The sun had set, and the forest had darkened.

Gary Norris led a squad that clings to the gang, clad in camouflage suits made of tattered cloth dyed grass green, with green plant juice on their faces, and if crouched somewhere, they almost blend in with the environment.

At intervals, they leave markers. When night fell, Gary Norris and the others stopped, not daring to get too close, because the bandits had entered a valley, and they had arranged a sentry, and it was not clear whether there was a secret sentry.

There was a burst of cheers in the valley, and the bandits were delighted with the harvest, and then they had a bonfire dinner, and they rejoiced with the wine they had stolen.

Taking advantage of the fall of night and the slack of the bandits, Gary sent a short, quick-witted fellow close to the valley to spy on the information.

At the same time, three other squads of 10 men moved to other directions in the valley to find out the terrain where the bandits were located and possible escape routes.

Gary sent someone to inform Sean and made sure that the gang and the bandit leader Benjamin Don himself were in the lair, as the bandits chanted "Long live Don".

Sean immediately made a decision, ordering Gary and the others to leave only one team to keep an eye on the bandits' lair, and the others immediately withdrew to avoid being exposed, and on the other hand, he ordered Quinn to ride a horse overnight to inform Lieutenant Colonel Horns and ask him to bring a large group of men and horses to come over and join the siege.

The next morning, Lieutenant Colonel Horns' 200 men arrived one after another, and they also brought two 144 mm mortars.

This is a large-caliber cannon with a very short barrel, the barrel is only 400 mm long, at first glance it looks like a large bucket (refer to the conscienceless cannon in the Liberation War), the structure is simple, mounted on a hard wooden plank, but it is easy to get up on the battlefield, and even because it weighs only 75 kilograms, four strong soldiers can be lifted and moved as needed. Maneuvering over long distances, including when ammunition is placed on a cart drawn by a horse, can be easily maneuvered.

Horns came in makeup, they dressed up as a caravan, divided into five people, and by the time everyone met Shaun, it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day.

"Well done, Sean. "Horns is a punch in the chest. Sean rubbed his chest and complained:

"Sir, I'm going to be hammered apart by you. ”

"I think you've been getting a little fatter lately, not so weak. Are the bandits still in their lair?" asked Lieutenant Colonel Hoths.

"They partyed all night and showed no signs of leaving. Judging from the past practice, after making a sale, they will lie dormant for a while. I have ordered Gary and the others to leave them alone if one or two of the bandits leave the lair. Sean said.

In the tent, Sean displays a simple map, explaining:

"The gang's lair is very secretive, and if you don't follow the bandits, it's hard to spot, and it's easy to defend and difficult to attack. They set up three layers of sentry posts, and even if outsiders happened to approach, they would be spotted by their sentry.

It was a valley, and the mouth of the valley was fortified with stone and wood, which was not too strong, and they could not build too strong fortifications in the deep forest. There are garrisons on the ridges all around, but if we can suddenly capture these commanding heights, we will be half the battle. ”

"What about the exit, there should be an exit on the other side of the valley. Horns asked.

"Yes, but the exit is a cliff that is not too high, and below the cliff is a lake, and our men have observed several small boats there, which they seem to have used to escape. It's a bit of a trick to do, and even if we break it head-on, the bandits might be able to escape from here. Sean said.

For example, before dawn, when the bandits were at their most relaxed, we sent people to climb up quietly, and even if they were discovered, we at least rowed the boat away so that the bandits could not escape. Horns said.

"That's what I thought, too. ”

As soon as the two of them combined, they were worried that the night would be long and the dream would be diverted, so they decided to set off immediately and move to a secret place ten kilometers away from the lair, waiting for the arrival of the night while recuperating.

At two o'clock in the morning, the two men split up, with Horns commanding the team to take charge of the front and three ridges, while Sean led a few sharpshooters and Gary's team of 10 to the lake behind the lair.

Sean first ordered four simple rafts to be made, clinging to the edge of the lake and approaching the cliff.

When he got closer, Sean found that the bandits under the cliff had actually arranged for someone to be stationed, and that person was napping.

Andrew Barrett quietly approached, suddenly jumped up, covered the man's mouth from behind, and slashed the man's throat with a single sword.

Seeing Andrew Barrett succeed, Sean and the others quickly docked and hid the body and raft. The bottom of the cliff has been eroded by the current and sunken in, so it is not easy to see what is going on below when you look down from above.

It was all done in less than two minutes, and Sean and the others were leaning against the stone wall gasping for breath, feeling each other's heartbeats.

After calming down and looking at the sky, Sean motioned for Drew to be the first to climb up the rope ladder and the second himself.

Above was a small wooden house, an oil lamp had been burned out, and two fellows were sleeping on their table, with two empty wine bottles poured down on the table, and it seemed that they had not done their duty.

The dagger slashed through his throat, and the smell of blood didn't stop Sean. The memory of the predecessor is still there, perhaps as a professional shareholder in the previous life, speculation and risk-taking are part of the genes.

Throwing a pebble down, Gary and the others got the signal and climbed up one by one.

It seems to be going very well.

At this point, Sean was faced with a choice, if there was a radio, he could call Horns outside the mountain and ask him to attack immediately. Now he would either wait for the gunfire to ring out from outside the hill as planned, or take the initiative himself, but that would be much riskier - he would likely face an attack from an enemy with superiority before Horns took the high ground.

However, the plan did not change quickly, and then something happened.

One dog barked suddenly, followed by several dogs at the same time. Thousands of calculations, Sean forgot about this.

The nest immediately stirred. Immediately, Sean fired, knocking over a bandit who ran out with his pants in his hand.

The bandits in the huts all over the place woke up, and some people were scurrying around.

"Five shoot, five reload, and five shoot freely!" Sean yelled.

The bandits who reacted attacked the hiding place of Sean and others, and there was a lot of gunfire for a while. That's when you see what it means to be well-trained.

The 5 people, including Sean, had good marksmanship and used the best rifled guns, and the 5 of them only put their guns away, and the other 5 people loaded ammunition for them. The other 5 men found cover and fired freely.

For a while, Sean and the others were so crushed that the bandits couldn't move.

At this time, there was also a lot of gunfire outside the mountain, and Horns and others also began to attack, he used 2 mortar cannons to collapse the defense neatly, divided 2 small forces, and attacked high on both sides along the ridge.

Then, the mortar cannon was lifted to a high place, condescendingly, and bombarded into the valley.

Knock!

The bandits had never seen what it was like to be shelled, and this kind of ballistic and curved artillery was extremely effective against bandits hiding behind wooden houses and stones.

Shotguns exploded in the crowd, and people were flipped on their backs everywhere. The bandits were stunned.

By this time it was already dawn. Benjamin Tang and his remaining men gave up frontal resistance and rushed in Sean's direction with all their might.

Sean and the others immediately felt a lot of pressure.

Galli braved the buckshot from the bandits, lit a grenade, and threw it.

In this era, a type of army called "grenadiers" was used, all of them were tall and strong soldiers, specially used to throw explosives, and now with the development of guns and the widespread use of linear horizontal team tactics, grenade tactics are not much valued, but the term "grenadiers" has been retained, such as "grenadier battalions" and "grenadier regiments", usually such troops are elite troops.

The grenade thrown by Gary did not do much damage, but the scattered explosive fragments succeeded in making the bandits retreat.

If the bandits had been braver, they would have had to retreat.

Sean caught a glimpse of the tall figure at the back of the crowd, Benjamin Don, not much different from the portrait, 300 paces away, about 225 meters. Usually it is difficult to be shot at this distance. Even if an ordinary smoothbore gun raises the muzzle, it often does not cause much damage when it hits.

In the era of queuing to shoot, the side that shoots first often does not cause too much damage to the opponent because the distance is too far and the hit rate is too low, but the brave side dares to take advantage of the opportunity for the opponent to reload, pan forward and get closer to shoot, and collapse due to the large increase in the hit rate and the opponent's casualties are too large.

As the contemporaries commented on the cavalry charging face-to-face, forty-nine times out of fifty times one of them would turn around and flee.

But Sean had the latest rifled gun in his hand, and he took a deep breath and decisively pulled the trigger.

Benjamin Don's mouth was wide open, his eyes wide, and buckshot shot through his mouth and then out of the back of his head, his mouth grunting and falling to the ground.

"Don is dead!" the bandits cried out in horror.

At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Horns' men, having already solved the remnants of the ridge, rushed down.

Seeing that there was no way to escape, the bandits were arrested.

However, just when Sean thought that the overall situation was decided, an extremely dangerous intuition made Sean's hair stand on end and his heart pounded.

Instinctively, he threw himself down to the left front, then twisted and pulled out the preloaded pistol tied to his right thigh, and shot the figure that rushed at him.

It turned out to be a bandit squatting on the ground and pretending to surrender. The man was short, pale, with crimson eyes and two protruding fangs at the corners of his mouth.

Monster.

The monster screamed, its body kept changing, and it fled towards the lake at great speed, and then jumped into the water.

He was extremely fast, and he didn't give Sean and the others time to round up, and Sean wasn't sure if he had hit the other party.

Horns walked over and whispered, "This may be the legendary Bloodthirsty, but I didn't expect Benjamin Don to have something to do with this kind of monster." ”

"Sir, how much do you know about this kind of thing?" asked Sean.

Horns crouched down, pointed to a pool of blood on the ground, and shrugged:

"I don't know more than you do. Sean, as you can see, they're not invulnerable. The musket was a great invention that ruined the age of knighthood that the poet sang about, and in the same way that the mighty xenomorphs still couldn't decide a war. ”