Li Yun has never forgotten the bandits in Evil Tiger Ridge, and after the reconnaissance team was established, the main task he gave Nie Feng was to find out the situation of the bandits in Evil Tiger Ridge and pay close attention to the movements of the bandits in Evil Tiger Ridge. After careful reconnaissance, Nie Feng basically ascertained their basic situation.

There were originally eight or nine hundred bandits in Evil Tiger Ridge, of which there were more than 400 core bandits, and the three bandit leaders led by them were: the big leader Fang Hong, the second leader Qi Liang, and the third leader Lin Song. These three people used to be water bandits in Jiangzhou, because they were surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers, they gathered a crowd and fled to the area of Evil Tiger Ridge to entrench. They always wanted to kill back to Jiangzhou, so the focus of the robbery began to be in the southern direction. In the first month, it was Lin Song's subordinates of the third leader Lin Song who robbed Mr. Wang's four people, because the whole army was annihilated, and they couldn't figure out the situation, so they didn't dare to go to the north to rob easily. Now due to frequent robberies, the number of people has dropped to 700, and the core bandits are more than 300 people. Due to the tight defense of the Jiangzhou army in the south, it was difficult for them to succeed, and it was becoming more and more difficult to sit and eat, so they began to move to the north to rob, and repeatedly sent spies to the north to investigate, and the threat to Qingyang Town became increasingly serious.

The terrain of the Evil Tiger Ridge is dangerous, the peaks on the southeast and north sides resemble the tiger's mouth, only the west is open, there is a only passage exit, the shape resembles the tiger's mouth, so it is called the Evil Tiger Ridge. In the past, officers and men encircled and suppressed the bandits, and the bandits held on to the danger, and in addition, it was the junction of the two counties, and the coordination was not effective, and the officers and men often returned in vain. However, according to Nie Feng's reconnaissance, there is a small road leading to the cliff of the back mountain in the direction of the northern peak, which was found by the herb pickers, but it is relatively steep and difficult for ordinary people to climb. The focus of the bandits' defense was in the direction of Hukou, and the defense in other directions, especially in the direction of Houshan, was relatively weak.

On the one hand, Li Yun ordered to strengthen vigilance, and on the other hand, stepped up training and prepared to deal with it. He held a meeting to prepare for the battle, which was attended by all the personnel above the captain level, analyzed the situation faced by the Qingyang Town People's League, and decided to adopt a defensive counterattack strategy. The outside is loose and the inside is tight, and the surface is lax, luring bandits to attack; When the bandits came to attack, they pretended to retreat and set up an ambush in Lijia Village to annihilate them; Then take advantage of its unpreparedness, suddenly attack, and annihilate in one fell swoop.

After the strategy was formulated, the entire Qingyang Town secretly began to operate according to the war mode. The reconnaissance team paid close attention to the movements of the Evil Tiger Ridge, and the militia groups concentrated in remote places to step up drills, and logistical support was also prepared. On the surface, Qingyang Town's defense was very lax, and there were not many militia militias in sight, and the field threshing floor was also full of newly harvested rice. The spies in Evil Tiger Ridge were closely monitored, and a lot of misinformation was obtained by the bandits. In order to be able to successfully raid the Evil Tiger Ridge, Li Yun learned about the arrangement of the bandits based on the information obtained from reconnaissance and interrogation of the prisoners, so he searched for similar terrain nearby, arranged corresponding defensive facilities, and conducted attack training. In particular, the militia who were preparing to climb the cliffs in the back mountains all practiced their climbing skills hard. Frontal assault also rehearses how to take out sentries, and archers and assault teams practice how to cooperate with attacks.

Finally, at the end of May, the bandits couldn't bear it anymore, they already knew that the more than 100 bandits who were killed in front of them were done by the Li family villagers, so they wanted to take revenge and make an example, and they also wanted to destroy the Li family villagers in one fell swoop to lay the foundation for future robberies. In the hall of the Evil Tiger Ridge Cottage, one night the three leaders discussed how to take revenge on Lijia Village. Lin Song, the third leader, said: "Big brother, you give me two hundred people, and I will go and destroy the evil spirit of Lijia Village!" The big leader Fang Hong said: "I heard that Li Yun of Lijia Village is strong in martial arts, and it is not easy to deal with!" The second leader, Qi Liang, said: "Our three brothers are crisscrossing the rivers and lakes, what ruthless people have not seen?" That Li Yun is still a hairy boy, I don't know how thick the sky is, so let's go and catch him and give him a drink for the eldest brother! Since the eldest brother is not at ease, I will go with the third brother, take half of the people in the cottage, and I will definitely close the Li family village and arrest Li Yun! Fang Hong listened and said, "If you two go together, I can rest assured." But you will come back in three days at most, don't patronize the robbery and be happy, you will be blocked by other officers and soldiers! The two nodded yes.

The next day, the second leader, Qi Liang, and the third leader, Lin Song, led half of the bandits towards Lijia Village. Nie Feng's reconnaissance team sent the news as soon as the bandits set off, and Li Yun judged that they did not know the strength of the Qingyang Town militia according to the situation of the bandits, so he set a strategy to lure the enemy into deep encirclement and annihilation. Li Yun set up the battlefield at Chenjiapo, which was twenty miles away from Lijia Village. Here is the only way to lead to Lijia Village, a not wide ravine in the middle, two peaks on both sides, once blocked, it is difficult to escape. In the entire militia group, Li Yun left 100 people to stay in Qingyang Town, and the other 400 people were all dispatched. Li Yun led two teams of men and horses to take up the task of blocking the head in the north of Chenjiapo, and the other 300 people were ambushed on both sides, of which 100 people and other bandits were all in charge of the truncation task after entering, and Li Qing was in charge. Li Gen led a support team of more than 300 people to prepare to receive prisoners and clean up the battlefield and bring back the spoils.

More than 300 bandits, led by two leaders, set off with a swagger and arrived at Chenjiapo at noon. When the team all walked into Chenjiapo, Li Qing led a hundred people to quietly cut off the back road. Qi Liang walked in front, his long-term career as a bandit made his heart skip a beat, and he just felt that something was wrong when he looked at the peaks on both sides, when Li Yun suddenly led the team to appear in front, and the militia groups in ambush on both sides also suddenly stood up. Li Yunyun shouted, "Shoot!" "The three men and horses shot arrows together, and the arrows rained down. The bandits were in a mess. Ten consecutive rounds of salvo fire, most of the bandits have been killed and wounded, and the three leaders Lin Song also died under the arrow. The second leader, Qi Liang, still wanted to struggle, and led the team to kill Li Yun, Li Yun held a spear and stabbed suddenly, Qi Liang's big knife intercepted with a horizontal knife, Li Yun's spear was a trick, and Qi Liang's big knife flew into the sky. Qi Liang turned around and wanted to escape, but Li Yun stabbed Qi Liang to death as soon as he took advantage of the situation. The four sides of the gang killed the bandits together, and the remaining bandits were killed by dozens of people. After the militia shouted "Disarm or kill!" Kneel and don't kill! After that, all the bandits threw their weapons and knelt on the ground and waited for them to fall.

Li Yun and the others quickly cleaned up the battlefield and checked the casualties and weapons losses. The ambush was so successful that only two people were killed by the impact, and there were no casualties. In the face of the huge results, all the militia members of the militia were extremely excited, shouting: "Victory! Victory! He shouted again, "Commander-in-chief!" Chief Regiment! "Express your reverence for Li Yun.

Li Yun interrogated the prisoners, and knew that the bandits in Evil Tiger Ridge were not guarded, so he asked Li Gen to organize a support team of 200 people to escort the prisoners and booty back, and the other fighters regrouped their teams, rested a little, and prepared to attack Evil Tiger Ridge.

According to the terrain of the Evil Tiger Ridge, Li Yun formulated a strategy of flanking the front and rear. First, he and Nie Feng led a hundred elite militiamen from the commando team and reconnaissance team directly under him to climb the back mountain from the peak on the north side of the Evil Tiger Ridge to carry out a sneak attack; After the sneak attack was successful, Li Qing and Li Hu led the rest of the horses to attack from the front, all wearing light armor and holding big swords, and went into battle lightly, and fought quickly.

After resting, Li Yun and the others began to march towards the Evil Tiger Ridge, and Li Gen led a hundred people from the support team to support the team. All passers-by found on the road were forcibly taken away, and the whole army finally reached the vicinity of Evil Tiger Ridge when it was just dark. The atmosphere was a little tense, after all, they were going to sneak attack the Evil Tiger Ridge bandits who even the officers and soldiers couldn't deal with, except for the militia of Lijia Village, the others were still a little worried.

Li Yun saw everyone's emotions, so he agitated and said, "Brothers! The Evil Tiger Ridge bandits have been eyeing us and are the biggest threat to our Qingyang Town, only by eliminating them, we can be safe, our families will not have to be afraid, and we can live a good life! ”

Seeing that everyone's passion for defending their homeland was mobilized, he said: "Although the Evil Tiger Ridge bandits are vicious, they are just relying on the dangerous terrain and are easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as they break this advantage, they have nothing to fear!" ”

"The bandits we have killed twice have all been wiped out, proving that our combat effectiveness is superior to theirs! Now there are only more than 300 bandits left, and there are only more than 100 of them in real bandits, and our troops far outnumber them, and it is a surprise attack, and we have also practiced in advance, we will definitely be able to defeat them! ”

After saying that, he raised his fist fiercely and shouted in a low voice: "Victory!" Win! The militiamen raised their fists and shouted in a low voice, "Victory!" Win! ”

Li Yun let the militiamen eat and rest, and gathered all the backbone commanders for a short meeting. It was agreed that the third watch would set off, conceal the enemy, wait for the sneak attack in the back mountain, raise the fire as a signal, attack the front and rear, annihilate all the bandits, and leave no bandits.

At the third watch, the whole group quietly set off. Li Yun and Nie Feng quickly came to the northern peak according to the route they had previously reconnoitred, found a path, and followed the path to the bottom of the cliff, and the cliff was indeed extremely steep. It was already the fourth watch, and it was still dark, so Li Yun asked Nie Feng to be responsible at the bottom of the cliff, while he carried two ropes on his back and carried the exercises to the top of the cliff. Although it was very dark, Li Yun's divine sense was strong and his five senses were keen, and he saw that he was like an ape, and the steep cliff could not stop him at all, so he used both hands and feet, and quickly climbed up the cliff. Sure enough, the bandits were very relieved about the cliff, and there was no warning in the back mountain. Li Yun tied the rope and lowered the rope down the cliff, and Nie Feng organized the team to climb. Because they had already trained, although the climbing was difficult, by the time of the fifth watch, all the team members had climbed the back mountain.

The sky was already dark, so everyone had a little rest, Li Yun tidied up the team and quickly went to the cottage. Li Yun and the others attacked quietly, and the bandits in the house they passed were all killed. Quickly kill to the heartland. Li Yun divided the team into two teams, he and Nie Feng each led a team, and while setting fires, they killed the place where the bandit leader lived. Li Qing and Li Hu, who were hidden at the bottom of the mountain, saw that the fire was lit up on the mountain, and knew that Li Yun had succeeded, and they also began to attack from the bottom of the mountain. The bandits on the hill found the house on fire and someone attacked and panicked. Li Yun and these people are all the elite of the militia group, all of them are one as ten, extremely brave, unstoppable, and the bandits they killed fled in all directions.

The bandit leader Fang Hong didn't expect that the bandits sent out had been wiped out, without any guard, he drank a few more drinks last night, hugged the snatched woman Hu Tianhu, was sleeping very hard, suddenly woke up, frightened and weak, and hurriedly wanted to sneak away. This is Li Yun has already killed him, Fang Hong barely wielded his bare sword to resist a few moves, and was beheaded by Li Yun with a knife.

Li Yun held Fang Hong's head in his hand and shouted loudly: "The bandit leader is dead!" Disarm or kill! Kneel and don't kill! Death to the recalcitrant ones! Most of the bandits who did not die saw that the situation was gone, and they fell to their knees and surrendered. A few die-hards tried to resist, but were also killed by the militia. At this time, Li Qing and Li Hu under the mountain also came up the mountain, and when they saw the bandits on the mountain kneeling on the ground, knowing that they had won the victory, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and cheered one after another.

Counting the casualties, there was not a single death, only two seriously wounded and three lightly wounded. It turns out that the militia of the militia is good at cooperating with each other, supporting each other and covering, and in the face of rabble and panicked bandits, it is normal for the casualties to be small.

It was getting dark, and Li Gen and the people from the support team also rushed up. Li Yun asked Li Qing and Li Gen to lead everyone to clean up the battlefield and collect the treasury of the bandits. Everything was cleaned up, nothing was left behind, and the captives were tied up in a string and held together. The people ate breakfast on the bandits' stoves, burned down all the houses, completely destroyed all the houses, fortresses and other facilities, and completely abandoned the place.