Volume 4 Chapter 70

  Before departure, Li Bin once again announced the discipline of the Righteous and Brave Army Independent Regiment: "Firstly, we are an army, not a group of scattered heroes! All officers and soldiers must strictly obey their superiors' orders! Those who flee in battle will be executed on the spot! Those who disobey military orders will be punished accordingly! Secondly, our army is to drive out Japanese imperialism for the people of Northeast China! We are not allowed to bully or steal from the common people! If you beat or rob the common people, you will be executed! Those who curse or steal from the common people will be punished accordingly! Do not bully sisters, those who rape women will be executed! Those who flirt with women will be punished accordingly! Those who damage the common people's property will have their military pay deducted to compensate, and all captured enemy weapons and goods must be handed over to Deputy Regiment Commander Xiao Bai for distribution.

  After preparing dry rations, the independent regiment set out from Lingyuan and headed north along the upper reaches of the Da Linger River. According to Li Bin's requirements, this unit was prepared to enter the Changbai Mountains area for activities, because it is a passage connecting Korea to Northeast China. As long as they can stand firm in the Changbai Mountains, not only can they protect themselves, but also cut off the enemy's transportation route! This is equivalent to grasping the enemy's throat!

  However, in order to go to Changbai Mountain, there is a very difficult thing that must be passed through the Northeast Plain. How to pass through the Northeast Plain became Li Bin's biggest headache.

  At this time, Manchukuo had already been established, and the Northeast was filled with puppet Manchu troops and Japanese troops. It was very difficult to sneak through the Northeast Plain without being detected.

  Finally, Li Bin decided: "We will follow the western mountainous area of Liaoning to the north, pass through the western mountainous area, and then quickly exit from the western mountainous area. We will rush through the Changtu area in Kangping County at the fastest speed, cross the Northeast Plain, and enter Hada Ridge. In this way, we are only one step away from the Changbai Mountains."

  "Brother, even if we get closer to Hadaling Ridge, there is still a plain of over 100 miles that we need to cross. How are we going to get through the plain? Moreover, it's very close to Siping and we have to pass through the railway line. Siping is an important location, the devils must have heavily guarded it. Once our whereabouts are exposed, the devils can immediately mobilize troops through the railway to surround and intercept us." Xiao Bai raised a question.

  "The plain area, we can only pass through at night, and the speed must be fast. Moreover, the devils have just occupied the Northeast for a short time, Manchukuo has also just been established, and there are other righteous armies harassing them, so their troops are being mobilized. As long as we seize the opportunity, we can pass through smoothly." Li Bin replied.

  Li Bin's words made sense, and Xiao Bo nodded in agreement.

  The troops marched in the mountains for more than ten days and entered the territory of Dacang Township in northern Zhangwu on May 12.

  In front was the vast Northeast Plain, and such a large team could not pass through during the day. Therefore, Li Bin ordered: "All personnel rest in place within the hills! Wait for nightfall before we set off again!"

  The troops entered the forest in the hills, leaving some soldiers to stand guard and send out scouts. The rest of them rested, waiting for nightfall before setting off. But Li Bin didn't rest either; he climbed up a tree, took out his binoculars and observed the surroundings.

  Suddenly, Xiao Bo shouted from the other side: "Brother, look over there!"

  Li Bin looked in the direction that Xiao Bo was pointing, and saw a large road at the foot of the mountain, where a group of puppet soldiers appeared. The group of puppet soldiers was estimated to be over 100 people, with a small team of devils following behind them. These puppet soldiers were either pushing or pulling empty carts, or driving horse-drawn carriages, heading towards a small village.

  "This must be the grain collection team, brother, shall we fight them?" Xiao Bo asked.

  Li Bin picked up the binoculars and took a look, then said: "Big brother, let's go, bring the sniper and special forces team over there, ambush and take a look. If the devils harm the civilians, we'll fight! If they just collect grain and leave, don't fight. Because if they haven't harmed the civilians and we kill them, the devils will come to retaliate against the civilians! After all, this is not where we want to establish our base, we can't protect these civilians forever."

  With more than a thousand of our own men, it's no problem at all to wipe out a small team of devils and a company of puppet troops, but Li Bin is worried that the devils will take revenge on the civilians.

  "After that, Li Bin made arrangements: "Snipers and special soldiers follow the two of us down the mountain. Liu Hanshan's machine gun battalion disperses, mortar company stays on the mountain, ready to suppress firepower at any time! Machine gun company splits into two routes, ambushes in two directions outside the village road mouth, as soon as there is any movement, take action immediately! The first infantry battalion goes to ambush in the east, the second infantry battalion ambushes in the west, the third infantry battalion ambushes in the south, and the cavalry company is ready to maneuver at any time!"

  Soon, Li Bin and Xiao Bo led Wu Congyu, Ma Lijiang, Huang Hua, Fang Juntian and 15 snipers as well as 30 special forces soldiers to quietly go down the mountain, hiding in a small forest behind a small village.

  After arriving at the village, Li Bin hid behind a tree and took out his binoculars to observe the village. He saw that after the fake soldiers entered the village, they went from door to door, smashing doors and driving all the villagers, over 200 men, women, children, and elderly people, to an open area outside the village. The devils were already standing at attention outside the village, with three machine guns set up, each devil had fixed bayonets, shining brightly as they aimed at the poor villagers.

  A guy wearing a "Huangjun hat", glasses, and a black cotton-padded jacket followed behind the Japanese lieutenant like a shadow, nodding his head repeatedly whenever the lieutenant turned around. However, when facing ordinary people, this guy had a ferocious and sinister look on his face.

  Li Bin couldn't quite make out what the Japanese lieutenant and the bespectacled man were saying, but he was certain that the bastard was a traitorous translator. In his heart, he cursed: "Damn you, you dog of a traitor!"

  Talking about traitors is what Li Bin hates the most. Although he hates Japanese people, he hates traitors even more.

  The treacherous translator, relying on the tiger's prestige, not only bullied the common people but also showed a ferocious appearance to those puppet soldiers. The puppet regiment commander was even more servile in front of the translator, offering him cigarettes and bowing his head.

  Because he couldn't hear clearly what the traitorous interpreter was saying, and didn't know how things were going inside, Li Bin hadn't given the order to open fire. He wanted to see if these devils would harm the civilians. After all, the Japanese had just taken over the Northeast not long ago, and they wouldn't be able to kill off all the ordinary people either - who would grow food for them, who would do forced labor for them? So their method was to kill off a batch of those who dared to resist, leaving behind only those who feared them, and keeping them to serve as slaves.

  However, judging from the situation, it seems that these puppet troops are bringing devils to collect grain. I guess the villagers in this village refused to hand over their hard-earned crops, so many puppet troops came over this time, accompanied by devils, perhaps to intimidate the people.

  "Not good! Something's wrong!" Li Bin was inwardly shocked and made a gesture to Xiao Bo.

  Only four devils pulled out a 16- or 17-year-old girl and a 12-year-old little girl from the crowd, the two girls looked like sisters, both of whom were slender.

  Seeing two pretty girls, those devils have already drooled.

  The young lieutenant sneered and walked towards the sister, stretching out his dirty hand to pinch the girl's face. But this guy never thought that at this moment, a Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle was aiming at the back of his head.

  A man of about thirty-seven or eight years old rushed out from the crowd, shouting loudly at those devils. This time Li Bin heard clearly, he was shouting: "Boss, please spare my daughter!"

  "Ah Kua!" The man was kicked to the ground by a Japanese devil, and a sharp bayonet pierced his chest.

  Four devils dragged two poor little girls into their crowd, and the two girls had already cried out loud. These two girls, especially the twelve or thirteen year old girl, if raped by more than seventy devils, would definitely be dead for sure.

  Just as that group of beasts was about to close in, Li Bin, unable to bear it any longer, let out a furious roar: "Fight! Give me a fierce fight!"

  The "crack" of Huang Hua's Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle rang out first, and a bullet drilled into the back of the devil lieutenant's head. The bullet exited from his forehead, and the devil lieutenant's ferocious face immediately became blurred with blood and flesh. White brain matter mixed with red polluted blood splattered onto the little girl's face.

  Ma Liqiang and the three snipers fired at the same time, and the four devils who were holding the little girl were almost simultaneously blown up with their filthy heads. The four corpses fell to the ground, pressing down on the two little girls. The little girls, already frightened stiff, trembled all over, not daring to move, which also allowed them to hide under the devils' bodies and avoid being harmed.

  Several other snipers also opened fire at the same time, and three devils with crooked-handle machine guns became corpses in three seconds.

  The traitorous interpreter was shocked by this sudden change, and when he saw the devilish lieutenant being beaten to death, he shouted loudly: "It's bad! The Taikun has been killed! Run quickly!"

  Before the words had even fallen, a scorching bullet struck the interpreter's glasses, passing through from one side of his skull to the other, carrying glass shards into his brain, and then exited out the back of his head in a spray of blood.

  When the sudden change occurred, all the fake soldiers were frightened and fled in all directions to the outside of the village. All the villagers also took advantage of the situation and ran towards the inside of the village with their legs open. On the flat ground, only those Japanese soldiers holding rifles were left. However, before those Japanese soldiers could understand what was happening, several sergeants had already been killed under the precise shooting of snipers.

  The devils who were attacked quickly lay down, using the rifles in their hands to fire in the direction of the gunfire. The machine gunner was killed, and a deputy shooter had just taken over the machine gun when he heard Huang Hua's sniper rifle fire, leaving a hole in the devil's helmet, and the devil's head fell on the machine gun.

  The devils lying on the ground fired at Li Bin and his men with their rifles, but they were far away, and they were facing a group of snipers equipped with the latest sniper rifles. Every time a shot rang out, one devil was killed.

  The rest of the devils were so scared by the precise shooting that they didn't dare to lift their heads, to be honest, they didn't even know the exact position of their opponents, and could only lie on the ground with their heads down, not daring to move. As soon as someone exposed their head, they would immediately be hit by a bullet of revenge.