Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 676 Remnants
"Lingao we spent so much time going down to handle Li affairs, and we did so much work, of course it's peaceful. This is not Lingao." Yu Zhiqian said, "I don't think you can take this matter too lightly."

They were talking, when a soldier rushed in hastily:

"Report!" He hurriedly saluted, "Something may have happened to the work team in Zhaopu Village!"

"What?!" The two yelled at the same time.

The information was provided by a long-range patrol who, while performing a routine patrol, noticed a large amount of smoke in this direction.

It's the rainy season and the climate is humid and wildfires are rare.Therefore, the team leader sent sharp soldiers to investigate. On the mountain road to Zhaopu Village, they encountered a large number of artificially felled and accumulated trees.The captain judged that there was a serious incident in the direction of Zhaopu Village, and while trying to clear the way, he sent someone back to ask for emergency help.

"Hurry up, beat the assembly drum!" Yu Zhiqian hurriedly ordered, "All light infantry companies muster!"

Liu Yixiao ordered a health team to go with the army immediately.He himself put on his armor belt.

"Why, you want to go in person?"

"Yes, I have to go and see for myself." Liu Yixiao realized something was wrong.He was eager to find out what happened at the scene.

"The situation is unknown, so you can't go." Yu Zhiqian stopped him, "You are the number one commander here in Danzhou, and you have a heavy responsibility. Let the company commander go with the walkie-talkie."

So it was decided that Lin Shenhe would lead the team.He was in the tent discussing some work issues in depth with the confidential officer, and he was about to enter Hong Kong.The messenger coughed outside the tent:
"Captain!"

"What's the matter?" Lin Shenhe leaned out half of his body from the officer's personal tent for a long time.

"The battalion commander invites you to go, there is an order!"

"I'm going right now."

Ten minutes later, he arrived at the headquarters wearing a neat and elegant uniform.

"Trouble is coming." Yu Zhiqian explained the task to him, "You take the light infantry company to check. If there is any situation, report it through the walkie-talkie immediately."

"Where is Zhaopu Village?"

"Here," Yu Zhiqian drew a circle on the glass panel of the large map, "the road is very difficult to walk, be careful of being ambushed along the way."

"Okay, I'll get ready and leave in 15 minutes."

Lin Shenhe drove the light infantry company for more than ten miles, and opened a road in the mountains to move wood, finally opened the passage and rushed to Wangpu Village.

The large cloud of smoke had dissipated, and the camp was still billowing with black smoke. The watchtower was completely burnt down, leaving only the charred remains of the wooden pillars standing.The camp was littered with corpses.The bodies were all in uniform, and some had their heads chopped off.Lin Shenhe held back his nausea and looked around, seeing all the heads hanging on the gate of the camp.

More than a dozen corpses were neatly thrown in the center of the camp, but it seemed that they had no traces of battle. Could it be that they were killed after being captured?Although there were marks of spear stabs and knife cuts on his body, there was not much blood shed.

A woman in a gray uniform crouched in a trench, her head hanging on her chest.There was a terrible wound in the throat, and a bloody bayonet fell out of her hand.This was probably Liu Bin—she was the only woman on the task force roster.

"Have you survived?"

"No." Sergeant Lian reported, "but I can't count the dead bodies. A total of twenty bodies were found. There should be 35 people in the task force."

Did someone escape?Lin Shenhe quickly denied this idea. If he escaped, he should have appeared by now.Maybe it was captured.At this time, he noticed that there were traces of soil turned over on the ground.

Soon, they unearthed another fifteen corpses. Lin Shenhe took a quick look and found that except for a few people, none of the corpses had external injuries.

Then, some personal belongings of the buried task force and soldiers were found. Lin Shenhe noticed that there were many scattered paper ashes in the camp, which must be the remnants of burnt documents.

"Report to the company commander, we found the wreckage of 18 rifles, all other rifles and pistols are missing."

"Where's the ammunition?"

"There is no trace of any ammunition left, presumably all were taken."

There was no set ammunition for a Minie rifle at the scene, and Lin Shenhe didn't think that the work team would have enough time to consume all the ammunition ration of 100 rounds per person.Mostly it was taken by the assailant.

"This is going to be a big problem." He sighed.

Seventeen Minie rifles, if each had fifty rounds, would be enough to give them a lot of trouble.Lin Shenhe didn't think that the opponent would never learn the Minie rifle—many aborigines had seen how to load it during shooting practice.

"Company commander! There are a lot of Mini bombs on the ground!" A soldier suddenly called out.

Lin Shenhe squatted down to pay attention, and sure enough, there were many Mini warheads scattered on the ground.He picked up one and looked at it. The projectile was not scratched by the rifling, but it was burnt.He searched around again, and finally found the place where the ammunition was lit.In the ashes there are still many mini bombs that have not been blown out.

"It's okay!" He secretly exclaimed that it was a fluke—these soldiers faithfully followed the original enlistment oath: "Never leave weapons to the enemy."

"Pack up everything as soon as possible! Don't let go of the wreckage. As long as you can recognize our body, take it back and cremate it."

He sent a team to search the nearby villages, but only found a few old men and women who hadn't escaped. after.

But he still couldn't figure it out. With the strength of a platoon, relying on a defensive camp defense, it is not a problem to resist 10 times the enemy.Why was the whole army wiped out in less than half a day?
He called the old man who stayed in the village over:

"Go get the villagers back right away, I have something to ask."

The old man timidly said: "The little ones don't know where they are."

Even the sergeant had long been burned with anger by such a tragic situation. Seeing the old men pushing back and forth, he thrust his bayonet-mounted rifle upwards and pressed it against the old man's chest:
"Go!"

"Even if you kill the villain, the villain won't find it." The old man seemed to have put life and death aside.

"Don't do this." Lin Shenhe stopped the sergeant's move, and slowed down: "I just want to ask the villagers. Our Fubo army never kills randomly! You should know!"

"Yes, yes, Mr. Qiu has done nothing wrong, loves the people like a son..."

"So you have to find me all the people, even one less." Lin Shenhe said slowly, "Listen, I will give you half an hour, and if the villagers don't come back by then, I will set fire to the village "Lin Shenhe pointed to the field outside the village, "If I burn the village and don't come back, I will burn all the crops in the field and block the springs and wells here. Then I will plow the field three times, and each time I will scatter Salt. You should know: private salt in Lingao is very cheap."

Several old men stared at each other with terrified eyes. They were about to die, but they didn't expect the other party's methods to be so vicious, and they didn't use killing as a way to vent their anger.

If not, all the material foundations of the existence of the village will be gone, and Zhaopu Village will be completely wiped out.

"Yes, yes, the villain will go now." The old men panicked and slipped away one after another.

When Liu Yixiao heard Lin Shenhe's report, he couldn't sit still anymore.This accident is too serious!It was so serious that I couldn't explain it to the Senate-a task force protected by force was wiped out!

"...It seems that the matter is not so simple." Lin Shenhe's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "There are many doubts in it, and I can't explain it clearly at the moment. I suggest that a special investigation be conducted on this."

"Who was the attacker?"

"At present, we only know that it is a group of bandits." There was an interfering crackling sound from the walkie-talkie—the signal in the mountains is very bad. "We are searching the bandit's cemetery, hoping to find something."

Liu Yixiao said: "It seems that we have to send another task force to Zhaopu to clarify this incident as soon as possible." It looked like it was bombarded in turn.

"Strengthen security measures from now on!" He slammed his fist on the table, "Each work team must have a complete platoon for protection! All work teams must carry walkie-talkies as long as they are within the communication range! It is too remote and cannot No task force will be dispatched to places that are effectively fortified."

Lin Shenhe learned the whole story from the villagers who returned to the village one after another.I also understand why many people have no trauma on their bodies-they were poisoned to death.

This made him feel extremely shocked.

"Where's the village liaison officer?" He asked bitterly.

"Run away," said an old man hastily. "He didn't dare to stay in the village anymore after doing such a thing, and fled with the bandits."

"You don't want your family anymore?"

"He didn't get married, I'm already dead."

"He can't run away." He said, looking at the villagers with numb faces. There was only a kind of undifferentiated fear on their faces, and their eyes were ignorant and confused.They just watched indifferently that the task force that came to improve people's livelihood for them was poisoned, besieged, and the last one left was killed. No one even thought of reporting a letter.

Just an hour or two earlier might save some lives.Lin Shenhe breathed hard to calm down his anger.

"You guys, go back to the village first. But you are not allowed to go out. You are always on call."

The mass grave where the bandits had hastily buried their dead was found the next day.Lin Shenhe ordered civilian husbands to be called to carry out the excavation, and finally more than 70 corpses were dug out.The top one is the missing liaison.Hu Lanyan was reluctant to part with the 20 taels of silver that were given to him back and forth, and when he was withdrawing, he simply and neatly killed this useless person.

(End of this chapter)