Chapter 266: These Bandits Have Some Guts!
The more he thought about it, the more the anger in his heart burned, with cold glints flickering nonstop in his eyes.
Suddenly unable to hold back, he slammed his palm on the table, producing a loud bang, and angrily said: “Damn it, this Liu Dadan is getting more and more outrageous!”
“He dares to not show up for the assembly without even a single notification!”
“He’s simply lawless!”
“Xiao Zhao!”
The guard Xiao Zhao hurriedly responded: “Battalion Commander, what are your orders.”
“Guard the door for me! When our Company Commander Liu deigns to arrive, ‘invite’ him to my office!”
Battalion Commander Zhang deliberately emphasized the tone on the word ‘invite’, the meaning self-evident.
Xiao Zhao hurriedly acknowledged.
The two company commanders exchanged a glance, grinning from ear to ear.
Hmph, you Liu Dadan, relying on your money, sent quite a few gifts to Battalion Commander Zhang and Regiment Commander Zhang, making us two company commanders look like we don’t know our place.
Relying on that, strutting around in front of us, acting all high and mighty!
Aren’t you tough? Fine, let’s see how tough you are now!
Before they could gloat for long, Battalion Commander Zhang said to them with a dark face:
“And you two, you’d better behave yourselves!”
“Beiping is unsettled these days, take your men and stand post personally!”
“I’ll check from time to time, whoever dares to slack off or pretend to obey but disobey in reality and gets caught by me, see if I don’t deal with you!”
“.” The two company commanders obediently responded, shrinking their necks, and hurriedly took their men and ran out.
Watching the two scurry off, Battalion Commander Zhang snorted coldly. Did they really think using him as a gun would just end like that?
Could he not understand the temperament of these two guys?
If they stood post properly, that would be the real surprise!
When he caught them in the act, he had to give them a lesson!
Let them know that using him as a gun comes at a cost!!
After giving the two company commanders a hard time, he sat in his office waiting.
But after waiting left and right, over an hour had passed, yet Company Commander Liu still hadn’t come, making Battalion Commander Zhang even more furious.
“Bastard! Getting more and more outrageous! Is he not taking military discipline seriously, or not taking me this battalion commander seriously?!”
So, he called Xiao Zhao again, suppressing his anger and saying in a deep voice: “Go contact Liu Dadan’s home again, order that the moment Liu Dadan returns, he rolls straight to the battalion headquarters to see me!”
He had already made up his mind: when Liu Dadan came, he had to let Liu Dadan know just how formidable he, Zhang Xiaofeng, could be!
Did he really think that sending some trifles on ordinary days allowed him to be so outrageous in front of him?!
“Yes!”
Xiao Zhao didn’t dare to delay, immediately running out.
Goodness, not even calling him Company Commander Liu anymore, directly Liu Dadan. Looks like the battalion commander is really burning with anger!
But it was understandable; who wouldn’t be furious if treated so lightly by a subordinate.
He couldn’t help muttering to himself in his heart, Company Commander Liu’s dad really didn’t name him wrong—his courage is way too fat.
On the other side, Cao Weida, who had come to the police station to report, was in a very good mood.
He had just sat down in the office wanting to smoke a cigarette to relax when Little Ear came in to report some news.
“Big Brother Cao, there’s news of penicillin on the black market!”
Saying this, he took out a small glass bottle of medicine from his pocket and handed it over.
Cao Weida took it and glanced at it, immediately confirming it was from the batch he had sent to the base area.
“Found out whose hands it came from?”
“Found out, it flowed out from Guo Dashuai, who operates near Chongwenmen, Inner Seven Districts.”
“Guo Dashuai?”
A person’s figure appeared in his mind, his eyes narrowing. “If I remember correctly, your subordinate Zhao Si’er was the one beaten in Guo Dashuai’s casino.”
Little Ear nodded: “Yes, at the time I was busy with something and didn’t get the notification; it was Big Brother Cao who personally went to bring him back.”
“Interesting, really interesting!” Cao Weida laughed coldly. He remembered this Guo Dashuai well; he had even teased back then that the name was quite resounding.
He had originally planned to let this so-called grand marshal live a couple more days before dealing with him.
But now, the other party had jumped out to court death!
The small bottle of penicillin wasn’t big, flipping nonstop between his three fingers, sunlight shining on it, flickering with slight glints:
“If I remember right, he has a sworn brother, what’s his name again?”
Little Ear replied: “Called Liu Changjiang, always active outside Beiping City in the Changping District, said to have one or two hundred men under him, over a hundred long and short guns, quite notorious around Beiping.”
“Public order around Beiping City is really damn chaotic.”
Cao Weida complained, then smack placed the penicillin on the table:
“Find someone to keep an eye on this Guo Dashuai, don’t move him yet. As long as he doesn’t leave Beiping City, don’t alert him.”
The implication, naturally, was that he couldn’t be allowed to leave Beiping City.
Little Ear immediately nodded: “Got it, I’ll go arrange it now.”
Cao Weida took out a cigarette, lit it, took a puff, slowly exhaled the smoke, his eyes fixed unblinkingly on the small glass bottle.
Until the cigarette was finished, he pocketed the small bottle and turned to leave through the police station’s main gate.
An hour and a half later, in a reserved room of a teahouse, Cao Weida and Hao Pingchuan sat facing each other.
He took out the penicillin, placed it on the table and pushed it over. Cao Weida wasted no words, getting straight to the point: “Already tracked it down. This bottle of penicillin was found on the black market, flowed out from Guo Dashuai near Chongwenmen, Inner Seven Districts.”
“This Guo Dashuai is sworn brothers with Liu Changjiang, the bandit leader active outside Beiping City in Changping District. I suspect this batch of medicine was robbed by this bandit leader Liu Changjiang.”
“This gang of bandits has one or two hundred men total, around a hundred long and short guns, counts as a medium-sized bandit group in the surrounding area.”
“These damn bandits have some nerve, daring to rob even our Communist Party’s supplies!” Hao Pingchuan gripped the small glass bottle, his fist clenched with creaking sounds, knuckles turning white, face full of anger:
“I’ll go assemble the team right now and wipe out this gang of bastards today!”
“Daring to touch our Communist Party’s stuff, I think he doesn’t know how many eyes the Horse King has!!”
Though this gang of bandits had one or two hundred men and around a hundred long and short guns, bandits were bandits—not on the same level as their regular army at all!
Plus the weapons provided by Cao Weida, he was confident he could wipe out this group plaguing the countryside with just fifty men!
These bandits were too bold; if they didn’t wipe them out, they’d really think the Communist Party was easy to bully!
Seeing that this hothead Hao Pingchuan was about to storm off in rage, he was rebuked by Cao Weida irritably: “Get back here! No reckless actions!”
Though unwilling and reluctant, Hao Pingchuan still plopped back down heavily with his anger-filled face, indignant:
“Cao Ye, we already know who did it, why can’t we take action?!”
“So much medicine is in their hands; if we don’t act now, it’ll all be sold off by them!”
Afraid Cao Weida was concerned about their combat power, he immediately added:
“Cao Ye, rest assured, no need for many—just fifty men, and I have absolute confidence to wipe them out!”
If he didn’t know Cao Weida was one of their own, if he didn’t know Cao Weida wasn’t soft-hearted, if he didn’t know
He’d have just stormed off, taking his brothers straight to the bandits’ lair.
Cao Weida helplessly rubbed his forehead. Hao Pingchuan was good in every way except for this brain of his.
Fine, a hothead—forcing him to use his brain was asking too much.
He said kindly: “I’ve never doubted your combat power, and I believe you can wipe out these bandits, but you need to know where their lair is. Changping is little devil territory now!”
At this point, he paused, seeing no reaction from Hao Pingchuan, even seeming dismissive, he sighed helplessly.
Alright, this guy was the type who wasn’t afraid of death, liable to do something stupid when his head got hot.
Communicating with a stubborn one, better to keep it simple and straightforward to avoid trouble.
“You think these bandits can roam freely around Changping because they’re really that capable?”
“It’s because the little devils have no intention of wiping them out!”
“Why haven’t the little devils wiped them out? Because the little devils are deliberately keeping these bandits around!”
“If you go on a big sweep to suppress bandits, never mind not being familiar with the terrain and the casualties it would cause—just your large group action is too obvious, the commotion big. You think the little devils are blind?!”
“Don’t fail to wipe out the bandits and end up surrounded by the little devils yourselves!”
Hao Pingchuan felt belittled, immediately flushing red with displeasure, neck stiff as he said: “Just a bunch of scattered rabble that collapses on one charge. I can definitely end the fight before the little devils close in!”
Cao Weida slapped his forehead—this mountain gun!
Yes, he admitted, these undisciplined, disorganized bandits were no match in combat, but their hundred-plus guns were real!
Though not comparable to regular army, their marksmanship might not even be worse than the regular army!
If they really went to suppress bandits, who knew what mishaps might occur in between!
Once something went wrong, they might all end up laid out there!
He wasn’t going to argue on this point; with Hao Pingchuan’s brawn-over-brains type who only cared about combat power, no point debating this.
With this straightforward temper, had to stroke with the grain: “Of course I believe you, but combat means casualties, means sacrifices.”
Hao Pingchuan was just about to speak when Cao Weida cut him off:
“I know, you’re all warriors unafraid of sacrifice, and I’m not refuting that. The key is, when we do something, we have to weigh the pros and cons, consider the gains and losses!”
“Let me ask you, three of your comrades were captured. What if we anger these bandits and they kill to vent their rage?”
“Those are warriors who fought bloody battles! Not dying on the battlefield but at the hands of these scattered bandits, what a humiliating way to go. Can you really bear that?”
