HLnovel Chapter 500: Cannon Fodder in the War
Chapter 500: Cannon Fodder in the War
If you come across a family with people still inside, show up and explain the situation. Let her take the weapons temporarily or hide them yourself, as the Japanese will be searching soon.
Ning Xiaoxiao hid her weapons faster than the Japanese, then teleported to the threshing ground, quietly appeared, and slipped next to the village chief when no one was paying attention, telling him that she had found a way to hide the weapons!
She then asked him if there was any way he could get away with it, denying everything. Would that work? The village chief held considerable influence within the village. He had previously made up his mind to take action against the R people, so he must have been a man of great foresight. Leaving it to him would be far better than handling it herself.
After hearing Ning Xiaoxiao's words, the village chief looked at her in surprise, lowered his head to think for a while, and immediately whispered a few words to his youngest son. After hearing it, the youngest son quickly shuttled back and forth among the villagers, quickly conveying the village chief's meaning to the villagers!
The villagers quickly passed the message to their families, trying to keep a unified story.
Soon, the Japanese soldiers who went to search came back and shook their heads at their superiors!
The Japanese officer was very angry and pointed his gun at the old man, "Tell me, where did you hide the people and the guns? If you don't tell me, I will shoot you."
At this time, the village chief stood up.
"Soldier, I am the village chief. Who are you looking for? What are you looking for? We can help you find it. Uncle Ge is old and can't stand being frightened."
"Village chief? Very good, I have accurate information. Our people disappeared after passing through your village. As long as you hand over the people who are detrimental to the empire to me, I can spare the lives of the villagers. Otherwise, the whole village will be buried with them." The commander looked at him viciously!
"It's unfair, sir! Who is spreading rumors about us? We are just some weak, ignorant, and timid villagers in our village. We will hide away from soldiers when we see them. How could we possibly do anything bad to them?
Besides, your soldiers must have guns and cannons, so how could we possibly defeat them? "Sir, I don't know which bastard is spreading rumors about us, but you must have been deceived!" The village chief exaggeratedly cried out that he was wronged!
"Humph, it disappeared in your village. I tell you, lying to me will do you no good. You, kid, come here!" The officer obviously did not believe what the village chief said, so he pointed at a five or six-year-old child and said!
The child remained unmoved and just hid behind the adults. Another soldier then picked up the child.
"Kid, tell me, where did the soldiers go a few days ago? If you don't tell me, I'll kill your parents."
The kid was so frightened that he burst into tears. Without a word, the soldier put his gun to the kid's head and threatened the people, "My patience is limited. If you don't tell the truth, I will kill you."
"Heidan, damn Heidan! You heartless people, what are you doing targeting us adults? He is just a little kid, what does he know?" The little kid's mother cried and prepared to run over!
The soldier shot Heidan's mother directly, and she fell to the ground. "Wow... Mom, wuwuwu, mom..." Heidan cried even louder, broke free from the soldier's hand and ran to his mother.
Heidan's father wanted to rush over, but was held back by other villagers.
Ning Xiaoxiao was also thinking about what she should do to keep these devils here without exposing herself.
Although there were more than 300 people in the village, the elderly and children accounted for the majority. The remaining 100 or so farmers who had never fired a gun had no chance of winning against these more than 200 well-trained and armed soldiers.
Judging from the situation, the Japanese have accurate information that the group of soldiers were from their village. It would be difficult to settle the matter peacefully. In all likelihood, they will confront them.
Ning Xiaoxiao had always fought alone before, and many things were done in secret. She really had no experience in this kind of open battle with real weapons and a huge disparity between the enemy and herself!
During the few minutes she was thinking, the Japanese soldiers dragged out several little boys from the village. The village chief was anxious. If this continued, the matter would definitely not be concealed.
"Sir, even if you shot us all, we wouldn't know. We still need evidence for everything, right? Why don't you hand over the person who slandered our village so we can confront him.
It's not good for us to be stuck like this all the time. It'll only delay your work, won't it? Since you've come all this way through our village, you must not have had breakfast yet, right? Why don't you rest for a while in the village? I'll have the pig slaughtered before the New Year.
I'll have all the women in the village who are good at cooking stew it and treat you well. I'll go and help you find out the whereabouts of your people. What do you think?
"By the way, how many of you are missing? When did they disappear? Or maybe you can go to the village and investigate to see if I'm lying?" the village chief said flatteringly.
If anything happened to these children, he wouldn't be able to explain to their parents, and his role as village chief would be over. Now he could only delay as much as possible and make arrangements. These weren't just twenty people, they were two hundred, two hundred with real weapons.
If their village had a thousand or eight hundred people, he would have tried to find a way to fight them. But now that there was no chance of winning, he had no intention of doing anything else. Even if it meant losing money and food, he would just send these warm gods away first!
While the village chief was speaking, Ning Xiaoxiao finally remembered how many puppet talisman papers she had bought!
When the village chief saw that the officer was about to object, he spoke first and began to give orders, "You, you, and you, go and slaughter the pigs, pick the biggest ones; you, you, you carry the big pot, you carry the firewood, move quickly, don't you see the soldiers are hungry; you, and you, go to the fields to see if there are any vegetables left, pick some quickly; everyone else, disperse, quickly disperse, don't gather here. Go and get all the wine your grandfather left, let's treat these soldiers today, I will also drink a couple of glasses with you, what do you think, soldier?"
He thought that as long as the entire village wasn't gathered here and dispersed, their chances of survival would increase. It was better than gathering them all here and being shot at. Of course, sending these people away would be the best outcome.
Ning Xiaoxiao's attention was focused on the village chief. She took advantage of the moment when no one was paying attention, immediately became invisible, teleported over, and slapped the puppet talisman on the Japanese officer. The officer was stunned for a moment, and his eyes became dull.
The next things were much simpler. The officer followed the village chief's instructions and the villagers got busy.
The Japanese soldiers were also arranged by their superiors to rest in the threshing ground. The village chief was also very considerate and put the pot on the threshing ground, moved the firewood over, slaughtered the pigs, washed and cut the vegetables!
Ning Xiaoxiao controlled the Japanese soldiers and told them in Japanese to be more careful in order to avoid their suspicion. She also pretended to ask several people about the last time the soldiers entered the village...!
For a moment, the entire threshing ground was bustling with activity and everyone was having fun, with a sense of joy shared by both the military and civilians.
Ning Xiaoxiao had thought about poisoning the food, but she couldn't. A team of more than 200 people disappeared silently in the village, which would definitely attract a large force of the R army, and the entire village would be left barren!
Not only could she not do anything to them, but she also had to let everyone see them leave!
It would be far better to wait until they leave and then take the opportunity to attack them than to do it now.
The village chief spent a lot of money to entertain them. Not only did he provide wine and meat, but he also cooked good food, which made the villagers' hearts bleed.
That day, the village chief said all the good and bad things he could, and put on a smiling face, and led the R country soldiers around the village. In the eyes of the villagers who dared not speak out their anger, he caught more than 20 chickens and killed a sheep. They had lunch in the village. The village chief also promised to give them some food and money as a parting gift before leaving. Only then did the R country soldiers reluctantly leave with the supplies and the ashes of those soldiers!
The village chief finally breathed a sigh of relief, and so did Ning Xiaoxiao, finally having saved the villagers. She had been manipulating the R country commander from behind, dealing with the village chief's flattery and the soldiers' complaints about why they hadn't all been killed, and she was exhausted.
This was her first time using this kind of talisman paper, so she was a little nervous. She hadn't expected it to work so well. If she had known she'd be in this era, she should have bought more of it.
After the main force had gone far away, the village chief took the villagers to count their losses, sent the injured to the doctor for treatment, and arranged for the burial of the dead!
This time, nine boys, seven girls and one child, a total of seventeen people died in the village, including the Leng couple!
Ning Xiaoxiao's family lost her pregnant mother last time, and her farming father this time. She became an orphan and was one of the villagers who suffered the most severe losses! The Leng family also suffered a heavy loss this time. Both parents were killed, and she was shot in both knees and fell into a coma!
The village doctor said that he could not treat such a serious injury. Fortunately, she had an aunt who was married in the town. She was notified by the villagers and came to the village to take Leng Haitang to the town for treatment. Otherwise, she would have been without any relatives.
During the day, Ning Xiaoxiao followed the villagers to bury her father together with her mother, and kowtowed to thank the villagers for their help. After finishing, she returned the guns she had collected to the village chief!
Because she was only twelve years old, the village chief was worried about her living alone and wanted her uncle to take her in, but Ning Xiaoxiao refused. She didn't want to live with her uncle and grandma. Why should she live under someone else's roof when she had her own house?
How comfortable it would be for her to live alone. Moreover, she heard the implication of her grandparents' words, which also suggested that she had a hard life and would bring bad luck to her relatives. Although she was scolded by the village chief as soon as she said this, it also extinguished her expectations for her relatives!
Ning Xiaoxiao told the village chief that she was not afraid and that she could take care of herself. Besides, the fields now belonged to the collective rather than to an individual, so she could support herself!
At night, she closed the door and went into her own space, only to realize that she hadn't eaten much that day, so she finished her dinner first.
After taking another shower, she looked at her smooth, watermelon-shaped head in the mirror and stroked it a few times. Ning Xiaoxiao, who had just come from ancient times, was not used to this hairstyle. But it must be said that it was easy to take care of. She just had to wash her hair and wipe it with a towel.
Ning Xiaoxiao rested in the space for a while. It was the first day she had just arrived, and so many things had happened before she had figured out the situation. She was also very tired. Moreover, today's affairs were not over yet, and she still had to avenge her father's murder.
After resting for two hours, he put on his nightgown in the space, walked out of the window, and teleported away.
Following the footprints of the team of R country soldiers during the day, we soon found the group.
In addition to visiting their own village today, they also went to the neighboring village to loot, burn, and smash things, but at least they didn't massacre the entire village.
Now we are taking a rest in a simple tent set up in the wild!
Ning Xiaoxiao used her mental power to observe their defensive situation, thinking about how to make them all disappear!
After much thought, the only way to successfully kill so many people was to use drugs and then kill them, besides explosives! Ning Xiaoxiao directly chose drugs. She didn't want to use explosives to attract other people's attention.
She did it right away. Fortunately, she had not been idle in her previous life and had made a large amount of drugs in the space!
She sprinkled the powder down and waited quietly for the medicine to take effect. She then threw all the people's belongings into the space and used her mental power to wipe out all traces at the scene.
Ning Xiaoxiao also returned to the space and first looted all the supplies on them before starting to cut their necks with a knife.
After she had scratched everyone, her arms were so sore. After doing all this, Ning Xiaoxiao teleported directly to an undeveloped primeval forest abroad and threw all the corpses out to feed the wild boars!
It was almost dawn when she returned home!
Ning Xiaoxiao went straight into the space to rest. The bloodstains from the previous slaughter had already been cleaned up by the robots.
When I woke up again, it was already bright outside.
Ning Xiaoxiao washed up and went to the kitchen to cook some porridge!
She didn't go to work today. The village chief told her to take a good rest for two days last night. With such a big thing happening at home, the villagers are quite understanding!
Ning Xiaoxiao took this opportunity to clean the house and clear out all the belongings.