Chapter 8 Accidental Gain
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"Hey! You little scamp, our young master will take care of the pursuers for you. Are you going to repay kindness with enmity?" The Four Tigers joked and laughed as they gazed at the young hunter.
"Good boy, this kid is not bad." Biaozi was impressed by the strong will and determination of the young hunter who remained fearless in the face of danger.
"Hmm! He's a good seedling." Li Ruofeng nodded with a look of approval in his eyes, smiling at the young hunter in front of him.
The young hunter only now saw clearly that all six bandits from the Black Tiger Fort who were chasing them had fallen to the ground, their brains and blood splattered everywhere.
He struggled to get up from the ground, stumbled step by step to the corpse of the big-bearded bandit, raised his gun and fired continuously at the corpse until all the bullets in the magazine were used up, making a crisp sound of empty striking.
The young hunter grasped his gun tightly to his chest, knelt down in the direction where Liang Shanbo was, and suddenly let out a heart-wrenching howl: "Dad! Mom! Sister! Gou Dan has finally avenged you! Avenged you!"
The four tigers decided to go forward and comfort this strong child.
Li Ruofeng shook his head and signaled for others not to move, letting this child have a good vent.
The dog egg didn't cry for too long, he used his dirty sleeve to wipe his face, got up and walked to Li Ruofeng's side, knelt down and knocked three loud heads, "Thank you, sir, for saving my life! Dog egg will be a cow and a horse for the benefactor for generations to come, to repay the great kindness of the benefactor."
Li Ruofeng saw the situation, hurriedly got off his horse and helped Dog Egg up, asking with concern: "It wasn't me who saved you, it was your own bloodline and will that saved yourself. Dog Egg, is there anyone else at home?"
"All gone, all killed by this damn Liu Heiqi."
In Dog Egg's lamentation, Li Ruofeng finally understood what had happened at the Kao Shan Tun disaster.
Gou Dan's family was a hunting household in the mountains. A year ago, Gou Dan's father took him into the mountains to hunt, and they stayed there for three days and three nights before returning to the village with a full load. But when they arrived at the village, they found that everyone had been killed by bandits. His mother and sister were killed in a particularly cruel manner, and their bodies were mutilated beyond recognition.
Gou Dan's father, after careful investigation, found out that it was Liu Hei Qi, the third master of the Black Tiger Fort, who had done it. In a fit of rage, he secretly went to the Black Tiger Fort with Gou Dan to seek revenge. However, they were unable to avenge their grudge and were killed by Liu Hei Qi after killing a few small henchmen.
After learning that his father was also killed by Liu Heiqi, he vowed to avenge him. But he was very clever and didn't let hatred cloud his mind. He knew that going alone to the Black Tiger Fort to avenge Liu Heiqi would be suicidal. So, while making a living by hunting, he kept a close eye on the movements of the Black Tiger Fort from afar.
The day before yesterday, after learning that Hei Hu Village was going to raid Lao Shan Tun again, Gou Dan lay in ambush in the village, waiting for an opportunity to avenge his family by killing Liu Hei Qi.
It's hard to say whether Liu Heiqi was lucky or Dog Egg was unlucky. With Dog Egg's marksmanship, he should have been able to hit and kill Liu Heiqi with one shot from 50 meters away. However, heaven was blind, and just as Dog Egg fired his gun, Liu Heiqi happened to trip and stumble, resulting in the bullet hitting and killing a bandit standing behind him instead.
After discovering that someone was firing at him, Liu Hei Qi immediately ordered his men to attack Gou Dan. Gou Dan killed five of Liu Hei Qi's henchmen before being wounded and breaking through the encirclement.
Originally thought to have no hope of escape, no hope of revenge, Gou Dan was so anxious that he rushed to the entrance of Kaoshan Village and soon fell into a coma. If it wasn't for the fact that the sorrel horse he rode was one he had raised since childhood and was very intelligent, he might not have been able to run out so far before falling off his horse.
According to Li Ruofeng's usual way of doing things, he generally wouldn't intervene in other people's business. He was moved by the scene where Dog Egg fell off his horse and lost consciousness with a gun tightly gripped in his hand; otherwise, the scene where Liu Heiqi got killed would not have happened.
"Gou Dan, how many Black Tiger bandits are still at Kao Shan Tun?" Li Ruo Feng seemed to be planning to wipe out the Black Tiger bandit lair in one stroke, eliminating a potential variable that could affect the impending Fung Tian incident next year.
"Liu Heiqi this time only brought twenty-four henchmen down the mountain, previously I killed five, just now Master En killed six, now at most there are thirteen henchmen left in the village to harm the villagers." Dog Dan counted on his fingers.
"Gou Dan, dare you go with me to take down Hei Hu Village?" Li Roufeng asked with a smile.
Gou Dan thought for a moment and then replied: "Anyway, this life of mine was saved by you, what's there to be afraid of? If Master En dares to go, I'll dare to go too!"
"Great! Fourth Tiger, you help Dog Egg re-dress his wound. Biaozi, go collect the guns and ammunition on the ground, and gather these six fine horses too. We'll spend the night at Black Tiger Fort tonight!" Li Ruofeng said with great enthusiasm, seemingly not taking Black Tiger Fort seriously at all.
Biaozi was familiar with the battlefield, he not only collected the guns and ammunition left by the bandits, but also swept away all the valuable things on their bodies.
To say that robbery is indeed a lucrative business, after sorting out the spoils, there were eight new boxes of ammunition, four magazines, sixty bullets; five brand-new 38-style rifles, over 180 bullets, and five 30-style bayonets. Six Oriental war horses; $241 in silver dollars, eight gold rings, three small gold bars, eight taels of opium, plus three gold teeth.
Looking at Biaozi and Li Ruofeng, who were checking and configuring their weapons on the side, Gou Dan said in a low voice to Si Hu, who was helping him bandage his wound: "Brother, Hei Hu Zhai has more than 200 guns, as well as mortars and machine guns. Can you persuade your young master not to take risks? I'm willing to die, my revenge is already avenged, but I don't want to see the person who saved my life rush into the tiger's mouth."
"Heh heh, Dog Egg, what's wrong? Don't you have faith in our young master?" Fourth Tiger said with a dismissive smile.
"Hei Hu Village is strategically located and easy to defend, but difficult to attack. If it's just the four of us going, I'm afraid..." Dog Egg's expression on his face clearly showed that he lacked confidence in Li Ruofeng's decision.
"Don't worry, little devil. As long as my young master wants to fight, the Black Tiger Fort will be useless even with more people." Si Hu wrapped Dog Egg's shoulder wound tightly with a white cloth and helped him put on his bear skin jacket, gently stroking his head and smiling: "Does my young master look like someone who doesn't care about his life? Hehe, today I'll let you see what a real expert looks like."
The dog didn't make another sound and silently nodded its head.
"Gou Dan, come here." Li Ruofeng called out, "Replace that old rifle in your hand with this Type 38 Arisaka. This little Japanese rifle is much more useful than the one you're holding."
"No exchange, this gun was exchanged by my father with three tiger skins for me, I want to keep it." Dog Dan subconsciously tightened the old shotgun in his arms and still followed him.
"Later on we're going to attack the Black Tiger Fort, you shouldn't have any bullets left in your gun, right?" Li Ruofeng asked with a smile while stroking Dog Egg's head.
"I can carry it on my back, guaranteed not to affect my shooting." Dog Egg slung the old rifle with no bullets over his shoulder and took a brand new 38 from Biaozi, along with a cowhide bullet box.
The dog egg stuffed the bullet box into his arms, pulled the gun bolt, tried the style board machine, and then checked the scale. After that, he repeatedly raised the gun to aim, looked at the frame, and was more familiar and older than ordinary soldiers.
"Want to try a couple of shots?" Li Ruofeng also manipulated a Type 38 rifle.
"No need, my dad used to use this kind of gun too. I even shot a wild boar with it, but not as new as this one. The bullets are still left for shooting bandits." Dog Egg replied while skillfully loading the magazine.
"Alright! Let me see your marksmanship for a while, come on, mount up, let's first take care of those dozen or so bandits in the village!" Li Ruofeng single-handedly held his long spear and leaped onto his horse.
The dog egg suddenly pulled out a hunting knife, walked to the front of Liu Heiqi's corpse, cut off his head with one knife, and then stripped off the outer clothes from the corpse to wrap this bloody head. Ran to his own jujube red horse, hung the wrapped package on the saddle, hugged the horse's face affectionately, and immediately sprang onto the horseback with a very handy movement.
The four tigers also chose a 38 large cover, and the remaining two were all carried by Biaozi. The four people and ten horses rushed quickly towards Kao Shan Tun.
