At the beginning of June, the crescent moon hung early in the sky, and the mountain road of Black Pine Ridge was hidden by the tall and dense pine forests on both sides, showing different light and dark.

A group of about 20 people walked on the mountain road leading to Black Pine Ridge. Bian Xiang and the other four walked in front with the four bandits, Gu Haotian followed closely with Song Wan and others, followed by a few porters carrying burdens.

Gu Haotian learned about the situation of the cottage from Song Wan all the way, focusing on the main living quarters of the two bandit leaders. The thief captures the king first, and he must hit the vital point in one fell swoop.

After walking for more than half an hour, the walled gate was far away. Bian Xiang pressed the tip of the knife against the dog's vest and threatened fiercely: "If you want to die, just talk well." "Definitely, definitely." Zhang Gouzi hurriedly responded.

After only a moment in front of the door, Gu Haotian looked up and saw about seven or eight people standing in the shadows on the wall.

"That's the brother up there?" Zhang Gouzi shouted at the top of his voice.

"It's a dog, can you catch a big fish?"

"Zhou Scarface, are you blind, I didn't see the picker behind you, hurry up and open the door."

"How can this confused old man see clearly," Zhou Scarface was waiting to open the door, but suddenly turned around and asked, "Why don't you see the second master?"

Zhang Gouzi's body trembled, Bian Xiang's knife tightened, and he immediately spoke again, "The second master has caught a little lady, and she is happy down there." The kid replied casually.

"The second master is good for this one." It seems that these bandits must have done a lot of these things, and Scarface came down to open the door without any more suspicion that week.

Gu Haotian secretly made a gesture, and everyone became nervous together. After a while, I saw that the big wooden door "creaked, creaked" open, and a group of people swarmed in, immediately surrounded the bandits in the middle, and did not talk nonsense, killed all of them with knives in their hands, and then made a secret signal. At this moment, the training of running with weights showed results, and only a few moments later, the follow-up team caught up. Gu Haotian sent Ma Qiang's team to guard the gate of the wall, and strictly ordered that no one should be released, and the rest were divided into several groups to rush to several key places.

Under the guidance of Zhang Gouzi, Gu Haotian and Song Wan went straight to the room of the bandit leader Jia Ergou. Along the way, I encountered a few bandits sporadically, and because of the thief Zhang Gouzi flickering in front, they were all successfully wiped out.

When he got to the door, he heard the heart-rending cry of a young woman inside: "Beast, beast ......", Gu Haotian kicked in, only to see a one-eyed evil man insulting a woman. The wicked man heard the sound behind him and turned around, but felt that after a cold light, he was already in the first two sections.

Gu Haotian just looked into the room, and saw a young woman cowering on the bed, with no strands of clothes left. He snorted, "The rest of the people go out." He hurriedly took off his coat and put it on the woman, and then he saw that the little girl was only twelve or thirteen years old, and that under that frightened look was a stunning face that was out of the ordinary. He whispered to her, "You're fine, but don't worry." Then he ordered the two team members to stay at the door, turned around and led the people to continue to the hall.

After about half an hour, the groups gathered in the hall. The three leaders were killed by Bian Xiang, and this guy finally opened up with excitement, and the other resistors were also eliminated by the various groups. Gu Hao ordered Ma Xun to take people to guard the warehouse, and ordered Song Wan, Du Qian, Ruan Xiaoqi and others to lead people to search for the fish that slipped through the net, and ordered the lights to be lit and all the captives gathered in the square in front of the hall.

After a few moments, the captives were taken to the square, and by the time the search groups had converged, a total of thirty-six prisoners had been captured. Gu Haotian sent someone down the mountain to inform Zhu Gui that they escorted the prisoners up to rendezvous, and all the personnel would not be completed until twelve o'clock in the night, counting a total of fifty-one prisoners, plus twenty-seven people who were killed, a total of seventy-eight, Gu Haotian summoned Zhang Gouzi and several others to check separately, and was sure that no one slipped through the net, and even Na Jia San was found in the pile of dead people, but I don't know who killed him.

Seeing that it was late at night, Gu Haotian ordered all the bandits to be tied up, a room was chosen, and Bian Xiang was ordered to take people to guard tomorrow to deal with it, and Ma Qiang was ordered to lead people to guard the gate and inspect various intersections, and the rest of the people found rooms to rest.

After finishing his work, Gu Hao thought of the little girl, thinking that she must be frightened when she guarded the severed head alone, so he turned around and went to the room. When I arrived, fortunately, the two left-behind team members had already carried Jia Ergou's body out. He knocked on the door and went in, and saw that the little girl looked a little better, but was still very alert when he came in.

Probably seeing that Gu Haotian was not old and spoke gently, after a few words of dialogue, he relaxed a little. He said that he was returning home from visiting relatives in Dongping County, and when he passed through this place, he was robbed by this gang of strongmen, and several family members were killed, leaving only himself, the maid and an old servant to be taken up the mountain.

Gu Haotian immediately sent someone to the cell to find the maid and the old servant, the three of them couldn't help but hug their heads and cry when they met, and they stopped for a while, and turned around to thank the benefactor, but saw that the young man had disappeared, and the three of them were stunned for a while, and the old servant sighed: "I met a nobleman!" ”

In the cool morning breeze, on the official road that winds down the Black Pine Ridge, a horse-drawn carriage is slowly heading south, and if you are careful enough, you will find that the delicate wheel is engraved with a small "hole" character. An old man of fifty or sixty years old sat in front of the car, and in the car sat two little ladies, as if they were old, and they were very cute.

"Little lady, that person is so rude, we kindly thank him and say goodbye, and we won't come out to see him." The little maid was only eleven or two years old, and said dissatisfiedly.

"Hugh is talking nonsense." The little lady drank lightly, didn't say much, just leaned quietly against the window. As far as the eye could see, there was smoke billowing from the cottage. Maybe she'll never see him again, she thought silently, but the unforgettable image kept replaying in her mind. When she was in the most desperate and helpless moments under the clutches of the devil, the heroic young man broke through the door and pulled herself back from the edge of hell, with sharp eyes and gentle voice, she firmly believed that this body would never be forgotten. She said over and over again, "You're fine, but don't worry." Unconsciously burst into tears.

On Black Pine Ridge, in the square in front of the council chamber, a large pile of pine branches was burning, and thick smoke was billowing into the sky. This was Gu Haotian's helpless move, he didn't want to give up the place of Black Pine Ridge for the time being, and he was afraid that the three masters and servants would send someone to verify the situation after they returned, so he had to create a false appearance of setting fire to the mountain. In his mind, this place was a suitable field training base, and at the same time, it could help him do things that he couldn't get on the table.

All the team members have been concentrated in the square, and all the prisoners are also in the square. Gu Haotian ordered his subordinates to interrogate all the captives one by one, requiring them to report each other's murder and rape among them, and strictly ordered that if anyone else reported the crime, they would be executed immediately. In about half an hour, the interrogation information was summarized, and out of 51 people, 18 were guilty of serious misdeeds.

Gu Haotian ordered the three squad leaders to select the team members who had not seen blood in yesterday's battle, but unexpectedly, there were twenty-four people.

"In yesterday's battle, some of you didn't have a chance, and some of you gave up your chance out of fear, so your spears didn't see blood. Is this strange? Yesterday, when I stabbed the blade into the bandit's body for the first time, I was nervous and wanted to vomit, but everyone must understand that as long as it is a guard, then in the future it will inevitably face blood and death. I'm going to give you a chance to prove yourself, and if you want to be a seed, you can quit now. He looked at the twenty-four men standing silently in front of him, and said, "Very well, that means that you don't have a single seed." ”

"Now you will face the attack of the bandits, do you dare to fight?"

"Dare." Under the gaze of everyone, all the team members shouted out with all their might.

Gu Hao then ordered six people to be pulled out of the bandits, each given a piece of wooden stick, and ordered them to attack the team, otherwise they would be killed immediately. These people also know that there is no life today, so they give their lives to it. I saw six bandits crashing into the first row of members, and Bian Xiang shouted, "Straight stab." Eight people almost reflexively stabbed out, and suddenly three bandits were stabbed into bloody holes, and the other three were frightened and did not dare to move forward, "Take a step forward, stab straight." Bian Xiang ordered again, and for a while the other three fell again. Then the members of the second and third platoons, under the command of Ma Qiang and Ma Xun, repeated the previous scene. In just a quarter of an hour, eighteen bandits were killed and wounded.

"Zhang Gouzi." Gu Haotian suddenly screamed.

"Master, spare my life, I really haven't done anything bad, I really haven't." Zhang Gouzi, who was paralyzed on the ground with a group of bandits, was scared out of his urine for a while.

Zhang Gouzi was also reported for several robberies, but last night's thief did a good job, and Gu Haotian wanted to spare him once.

"If you want to live, you can—" he pointed to the remaining bandits, "go, cut off those who are not yet dead." ”

When those bandits heard this, they immediately returned their souls, and rushed up to pick up all kinds of tools to kill the original kind. The scene was extremely bloody for a while, and some of the team members were uncomfortable when they assassinated the bandits, and they couldn't help but vomit at this time.

In the hall, Zhu Gui, Du Qian, Song Wan and others stood there solemnly, thinking in their hearts that this little official was so decisive in killing the lord at such a young age, and he would definitely be a hero in the future.

In fact, Gu Haotian didn't want to be so cruel, but he had to do it, first, to let every member of the team see blood, and more importantly, he wanted to make everyone an executioner, so that everything that happened in the past two days could be rotten in his stomach, after all, there was still an official government in this society, and he didn't want to make any trouble.

Then he ordered Du Qian and Song Wan to take the remaining bandits to dig a big pit in the back mountain and bury the dead people together. Just as he was about to turn around, he saw a sentry coming to report that someone had come up from the mountain, and he wanted to think about whether there were still bandits who had slipped through the net, so he asked Zhu Gui to take Zhang Gouzi to take a look. After a while, I brought back a black and thin man in his thirties or forties, who turned out to be a guy from the dark shop in Mingyuegang who went up the mountain to ask for a reward, and couldn't help but laugh in his heart, thinking about you, but he sent it to the door. asked Zhu Gui to take people to Mingyuegang to eliminate the trouble, and that evening a fire broke out in a hotel in Mingyuegang, and the house personnel burned to a white ground.

The treasury is a cottage land, so he sent his cronies to guard it last night. Now that he was finally free, he asked Ma Wei to take it with him, but he was startled when he didn't know how to see it, this little cottage family background was not bad, and the grain accumulated was nearly 3,000 stones, four or five thousand taels of silver, and there was a box of jewelry and handpieces of unknown value. Gu Haotian couldn't help but sigh in his heart, War is indeed the only magic weapon for the accumulation of primitive capital. In the dark and damp cell, there were five or six people staggering around, most of them some villagers in the vicinity, and only on a pile of grass in the inner corner lay an unfit young man, whose clothes looked like a scholar, and I saw that he was described as haggard, with cracked lips, and almost unconscious. Gu Haotian saw that his mouth was slightly open, so he leaned down, only to see him weakly spit out two words: "water-water-" and fainted.

Gu Haotian immediately sent someone to carry this scholar out for treatment, but he didn't expect that this scholar was also a famous person.