noffsinger Chapter 422: Life for a Life, Debt for a Life
Chapter 422: Life for a Life, Debt for a Life
The second in command, Shanmaozi, led Li Yunlong and others into the Black Wind Village, walked around a bunch of wooden houses, and finally turned to the back mountain. After moving away a bunch of broken wooden boxes, a cave one person high was revealed.
"Sir, inside here are the belongings of our Black Wind Village, all the treasures accumulated over the years!"
"Lead the way! I'm warning you, don't play any tricks, or else don't blame me for my bullets being blind!"
The mountain cat obediently entered the cave and lit the candles along the way. After walking for about two minutes, the narrow cave suddenly became wide, revealing a huge cavity of about 50 square meters.
And inside this huge cavity, there are shelves filled with gold, silver, jewelry, silks and satins, all of which are of great value.
Li Yunlong sneered twice and weighed a heavy golden turtle.
"Mountain Cat, you Black Wind Village have done a lot of bad things over the years. Shaanxi is so poor, but you have made so much money. You are really not human!"
The mountain cat lowered his head and stared at his toes.
"People die for money, birds die for food. We brothers have no other choice but to become bandits. If we don't make some money, we will starve to death."
"Stop talking nonsense! According to what you said, all the people in the country who didn't become bandits are starving to death? That's all bullshit!"
Li Yunlong had his men pack up all the gold, silver and jewelry and take them away, and put all the savings of the Black Wind Village over the years into his pocket without any hesitation.
After bringing Shanmaozi out of the cave, Li Yunlong was so angry when he saw Heiyun Village that he asked Wang Meng to take people to light a fire and burn it down.
Shanmaozi trembled when he saw Li Yunlong, who was swift and decisive.
"Sir, you have also taken away all these gold, silver and jewelry. Can you let me go too?"
"Sure! But the way down the mountain is blocked, so you can only run up. Do you mind that?"
Shanmaozi looked at the raging fire on the mountain and was so angry that his teeth were itching. He immediately realized that he was being fooled by Li Yunlong.
But he was the fish and others were the butchers, so there was no room for bargaining.
Fortunately, the fire had just started and was not big. If they rushed to the back mountain and went through the secret passage, they might still have a chance to survive. If they stayed with Li Yunlong, they would probably die.
"Thank you for not killing me, sir!"
After saying this, Shanmaozi ran away!
Just after Shanmaozi ran two hundred meters, Li Yunlong waved his hand.
A row of mortars adjusted their firing angles and fired a series of shells, instantly turning the escape route of the mountain cat into a scorched earth.
The bobcat's body seemed to be in tatters, with shrapnel all over its body!
"You guys shot a shrapnel into the monk's body, I will make you pay it back a hundred or a thousand times!"
Shanmaozi was completely speechless in his last moments. He never expected that he would eventually fall under the artillery fire of the independent column.
Seeing the death of Shanmaozi, the bandits were silent as a mouse, buried their heads in their crotches, and dared not even breathe.
Less than five minutes later, the soldiers who had been blocking the way at the back mountain brought Xie Baoqing over, tied up.
"Commander Li, Commander Li, I am now the captain of the 772nd Regiment's Independent Battalion. We are one of us, one of us!"
Li Yunlong couldn't help but frowned when he saw Xie Baoqing's bandit-like demeanor.
"A scum like you is one of us? I think Blind Cheng is really blind. He dares to recycle any kind of garbage!"
Xie Baoqing hung his head, curled up like a bear, and said no more.
He originally swung a rope and swung to the other side of the cliff, thinking he had escaped, but he found several black gun muzzles pointed at him before he even landed.
"Captain Li, it was the second-in-command's idea to rob the Independent Column's convoy this time. It had nothing to do with me! He said that the life of the Eighth Route Army was hard, and after doing this job, he could save some money so that he wouldn't have to eat coarse food every day in the future."
Xie Baoqing was very cunning and directly put all the blame on the mountain cat that was blown to death.
"Humph, I don't believe he dares to give this order without your consent! Come on, prepare to shoot!"
Xie Baoqing was a ruthless person, but when he heard that his head was going to be shattered by a bullet, he fell to his knees with a thud, his head pounding like crazy.
"Commander Li, Commander Li, Commander Cheng is on the way. You should look at the owner before beating a dog. Please spare my life!"
As soon as Xie Baoqing finished speaking, the soldier on guard outside came trotting over and said that Blind Cheng came to ask for a meeting with a handwritten letter from the brigade commander.
Li Yunlong originally did not plan to meet Blind Cheng, but for the sake of the brigade commander, he decided to meet Blind Cheng to see what he could say.
Blind Cheng rode in on his horse, sweating profusely. He saw the Black Wind Village on fire and the bandits squatting on the ground, feeling mixed emotions of joy and sorrow.
The good news is that Li Yunlong still left him more than a hundred people, but the worry is that these weapons and equipment are probably almost lost?
"Commander Li, can you take a look at the brigade commander's letter first?"
Li Yunlong took the letter handed over by Blind Cheng, which was probably to speak well of Blind Cheng, asking Li Yunlong to send the murderer to the division headquarters for trial at his discretion and to show no leniency!
However, after reading the whole article, it seems that the brigade commander only spoke in a negotiating tone.
After all, the brigade commander also knew that Li Yunlong and Monk Wei were as close as brothers. It was a bit unreasonable to ask him to show leniency to his brother whose life and death were unknown. But he couldn't just ignore the blind man Cheng's plea, right? After all, we are all human!
"Captain Cheng, although we have separated now, our roots are still the same. I have to remind you that this so-called independent brigade of yours is not a good thing. We all agreed to your incorporation, but you still come out to rob and plunder. Isn't this against the rules?"
Blind Cheng was in the wrong this time, but he felt bad seeing that most of the troops he had obtained were lost.
"Commander Li, since the mistake has already been made, why not hand everyone over to me? I will never show any leniency and will definitely give you a satisfactory answer when the time comes!"
"This is inappropriate. My brothers were injured, and more than 20 motor vehicle soldiers and student soldiers died in the battle. I let them go just because of your words? And this is not a misunderstanding at all. It was deliberately done by Xie Baoqing and Shanmaozi! Debts should be paid back, and murder should be punished with death. This is only natural!"
Every word Li Yunlong said hit the nail on the head, making Blind Cheng speechless. He had worked with Li Yunlong for many years, so how could he not know Li Yunlong's temper?
Don't give in when you are right, and don't argue when you are wrong.
Now he only hopes that the designation of the 772nd Regiment Independent Battalion can be retained!
"Come here, execution!"
Xie Baoqing was held to the ground by the soldiers of the Independent Column, with a semi-automatic rifle pointed directly at his head.
"Commander Li, I have something to say! I have important information!"