After a while, heard the sound behind, looked back to see they have come up, with a number of iron plate.
Wu Wa and Cui Bin came forward together to help us replace the iron plate and replenish the bullets.
"How many people are there in the cave? "Cui Bin gasped.
"I don't know, maybe dozens."
Cui Bin nodded: "We are almost up. Let's attack together and take back the cave first."
I waved my hand. "The best thing is to keep the people in the cave under control, and then threaten the men above to try to get them out of Waterfall Hill. That will give us enough time to prepare for the retreat."
"That's all right." Cui Bin nodded: "Then we two groups, line up in formation, together toward the cave close."
"There are people coming down from the mountain." I don't know who shouted, but then he fired a shot.
"Go and take the cave now, before they get their supplies." "I ordered.
Once in formation, we squirmed toward the cave like a giant centipede. Several people, including Zhang yutong, were hit by rocks.
At the mouth of the cave, we quickly divided into two groups, one to seal the stone doors leading to the passage above, the other to form iron shields. I've got the cave completely under control.
Peering through the iron, I saw two bright fires in the cave, and there must have been fifty or sixty men there.
He cleared his throat and shouted, "Listen to the people inside, hand over all your weapons, and stay in the cave, or we will kill all of you."
"Pop." A couple of rocks hit me, and the piece of iron hit me in the face.
"Teach them a lesson." I raised my gun and beckoned to the others.
After a few shots, we quickly ducked back behind the plates, reloaded and continued to shoot inside. After three or four rounds of this, a dozen screams came from within.
"No more killing, we surrender." "Shouted a man inside.
"Sure enough." Cui Bin secretly happy to stand up.
I grabbed him: "Wait a minute, in case there is a trick."
Cui Bin suddenly nodded his head, which thought I pulled him, but another aborigine stood up. Shot dead by a flying bow and arrow.
"Maru, what's wrong with you?
I don't know why he's in such a hurry before I get up and say yes.
His death, let the wa they were very angry, have to rise up and shoot. The situation suddenly got out of hand. Cui Bin and I had to quickly get up and shoot the aborigines inside.
A few arrows whizzed by and hit one of our men. But half a dozen of the natives in the cave died. They had no choice but to flee deep into the cave.
The second man, who was shot by the bow and arrow, is not yet dead. I hurried over. I saw him lying on the ground, his face blue, his hands clutched, like a pair of talons. The mouth is crooked.
I looked at the sad Uwa: "Is there any way to save him?"
Wu Wa shook her head, "No, I can only..."
Before he finished speaking, he began to turn red all over, as if his skin were about to burst, and he tilted his head and died.
"Captain, we can't trust the people of the big tribes. Let's kill them all." "Shouted an angry aborigine.
The reason why the cave people retreat to the depths of the cave is that they have no power to fight back. All they can do is to attack with stones. It won't do us much harm.
I closed the eyes of the dead aboriginals and soothingly said, "It is easy for us to kill all the people in the cave, but it is impossible to kill all the people in Waterfall Mountain. We have to use the people in the cave, get the people above the sinkhole to make concessions to us. When we are ready to retreat, I will allow you to kill all the people in the cave to avenge the deaths of the others."
My offer was accepted with tears in their eyes.
We quickly entered the cave mouth, complete control of the situation, I shouted inside: "want to live on one by one out, do not want to live on the inside, waiting for us to go in to kill all of you."
It took about 10 seconds for someone inside to respond: "Why should we trust you?"
"What other choice do you have?" I said, "You've seen what our weapons are. The men up there can't rescue you. Surrender is your only chance of survival. I'll give you some time to think it over."
Within a minute, someone replied, they came out and told us not to kill them.
I waved my hand as they went into the firelight with their hands raised, and our men moved swiftly forward.
"Stay down, all of you, with your heads down." Cui Bin shouted.
A total of more than 40 aboriginal people came out, one by one squatting under the wall of the cave. After encircling them, I asked Lucie and Zhang Yutong to take two sticks of burning wood and follow me into the depths of the cave to search for fish.
In the hollow of the cave, where the monster had been sleeping, half a dozen natives were found. After driving them out, we saw a pile of bows and arrows, rope ladders and ropes nearby.
We took the ropes to them all and tied them one by one. Aborigines who tried to resist were shot dead on the spot.
I roped all the natives together, and I asked Wu Wa to take four women and bring them back to the bottom of the sinkhole. Lucie, with three men, carried their bows and ladders to the mouth of the cave and dropped them from the edge of the passage into the bottom of the pit.
I took Zhang Yutong into the cave above, found that there are several large bundles of bows and arrows piled inside, shoulders are all made of copper, do not see a little abnormal.
"Brother Lu Fei, if we collect these copper arrowheads, we can make something useful." Zhang Yutong said happily.
I took out an arrow and examined it carefully. There were arrows on each tail wing. The shaft was straight and even, and the shoulders were sharpened.
Putting them back, I said, "We have these bows and arrows. We have only a limited number of bullets. Maybe we can use them in the future."
"Is that to be taken back? Zhang Yutong asked.
I nodded and led her back to the cliff path, switching places with the men guarding the stone gate to carry the bows and arrows, while the two of us guarded the men above.
All the time there were a number of people above the cliff path, and every now and then a bow and arrow shot, but they did not dare to move further.
When the others came back, we cleared the cave of the bodies, three men in groups, three waves, take turns to hold the stone door.
We take the cave, we can move in and out. It would have been useless for the tribes to throw firewood and burn us to death or smoke us to death.
It was not until noon of the next day that we regained all our strength.
The rest returned to work at the bottom of the sinkhole.
When I returned to the bottom of the sinkhole, I didn't see any of the captured natives, so I ran to ask Cui Bin about them.
Cui Bin pointed to the iron gate of the house: "Uncle Cheng asked them to go inside to avoid their escape. They say we can use them all as drudgery when we go to the other world."
"No, then they would know what we have." The nine cannibal women have betrayed us once before, and I will not tolerate that again.
"What are you going to do with them? The people above are still throwing firewood, as if they don't care about the dozens." Cui Bin said.
I nodded. "You go ahead and leave it to me."
After I said goodbye, I took two men into the house. Cheng locked up the dozens of aborigines in a large house outside the warehouse, guarded by two men.
I looked at them carefully and took them out together. Out in the open, I shouted, "Who's in charge?"
They all looked down and said nothing. Unlike the people of the smaller tribes, the people of the larger tribes did not have any tattoos on their faces and their clothes were neat, indicating that they were a relatively advanced group.
Just as I was about to ask again, a twenty-something replied, "It's me."
I went up to him and looked at him. He looked very young, not like an official in any way.