HLnovel Chapter 425 Taking Down the Gang
Chapter 425 Taking Down the Gang
The Wild Monkey Forest has no old ginseng trails, no sled trails for running up the mountain, only the tracks of hunting dogs passing by quickly.
Li Ju'an and his men followed the hound's tracks, when Lao Jiang, who was ahead, suddenly fired a shot.
boom!
A burst of gunfire erupted, accompanied by intense exchanges of fire. Both sides fired. Chen Xiangqian was so frightened that the hairs on his back stood on end, goosebumps rose, and he shouted, "Oh no! Oh no! Those guys have guns too! They stole the guns from Xiao Jiang and Xiao Cheng!"
He heard no response, turned around, and found that Li Ju'an was nowhere to be seen. He searched everywhere and discovered that Li Ju'an had not followed him. His heart skipped a beat.
Damn it, Li Ju'an was at the very back; what if he got kidnapped by these people too?
Li Ju'an lay on a large blue stone on a high cliff, gun to his face, looking towards the monkey forest through the 3.5x scope of the Mosin-Nagant.
There was a lot of noise in the woods. He could see that the dark figure was Lao Jiang, and Lao Chen was following behind him, firing a shot and pulling the bolt back. Xiao Xu was frantically changing his ammunition.
He held his breath, slowly moving the muzzle of his gun to aim at the position of another group. About eight hundred meters away, the falcon had already swooped down to the group's location. Its first swoop failed, and it began to circle and cry out in the air, indicating the hunter's position.
Li Ju'an narrowed his eyes slightly, aimed at the scope with one eye, and fired a shot at the shoulder of one of the tomb raiders.
boom!
A crisp gunshot rang out. Without looking, he pulled back the bolt, aimed again, and fired a second shot.
boom!
The Mosin-Nagant was a Russian rifle, a bolt-action rifle with a five-round fixed magazine. After firing, he aimed again; the two previous shots hit the same person's right shoulder. The vicious thief's shoulder slumped down, clearly lacking the strength to aim. A burly man stepped up behind him, took the gun from him, and continued the firefight with Lao Jiang and his men.
Li Ju'an fired another shot, bang! The muzzle of his gun exploded, and the violent sound and noise made his arm go numb.
After firing three shots, the gang in the Wild Monkey Forest discovered his location and began firing sneak shots.
Just as he was about to raise his fourth shot, a bullet suddenly flew past a large rock next to him.
The sound of a gust of wind made him immediately crouch down and hide under the bluestone slab. His heart was pounding wildly, and the instinctive feeling of impending death made it almost impossible for him to breathe. He felt a buzzing in his head, his eyes were bloodshot, and a surge of adrenaline made him want to aim his gun at the gang and fire.
He cursed, then heard a falcon circling overhead. He straightened his fur hat and leaned out to aim again. This time, the shot came at him with even greater speed, piercing his fur hat and hitting the large red pine tree behind him.
He was startled. This man was an excellent shot; he was probably a retired combat engineer. Regardless of the gang's marksmanship, he knew that Old Chen's firepower was about to be overwhelmed.
Although Old Chen had many men, that tomb raiding gang had hand grenades.
The grenades used to blow up the graveyard were thrown to kill people. Old Chen and Old Jiang could only turn around and run, afraid of being hit by shrapnel from the grenades.
Old Chen was so angry that he cursed, "Report them! We must report them! We need to get the higher-ups to crack down on them. These guys should be shot!"
Old Jiang had been shot in the arm. He hadn't felt any pain yet. He took off his leg wrappings and tightened the bandage on his arm to stop the bleeding. He planned to go to the clinic to retrieve the bullet after they got down the mountain. He said, "These guys are just desperate criminals. What kind of good people can make a fortune by digging up graves? I'm just worried that Xiao Jiang and Xiao Cheng might run into danger."
The group didn't find the two young hunters; instead, they saw a falcon circling overhead, crying loudly as it hovered around a large tree. Its high-pitched cries startled the tits that had landed on the tree.
Chen Xiangqian didn't dare to confront them head-on, but he did dare to check the situation.
He ran to where the falcon was circling and looked up, only to be dumbfounded by what he saw in the tree. "What the hell is that?"
Two young hunters were hanging upside down from a tree, too weak to utter a sound. Chen Xiangqian shouted, "Brother Li! They're here! They're here!"
He tried to climb the tree, intending to cut the rope with the knife at his waist and rescue the man. But he discovered it was a noose. He tried to throw the knot towards a higher branch, but after looking around and not finding a stable foothold, he managed to remove the noose.
Chen Xiangqian was pacing anxiously. What should he do?
On the other side, Li Ju'an's Mosin-Nagant rifle clashed with the automatic rifle on the opposite side.
He fired a shot, and simultaneously, another loud bang came from the other side of the hill. He ducked for cover, noticing the loud noise on the rocks, and knew that his superiors had engaged him.
Damn! Who is this guy? He's surprisingly accurate, with a very good aim.
If he had shown himself even slightly slower, he might have been instantly killed. This was the first time he had faced off against these people since he started hunting in the mountains. Hunters don't shoot at people, but these vicious thugs who came to the mountains to make money were a different story. They were capable of anything, murder and robbery, as long as it brought them quick riches.
Li Ju'an quickly raised his gun, aimed, and fired. He didn't even have time to look back before crouching down and withdrawing it. Sure enough, the other side fired simultaneously, the sound of gunfire booming. In the intense battle, his heart pounded, his blood boiled in his limbs, rushing and roaring, as if it were rushing to the top of his head.
Old Jiang and Old Chen, also hiding behind cover, shouted, "No good, there are some really good shooters over there. Why don't we just use up their bullets?"
Old Chen said with a mournful face, "Have you forgotten? Tell Xiao Jiang and the others to bring more bullets. All the bullets and ammunition for our entire team are on Xiao Jiang."
This made Jiang Zemin regret his actions and sigh deeply. Originally, they wanted the young men to do more work and get more experience, but they never expected that the young men would be caught and that the bullets would fall into the hands of this group.
Li Ju'an fired another shot.
After a sharp bang, the opposing team cried out. He knew he had hit them. Having landed the first shot, he quickly pulled the bolt, giving the enemy no chance to react, and fired two more shots.
The other man was so flustered that he couldn't even raise his gun and was shot in the upper arm. Another man snatched the gun and aimed it at Li Ju'an.
Li Ju'an instinctively dodged, only to find that the man was a complete idiot. The gun was aimed way out of his sights; the crosshair wasn't even on his target.
He quickly raised his gun to the face again and fired another shot.
The man opposite screamed in agony, clutched his hand, and squatted down, his head covered in cold sweat from the pain.
Seeing that he had succeeded again, Li Ju'an no longer concealed his intentions and slowly fired one shot at a time.
Although they were far apart across the mountain, the encirclement he, Lao Jiang, and Lao Chen formed was very friendly within their firing range. No matter how the group hid behind the trees, they could always reveal an angle.
Boom!
Old Chen shouted, "It's fallen down!"
The hunting dogs, initially held back by the hail of bullets, now that the gunfire had ceased, Tiger led them forward and unleashed a frenzied attack, tearing at the ground. Blood splattered everywhere.