The gunfire and firelight on the top of the phoenix broke the tranquility of the Great Black Mountain, and on the Mochizuki Peak thirty miles away, hundreds of bandits in strong suits stared blankly into the distance.

Phoenix Peak, since ancient times is the nest of bandits in the Great Black Mountain, for hundreds of years, Phoenix Peak has changed hands between different bandit leaders, this kind of change of hands is the rule of the rivers and lakes, and has never been broken by anyone. It can be said that the top of the phoenix is the holy place in the hearts of the bandits of the Great Black Mountain - safety, wine, meat, and women.

The fire on the top of the phoenix overwhelmed the bandits.

Lei Laohu, who was standing at the head of the team, was no exception, his head was a little dazed, everything that had happened in the past few days seemed to be under their control, how could such a thing happen at a critical time?

Su Xiangzhi, commander of the Second Regiment of the First Division of the Sichuan Army, led his men and horses to camp in a valley about ten miles away from Wangyue Peak, the old nest of the blind man. In the past three days, according to secret discussions, the two sides finally reached an agreement: tomorrow they will exchange, and they will exchange guns and ammunition for thirty women.

According to the plan of "Mr. Ma", the bandits will make a detour to Hongye Slope before dawn - the place where Su Xiangzhi must pass out of the mountain to ambush, and when the last transaction is completed after dawn, when Su Xiangzhi retreats to Hongye Slope, the bandits will have another large-scale ambush.

Who would have expected that the bandits were just about to set off, and there would be such a big movement at the top of the phoenix.

From Moon Peak to Phoenix Peak, the straight-line distance is less than thirty miles, but the mountain road is forty or fifty miles, and it takes five or six hours to get there.

Lei Lao Hu was a little at a loss.

He has been a bandit for 20 years, and all his belongings are at the top of the phoenix, although the valuable things are hidden in a few caves, but if the top of the phoenix is occupied, it will not be too difficult to find these things.

Go ahead and go to an ambush? Stay at Mochizuki Peak and wait for dawn? Take someone back to the top of the phoenix right away? Disband the team, scatter and flee?

There are so many thoughts that it's hard to decide.

Continue the ambush? Obviously not, no matter who fights at the top of the phoenix, if you want to say that Su Xiangzhi who is ten miles away doesn't know, it is impossible, and the negotiations in the past few days are obviously a delaying tactic.

Wait for dawn?

The other party must have a back, if it doesn't move, then it must have fallen into the other party's plan.

Take the brigade back?

It was so dark, the bandits were originally a rabble, and they walked all night in such a chaotic manner, in case Su Xiangzhi had an ambush on the road, I was afraid that only one platoon of guns was needed in the night, and most of the people would be scattered.

Scattered and fleeing?

In terms of safety, it is the least dangerous, but that is to make more than 20 years of hard work come to naught, thinking about those treasures, thinking about the white bodies of those women on the top of the phoenix, it is really reluctant.

A neatly dressed, fair-skinned, slightly chubby man next to him suggested: "Riesling, why don't you go to the camp at night and fight with the surnamed Su?" ”

This chubby man is none other than Staff Officer Luo, the liaison officer sent to the mountain by "Mr. Ma".

Lei Laohu wanted to slap this Luo staff officer a few times, but thinking about the stakes, he held back. Staff Officer Luo was very uninterested, so he leaned over and whispered: "As long as you can bring down the surname Su, what Mr. Ma promised you, I will definitely give it to you, and I don't want anything on this mountain." ”

Hearing this, Lei Laohu glared fiercely, and Staff Officer Luo's heart trembled, and he didn't dare to say any more.

What Lei Laohu wants to smoke now is himself.

Lei Laohu was originally a carefree mountain king, and he was obsessed with an ethereal empty check, listening to the orders of Staff Officer Luo, and gathering bandits to do Su Xiangzhi, I wanted to make a fortune, but now my nest is on fire, and I am a bandit's life, why do I think so much?

Next to him, the blind man and the bandit leaders were also worried.

"Boss Lei, what do you say?"

There are more things, and the body is heavier, Lei Laohu has lost the ruthlessness that he dared to play with his life at any time when he was young, and he comforted and greeted at the moment: "Brothers, keep a close eye on the road up the mountain, and wait until dawn to have a quasi-letter before making plans." ”

Staff Officer Luo sighed secretly beside him, bandits are bandits, I don't know anything, at this time, there is only one way, that is, to fight with Su Xiangzhi in the dark, and when it is dawn, it will be too late to do anything.

It was dawn, and the bandits on Mochizuki Peak Mountain finally waited for the bandit who escaped from Phoenix Mountain, and this bandit was Lei Laohu's cronies.

Lei Laohu didn't sleep all night, and when he heard that someone had escaped from Phoenix Mountain, he hurriedly called him into the council hall.

"Big ...... Uncle...... Phoenix Mountain is finished...... It's over. ”

The bandit howled at the sight of the Thunder Tiger.

"Fuck, what's the end? Are there not more than a hundred brothers with guns on the mountain? Defend the road well, a thousand men will not be able to attack it...... Besides, where did the mountain attackers come from? Where did a thousand people come from to attack the mountain in this radius of a hundred miles? Yes? You tell me? ”

"Uncle, the people who attacked the mountain came in the middle of the night, the black pressed a large number of people, the brothers under the mountain were carelessly tied up for a while, the people who came were very fierce, all the way up the mountain and set fire, the fire was not fierce, and finally gathered more than 30 brothers in the uncle's yard, before they could go out, a lot of ghost fires flew in the yard, and the fire could not be extinguished when it touched people, and many brothers were burned alive, I wanted to keep my life to report to the uncle, so I ran out of the back door, and then escaped directly down the slope."

"I ran to the foot of the mountain and saw that the top of the mountain had been burned, and the mountain was in chaos...... Uncle, run away, this time you must have been tricked. ”

Lei Laohu and several bandit leaders turned pale, discussed and made a decision, and after lunch, they broke through separately. For many bandits, this meal was their last lunch.

Su Wanyun and Xie Niancheng, who had changed into civilian clothes, met Su Xiangzhi in the ambush position three miles below Wangyue Peak.

Seeing Xie Niancheng, Su Xiangzhi was full of emotion, the Phoenix Peak, which had never been broken for hundreds of years, was actually taken down by this sixteen-year-old boy with more than a dozen people.

"Nian Cheng, my old Su has convinced you. This side has been deployed, two companies are blocked on the main road, and a platoon has been sent to each side of the road, and the brigade has already set off from the provincial capital at five o'clock this morning, and it is estimated that it will arrive within an hour. ”

Xie Niancheng looked back at Mochiyue Peak: "Bandits are bandits, if you run away at night, it will be really troublesome." ”

"How's the Phoenix Top? Did the brothers over there lose a lot? What happened to the lair of several other bandits? ”

"The Phoenix Peak was taken down, when Wanyun and I set off from there, more than 300 people from the militia groups in the two counties had already controlled the Phoenix Peak, captured dozens of bandits, and rescued hundreds of poor women who were captured by the bandits, no one was killed, and the wounded I have asked the military doctor to send them back to the provincial capital, I arranged for the brothers to take the militia and escort these captives to the lair of several other bandits to persuade them to surrender, there are not many bandits left in those cottages, and when they see the Phoenix Peak lost, even if they don't surrender, they only dare to run through the forest, which is not enough trouble. As long as the large group of bandits on Mochizuki Peak are eaten, the bandits in this great black mountain will be pacified. ”

"Newspaper—"

While the two were discussing, a herald on horseback came on a flying horse, dismounted and raised his hand to his chest, which was a standard Han military salute, "Report to the regiment commander, the brigade of 1,126 people has arrived at the camp and asks for orders." ”

"Good, good! Order the brigade to go to the forward positions immediately, be sure to surround Mochizuki Peak, and not let go of a bandit. ”

After lunch, the bandits on the mountain packed up their things in a hurry, divided into dozens of shares, did not take the main road, and fled separately into the forest. This is also their old experience in dealing with the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers.

The 2nd Regiment had already spread the encirclement net, and the officers and men did not chase it, but only used guns and artillery on the preset positions, and as long as the bandits were dispersed, the goal would be achieved.

This is a plan drawn up by Xie Niancheng, and if the officers and men go after each other separately, there will definitely be a lot of casualties, and there may not be many bandits caught.

While releasing their guns, the officers and soldiers shouted with loudspeakers: "Commander Su has an order, those who take the initiative to surrender will be given ten yuan to the ocean, those who surrender with guns will be given twenty yuan, those who are unwilling to surrender will be rewarded with fifty yuan for killing one, fifty for killing the leader, one hundred will be rewarded for the ocean, and one thousand will be rewarded for killing Lei Laohu, He Blind, and grass and wood ashes!" ”

"Heroes, you all have hardships when you go up the mountain, kill the stubborn bandits and surrender, and lead the ocean home."

"I'm Da Fei at the Black Wind Mouth, the chief here counts, and I've already received a reward of five hundred oceans."

"I'm Li San'er from the top of the phoenix, I just received a hundred oceans, and the chief promised me that he would let me go home in a few days."

"I'm Fan Ha'er, brothers, surrender quickly, follow me in the future, eat fragrant and drink spicy food, it's much better than doing bandits."

"You have nowhere to go, the people sent by Chief Su have already taken the Black Wind Mouth and Phoenix Peak, and several other stockades have also sent people, you surrender."

"Only chase the first evil, and threaten never ask."

"Fellow, surrender the gun, surrender the gun and don't kill!"

……

Dozens of tweeters bombarded in turn.

Many of the fleeing bandits were tempted.

In order to hide people's eyes, Lei Laohu only brought a dozen cronies, and he heard someone shouting when he ran out of the house.

"Sir, don't shoot, we surrender, we surrender, we want to make meritorious service, Lei Laohu is over there."

Lei Laohu was so angry in his heart, "Papapa" came with a burst of random shots.

The plan developed by Xie Niancheng was very successful.

In less than half an hour, more than 200 bandits surrendered and handed over their guns, and more than 100 of them immediately turned their guns and led the officers and men of the 2nd Regiment to chase down the remnants of the bandits.

By the time the sun went down, there were a total of 433 bandits captured by Tou Cheng and others, more than 50 were killed, and only a few dozen remnants escaped.

Except for Lei Laohu, the rest of the bandits were either killed or captured alive.

Lei Laohu and Staff Officer Luo ran all the way down the path to the Minjiang River, dragged a small boat out of a bush, and fled to the west bank.

"Su Xiangzhi, I don't share the sky with you!"

Thunder Tiger looked at the east shore and gritted his teeth.

In the camp of the 2nd Regiment, every soldier who participated in the operation received ten pieces of ocean, and those who caught and killed the bandits received a reward, and the bandits who voluntarily surrendered also received money, but they were disarmed and locked up together.

"Nian Cheng, are these bandits really released?" Su Xiangzhi asked.

Next to Su Wanyun said: "Dad, you really believe him." ”

"I promised to let them go, but they have to help me do some work first, I plan to build a scientific research base in the area of Heifengkou, let them help work for two years first, but it's not for nothing, I will give them wages according to the market, including food and housing, two years of work, when the time comes, those who are willing to stay will stay, and those who are not willing to stay will pay their wages and go home."

"Well, your method is good, most of the bandits are lazy and lazy, let them work for two years and then let them go, so that they can really be good."

"Hehe, I call this method 'labor reform', how about it?"

The father and daughter of the Su family couldn't understand this bad taste, and Su Wanyun asked with some curiosity: "What is the labor reform?" ”

"Hey, I still have to explain this, labor reform is labor reform."

"Labor reform? Sounds interesting......"