Wang Weizhen suddenly came to his senses and said, "Mr. Jia, immediately invite all the first captains." ”

"Yes."

Jia Hongyu hurriedly went to call someone, and Wang Weizhen said loudly outside: "Please Shen Zongqi come in." ”

When Liu Yan rushed to the camp tent in Wang Weizhen, most of those armor chiefs had already come over, and Liu Yan saw Shen Tuo sitting next to Wang Weizhen at a glance, and he understood a little in his heart: "It seems that I have found the location of the thief!" ”

When Wang Weizhen saw Liu Yan, he hurriedly pointed to an empty seat beside him, and greeted with a smile: "Liu Zongqi is sitting here." ”

Liu Yan hugged his fists and agreed, and then sat down beside Wang Weizhen in the envious and jealous eyes of everyone.

Soon everyone rushed to the camp tent, and Wang Weizhen said loudly: "Shen Zongqi has led people to find the thieves' lair, now let Shen Zongqi talk about it, and then we will formulate a strategy tonight, and march into the army early tomorrow morning to suppress the bandits!" ”

Shen Tuo stood up and clenched his fists, and then said, "Everyone! According to the investigation below, this is a huge group of no less than 300 people, and now occupies a cliff in front of Tiepu Mountain. The cliff was surrounded by dense trees, and there was only one path to go up. The thieves built a camp on that path, which should be two walls, easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

After Shen Tuo finished speaking, Wang Weizhen and everyone were at a loss, no one was willing to attack such a thief camp, such a terrain, so many enemies, once they attacked it, the number of soldiers and horses lost would be unbearable for anyone.

Seeing that the pre-war military discussions had reached a stalemate, no one refused to speak, even Liu Yan and Shen Tuo, the two fierce generals, did not say a word.

Seeing this, Wang Weizhen frowned, so he had no choice but to say: "Let's talk about it, how will this battle be fought?" ”

A captain said tentatively: "My lord, anyway, we also repelled the scouts of the thieves, didn't Shen Zongqi behead several levels?" This can already be reported to the Qianqian households in Xiahe Village, otherwise let's stop and go back. ”

As soon as these words came out, several armor commanders stood up and echoed them, and it seemed that the thieves had frightened everyone.

Although Wang Weizhen was reluctant to attack such a thief camp, he was very unwilling to see that the battle exploits that were about to fly away, so he looked at Liu Yan and asked, "Liu Zongqi, what is your opinion?" ”

Liu Yan thought for a while and said, "My lord, I see that everyone is very tired, so it is better to rest here for two days." ”

"Rest?"

Wang Weizhen said: "If you want to rest, I might as well go back directly, why should I be frozen here?" Liu Zongqi has something to say, let's discuss it together, how about it? ”

Liu Yan said with a smile: "My subordinates want to take a look at the thief camp by themselves, and only by seeing it on the spot can they better formulate a targeted battle plan." ”

Shen Tuo immediately looked over, frowned slightly and did not speak.

Liu Yan also noticed this, hugged his fists and said with a smile: "Don't blame Shen Zongqi, I don't mean to disbelieve Shen Zongqi, Shen Zongqi's ability Liu admires very much." It's just that I want to see it on the spot, maybe the strategy to break the enemy is there. ”

Shen Tuo nodded and said, "Since Liu Zongqi insists on going, then I will send one of my subordinates to lead the way early tomorrow morning and follow Liu Zongqi over." ”

"You don't have to wait until tomorrow, let's go now, okay?"

After Liu Yan finished speaking, he looked at Wang Weizhen again.

Wang Weizhen naturally had no opinion, so he said: "Since Liu Zongqi has proposed it, then Shen Zongqi will work hard and personally lead the way to the thief camp." ”

Shen Tuo clenched his fists to receive the order, and then said to Liu Yan: "Since it is to investigate, then Liu Zongqi should not bring more people, let's gather in the north of the camp in a while." ”

Liu Yan responded with a smile: "Okay! ”

After a while, Liu Yan came to the north of the camp with the little flag officer Xu Ming, and saw that Shen Tuo was already waiting here alone, so he said with a smile: "There is the Chief Banner of Lao Shen." ”

Shen Tuo saw that Liu Yan only brought one Xu Ming, and he also admired it in his heart, after all, this time he was going deep into the enemy's cave to investigate, and the degree of danger was still very high.

"Mr. Liu doesn't have to be polite, let's go."

The three of them were all lightly armed, Shen Tuo needless to say, he was wearing a dark black dress outside a mandarin duck battle jacket, carrying a long knife in his hand, and a crossbow behind his back, and there was no other equipment. Xu Ming was similar, but he had an extra dagger on his waist.

Liu Yan was even simpler, only brought his own Yanling knife, and had no other equipment.

Soon the three of them disappeared into the night, and in the cold night, they marched quickly among the Iron Mountain, and after half an hour came to the bottom of a cliff.

Under the leadership of Shen Tuo, Liu Yan and Xu Ming crawled forward in the same posture, and the three of them finally hid under a mound.

"Look, you two, the path over there is the passage to the bandits' camp, and there is no other way."

Liu Yan looked through the moonlight, and sure enough, he saw a mountain path that meandered to the cliff. The path was not very wide, it could only pass two or three people side by side, and it was surrounded by dead trees and bushes, even on the cliffs, which were almost obscured by the bandits.

At this time, Liu Yan looked at the faint thief camp in the distance and fell into deep thought, Xu Ming next to him also frowned, and his judgment of the terrain in front of him was also like Shen Tuo, and he was worried about it.

Then Xu Ming leaned into Liu Yan's ear and whispered: "Captain Jia, this thief camp is really dangerous, once the fight starts, our Dapan Fort must be the vanguard, and the casualties of the brothers will be huge!" ”

Shen Tuo on the side also looked over and whispered: "What, does Liu Zongqi have any strategy to break the enemy?" ”

Liu Yan nodded slightly, and then whispered: "I do have some ideas, but I have to confirm it again." ”

After speaking, Liu Yan pointed to a depression more than thirty steps ahead, and whispered, "Let's go over there and have a look." ”

Then the three of them clinged to the ground from this side and quickly climbed into the depression in front of them.

Liu Yan looked up and saw that the thief camp on the cliff was clearer: it was a flat cliff, with many houses on it, and there were lights flickering under the night.

The vegetation around the cliffs is luxuriant, and now it is winter, and all the vegetation has lost its leaves, and even turned into dead trees directly in the cold wind.

"I think I've found a way to break the enemy."

Shen Tuo and Xu Ming were both excited, Shen Tuo was even more secretly taken aback, lowered his voice and asked, "What can Liu Zongqi do?" ”

I saw Liu Yan's eyes sharp, and in a very small voice, he said words like thunder: "Burn the mountain!" ”

"Burn the mountain!"

Xu Ming and Shen Tuo were extremely shocked, they never imagined that Liu Yan was ready to use this simplest and most cruel method to suppress the bandits!

Xu Ming said: "Chief A, this, won't this hurt the heavens too much?" ”

Shen Tuo also said: "Although it is the middle of winter, there are trees all over here, and the mountains are dry and cold and windy, but this method is indeed a bit excessive. ”

Liu Yan looked at the two and sneered: "Don't forget, those are all thieves, their hands are stained with the blood of the people, I don't know how many sins they have committed, and there is no burden to kill them, and there is no limit to any means, understand?" ”

Xu Ming and Shen Tuo are not hypocrites and pedantic people, and after listening to Liu Yan's words, they no longer have any objections.

The three of them looked at the place for a while, and then prepared to withdraw from the depression to camp together.

But at this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps in front of them, and Liu Yan and the three of them hurriedly stopped, staring at the mountains in the dark night in front of them.

I saw a few torches appear in the night, and under the light of the fire, seven or eight men were walking in this direction. Those people were all dressed in thick cotton clothes, and they held all kinds of blades in their hands, and it could be seen from the evil aura on their faces that they were not of good nature.

"I'm going to freeze to death this big night, and I'm going to patrol here all night, I really don't know what the big boss thinks!"

"You don't know? Dead! ”

"You're stupid, our cottage won't die one day!"

A man sneered and said: "A few days ago, a group of brothers went down the mountain to inspect, met a few officers and soldiers, and were directly killed and retreated, and several brothers died. ”

"Oh, it turns out that it's because of this, I've heard a few words, but it's just a few officers and soldiers, what's so scary?"

"You don't know the current officers and soldiers? It's okay to bully and bully the common people, but if you really want to attack such a dangerous place as our cottage, those officers and soldiers will be thinned, and they won't be used at all! ”

Several people immediately laughed arrogantly, in the silent mountain night, it was so abrupt.

"These are the thieves on the mountain!"

Shen Tuo glanced at Liu Yan, which meant whether to fight or not.

At this time, the depression where Liu Yan and the three of them were located was in the place where several thieves must pass through to inspect, and they would be discovered in a while. If they don't fight, the three of them will have to withdraw immediately now, and maybe they can get rid of the pursuit of the thieves, but if they do, the pressure on the three of them against seven or eight thieves is still very high.

Liu Yan sneered and waved his hand, signaling Shen Tuo and Xu Ming to get ready, the two didn't say anything, Shen Tuo directly took out the crossbow behind him, got on the crossbow and aimed it at the front, Xu Ming took out the dagger, ready to use it as a dart.

Liu Yan pulled out the Yanling knife, and then whispered: "Twenty steps to attack!" ”

The eight thieves soon came to a position of about twenty steps, Shen Tuo took the lead, the crossbow machine in his hand was very powerful, and directly shot through the neck of a thief, and before the thief could react, he died with a look of surprise.

At the same time, the dagger in Xu Ming's hand also flew out and was directly nailed to the left eye of another thief, who only had time to let out a scream before falling to the ground.

"Enemy attack!"

The remaining six thieves suddenly became a mess, shouting and screaming for the enemy, and the torches in their hands kept waving in front of them.

Liu Yan saw the opportunity to rush forward with a knife, like a cheetah in the night, a few arrows rushed through a distance of thirty steps, slashed over a thief with a knife, picked up with his backhand, and overturned another thief, and then aimed at a thief who rushed over desperately, and used the elbow joint of his left arm to push hard, directly against the thief's chest, directly breaking the ribs, before the thief could react, Liu Yan punched him in the throat, and directly punched him to death!

In just an instant, the three thieves died at Liu Yan's hands, and the remaining three turned around and ran away as if they had seen a ghost, but then they were stopped by Xu Ming and Shen Tuo.

Xu Ming stabbed one person to death, and Shen Tuo killed two people with a knife.

In the flash of light, all eight thieves were killed, Liu Yan and the three did not dare to stay, cut off the heads of the eight people, and then quickly withdrew from this side, and soon returned to the camp.