Chapter Thirty: Robbery to the End

  To quickly and conveniently plunder, Ye Zhi Kui decided to divide the labor and split the troops into three groups according to the number of enemy soldiers. Feng Guo Zhang and Tu Fu each led a group of 150 men to plunder areas with fewer people, while Ye Zhi Kui himself led Xian Ren Shi Wu and 200 soldiers to plunder larger areas.

  "Are you sure it's here?" Ye Zhi Kui hid in the darkness, looking at the small village not far from Handan City with suspicion, and asked Xian Ren Shi Wu who was panting beside him. Didn't they say that treasures should be hidden in deep mountains and old forests where no one is around? Although this place looks quiet at night, it's still a small village, can treasures really be buried here?

  Looking at Ye Zhi Kui, he replied: "I'm quite certain, Ye Shao, this place is great. Not only is it close to Hancheng, making it convenient to find Huaguniang, but it's also near the road to Renhechuan, making transportation easy. Originally, all the Koreans in this village had fled, and the Japanese army occupied this place as a transit station. There are probably over a hundred people inside. If we're not careful, who would know that there are large amounts of wealth hidden here?"

  "A hundred Japs!" Ye Zhi Kui furrowed his brow, there were a lot of people, and when they robbed, they didn't shoot unless necessary.

  When Mr. Yan arrived, he saw Ye's brow furrowed and hastily said: "Young Master Ye, no need to rush, the little ones have thought it through, come on, take the clothes."

  At that time, my partner brought over bags of clothes from behind, Ye Zhi Kui opened one to see, they were all Japanese military uniforms. Jian Ren Shi Wu sneered and said: "We just need to wear these clothes, and we pass on a secret signal in advance, at that time in the deep night the Japanese will not distinguish between friend and foe, it's easy to deal with them."

  At this time, I continued to turn over and said: "Moreover, the little man is afraid that it will be inconvenient for the big man to move later, and even the sack has been prepared."

  Ye Zhi's eyes widened in shock, only now did he realize that he had underestimated Ren. Seeing Ren was still quite talented, from now on he would treat him as a person. It seemed that this matter of robbing and plundering should be left to professionals like him.

  When I saw the surprised look on Ye's face, he continued to say seriously: "Sir, actually, I have a very immature idea. I think we should come in broad daylight, wearing Japanese military uniforms, and openly move away with treasures, rather than sneaking around like thieves now. This is not consistent with your glorious image, sir. You are so noble, you are my sun..."

  "Alright, Ye Zhi Kui takes back the words he said earlier when he treated him as a human being. He had to interrupt Jian Ren who was talking incessantly and said: "You also think this doesn't match my identity, so I'm giving you this arduous yet glorious task. Don't worry, I'll be supporting you from behind, being your strong backing."

  When the time came, I had to swallow my pride and knew that I couldn't shirk it. I replied: "Sir, your subordinate is more than willing to work tirelessly for you, but sir, you must remember my contributions! If by chance a lowly person like me were to die in misfortune, you must recall that there was once a loyal and devoted subordinate who was willing to sacrifice his life and shed hot blood for you. And if your subordinate is lucky enough to survive, you must reward him generously and comfort this wounded heart of mine." Wait, sir! Don't go just yet, it's not too late for you to wait until I've finished speaking!" Ye Ziku kicked him away with one foot.

  Before long, Ren saw that I had tears in my eyes and a look of desperation on my face as I led his few extreme comrades and several members of the 13 Hawks, dressed in Japanese military uniforms, swaggering towards the village.

  "Halt! Who goes there?" The three patrolling Japanese soldiers immediately discovered them and shouted.

  "Eight trigrams!" When I saw him, I walked over. A slap sent a Japanese soldier spinning around, shouting: "How dare you block my way! Get out of the way!" The man was wearing a lieutenant colonel's uniform.

  The night patrol soldier hastily nodded and apologized, but out of duty still stopped Xian Ren and said: "Lieutenant General, this is a secret base. Without a warrant, no one is allowed to enter."

  The fellow beside me, feigning anger, said: "What a big nerve you have, daring to speak to the Lieutenant like that! If the Lieutenant hadn't gone to the nearby village to pick up Hua Niang and returned late, he wouldn't be able to enter the city. Are you going to let us through? Our Lieutenant is still waiting for his pleasure! If you know what's good for you, maybe after the Lieutenant has had his fun, he'll reward you."

  Are there any flower girls? Three patrolling soldiers looked at the crowd, where a "woman" with her head down and wearing colorful clothes was being tied up, and slowly walked over to take a closer look.

  Unfortunately, they were destined not to see the beauty of Hua Gu Niang. As soon as the three men entered the encirclement, I and the 13 eagles suddenly rose up and silently took them down before the three devils could react. The person who was called Hua Gu Niang also lifted her head, and it turned out to be a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

  Ye Zhi Kui acted stealthily in the dark, initially smoothly, and hastily directed the remaining soldiers to rush out from the black curtain. Ye Zhi Kui left five soldiers guarding the village entrance to prevent anyone from escaping, and led the remaining soldiers to charge into the village. The village was not large, with about a dozen households. At this time, the Japanese people, except for the night guards, were all asleep, which was simply a heaven-sent opportunity. Ye Zhi Kui effortlessly went from house to house, neatly and efficiently eliminating the devils who were still dreaming.

  Before long, Ye Zhi Kui had killed all the devils without firing a single shot or bullet, and without harming any of his soldiers. This was too easy, too lacking in technical content. If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have come personally. Ye Zhi Kui couldn't help but curl his lip in dissatisfaction.

  That guy didn't know that the Japanese secretly thought they were about to negotiate, and this place is so far from Ping'an, the Qing army has been quiet for so many days, everyone thought they could rest easy, those who wanted to play with women played with women, those who wanted to sleep slept, who knew there was a Ye Zhiwei who didn't follow common sense, it's no wonder these devils were unlucky, died unjustly, and when they opened their eyes at the moment of death, they saw people wearing Japanese military uniforms and thought they had been silenced!

  After finishing off the devils, the soldiers divided into small groups and carefully searched each house, not even sparing the toilets.

  "Adults and children found a hidden compartment in this house." Jian Ren Shi reported to Ye Zhi Kui with an excited face, "This guy can really be used as a treasure-hunting mouse!"

  Ye Zhikui followed him into an inconspicuous house, opened a secret compartment, and found that it was a cellar. Ye Zhikui threw down a torch, and under the light of the fire, he saw that the entire cellar was filled with boxes.

  The egg was like a leaf, and it started to get excited, seeing the timing of my more like * , in the leaf's edge chirping and panting heavily. The surrounding soldiers were also shining with two eyes, seeing nothing unusual, Ye Zhīkuì walked down along the wooden ladder. Opening a box at random, only to see that the whole room was suddenly filled with golden light, Ye Zhīkuì hurriedly covered it up, and opened several other boxes, which were either gold or jewels. They had struck it rich! The ground was filled with gold, how much was there?! Ye Zhīkuì, who was beyond excitement, found that his hands were shaking slightly, fortunately he still had his wits about him, and ordered the soldiers not to open any more boxes, but to load them directly onto the horse carriage.

  It took more than two hundred soldiers to empty the cellar, filling seven horse carts to the brim. After searching other places, no other discoveries were made, it seemed that this was all there was in this place.

  Then, Ye Zhiwei led the soldiers to raid two more Japanese treasure storage points, but unfortunately, they were not as large as the first time, and only four horse carts were added. Seeing that the agreed time with Feng Guozhang was approaching, Ye Zhiwei ordered the soldiers to slowly head towards the designated gathering point.

  When they arrived at the gathering point, Feng Guozhang and Tu Fu had already been waiting for a long time. Each of them had seized six or seven horse-drawn carriages. Both of them were excited, and Tu Fu's terrifying and cold face looked even more frightening when he smiled. Ordinary soldiers might not know how many they had seized, only that it was a lot, but the exact number could not be said. However, Ye Zhiwei and others secretly calculated that there were probably 400 to 500 tons of gold.

  A few people feared that the night was long and their dreams were many, so they scattered grain and other valuables on top of the gold and other treasures, and the troops took advantage of the night to escape to Pingdu.

  The butcher again reported to Ye Zhiwei that they had discovered a Japanese arsenal during the robbery, and Ye Zhiwei thought for a moment before ordering several teams of the Thirteen Hawks to wait until dawn to take action, trying to blow up the Japanese arsenal. This would not only temporarily gain time for themselves but also cause the Japanese to lose guns and ammunition, so why not do it?

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  The little bug is out again, haha, same old story, can't help it, the collection was too miserable, made the little bug's eyes well up with tears, even more pitiful than seeing a benevolent ruler, brothers just pretend to be Ye Zikui for once and give me a meal, for the sake of our party and country, pull your brother through this!