Hu Damao never dreamed that the holy decree could become an empty letter, and it didn't matter when the emperor spoke.

Hundreds of frightened bandits scattered all over the mountain, but the number of officers and men was almost as large as the trees on the mountain, and they could be pulled out wherever they went.

Suddenly, the terrible wails in the mountains rose and fell in the forest, and in a short time they had spread to the mountainside.

An official soldier reported to the Malays, "Ladies and gentlemen, the bandits under the mountain have been completely driven to the mountainside, and there is not one out of ten bandits."

Chen Wanliang laughed when he heard this, "Brother Zheng, look, it's not even half an hour, it seems that your dealer has lost money, it's a pity, why don't I press five taels"

The generals laughed in unison.

Zheng Sen said, "It's not over yet, it is said that the calf ridge is easy to defend and difficult to attack, don't forget, there are still 3,000 bandits on the top of this mountain."

Song Xian said, "The rabble, come here, pass on my general order, and transfer the musketeers of the left guard of Yulin to go up"

The dead branches in the mountains are swaying with the wind, the residual leaves are all over the ground, and the periphery of the sky has been surrounded by officers and soldiers, and Hu Damao is still fighting with a hundred and ten remnant bandits, but he has no power to fight back.

Hu Damao was so angry that he scolded, "Shameless, not faithful, Lao Tzu is blind, brothers, hold on"

Stick to what? Hu Damao himself didn't know, anyway, if he didn't kill the bandits in this posture, he would definitely not stop, and it was good to live for a while, there was no place to run, the eggs of his court, and he sent so many officers and soldiers.

One of the officers and soldiers said angrily, "A group of bandits who kill people and oversell goods are still full of credit, bastards, there is no need to be trustworthy to people like you."

The arrows were densely sparkling in the direction of a line of sky. However, due to the dense trees on the mountain, the lethality of bows and arrows is very limited.

At this time, the layers of officers and soldiers dodged out of the way again, and hundreds of Yulin guards with muskets in their hands poured out, standing in five rows in front of and behind the front line of the sky.

'Bang bang bang ......bang' A row of gunshots rang out, and smoke rose. Dirt and rocks and sawdust flew in front of the muzzle, and seven or eight bandits were shot and fell to the ground before they could dodge.

After the first row is fired, it quickly retreats, and every second row comes forward, 'bang bang bang'.

The musketeers alternated back and forth, moving step by step towards the first line of heaven.

Hu Damao had never experienced such a battle, and when he saw the footsteps of the officers and soldiers advancing, he was already frightened, and he ran towards the mountain with a rolling belt.

And this time. There was also a shout of killing from the mountain, and it turned out that Zhu Yan's people had killed them from the bottom of the mountain.

The power of the musketeers was indeed better than that of bows and arrows in this wooded mountain, and after two rounds of gunfire, the bandits completely lost their sense of resistance, and did not even bother to run away, and before the officers and soldiers could rush over, they quickly threw away their weapons one by one and fell to their knees on the ground. Beg for mercy.

The musketeers retreated, and the pikemen quickly replenished. When I saw the bandits who were kneeling on the ground and surrendered, I didn't even think about it, they all stabbed to death, and the military order did not say that they would be captured, and it was also a scourge for these people to stay.

But the officers and soldiers soon felt that something was wrong, how the bandits and bandits on the mountain were killed. Cannibalism.

So all the officers and soldiers stood still for the time being, and watched the play first, and immediately sent people back to the mountain to report.

This time, the officers and men cleared Daqingshan, and there was no unified command, and they all fought their own battles.

As soon as Song Xian heard that the bandits on the mountain were killing each other. couldn't help but smile, and said to the generals who watched the battle together, "Look, where there are people, there is a fight, and when the disaster comes, they will fly separately, brothers, the bandits in Daqingshan are actually no different from our Ming Dynasty, and the fight in the nest is more ruthless than anyone else, if there is no Wang Cheng Prime Minister to pinch us together, maybe our brothers will still have the day when they will fight against the battlefield."

Zheng Sen said, "Brother Song is reasonable, the result of a plate of scattered sand is the way to self-destruction, it seems that there is no win or loss in this gamble today, order to stop fighting, didn't the prime minister say, do you want to arrest the female bandit leader who wrote poems slandering the court to Nanjing, and allow them to surrender?"

Fang Guoan said, "It's okay, withdraw the siege, send someone to shout to the mountain, don't go down the mountain within half an hour, and slaughter the whole mountain."

**

Zhu Yan covered his face, shouting out all the subordinates to attack the mountain step by step, Hu Damao had just escaped from the hands of the officers and soldiers, and there were not many brothers left around him, where could he resist it, taking advantage of the withdrawal of the officers and troops, he also panicked and followed behind the buttocks of the officers and soldiers and retreated, until he retreated to the foot of the mountain.

On the mountain is the Zhu Yan bandits who are chasing and fighting, and on the opposite side are the officers and soldiers who are waiting for the battle, Hu Damao is desperate, leading the remaining seven or eight brothers to run to Song Xian's vicinity, crying, "Master Jun, don't fight, don't fight, let me surrender, I still have a lot of money hidden on the mountain, all filial piety to all the military masters, let us live."

Thousands of male and female bandits poured down from the mountain, following behind the remnants of Hu Damao and killing them all the way.

Song Xian did not order the killing again, and the whole army only watched a scene and did not pay attention to Hu Damao's begging for mercy.

Hu Damao saw that he couldn't beg to surrender, so he looked around, there were few people, and Zhu Yan's people gradually surrounded him, so he had to stiffen his head and go to = to beg Zhu Yan.

"The big bosses are all their own brothers, be merciful, don't fight, you won't survive if you kill me"

Zhu Yan stood out with her sword, and she could feel her angry murderous aura through the scarf, and pointed at Hu Damao and shouted, "You dog thief, you have done such a hurtful thing, but you blame us righteous people in distress, you should be cut with a thousand knives."

Song Xian fought out of the battle at this time, and shouted, "I said this bandit woman, you are leading so many people to rush down with great momentum, do you want to fight or obediently lay down your weapons?"

Zhu Yan shouted, "Our Daqingshan has never been an enemy of the imperial court, and this time the prime minister's family was arrested on the mountain, and it was all done by this beast, and it has nothing to do with us."

Hu Damao, who was kneeling in the middle of the two armies, hurriedly said, "Master Jun, don't listen to her, she is the master, she instructed us to do it, and now she wants to kill people again, Master Jun, what I said is the truth, she is the culprit, I am forced to be helpless, Master Jun"

Several generals also came to Song Xian's side with horses.

Cao Dingjiao said to the generals, "Why are you still masked, you really think you are a chivalrous man who kills the rich and helps the poor, or you will come here today, there is no challenge at all in this battle, and you will be arrested and handed over to the prime minister."

Zheng Sen said. "It's okay, look at the other side, it's more than half of them women, and the brothers can't do it."

Song Xian nodded.

Zhu Yan also knew that she was not capable of competing with the officers and soldiers, and surrender was the only way to survive.

Zhu Yan took a few steps forward and said, "Generals." We were forced to be helpless, but we have never done anything illegal, the army is coming, we know that we are invincible, I am willing to surrender, please let the general go and fall lightly, but don't spare this bastard"

The generals looked at each other and nodded.

Song Xian struck forward. "Since we have the intention of surrendering, we will not rush to kill everything, all of us will lay down our weapons, come, surround them, and tie up the female bandit and Hu Damao"

The officers and soldiers immediately formed an encirclement and surrounded thousands of bandits in the center of the circle.

The bandits panicked, but saw that the big boss was the first to throw away his weapons. Then he abandoned the knife, and several officers and soldiers stepped forward to take a rope and tie Zhu Yan strongly. Li Dingguo even rushed to Hu Damao with an arrow step, grabbed his fist and hit him, and then tied him into a big brown boy after the fight.

Zhu Yan was brought in front of the generals.

Cao Dingjiao looked at it, smiled, and said, "Everyone." It is rumored that this bandit woman in Daqingshan is a woman with a beautiful face and moon appearance, and she has fascinated a bunch of men who work for her, or let's see it with our own eyes, I don't believe it, what kind of woman can have such a look."

The crowd was not against it. A soldier stepped forward to tear the veil off Zhu Yan's face.

Unexpectedly, she lost her head and raised her eyebrows, "Shi can be killed, but you can't be humiliated, if you dare to take my scarf, I'll bite my tongue and kill myself now."

The generals looked at each other and laughed.

Song Xiandao, "It turns out that she is still a martyr, okay, take it away, Li Dingguo, I will give you a thousand people, go to the mountains and search carefully, don't let go of a fish that slips through the net, and kill all those who refuse to surrender, and by the way, bring back all the ill-gotten wealth on the mountain, and destroy the bandits' nest, lest someone take advantage of this again."

The army was pulled out, and the mighty squad returned to the dynasty.

**

Wang Lanping received the good news in the morning, and five days later, the army returned to its own camp, and a cadre of male and female bandits were also taken into custody, and the two bandit leaders, Zhu Yan and Hu Damao, were sent to the criminal department for trial.

Li Dingding had mixed feelings, met with all the old brothers, hugged his head and cried, it was really nine deaths, the seven hundred brothers who fought in Huaining in the past, there were no more than one hundred and ten people left, but fortunately, these people all gathered together and became Prime Minister Wang Cheng's personal guards, and they were stationed on the edge of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

When Song Dali heard that Li Dingguo had returned, he had been waiting in the Prime Minister's Mansion for a long time, and after a short time, all the generals came together to hand over the order and report the results.

The Prime Minister's Mansion held a feast, and everyone gathered together.

The barracks outside the city were also feasting, and all the property obtained from this crackdown was distributed to all the soldiers who participated in the battle, and the ransom of 50,000 yuan was also returned to the household.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, the generals sat around the table, Wang Lanping was in the middle, pushing the arms to change the lamp, this banquet was set up for one person, that is, the loyal Li Dingguo, after nine months, many times on the edge of life and death, but never gave up the task given to him by Wang Lanping, this heart made all the generals present admire.

Everyone at the wine table drank a few more glasses, and the atmosphere was extremely lively, as if the prime minister was still the same general who led them to fight on the battlefield before.

When the wine was strong, someone suggested that it would be better to bring up the bandit woman to let everyone see.

Wang Lanping was also greedy for a few more glasses, and immediately ordered someone to go to the criminal department to pick up someone, and he would return in a moment.

Outside the front hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Zhu Yanqianying was slim, neither humble nor arrogant, her face was still veiled, but the rope had already been removed, and her towering breasts and legendary face attracted the generals to not even have the heart to drink, and they looked at each other one by one.

Wang Lanping walked to the door and observed Zhu Yan standing at the bottom of the steps, "You are the female bandit?" ”

Zhu Yan said, "Who are you?" ”

"I am the bitter master of your kidnapping and ransom, Wang Lanping"

Zhu Yan's body moved, and she couldn't help but take a closer look, her exposed eyes couldn't help but show a trace of disappointment, it turned out that the legendary Wang Zhuangyuan, who was majestic and high, and the jade forest wind was not an ordinary person, and even had the appearance of a gentleman.

Also, Wang Lanping is happy today, greedy for a few more glasses, his face is ruddy, and he is carried away when he is happy with his brothers, his clothes are not so neat, and he doesn't even wear a crown on his head, since he became the prime minister, he doesn't know when the beard came out, I heard Fang Ling say that men have three long beards to look manly, so he didn't shave, but now he is stained with wine, which is really a little unsightly.

Zhu Yan turned her head, straightened her already very straight chest, and the scarf on her face was also puffed up by her breath, "In your hands, there is nothing to say, if you want to kill, you have to chop whatever you want, I am in charge, kill me, let go of my subordinates, they are all hard-working people"

Wang Lanping drank it all with his wine glass, walked out of the hall door with dangling steps, and circled around Zhu Yan, "You are quite righteous, but I don't know why you embarked on the road of no return to bandits at such a young age."

Zhu Yan said, "But if you want to die quickly, you have nothing to say"

Wang Lanping laughed and shouted to the generals in the hall, "Hey, you have a character, since you dare to go up the mountain to be a bandit, why don't you dare to show your true face, what are you hiding?" ”

The generals laughed, Song Dali picked up the wine glass and walked out, wiping the wine on his chin and said, "Xiangye, I'm not in a hurry, come, sister, don't move, let my brother see if you are a human or a ghost."

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yan's figure retreated, and she dodged away, and her ears that leaked outside the scarf were red, "You, you are also a big man, but I didn't expect to be so amused by a woman in public, tell you, I have already made a vow, whoever takes off my veil will have to marry me"

Everyone was stunned, and then there was a burst of laughter.

Wang Lanping pushed Song Dali to the hall, "Just your quick hand, you haven't heard what the girl said, you have to marry her if you see her face, you are not afraid that your dominatrix will not let you go to bed at night."

Song Li grinned and poured down a glass of wine.

Wang Lanping turned to look at Zhu Yan, "No one wants to make fun of you, the road is your own choice, you should think that sooner or later it will be like this."

Zhu Yan retorted, "What did we do?" It's just a group of ordinary people who can't survive to get together to find a way to live, which is also wrong, breaking the king's law? ”

Wang Lanping said, "How to interrogate you is a matter of the Criminal Department, I only want to ask you one sentence, how did the battle of Yangzhou provoke you, why do you want to speak disrespectfully"

"What do you mean?" Zhu Yan didn't understand.

Wang Lanping said, "There are 100,000 people in Hanjia, Yangzhou has no inch, 3,000 peach blossoms, and the fragrance is full of Liaodong"

Zhu Yan was confused, "What the hell are you talking about?" ”

Wang Lanping couldn't help but be stunned, looked sideways and pondered, and said casually, "Li Dingguo"

"What does the Prime Minister command?" Li Dingguo walked out.

Wang Lanping raised her chin and "took off her veil"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall widened their eyes, and Li Dingguo seemed a little at a loss, stunned.

"Didn't you hear? Pretend to be a ghost and take it off," Wang Lanping shouted in a low voice.

Zhu Yan had a look of fear in her eyes and stared at Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo approached Zhu Yan, "Girl, offended" After saying that, he stretched out his hand and pulled off the veil on her face.

"Oh!" There was an exclamation in the hall.

Wang Lanping stared at Zhu Yan's panicked and helpless face, although she was not as beautiful as she was beautiful, she was a rare beauty, but she was not able to achieve the kind of appearance that could fascinate a bunch of men.

The generals couldn't help but be a little disappointed after seeing it clearly, and the outspoken Song Dali took the opportunity to shout, "Brother Dingguo, this little lady will be yours tonight, I didn't listen to her, whoever takes off her veil will have to marry her, haha"

The crowd laughed, and they didn't look at it, and then they drank and talked merrily.

Outside the house, Li Dingguo's face was also red, which was very unnatural, but Wang Lanping had a serious face, and said to the method beside him, "Method, take the two of them to my study, and send someone to the criminal department to find that Hu Damao" (to be continued.) )