Survival begins with Red Dead Redemption 2

Chapter 124, Chapter 123, Bait and Hook
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"thumping",
A bullet flew past Dai Ping'an's shoulder.

The cavalry captain gave no order, but a terrified soldier couldn't resist pulling the trigger of his rifle.

The bullet left a bloodstain, but Dai Pingan didn't even move, as if he wasn't the one who was shot.

"Everyone, don't shoot!"

The cavalry captain ordered loudly, but he did not reprimand the panicked soldier, because the death of Sergeant Baker did not cause him the slightest anger.

The captain first looked down, then took a few steps back, and stood on the wooden steps of the train station behind.After making sure that the blood flowing from Sergeant Baker's head would not stain his lambskin military boots, he clapped his hands.

"Good marksmanship!"

The cavalry captain praised.

"Thank you!"

Dai Ping'an agreed, and after spinning the cowboy revolver twice in his hand, which was still smoking, he gently put it into the gun belt.

"I am sincerely praising you. You are different from other yellow-skinned monkeys. You are the first Chinese who dared to shoot and kill people in front of me, and you were still under the aim of my soldiers' guns."

Except for the No. 60 soldiers who chased the residents of Armadillo Town on the wasteland and the five or sixty people who were killed or injured in the explosion, most of the remaining cavalry surrounded Dai Pingan after they stabilized their horses.

They didn't swarm up like unruly gangsters, but followed the military training they had received, or entered the bars, grocery stores and other houses on both sides of the street in Armadillo Town, and poked out their guns under the cover of doors and windows; or It was to climb directly to the second floor and the roof of the buildings on both sides, condescendingly pointing a gun at Dai Pingan.

Under the aim of more than 300 muzzles, Dai Ping'an managed to arouse the interest of the cavalry captain without saying a word.

"I don't know if it has something to do with your special skin color, but your actions prove your extraordinary courage. There are also brave people among your compatriots, but they can't do to your level."

"is it?"

Dai Pingan rubbed the stubble on his head.

"Yes, it's a pity. If you were white, you would be a very good soldier." The cavalry captain actually showed a trace of regret on his face:

"As a reward for your courage, I wish to clarify a few things first."

"If you want to learn from some of your former compatriots and try to sneak into the Buchan Fort by surrendering, I'm sorry, we will bring you in alive, but before entering the barracks, we will break your hands and feet, Make it impossible for you to leave again. So..."

The cavalry captain patted the holster on his waist:

"I want you to fight me like a real white warrior."

"Will you agree?"

Dai Pingan raised his eyebrows.

"As a gunner, I will definitely agree to your duel, but as a commander, I will let my soldiers shoot you to death. Which identity I will choose depends on your own judgment, of course, You can also put down your weapons and choose to surrender, it’s just a broken limb, you won’t die.”

This is the real purpose of the cavalry captain.

He has the final say on the final result, so it doesn't matter how to choose, what is important is that during the selection process, Dai Pingan's calmness and courage will be wiped out little by little, and then stepped on.In order to allow Dai Pingan to make the "correct" choice, the cavalry captain added another sentence:
"I forgot to tell you that most of your yellow-skinned compatriots chose to surrender, but there is still one who chose to challenge me to a duel. He is as brave as you, if I remember correctly,"

The cavalry captain tilted his head and looked at Dai Pingan's tiger-headed knife stuck horizontally behind his waist:

"He also has a machete, very similar to the one behind you."

Yan Xiaoguo!
Dai Pingan's eyes froze.

"Don't worry, I didn't do anything to him."

The change in Dai Ping'an's expression was noticed by the captain of the cavalry, and he smiled triumphantly:

"I don't know if he was frightened and stupid, and he wanted to challenge me to a duel with a heavy machete. Whether as a gunner or a commander, I would not do anything to him. After all, guns It is the weapon of choice for modern humans, and the only ones waving cold weapons to frighten people are those Indian beasts that have not yet fully evolved, and wild monkeys that have just learned to wear clothes and talk after running out of the deep forest."

While speaking, the cavalry captain took off his gloves and threw them in front of Dai Ping'an.

"Now, it's your choice."

Picking up the gloves means challenging the captain. You may have a fair chance to fight with the cavalry captain, or you may die under random gunshots. But if you give up this opportunity, you will have nowhere to escape in the face of numerous gunpoints. Dai Pingan had no choice but to surrender.

The cavalry captain looked up and down, waiting for Dai Ping'an to make a choice. Even the many soldiers occupying favorable terrain on both sides moved their index fingers away from the trigger, waiting to see the good show.

Dai Pingan felt a little speechless.

He didn't bend down immediately, but first looked at the gloves on the ground, then looked back at the burning police station in the distance, looked at the impenetrable siege on both sides of the street, and finally stopped his eyes on the scene full of ridicule. And the proud captain's face.

He opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything, but in the eyes of the cavalry captain, Dai Ping'an's performance had already explained everything:
"Give up, you have proved your courage, now as long as you choose to surrender, like your compatriots, kneel down and put your head on the ground, I can make the decision and leave you a good leg."

"One is not enough? How about leaving another hand for you?"

Seeing that Dai Pingan didn't answer, the captain couldn't help but add another sentence.

At this time, Dai Pingan, who had been silent all this time, finally moved. He did not become angry as expected, drew his gun and desperately; nor did he kneel down and beg for mercy as expected.Instead, he put a cigarette in his mouth first, lit it and took a deep breath, then looked at the cavalry captain with the look of a fool.

"Can't you see that I've been stalling for time?"

The smoke that he exhaled passed before his eyes, and Dai Pingan suddenly doubted the other party's IQ.

"Procrastination?"

The ridicule on the cavalry captain's face almost overflowed:
"It's not shameful to admit your timidity, but to cover it up with an excuse... Hehe, is this also a habit of yours?"

"Delaying time? What do you want to wait for? Your gangsters? Barry Burton who hides himself and dare not show up? Or those Mexican bastards who are not much more civilized than you?"

The cavalry captain looked northeast of the town, which was the direction of the Pike Basin Pass.

"In front of the lion, the wild dogs have to tuck their tails even if they bark. Even if they are all lying in ambush in the valley, so what if they are watching from a high place now? Don't they dare to rush over to save you?"

"Give up, Dai Ping'an, you're just an explosive, you've finished your mission, now kneel down, no one will come to rescue you."

The captain's words didn't make Dai Ping'an panic, on the contrary, it seemed to remind him of something interesting, so he laughed:
"No one will come to save me. People can't be trusted. How can life and death be placed in other people's hands, so,"

"People, you must rely on yourself!"

While talking, Dai Pingan took out a pocket watch to check the time:

"Captain, you are right. As for me, I am indeed a dynamite pointr. For the sake of giving me a choice, let me remind you, do you still remember what I took from the railway site?"

The captain of the cavalry was stunned for a moment, but he immediately realized that he jumped out from the steps of the train station and threw himself next to Sergeant Baker's body.

It was too late to greet the soldiers who hadn't reacted yet——

"boom!"

"Boom!" "Boom!"

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

……

First, the new railway station, which has not yet been put into use, was bombed into the sky with the soldiers on the steps, followed by the bar and grocery store just across the street from the station, and then from west to east, along Armadillo Town Street The two sides exploded all the way.

It was like setting off a string of twenty-shot super firecrackers. After a bang, the entire Armadillo town was engulfed in smoke and debris from the explosion.

Unlike the house next to the police station where a large amount of kerosene was placed, there was no fireball or flame when the two rows of houses exploded. There was only a flash of light and overwhelming debris, but the power did not diminish in any way.

Soldiers and buildings at the center of the explosion were blown all over the ground like firecracker confetti;

Although the surrounding soldiers kept the whole body, their bodies were also covered with small red spots, and those who died could not die again;
The soldiers at the outskirts of the town were able to stagger up after rolling and turning a few somersaults, but the blood dripping from their eyes, nose and mouth made them fall down quickly .

A string of firecrackers, blowing up a cavalry battalion, and the town of Armadillo.

Fortunately, it was an industrial explosive used to open mountains and split rocks. Otherwise, I really couldn't find a super-long fuze that could explode from the police station at the beginning, go around half of Armadillo Town, and then circle back to the train station.

In order to ensure the effect of the explosion, Dai Ping'an and the others prepared three such fuzes, and the reason why they exploded twice was to gather the cavalry captain's manpower together.

The cavalry captain was right, Dai Pingan was a dynamite expert, but he was not only a delicious and fat bait, but also a fishhook that could get stuck in the throat and kill people.

Even on a still night, Armadillo has never been so quiet.

The ringing in the ear gradually stopped, the smoke began to dissipate, and the flames outside the few houses of the police station were still burning fiercely.

On both sides of the street, in addition to the collapse of the masonry bank, the roofs and walls of the train station, bars, grocery stores, and other wooden structures were all thrown into the sky by the impact of the explosion.

A gust of wind blew the fire from the wreckage of the bar and then spread.Fragments of wood fell all over the world, and soon the town of Armadillo was ablaze, and the flames were so bright that they could be seen from far away.

The scorching heat of the flames aroused the wailing of the survivors, and the eyes of the surviving soldiers were blank, as if their souls had been sucked out of their bodies.They struggled up from the ground, staggering and staggering.Some took two steps, then fell back again, some were able to take a few more steps, but they couldn't reach the entrance of the town, so they fell over.

The flames licked the corpses in the ruins, and the stench of burning began to spread in the town.At the entrance of the town near the train station, a fat body moved, and the heavy body of Sergeant Baker was lifted, and the cavalry captain crawled out from below.

A Civil War instructor who taught how to survive shelling would save his life decades later.

He knelt on the ground, panting heavily, when a metallic luster caught his attention.It was his double-action revolver, thrown from its holster in the explosion, and fell a little way ahead.

Just when he was about to climb over to pick it up, a black cycling shoe stepped on it.

(End of this chapter)