Chapter 1 The Situation on the Border

The situation on the Dragon City border was, in reality, quite abnormal and morbid, and this was related to the history of the New Era.

Before the New Era, national borders were very clear and well-defined. The general rule was that the border marker on the inner side was the territory of one's own country, while the outer side was the territory of another.

But the New Era was different. Because of the previous forty-odd years of minor ice age, a large number of uninhabited areas were created, forming no-man's-lands and areas awaiting planning, so the demarcation of the border became very blurred. Although after the 42nd year, the major districts began to restore their national territories, there were many differences in the definition of the border.

Independent armed forces, newly established national governments, warlords large and small, and district governments with relatively strong fists, all had their own ideas, and no one would嫌地盘大 (xián dì pán dà – dislike having a larger territory), which is why wars were taking place in many places outside the nine major districts.

The rich bully the poor, the strong beat the weak; it had always been so.

The current situation in Dragon City was like this. In fact, according to normal rules, the land outside the border bridge should be the territory of Sinaloa.

But currently, Sinaloa was in a state of warlord infighting. There were as many as a dozen well-known governments, both large and small. So, District One found a reason, claiming that the infighting in the Sinaloa region would pose a threat to the military security of Dragon City. Therefore, the border troops deployed around Little Tian Mountains were actually stationed outside the border. The purpose was to prevent in advance, so that the civil war in Sinaloa would not affect Dragon City. But the actual nature of this matter was border encroachment.

However, given the current situation in the Sinaloa region, their official army was now only focused on fighting internal wars and conquering territory. As for District One sending some border troops over, that was a trivial matter. To put it bluntly, if the official army really controlled the Sinaloa region in the future, they might even need to build a good relationship with District One to get the support of the major government. Even if they ceded some land at that time, it wouldn't affect anything.

Survive first, then talk about other things.

…

Due to the complex situation on the Dragon City border, Su Tianyu and the others were in a difficult situation at the moment. If they wanted to be completely safe, they had to pass through the border bridge and enter Dragon City territory. But the problem now was that outside patrol post 04, there were unknown numbers of Ma Gang (码帮 - criminal gang) members blocking the road. Xu Hu's younger brother had died, how could they easily let you go back?!

At around 6:30 in the morning, the convoy had already driven five or six kilometers, definitely beyond the jurisdiction of patrol post 04.

In the car, Su Tianyu lowered his head and sent text messages, not saying much.

"Damn, what are you doing?" Kong ZhengHui glanced at Yu Mingyuan in the passenger seat and said to Su Tianyu in a low voice, "I realized, how can you be so calm? If the garrison doesn't escort us, do you think the road ahead will be easy?"

Su Tianyu put away his phone and frowned, "What else can we do? Should we not go back and join the army in Sinaloa?"

"Damn, say something useful!" Kong ZhengHui replied anxiously, "We definitely can't get through."

"President Yu is also in the car, don't panic."

"The Ma Gang may not dare to touch Yu Mingyuan, but they definitely dare to chop us." Kong ZhengHui slowly shook his head, "I don't think he's of much use in the car."

"Then let's fight."

"There are hundreds of people on the other side, fight what! Can one of you fight dozens of them?" Kong ZhengHui was speechless.

Su Tianyu turned to look at Lao Hei in the back seat, "If we fight later, take out Xu Hu first."

Lao Hei's forehead was sweating, and he said very cowardly, "Actually, I shouldn't have come along, this matter has little to do with me, otherwise... I'll just get out of the car up ahead."

"Say that again?" Su Tianyu looked at him coldly.

"Okay, okay, if we really fight, we'll take out the leader on the other side first." Lao Hei gritted his teeth and replied.

…

Near the border bridge.

A young man walked to the side of the leading off-road vehicle and said in a low voice, "The convoy is coming, heading towards the border bridge."

"How many cars?" Xu Hu asked.

"Seven."

Hearing this, Xu Hu got out of the car and waved his hand, shouting, "Notify the brothers on the periphery, clear the road and let them in. Everyone else, cross the border bridge, now!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the heads in the cars all got out and shouted into their walkie-talkies.

"The boss has spoken, go outside the line."

"Hurry up, everyone in the back get out too!"

"Damn, there are only seven cars on the other side, we can kick them all to pieces with one foot each."

"…!"

The shouts rang out incessantly. The lackeys on both sides of the road all got into their cars with weapons, and dozens of cars started at the same time, slowly rushing over the border bridge.

Xu Hu stood in the middle of the crowd, looking coldly at the road not far away.

At the same time, inside the border line, the naval forces, customs anti-smuggling department, and coast guard all got out of their cars, preparing to observe the movements of the garrison troops.

"Are the garrison troops coming to pick them up?"

"Didn't see them!"

"Damn, are they really not going to care about these lackeys?"

"…!"

Several leading officers were talking in low voices.

…

On the road east of the border bridge, outside Qika Mountain, seven cars slowly drove out.

Yu Mingyuan sat in the car and said to his officer friend, "Ask, where are the garrison troops who are picking us up?"

As soon as his friend heard this and took out his phone, Kong ZhengHui, who had been observing the surroundings, suddenly saw several off-road vehicles following the convoy about three or four hundred meters behind.

"Damn, here they come!" Kong ZhengHui shouted as a reminder.

At this moment, Su Tianyu looked up ahead and also saw the dense crowd and convoy outside the border bridge.

The road outside the border bridge was about thirty meters wide, but it was now completely blocked by cars. On the bank of the Long River, the Ma Gang lackeys were in groups. As far as the eye could see, there were at least several hundred people.

Even the bold Su Tianyu and Lao Hei felt a chill run down their spines when they saw this scene.

There were too many people!

"Hurry up and call!" Yu Mingyuan urged his friend.

Next to him, the driver, seeing so many of the other side's lackeys, his heart was pounding, and he asked Yu Mingyuan in a trembling voice, "S...should we stop?"

"If you stop, will they not come over?" Yu Mingyuan waved his hand, "It's useless! Drive over!"

"Okay." The driver nodded.

"Mingyuan, the person picking us up said that the troops are already on the other side of the bridge." After making the call, his friend looked up and replied.

Yu Mingyuan gritted his teeth, "Get out of the car with me later, everyone else stay in the car and don't move."

"Okay." His friend nodded.

The seven cars continued to drive forward, facing the hundreds of people outside the border bridge.

Two minutes later, the lead car stopped about two hundred meters away from the crowd. Then, Yu Mingyuan and his officer friend got out of the car together.

In the crowd opposite, Xu Hu directly pulled out his gun and stepped forward.

Behind him, all the Ma Gang members who were present followed Xu Hu, pressing forward with weapons in their hands.

Yu Mingyuan came from a military and political family, and had lived a life of luxury since he was a child. He was used to dealing with the elite circles. Where had he ever seen such a scene?

It would be a lie to say that he wasn't nervous, but Yu Mingyuan still stood in front of the convoy, gritting his teeth, and shouted, "Xu Hu, don't do this! Either you kill me today, or I'm definitely taking the convoy through!"

Xu Hu led a dark mass of lackeys, walked up to Yu Mingyuan, and said concisely, "I'll give you three seconds, you get out of the way, just three seconds!"

"I can't get out of the way!" Yu Mingyuan ignored the other party's lackeys and said in a low voice to Xu Hu, "If you want to do it, then do me too."

Inside the car, Su Tianyu swallowed and took out his phone again.

"Xu Hu, the people in the cars behind are the ones the Garrison Command wants, and I have to take them back to report. If you touch them today, it's considered an attack on military vehicles." The officer friend was also nervous at the moment, he was exaggerating as much as he could.

Xu Hu gritted his teeth, turned to look at Yu Mingyuan's friend, and said word by word, "You think this is the same as last time? This isn't Tianhong Port, this is outside the district! I'm not giving you face today, and you have to endure it!"

"Try touching me?!" The officer pointed at the other party and shouted, directly pulling out the gun at his waist.

Xu Hu stared at the other party and suddenly shouted, "Get him, I'll take responsibility if anything happens!"

As soon as he shouted, there was a brief silence around him.

"You're still acting tough outside the district? How many bullets do you have!" A strong man standing behind Xu Hu shouted, stretching his neck.

"Whoosh!"

Twenty or thirty people rushed out instantly.

"Bang!"

The officer didn't hesitate and fired a shot at the crowd, but unfortunately, there were too many people. After one person was knocked down, the others rushed up and grabbed his arm instantly.

Xu Hu looked at Yu Mingyuan and raised his arm, smashing it down with the butt of his gun, "You still dare to block me, if it wasn't for the orders from above, I would have taken care of you today!"

Yu Mingyuan was hit by the gun butt and staggered backwards.

"Pa!"

Xu Hu grabbed Yu Mingyuan's collar and waved his hand, shouting, "Get them!"

"Get them!!"

The Ma Gang shouted, and hundreds of people rushed towards the seven cars with weapons in their hands.

"It's over."

Kong ZhengHui roared with red eyes, took a knife and rushed down, shouting, "Dad, get out of the car!"

At the same time, Lao Hei and Su Tianyu jumped out of the car, each with a gun, and opened fire on the crowd. But the rate of fire and ammunition capacity of handguns really couldn't suppress hundreds of people at all.

Even if the people rushing over in front saw the guns and wanted to dodge, the people behind hadn't had time to react, and they had already rushed to the seven-car convoy. They didn't even know who was firing the guns, because some people on the Ma Gang side also had guns.

The crowd surged in like a tide, waving their weapons and attacking Su Tianyu and Lao Hei.

"Puchi!"

The people in the car definitely wouldn't stay inside and wait to die. Su Tianbei held a knife in his right hand, jumped out of the car and slashed two people, then shouted, "Dad, you go first!"

"No need to run, we can't run away, stay by the car, whoever comes up, we'll fight them." Su Tianyu shouted back, "I have people on my side…"

The scene was noisy, Su Tianbei and the others couldn't hear what Liu Zi was shouting, they could only try their best to protect themselves by waving their weapons.

Like a wave, the crowd surged to the side of the seven-car convoy and instantly smashed the formation of Su Tianbei, Su Tianyu and the others. They were separated by their own vehicles and couldn't support each other.

The melee broke out, and everyone was completely red-eyed. They leaned against the vehicles, waving their weapons at anyone they saw, but the effect was minimal. Because the mountain road was too open, more and more Ma Gang members gathered.

"Tat-tat-tat…!"

Just as Kong ZhengHui was about to be knocked down, the sound of hooves suddenly rang out on the hillside of Qika Mountain.

Eight war horses descended from the hillside, charging towards the foot of the mountain like thunder.

Although the Sinaloa region had many mountains, rugged roads, and vehicles were difficult to travel, in modern society, there were definitely very few people riding horses.

On horseback, eight people with eight guns, roared as they came!