After a night, the rain continued to pour down, and the fire on Gongchuan Mountain had gradually been extinguished, but there were still countless black smoke rising into the sky.

Liu Juntao rode out of the camp on a clothed robe, and came down to a position at the foot of the mountain under the escort of a team of personal guards.

At this time, it was the defense area of the rear camp of the Yushan Town Guard Team under Yan Hu's headquarters, and the chief Fan Jingzheng led hundreds of long swordsmen under his command to garrison here.

Seeing Liu Juntao rushing over, he hurriedly greeted Fan Jing with a team of subordinates.

"Subordinates see generals!"

Liu Juntao smiled and waved his hand, turned over and dismounted, and asked, "How?" Have you ever seen a surviving thief flee the mountain for their lives? ”

Fan Jing said with a smile: "General Qiyu, now this Gongchuan Mountain is already a scorched earth, and the entire mountain has become black and bare, where will there be any thieves!" ”

Liu Juntao looked at Gongchuan Mountain, which could no longer see a trace of green, and said: "Don't take it lightly, this Gongchuan Mountain is really too big, there will always be people alive with more than 100,000 horses, you must guard it strictly!" ”

When Fan Jing heard this, he immediately replied: "Order!" ”

Then, accompanied by Fan Jing, Liu Juntao inspected this position, and saw that Fan Jing was very well prepared, so he left with satisfaction and went straight to the garrison area of Zhang Xiao's army in the north.

In less than half an hour, Liu Juntao rode his horse and galloped through the muddy field before arriving at the station of the former camp of the Yushan Town Guard.

When Zhang Xiaojun heard the news, he had already taken Liu Youcai, Liu Youfu and other thousands of presidents to wait outside the camp.

"The last general has seen the general!"

Liu Juntao also greeted everyone one by one with a smile, and then said, "What's the situation?" ”

Zhang Xiaojun replied: "General Qiyu, there is not the slightest movement on Gongchuan Mountain, not even the sound of birds and insects, it is estimated that the hundreds of thousands of thieves on the mountain are dead!" ”

Liu Juntao said in a deep voice: "I hope this fire can burn Ye Zongliu to death together, this person is a big scourge!" ”

Zhang Xiaojun said with a smile: "General, don't worry, if such a fire can't burn to death, then Ye Zongliu, unless he is an immortal, there is no reason to survive!" ”

"I hope so!"

Then, Liu Juntao, accompanied by Zhang Xiaojun and others, inspected the station of the former camp of the Yushan Town Guard.

When everyone came to the garrison area of a general bird gun, a figure suddenly appeared from the hillside and rushed towards Liu Juntao!

"Protect the General!"

Bai Yuxing, who was beside Liu Juntao, roared when he saw this, pulled out his waist knife and blocked it in front of Liu Juntao.

Liu Juntao's face did not change, but he just pulled out his saber and was on guard.

And Zhang Xiaojun and the others rushed up directly, ready to kill the comer!

However, before Zhang Xiaojun could lead people to rush closer, the person who came shook and fell directly to the ground.

Zhang Xiaojun led people forward, and on the one hand, he ordered people to immediately rush to the hillside to conduct a thorough search, and at the same time strengthened vigilance, and on the other hand, he and Liu Youfu and Liu Youcai brothers checked the situation of the people who came.

When everyone stepped forward, they saw that the clothes of the man were all in tatters, full of traces left by the fire, and almost none of them were intact.

Moreover, this person's face, hands and feet are also scars, without exception, they are all scars left by the fire, and even the hair is scattered, and the whole person looks like a ghost, extremely miserable!

When Zhang Xiaojun and others surrounded him, this person was already desperate and died, it is estimated that he was seriously injured by the fire, and he ran down by luck before he was dead for a while, but he ran out of oil and ran out after he didn't want to escape.

"Oh my God!"

Liu Youcai sighed and said to Liu Youfu beside him: "Big brother, this thief is really miserable, he was burned like this!" ”

Liu Youfu said: "What's so miserable? When these thieves plague the township, they should think that they will be where they are today! ”

Zhang Xiaojun also said when he heard it: "That's right! How many bad things these thieves have done! How many innocent people have died because of their families? Today is God's complete liquidation for them! ”

After speaking, Zhang Xiaojun ordered someone to dispose of the body of this thief, and then left Liu Youcai to lead his troops to search the nearby mountains and forests, and then returned to Liu Juntao and reported it.

Liu Juntao was silent for a while when he heard this, and then said: "It seems that there should be surviving thieves on the mountain, and these thieves can't be allowed to escape, otherwise the south of the thieves will resurrect in the future; Moreover, you must find Ye Zongliu, you must see people alive and dead to see corpses! ”

Zhang Xiaojun also nodded and asked, "General, then we can start the search as soon as possible!" ”

Liu Juntao said: "Pass the order: the front and rear battalions of the Yushan Town Guards, the main barracks of Yanzhou Mansion, and the Qibing Barracks immediately enter Gongchuan Mountain to search for the remnants of the thieves!" The soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Battalion were ordered to continue to block the mountain roads to prevent the remnants of the thieves from escaping. ”

When Zhang Xiaojun heard this, he immediately asked the heralds next to him to go to the battalions to deliver orders.

Then, Liu Juntao continued: "And! Immediately report to the general, and ask the soldiers of the Beijing camp to go into the mountains to search for the remnants of the thieves! ”

"Order!"

On the same day, 50,000 officers and soldiers entered the Gongchuan Mountain, which had turned into scorched earth, and after the soldiers went up the mountain, they saw that all the trees on the mountain had turned into black charcoal, and even the soil and rocks on the mountain had turned into black gelatin, and the birds and beasts in the mountain had disappeared, and the soldiers could see all kinds of mountain beasts burned to death by fire on the mountain from time to time.

Moreover, on the way up the mountain, the soldiers who were burned to death could be seen everywhere, and the corpses of these thieves showed all kinds of strange postures, all of which were hateful, which made people look very terrifying, and even the officers and soldiers who had been in battle for a long time could not help but feel chilled when they saw it!

At the same time, Liu Juntao and Dai Jingkui, a staff general, both received reports from their subordinates that the soldiers who went into the mountains to search for them kept encountering surviving thieves who had gone insane, and that many of them had been seriously injured.

Liu Juntao and General Dai Jingkui agreed, they both ordered to be killed!

At this time, for Liu Juntao and General Dai Jingkui, the surviving thieves on Gongchuan Mountain are no longer important, and the traces left by the thief Ye Zongzong are the most important!

Liu Juntao even said to the herald: "Order the soldiers of Soshan to immediately rush to the direction of the thief's camp to search, and be sure to find the thief leader Ye Zongliu!" ”

"Order!"

After Liu Juntao's order was sent to Gongchuan Mountain, Bai Yuxing, Liu Youfu, Liu Youcai, Meng Fanchen and other thousands of generals sent their soldiers to search in the direction of the thief camp.

It didn't take long for the soldiers to come to the camp of thieves on the top of the mountain, only to see that the camp of thieves at this time had become a ruin, and the appearance of the previous camp could not be seen, only some traces of tents and trenches of thieves, which could prove that this was the camp of hundreds of thousands of bandits.

After the soldiers entered the camp of the thieves, they began to search.

However, at this time, the corpses in the thief camp have all turned into charred corpses, and it is impossible to see what the identity of these charred corpses is, and the clothes and armor that can prove the identity of the charred corpses have been burned, and it is impossible to distinguish them at all.

Subsequently, Yan Hu also rushed to the thief camp with a team of guards, and couldn't help frowning when he saw the hundreds of charred corpses that had been counted out by the soldiers, not to mention that there was a steady stream of charred corpses being carried out from all over the thief camp.

"What a good thing that is! These charred corpses can't tell which one is Ye Zongliu! ”

Just when Yan Hu was worried, suddenly a team of soldiers in the distance shouted in surprise: "Thief leader Ye Zongliu!" ”

Yan Hu hurriedly ran over when he heard this, and many soldiers around him rushed over and immediately surrounded him.

As early as when the official army had just assembled to start the war against bandits, General Dai Jingkui had already distributed the portrait of Ye Zongliu, the leader of the thieves, and the generals above the commander of each battalion of the official army had already memorized Ye Zongliu's appearance.

At this time, the soldiers who were searching the camp of thieves found a corpse in the ruins of a big tent, and it was surprising that this corpse was not burned by the fire, and the soldiers stepped forward to see that it was Ye Zongliu!

Yan Hu walked up to him, only to see that Ye Zongliu had a deep and long wound on his neck, which was deep enough to see the bones; Ye Zongliu also had a waist knife on his right hand.

Yan Hu said: "It seems that this thief also knows that he is in danger!" Go and report to the general! ”

"Order!"

It didn't take long for Liu Juntao to learn that Ye Zongliu had committed suicide, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said to the generals beside him: "It's over, we can go home!" ”

And when the general Dai Jingkui learned that Ye Zongliu had committed suicide, his eyes were red with excitement, and he said to the generals in Beijing: "This battle is finally over, and we can also go back to the capital!" ”