhi finished speaking, he had already opened his mouth and shouted loudly, "The sky is high, the wind is cold, the snowflakes are falling, what kind of god will come to visit?"
"Is this useful?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.
"it works"
Hu Bazhi said confidently, and then added, "Unless I meet a foreigner like you."
Hearing this, Wei Ran grinned and was about to say something, when a little fire lit up in the direction at the end of his field of vision.
"Are they Brother Wei and Brother Hu?" Zhao Jinyu asked loudly, hiding in the shadow where the fire could not reach.
"Jinyu! Come here quickly!" Wei Ran shouted loudly, "I knew it must be you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, and before Zhao Jinyu had time to respond, Unakan's exclamations and curses came from behind the fire.
With a series of snorts, the biting black horse ran over with Unakan's roe deer-horn hat in its mouth, and thrust its big head into Wei Ran's arms affectionately.
"Come here!"
Wei Ran grabbed the hat and shouted loudly, "Unakan, your hat is in my hand."
This sentence was tantamount to a code to prove safety. Soon, Zhao Jinyu and Unakan were riding their horses and driving the reindeer sledge and ran over. Behind them, there was an extra car who didn't know where it came from.
mule sledge.
"Did you just shoot?" The two groups of people asked the same question almost at the same time.
"I killed two men in the water and picked up a big animal." Zhao Jinyu dismounted and asked at the same time, "Where are you?"
"We've got a bunch of stinking kidnappers." Hu Bazhi smiled and extended the invitation, "Come in and warm yourself up."
“Come to this den”
Wei Ran greeted them to the den that was also lit with a clay stove, and at the same time he did not forget to say, "Boss Qiu, you four brothers have worked hard, bring two kang tables over here, and get some pine oil candles."
"immediately!"
Boss Qiu, who was carrying the corpse, responded cheerfully, called to the other three brothers, dropped the corpse they were carrying, and got into the hole in the ground.
"Let's go"
Wei Ran said that he had tied up the biting horse, pushed open the wooden door of the pit, and was the first to walk in carrying a kerosene lamp.
After inviting everyone to sit down on the exceptionally warm earthen kang, the two groups of people also briefly communicated what had happened.
Unexpectedly, the first person to discover Hu Bazhi's traces was not Wei Ran or Zhao Jinyu, but Unakan, who had no idea of the gathering location.
This clever Oroqen female hunter even witnessed Wei Ran being kidnapped, and hanging from a distance behind, she found the hilltop where the bandits were hiding.
At about the same time, the biting horse also smelled the scent and found Zhao Jinyu, who had just gotten rid of the Japanese.
Zhao Jinyu also opened fire from a distance, killing and wounding the bandits chasing the horses, and asked about the situation in the bandits' den.
Needless to say what happened next, the two men didn't waste any time after they met, and took advantage of the darkness to successfully deal with the bandits who were on sentry duty. However, that shot was a last resort shot in order to kill the dog that rushed towards them.
After they finished talking about the cause and effect and what they found in the bandit's den, Boss Qiu also brought the three brothers to deliver the kang table and pine oil candles.
"You have worked so hard, go ahead and move those bandits into the woods to feed the wolves." At this time, Hu Bazhi continued to instruct the Qiu brothers, "Remember to throw them away."
Boss Qiu, who already had a box cannon and a Kowloon belt on his waist, did not doubt his presence and simply greeted the three brothers to leave the warm underground nest and continue their work.
"Have something to say?"
Wei Ran politely declined the other party's dry cigarette bag, took out the cigarette case, took out a cigarette, held it in his mouth, lit it and asked.
"There are some words"
Hu Bazhi pondered for a moment and then said, "I think this bandit's den needs to eat, drink and drink. What do you think about letting the four Qiu brothers stay?"
"Are you planning to let them fall into the grass?" Zhao Jinyu asked with a smile.
"When I went to pick up Boss Qiu and Xiao Si'er during the day, Boss Qiu said he wanted to follow us to fight the Japanese." Hu Bazhi sighed.
Hearing this, Zhao Jinyu, who originally planned to say something, opened his mouth and fell silent.
"They are only sixteen or seventeen"
Hu Bazhi sighed and said, "It's not worth following us to your death."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "How about letting them go to Squad Leader Xiaohu?" Wei Ran asked.
"You think I didn't say that? They have to believe it!" Hu Bazhi sighed, "I blame Captain Zhao for talking about this."
"Blame my brother? Why?" Zhao Jinyu asked in astonishment.
"When Captain Zhao went to their village, Boss Qiu and the others wanted to join the Anti-League. At that time, wherever there was an Anti-League, the black soil was three feet red. Who wouldn't want to join the Anti-League?"
Hu Bazhi said helplessly, "But how old was he at that time? Captain Zhao lied to him and told them to help take care of the wounded first, and when they come back, they will be admitted to join the Anti-Japanese Alliance."
After saying this, the room became completely quiet.
"It's been three years of waiting."
Hu Bazhi sighed, "These silly boys have been waiting for Captain Zhao to come back and take them to fight the Japanese.
Tell me, can they believe us and go find Tian Xiaohu, who they have never seen before? What’s more... I’m afraid it will be even more difficult for Xiaohu..."
"Brother Hu, if you ask them to stay, will they be willing to stay?" Unakan asked.
When this question was raised, everyone in the diwozi fell into silence again.
"Sixteen or seventeen is not too young."
Unakan threw a few big firewood into the clay stove and continued, "If you stay as a gangster at this age, you will be swallowed up by the surrounding mountains within a few days.
Participating in the Anti-League is dangerous, but it is always a way to survive. If it doesn't work out, just take them to Mao Zi's side when the time comes."
"Let me talk to Boss Qiu again."
Hu Bazhi sighed, changed the topic and said, "Looking at the weather, it's probably going to snow in the middle of the night, so I might as well rest here."
"There's a lot of food in the nest over there," Wei Ran said proactively, "There's also a lot of animal skins."
"Let's go take a look together." Hu Bazhi stood up as he spoke.
At the same time, Boss Qiu, who was hiding outside the door and eavesdropping, also clenched his fists, turned around and ran into the nearby den where the body had not yet been removed.
