Volume 1 Chapter 19 Blood Debt Repaid in Blood

  "Oh no, oh no!" A young woman with a few good looks was fleeing in a panic, followed by several bandits with lustful eyes.

  "Smelly girls, don't run, stop for your old man!"

  "Hey, don't run away, stay and have some fun with your brothers."

  Several bandits with lewd expressions chased after them, laughing obscenely as they went.

  "Ah..." The woman's foot caught on something and she sat down heavily on the ground. Several bandits with evil eyes immediately chased up, surrounding the woman with ill intentions.

  "Haha, stinky girls, why aren't you running away? Keep running!" a small leader said with a sly smile.

  As he spoke, his coarse and dirty hand reached out to touch the woman's pale face. Just then, a dull machine gun sound came from afar: "Da-da-da... da-da-da..."

  A dense hail of bullets suddenly swept in, and several bandits, including the small-headed leader, were instantly hit by bullets and fell to the ground with a mournful cry.

  The little rascal was hit by two bullets in the chest and fell onto the woman's body, scaring her into a loud shriek.

  At this time, a truck came speeding over, and as soon as the truck stopped, more than a dozen fully armed soldiers jumped off the truck. Qiao Anbang kicked open the car door with one foot, holding a submachine gun in one hand, and walked over with big strides.

  "Hurry up and save people!" Qiao Anbang's expression was cold and stern as he looked at the several corpses in front of him, waving his hand to give orders.

  Wang Gensheng and Li Yifeng, who followed closely behind, hastily came forward to move the corpse of the little rascal away and helped the frightened woman to her feet.

  "Don't come over! Don't come over!" The woman was frantic and wildly waved her hands, trying to shake off Wang Gen Sheng and Li Yi Feng.

  "Older sister, calm down, don't be afraid. We are security team officers, not bandits. We have come to suppress the bandits!" Qiao Anbang loudly comforted her.

  "You? Are you really the National Army?" The woman looked at Qiao Anbang and his men, with a mixture of joy and sadness, then suddenly knelt down and said: "Commander, please hurry up and rescue our fellow villagers! They've all been captured by bandits... If we're late, I'm afraid it'll be too late..." By this point, the woman was already sobbing uncontrollably.

  "Sister-in-law, where are the bandits? Don't worry, we will definitely eliminate them all." Qiao Anbang asked patiently.

  "They are all at the threshing ground in the east of the village." The woman turned around and pointed to the east.

  Qiao Anbang gritted his teeth, pulled the bolt of the submachine gun with a clang, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me! Anyone who holds a gun will be shot on the spot, not one will be left!"

  "Yes!" The soldiers responded thunderously and immediately followed Qiao Anbang rushing into the village.

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  The village of Caoji in the east, although the name of the town is attached to the town, it is not a town, but a slightly larger village. The whole village has nearly 500 people and is a large village within a radius of ten miles.

  In the threshing ground at the east end of the village, most villagers were driven to the threshing ground like sheep by bandits, surrounded by dozens of bandits with guns.

  On the threshing floor, a burly man strode in with two attendants, this was Wei Dexi. He had just ravished a pretty young village girl and after satisfying his lust, the girl, unable to bear the shame, dashed her head against the wall and took her own life.

  Weide Xi had been a fugitive for over a decade, killing countless people and viewing human life as worthless. He didn't give the young woman's death another thought, bringing two of his men to the threshing ground.

  The villagers in the threshing ground saw Wei Dexi's appearance, which was as fierce and evil as a demon, and they all dared to be angry but not speak.

  When Wei Dexi came out, his dog-headed military advisor Zhao Dechuan hurriedly welcomed him.

  "How's it going? Did those country bumpkins pay up?" Wei Dexi asked.

  "No, they all say they have no money." Zhao Dechuan replied with a helpless shake of his head.

  "Damn it!" Wei Dexi immediately drew his own pistol, pointing at the villagers and shouting loudly: "I'm here today, I don't want food, I don't want lives, I only want money. Twenty big silver coins per person, if you can't produce them, I'll kill without pardon!"

  "We are all honest peasants, where did you get so much money from?" an older man spoke up.

  "Old thing, no money?" Wei Dexi glanced at the old man and immediately raised his hand to shoot. The old man fell down with a thud.

  Upon hearing the gunshot, the villagers immediately retreated several steps back, no one dared to move forward, fearing that they would be next.

  Some young people with a sense of justice looked at the old man lying in a pool of blood, and couldn't help but burn with anger, wanting to step forward, but were tightly held back by their families, and could only glare fiercely at Wei Dexi.

  "I'm too lazy to give you nonsense, if you don't pay up, your fate will be the same as this old thing!" Wei Dexi shouted loudly, pointing at the old man's corpse in a cold tone.

  He had lost more than half of his family's savings in the battle at Quanshan, and to recover his strength, he needed guns, but buying guns required money, so Wei Dexi followed the advice of his military advisor Zhao Dezhuan to raid the village market town, both to avenge the defeat at Quanshan and to plunder money to buy equipment to rise again.

  The villagers were silent, not to mention letting one of them take out 20 yuan, even if they let a family take 20 yuan, they couldn't afford it, but they didn't dare speak out against Ju Yuwei De Xi's cruelty.

  "It seems that you bunch of country bumpkins won't shed tears until you see a coffin." Wei Dexi's face turned angry, and he coldly ordered: "Send them on their way."

  Just then, a dense gunfire sounded from behind, Wei Dexi and the bandits were shocked, and they quickly turned their heads.

  Qiao Anbang led a group of soldiers, roaring and charging towards them. More than a dozen light machine guns and submachine guns opened fire one after another, and the dense bullets swept towards the bandits like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves.

  "Rat-a-tat-tat... Bang-bang-bang..." Qiao Anbang held up his submachine gun and fired a long burst, then shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, don't run around, everyone get down!"

  Actually, when the gunfire rang out, most of the people were already frightened and fell to the ground.

  Although the security team was outnumbered, they had a strong firepower advantage. As soon as they opened fire, one of Wei Dexi's machine gunners and more than a dozen of his men were shot to pieces.

  A dozen or so light machine guns and submachine guns formed a powerful firepower that made them unable to resist, Wei Dexi and the remaining bandits turned around and ran away.

  At this time, Li Yifeng, Li Jupeng and Zhang Xudong chased after him with big knives and roared.

  "Go after him!" Fearing Li Yifeng might slip up, Qiao Anbang waved his hand and led the way in pursuit.

  Qiao Anbang and his men chased all the way, and several bandits who were hit and fell to the ground along the way were beheaded by Li Yifeng and others with knives.

  The bandits had already been intimidated by the strong firepower of the security team and had no resistance. When they were chased to the wheat field in the east of the village, more than 50 bandits had been killed, leaving only the bandit leader Wei Dexi, his dog-headed military advisor Zhao Dechuan, and a few small followers.

  In the wheat field, a horse is galloping on the plain riverbank. The surroundings are unobstructed and open, with a broad view. Qiao Anbang took over a light machine gun from a soldier's hand and roared at Wei Dekai and others who were still desperately fleeing, sweeping them with a fierce burst of fire.

  "Rat-a-tat-a-tat..." A burst of intense gunfire suddenly erupted, and several small-time henchmen fell to the ground.

  Only Wei Dexi and Zhao Dechuan were left fleeing, when a loud and stirring shout rose from their front.

  Wei Dexi and the other person looked up, only to see a large group of security guards with live ammunition suddenly appearing in front of them, with over a hundred black gun barrels aimed at him and Zhao Dezhuan.

  Wei Dexi swallowed hard, just about to pull the trigger and kill himself, when "bang" a shot rang out. A bullet accurately hit his right arm, and the mirror case he had just pulled out flew out of his hand.

  A hundred meters away, Qiao An Guo held a Mauser rifle in both hands and said coldly: "Surrender your arms and you will not be killed!"

  "Surrender your guns, we won't kill you!" More than a hundred soldiers shouted in unison. At the same time, several soldiers quickly moved forward and tied up the injured Wei Dexi and Zhao Detian with three or two ropes.

  Zhao Dechuan knelt on the ground, his beady eyes rolling incessantly as he begged in a shrill voice: "Your Honor, please spare my life! I was originally a good citizen, but I was forced to become a bandit by Wei Dexi!"

  At this time, Qiao Anbang brought Li Yifeng and others to catch up, while Qiao Anguo also led the siege.

  Seeing Qiao Anbang and Qiao Anguo dressed as military officers, Zhao Dexuan hastily kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Two officials, I'm a good person! Being forced to join the bandits was all because of Wei Dexi's coercion. I have an 80-year-old mother above me and a newborn son below me. Please spare my life!"

  "Spare me, wasn't it you who suggested raiding the village in the first place, you scoundrel!" Wei Dexi sneered with contempt.

  "You two beasts, I will avenge my father and mother!" Li Yifeng and Li Jupeng shouted with their eyes blazing red.

  Li Jupeng swung his big knife towards Zhao Dechuan's neck, with a "pu" sound, Zhao Dechuan's scream suddenly stopped, a dirty head rolled far away, and fresh blood sprayed out from the neck, dyeing Li Jupeng's face and whole body into a bloody red color.

  Li Yifeng also roared and raised his big knife to hack at Wei Dexi.

  "Wait!" Qiao Anbang stepped forward and grabbed Li Yifeng.

  "Sir, why don't you let me kill him? I want to avenge my parents and the villagers!" Li Yifeng asked in anger.

  "We can't just kill him like that, it's too cheap for him. He not only has the blood feud of your Wulizhuang, but also the entire Liuji and countless fellow villagers who were killed by them. First, take him back, gather the elders and villagers from all around, and we'll chop him up together to avenge all the people who died at his hands. Blood debt must be repaid in blood, and you will be the one to carry it out!" Qiao Anbang explained that he actually had his own plan, and he wasn't interested in holding a public trial like the Eighth Route Army did for someone as guilty as Wei Dexi.

  However, this was also a good opportunity to win people's hearts and expand the security team, so he decided to take Wei Dexi back to Yihéji to be executed.

  By the way, it's just one more day before Chinese New Year. I'd like to wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year in advance, may all your wishes come true, and may you have a prosperous new year with endless good fortune and romance.