Chapter 65: The Tale of Qingfeng Mountain's Suppression of Bandits

The matter of everyone's attack on Qingfeng Mountain has been decided, and Zhang Tongju immediately asked everyone to go down to prepare. After the melee in the middle of the night, some of the soldiers were sleepy. Cui Feng let the pot be buried in the stone unloading shed to make food, and after eating and drinking enough to rest, he set off to suppress the bandits. The forbidden army of Qingfeng Town came in the middle of the night, and it was impossible to bring any heavy grain and grass, but fortunately, the kitchen of the stone unloading shed needed to supply the food of thousands of workers in the quarry every day, and the food of the more than 400 forbidden soldiers was nothing.

After everyone had eaten and drunk enough and rested, Commander Huang commanded the forbidden army to set off, and Cui Feng also accompanied him with more than 20 training troops from the unloading shed village regiment that could still fight again. The black-armored cavalry in Qingfeng Town was already in the limelight this morning, and everyone immediately had four or five heads, and I was afraid that Cexun would not be able to run away if he turned around. To attack Qingfeng Mountain, it was difficult for the cavalry to perform, and besides, they had to leave some credit for those infantry troops, so Commander Huang ordered the cavalry to stay in the stone unloading shed to rest, and protect the village by the way. As for the township soldiers who came from Qingzhou, they were also arranged to go into the village to help protect Zhang Tongju and Liu Tuan's training envoys.

Liu Xu also applied to go with him to exterminate Qingfeng Mountain, Qingfeng Mountain kidnapped him, Gu Laosi and Su Qingpin also killed the black cow, Liu Xu hated the two in his heart, and said that he must see the destruction of Qingfeng Mountain. Cui Ye saw that Liu Xu insisted on following him, and Wu Zi was a little uneasy, so he also went with him. Zhang Tongjuan and Liu Tuanlian were not young, and they were a little tired after a night of tossing, so they stayed in the stone unloading shed.

Commander Huang has no opinion on Cui Feng and them going together, after all, the stone unloading shed is considered to have saved face this time, and it is also appropriate to go and get it back. Besides, Commander Huang has a close relationship with the Cui family, so he should also help him. If he wanted to share his credit with those village soldiers, he would not allow it. After all, attacking Qingfeng Mountain still depends on his forbidden army.

Everyone drove to Qingfeng Mountain.

Qingfeng Mountain is the highest among the mountains in the western mountainous area of Qingzhou, the altitude is about more than 900 meters, the terrain is precipitous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the bandits have been operating here for decades, the bandit leader has changed wave after wave, but the bandits of Qingfeng Mountain are always difficult to eradicate.

Although Qingfeng Mountain is difficult to attack, it has also been broken by the official army several times, but once the cottage is breached, the bandits of Qingfeng Mountain either fled to Erlong Mountain and Taohua Mountain, or hid in the mountains, so it is always difficult to clean up. This time, the bandits of Erlong Mountain and Taohuashan were all captured or killed, and the bandits of Qingfeng Mountain had no countermeasures, which was a good opportunity to exterminate Qingfeng Mountain.

Commander Huang led the forbidden army to the foot of Qingfeng Mountain, and first sent Qin Deputy Commander to bring a hundred pikemen dressed in infantry iron armor to the back mountain to prevent bandits from escaping from the back mountain to the depths of the mountains, and he himself took those sword and shield soldiers in leather armor, archers and the remaining pikemen to block the path up the mountain in front and prepare for a strong attack. Attacking the mountain is not advantageous for pikemen in heavy infantry iron armor, they are more suitable for frontal combat, but sword and shield soldiers and archers in light leather armor have more advantages.

At this time, the people on Qingfeng Mountain were panicked, and the bandits had no intention of fighting, and the forbidden army of Qingfeng Town passed a rain of arrows, and the bandits had dispersed. Commander Huang easily led people to break through the first gate of Qingfeng Mountain and attack the mountainside. The bandits retreated to the gate on the top of the mountain. Cui Feng led the regiment to train the troops, and escorted Liu Xu and Cui Ye to the mountainside.

The top of Qingfeng Mountain is extremely steep, and there is only one mountain road that can be passed, and the walled gate of the Qingfeng Mountain bandits is just a steep place on the mountain road, and the walled gate is made of stones, tall and strong. Commander Huang wanted to break through the gate in one go, but the soldiers of the forbidden army in Qingfeng Town attacked them all, not only to no avail, but also to lose many brothers. This path is steep and difficult to walk, the gate of the fortress is strong, it is difficult for the forbidden army to attack on the back, the mountain road is narrow, and the advantage of the forbidden army is difficult to open, even if there is the cover of the archers, but there is only a simple ladder, there is no other attacking tool, the soldiers of the forbidden army are attacked by the stones thrown by the bandits frantically, and they still do not succeed in capturing the wall.

Seeing the setback of the attack on the walled gate, Commander Huang couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and immediately wanted to personally lead people forward to attack.

At this time, Cui Feng stepped forward and grabbed Commander Huang's envoy and said: "The archers in Brother Huang's team should carry rockets, although the gate of the bandit village is made of stones, but the houses in the village are all wooden, it is better to use rockets to ignite the houses in the village, it will definitely cause chaos, and then take the opportunity to attack, it will be able to overcome it with one drum." ”

Liu Xu heard Cui Feng say that he used rockets at this time, and suddenly thought of the book about the Mongolian siege that he had read in later generations, and the sharp return cannon of the Mongolian army would often use wet firewood and grass mixed with arsenic and wolf poison to ignite when the siege could not find stones from local materials, and throw them into the city to form poisonous smoke, which always had a miraculous effect. I don't know if it will be possible to shoot it with a rocket, although I don't understand military affairs, but Liu Xu still said it, although he is suspicious of having many mouths: "Brother Cui, Commander Huang, I don't know if the rocket-ignited materials are wrapped in poisons such as arsenic and wolf poison, and if they can form poisonous smoke when they are shot into the village, is it useful?" ”

Commander Huang really didn't think that he could use poisonous smoke to attack the city before. Hearing what Liu Xu said, he couldn't help frowning and thinking. However, after a moment, he shook his head slightly and said, "If the siege machine is used to mix poison into the wet firewood and grass, it can form poisonous smoke. In wet weather, these poisons are wrapped in rockets and shot into the village, which may also form poisonous smoke, but now that the autumn is crisp and dry, I am afraid that after the rocket ignites the house, the fire is fierce, and there is not much smoke! Commander Huang could think of so much in a moment, and at a glance, he knew that he was also an old soldier with experience in battle formations.

Liu Xu thought for a while and said: "Then add more [***] or spicy and dazzling medicines, it should have some effect!" ”

Cui Feng said on the side: "There are some medicines and poisons in the pharmacy in our village, why don't Brother Huang let the brothers take the opportunity to rest, I will send someone to the village to get those drugs and poisons, and then I will shoot into them, which will have some effect." ”

Commander Huang said: "It's okay, just let the brothers rest for a while!" ”

Not long after, the three regiments sent to unload the stone shed to get medicine and poison trained and brought back several large bags of medicine. They brought all the poisons from the whole stone shed, the pharmacy, and so on.

Huang commanded the envoy to distribute the medicine to the archers.

The archers wrapped the medicine under the arrowhead igniter, lit it, and under the order of Commander Huang, they all shot into the village.

It didn't take long for the Qingfeng Cottage to be on fire, but I didn't expect those drugs and poisons, although they did not form thick smoke, but under the impetus of the fire, the heavy and piercing smell emitted still choked the bandits in Qingfeng Mountain to tears, cough and practice, and the bandits didn't care about fighting the fire, but only looking for a place where there were no fireworks to hide.

Immediately, Commander Huang ordered the archers to aim at the Qingfeng Cottage Wall, shoot with all their might, suppress the bandits on the wall, and the rest of the forbidden soldiers attack the city with all their might. Qingfeng Mountain cottage has been chaotic, the bandits on the wall of the wall are under the strong suppression of bows and arrows, it is difficult to show their heads, the soldiers of the forbidden army are full of energy, climb the wall, enter the wall and open the door.

Commander Huang commanded all the soldiers of the forbidden army and rushed in.

Liu Xu was also about to rush into the village, but Cui Feng refused to let him live or die, and said: "Don't worry, Sanhu and Su Qingpin, I will definitely catch it for you." After Cui Feng finished speaking, he left a few regimental training soldiers to protect Liu Xu and Cui Ye, and then led the rest of the regimental training soldiers to rush in with the forbidden army.

The gate of the village was opened, and the battle in the cottage of Qingfeng Mountain was basically without suspense.

The bandits in Qingfeng Mountain basically had no resistance in front of the fully armed forbidden army, and they were either cut down and stabbed to death, or captured.

Among the three tigers of Qingfeng Mountain, the whirlwind tiger was commanded to make a horse lance fly in front of the unloading stone shed, was seriously injured, and was snatched back to the mountain by the bandits. The Jinmao Tiger and the Bantam Tiger also suffered a lot of injuries, but they still took some of their younger brothers and fled from the back mountains, trying to escape into the mountains.

However, when they ran to the foot of the back mountain, they met the hundred fully armored pikemen carried by Deputy Commander Qin waiting in formation.

There was a burst of stabbing, countless casualties, the brocade tiger was killed on the spot, and the bantam tiger was tied up with a few remaining bandits.

Only Su Qingpin, the forbidden army and the regimental training soldiers finally searched carefully, but they did not find it.

The Sanshan bandits, who had been suffering from Qingzhou for decades, were calmed down in one fell swoop because of a series of changes caused by the accidental incident of Liu Xu's kidnapping.

Commander Huang commanded the forbidden army to destroy the cottage of the bandits in Qingfeng Mountain, and escorted the bandits back to the stone shed, of course, the property in the village on the bandits also fell into the pockets of the forbidden army under the command of Commander Huang.

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