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Chapter 317 Kong Jie's Persuasion to Surrender
The bandits quickly tied up all the soldiers of the independent regiment and forced them to watch as they carried away the semi-finished cotton yarn and cotton cloth in bags.
With these cotton cloth and cotton yarn, life will be much better for these bandits this year.
Soon, the two hundred bandits moved all the cotton yarn and transferred it to their carts.
"Eight...Eighth Route Brother, we would like to borrow some cloth from you. We will return it to you in the spring."
Xie Baoqing explained in a gentle voice to the platoon leader who had already completed the initial bandaging.
But the platoon leader ignored this guy.
"withdraw!"
This time, Xie Baoqing did not stutter and set out on the return journey with a group of bandits.
"Boss, why don't we just go all out and kill all the soldiers of these independent regiments."
As he spoke, Shanmaozi gestured at his neck twice, meaning that he wanted to kill these soldiers of the independent regiment.
"Are you...are you fucking crazy? Don't hurt their lives, so that we can...see each other better in the future."
Xie Baoqing resolutely stopped Shanmaozi's crazy idea. He still wanted to leave a way out for them. Even if the independent regiment came, they would not do anything extreme.
The mountain cat had no choice but to give up.
Not long after the people from Heiyun Village left, the soldiers of the independent regiment's transport team who were tied to the truck began to struggle to break free from the ropes.
Da da da.
There was a sound of horse hooves.
The members of the independent regiment's transport team, who were untying each other's ropes, looked up and saw that a team of cavalrymen were coming quickly towards them. They were all wearing gray uniforms.
Ok?
The eyes of the soldiers of the independent regiment lit up instantly. Damn, reinforcements have arrived.
When the cavalry came closer, the leader asked, "I am Kong Jie, the commander of the New Second Regiment. Which team are you from? Why are you tied up here?"
Although Kong Jie came from the independent regiment, today's group of people happened to be recruited later, so no one knew him yet.
"Reporting to Captain Kong, we are from the independent regiment's transport team. We were ambushed by the Black Cloud Village and the cotton yarn was stolen by the Black Cloud Village."
The platoon leader stood up, spat out the blood in his mouth, and reported to Ding Wei.
"How could I be so careless as to be ambushed by these bandits? Quick, get off your horse and save them."
Kong Jie asked with concern, and at the same time arranged for a group of people following him to dismount quickly and help the soldiers of the independent regiment to free themselves from the knots.
"Captain Kong, we didn't expect these bastards to pretend to be fellow villagers with broken axles to gain our sympathy. If we had known this would happen, we would have shot them in the face.
Captain Kong, can I discuss something with you? "
The platoon leader stood up, covering his shoulder that had been shot through, and spoke to Kong Jie through gritted teeth.
"you say?"
"Let's borrow some weapons from our comrades in the New Second Regiment. We have to go get all our cotton yarn back. If the cotton yarn is lost, we will be too embarrassed to go back and see the regiment commander and the minister.
Moreover, this is the property of our Independence Regiment, and we will never allow anyone to take it away."
The platoon leader covered his shoulder with his hand, his hand was stained red with blood, but he remained strong.
Kong Jie couldn't bear to see this scene: "You are all injured like this, and you have been tied up for so long, take a rest first, I will find a way to get this batch of cotton yarn back from Xie Baoqing."
After saying that, Kong Jie whipped his horse's butt and chased in the direction of Heiyun Village's evacuation with seven or eight people.
The sound of horse hooves startled everyone in Heiyun Village.
Shanmaozi: "Brother, it looks like the Eighth Route Army has caught up with us. Should we just kill them? Anyway, we have a batch of automatic weapons from the Independent Regiment now. It shouldn't be a problem to kill these seven or eight Eighth Route Army soldiers."
"I...I've already told you...don't kill people at every turn. Do you think it's so easy for you to kill the Eighth Route Army?"
Xie Baoqing suppressed his temper and said to Shanmaozi that if this was not his brother who had been following him since the beginning of the battle, Xie Baoqing would have to clean him up himself. Recently, Shanmaozi had shown more and more signs of being out of control.
When the Eighth Route Army team approached, Xie Baoqing said, "I am Xie Baoqing from the Black Cloud Village. May I ask which unit you brothers are from?"
"Kong Jie, the commander of the new second regiment of the Eighth Route Army. Thank you, sir. I have heard of your great name for a long time."
Kong Jie did not dare to delay. He had already opened the safety of the Type 56 submachine gun in his hand. If the negotiation failed, he would immediately fire a volley of bullets. After all, Xie Baoqing had also seized a lot of Type 56 submachine guns at this time. If he acted too slowly, he might suffer a loss.
"I have heard of Captain Kong's great name for a long time. I wonder what Captain Kong wants to see me about?"
Although Xie Baoqing knew that Kong Jie was probably here for the dozen carts of cotton yarn and cotton cloth, he still pretended to be ignorant.
"Thank you, Boss. How about you give me some face? Return the cotton yarn, cotton cloth and weapons I just robbed from the independent regiment's transport team?"
Kong Jie tightened the Type 56 submachine gun in his hand and said to Xie Baoqing while staring at him.
"What dignity do you guys have? This is what our brothers and I rely on for our living. How can we return our things to you just by saying something to you?
You can't let our brothers starve just for the sake of your face, the Eighth Route Army, right?
Besides, winter is coming in a few days, and we brothers still don’t have cotton-padded clothes, so why should we return them to you?”
Shanmaozi robbed Xie Baoqing before he exported the cotton cloth because he didn't want Xie Baoqing to agree to return the cloth. He wanted to take this opportunity to win over the hearts of the bandits in the mountain village.
"Are you guys tired of living? How dare you talk to our regiment commander like that? Machine guns ready? Type 56 assault rifles ready?"
Before Kong Jie could say anything, the captain of the guard company beside him spoke first and immediately suppressed the bandit with his momentum.
"Master Xie? I, Kong Jie, am a reasonable person. I know that you, Xie Baoqing, come from a poor family, but you dare to rob my Eighth Route Army. This is wrong.
Today I can still reason with you, but if it were Li Yunlong from the Independent Regiment, I’m afraid he would just use machine guns and artillery to reason with you.”
After Kong Jie said this, he stopped where he was and did not continue speaking.
Xie Baoqing obviously also knew the battle record of the independent regiment during this period, but because the supplies in the mountain stronghold were also very scarce, if he did not find a way to replenish them, it would be difficult to lead the team.
"Captain Kong, our village is indeed short of these supplies, what do you think?"
"Xie Baoqing, you are not qualified to bargain with our Eighth Route Army! Considering that you fought against the Japanese in the previous stage, you can also be regarded as an anti-Japanese armed force. You can keep a cart of cotton cloth, which can be regarded as a good relationship with you. The rest of the cotton yarn, cotton cloth and all weapons must be left behind."
Kong Jie thought that he only had seven or eight guns and would not be at an advantage if a fight really broke out. At the same time, he also wanted to recruit this group of bandits, so he took a half step back.