Chapter 10 Niutou Mountain Bandits

On the way to retreat, several more family members were broken, and there were only eighteen housekeepers left including the housekeepers of the Yuan Mansion, and they no longer dared to rush into the woods, so they could only draw their bows and arrows from a distance to prevent Hu Li and others from rushing out of the woods. When Hu Li told the wolf riders that the enemy had gone to rescue the troops, the wolf riders unanimously strongly demanded to rush out of the woods and destroy the eighteen people in the Yuan Mansion. When Hu Li looked at the sky that was almost dark, he decided to wait until it was completely dark before rushing out, so as to avoid unnecessary casualties, and Hu Li would feel distressed if he lost any wolf rider.

It was dark, and the reinforcements of the officers and soldiers of Wuji County also appeared in the eyes of the golden eagle, not far from the woods, Hu Li knew that they couldn't wait any longer, so they sneaked to the edge of the woods, mounted their horses, and then let the golden eagle swoop towards the housekeeper of the Yuan Mansion after making a loud chirp in the sky, the housekeeper of the Yuan Mansion saw the golden eagle rushing towards him like an arrow from the string, and was shocked, and hurriedly asked the family members to shoot the bows and arrows in their hands towards the golden eagle, but the golden eagle was originally Hu Li let it out to attract attention, When he was still a hundred meters above the ground, he rose back into the air and successfully dodged the wave of arrow rain that came from him, and Hu Li and the others took the opportunity to rush out of the woods, shoot a wave of arrow rain, and once again put down five or six Yuan Fu family members and rode away in the direction of Changshan. The housekeeper of the Yuan Mansion couldn't swallow this breath, and when the officers and soldiers arrived, he took the remaining family members and the cavalry of the hundred officers and soldiers who came to support, and vowed to chase Hu Li and the others.

Hu Li saw the reinforcements chasing behind through the golden eagle, and suddenly felt bad, he instructed the wolf riders to hurry up, and at the same time asked the golden eagle to look for five wolf riders and a hundred horses in the direction of Changshan, and found them at a distance of about three miles after passing through a fork in the road. Since the five wolf riders could only barely control a hundred horses, the speed was naturally not fast, Hu Li didn't want to give up the hundred horses, and he didn't want to bring trouble to Changshan Zhending's stronghold, and after seeing the fork in the road to Julu, he thought about it. He asked the eight wolves to ride to join the five wolf riders who were rushing to Changshan and go to Zhending together, while Hu Li took the remaining two wolf riders to erase the horses' hoof marks on the fork in Changshan with a branch, and dragged the branch behind the horse and rode with the two wolves in the direction of Julu.

Through the vision of the golden eagle in the sky, Hu Li found that the housekeeper of the Yuan Mansion led the pursuers to stop at the fork in the road for a while, and then chased after Hu Li and the three of them. Because Hu Li and the three of them each had two horses, and they kept hurrying day and night, the housekeeper of Yuan Mansion led the pursuers to chase until noon the next day and still did not find the traces of Hu Li and others, so he gave up the chase and went back to Wuji County, through the vision of the golden eagle, after seeing the pursuers turn around and return to Wuji County, Hu Li breathed a sigh of relief, so he found a forest to rest, with kittens and Xiao Jin in charge of guarding, Hu Li and the three of them slept a long sleep with peace of mind.

In the early morning of the second day, Hu Li and the three of them began to set off to return to Zhending after eating dry food, when Hu Li and the three of them arrived at the Changshan Zhending stronghold only half a day away, Hu Li caught up with the other thirteen wolf riders, but did not see the hundred horses, and the thirteen wolf riders were all wounded, very embarrassed, there were more than 50 corpses on the ground, Hu Li hurriedly stepped forward to ask, the wolf rider squad leader Zhao Quan replied: "The subordinates are incompetent, the horses were robbed by the bandits on this Niutou Mountain, they have more than 200 people, and they are divided into two groups after seeing us passing, After we had killed more than fifty of them, we scared away more than a hundred of them who had come at us, but the horses were led up the hill by another group of their men, and we were about to take them back after a rest."

"Don't worry, I'll let the golden eagle go to inform my second uncle to bring the troops to come, and then attack the mountain together" After saying that, Hu Li asked Xiao Jin to bring his own note to find Zhao Yun, but as soon as he flew out of a mile away, he saw Zhao Yun coming with fifty soldiers, and after the two teams converged, Hu Li asked: "Why is the second uncle here?" ”

"When we arrived here yesterday, we encountered a group of bandits, but I killed them, and I was afraid that you would meet them too, so I brought troops to meet them, and it seems that you have already encountered them." Zhao Yun replied.

"Yes, Second Uncle, one of our hundred horses were robbed by bandits, and we are preparing to find Second Uncle for support." Hu Li informed Zhao Yun that Zhongshan was chased and killed by the Yuan Mansion and that the wolf rode into the bandits just now.

"The second uncle inquired around yesterday and learned the details of these bandits, they are all remnants of the Yellow Turban, who just wandered to Niutou Mountain this month, there are more than 500 people, half of them are old and weak, I have already heard that there is a path in the back mountain that leads directly to the top of the mountain, how about we kill it at night?" Zhao Yun proposed.

"What the second uncle said is very good, we will kill it at night"

It was dark, Hu Li and Zhao Yun led everyone from the back mountain path quietly to touch the mountain, because there was Hu Li's owl flying in the air to see the road conditions, everyone arrived at the top of the mountain smoothly, Zhao Yun and Hu Li first solved the sentry bandit who was lax in defense, and touched it after inquiring about the residence of the big boss of the bandit, until the door of the big boss was found by the big boss who got up to pee, the big boss shouted and was about to go back to the room to get the weapon, Zhao Yun rushed up with an arrow step and subdued the big boss a shoulder fall to the ground.

At this time, only more than thirty bandits who had obtained weapons came to rescue their big bosses, and after being rushed into the crowd by Hu Li and Zhao Yun and put down seven or eight people, they all put down their weapons and surrendered. Because Hu Li arranged for ten wolf riders to wait at the gate with bows and arrows, the bandits whose weapons were confiscated also chose to surrender after seeing that the big boss had been subdued.

Hu Li pulled out twenty people for separate interrogation, and found out those thieves who had committed many crimes, including the big boss, and after Hu Li ordered these wicked people to be executed, the remaining bandits were quiet. Hu Li said to the thieves: "We are Changshan wolf riders, among you who want to be soldiers can join us, and those who don't want to be soldiers can stay in our real base and survive by their own labor, the previous crimes are not to blame, but if you commit it again, the punishment will be doubled, I hope you will remember!" ”

After the bandits made their choice, Hu Li selected 200 young men from the more than 200 bandits who were willing to join the army and incorporated them into the Changshan Wolf Cavalry, and the rest of the bandits were ready to be brought back to the Zhending stronghold. At this time, the soldiers who went to the bandit warehouse to move things came back, in addition to gold and silver and a little grain and grass, Hu Li also found a lot of iron ore, and after asking the bandits, he learned that it was all mined in the back mountain.