Rise From Eight Hundred

Shen Laoliu had a headache!

It was not because he was tied up like a wild boar, nor because his Czech semi-automatic rifle, Black Star pistol, and saber with the insignia of the Four-Line Regiment were all gone.

Rather, it was a real headache!

Shen Laoliu didn't have to think about why he and Xiao Saner had just roasted a fire in a simple shack in the mountains and ended up in this situation!

Because it was meaningless, the reality was that he had been tricked by someone else!

His headache was as bad as if he had drunk three pounds of low-quality liquor last night.

Fortunately, Zhang Saner was fine.

The tall and strong silly boy was tied up as tightly as him, and he was snoring happily at this moment!

Apart from drugs, what else could make a specially trained soldier like Zhang Saner sleep so deeply?

Although Zhang San'er was not a veteran of the original Fourth Camp, but a defeated soldier he met and chose to join when crossing the river, he also fought in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing. The young man from the mountains of Xiangyang, Hubei Province, had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was strong and sturdy. He was a good soldier at first glance.

He stood out in that selection. His physical strength and endurance were ranked in the top 20 in the entire reconnaissance company. Not only was he strong, but he seemed to have a natural affinity for firearms, especially for the use of light and heavy machine guns. He was a natural fire supporter. Otherwise, Shen Laoliu, who was used to partnering with Mingxin, would not have picked him out as his partner this time!

In fact, when such a big battle was about to come, Shen Laoliu, as an elite sergeant, took him nearly 20 kilometers away from the main position of Niangzi Pass for reconnaissance, which was also focused on training.

Gu Xishui had long discovered the current problems of the reconnaissance company. Although the newly selected scouts were in good condition and trained very hard, they still lacked practical experience. Almost every group had to be led by the old scouts, otherwise it would always give people the illusion of lack of confidence, including themselves.

Just like this time, although Captain Laohei and Deputy Captain Gu Xishui were willing to train the newcomers, in the end, because the battle was of great importance, the whole army was destroyed if they were not careful. The ten groups of more than 40 people sent out, more than half of them were veteran scouts.

The main force of the regiment is expanding the defense line along the mountain with Niangzi Pass as the center for nearly five kilometers, and the whole regiment is working hard to build fortifications almost without sleep. As the eyes of the whole regiment, the reconnaissance company naturally cannot be idle. The remaining 120 people are organized into almost 30 groups and spread out around the battlefield.

One is to scout the enemy situation and continuously transmit information such as the Japanese army's advance route and marching speed to the command center. The second is another more important task, scouting the terrain around Niangzi Pass.

The Japanese were not fools. They rushed up when they saw the defense line deployed by the Four-line Regiment. They would play dirty tricks. They would often use one part of the attack to attract the firepower of the defense line, and send people to find other ways into the mountains. If there was no main road, there could be a small road. Even if there were no heavy weapons, it would be a headache for any commander to let a light infantry penetrate behind the defense line.

Therefore, these scouts of the reconnaissance company must help the commander find these "loopholes" in areas several kilometers or even more than ten kilometers outside the defense line, and make corresponding deployments.

An infantry squad or several infantry squads will be spread out away from the main force to defend these potential risk areas.

The reconnaissance team composed of Shen Laoliu and Zhang Saner even scouted all the way to a position nearly 20 kilometers away from the main position of Niangzi Pass. The mountains here are higher and more dangerous, and the two strong men are exhausted.

After nightfall, the temperature in Taihang Mountain, which had already entered September, was so low that it seemed like winter was about to come. The two found a small wooden shed, which should be a resting place built by local hunters themselves to avoid the wind and cold and wild beasts. There was even a fire pit made of stones in the wooden shed.

Just light a pile of fire and roast the clothes and shoes soaked in sweat. The smell was a bit strong, but it was not enough to make people feel dizzy!

Shen Laoliu knew that the problem might be in the fire pit that he had checked once. This was really called "an eighty-year-old mother with a child". If it was heard by Lao Lu and others in the future, they would not know how to laugh at him as an old soldier!

If Lu Zhongda and others knew what Shen Laoliu was thinking at this time, they could only give him a thumbs up and shout "The commander deserves to be called Laoliu". He was tied up like a wild boar, and it looked like he was about to be bled and shaved, and you were still thinking about this!

But this is really the strength of Shen Laoliu. It's not that he is careless, but he knows that he will not die in most cases when he sees this posture.

First of all, he was tied with hemp rope, which is probably made of a kind of tree bark. It is not thick but strong enough, which is a product of the mountains.

Secondly, the method of tying people is very rough, but the person in charge of the execution is very patient and spent a lot of ropes. It can be seen that he often ties pigs.

Thirdly, their current environment...

It's not even a wooden shed, it's just a small cave. Looking at the simple axe marks on the rock wall, Shen Laoliu can think that those guys who fascinated the two of them don't have high demands for the quality of life, just a place to shelter from the rain.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the place where they are placed is a utility room...

To sum up, this group of people are bandits in the mountains, and they should have nothing to do with the Japanese.

And the general bandits kill people and rob goods. After robbing things, they have to draw a knife and cut the people. As for tying people and not fearing the high mountains and long roads to carry the bandits' nest?

The two scouts are not blind. There are no people in this mountain for at least ten miles, otherwise the small shack would not exist so reasonably.

What! How can he and Xiao Saner, two grown men, be the men of the bandit? If that is the case, as long as his appearance is not too bad, he is willing to make do for Xiao Saner's life.

As for if his face is like a basin and his waist is like a jar, let Xiao Saner choose for himself! See if he sells his body or loses his head! Anyway, ugly women generally like handsome men, and people like him who make a living by talent are generally not very popular.

Zhang Saner: Thank you, Sixth Brother!

Shen Laoliu is a meticulous thinker. Just from the fact that he has not died, we can know that most bandits are also very cautious about him as a hostage!

Perhaps, it is the equipment they both have.

Don't say, Shen Laoliu is right.

Less than 300 meters away from the cave where Shen Laoliu was tied up, in a large cave of at least 800 square meters, a young woman wearing slightly old but embroidered clothes, a huge silver necklace around her neck, a high bun on her head, and bare feet was pacing back and forth with a frown on her face.

As the head of Yeyue Village, Long Ying had never had a headache like today, even in a famine year when the village was out of food.

When she got up early in the morning, she heard the old crow calling, and she knew that her fortune was not good today, and then she saw her big fool brother running excitedly to offer treasures.

A rifle that had never been seen before, a machine gun that had never been seen before, a gun that had never been seen before...

All the weapons in front of her were actually weapons that people in Yeyue Village had never seen before, even if she was the woman whose father spent a lot of money to send to the Han city to learn to read and see the world outside the mountains.

Yes, Long Ying is already in her early 30s this year. She has been working outside since she was 13 years old. In the past 15 years, she has even been to Hebei Province outside of Shanxi Province and Pingbei City, and has seen too many new things that can never be seen in the mountains.

A little girl who has no relatives outside the mountains and can't even speak Chinese, relying on a large silver ingot given by her father before leaving, which was the official silver that the ancestors of the village robbed in the mountains during the Qing Dynasty, and even printed with the words of government supervision, not only survived miraculously but also saw such a big world. Needless to say, her tenacious temperament and extraordinary wisdom.

But she doesn't think that all this is so great, most of it should be attributed to her father who is known as the most intelligent and leading father in Yeyue Village in the past two hundred years.

Eighty percent of the villagers in Yeyue Village are not Han people, but Jiuli people who were forced to migrate to this mountain hundreds of years ago due to war.

Although there were only two hundred people when they came, and they could not compare with the Han people who were struggling to survive in this mountain but had a large number of people, the unique unity and toughness of the Jiuli people enabled them to gain a foothold in this mountain and reproduce in this mountain.

The main business of Yeyue Village is still farming and hunting, but when they encounter "fat sheep", they will still "this mountain is mine, this tree is mine, if you want to pass through, leave money to buy the way".

Of course, Yeyue Village mainly relies on a secret path from the plain outside the mountain through the mountain, which can not only pass people but also horses. Although it is not as smooth as the road of Niangzi Pass dozens of miles away, it will also attract some merchants who are unwilling to pay transportation fees or contraband to pass through regardless of danger.

Yeyue Village does not have to rob every order. The emphasis is on seeing who is unlucky. It does not take much, and it does not play the kind of murder and robbery. Just leave some silver or daily necessities. To use a phrase from the future, it is a "sustainable development".

But with the development of the times, the road on the other side of Niangzi Pass has been expanded and improved, the customs clearance fee has become cheaper and cheaper, and there are more and more roads in and out of Jin Province. Railways and trains have begun to be put into use, and merchants have more and more choices. This financial path that has provided Yeyue Village with "sustainable development" for more than 200 years has been gradually cut off.

Just like a company, it used to be able to open one order a month, plus growing some vegetables at home, so that the majority of employees can fill their stomachs. As a result, it can only be completed once a year. Do you think that the majority of employees will starve?

The current population size of Yeyue Village is as high as 1,000 people, not including the Han people who are attached to Yeyue Village and married to Yeyue Village.

That's not to say that the Jiuli people like the Han people so much, that is also forced, otherwise with the original 200 people, wouldn't it be inbreeding long ago, and the offspring are either stupid or foolish?

The Han people value sons, and the Jiuli people value daughters, just what they need, and the daughters born return to Yeyue Village and marry people in the village to give birth to their own people.

A large population is a good thing, but there is only so much land, and the mountains are barren, so it is really not a big deal that everyone can't have a full meal a year.

Therefore, Long Ying's father made that decision, no longer complacent, and selected his smartest daughter to go out and see the world, so as to bring new development ideas to Yeyue Village.

Otherwise, if they continue to follow the old path of their ancestors, sooner or later half of the thousands of people in Yeyue Village will be wiped out by the poor food and difficult living environment.

The natural selection of nature is cruel.

To put it bluntly, this is a story about a farming bandit village that is eager for new development opportunities and sends wise men from the tribe to "study abroad" across thousands of mountains.

Then, three years ago, the female student came back with all kinds of fresh experiences outside the mountain, and took over the position of the headman of her father who had passed away due to illness, and made the "folks" rich!

However, the cruel reality is not so easy to change. Not to mention studying abroad, even if she has a brain comparable to Musk, Long Ying can't immediately lead her "folks" to live a good life.

In fact, in three years, she couldn't even change the stubborn ideas of her own people, including her "stupid" brother who was only 3 years old before she left.

Of course, only she, as the elder sister, is qualified to say that he is "stupid". In the eyes of other tribesmen, Long Yan is the leader of the young people in the village and a famous hunter.

Just say that a child who is only ten years old, without even a hunting dog, relied on his own improved ancestral incense to stun a nest of wild boars, so that nearly a thousand people in the village had a full belly. Isn't it awesome?

Not to mention that it is difficult to find a wild boar nest, wild boars are well-known omnivores in the mountains. They eat anything from tree barks to plant branches and leaves to rhizomes, and anything from insects to mice to bird eggs to pheasants and even poisonous snakes. They are not picky about food and eat anything they see. Their stomachs have long been trained to be almost immune to all poisons.

As a result, Long Yan not only found the wild boar nest, but also used the improved incense to make the wild boars confused. When the tribesmen boiled water, few of them could still hum.

Those that can still hum are all cowhide pigs!

Shen Laoliu... (It seems that I have been implicated by the bandits!)

What makes Long Ying so worried is this silly brother who is known as the hunting genius of the whole village. The weapons in front of her that she can't even name all indicate that the two idiots who were tied up like wild boars have a certain connection with the army that Yeyue Village saw from afar, even though they are not wearing dark blue military uniforms, but wearing a kind of fancy clothes.

The yellow and orange bullet belt with a thousand rounds is wrapped around the machine gun. You don't need to try to know that this thing alone is enough to kill hundreds of bird guns in the village in seconds, even if you add the stone cannon!

When it comes to cold weapons, Yeyue Village is really not afraid of anyone. Even the elderly over 60 years old and the teenagers in the village have sharp blades hanging from their waists, and the young and strong are equipped with the Jiuli Blade made by the ancestral method.

The five-foot-long blade made of fine iron can be used as a knife or a gun, and can be used with one or two hands. If used to charge into battle, it is far better than a single knife!

Most of the silver accumulated by Yeyue Village over the years was used to cast this knife, but the tribesmen never complained, because the knife skills and ancestral weapons were the foundation of the village. There were many bandits in the area of ​​dozens of miles, and no one dared to provoke them.

But now is the era of hot weapons, and Long Ying knows it very well.

If they provoke that army, Yeyue Village will be destroyed in a matter of minutes, despite its rugged terrain!

She is now struggling with her conscience. Should she return the weapons and give away supplies to express her apology in order to ensure the safety of the village, or simply bury them with all the people and things, as if the two idiots had never been here.

But both ways of dealing with it have the possibility of being fatal. If the former is a vengeful person, he will definitely lead the army after going down the mountain. It doesn’t matter whether they are bandits or not, and no one in the village can survive;

And the latter, although it seems to be the simplest, is actually more dangerous!

Long Ying also understood a truth at the foot of the mountain, "If you don't want others to know, then don't do it yourself." Just from these sophisticated equipment, it is known that these two are definitely not ordinary soldiers. The army will never let them disappear, and searching is almost inevitable.

Although Yeyue Village is seven or eight miles away from the place where they disappeared, anyone would cast a suspicious eye here. If they find any clues, the whole village will be wiped out.

"This bastard, knowing that there is a large army beside him, he should not go down the mountain to cause trouble, but he still caused such a disaster! Where is Long Yan? Let him roll over!" Long Ying's pretty face, which was reddened by the sun but showed a healthy beauty, was full of bitterness, and he shouted.

The row of young people standing over there looked at each other!

They were all childhood friends of Longyan. This time, they didn't hunt wild boars but hunted two fools. Although they didn't have much money, the two big guns and pistols were good stuff. Under the leadership of Longyan, they took the trouble to carry them for seven or eight miles to the headman to ask for credit.

The reason why they didn't kill the people on the spot was that Longyan was very smart. He said that if he killed them here, his companions would probably find them. It would be better to take them back to the village and throw them on the cliff behind Yeyue Peak. Even gods can't find them, and by the way, he can also listen to his sister's opinion.

As a result, before he saw the people, he saw those coveted guns. The headman's face was very ugly, and now he even scolded Longyan.

Obviously, Longyan was much more cunning than his little brothers. Seeing that the situation was not good, he slipped away when his sister was not paying attention!

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"My clothes are not fancy, they are camouflage uniforms!"

Shen Laoliu, who was tied up like a wild boar hundreds of meters away, was loudly refuting the young man opposite who called him "silly egg".

Country bumpkin! This is the nickname that Shen Laoliu gave to this big-armed and waisted young man who was obviously not of Han nationality and had a long knife hanging on his waist.

The reason why he didn't shout it out loud was that Shen Laoliu was not stupid. At first glance, that long knife was a good thing that could kill people!