A valley 100 miles away from Ji County, Youzhou Zhishuo, is called Red Rock Valley. There are crimson boulders stacked here and there, hence the name.

A winding mountain path, zigzag in front of the Red Rock Valley, the mountain path is full of sturdy maple trees, it is early winter, the bright red maple leaves on the maple trees have long since disappeared, but turned into a crimson with a little yellow, paved on the ground, and the stones near the Red Rock Valley are intertwined, giving people a mysterious feeling.

At this moment, the bright light spreads down, shining on the entire valley. Two big men in ragged clothes, but they couldn't feel the warmth of the sun, standing behind a boulder near the mouth of the Red Rock Valley, hiding from the north wind in early winter.

"Niu Wa, why do you say that we are so unlucky, and we want to drink the northwest wind in this valley." One of the big men opened his mouth and said to Ling Yi.

The man known as Niu Wa trembled, pulled the collar that was leaking around tightly, and then said: "What's so strange about this, the leader is afraid that the officials and soldiers will come over, besides, it's not that we stand guard every day, what is there to complain about." ”

The big man who spoke before also learned from Niu Wa's appearance, tightened his neckline, and then asked, "Officers and soldiers?" Where did the officers and soldiers come from? Now in this world, those who are soldiers can't get military salaries, otherwise who would be hiding in this ghost place and be a mountain bandit. ”

Niu Wa was silent for a while and said: "Also, wasn't our leader an official army before, and didn't he lead the big guy to nest in this valley, worrying about eating every day?" If I had food and land, I wouldn't want to be a bandit. When he turned around, he saw that Dahan ignored him, but looked ahead in shock, stretched out his hand and pushed Dahan: "What do you see?" As he spoke, he followed the big man's gaze.

It doesn't matter if you look at it, Niu Wa saw that dozens of cavalry officers and soldiers were rapidly approaching in his direction, and what shocked him the most was that these officers and soldiers were all wearing well-dressed willow leaf iron armor and holding bright steel knives! Niu Wa and the others were originally farmers, and when they were desperate, they followed a group of officers and soldiers who had retreated from the front line, and together they occupied the mountain as the king in the Red Rock Valley, where had they seen this battle? Even their leader, the man who claimed to be a former general, didn't have such a sophisticated armor weapon in the first place!

Niu Wa came back to her senses, pulled the big man who was still in a daze, and shouted: "Run!" Go back to the valley and report to the chief! Only then did the big man react, and the two of them ran towards the valley in a puff of smoke.

The elite team who came was the vanguard led by Ao Lie. The war horse trampled the earth at the mouth of the valley, bringing a tremor. Seeing that there was still a distance of about a hundred paces from Taniguchi, Ao Lie raised his spear and shouted, "Stop advancing!" Crossbow! The dozens of elite horsemen who followed Ao Lie tightened the reins while aligning themselves, lined up in a goose wing formation, and then raised the crossbow on their right hand.

He didn't let Ao Lie wait long, and after a while, a strong man wearing the captain's armor rushed out of the valley. He was followed by more than 100 mountain bandits. These bandits were armed with a variety of weapons, some of which were knives and guns issued by the imperial court, some were homemade spears, and even worse, they were armed with rakes, pickaxes and other agricultural tools used when plowing the land. Looking at their armor again, there are a small number of people wearing the standard armor of the county soldiers, but it is also uneven, and it is not difficult to find that their armor is at least distributed by four or five different counties. Most of them didn't even have any armor and ran out wearing just ordinary clothes, and many of them were even ragged.

The man dressed as a lieutenant shouted, "Who are you, what are you doing in this valley?" According to the original plan, Ao Lie was going to greet them with a crossbow first, but looking at the mountain bandits in front of him, Ao Lie changed his mind. Lang Sheng said: "A certain is General Weiyuan under the subordinate of Youzhou Mu Liu Gong, and you are gathering in the mountains and forests here to endanger the people, why don't you descend early?" The strong man in the lead said disdainfully: "With your dozens of people, you dare to come to Tai Sui's head to break ground?" When I was fighting, you kid was still wearing open crotch pants. Brothers, come on! ”

With the strong man's order, hundreds of mountain bandits behind him swarmed and killed outside the valley. Seeing this, Ao Lie sighed, waved his hand and made a downward gesture. Seeing Ao Lie's gesture, the elite horsemen behind Ao Lie immediately pulled the trigger and slashed the crossbow arrows on their crossbows towards the mountain bandits.

Suddenly, the mouth of the valley became a hell on earth, and those mountain bandits who had no armor and body protection screamed and were shot to the ground, and in a moment, blood spread throughout the mountain path. Seeing that his brothers were shot over, the strong man led by him hurriedly said to a mountain bandit next to him: "Go to the valley, call all the brothers out, and get a prick!" The bandit took the order and left.

After the elites under Ao Lie's command fired a round of volleys, the more than 100 mountain bandits who came up had already gone six or seven out of ten. The strong bandit's face twitched, and then a series of fierce expressions appeared: "If you don't leave us a way to live, then no one will survive!" After speaking, he raised the big knife in his hand, led the rest of the mountain bandits, and came straight to Ao Lie.

Ao Lie ordered unhurriedly: "Put away the crossbow and set up the formation!" "It's not that Ao Lie is not like he continues to clean the mountain bandit gate with a crossbow, but he really has enough spare energy. There is nothing wrong with the hand crossbow of the Eastern Han Dynasty in this era of cold weapons, which has a strong deterrent power. However, the hand crossbow also has its drawback, that is, after the first hit is fired, it takes a while to reload the bolt before it can be fired. Of course, if it is infantry, and it is an organized infantry, shooting alternately at each other, the hand crossbow is still very lethal, but now the elites under Ao Lie are all cavalry, although they can also be used in foot combat after learning the bloody killing knife method taught by Ao Lie, but what about the war horse? You must know that in this era, war horses are also extremely scarce armaments, so there is no reason for Ao Lie to give up the speed of war horses and fight a group of mountain bandits on foot.

Seeing the bandit leader bravely killing him, Ao Lie raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Rush into battle!" After that, he took the lead in urging the night snow dragon horse to rush and kill Izuku. Dozens of elite horsemen followed closely behind Ao Lie, showing the steel knife in their hands that had not yet drunk blood towards the mountain bandit gate!

Flutter! Ao Lie's spear pierced one of the bandits in the shoulder, and then flicked the spear, knocking the injured bandit to the side and moving on to the next target. A group of mountain bandits rose up and tried hard to cause harm to Ao Lie and the others. However, none of them reached their goal. The elite under Ao Lie's command was already quite elite, and after this period of rigorous training, he practiced the Blood Killing Knife Technique, which was even more powerful. In the face of the rabble of mountain bandits, these elites in a group of six, forming a small hexagram, some raised their knives to block the weapons of the mountain bandits, some people slashed out the steel knives, slashed on the mountain bandits, standing in the back row, the steel knife could not cut the enemy, so they instigated the war horse, kicked the enemy with the horse's hooves. Between the rotation of the various small hexagrams, there was a basis for advancing and retreating, like a grinding plate, crushing the mountain bandits heavily.

The strong man and bandit leader was also shocked at this moment. Anyway, this bandit leader was also an officer of the Han Dynasty at the beginning, a man who had been on the battlefield and seen blood, but how had he ever seen such an elite soldier? What's even more frightening is that his broadsword has slashed at the body of the opposing cavalry several times, but it has no effect except for splashing a spark that makes the knight on the horse shake his body twice. There is no doubt that the willow leaf iron armor on these knights is a great achievement, and it is not something that can be cut by the weapons in their hands at all.

The bandit leader looked around the battlefield, and finally fixed his eyes on Ao Lie. Ao Lie is the chief general of these officers and soldiers, and he is not wearing iron armor, but just ordinary robes, so the bandit leader mistakenly thought that he could capture Ao Lie first, and then took Ao Lie as a hostage to force this elite army to retreat.

With this in mind, the bandit leader shouted and rushed towards Ao Lie with all his might. Ao Lie has stabbed more than a dozen mountain bandits one after another, but he didn't kill them, after all, a group of rabble, it's not worth killing yourself. Seeing the bandit leader raise his big knife and slash at him, Ao Lie used a slight force, and the spear in his hand moved forward a little bit, colliding with the bandit leader's big knife. Although this bandit leader is brave, where is Ao Lie's opponent? The big knife in his hand was picked up by Ao Lie's shot, and he didn't know where it fell. Ao Lie then swung his spear, turned the tip of the spear, and slammed the barrel of the gun on the shoulder of the bandit leader, who screamed miserably, and was directly knocked to the ground by Ao Lie's huge force, unable to stand upright.

At this moment, a shout of killing came from the valley, Zhang Liao led his troops to copy the path from the back of the valley into the valley, and a group of unsuspecting mountain bandits were suddenly killed by Zhang Liao's crying father and mother, and they were defeated.

After the battle at Gukou was completely resolved, Zhang Liao also led his troops out of the valley and came to Taniguchi to meet Ao Lie. Subsequently, Xun Yu and Tian Chou, who were watching the battle from a distance, also rushed to clean up the battlefield. There was no time to greet Ao Lie, so Xun Yu and Tian Chou took a team of soldiers to count the spoils of this battle.

It didn't take long for Xun Yu to come back first, and said to Ao Lie: "My lord, there were no casualties in our army in this battle, and more than 50 mountain bandits were killed, and the rest were captured, and no one escaped. As for the loot in the valley, Zitai is in the process of further counting. ”

Ao Lie nodded, turning his gaze to the bandit leader. When the strong man saw Ao Lie looking at him, he struggled to stand up, but he just held up a little, but he threw himself to the ground. Although Ao Lie's blow didn't use all his strength, what kind of strength did Ao Lie have? Half of the strong man's body was so sore that he couldn't exert any strength, and of course it was impossible to stand up.

This strong man and bandit leader is also a straightforward man, seeing that he can't stand up, he simply doesn't struggle anymore, he leans on the ground half-lying and half-lying, looks up at Ao Lie and says: "If you want to kill, you can scrape whatever you want, but I beg you to let go of the brothers in the valley, most of them are poor people who have been cornered." ”

Ao Lie pondered for a while and said: "This, a certain person can naturally see it, but if someone has a human life in his hands and has killed ordinary people, he will inevitably behead him to comfort the souls of the innocent people who died in the sky." ”

After a while, Tian Chou led people to suppress all the captured mountain bandits and came to the open space in front of the valley. Tian Chou leaned into Ao Lie's ear and whispered: "There is no grain stored in the valley, at most it is only enough for the rations of five hundred mountain bandits for one day. There were no gold, silver and jewelry, only some old, weak, sick and disabled. After listening to Tian Chou's return, Ao Lie also believed a little in the words of the bandit leader. This shows that these mountain bandits are not mad, they have neither plundered the nearby people, nor have they abandoned the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Looking at the more than 400 surviving mountain bandits with their hands tied behind their backs and their heads down, Ao Lie said loudly: "A certain Zhilu Dao is not peaceful in today's world, and many people are forced to follow thieves helplessly, but have you ever thought about your parents and relatives? Have you ever thought about your children and grandchildren? Do you want your parents and your children and grandchildren to bear the name of the thief's family for generations to come, and not be able to hold up their heads for the rest of their lives? A good man should fight on the battlefield and make an immortal reputation, why be a thief? ”

The group of mountain bandits who originally lowered their heads, listening to Ao Lie's words, seemed to see a glimmer of hope, but because of the oppression they had been subjected to for a long time, they did not want to believe Ao Lie from the bottom of their hearts, or they did not want to believe the government, so they looked at each other one by one, and no one refused to speak.

The bandit leader lying on the ground was even more Ha Lu Ha Da Lu smiled and said: "Fighting on the battlefield? Make an immortal reputation? Ha Lu Ha, you lie to the ghost! I used to be a soldier, and I was still a school captain, but what about the worst? When my brothers and I were crusading against the Yellow Turban Uprising, my brothers didn't know how many they died in battle, I don't know how many times they were wounded, and the brothers who died at the last end couldn't even get a pension! We fought bravely on the front line, how much blood and sweat we shed, but our military salary has not been paid for a whole year! But those generals and ministers are drinking and having fun in the rear, who can hope for such a world? ”

Ao Lie sighed and said: "That's right, what you said is the truth, but not all the great Han rivers and mountains are greedy for life and death!" You have fought against the Yellow Turban, so naturally you should know the names of the two generals, Emperor Fu Song and Zhu Jun, right? Are they what you say they are? ”

The bandit leader naturally knew that the two generals Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, who fought against the millions of Yellow Turbans, were strict in governing the army and never withheld military salaries, and the soldiers under their command were willing to follow the two generals to fight, and finally quelled the Yellow Turban Rebellion. was speechless for a while.

Ao Lie said loudly: "Do you see the elite behind a certain person?" Perhaps you are not convinced, thinking that they have only defeated you with the help of strong armor blades and the power of war horses. But so-and-so tells you that they are all battle-hardened warriors in order to defend the Han frontier. They once fought with the Huns, and killed tens of thousands of Huns in one battle! They are the real men! It's the real big man! ”

Zhang Liao and more than 100 elites of the bloody killing battalion shouted in unison: "The soul of bloody killing, there is no battle!" There were only more than 100 people, but they shouted the momentum of thousands of troops. Even Xun Yu, who was standing on the side, was taken aback by the momentum of moving forward bravely.