Chapter 415, Episode 0449: How could he possibly let go?
The mission was not under the command of the military. Wang Datou only received the final pursuit mission. The mission was issued hastily in an emergency, so after receiving the mission, Wang Datou quickly selected his men and immediately went to the mission location.

Then came a pursuit that lasted over sixty days, from Yang Province near Beijing to Shang Province on the southern border, and then into the mountains of Shang Province. Finally, less than fifty kilometers from the no-man's-land, the mission was completed at a terrible cost.

This is also why Wang Datou suspected someone was leaking information during the pursuit but kept quiet. His mission was temporary, and the soldiers he personally selected knew nothing before setting off. It's a stretch to say they had a problem.

However, we cannot rule out the possibility that this is indeed the case.

Another reason why Wang Datou didn't doubt his own people was that in the early stages of the pursuit, they had been in contact with the former deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, who was in charge of the case. He had taken on the task in a hurry and didn't know much about it. The deputy director also said that he had people around the group who could report their location in a timely manner. So, he maintained close contact with the former deputy director along the way.

Later, after suspecting that someone was involved in a problem, although it was wrong, he reduced his contact with the former deputy director just in case. As a result, that group of people obviously didn't know much about their situation anymore, and they were surrounded by them several times.

Unfortunately, that group was very familiar with the mountains in the province, while they were outsiders. Moreover, that group had big weapons, including Gatling guns and rocket launchers. Although they surrounded them several times, the other side managed to break through each time, while their own side suffered continuous casualties.

The former deputy director hadn't told them that the other side had big weapons, so they suffered a huge loss during their first encirclement, with more than twenty men falling down.

It's already quite obvious. Putting aside our side for now, the former deputy director's side definitely had problems. At least in terms of information, the other side didn't tell them the important parts and misled them with the wrong information. He really thought that group only had a few pistols and not many bullets, resulting in the unnecessary sacrifice of many soldiers.

He has never denied that he made mistakes in commanding this mission, so he still feels guilty and remorseful, and this guilt will continue to torment him in the future.

But he also wouldn't forgive the former deputy director who gave him the wrong information.

But by the time he returned after completing his mission to demand an explanation, the former deputy director had already committed suicide by swallowing a bullet.

How could Wang Datou accept such an outcome?

At that time, he was seriously injured and did not want to stay in the hospital for a moment. He could only sit in a wheelchair, but he still insisted on having someone push him to the leader every day to demand an explanation.

The former deputy director's suicide only shows one thing: there were other people behind him.

Three soldiers in a hundred groups cannot die without knowing why.

Falling on the battlefield was their choice, their honor.

But if the sacrifice was not inevitable but was due to their own people's schemes, he felt sorry for them; as the one who led them out, if he couldn't get justice for them, he didn't deserve to be a human being!
The leader was so annoyed by him that he intentionally revealed something to him: the last person the former deputy director saw before he committed suicide was Cui Er from the Cui family.

He was also warned that since this involved the Cui family, if he dared to act recklessly without evidence, he would be executed.

At that time, Wang Datou didn't know anything about the Cui family or anything like that, but he had been specifically warned by his superior, so he knew that things were not simple.

But how could he possibly let go of the lives of more than a hundred comrades-in-arms?

You can't just act recklessly; you need concrete evidence. So he'll investigate quietly.

This investigation was quite shocking. They found nothing about the Cui family, but received a lot of warnings. Later, because he was acting somewhat crazy, they even took leave to follow the head of the Cui family. They were almost discovered by Cui You, which alarmed even the old man, who was so important, that he personally called to warn him.

It was then that Wang Datou realized that the Cui family was truly untouchable for the time being.

More than a hundred comrades-in-arms lost their lives! How could Wang Datou not hate the Cui family?! He wished he could eat their flesh and gnaw on their bones.

The old man slapped Wang Datou on the head. "You shut up! Fifteen or sixteen years have passed, why are you still so short-tempered?"

With bloodshot eyes, is he trying to play a zombie?

Wang Datou, who was almost possessed by a demon, was slapped back to his senses by the old man. Although he was back, he was still somewhat dazed.

It seemed as if the sounds of gunfire and the screams of his comrades could still be heard in his ears.

He stared blankly at the old man, and suddenly large tears rolled down his cheeks.

"Old commander, I'm in pain, I've been in pain for over a decade. I often dream about them, and they ask me why I don't avenge them?"

The old man slapped him through the sinus again, "Stop crying, what kind of talk is this? What are you so upset about? You already put a sack over a decade ago, do you think we don't know that you broke Cui's sixth son's legs?"

Although it was a question, the old man's tone was absolutely certain.

A pair of eyes that could see right through you stared intently at him, like an MRI scanner penetrating the surface and scanning straight into the inside, making Wang Datou feel like he had nowhere to hide.

Fortunately, the old man didn't mean to make things difficult for him. He just chuckled and said, "You were like a madman back then, daring to secretly prepare dangerous items. What were you planning to do?"

“There are always people watching outside the Cui family. Aren’t those people better than you back then? With your meager skills, you would have been discovered as soon as you got near the Cui family.”

The old residence of the Cui family is located in the vicinity of almost all the old residences of established families in the capital. According to the old system, it was the residence of officials of the fourth rank or above in the capital, representing status.

After liberation, the distribution was not done in that way. We couldn't just take away people's houses without reason, since the houses were left by their ancestors. However, because the people who owned the properties in that area were either members of the government or the military, and all of them held some status, that area still symbolized an extraordinary status.

Therefore, very few ordinary people come and go from there.

When Wang Datou planned to sneak in, he had done his research beforehand and, in keeping with the local customs, he dressed himself up to look presentable before going in.

For this, he also spent over fifty yuan on a suit and a ticket.

Then the problem arises: Wang Datou was a native farmer, and after joining the army, no one trained him on how to be a so-called upper-class person. Therefore, even if he wore the dragon robe, he didn't look like an emperor.

Sure enough, as soon as he approached the Cui family, he immediately attracted the attention of the national security personnel who were watching the Cui family, and was treated as a suspicious person.

Thus, Wang Datou, who was following Cui Er, was unknowingly being followed by the National Security officers.

While the National Security Bureau had people following him, they were also investigating his identity.

Wang Datou lacked professional tracking skills and didn't know how to conceal his identity. At the time, he was so angry that he lost his mind and wanted to die together with Cui Er.

The National Security Bureau easily discovered Wang Datou's identity.


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