Chao Gai shouted: "Li Kuihualei rushed over quickly, and he couldn't let him form a formation. "After that, Chao Gai bent his bow and shot arrows, and the feather arrows shot at Yan Shun as fast as lightning.

"Ahh Yan Shun was shocked into a cold sweat, this arrow went straight to Yan Shun's throat, the speed was too fast, Yan Shun didn't have time to dodge at all, just shook his body slightly, and the feather arrow swooped into Yan Shun's shoulder, although Yan Shun did not have iron armor, but there was a set of buffalo leather leather armor.

Yan Shun was in a cold sweat, gritted his teeth and said, "Retreat." "With a few dozen henchmen, he retreated into the mountains.

Li Kui and Hua Lei led the infantry to pursue quickly, Hua Lei and Li Kui have been mixed for a long time, and they are not showy in the big iron rod battle, and the head of the person who is often beaten with a stick is half rotten, how disgusting and disgusting. Not to mention Li Kui, there were no whole corpses that died under his axe. The infantry brought by the two is also a bird-like, like to fight fiercely, and the strength accumulated in training on weekdays is finally used today, like a tiger entering a flock. The remaining minions were unable to organize effective resistance at all, and they were defeated and wounded.

At this time, Huang Xin, Hua Rong, and Dong Ping each led the soldiers to come. Chao Gai ordered Li Kuihualei to return to the army, and turned to the direction of the Juyi Hall and the bandits' residence.

As soon as Dong Ping saw Chao Gai, he said angrily: "I said that I attacked the mountain at noon today, why did I start it before dawn, our army was caught off guard and had no time to prepare." ”

Chao Gai smiled and said: "The art of war is cloudy, and if you attack it unprepared, you are all caught off guard, not to mention the bandits." What's more, I also informed Huang Dujian in advance. ”

Huang Xin saw that he secretly complained that Chao Gai pushed the matter on himself, and Chao Gai only notified Huang Xin to lead troops to respond before the attack, but he didn't expect Chao Gai to make a great contribution to capture Qingfeng Mountain in one fell swoop, and hurriedly said: "Don't hurt the harmony for some trivial things, the bandits are gone, and it is important to arrest the remnants." ”

"I'll take someone." Dong Ping said that, he led three hundred infantry and followed the remnants of the bandits towards the deeper part of Qingfeng Mountain.

Huang Xin was busy leading troops to capture the prisoners, and Chao Gai specially came to chat with Hua Rong.

"This kind of bandit is actually of very little significance, even if you kill all the bandits in Qingfeng Mountain today, a Black Wind Mountain will emerge tomorrow." Chao Gai sighed.

Hua Rong was surprised that Chao Gai, a stupid and big man, actually said such philosophical words.

"Why did Chao Tuanlian say this, aren't the bandits going to be exterminated?" Hua Rong asked rhetorically.

"These so-called bandits, except for a few who have committed the most heinous crimes, are all people who have lost their land and livelihood, but who is willing to come to the grass if there is a trace of survival. If we don't eradicate corrupt officials and local tyrants and bullies, what is the difference between cracking down on bandits and cutting leeks? Chop off one batch of heads, and the next batch will soon come. Therefore, the suppression of bandits is not about curing bandits in the mountains, but about improving the rule of officials. Chao Gai said.

Hua Rong pondered that this was still very reasonable, but it made sense that there was a bird to use, and said with a smile: "Chao Tuan practices high theory, but Hua Rong is just a martial artist, and he controls Qingfeng Village, and he is only a few hundred soldiers." ”

"Brother Huarong is wrong again, as the so-called rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, not to mention that you are still the country's military general, how can you watch the country develop like this." Chao Gai said.

Hua Rong asked rhetorically: "Then what should I do?" ”

"I'm doing some improvements and common sense in Yuncheng, and the Huarong brothers can go and see it when they have time."

was saying that Huang Xin had caught too many prisoners there, and two hundred old, weak, sick and disabled people were searched from the living quarters, Huang Xin asked Hua Rong to help arrest people, and Hua Rong had to go over.

Here, Hua Lei also sent someone to inform Chao Gai, and arrested a bandit leader in the Juyi Hall and asked Chao Gai to go over and take a look.

In the small room next to the Gathering Hall, Chao Gai saw the bandit leader who was tied up with five flowers, this person was tall, but he was a little weak and fair-skinned.

"It's Chao Gai Chao Baozheng?" The man asked.

"Yes, it's me, who are you, and how do you know my name." Chao Gai said.

"His name is Zheng Tianshou, he is a silversmith, and when he passed by here three years ago, he was robbed by Wang Ying and went up the mountain, although he had no choice but to fall into the grass, but he did not do anything wrong, and asked Chao Baozheng to forgive." Zheng Tianshou said.

Chao Gai nodded and said: "I have also heard about you, but now I haven't investigated it clearly, and it's not good to let you go immediately, I'll find a few minions to ask about the situation in a while, if what you say is true, you will be the victim, and you will not be held responsible." ”

Zheng Tianshou was overjoyed: "Thank you Chao Tuanlian, I know the silver treasury of the cottage, and I am willing to lead the way." ”

Chao Gai took Jiao Ting, Xie Zhen and Jie Bao and a hundred soldiers, and followed Zheng Tianshou around a long circle before finding a cave under a mountain cliff, opening the gate and inside was the materials of the cottage, and the food was not much, only 20,000 catties, and the total of silver, copper, coins and jewelry was only tens of thousands.

"There are also a few businessmen here, Wang Ying is locked up here, this guy has lost his conscience, and he often likes to drink people's soup, which are all raised ingredients." Zheng Tianshou pointed to a small cell in the silver vault and said.

Chao Gai looked like this, there were four people in charge of it, all dressed as businessmen, two grades old, two in their twenties, seeing Chao Gai and others dressed as officials and soldiers, he quickly knelt down: "We are businessmen from Hangzhou, and we were arrested when we passed by here a few months ago." ”

Chao Gai beckoned, let Xie Zhen Jiebao release the four people, check that there are no hidden sharp weapons, and then bring them over to speak, the four of them have been locked up for a long time, plus they are threatened with death every day, and their words are a little upside down, Chao Gai said: "The four of you elected one leader to talk back and forth." ”

The four of them discussed and elected a fat old man to come out and reply: "My name is Chen Hongjun, a person from Hangzhou, and I have five in my Chinese New Year's Eve this year. ”

Chao Gai looked at the bearded man in front of him, and felt that he was in his fifties, but he didn't expect to be only thirty-five years old.

"What are you doing here, when were you caught, how much money you lost, how many people died?" Chao Gai asked.

"We had a caravan of hundreds of people, and we were caught on the way to traffic West Lake Longjing tea, when the tea lost twenty carriages, twenty people were arrested, and the rest of the people ran away, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and the twenty people who came together, sixteen of them were eaten by Wang Ying, and the four of us or the three kings let us pretend to be diarrhea, so we escaped the catastrophe." Chen Hongjun said.

"Hmph, Wang Ying, the dog thief, has lost his conscience, and he will definitely arrest this person alive if he orders him." Chao Gai said.

Chao Gai asked the four people to change new clothes, made confessions for them, signed and drew a pledge, and finally took out two hundred taels from the seized dirty silver: "Your caravan has suffered a lot of losses, and it should be compensated, but it's a pity that this place is not under my jurisdiction, and I think the Murong prefect may not be willing to pay attention to you." I have two hundred taels of silver here, and the four of you should go back to the countryside first, presumably the wives and children at home are all worried. ”

The four of them wept bitterly and knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Please ask the surname of Engong, and when I return to my hometown, I will definitely repay him with a generous gift." “

Chao Gai said: "In Chao Gai in Xiayun City, it is the responsibility of this general to suppress bandits and catch thieves, and there is no need to worry about it." ”

They were given silver taels, and each of them was given a whistle stick to defend themselves, and then they were sent back to their hometowns.

Zheng Tianshou's matter was quickly investigated, as Zheng Tianshou said, he was arrested on the mountain, although Gong is the three kings, in fact, he has no real power, Wang Ying and Yan Shun have been on guard against him, and the little minions don't listen to Zheng Tianshou.

"Zheng Tianshou, since your matter has been asked clearly, you can go back." Chao Gai said.

Who knew this, Zheng Tianshou cried loudly: "The family has already been killed. It turned out that as soon as the news of Zheng Tianshou falling into the grass in Qingfeng Mountain spread, the officials at the place of household registration raided Zheng Tianshou's house and destroyed it.

"Hey, it's also a poor person, brother, you can accept this Zheng Tianshou." Jiao Ting said.

Chao Gai said: "This is also the truth, although I believe that you are innocent, but Murong Prefect will definitely not believe it, and it is inevitable that his head will be separated by him." ”

Zheng Tianshou bowed: "I am willing to follow my brother, and I will not hesitate." ”

"Haha, it doesn't have to be so serious, just do what you can. If you are a silversmith, why don't you set up a shop and make jewelry hairpins and other things? ”

Zheng Tianshou hurriedly shook his head and said, "Although it is true that I am a silversmith, I am proficient in mining silver ore, not making jewelry. ”

Chao Gai's eyes lit up, he didn't expect Zheng Tianshou to actually mine silver mines, this is a rare talent.

"Oh, where are the silver mines in Shandong?"

"I found a very large silver mine, if it can be mined tens of millions of taels, it is not impossible, but that place is located in the middle of nowhere, in a ravine in Zhaoyuan County, it is not easy to mine." Zheng Tianshou said.

"There is such a matter, don't mention this matter again, go back to Yuncheng and talk about it." Chao Gai said.

According to the matter, Chao Gai collected the money in the warehouse and returned to the front, at this time Dong Ping, who went out to pursue, had already returned, dozens of soldiers were injured, and some people were carrying corpses, very embarrassed.

Chao Gai didn't want to ask, and Hua Rong next to him said: "When they were chasing the bandits, they were brought into a trap by the bandits, and there were bamboo sticks everywhere in the pit, four of them died, and more than 20 were injured." ”

Li Kui said: "Where can there be no dead and wounded in the war, our soldiers have been injured more than 20 times, all of them are slashed and stabbed." ”

Huang Xin comforted Dong Ping with kind words and promised to give the wounded soldiers a pension and part of the provisions, which made Dong Ping feel relieved.

In this battle, more than 50 bandits were beheaded and more than 200 people were captured.

Huang Xin was very happy, stationed troops in Qingfeng Mountain that night, held a feast, and a group of people were drunk, which made Liu Tang shake his head: "If I am Yan Shun, I will come back tonight to ensure that I can fight a turnaround." ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Yan Shun doesn't have that ability, besides, Dong Ping and Huang Xinbu are drunk, but our troops and Hua Rong's troops are quite sober." I think that Hua Rong is also cautious, vigilant everywhere, and a person who can be made. ”