It's dawn, there's no sun, and it doesn't look like it's a good day.

The morning breeze blows, the birds and finches in the distance chirp in the branches, the trees that enjoy spring have been dressed in pale green new clothes, and the dead branches have grown new shoots, and new life comes without warning, but it is punctual and regular.

The corpses of the bandits outside the cave were all neatly placed, the blood had already coagulated, their faces were already pale, and their expressions were different, some were hideous and ugly, some were full of doubts, some were distorted by fear, and some were calm and serene. They may have been celebrating yesterday, but today they are lying here, and some are destined not to know how to live or how to die.

"Brother Yang, look at what they do." Zhang Biao walked out of the cave and saw Yang Congyi staring at the corpses of a pair of bandits in a daze, and couldn't help but feel curious in his heart.

Yang Congyi said, "They never thought they would not be able to see today's sun before they went to bed last night." This man is in too much of a hurry all his life. ”

Zhang Biao said, "They are bandits, and the day they went up the mountain to be bandits, they should have thought of today." After waiting for a while, seeing that Yang Congyi didn't speak, he asked, "What should we do next?" ”

Yang Congyi said, "Find a place to bury them, and then close the door and beat the dog." ”

Zhang Biao didn't quite understand and asked, "Close the door and beat the dog?" ”

Yang Congyi said, "This mountain is too big, we can't wipe out this group of bandits outside, only by driving them back into this cave can they not escape." ”

Zhang Biao said thoughtfully, "This cave is very big, and the terrain bandits are more familiar than us, I'm afraid we won't have a chance of winning in the hole, I have fought with him as the bandit leader, and it's not easy to deal with." ”

Yang Congyi said, "Then we will set a trap in the cave and ambush outside the cave, as long as we guard the entrance of the cave, we can also wipe out the bandits." Zhang Zhutou, you go to interrogate that bandit first. ”

Zhang Biao went back to the cave to wake everyone up and let them go out to find a place to dispose of the body, and he began to interrogate the only living bandits.

Yang Congyi couldn't pass the interrogation, so he could only help outside.

There are many bandits, and they have no tools, so they can't dig pits and bury them, so they can only find a place to abandon their corpses. In the end, they left all the bandits in a deep pit in the back mountain, and simply covered them with dead branches and rotten leaves.

After doing this, back in the cave, Yang Congyi also came up with a good way to exterminate the bandits.

Zhang Biao also finished interrogating the bandits, and said to Yang Congyi, "This bandit's called Wu Ren, his name is not wrong, and he is unkind." His family is in Zhufeng Township, the family has a son and a mother, he has been a bandit in the mountain for several years, he is very familiar with the situation here, there are usually more than 30 people on the mountain, there are more than 20 people who went down the mountain a few days ago, and the bandit leader went to see the leader, the bandit leader here is surnamed Zhu, some people call him Zhu Er Mazi, the real name is unknown. He said that the bandits who had come down the mountain would come back in the next two days, and he didn't know exactly when they would return. It's a bunch of nonsense, and there is very little useful information. ”

Yang Congyi said, "It's useless, forget it." Everybody, come here, and I'll tell you what I think. If we want them not to slip through the net, we must let them return to this cave, and if we guard the entrance of the cave, we can eliminate all the bandits. One might ask, what if they hide in a hole and don't come out? The solution is simple, fire and smoke. As long as there is no other exit from this hole, they will definitely go out through this hole, and holding this hole will choke their necks. ”

Zhang Biao said, "The method is good, but this hole is really big, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to smoke them, if they can't smoke it, they hide in the hole and don't get out, and it will be troublesome for us to exterminate them." ”

Yang Congyi said, "This is indeed a problem. Then he said, "Let's go and get some branches and leaves, and light a fire in each hole, and see if there is any smoke." ”

Everyone immediately took action, and not far from the cave was a forest, with dead branches and leaves all over the ground. After a while, fires were lit in each cave, and when they saw smoke coming out, everyone hurried out of the cave.

Looking at the smoke wafting out of the hole, Zhang Biao said, "As long as the bandits enter this cave, they will not be able to enter or exit." ”

Yang Congyi said, "It seems that we are too optimistic, although the smoke seems to be useful now, but we are guarding outside, how can we set fire to the cave?" And if the bandits don't go into the hole, or if they are smoked out, can we guarantee that we can beat them? ”

Zhang Biao said, "There are a lot of us, we should be able to fight." ”

Yang Congyi said, "We can't do anything that hurts the enemy by one thousand and self-inflicts eight hundred, otherwise none of us will be able to get out of Tianzhu Mountain." I think so, let's make two preparations, I take the flat land at the entrance of the cave as the goal, and lead people to set traps, if they don't go in, we will do it here, and use the traps to hurt some of their people first. Once the bandits enter the cave, you immediately block the entrance of the cave and let them become turtles in the urn. ”

Zhang Biao agreed, "Okay, I'll find a way." ”

After the general assignment of tasks, the teams split up. Feng Lin led a team of people to go down the mountain to monitor the movements of the bandits down the mountain, Yang Congyi led two teams of people to arrange traps for hunting beasts, and Zhang Biao led people to prepare to block the wood and stones at the entrance of the cave.

It took a day, Yang Congyi led people to make four simple machine arrows in the woods on both sides of the cave entrance, and after launching, the power was extremely great, and the wrist-thick bamboo could be directly broken when it hit the rock, but the operation was troublesome and required the cooperation of two people. After seeing the power of the mechanism, everyone's confidence doubled, with this thing, no matter how powerful the bandit was, he couldn't stand it.

Zhang Biao led people to find a few dead tree trunks, the trunks were very thick, half a person high, but the material was very light, three or five people could get them to the entrance of the cave and block the entrance of the cave.

The two most important preparations were completed, and Yang Congyi knew that they had already won half of the battle, and the unprepared bandits must be lambs to the slaughter.

He slept soundly in the bandit cave this night, because he knew that as long as they won the battle with the bandits, he would be able to go back with everyone and take the bandit leader back to end the task of searching in the mountains, and the hard work of more than a month would come to an end.

The next day they cleared all the food and water from the cave and moved it to the woods to officially prepare for battle.

Yang Congyi made on-the-spot observations at the entrance of the cave to make the ambush in the woods more hidden. They had been in ambush since early in the morning, just waiting for the bandits to return to the mountains.

From sunrise to dusk, everyone was impatient to wait, and there was still no shadow of the bandits, and Feng Lin never sent back any news.

Until the sun completely sets and night falls, it is not impossible to hear the slightest movement under the mountain.

Zhang Biao finally couldn't help but run over to Yang Congyi and said, "Are they not coming back today?" ”

Yang Congyi said, "I can't say for sure, let's wait." ”

Zhang Biao said, "If they really come back in the middle of the night, we have to lie on our stomachs in the middle of the night, nesting in the forest is really fucking more tiring than climbing a mountain." ”

Yang Congyi suddenly thought of one thing, and said, "It's not good, it's not normal for the black lights in the cave to be blind after dark, if they really come back in the middle of the night, as long as they go up the mountain, they will be able to find the problem, if they turn around and run, we can't stop it." You have the fire in the cave be lit and burn until they come back. ”

When Zhang Biao heard this, he felt reasonable, if the bandits turned around and ran away, he would not be able to get out of his evil breath. In case those bandits really come back in the middle of the night, it would be better to just block them in the hole and smoke them to death, which would save some trouble. Then he replied, "I will go now, and make sure that the fire will not be extinguished, until the bandits themselves go in." ”

After speaking, Zhang Biao hurriedly left and took people into the cave to make a fire.

It was also a coincidence that as soon as the fire in the cave was burning, Feng Lin hurried back and told Yang Congyi that there was movement under the mountain, as if the bandits had returned to the mountain.

Yang Congyi's heart was relieved, and after waiting for a whole day, the time to come finally came.

He immediately had the message of the bandits delivered to everyone on the mountain, told them to be ready, and told the crossbowmen to hear his orders before they moved. And he himself hid in the woods by the side of the road, ready to block the bandits at any time.

When the bandits did not return to the mountain, everyone hoped that the bandits would return to the mountain as soon as possible, so that they could fight happily and destroy them so that they could go back and ask for merit and reward.

When I really learned that the bandits were on the way up the mountain, everyone was nervous in their hearts, the battle of life and death was by no means child's play, the sword and gun had no eyes, and no one knew who would live or die in the scuffle, and the day before yesterday they destroyed more than a dozen bandits, that was because the other party had no ability to fight back at all, and whether they could be stronger than the bandits, they were completely bottomless in their hearts.

Thinking back to the experience of fighting with bandits, which time was not to rely on more enemies and fewer enemies to succeed, relying on group fights to succeed, the bandits who were about to face were about to be equal in number to them, almost one person faced one bandit, and could only pray for God's blessing.

Yang Congyi has experienced a lot of things in the past year, thinking deeply about the past, if he had to choose the same situation this time before, he might not have to think about it, because he had already gone back in the first half of his life, there was no nostalgia, and there was no difference between life and death. However, now it is different, life has a new meaning, and in the face of the choice between life and death, if there is a choice, he will choose to live, just like in Lotus Village.

Now there is only one road in front of Yang Congyi, destroy this group of bandits, and go back with the team in a beautiful manner.

He laid three quivers in front of him, two bows aside, and spears hidden in the bushes, lying silently, listening intently to the movement down the hill, waiting for the prey to step into his hunting grounds.

Everyone tried their best to refrain from moving, not daring to make a sound, for fear that they would be discovered by the bandits who were about to return to the mountain and lose their lives. In the mysterious and oppressive atmosphere, the entire mountain forest is quiet, and all that can be heard is the sound of the wind.

Time passed little by little in the glow of the fire, and a long half hour passed, and there was still no sign of the bandits.

Lying on the ground from early morning until dark, losing sensation in their hands and feet, everyone gradually lost patience and began to wonder if the people under the mountain were bandits.

The night was surprisingly quiet, Yang Congyi did not dare to relax a little, and paid close attention to the movement under the mountain.

Suddenly there was a noise at the bottom of the mountain, Yang Congyi's heart jumped, they finally came back, and subconsciously held the spear in the bushes.