Chapter 134 Bandit Hunting (2/2)
The bandits got intimidated by the continuous threat. They shouted back.
”WE SURRENDER! PLEASE DON'T KILL US!”
The troops also shouted back.
”FBI, YOU ARE SURROUNDED! COME OUT AND SURRENDER!”
”WE SURRENDER! PLEASE DON'T KILL US!”
300 meters.
”FBI, YOU ARE SURROUNDED! COME OUT AND SURRENDER!”
”WE SURRENDER! PLEASE DON'T KILL US!”
250 meters.
Zhang Liao darted his eyes around and clicked his tongue. The incoming bandit number was almost two thousand men. Combining with the bandits inside the city, their number was almost 3,000 men.
From the intel, there were roughly a thousand of them. However, they somehow gathered more members and increased their comrades close to 3,000. If Tong had not ordered them to come here and eradicate all of them, Zhang Liao could not imagine how many of them would have been multiplied.
200 meters.
Zhang Liao raised his hand. The flag bearers paid attention and switched the signal flags, ready to relay the order.
150 meters.
Zhang Liao swung his hand down and a volley of arrows covered the twilight sky. The bandits lost their abilities to think the moment they saw the incoming rain of arrows.
”RUN!”
”NO!”
”THEY ARE SHOOTING US!”
”SOB! WE WERE TRICKED!”
All of them turned around and kicked the ground. They ran back in a panic.
It was too late for the bandits to run. The arrow rain pierced the bodies of the bandits who did not have a shield or a weapon to fight back.
”FBI, YOU ARE SURROUNDED! COME OUT AND SURRENDER!”
Despite the fact that Zhang Liao's men were shooting at the unarmed gangsters, they still shouted the script.
”Fire another volley.” Zhang Liao ordered.
”FBI, YOU ARE SURROUNDED! COME OUT AND SURRENDER!”
Noticed the immoral tactic of Zhang Liao army, Zhang Yan ran back to the village. On his way, he grabbed one of his subordinates and shoved the poor guy in front of him as a meat shield.
”Boss! Why!?”
”Die for me, punk! I have to live!”
Zhang Yan did not just use one or two meat shield to get away from the rain of arrows, he used everyone that got into his way. After 5 volleys, he was finally hit by an arrow and fell onto the ground, rolling as he tumbled.
By the instinct of an experienced bandit, he pretended to be dead. Zhang Yan lied face down while he snuck glances at the surroundings. Usually, when an imperial army or a garrison guard squad defeated a group of bandits, they simply looted their weapons and left the corpses to rot in the wilderness. Zhang Yan managed to get away a couple times by using this bold tactic.
Once the last bandit collapsed, Zhang Liao waved his hand to stop the archers. He gave out another command.
”First and second squads, inspect the corpses! Make sure you cut off every head even if they are already dead!”
As a veteran general who constantly crashed with Xiangnu tribes, Zhang Liao was cautious of the play-dead trick as it was a common surviving tactic in the aftermath of every battle. Once a battle was over, they had to make sure that all dead enemies had to be killed again, or an unnecessary casualty might occur.
The soldiers strolled into the field of the dead bodies. They began hacking off the heads of the corpses one by one.
”Don't! Please, I surrender! Ugh!”
There were still living bandits as Zhang Liao suspected. Since Tong had ordered him to take no prisoner, Zhang Liao intended to be thorough with his duty.
More sounds of the living bandits dying to the soldiers came out every second. Zhang Yan was panic by the incoming troops and their actions. He bore the pain and dashed away into the village.
”There's a runner! Kill him!”
”He's alive! Shoot him down!”
”FBI, YOU ARE SURROUNDED! If you surrender, we'll kill you! If you don't surrender, we'll kill you!”
A dozen arrows flew toward Zhang Yan, but all of them missed the target. He made a 90 degrees turn and jumped into an alley between two houses. He continued using the unorganized buildings of the village to sneak away from the pursuers like a cockroach.
Ten minutes later, he lost the pursuers. Zhang Yan slowly breathed out and took out the embedded arrow in his calf. His eyes darted around to check the surroundings while he tended his wound.
'Ha! I'm the best. You can't catch me, you dumb pigs.'
'Now, how can I get out of this encirclement?'
Zhang Yan was preoccupied planning how to sneak out of this village in the middle of the night. He did not notice that there was a hand with a black object coming out of a small blue gate.
*BANG*
He heard a thunderous sound behind his back and felt an impact on the back of his head. Something went through his skull, and his vision and consciousness were lost forever.
…
Meanwhile, Li Feihong was still inside his private world, but one of his arms was inside a small blue hole. He watched the monitor which was showing his hand and Tong's gun.
Li Feihong pulled his hand back from the blue hole. The gun that was on the screen was in his hand.
”I see. So that's how it's done. I have never thought about this exploit before.” Li Feihong muttered.
Tong, who returned into this private world again, tapped Li Feihong twice in approval.
”That's the gist of it. If you have had mastered this in Jinyang, I wouldn't have had to fight Lu Bu, damn you!”
”Ahaha!”