The stockade on the side of the iron mine was prepared for defense, and the only way up the mountain was used to arrange the last line of defense.

Because the Qi army was condescending and occupied an extremely favorable geographical environment, Zhou Bo's attack was greatly restricted. What's more, Zhou Bo thought that this battle was nine out of ten at first, so he deliberately wanted to train his recruits' combat skills, so he let the recruits rush to the front line, and most of Yue Yun's headquarters were left at the foot of the mountain as reserves.

The recruits have no combat experience and are completely at a loss in the face of such a dilemma.

Zhou Bo decisively ordered a retreat, then regrouped the elite men and horses of the Yue family's army and launched another attack.

After all, there are more than 7,000 soldiers and horses under the mountain, and the combined enemies of the two stockades are less than 2,000 people, not to mention that there are many mountain bandits among them.

The stalemate was quickly broken, and the soldiers of the Yuejia army charged bravely, and at the same time, the mountain bandits in the cottage also began to respond.

The battle that follows is all about wrapping up the work.

The officers and soldiers began to sweep the stockade, of course, they all received orders from their superiors to try not to hurt people's lives, but mainly to capture them alive. The entire battle lasted less than an hour and ended in the complete defeat of the Qi army.

Although the battle did not last long, the aftermath of the battle lasted until dawn the next day.

First of all, it is necessary to distinguish the mountain bandits, some of the mountain bandits are internal responses, some of the mountain bandits are on the side of the Qi army, and some of the mountain bandits do not know anything. Secondly, there are still female dependents in the cottage, most of whom are family members of mountain bandits, although they were later occupied by the Qi army. In addition, the army must be captured alive on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is necessary to prevent escape, and on the other hand, it is necessary to gather all the people from the two stockades in one place.

After some statistics, a total of 1,200 mountain bandits, 800 family members of mountain bandits, and 1,400 people were killed by the Qi army. Of course, the 1,200 bandits and more than 800 dependents were willing to surrender to Zhou Bo. In addition to the death and escape of the Qi army, there were more than 900 people left, most of whom were also willing to surrender, and only a few were loyal to their commander and therefore refused to surrender.

Zhou Bo brought all the people who were willing to surrender to the bottom of the mountain, and after they were assembled, they were brought back to the Guanghua Army for resettlement when it was dawn. As for those who refused to surrender, they still stayed in the cottage, and he wanted to come to meet these people in person for a while, if there were talents among these people, he would definitely not let them go, if they were all foolish and loyal people, then it would be a disaster to let them go, and they could only be dealt with humanitarianly.

In addition to recruiting nearly 3,000 people, this anti-bandit operation also luckily obtained a lot of supplies.

These bandits' stockades have been around for more than ten years, and they seem to have developed into a small village. The mountain bandits knew that there were more than 2,000 people on their side, and it would be impossible to feed everyone by robbing alone.

And with their current equipment and suzhì, they can't talk about attacking the city. Heavy troops are stationed in the border areas, and even if there are some places that can be attacked, they are all poor and remote areas, and they are fought in vain.

Therefore, in order to survive, they also farm, breed and work in workshops just like ordinary people.

As a result of this encirclement and suppression, the officers and soldiers also obtained seeds for many crops, as well as cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens, and other animals. Although the number of the latter is not much, it may have eaten a lot after being occupied by the Qi army, but it is a rare material, which is exactly what the Guanghua army needs.

Zhou Bo naturally asked his subordinates to take these materials with them-

After dealing with the loot, Zhou Bo came to a tulou building in the center of the cottage.

The whole village was no longer so messy, and most of the people had been brought down the mountain, which seemed a little empty at this moment. Except for the officers and soldiers who were still searching for the booty, they were still busy, scurrying around. In the open space in front of the tulou, those diehards who were unwilling to surrender were tied up and gathered in this place.

At this time, Yue Yun also led a group of subordinates from the mountain to the side of the cottage. Previously, he had been busy in another cottage for a long time, and he had just taken care of everything.

He came to the front of the tulou and found Zhou Bo, took a look at the bound captives by the way, and asked, "Are these unwilling to surrender?"

Zhou Bo nodded and said, "Yes, there are not many people, just more than 30 people." ”

Yue Yun smiled disdainfully, if it was the Yue family's army, I was afraid that the whole army would not bend their knees and surrender.

"Brother Zhou, what are you going to do with them? According to me, it is better to put them all to death, and it will be a disaster to keep them. Leave them alone now, and I bet they'll come back here tomorrow and continue to be bandits. In the future, the Guanghua army will mine iron ore here, but I am afraid that they will come to make trouble. Yue Yunjian said.

"Hehe, Brother Yue, in fact, the threat of these people who refuse to surrender is far less than that of those who surrender. Zhou Bowei smiled and said without any emotion.

"Oh, what does this mean?" Yue Yun said strangely.

"He who does not surrender is an enemy in the open, and he who surrenders is an enemy in the dark. We can watch out for those who are in the open, and we can find them at any time. But the enemies in the shadows are different, they are lurking, difficult to distinguish, and they face many problems. For example, to feed them, to appease them, but also to monitor whether they will have the possibility of defection. Zhou Bo told the story.

"If that is the case, then why do you have to recruit them? Yue Yun said with a smile.

Zhou Bo sighed and said, "This is where the difficulty lies." But it doesn't matter, I'm sure these surrendered people can still handle it. ”

Yue Yun nodded, and then asked, "What about these people who refuse to surrender now?"

Zhou Bo smiled and said, "I was about to interrogate them." ”

After he finished speaking, he shouted to some of the soldiers around him, "Bring their leaders up." ”

A moment later, four soldiers walked up with a middle-aged man covered in blood and tattered armor, if it weren't for the fact that the other party had a suit of armor, his unkempt and dirty appearance would have been regarded as a pure mountain bandit.

The soldier pushed the middle-aged man to Zhou Bo and reprimanded him to kneel.

How do you know that this middle-aged man is still very backbone, with a disdainful look, and deaf to the soldiers' reprimands.

The four soldiers were furious, and one of them kicked the middle-aged man in the knuckle of the leg.

But the middle-aged man's legs only bent slightly, and he did not fall to his knees.

The soldiers were even more furious, and they were about to hit the middle-aged man's leg with the back of the knife in their hands until the other party knelt down.

Zhou Bo and Yue Yun glanced at each other, neither of them expected that this guy was really backbone.

"Stop. Immediately, Zhou Bo gave a shout to the soldiers.

The soldiers had no choice but to retreat.

Zhou Bo walked in front of the middle-aged man and looked at the other party carefully, only to see that the other party's appearance was mediocre, but he was very stout. He smiled coldly and asked, "What's your name?"

"Hmph, Lao Tzu Xing doesn't change his name or surname, Chen Chuan!" the middle-aged man replied indignantly, but he still held his proud head high, as if it was a great honor to report his home.

"Chen Chuan, who were you under the command of Qi before?" Zhou Bo asked again.

"The commander-in-chief of the Changsheng Xiang Army made Li Mingshun a subordinate general, and Lao Tzu was the general of the Changsheng Xiang Army back then. Chen Chuan felt that there was nothing to hide now, even if he was going to die now, he would tell everything about it, and maybe he would be able to leave a brief introduction to his life in history.

Zhou Bo said coldly: "What else do you have to be proud of now? Qi Gou was beaten to the ground by the Yue family's army in less than two months. You are even more ashamed, you can't accept the defeat of the battle, and you actually ran into this ravine to be with these rabble?"

Chen Chuan immediately became furious and shouted: "Lao Tzu is not ashamed, Lao Tzu is waiting for the opportunity, and he is ashamed!"

Yue Yun on the side laughed, pointed at Chen Chuan and said to Zhou Bo: "It's a shame to be ashamed of the snow? Ten ** violated military law and didn't dare to go back to the north, so he hid here." ”

Chen Chuan's face turned red, and his nose was panting like an angry bull. Although there are many reasons why he did not return to Qi State, and one of them is indeed a violation of military law, but this is only the least worthy of mentioning among all the reasons.

The real reason is that he has been disappointed in the Qi State, the Qi State army has been strategically defeated, and it is more and more regarded as a joke by the world, so what is there to continue to work for it?

Zhou Bo said: "No matter what your purpose is, why are you unwilling to surrender?"

Chen Chuan snorted arrogantly, glanced at Zhou Bo disdainfully, and said with a big grin: "What I hate the most is that you emperor of the Song Dynasty, like a girl, you should not dare to fight, except to run away or run away." Instead of being under this kind of wretched leadership, I might as well destroy you with the Qi Kingdom!"

Yue Yun immediately became angry, and said angrily: "Can the Qi State destroy our Great Song Dynasty? You can think about it after eight lifetimes! You Qi State is the lackey of the Jin people, as a Han person, you are not ashamed to work for the Tartars?"

"Who ****** to work for the Tartars, Lao Tzu is for himself! The Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is a bastard and a coward, and if he follows him, sooner or later he will be the virtue of a slave who has perished in the country. Chen Chuan said clamoringly.

"Really?" Zhou Bo couldn't help but sneer again when he heard this, the Southern Song Dynasty was later than the Jin Kingdom and the Qi State were destroyed, and he couldn't tell who would be the slave of the country first. "Then why don't you go back to Qi Kingdom?"

"I, I...... Hmph, the country of Qi is also a wreck, and Lao Tzu is not rare. Don't talk nonsense with Lao Tzu, if you want to kill, you have to dig up and listen to the respect. If I frown, it's not Chen Chuan!" Chen Chuan shouted, with a momentum that he wished he would die sooner.

Zhou Bo and Yue Yun glanced at each other and couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Chen Chuan roared.

"Look at you are still a man, but you have a problem with your head. Zhou Bo still said with a smile.

"I have a problem with my head, what are you talking about?" Chen Chuan became even more furious, if he wasn't tied up by a rope now, he was afraid that he would immediately rush forward to fight with Zhou Bo.

Zhou Bo gave a stern look, snorted coldly, and said, "Don't you think that the real problem lies with yourself? You don't have any principles at all, you don't have any beliefs at all, and you don't even know the value and purpose of your own existence. ”

Chen Chuan was stunned, and said casually dissatisfied: "Who said that! Isn't there a principle for me not to surrender? Hmph, my belief is that we must be a strong person, not to be bullied by others, and to be able to eat well and dress warmly! The purpose of survival? As long as people are alive, they will definitely survive!"

Zhou Bo sneered: "Your non-surrender is a principle? If you don't surrender, it can only show that you are stubborn and unrelenting." The real principle is to uphold a position unwaveringly, you first work for Qi Gou, and feel that Qi Gou always loses battles, so you simply become a mountain bandit yourself, waiting for the opportunity to develop again. Then I really want to ask you, what time are you waiting for, and how are you going to develop?"

Chen Chuan's words were choked suddenly, he didn't have any foresight, but he just wanted to be stable for a while.

Zhou Bo snorted and said, "Do you know why you can't answer? If a person has no position, there is no starting point, and if there is no starting point, he naturally does not know how to take the next step. That's why you fail!"

Chen Chuan was very similar to refute, but Zhou Bo's words seemed to be so reasonable, so that he didn't know how to deal with it at all. He sighed and fell silent.

"I can see that you can barely be regarded as a qualified soldier, but you are not a general! You still have such a brother who accompanies you and does not surrender, and you are not ashamed to even cause them to die together?" Zhou Bo said, pointing to the Qi soldiers who were tied up behind him.

"I ......" Chen Chuan didn't dare to look back at the brothers who accompanied him and refused to surrender.

"Do you know why I only said that you are a warrior and not a general?" Zhou Bo asked.

"......!!" Chen Chuan did not speak.

"Because you have nothing but brute force. In terms of the overall ideals, you have no position, and it seems that you will follow whoever can win the battle, so why don't you go to the Golden Dog? The Golden Dog may not be able to win every battle, and now it is not our Song Army that has been defeated in a single battle! In addition, in the details of the battlefield, you are also a general who has failed to the core, and you do not know how to command the battle at all!" Zhou Bo said in one breath.

Although Chen Chuan was not convinced, what Zhou Bo said did make him deeply convinced.

Perhaps the real loser is not the State of Qi or the State of Song, but precisely himself.

Zhou Bo slowed down, and finally said, "To be honest, I really wanted to kill you directly at first. But now, seeing that you don't have the stubborn temper just now, and you have some backbone, you have the heart to recruit you. As the saying goes, people who have no faults are more important than knowing their mistakes and being able to change them. The fact that you are not stiff now means that you still have room to know yourself. ”

Chen Chuan was stunned, he actually wanted to pout in his heart, but Zhou Bo's words made him not know how to refute it. However, after listening to Zhou Bo say this, he gradually had some epiphany in his heart, maybe he really realized the mistake, so he couldn't refute it!

He sighed, only thinking that Zhou Bo was really accurate in seeing people!

"What's the matter, do you want to surrender now? If you are willing to surrender, I promise to make you a general! And I believe that as long as you repent modestly, you will not be a simple warrior in the future, but a general who will stand up to the sky and the earth sooner or later!" Zhou Bo asked again.

"So, what if I still don't surrender?" Chen Chuan asked tentatively.

Zhou Bo smiled, pointed to the Qi army prisoners behind Chen Chuan and said, "If you are still obsessed, I really don't feel sorry at all." Not only do you have a problem with your brain, but you also have a problem with your character. These brothers behind you have come to this point because of your fault, and instead of keeping them, you want them to die with you, and you say it yourself, is there anything wrong with your character?" )