At the same time, a furious roar came from inside the house.
"shooting!"
When Wei Yulan tackled Yaji to the ground, his underlings panicked and rushed to rescue their boss.
At that moment, they forgot that there were several people inside the house watching them intently.
Hu Haidong, Jiao Bai, and the others had been keeping a close eye on the situation outside, so how could they let such a good opportunity slip by?
While the thugs were gathered together and temporarily ignored the situation inside the house, Hu Haidong gave the order to fire.
Five police officers suddenly appeared at the door, and along with the charred white stones, a burst of gunfire instantly wiped out a large number of the group.
Fifteen thugs were all knocked down in the blink of an eye, leaving only five or six standing.
It was too late to turn around and fight back.
These thugs were ultimately just street thugs who rarely used guns.
Suddenly, eight or nine of their companions were swept down, and their mental defenses immediately collapsed. No longer caring about Yaji on the ground, they covered their heads and ran outside.
No one expected that the situation would reverse so suddenly, all because of a crazy action by Wei Yulan.
"stop."
Hu Haidong roared and raised his hand to shoot at the fleeing thugs.
At the same time, a cacophony of voices could be heard outside.
"stop."
"Get down!"
"Don't move."
As the sound of bullets being chambered echoed, many people outside issued warnings.
Then a large group of police officers in uniform appeared at the gate and blocked it.
The reinforcements Wei Changqing had called for finally arrived at the last minute.
With their escape routes blocked by the police from both sides, the five or six surviving thugs lost all will to fight. They dropped their guns, squatted down on the ground with their hands covering their heads, and, with practiced ease, took off their guns.
Hu Haidong led several police officers forward, pointing guns at their heads to prevent them from resisting.
The police officers at the gate rushed in, pulled out handcuffs, and quickly handcuffed the six people behind their backs.
However, just as everyone was focused on dealing with the six thugs who were trying to escape, Yaji, who had been pinned to the ground, finally broke free from under Wei Yulan.
Unexpectedly, Wei Yulan's body had gone limp and his arms had lost their strength, but his teeth were still firmly biting down on a piece of Yaji's face, refusing to let go until his death.
Yaji was ruthless; with a sudden twist of his neck, a chunk of flesh was bitten off his face, but he didn't even glance at it. He sprang to the wall, and by the time Hu Haidong and the others reacted, they had raised their guns and were firing at him.
"Bang bang bang!..." A burst of gunfire rang out, sending sparks flying and debris flying from the stone wall.
But Yaji nimbly swayed a few times, and was already on the top of the wall. With a leap, he disappeared from sight. So many shots, yet none had wounded him.
"Hold."
Hu Haidong couldn't help but swear.
They had waited so long and hard for this opportunity, but they had overlooked the existence of this bandit leader.
In the mere seconds it took to apprehend the six thugs, he found an opening and escaped right under the noses of dozens of police officers.
"Quick, chase after him! We can't let him get away!"
Without even saying goodbye to the police officers who came to meet him, Hu Haidong led a few of his men and ran out the door.
They didn't have Yaji's skills to climb that three-meter-high wall in an instant.
Just then, a figure shot out from the window of the main room, like a nimble lynx, and appeared on the wall in the blink of an eye.
It was Jiao Bai. He saw Yaji escape and, without saying a word, broke through the window and chased after Yaji in the direction he had fled.
"Leave it to me."
He uttered a sentence from afar and then disappeared without a trace.
Hu Haidong and several other police officers were worried and wanted to follow along.
But he was stopped by Wei Changqing, who rushed back as soon as he stepped out.
"Comrade Hu, is everything alright at home? Is everything alright?"
As Wei Changqing was leaving, he encountered Yaji leading a dozen or so people heading towards the village.
Wei Changqing knew how many people there were who could resist this group, and knew that they couldn't stop them.
So he rushed to the town as fast as he could.
However, it takes ordinary people two or three hours to walk just to get out of the mountains. Even if Wei Changqing had good legs, it still took him more than two hours to get to the highway outside the mountains.
He was lucky on the way and managed to flag down a ride to town.
It was almost three hours later when he handed Hu Haidong's identification and the note to the town's police officers.
After listening to his report and carefully verifying Hu Haidong's documents, the town's police officers immediately organized all their forces. However, a small town police station could only have a few combat-ready officers, so they called the county to request reinforcements.
After more than a dozen police cars arrived at the entrance to the mountain, they had to walk into the mountains. Adding the time lost in the town, it took the police more than seven hours to finally reach the scene.
This is already the fastest possible speed achieved through the efforts of all parties.
Unlike now, in those days, helicopters could be easily summoned to places where cars couldn't reach.
The only way now is to rely on our own two legs.
By the time the main force arrived, the battle was basically over, with only a few small fry managing to escape being stopped.
Actually, the one who worked the hardest this time was Wei Changqing. He traveled dozens of miles of mountain road back and forth, and he hardly had any time to rest. He was already in his fifties and his body had reached its limit.
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