Chapter 9: The Horse Bandits Arrive (2)

  "Hmm~~"

  "Hmm~~"

  The old-fashioned gunfire came one after another, but Li Han had no time to take care of the eight or nine people he had just passed by. He raised his gun and took advantage of the horse bandits' slow reaction to fire five accurate shots in a row. The gunfire from the other side of the horse bandit's camp finally responded!

  "Bang ~~" The other side counterattacked, and the shooting was quite accurate. In his field of vision, a villager holding a bird gun on the roof of a house suddenly stopped firing, and a streak of blood red floated from his right shoulder ..., injured ...

  "Boom!"

  "Bang!"

  There were two more places where the fire was extinguished, Li Han shook his head, and the village-born hunter was indeed no match for the veteran horse thief. With 40 or 50 people and 40 or 50 guns in the village, they couldn't even suppress the eight or nine people he let go...

  As the village was about to be overwhelmed, he had no choice but to turn back and raise his QCW05, accurately shooting two of them. One shot exploded in the head, while the third one fell due to a leg injury, avoiding what would have been a fatal shot. It's really good luck!

  Among the three people who were beaten to death or injured by him, there was that horse bandit with extremely accurate marksmanship. Only to see a hint of grayish white flash in his eyes, and he fell to the ground instantly. A faint cheer came from the village, Li Han cursed silently, isn't this clearly telling others where one's position is?

  After coming to his senses, Li Han raised his gun and shot dead two horse thieves who had entered his shooting range outside the village, as well as another horse thief who had already reached the side of a horse preparing to escape!

  In a short while, the number of bandits killed by him had reached eleven, and all the shooters who counterattacked were shot in the head one by one. The sound of gunfire from the bandit's side suddenly became less and less, and the remaining people all lay on the ground, looking around without daring to fire again or even move.

  "These guys aren't stupid, are they? They know I specialize in taking down big threats and mobile ones!"

  Li Han twitched his eyebrow, gently brushed aside a few branches on the right side of his hand, and suddenly, two horse bandits who were originally not in his line of sight entered his field of vision again.

  Carefully, the legs sat on the branch moved their position, steadied the gun in hand, narrowed eyes slightly adjusted the distance, the muzzle locked onto one of them, and with a swift shot, ended his life. The bandit next to him was clearly startled, immediately realizing that this place was not safe, as there were still hidden marksmen nearby taking lives. Just as he thought of rolling away, Li Han's QCW05 didn't have time to waste on empty shots, directly firing a burst, along the left eye, the bullet entered his brain...

  "Sixth Master is dead... Sixth Master is dead..."

  "Not good, there's an ambush, there's an ambush." Horse thief A was so anxious that he jumped up and down, just thinking of running back, but was also hit by a stray bullet and fell to the ground. With one kick of his legs, he saw King Yan.

  "Retreat... retreat quickly... there's a sniper..."

  At this time, no one had yet entered the village, but a team of 21 people had already knocked down more than half of them. Even the leader, Liu Ye, was shot in the head. The remaining bandits were suddenly panicked. One of them, who seemed to be a key figure, pulled out a pistol from his waist and shouted: "Wind is tight, get down, get..." Before he could finish saying "down", there was a loud bang, and it was unclear who had fired the shot. The bullet hit the hand holding the gun, passing through his arm and leaving a deep blood hole above his wrist. He gritted his teeth in pain, let out a pained scream, and dropped the pistol to the ground. The rest of the bandits were already frightened out of their wits, their legs weak and numb, and they all fell to the ground.

  "Don't hit anymore... Don't hit anymore, we surrender... Surrender..."

  "Spare my life..."

  Under the rustling of gunfire, Li Han pushed aside the branches and took a look, finding that those who could be seen had indeed thrown away their guns... He also saw at the village entrance, Handou and others led by holding up their guns, knowing they had finished off those few horse bandits. At this point, he hung his gun around his neck, straddled the trunk of a large tree with both legs, and slid down!

  "Be careful, Big Brother Li..."

  He hadn't even slid to the bottom of the tree when Li Han suddenly heard a loud shout from the village entrance, followed by two consecutive shots fired by the villagers at his back. Before he could react, he was hit in the head with a bullet, which ricocheted off his helmet with a loud clang. Although the helmet blocked the bullet's penetration, the massive impact force left a dent on his helmet and sent his brain reeling, causing him to stumble and almost pass out...

  "Frame..."

  A loud shout, the nearby horse hooves heavily pounded on the ground. Li Han turned around and took a look, suddenly a big fire in his heart. It was very clear that the horse thieves had already discovered that there was a godly gunner here and knew they couldn't escape from him. So someone came up with a plan to pretend to surrender, taking advantage of his momentary relaxation, preparing to shoot him dead and then steal the horse and run away...

  His face showed a hint of gloom, and the same kind of emotion called "after-fear" deeply affected his mood. Li Han had to admit that this was a good plan. If he hadn't worn a bulletproof helmet before the battle, just in case, he would have become the shortest-lived protagonist in YY history. He had only arrived in this exciting and thrilling era for a few hours, but he had already lost his life, not just his dignity, but his entire family!

  "Thanks for teaching me a lesson too!"

  He quickly picked up the QCW05 pistol in his hand and locked onto one of the two fleeing men, pulling the trigger with a loud bang. The horse let out a whinny as the bandit riding it suddenly slumped forward, falling to the ground. Li Han was not surprised, moving the crosshairs to the other man's body, ready to take him down!

  "Hiss~~~~"

  The two horse thieves, who had been unable to escape due to their injuries, were about to curse when they suddenly swallowed their words. Their faces turned pale, and it was clear that they understood the strange gunman in front of them would not give them any chance to escape.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, after a gunshot rang out, that person's face flashed with a hint of a smile, as if satisfied with his own hunting skills.

  The two injured bandits suddenly turned pale to the extreme, and when they looked at him, their eyes seemed to have seen a demon, and they trembled all over!

  "Want to run? Don't see whose bullet is faster, mine or your horse's?" Putting away the QCW05 in his hand, Li Han's mouth corner revealed a cold smile. "Put up your hands." A light sentence, but it made the two bandits who had lost their souls tremble with fear, throwing down their weapons and kowtowing: "Grandfather spare our lives, grandfather spare our lives."

  Is it "Grandfather, spare my life" again? Li Han rolled his eyes at this title, which reminded him of Journey to the West, where every time Sun Wukong appeared, all the little demons and mountain gods would kneel down and cry out "Grandfather, spare my life!"

  Originally there were twenty-one bandits, minus the seven villagers killed, and twelve died at his hands, now only two wounded people are left in front of him.

  "Li, big brother, are you okay?"

  Shi Tou and the others finally made their move, having personally witnessed Ma Zei opening fire earlier. At that time, Li Han was indeed shot, but now he was fanning himself in front of them as if nothing had happened, leaving them utterly astonished!

  "Never mind, tie them up! Take them back and interrogate them. If they don't confess, shoot them on the spot! Also, pick up the weapons on the ground, their bullets, and other useful things. You guys take care of the corpses."

  Li Handan glanced at the two horse thieves indifferently, and instantly made them lower their heads and not dare to have any ideas, obediently kneeling there with their hands tied behind their backs.

  He glanced at the weapons scattered on the ground by the bandits, and Li Han let out a few sighs. There were Mauser pistols, old-fashioned revolvers, Mosin-Nagant 1891 rifles, C96s, and even... incredibly, it was a Browning M1911 pistol that had just come out this year! It's great to know that the new army still has many troops who haven't even been equipped with Mauser pistols yet. In these times, being a bandit is better equipped than the new army, no wonder everyone wants to be a bandit!

  "Li Dage, what are these two guns called? I captured a new gun and also have a strange-looking small gun..." After instructing the villagers nearby to clean up the battlefield, Shi Tou came over to Li Han's side with a smile. As his grandfather was the village chief of this Lou Village and he himself had come to help, he still held some prestige among the younger generation in Lou Village. Seeing that Li Han was fiddling with a rifle that looked exactly like the one in his own hand, Shi Tou immediately gathered around him, staring at him eagerly, hoping he could explain what kind of gun it was!

  "Hmm... This is a quick-firing rifle made by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, founded by Li Hongzhang and Li Lao Da Ren. It's modeled after the British Army standard rifle, with decent performance, slightly shorter range than the old muzzle-loader, but less recoil. However, it's not suitable for close combat. This can be considered a good gun. The small pistol in your hand is called a handgun, specifically a Browning M1911 made in the United States, a brand new model that just came out this year. These bandits really are well-connected! Thanks to his late grandfather, who was an enthusiast of collecting antique firearms, their family has collected many old-style weapons, including these two."

  "What's 'Hua Qi Guo'?" The stone scratched his head, muttering to himself several times - what kind of country is that, how can you expect a rural bumpkin like him to know?

  "Ah, it's America!" Seeing him like this, Li Han also felt that he had lost the meaning of speaking up, and even if he told him, he wouldn't know, so he just gave up!

  Just as the soldiers finished cleaning up the battlefield and were preparing to regroup, two young villagers who had gone to collect the bodies of the escaped bandits suddenly came running back, crying and shouting, "Prepare for battle...prepare for battle, another group of bandits is coming, more than before..."

  The two men's voices were hoarse, apparently having been stimulated.

  Li Han hastily climbed up a nearby large tree and set up his telescope, instantly turning pale with worry. He even had the thought of escaping, looking at the vast smoke and dust in the distance, there were probably over a hundred bandits coming. It would be strange if he didn't change color! Even if his marksmanship was excellent, and he could fight with his back against the village, he could eliminate at most twenty or thirty people, and then they would almost be annihilated. If it weren't for him single-handedly taking out half of the bandits earlier, and being the first to take out the bandit leader, the bandits wouldn't have been in disarray after losing their commander, and wouldn't have been suppressed by his firepower, allowing these villagers who had never seen blood before to eliminate seven of them. But the bandits' numbers were six or seven times that of the villagers! And for this, they paid the tragic price of six people being shot and one death. What more could you expect from them?!

  "Get ready to fight, quick... quick! Also, let the villagers in the village get out of the village quickly and run to the small mountain west of the village, the farther the better, never stay in the village again!"

  Wiping the sweat from his face, Li Han estimated the time and calculated that there were very few horses in this batch of horse thieves. At their current pace, it would take them eight or nine minutes to reach the village. If they could block them desperately, they might be able to hold them back for ten or twenty minutes, which was almost enough time for the villagers to escape into the mountains.

  "It's... time for battle..."