After the soldiers locked up the golden winged peng, who had surrendered on his knees, Yang Desheng squeezed out a smile and said to Zhang Tieniu: "Tieniu, I don't think you went to the top of the mountain first." ”

When Zhang Tieniu heard this, he smiled and said: "Mr. Yang Qian, I was originally blocked by the thieves at the bottom of the mountain, and I was able to come here to help you because Mr. Li Qian led people to kill him." ”

"I see!" When Yang Desheng heard this answer, a stone in his heart fell to the ground.

After all, the results of Zhang Tieniu's soldiers and horses in ordinary training were quite poor, and Yang Desheng thought to himself that if he couldn't compare with Zhang Tieniu when he was fighting, he would be embarrassed and thrown home.

Fortunately, Zhang Tieniu also attacked the top of the mountain with the help of Li Jiye, so Yang Desheng smiled heartily and said to Zhang Tieniu: "Tieniu, three of the four sides of Hutou Village have been beaten down by us, and now only the east side has no movement, but I don't know what Ma Wenshan is doing?" Let's enter the cottage and search for the remnants of the enemy, okay? ”

"Okay, let's go." Zhang Tieniu agreed, and then entered the tiger head village with Yang Desheng.

However, it is said that there are more than 1,300 villagers living in this tiger head village, which is not big, but not too small, and this cottage has not been attacked since it was built on the mountain, and it is because the cottage has not even built a wall.

Therefore, as long as the Jingbian Fort army attacked the top of the mountain, it attacked the cottage without hindrance.

Yang Desheng and Zhang Tieniu entered the cottage and found that every house was closed, and the road was empty, only the sound of sporadic firecrackers sounded in the south.

Yang Desheng saw that he and Zhang Tieniu couldn't meet any thieves, so he asked the golden winged peng to slip over and asked, "Let me ask you, where is the treasury of your cottage?" Take me to see it later. ”

"Yes, yes, Master Jun, please come with me."

After Jin Yipeng finished speaking, he walked in front to lead the way under the escort of the soldiers. Everyone followed behind Jin Yinpeng, bending left and right, and walked to a large tiled house behind the Juyi Hall.

"Master Jun, this is where our cottage stores money and grain." Jin Wingpeng stopped and pointed to the big tiled house and said.

"Very good," Yang Desheng nodded, and then discussed with Zhang Tieniu: "Tie Niu, the adults value the collection in the treasury the most, so I will take care of the treasury here, your people, first, you can go to search and suppress the remnants of the enemy, and second, the adults called us Dahutou Village, saying that you can't let go of a thief, and you can send someone to guard the north and west sides of the hillside, okay?" ”

"Okay, I'll send someone to do it."

Zhang Tieniu agreed, and divided his men into two groups, he brought his own group of people to walk through the streets and alleys in the cottage, searching for the remnants of the enemy, and the other group was handed over to his cronies to take care of the north and west slopes.

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In the cottage, the mountain carving took about 30 or so subordinates, exerted the strength to eat milk, and ran wildly in the road of the cottage.

Behind them, the soldiers of Li Jiye's department couldn't run because the armor they wore was too heavy, so they watched the group of people carving the mountain carving getting farther and farther away from them.

When the soldiers saw that they could not catch up with the thieves, they simply put a few guns at a distance, and then gave up the pursuit.

Li Jiye saw that the group of thieves in the mountain carving turned left and right in the stockade, and disappeared, so he had no choice but to order his subordinates: "Don't chase, Yang Yongxin, you take your people to guard the southern slope for me, don't let the thieves escape from us." If they go to the east, then it should be Ma Wenshan, not us. ”

"Yes, Mr. Li Qian." Yang Yongxin received the order, so he led his men and horses back from the original road and ran towards the southern slope of the mountain.

The rest of the people, under the leadership of Li Jiye, searched for the remnants of the enemy in the cottage.

Seeing that there were no more pursuers behind him for the time being, the mountain carving that escaped from the hands of Li Jiye's subordinates said: "The cottage is over, there are officers and troops in the north, west, and south, only there is no movement in the east for the time being, let's go to the east to have a look." If the mountain gate in the east is still in our hands, we will go down the mountain and ride a horse in the stable, and leave the cottage. ”

"Just do as the palm of the plate wants." The bandits said in unison.

"Okay, let's go to the mountain gate and have a look."

After the mountain carving finished speaking, he led his men to the east of the mountain gate.

The thieves ran in the cottage for a while, and after a short time they came to the mountain gate of Hutou Village.

The bandits, who were full of hope, came to the mountain gate, but saw the corpses of their companions all over the ground, as well as a group of officers and soldiers holding round shields.

When the mountain eagle saw this scene, his scalp naturally exploded, and a cold air rose from the soles of his feet, and he didn't want to run away anymore at this time, because there were officers and soldiers on all sides, where else could they flee to?

So the mountain eagle threw away his weapon, knelt on the ground, and begged for mercy: "The military master spares his life, and the little one is willing to surrender." ”

When the other thieves saw the mountain carving kneeling on the ground and asking for surrender, they all did the same, threw away their weapons, knelt on the ground, and asked the officers and soldiers in front of them to surrender.

They knelt on the ground and begged for mercy for a while, and then one of them, a man of sturdy stature, not tall, and dark-faced, came out of the crowd and ordered the soldiers behind him: "Lock them up, and dispose of them when the adults arrive." ”

"Yes, Mr. Ma Qian." When the soldiers were commanded, they took out ropes and carved down the mountain, and all the thieves were bound in a strong knot.

After the soldiers tied up the mountain eagle and others, Ma Wenshan ordered his subordinates: "Sun Keqiu, you take your banner of men and horses to take care of the prisoners here." ”

"Yes, Mr. Ma Qian." Sun Ke replied.

"The others will follow me to search for the remnants of the enemy, and then join the other three Master Qian."

After Ma Wenshan gave the order, he led his subordinates into the cottage.

It is said that there were only four hundred young people in Hutou Village, and they fought with the four thousand presidents for a while, either killed or captured, and the rest of the cottage were some old and weak women and children, who dared to fight against the officers and soldiers of Jingbian Fort, it was Zhang Tieniu, Li Jiye, Ma Wenshan and other three people and horses who searched in the cottage for a while, and then bumped together.

When Ma Wenshan saw Li Jiye and Zhang Tieniu, he happily stepped forward and saluted: "Master Li, Master Zhang." ”

Zhang Tieniu looked at Ma Wenshan, first arched his hand, saluted back, and then asked: "Wenshan, you are here, what's the matter, it's not easy to fight there at the mountain gate, right?" How many men have you lost? ”

Li Jiye saw that Zhang Tieniu asked what he wanted to ask, so he listened to Ma Wenshan's answer.

"Two masters, three of our men and horses were wounded, and no one was killed." Ma Wenshan replied with a smile.

"What!? How did you do that? Zhang Tieniu was stunned.

Li Jiye was also stunned.

Seeing that the two masters were interested in this, Ma Wenshan smiled slightly and replied: "Two masters, the thieves have a stable at the bottom of the mountain, and when we attacked the cottage, there were more than a dozen horsemen who raised horses still in the stable, and I didn't have time to run away, so I thought of an idea." I had a few of my men kill a groom and have them smear blood on their faces. ”

He added, "Then let some of the grooms take off their clothes, lay them on the ground, cut them with knives, sprinkle blood on their clothes, and let the men put on the clothes of these grooms." At last I asked my men in groom clothes to coerce the three bandits and go up the hill together, and I followed them with my men. ”

He added: "When I got to the mountain, I met the defending bandits, and my men asked the three horsemen to say that there were officers and soldiers under the mountain, and then my men followed them to the top of the mountain, and when they reached the top of the mountain, 10 of their men who pretended to be horsemen broke out and fought with the guarding bandits, and I took the opportunity to lead people up the mountain." ”

"Wenshan, I can't see it, your brain is so good!" Zhang Tieniu grinned and admired.

"Wenshan is a wise general." Li Jiye's expression was complicated, and he also praised it.

"Master Li, Master Zhang, don't laugh at me, it's just a small skill of carving insects." Ma Wenshan responded politely.

"Alright, alright, don't talk about it, don't talk about it. Now that we have won Hutou Village, it is better to report to the adults as soon as possible. Li Jiye suggested.

"Well, it's time to report to your lordship." Zhang Tieniu and Ma Wenshan both responded.

"Come on, set off fireworks."

Li Jiye gave an order, and his own herald took out the fireworks, lit the fuse with a fire fold, and then a cloud of light and shadow exploded in the sky.

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Near the gate of Hutou Mountain, Liu Renyu, who was riding a horse, saw the fireworks signal in the sky, so he smiled and said to a few subordinates around him: "It seems that they are very effective, and Hutou Village has been held by us." Renjie, you will take your cavalry to the left and left of Hutou Mountain to take a look around and see if there are any fish that have slipped through the net. If there is, the men will be killed, and the old and weak women and children will be brought back to Wang Zuohang for disposal. ”

"Yes, sir." Liu Renyu received the order, so he took a group of knights, divided into ten shares, and went to the left side of Hutou Mountain to patrol.

At this time, in addition to more than a dozen personal guards, Liu Renyu was surrounded by people who had surrendered from Wang Zuohang's subordinates.

Previously, when Liu Renyu made such arrangements, Li Jiye and other veteran generals still felt that it was risky to do so, but Liu Renyu didn't care.

This is because first, Wang Zuojiao has not yet obtained the antidote to the Three Corpse Brain Divine Pill; He didn't dare to make a mistake, but secondly, because the army had already received three months' rations in advance, and there was no reason to rebel again.

It was Liu Renyu who dared to put these surrendered troops by his side.

In fact, the soldiers who surrendered were more or less moved when they saw that Liu Renyu dared to be alone with them, and they thought that this was Liu Renyu's courtesy to them.

But in fact, Liu Renyu was unavailable, so he had to go up to Hutou Mountain with the surrendered army, and that's it.

"Zuo hang, then follow me up to Hutou Mountain, and when I go to the treasury to check the collection of bandits, you will do what you have to do." Remember, men, women, and children, no one is left. After Liu Renjie left, Liu Renyu ordered Wang Zuohang.

"Yes, Lord Liu." Wang Zuohang replied.

"Well, let's go."

Liu Renyu nodded, and then led a group of troops to go straight from the direction of the mountain gate of Benhutou Village.