"As long as I can find the most hind hoof prints outside the mountain, I can find them." Liu Wei frowned slightly, and said to Yuan Fu and the more than ten men: "Instead of waiting for them to come to the village to kill people and set fires, it is better for us to strike first and kill them in the forest." ”

"Sir, please." Liu Wei said that he wanted to take the initiative to attack, Yuanfu and others suddenly became interested and hurriedly gathered around him, and Yuanfu couldn't wait to ask.

"The bandits used to harassing the village, and they have never met with decent resistance when they want to come back." Standing by the river with his hands crossed, Liu Wei looked at the other side of the river and said to Yuanfu and the others: "This is also the reason why they sent Erhan's head, but they didn't leave anyone to monitor the village, they don't look down on us at all!" ”

More than a dozen men surrounded Liu Wei, clenching their fists one by one, and Tao Hu spat on the ground angrily and scolded: "Damn, this time Lao Tzu has to let them know that they are here to find death when they get trouble in the village!" ”

Liu Wei didn't answer Tao Hu's words, he just frowned slightly, looked at the other side and continued: "We can take advantage of their carelessness and inflict heavy losses on them!" ”

More than a dozen people standing on the side fixed their eyes on Liu Wei's body, quietly waiting for him to finish speaking.

"The thieves secretly killed Erhan, and they didn't dare to rush directly into the village to rob people, their number must not be many." Liu Wei had a cold face, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said to the more than ten people: "The reason why I killed Erhan is to let me wait for my fear, and then enter the village to kill people and set fires It will be much smoother." ”

"It's fucking insidious." After listening to Liu Wei's analysis, Tao Hu scolded and muttered again.

"As long as they enter the village, even if we make arrangements, we will have to fight them fiercely in the village, and the villagers will inevitably suffer losses." Keeping his eyes on the other side of the riverbank, Liu Wei then said to everyone: "The villagers in the village have suffered all these years, and they have been robbed by bandits, haven't they even been cut off from the last little way to live?" This matter should not be delayed, and I will set out tonight to find these bandits and kill them! ”

More than a dozen men first glanced at each other, then they all nodded, and Tao Hu even said: "When I return to the village later, I will tell the villagers to get ready and go with Mr. to exterminate the bandits." ”

"Plus all of you, pick thirty of them with quick movements." Liu Wei stopped Tao Hu from taking the strong men of the whole village, and said to the more than ten people standing behind him: "We are a sneak attack, not a strong attack, and we don't need too many people." First, two villagers with fast feet were sent to follow the horseshoe prints along the way to find and report the movements of the bandits. ”

"Brother Yuanfu, you stay, I have something to say to you." Tao Hu and the others were about to return to the village to select people, Liu Wei turned his head to look at Yuan Fu, and then said to the others: "Brother Tao Hu and everyone go back and prepare, take all the oil from all the oil lamps in the village, and put them in clay pots for later use." In addition, tell the villagers who will go to attack the bandits at night with me at night, and let them sharpen their knives. ”

Tao Hu and the more than ten men answered, turned around and walked towards the entrance of the village, and only Liu Wei and Yuan Fu were left on the bank of the river.

"Brother Yuanfu, have you fought before?" When everyone walked away, Liu Wei turned around, stared at Yuan Fu sharply and said to him: "There are calluses on the belly of your fingers, which are traces of fighting with weapons all year round. The average farmer only has it in the palm of his hand. You must have been on the battlefield! ”

Yuanfu's eyelids were facing down, and he groaned for a while before he shook his head a little reluctantly and said, "I've beaten and participated in the Yellow Turban." ”

"Can you tell the Daimyo?" Staring at Yuan Fu with both eyes, Liu Wei did not have the slightest expression on his face, although he was asking, his tone was unquestionable and asked Yuan Fu to answer his question.

"Zhou Cang." Zhou Cang sighed lightly and said to Liu Wei: "Mr. has seen that a certain person has been on the battlefield, and he has also separated others, so he will not report a certain person." ”

"You're Zhou Cang?" As soon as Zhou Cang reported to his home, Liu Bian's eyes widened, he stepped forward and held his shoulders with both hands, looked at him from head to toe in disbelief, and asked a little excitedly: "Shouldn't you be in Woniu Mountain with Pei Yuanshao?" How did you get here? ”

Liu Bian's question stunned Zhou Cang's question, he first looked at Liu Bian with a blank face, and after a while, he turned his head to look at the direction of the cemetery outside the village, and said to Liu Bian: "Since General Digong died in battle, a certain and Pei Yuanshao took two or three hundred brothers to Woniu Mountain, until three years ago, a certain was still there, but something happened later, and he came here. ”

Earlier, Liu Wei just saw that Yuanfu was a little different, but he didn't expect that he would be Zhou Cang, Zhou Cang was not in Woniu Mountain, and naturally he would not meet Guan Yu in the future, so the original historical process ......

Thinking of this, Liu Wei couldn't help but feel some waves in his heart. He thought that his crossing had changed the pattern of this period of history, but from the current situation, the historical pattern had been adapted before his crossing, could it be that someone else had crossed over before him and reversed some historical events?

Although his heart was full of curiosity and doubts about these things, Liu Wei knew very well that now was not the time for him to dwell on these issues, and he and Zhou Cang would lead a team of villagers to find and annihilate the fierce bandits tonight.

When night fell, the missing half of the moon hung in the air, covering the vast land in the night with a layer of misty silver light.

The two villagers who had sent Lu to scout the road brought back the news that the bandits' horseshoe prints had disappeared under a hillside not too far from the riverbank.

A team of more than 30 people quietly left the village and jumped straight to the small river not far from the village.

All of them carried a rudimentary wooden bow on their backs, a sharpened firewood knife pinned to their waists, and a cloth bag or clay pot in the hands of the last few men.

The creek flowed, and the riverbed shimmered in the moonlight. Not far from the location where more than 30 people went into the water, there was a waterwheel that had just been completed under the auspices of Liu Wei.

The river pushes the wheel hub of the water wheel to turn, and the bucket rolls up the clear water, making a "whooshing" sound.

Liu Wei, who was at the forefront, quickly waded across the river, and when he reached the opposite side of the riverbank, he squatted on the ground and raised his hand to stop everyone from moving forward.

On the bank of the river, there are several clear rows of horseshoe prints. The horseshoe prints stretched forward, into the darkness of the night.

Bowing his head and touching the horseshoe prints in front of him, Liu Wei stood up, waved his hand backwards, and led everyone to continue to run towards the mountain shrouded in night.

The hoof prints stretched all the way to a small dirt slope at the foot of the mountain, and when they reached the dense forest in front of the dirt slope, the horse's hoof marks completely disappeared in the forest.

Leading everyone to squat down the hillside, Liu Wei carefully examined the horseshoe prints before they disappeared, and looked up at the dense forest.

Zhou Cang and the others who followed him did not speak, and everyone looked at Liu Wei who was squatting in front, waiting for his next instruction.

Zhou Cang had also led troops to fight and had been a bandit, so he naturally had some understanding of marching and fighting, but after listening to Liu Wei's analysis of the situation of the bandits, he couldn't help but praise it in his heart.

Squatting outside the dense forest and watching for a while, Liu Wei beckoned his hand and led everyone to climb up the hillside.

Entering the forest, Liu Wei's attention was not on the ground, but on the trees on both sides, and he carefully observed the scratch marks on the trees.

The view at night is not very good, and the light in the forest is even darker, and it is much more difficult to find the traces of scrapes on the trees on both sides than during the day.

The slope of the forest that the horses can enter is not very steep, and the distance between the trees is not very narrow. However, along the way, Liu Wei had to look for traces of the horses passing by, and everyone walked through the forest, and the speed was not very fast.

After walking for about an hour, Liu Wei suddenly squatted down again and stopped everyone's advance.

Not far in front of them, a faint glow of fire could be seen. The light of the fire was not very bright, and it looked a little hazy.

"It's supposed to be a small nest up ahead." Squatting in the forest, Liu Wei whispered to Tao Hu beside him: "Brother Tao Hu, you take a few people to go around to the left side, bring all the lamp oil and linen, and wait until the bandits are in chaos, and immediately block their retreat with rockets." Whoever flees to your side will be killed on the spot!" Remember, you must not be soft-hearted, run one, and the villagers will not have a good time in the future. ”

Tao Hu nodded, waved behind him, and led more than a dozen men to touch the left side of the fire in front of him.

When Tao Hu and the others left, Liu Wei also waved to Zhou Cang and the others behind him, and led them to the right side of Lu.

Not far ahead, a mountain nest that was not very deep or wide, and there was not much grass and trees, appeared in front of everyone, and a bonfire was lit in the mountain nest, and three men were sitting around the campfire, muttering something to themselves.

Not far from these men, there were more than a dozen tents.

Hiding on the edge of the woods at the upper entrance of the mountain nest, Liu Wei looked at the more than ten tents from a distance.

The tents are not large, and there are only three people sleeping in a tent at most, and according to the number of tents, there are only forty or fifty bandits in this group.

Those tents are similar in appearance, Liu Wei is looking for the leader of this group of bandits, but it is not easy to find a person in a pile of similar tents!

After looking at the tents and estimating the location of the three bandits on the side of the campfire, Liu Wei whispered to Zhou Cang beside him: "We have to scratch our tongues, ask the location of their leader, kill the leader, and the rest will be solved." ”

"Brother Zhou Cang come with me, the others stay here, and when the bandits find us and fight with us, you will take advantage of the situation to kill!" He made a gesture to start acting towards Zhou Cangdian, and Liu Wei whispered an explanation to the other villagers squatting on the side, before he bent over and touched the three thieves sitting around the campfire.