Early in the morning!

Yang Xiaoyu wore a suit of armor, a scarlet cloak on his shoulder, and an embroidered spring treasure knife on his waist, and came to the prefect's yamen with the guards, and asked Shen Mingda for two hundred servants, guarding outside the inn to protect the princess's safety.

Zhou Tong and Cheng Yun withdrew to the Thousand Households with their subordinates.

Cao Tai stayed in the inn to protect the princess's safety.

Inside a thousand households!

Yang Xiaoyu gathered more than 300 lieutenants and wrestlers, pushed out the four Francophone cannons in the arsenal, brought enough cannonballs, and brought ten tiger squat cannons, leaving Cheng Yun to guard the thousand households, and took other soldiers and horses out of the city.

Ten miles outside the city, hundreds of soldiers and horses from each household gathered on the empty and uninhabited ground, waiting for Yang Xiaoyu to give orders.

After Yang Xiaoyu led the cavalry to arrive, he counted the number of people, and there were more than 800 cavalry, 160 war horses, four Francophone cannons, 50 tiger squat cannons, mines and other gunpowder.

Yang Xiaoyu ordered Ma Baihu to take fifty horsemen to investigate the bandits' movements in Changlin Village, and choose the opportunity to get rid of the outer sentinels of Changlin Village.

Other soldiers and horses walked behind with firearms and dry rations.

Changlin Village is located in the south of Yangzhou 300 miles away, occupies Changlin Mountain, gathers bandits, kills people and goods, bullies men and women, is a famous bandit in Yangzhou.

If Yang Xiaoyu wants to find the horses, he has to eliminate the bandits' dens outside Yangzhou City one by one.

Changlinzhai terrain is precipitous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the guards have encircled and suppressed several times, and suffered heavy losses, later, Changlinzhai has been reined in, no longer killing people and goods on the ground near Yangzhou, and the government will turn a blind eye, let them gather in the mountains and forests, and cause disaster to the people under the mountain.

This time, the news that Yang Xiaoyu led his troops to crusade against the bandits did not spread.

The Jinyi Weiti rode with a strong body and walked more than 200 miles a day without any effort.

At night, the horsemen who had traveled for a day came to the foot of Changlin Mountain. Ma Baihu and Tiqi have already uprooted the sentinels on the periphery of the cottage.

Yang Xiaoyu asked three hundred households to lead his subordinates to block the road down the mountain, and ordered the other two hundred households to cross the back mountain with ten tiger squat cannons, and when they heard the sound of the cannon in front, they immediately attacked from the back mountain, flanking the front and rear, and exterminated the bandits in Changlin Village in one fell swoop.

Midnight.

The Jinyi Guards rode the four Franco-machine cannons up Changlin Mountain. I found a place with a wide field of vision, set up the cannon sticks, filled the ammunition, and aimed at the brightly lit Changlin cottage.

"Fire!" Yang Xiaoyu waved his hand and shouted in a deep voice.

Thundered......

Two hundred meters away, suddenly, the ground shook, the gravel flew, and the roar of artillery was deafening. Rows of rocks rolled, trees were destroyed, shells hit the ground, and a large crater immediately raised up, surrounded by debris and nitrate.

The bandits guarding in front of the Changlin cottage rolled to the ground, screaming and howling, and the fence in front of the village was destroyed by shells within a few miles. The fire ignited, and some bandits fled in panic. The silent mountain forest was suddenly drowned out by the sound of cannon roars.

Yang Xiaoyu looked at the scene a hundred meters away, and waved his hand to let Tiqi fire a second round of shells.

With the experience of the previous time, the cavalry adjusted the muzzle of the cannon, aimed at the rows of houses in the Changlin cottage, filled the cannonballs, and pulled the rope. Immediately, there was a roaring roar, and the frightened birds on the mountain flew everywhere.

This time, the Franc cannon showed its power, and the four shells fell to the ground like meteors in the sky, splashing on the ground. Earth-shattering, many houses in Changlin Mountain were destroyed, and many sleeping bandits were killed by shells.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of artillery sounded behind the Changlin cottage, and many bandits who escaped from the back mountain were blown up by the shells, and their bones were gone, and their flesh and blood were blurred.

Kill -

A roaring sound of rage resounded on the mountain behind them.

In order to save ammunition, Yang Xiaoyu ordered Zhou Tong and Ma Baihu to lead two hundred cavalry to attack from the front, use tiger squat artillery to open the way, and cooperate with the cavalry in the back mountain to annihilate the bandits in Changlin Mountain in one fell swoop.

A cottage of more than 300 people, in less than an hour, was destroyed beyond recognition by the shells, many bandits were splashed with stones and sand in the shells, fell in a pool of blood and whined in pain, the howl penetrated people's ears, and the whole body was cold.

In less than an hour, most of the bandits in Changlin Cottage were slaughtered, and only a small number of people were arrested.

As soon as the fighting stopped, Yang Xiaoyu rushed to the Changlin cottage with the brocade guards beside him.

There were many corpses lying in front of the cottage, and some of the thieves were not dead, and they were whispering in their mouths.

Yang Xiaoyu directly asked Tiqi to step forward to make up for these thieves who were not dead, so that they could die more happily.

Coming to the hall of Changlin Cottage, Yang Xiaoyu walked in, there were a group of bandits kneeling inside, the brocade-clothed guards occupied both sides, holding knives horizontally, the scared thieves trembled, he glanced at the thieves in the hall, and asked coldly: "Who is the big boss?" ”

"If you go back to the official master, the big boss was hit by a cannonball and is already dead!" A lean man with sinister eyebrows and rat eyes spoke up.

"Who's in charge?" Yang Xiaoyu asked impatiently.

"The little ones are!" The lean man nodded in reply.

Yang Xiaoyu slowly walked up to the main seat of the hall and sat down, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know which bandit on the top of the mountain has been outside Yangzhou City recently?" ”

"The little one has been staying in the mountains, and I don't know which cottage has been outside Yangzhou City!" The lean man hurriedly replied.

"Does anyone else know?" Yang Xiaoyu asked the rest of the bandits in the hall in a cold voice.

The thieves were frightened one by one, shaking their heads and signaling that they didn't know.

Yang Xiaoyu swept the faces of the bandits, and finally shook his head and ordered the Jinyi guard to pull them down.

The thieves cried for their fathers and mothers, begging for mercy.

The horsemen dragged the bandits out of the hall, pulled them outside to their knees, their knives dropped, their heads rolling to the ground with blood in their hands, and headless corpses lying to the ground.

These people robbed their homes, harmed the people, left them in the world, and wasted food, besides, Yang Xiaoyu had to continue to exterminate other cottages, and he didn't have the energy to take a group of prisoners.

The night was dark, and Yang Xiaoyu ordered the horsemen to move the gold and silver from the Changlin cottage together, and made a hot meal from the stove in the cottage.

After having dinner overnight, Zhong Tiqi rested in Changlin Cottage.

On the second day, Yang Xiaoyu ordered Ma Baihu to take 20 horsemen to go to the Silver Spear Village fifty miles away to inquire about the news.

It is estimated that last night's cannon sound had frightened the bandits in the nearby mountains and forests, Yang Xiaoyu understood the truth of the speed of the soldiers, and after distributing the gold and silver of the Changlin Cottage to the Zhongti Cavalry, he hurriedly rushed to the Silver Spear Village with a group of powerful Ti Cavalry.

There are only more than 200 people in the silver gun village, but there are two masters who are good marksmanship, so this cottage is famous for the silver gun.

The journey of fifty miles has been reached in half an hour.

The Jinyi Guard Brigade came to three miles outside the Silver Gun Village, and immediately set up the Franco machine cannon, aiming at the Silver Gun Village, which was a wild and indiscriminate bombardment.

There is no steep terrain in the Silver Spear Village, the surroundings are flat, the field of vision is wide, and it is daytime at this time. (To be continued......)