After entering the mountain forest, everyone found that the path was almost completely covered by chaotic thorns, because the road conditions were rugged and complicated, and they all went through the dense forest, as the mountain gradually steepened, the road was full of discarded cows, horses, mule carts and bags of grain, fortunately, the mountain bandits were in a hurry, and these grains were rarely scattered, and what made Chen Xu a little relieved was that he walked all the way for half an hour, and did not find any villagers in the town who were killed by the mountain bandits, which also made his high heart let go a lot.

Fang Kuan and more than thirty horsemen who were driving the horses in front had slowly dispersed, and as the trees grew taller and taller, the thorns decreased, but the mountains became steeper, and the mountains and forests became more and more gloomy, and in many places there were piles of discarded grain.

"You collect all this food and carry it out and transport it back to town!" Of course, Chen Xu refused to let the villagers follow him to be cannon fodder, and when he saw the grain along the way, he ordered the villagers who followed him to get the grain out, and he actually got nearly 100 stones, but Chen Xu's approach Fang Kuan did not stop it.

The loss of tax grain in Qinghe Town is of course a great responsibility, but as the county lieutenant of Pheasant County, he has the responsibility of driving bandits and reassuring the people, once this matter spreads, it is estimated that he will be the county lieutenant will also be the end, and the dismissal is the lightest, if the villagers are killed and injured heavily, he is not wronged at all if he is beheaded, because he has known this mountain bandit for a long time, but because it is hidden deep in the reckless Funiu Mountain, and every robbery is random, coupled with poor communication, he has been in the air several times.

And this time, because the robbers moved too much, they almost poured out of the nest, plus the hijacking of more than 100 people and hundreds of stones of grain, so it was definitely the best opportunity to catch them all.

Fang Kuan's face was hideous when he rode on the horse, this time he must cut off the heads of these mountain bandits one by one and hang them on the head of the city in Pheasant County, so as to get rid of the sullen breath in his heart.

"My lord, there's a guy here!" The soldier searching in front suddenly shouted.

Fang Kuan hurried over, and sure enough, he saw a young man in ragged clothes lying on a large rock, still breathing, but unconscious.

"It's not from our town!" Chen Xu took a few older villagers to take a look, and several villagers shook their heads.

"So it's a mountain bandit, kidnapped!" Fang Kuan gave the order, and the two soldiers immediately tied the young man with vines and hung it on a tree branch like a rice dumpling.

More than ten minutes later, one of the soldiers again spotted a mountain bandit who had passed out in a clearing.

It didn't take long for another one to be found, and the situation was almost exactly the same as the previous two.

"Your friend is good!" Fang Kuan also roughly understood at this time, and couldn't help but say to Chen Xu.

Continue to walk for more than an hour, scattered on the road actually found seven or eight stunned bandits, and the mountains in front of them are becoming more and more rugged and steep, just like Yu Wuya and Fang Kuan said, because there are too many people, the mountain bandits robbed too much food, along the way according to the traces of trampling and spilled discarded food, slowly walked to the front of a valley.

"My lord, there's movement in the valley ahead!" A soldier in front suddenly roared loudly, everyone quickly stopped, and under Chen Xu's beckoning, some of the remaining villagers hurriedly hid behind stones and big trees.

With a crackling sound and the sound of horses' hooves, Yu Wuya, dressed in black, soon rushed out of a narrow valley.

"Don't do it, your own people!" Chen Xu hurriedly shouted when he saw it, because at this time, all the soldiers had already raised their bows and crossbows in their hands and aimed them in the direction of the valley, and if they were not careful, they might turn into hedgehogs in the blink of an eye.

And Yu Wuya didn't care about the group of soldiers at all, and ran to Chen Xu and said loudly with a surprised face: "Engong, you have already come in, follow me, I have found the lair of that group of mountain bandits, and it is only three miles away from here!" ”

"Really?" Fang Kuan's hand was raised, and all the soldiers put down their bows and crossbows.

"What a lie to you, the dark posts along the way have been knocked unconscious by me, and now I can directly block that valley unimpeded, and then burn all the fires inside!"

Chen Xu: ......

"Engong, what is my idea? Dare to rob tax grain and trap Engong in danger, these mountain bandits are really not a pity to die! Yu Wuya continued to chatter.

Chen Xu couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "It's easy to talk about a fire, what about those kidnapped villagers?" And what to do with the lost tax grain? ”

"Yes!" Yu Wuya corrected his mistake when he knew it, and quickly nodded and admitted his mistake.

"It's just a bunch of mountain bandits, just kill them directly?" Fang Kuan, who had also experienced life-and-death battles on the battlefield, frowned and said.

"The narrowest part of the canyon only allows one horse to pass through, it is completely easy to defend and difficult to attack, I am afraid it is not easy to kill it, unless you touch it in first and kill the sentry, but it is still early before dark, you can only wait until it gets dark!" Yu Wuya shook his head.

"Let's go, go and see how it goes!" Fang Kuan said directly.

Next, under the leadership of Yu Wuya, more than 30 soldiers and more than 20 stronger villagers entered a canyon together, and then walked more and more narrowly, after walking for almost two miles, I saw a steep cliff like a moat, the middle was extremely narrow, and the cliff was also covered with thorns and ancient vines, nothing could be seen clearly, the canyon was dark and cool, and there was a feeling of goosebumps all over the body.

"No wonder you can't find it every time, it's hidden deep enough, see where else you can escape this time?" Although Fang Kuan gritted his teeth when he said it, the excitement on his face betrayed his mood deeply.

If he can successfully strangle this group of mountain bandits this time, it will definitely be a great achievement, hundreds of heads are enough for his military merits to reach the rank of Zuo Shuchang, with this military merit, and then find someone to operate in Xianyang, and it is enough to be promoted to the rank of county lieutenant.

Because of the obstruction of this canyon, a group of people can only hide in the woods outside and hesitate, although there is only a group of mountain bandits inside, but after all, there is a powerful bow and crossbow, and it is also a special standard light for the Great Qin horse pawns, dozens of zhang can shoot through seven or eight layers of kudzu coarse cloth, if you go in one by one, you can also know the consequences with chrysanthemums, and you will definitely suffer heavy casualties, but if you wait like this, once it gets dark, it will be difficult, because Yu Wuya just touched it inside and looked at it a few times and quickly retreated, Forced out of the mouth of a secret whistle, the general situation inside was a gourd valley with a small mouth and a large belly, and more than 200 people of all ages lived.

Chen Xu didn't understand the war, so he couldn't rashly put forward his opinions, and he was also very worried about the villagers who were captured, once there was chaos and stalemate after the attack, it was very likely that those mountain bandits and dogs would jump under the wall and kill the villagers, and this situation would definitely not be allowed.