20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 431 Guihe
Jiang Lianheng and Li Zheng shouted in unison to stop the bombardment.

One was worried that Wang Guihe would be killed by the mountain cannon, while the other was worried about the ammunition, and had no intention of taking the blame for the entire mountain stronghold.

Opening a mountain and setting up a cabinet requires manpower. There are not many bandits in Slingshot Ridge, but they are all professionals who can only rub their beards. If Li Zheng wants to succeed, he will have to count on them in the future.

What's more, it was getting late, and although there were fires in the camp, Sun Xiangyang didn't have a suitable assistant. If he had to forcefully fire the artillery, he could only hit wherever he pointed. It all depended on God's arrangement, so he obeyed the order to stop the bombardment.

Unfortunately, the gangsters were not satisfied and asked on the spot: "Shall we try a grenade?"

"Do we have to wipe out all our assets to stop this?"

Li Zheng cursed a few times, then stood up and greeted: "Pull the bolt into the stronghold, surrender without killing!"

When Jiang Lianheng saw this, he quickly ordered his brothers to divide into two groups. One group stayed to guard the mules and horse teams, while the other group followed him and followed the bandits, approaching the mountain gate and the stronghold step by step.

By this time, the Slingshot Ridge Village was already devastated and in disarray.

The camp was filled with smoke, wind and sand were blowing everywhere, and burning wooden boards could be seen everywhere.

The bandits were making noise, the horses were neighing, and the soldiers were noisy. It was already a chaotic mess.

Yang Laoxie pushed aside the gravel and sawdust on his body, sat on the ground and coughed a few times. He squinted his eyes and saw that the gate of the cottage was in pieces, the two sentry towers collapsed, and there was no trace of the plank road on the north side.

Most of his close brethren were already dead or injured, either crushed under trees or rocks, or seriously injured and fell to the ground wailing, leaving only a few unharmed.

After being stunned for a long time, he realized that the village had just been shelled.

Not a folk cannon, but a genuine mountain cannon!

When the first cannonball hit, Yang Laoxie was lecturing his brothers with impassioned words that made the bandits' blood boil. They vowed to protect the boss and defend the mountain gate.

Immediately afterwards, a loud "rumbling" was heard in the valley!
Before Yang Laoxie had time to turn his head, a strong wind came from behind and smashed the mountain door in an instant!
A flash of fire suddenly lit up in front of the bandits' eyes, and the camp scene instantly cast a shadow.

There was an explosion, and a broken wooden board flew towards him at a high speed, with a crisp "dong" sound, and hit him on the back of the head.

Yang Laoxie threw himself down in response!
The mountain gate opened, and the brothers near the sentry tower were immediately buried in the rubble.

A powerful shock wave raged through the camp, overturning many bandits one after another.

"Mountain cannon! There is a mountain cannon!"

The bandits screamed in alarm and immediately scattered in search of cover. Some people ran to the base of the walls of various barracks, and some simply huddled into the cave and never came out.

The Hu bandits who were guarding the plank road saw Li Zheng having a cannon formation, and hurriedly swarmed down.

Just at this moment, the second cannonball hit, shattered the plank road, and exploded in the barracks behind it. In an instant, rocks shot through the air, and screams could be heard endlessly!
The bandits immediately became more chaotic, and some people began to take the lead in shouting for surrender.

The morale of the army is in chaos, and it cannot be taken back.

"Stop fighting, stop fighting, we are all brothers!"

In the panic, there were many ruthless people who were running around in the flames of war, shouting loudly: "Where is Yang Laoxie, where is Yang Laoxie!"

The two gold bars are both money-making masters.

Fortunately, the bombardment stopped abruptly, and the bandits gradually calmed down and acted according to the wind. Now they understood who they should be loyal to, so they started searching everywhere in the camp.

Yang Laoxie hated the injustice. Hearing the shouts of the bandits, he was so frightened that no hard part of his body was left, and even his spine trembled.

Just when he was about to run away, he was caught by a close brother and cursed angrily: "You ran away, what should we do?"

"Take his head in exchange for Li Zheng's life!" the Hu bandit next to him suggested.

"No, no, no!" Yang Laoxie quickly raised his hands and begged, "Brothers, please don't kill me first, let me have a word with Li Zheng!"

Seeing Li Zheng and his men approaching the mountain gate, Bandit Hu couldn't help but cursed: "It's already this time, and you're still talking nonsense!"

As soon as he said a few words, other bandits followed the sound and rushed over.

"Yang Laoxie is there! Brothers, cut him off!"

As soon as he finished speaking, all kinds of guns were loaded and aimed.

The Hu bandit next to Yang Laoxie hurriedly shouted: "Wait, don't shoot, the person has been caught, let's welcome the boss back to the mountain together——"

"Bang bang bang!"

The gangsters immediately pulled the trigger!

Yang Laoxie and Li Zheng are fighting for power, and the brothers are not stupid. They can all see that the mountains of Slingshot Ridge are about to change. Both Yang and Li will only choose death or me. And from now on, it seems that Li Zheng will definitely sit firmly in the big cabinet. If you are in the first place, you might as well take the opportunity to gain some credit.

After several exchanges of fire, Yang Laoxie was killed on the spot, and the bandits also suffered casualties among themselves.

It happened that at this moment, the door of the conference hall burst open!

I saw Wang Guihe leaning staggeringly against the door panel, his shirtless upper body covered in scars, his mouth drooling, and his eyes blurry with drunkenness.

"Who's going to smash the kiln?"

He yelled a few times incomprehensibly, then picked up his rifle and staggered out.

"Brother... follow me!"

Wang Guihe stumbled through the hail of bullets, and before he had taken a few steps, he groaned and fell to the ground!
The internal strife among the bandits also ended abruptly.

Only the echoes of bursts of gunshots still echoed in the valley for a long time, as if they came from other mountains, or from the past and present...

At the same time, Li Zheng finally led people to the mountain gate.

The two donkeys and the driver raised their guns and fired warning shots into the night sky, followed by a series of bolt-pulling sounds.

"Don't move, don't even move!"

"If you don't kill someone if you shoot, don't be so fucking evil!"

After that, the two called a few brothers, broke into the dilapidated village gate, and took the remnants of Yang Laoxie's faction into custody.

The remaining bandits in the camp immediately threw away all kinds of guns in their hands, fell to their knees on the ground, raised their hands, and shouted in unison:
"The boss!"

Li Zheng rushed into the stronghold silently and went straight to the meeting hall. As soon as he got halfway, he saw Wang Guihe lying on the ground.

"Who did it?"

Li Zheng looked around and asked sternly.

The gangsters were silent, not because they didn't dare to admit it, but because the situation just now was extremely confusing, and no one could tell who fired the shot.

Moreover, they knew that Li Zheng would definitely become the chief cabinet officer.

So, as to whose hands Wang Guihe died, a confused account is the best explanation.

While he was talking, Jiang Lianheng came up from behind with Zhao Guoyan and Wang Zhengnan.

He had seen the chaos just now, and knew that there would be no clue to the matter. Even if he could find out, Wang Guihe had been shot several times, and it was impossible to pull them all out and kill him, not to mention the circumstances at that time. , no one can say it was intentional.

Therefore, this debt can only be placed on Yang Laoxie and others.

Jiang Lianheng hurriedly leaned down and worked together with Zhao Guoyan to turn Wang Guihe over - he could not be saved, but he still had some breath left.

"Uncle Wang?"

Jiang Lianheng shouted softly.

Wang Guihe was really in good shape. He was five years old and had been drunk for several years. He was seriously injured and his breath was weak, but he could barely open his eyes.

"You...you..." "Uncle Wang, it's me, I'm here!"

"Who the hell are you?"

"Ah, this..."

Jiang Lianheng frowned, looking a little stunned and a little embarrassed. After thinking about it, he couldn't help but recall everything that happened that day, and said:
"The ones on the mountain are the elders, and the ones at the bottom are the juniors. Those of you who are in charge, it's windy outside, so I'll come here to see you and seek some protection."

Wang Guihe didn't know whether he had not sobered up or was unconscious due to excessive blood loss. He just shook his head and asked: "Who, who... is here?"

After hearing this, the bandits lowered their heads with frowning eyes, not knowing what to say.

Jiang Lianheng raised his eyes and looked around at everyone, hesitated for a moment, and then said softly: "Outsiders."

"Officers... officers and soldiers are here to suppress the bandits?"

"No, it's from another mountain. Don't worry, Mr. Boss, the matter has been settled."

"Are you going to die?"

"Yeah, it's all inserted."

Wang Guihe nodded and said breathlessly: "That...that's hard work, how many brothers are there..."

After saying that, he still seemed a little worried, so he put his hand on Jiang Lianheng's arm and weakly told him: "You... go to Fengtian... to ask Brother Hai..."

"This...Uncle Wang, I've been a little busy recently, why don't you go find them yourself?"

"Okay, that's okay too."

Wang Guihe was silent for a moment, and then suddenly his eyes widened. The last burst of brute force seemed to burst out of his body. He tightly grasped Jiang Lianheng's arm with his right hand, and his voice suddenly became louder.

"Eh? I, I remembered, I remembered who you are."

"It'll be fine if you think of it, it'll be fine if you think of it." Jiang Lianheng comforted in a low voice.

"Roe Deer." Wang Guihe shook Jiang Lianheng's arm, "Roe Deer... Silly Roe Deer..."

His voice became weaker and weaker, and his death was like blowing out a lamp to pull out wax, which caught people off guard.

Jiang Lianheng couldn't help but frown, and was relieved in his heart: He shouldn't be talking about me.

Wang Zhengnan blinked at the side and said in a daze: "Brother, eight carts of arms, eight carts of arms, are we going to get a scolding in exchange?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Jiang Lian stood up and scolded, "When a person is about to die, his words are also confusing!"

At this time, Li Zheng walked over slowly, looked down at Wang Guihe's body, smacked his lips, and asked hesitantly: "Lao Jiang, what do you think of this matter?"

"How do you calculate it? I asked you to return the arms to me, what do you do?"

Li Zheng smiled and shook his head.

"Then it's over?" Jiang Lianheng said, "I don't have the habit of taking back what I give out, but Yang Laoxie and his gang, I hope they die slower."

"Don't worry about that."

Li Zheng answered happily, and then asked: "Are you going to take away the boss's body?"

Jiang Lianheng thought for a while, waved his hand and said, "Wang Guihe is from the mountain, so I won't take him away and let your brothers build a grave for him. Isn't this too much?"

"It should."

Li Zheng responded, and immediately ordered the Hu bandits on the mountain to carry Wang Guihe's body away, chop down a few trees nearby, and build a coffin for burial.

Jiang Lianheng took his brothers and bowed farewell to Wang Guihe's body.

When the bandits saw this, they couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, so they spontaneously knelt down one after another and shouted in unison:

"Well done, boss!"

Li Zheng did not stop the bandits.

This is the best outcome for him. He can successfully seize power and eliminate dissidents without having to bear the reputation of stabbing the boss in the back.

Afterwards, Erlu, Qizi and others escorted the remnants of Yang Laoxie to the door of the meeting hall.

Several people quickly knelt at Li Zheng's feet, wailing loudly.

"The boss, please give me a way out!"

"I was the one who killed Yang Laoxie, please give me a chance to redeem myself!"

"We were confused for a moment and thought you weren't coming back. We've all wiped out those old people for you!"

Li Zheng looked at Jiang Lianheng and let him go.

Jiang Lianheng glanced at him coldly and asked, "Where did the injury come from, the boss?"

Several gangsters scrambled to answer: "It was Yang Laoxie's idea to force him to drink alcohol at first. Later... he arranged for two brothers to torture Wang Guihe. I wanted to find out where the gold bars were hidden."

"Did you ask?" Li Zheng asked.

"This...we don't know this."

Hearing this, Jiang Lianheng turned around and looked into the meeting hall, only to see two beauties from Japan and Korea huddled under the table and shivering. In front of the top chair, there was a gangster with a gloating look on his face.

It seemed that Wang Guihe had taken advantage of the chaos to knock down his captor before rushing out from the narrow hall.

What puzzled Jiang Lianheng was that Wang Guihe knew clearly that there was civil strife in his family, and both Yang Laoxie and Li Zheng regarded him as a stumbling block. However, when he went out, his first reaction was that there was an invading foreign enemy, and he raised his arms. Huh, let the brothers follow him out of the stronghold to fight.

What is he planning?
Jiang Lianheng couldn't figure it out. Maybe Wang Guihe is the stupid roe deer.

Roe deer?

Jiang Lianheng seemed to have some realization.

Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Li Zheng took the decision alone and ordered: "Chop off their hands, lock them up and keep them alive, and give them all the severe punishments. Brother Jiang said that they should be killed slowly. Er Donkey, Go and keep an eye on it.”

Erlu called several brothers in response and detained Yang Laoxie's remnants into the Yangzi room.

Li Zheng then sent a starter to lead all the remaining brothers to "clean the place" quickly, put out the fire in the camp, and put it back into place.

After all the instructions were made clear, he came to the door of the meeting hall, stood next to Jiang Lianheng, and said with a smile: "Lao Jiang, please!"

Jiang Lianheng and others stepped in. The empty hall felt familiar yet strange.

The two beauties from Japan and Korea still huddled under the table, daring not to move.

The Slingshot Ridge cottage, Wang Guihe’s half-life effort, now belongs to Li Zheng.

Apart from him, there really is no other person on the mountain who can take the lead alone.

However, what surprised everyone was that Li Zheng walked into the hall and strode to the end of the long table. However, he did not sit on the top chair that he had longed for. Instead, he randomly found a seat next to him and sat down. .

Jiang Lianheng frowned and asked with a hum, "Wouldn't you like to have some fun?"

Li Zheng waved his hand nonchalantly and sneered: "That's not a dragon chair. What's so exciting about it?"

"Hey! Is your butt quite big?"

"No, Lao Jiang, that chair is too small."

(End of this chapter)