Chapter XVIII: Assault

Shi 13 and the others followed the river pirate ship for almost half an hour, and even a sturdy man like Shi 13 was a little unbearable. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Luckily, the river pirate boat made a turn and stopped in a small village.

The location of this small village was so secretive that if it weren't for Shi Thirteen and the others following the river pirate ship, they wouldn't have been able to find this place.

And Shi 13 and the others did not approach the small village, but secretly looked at the small village in the grass on the riverbank about three or four hundred meters away from the village.

However, the more he observed, the more frightened Shi Shisan's heart was, this is an ordinary small village, there are big men with swords everywhere, not to mention, there are more than a dozen large and small shuttle boats moored on the river bank in front of the village.

Look at the big man with a knife who patrols the entrance of the village from time to time, which is the village, it is clearly a river thief's nest!

Shi 13 didn't dare to stay here for a long time, and secretly wrote down the location of this village, and Shi 13 and the two left quietly.

In the evening, at about eight o'clock, Shi Shisan's team rushed back to the inspection department, and Shi Shisan's team told the inspection Zhang Shihua the news as soon as possible.

After listening to Shi Shisan's report, Zhang Shihua was also secretly frightened.

I didn't expect this group of river bandits to develop to such a scale in the past two years, and they have already established their own villages.

But that's okay, although it is much more difficult for Zhang Shihua to exterminate the river thieves because of the village, as long as Zhang Shihua operates well this time, he can wipe out this group of river thieves.

So Zhang Shihua decided to dispatch archers to exterminate this group of river thieves tomorrow afternoon, and in the afternoon, he could rush to the lair of the river thieves in the evening, so that he could make a night attack on the river thieves and increase the certainty of exterminating the river bandits.

At noon the next day, the fifty archers of the inspection department and Zhang Shihua left the inspection department with great fanfare, Zhang Shihua nominally advertised that he was patrolling the four towns under the jurisdiction of archers, because Zhang Shihua had also inspected Linshui Town in this way not long ago, so no one suspected that Zhang Shihua's words were false.

And after Zhang Shihua and the others left the town, Zhang Shihua quietly divided the archers into four parts, and quietly rushed to the river thief village that Shi Shishi discovered.

At this time, the group of river thieves was also discussing the matter of Zhang Shihua.

In a main house in the middle of the river pirate village, the four leaders of the river pirates are talking.

There were only four of them in the room, one of whom was a big man with a full face who sat in the main seat, while the other three sat on the side in turn.

At this time, I only heard a middle-aged man sitting in the first place of the main seat and said to the big man sitting in the main seat: Big brother, I heard that there was a powerful inspection in Yangshui Town, and he destroyed the group of robbers from Guide Mansion after only one month in office, and now the county magistrate has handed over Linshui Town to him to be responsible, if we go to Linshui Town to fight the autumn wind again, I am worried that it will anger which Yangshui Town's inspection, so that the brothers will be killed and injured in vain.

And a scar-faced man sitting in the second place on the side said: Second brother, you are a little too careful, you also said that the inspection is the inspection of Yangshui Town, and it will take at least two hours to rush from Yangshui Town to Linshui Town, and when the inspection arrives, the brothers will have already left, and the brothers will be afraid that he will not succeed in a small inspection as long as they get on the boat.

The middle-aged man who was the second in line listened to the words of the third child and patted the arm of the chair and said: "The third brother, I am not afraid of that bullshit inspection, but I don't want to let my brothers lose their lives in vain, and besides, the brothers have a lot of harvest this year, why take this risk."

And at this time, the big man sitting on the head of the main man also spoke: Second brother, I know that you are cautious, but the head of our business is pinned to the waistband of our trousers, so what is not risky.

Linshui Town still has to go, but then let the brothers be careful, and the action the day after tomorrow will be commanded by you.

The second brother listened to the big man's words, opened his mouth and wanted to say something more, but before he could open his mouth, the big man said again: Okay, let's stop here, let's go down and rest.

The second child also knew when he heard this that the matter had been settled, so he didn't say anything more, but hugged his fists and said "yes" and agreed to come down to this matter.

And when the four leaders all went back to the house to rest, Zhang Shihua also took people outside the village.

I have to say that the suppression of bandits still has to control the initiative, if Zhang Shihua fails to find out the old nest of the river thief, then the result may really be like the third brother of the river thief said.

And after Zhang Shihua took control of the initiative, the thoughts of the river pirates were just daydreaming.

Zhang Shihua and they have been here for a long time, but Zhang Shihua did not directly order the attack.

Instead, they waited patiently outside the village, and when the river thieves in the village were all asleep, Zhang Shihua and they were ready to attack.

I have to say that this group of river thieves is really arrogant, and there is not a single patrol sentry in the entire village, so Zhang Shihua's actions can be said to be extremely smooth.

Zhang Shihua was going to put this group of river thieves in a nest this time, instead of simply defeating this group of river bandits, so Zhang Shihua asked Brother Donkey and Brother Lu to take their respective teams to control the river thieves' boats, and he took the rest of the people to defeat the river thieves in the village.

It was about night, and the fifty archers, each with an unlit torch in one hand and a spear in the other, were ready.

After Zhang Shihua's hand, fifty people lit the torches in their hands together and rushed towards the village of the river thieves with great momentum.

And the river thieves were also startled by the shouts of the archers, but by the time they reacted, Zhang Shihua and they had already entered the town, and for a while, the village was full of the shouts of the archers.

The river pirates didn't expect anyone to attack them at night, and the sleeping river pirates didn't even get dressed, so they rushed out of their room with the weapons in the house, but when they rushed out, they found that the next thing to greet them was death.

The thirty archers under the leadership of Zhang Shihua rushed into the river group like a sharp sword, on one side was the river thief who had just woken up and was at a loss, and on the other side was the well-trained and well-prepared archers of the Inspection Division.

The battle between the two was completely the slaughter of the river pirates by the archers of the Inspection Division, and those river thieves were defeated by the thirty archers of the Inspection Department without Zhang Shihua and them causing any impact.

The burning fire, the blood of the dead, and the wails of the wounded completely crushed the last shred of courage from the river pirates, who retreated like a herd of sheep driven deeper into the village.

At this time, the four leaders of the river pirates also got dressed, took their weapons and ran out of the house.

The leader of the river thieves brandished his sword and killed several of his subordinates who fled backwards, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, we have no way out, if you want to live, kill all these guys for me, otherwise we will all die here tonight, and rush out with me."

After speaking, he took the big knife and walked to the front of the river bandits.

The frightened river pirates took some courage in the lead of their leaders, and they clenched their weapons tightly, and shouted at the thirty archers of the Patrol Division, led by several leaders.

And the archers of the inspection division on Zhang Shihua's side also formed a battle formation under Zhang Shihua's command, and the two sides officially fought in this small village.

The big leader of the river thieves wore a leather armor and rushed to the front with a big knife, today's incident made him very angry, in the past few years, only he led people to rob others and kill others, and there was the humiliation of being beaten to the door.

In his view, the reason why Zhang Shihua and these people were able to gain the upper hand at the beginning was nothing more than because Zhang Shihua and they caught themselves off guard, as long as the group of brothers under him reacted, a group of militiamen with spears were not like chopping melons and vegetables for their side.

In Zhang Shihua's eyes, the "heroic behavior" of these river pirate leaders and a group of frightened river thieves who attacked the spear army formation of the inspection department was stupid and cute.

Now the archers of the Inspection Division have experienced another frontal fight with the robbers under Zhang Shihua's continuous training for nearly a month and a half, and they have already been reborn.

Dozens of days of physical training coupled with adequate nutrition have made the archers extremely strong, not to mention, long-term actual combat drills, thorn tree gun training, but also made these archers have rich combat experience and superb combat skills.

Now even if the archers of the Inspection Division do not use battle formations but fight one-on-one, these river bandits are no match for the archers of the Inspection Division at all, let alone now.

The archers of the Inspection Division have already lined up in battle, and this river thief actually rushed up with people stupidly, it was completely looking for death!

And the result that happened after that was exactly the same as Zhang Shihua expected, the leader of the river thieves who rushed into battle alone was indeed very heroic, and he actually cut off the spear of an archer of the inspection department with one sword, but before he could make a second cut, he was pierced through his body by other archers with spears.

And the other people who attacked the battle array of the Patrol Division archers with him ended up like him, and the archers of the Patrol Division who cooperated with him easily used the battle array to easily torture and kill this group of river thieves who would only swarm in battle.

When the bravest river bandits and leaders who rushed to the front were killed, the last bit of courage in the hearts of the remaining river bandits was gone.

Under the advance of the archers of the Inspection Division step by step, these river thieves who once killed people without blinking an eye will do nothing but turn their heads and run away and kneel on the ground to beg for mercy.

However, when the escaped river pirates ran to the boats in the village and found that the boats were already under the control of the fierce pikemen, they all chose to surrender on their knees.