Chapter 242
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Sun Xingguo smiled bitterly and said, "Company Commander Dong, you are really good at joking. Who would make a prank with his life? Besides, even if someone wants to steal the treasure, why don't you take the treasure away after killing someone? Moreover, several similar incidents happened later. All the dead had five finger marks on their necks, which still matched Qin Baolian's hands, which made archaeologists scared. He had been dealing with the thousand-year-old corpse for so long, and had seen the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh, but he had no choice but to hand the ruby and the box to the British colonial government of Myanmar for safekeeping. The British colonial government of Myanmar had already heard of all kinds of strange rumors about this gem, and did not dare to keep it alone, so he had to put it in the vault."
"Nothing happened in the vault, right?" Dong Limao asked.
"I don't know this. But..." Sun Xingguo paused for a moment and continued, "When I took over this batch of treasures, something strange happened."
Dong Limao hurriedly asked, "What strange thing happened?"
"When we followed the large army to evacuate, we first loaded it with trucks. We could travel less than two or three kilometers. We either had a tire blowout or broke down. We changed several trucks one after another, and several soldiers fell and died from the carriage that was reposted for no reason. There was no way, so I had to abandon the truck and exchange it for mules and horses to carry it. But after walking less than a few miles, all mules and horses fell to the ground and foamed at the mouth and died. I thought it was a plague that mules and horses had suffered. Before entering the forest, they changed mules and horses three times, and all of them were foaming at the mouth. Because of this, we fell behind and were caught by the Japanese devils chasing behind. I sent a chase to block the enemy, and the rest of the soldiers carried their shoulders.
He hurried into the forest. The company that blocked was more than half of the casualties and was captured by the Japanese army. When we caught up with us, there were only 300 or 40 people left. The company commander was also captured alive by the Japanese army. When we walked to the river where the treasures were hidden, we were lost. But strangely, no matter how we walked, we could never get out of the bank of the river. I sent a path exploration and reconnaissance team. Although it was not far from Hekang Mountain Village, we just couldn't see the paradise in this primeval forest and couldn't get out of the forest." Sun Xingguo said with lingering fear: "If the Wolf King's people had not found us and took us out of the forest, two or three hundred people would starve to death in the forest."
"Isn't the same the case for the British army? They have been here for twenty or thirty days and have not seen the Hekang Mountain Village." Dong Limao thought of the destroyed British army and asked Sun Xingguo: "You said this to tell me that this ruby will cause me a catastrophe, right?"
Sun Xingguo shook his head and nodded again and said, "Commander Dong, tell you the truth. I didn't believe in the world in the past, but this time I personally experienced the existence of magical power. Alas... I really hope that this gem does not have the legendary magic. Perhaps, those incredible things are all done by humans. After all, they have been proven to be artificial. From this perspective, I finally doubted what the British archaeologist said. He found me alone when I took over this batch of treasures, and told me again the strange and strange stories that had already spread. Why did he do this? I guess he was worried that I would embezzle this ruby, and those strange rumors were also the British who wanted to keep it.
The lies made up were because the Burmese people were superstitious. I asked the archaeologist how much this ruby was worth, but he evasively said that the gem was not worth much, the key was that it had special archaeological research value. Moreover, the first thing Bakershum asked when he saw me was, 'That beautiful heart is also in this batch of treasures, right?'. It can be seen that the troops sent by the British army this time were mainly for this ruby, otherwise they would not be able to take them all out of the forest even if they found the treasures. The bad luck I told Company Commander Dong not only refers to the strangeness of the gems themselves in the legend, but was worried that a senior official from the British ** Fang wanted to get this beautiful heart. If this was the case, they would not give up."
"Have you met Beck Scheme before?" Dong Limao heard from Sun Xingguo's story that he seemed to have known Beck Scheme in the past.
"It's all about military supplies. Before the expeditionary army failed, I had a few deals with him." Sun Xingguo replied simply.
"I understand, thank you for your reminder. Then let the British ask me for this beautiful heart. I'm not afraid of them!" Dong Limao touched the box in his pocket and said.
"Since the British are so interested in this beautiful heart, in my opinion, the Japanese are probably coming from the beautiful heart. Corps Dong, you'd better have a clear mind. Maybe this beautiful heart will cause you constant trouble." Sun Xingguo said again.
"Haha... that's not right. The Japanese don't come to find me, I still want to find them." Dong Limaocai, whether it was the British or Japanese army, wanted to get this beautiful heart. Anyway, he did not belong to this era. Even if his great-grandfather experienced this incident, he would not die before the Battle of Songshan.
When I returned to the village, it was already evening, and the drizzle was still falling down. Liu Yudong and others were in the Tianlang's meeting hall, that is, the main hall of the bamboo building.
Sun Xingguo hurriedly directed people to transport the treasures into Tianlang's underground warehouse, and Dong Limao and Tianlang walked into the main hall.
"Liu Yudong, tell me what you found." Dong Limao sat down and couldn't wait to know the Japanese and puppet troops in Tia County and Laga Town.
Tianlang took out the map and placed it on the mat.
Liu Yudong pointed to the Tia County Town on the map and said, "The garrisons in the county town have not changed much. However, several new watchtowers have been added, all facing the forest exit. Each watchtower has a searchlight that will never be extinguished all night. The watchtower is not reinforced concrete, but made of trees or bamboo. Around the county town, there are several patrol teams holding wolfdogs at night. Each team is about fifteen minutes apart. Each patrol team has a squad, no more than twelve people. Two of them are Japanese troops, and the rest are puppet troops. There is no patrol team during the day. However, there is a place that people from the past did not find, here." Liu Yudong pointed to a place on the map and said, "There are also Japanese and puppet troops around a natural reservoir in the south. It is brightly lit at night, and you can see coolies coming in and out during the day. Because the terrain is relatively open, our people cannot get close to it. It is not clear what they are doing."
Tianlang took over Liu Yudong's words and said: "Tia County produces jade. Perhaps the Japanese were mining jade ore. During the British rule, jade ore was mined around this reservoir."
"Let's talk about the situation in Laga Town." Dong Limao said, pointing to a small dot on the map.
Liu Yudong continued: "There are less than a thousand residents in Laga Town, which is a must-pass place for Myanmar to India from Wildren Mountain. In the north of Tia County, the Japanese army set up checkpoints here. In addition to checking passing horse gang merchants, they are also responsible for collecting taxes. There are no heavy weapons here. There are two wooden watchtowers and searchlights at the intersection. However, there is no patrol at night. There is a bumpy dirt road connected to Tia County. The road is steep and dug up along the hillside by a river. It takes more than half an hour to drive from Tia County. There are many places that can be used as ambushing on the road."
While the three of them were talking, Xiao Yuhua arranged for the servants to serve food. Dong Limao asked about the terrain around the county town. After dinner, he had a preliminary plan for combat in his mind, but he did not say it immediately, but asked Tianlang: "Tianlang, how do you think this battle should be fought?"
Tianlang then pointed to the map and said, "We will set out in the middle of the night tomorrow. After dawn, we can rush around the county town of Tia and send an ambush on the way between Tia and Laga..."
Dong Limao waited for Tianlang to finish speaking and thought his idea was quite good, but he did not want to attack Tia County.
"Brother Dong, what do you think?" Tianlang asked.
Dong Limao lit a cigarette and said confidently: "If we attack the county, there will be great casualties. I think we will be able to take Tia and attack Laga, which is called avoiding the important and finding places with weak military deployment, so that the Japanese and puppet troops in Tia County can rush to help and eliminate them halfway. Don't we have Ono Shinji, who can make full use of his special identity and let him take us into the city with a swagger."
Tianlang nodded constantly, thinking that Dong Limao’s words made sense, and said with a smile: “Brother Dong, I will completely listen to you in this battle. You can transfer all the people in the village, including me, and you can give orders.”
"Okay, I'm not polite." Dong Limao was unwilling to let go. He also wanted to use this battle to enlighten Tianlang and help him become a commander in the future. He first asked: "Tianlang, are you going to use your troops to take the lead?"
"In order to train the brothers in the village, I think this time it mainly focuses on the people in the village." Tianlang replied.
"Then who do you want to use to guard the parish?" Dong Limao asked again.
"Sun Xingguo." Tianlang replied.
Dong Limao shook his head: "No, you are wrong. You don't need to have ready-made troops with strong combat power. Using some people who have no experience in fighting is a taboo in military strategists!"
"Brother Dong means that the people from the village should be stationed, and Sun Xingguo and the others will attack Tiya?" Tianlang asked with some concern.
"That's exactly that." Dong Limao replied.
"But, in that case, I have to stay behind the clan, and the clan members only follow my orders." Tianlang said his concerns.
Dong Limao glanced at Xiao Yuhua and smiled slightly.
"Jiacheng, you don't want to hand over the copycat to me..." Xiao Yuhua asked in a moving manner.
"That's right, you are the best leader in the defense of the copycat." Dong Limao took over the words before Xiao Yuhua finished speaking.
"Why didn't I expect it?" Tianlang slapped his thigh and said, "Besides me, you can only suppress the people in the village. That's it. Mother, you lead the people in the village to guard them."
Xiao Yuhua still wanted to shirk her, but Dong Limao spoke first: "Yu'er, Tianlang needs a bigger world, and the parcel is his solid backing. In the future, only you can help him, because you will always be the person Tianlang trusts the most."
Chapter completed!