Immediately afterwards, a few more thieves covered in fire rushed out, but before these thieves could rush closer, they fell to the ground one after another and did not move, and the tragic situation was not enough to describe, which made the hearts of the dunn soldiers tremble.

Liu Yan and a group of Dapanbao Dun soldiers looked at the corpses of thieves on the ground, these corpses were still burning, the corpses were scorched by the flames, and a smelly and somewhat burnt smell began to spread in the north wind, which made many Dun soldiers retch, and even Liu Yan frowned, such a scene was too disgusting.

After half an hour, no thieves rushed out, Liu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the thieves on the cliff are almost dead, such a fire is like an insurmountable moat, those thieves can rush out unharmed in a panic, that is a miracle!

The wind and snow grew stronger, and the strong winds mixed with goose feather-like snowflakes soon suppressed the fire on the mountain.

Seeing that the mountain fire was getting smaller and smaller, Liu Yan got up and said to the people who gathered together to warm each other: "Get up, let's go up the mountain to have a look, everyone takes the flag as a unit, and sets off in a battle formation!" ”

The three small flag officers Wang Bo, Wang Yue, and Xu Ming also hurriedly got up and shouted and commanded their respective dun troops to line up.

Each banner is composed of three squads, each with two sword and shield bearers as the vanguard, five bird gunners who reload the bird guns and follow behind, and five pikemen, including the squad leader, behind and on both wings.

In this way, the soldiers of the Dun Army, a total of nine squads of three banners, set off to the north, Xu Ming led his troops in the front, Liu Yan and Wang Boqi in the middle, and Wang Yue led his troops to follow behind.

At this time, the mountain fire has been basically extinguished, and there are only some scattered open flames in some places, but now the dead trees and shrubs around the cliff have been burned to the ground, and the goose feather snow has fallen, almost laying the originally charred ground with a snow-white carpet, so Liu Yan is not worried that the mountain fire will rekindle.

After a period of travel, there were more and more charred corpses around, and the corpses of these thieves took on a strange posture, which looked very terrifying in the night. Some of the less timid dun soldiers looked around with pale faces, if it weren't for the constant scolding of the squad leaders and the three small flag officers everywhere, it is estimated that there would have been deserters by now.

Liu Yan didn't blame those dun soldiers for this, after all, the corpses of these thieves were too weird. Liu Yan knew that this was because the muscles contracted when they burned, but those Dun Jun didn't know this knowledge, so it was inevitable to be afraid.

These dun troops may fight against the enemy in the battle formation without any hesitation, but when faced with unknown and strange fears, fear is also human nature.

"These are all necessary processes, and after seeing more, these dun armies will become truly strong armies!"

Liu Yan said so in his heart, and then saw the two walled walls in front and back that had been burned down by the mountain fire.

"Let's go, speed up!"

Liu Yan gave an order, more than a hundred dun soldiers quickly passed here, after passing through the ruins of these two walled walls, there was a suddenly enlightened mountain cliff platform, full of burned house ruins, and more charred corpses, Liu Yan even saw a house ruins outside, more than a dozen or twenty charred corpses hugged each other, and were burned into a large black charred meat ball by the fire!

"Gross!"

At this moment, more than a dozen dun soldiers directly bent over and vomited, and the two dun soldiers were directly frightened and sat on the ground, so angry that the little flag officer Wang Bo scolded, although Wang Bo's face didn't look much better.

Liu Yan was also sick to his stomach for a while, but he still cheered up and said loudly: "Everyone disperse, search the inventory of thieves, move quickly!" ”

At this time, the mountain fire has been extinguished, even if there is no signal, it is estimated that Wang Weizhen, the officer of the management team, will send someone to check the situation, and there is not much time left for Liu Yan.

Xu Ming, Wang Bo, and Wang Yue, the three small flag officers, loudly scolded their subordinates, and began to search in the camp separately.

Liu Yan also took two dun soldiers to check around, and searched the ruins of two houses successively, but found nothing.

After a while, Wang Bo, Wang Yue, and Xu Ming came to report that the soldiers of the Dun Army of the three banners had found nothing, and these thieves seemed to be poor and called Huazi, except for the discovery of a few grain depots that had been burned to charcoal, there were no valuable discoveries.

Liu Yan was also a little surprised at this time, such a large camp of thieves, hundreds of thieves entrenched here, such a large group of thieves did not have any inventory, this is not normal at all?

"What do these thieves spend on weekdays? Without money, these thieves will stay here honestly? Could it be that the leader of this thief is generating electricity with love? ”

Liu Yan asked three questions in his heart, but there was no answer.

"Captain A, what should we do?"

Liu Yan sighed and was about to speak, but he saw that the path below the mountain was crowded, and it was Wang Weizhen who led a large team of people to come to support.

"Let's go and greet the captain, I'm afraid there will be nothing to gain this time."

Wang Yue, Wang Bo, and Xu Ming all sighed, everyone has been busy for so long, and they haven't found any loot, it's really frustrating!

Soon, Wang Weizhen arrived with Shen Tuo, Jia Hongyu and others, and the brigade of Dunjun also arrived here one after another.

When everyone saw the tragic situation on the road, as well as all kinds of remnants in the camp of the thieves, their faces were very ugly, and even some of the chimney dun troops ran away more than a dozen on the way, which made Wang Weizhen very angry, and scolded the armor chief of those chimneys without mentioning it.

"Hehe, Liu Zongqi, it's really a big deal, without losing a single soldier, he took this steep thief camp, and annihilated hundreds of thieves in one fell swoop, the first merit of this battle is you Liu Zongqi!"

Liu Yan smiled and hugged his fists for a few humble words, and then said: "Lord Qiyu, my subordinates searched this thief camp, and found no surviving thieves, nor did they find any loot. Please do a second search. ”

Wang Weizhen and the others were very surprised when they heard this, like Liu Yan, everyone thought that this thief camp must be a big piece of "fat", but who would have thought that nothing would have been found.

The armor commander of several chimneys even looked at Liu Yan suspiciously, and secretly said Is this Liu Zongqi doing something in advance?

Jia Hongyu saw that it was a little cold, so he said with a smile: "Hehe, I see that this thief camp is full of ruins, you can see everywhere at a glance, and you don't need to search for anything." ”

Wang Weizhen nodded, at this time, the ground was full of white savings, and a few places were also scorched black, if Liu Yan buried the seizure in advance, he would definitely be able to see the traces.

So Wang Weizhen said: "Since this is the case, then let's retreat." ”

Wang Weizhen half-covered his nose, obviously disgusted here, so he prepared to return to Wangjiazhuang.

Liu Yan was about to lead his troops to retreat, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the ruins of a house in the innermost part of the camp, the foundation was a little higher than the rest of the houses, and a possibility flashed in his mind.

So Liu Yan clenched his fists and said: "My lord, there are hundreds of corpses on and off the mountain here, if you don't dispose of them, even if the weather is cold, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not cause a plague." This Tiepu Mountain is too close to our Wangjiazhuang, and anything that happens will implicate Wangjiazhuang everywhere. Therefore, the subordinates suggested that some people should be left here to deal with the aftermath, bury the bodies of hundreds of thieves on the spot, and then search the mountains and forests everywhere to prevent the resurgence of mountain fires. How is it? ”

Wang Weizhen nodded in agreement, but after looking at the group of armor chiefs, he found that no one was willing to take someone to stay, after all, no one was willing to stay and do this kind of drudgery of burying corpses and searching the mountains and forests in the cold weather.

So Wang Weizhen smiled and said to Liu Yan: "Hehe, I see this matter, Liu Zongqi will take it, how about it?" ”

Liu Yan was embarrassed, and he struggled for a while before he was "unwilling" to hold his fist and take his life.

Then Wang Weizhen led his troops to leave, and Shen Tuo glanced back at Liu Yan when he left, smiled thoughtfully, and then left here with the team without saying a word.

After Wang Weizhen led his troops to leave first, Liu Yan asked Wang Yue to take people down the mountain, first bury the corpses of the thieves under the cliff on the spot, and at the same time let Xu Ming lead people to bury the corpses along the mountain path, and the two of them also searched for whether the mountain fires everywhere were completely extinguished.

Wang Yue and Xu Ming set off with people, and Liu Yan asked Wang Bo to arrange for two teams of dun troops to clean up the corpses of thieves in the camp on the cliff, and he took Wang Bo and another team of dun soldiers to the ruins of the innermost house.

Liu Yan observed, and suddenly saw that there was an iron plate in one part of the foundation, and an iron plate was installed on the foundation here!

This iron plate had been covered by charcoal-fired wood and stones, and if it weren't for Liu Yan's careful observation, he really wouldn't have found it.

"Clean up this place and pry that iron plate open for me!"

As soon as Liu Yan gave an order, several dun soldiers went up to do it, and quickly pried open the iron plate, and there was a black hole below.

"Captain A, there's a discovery!"

Liu Yan nodded and said, "Bring the torch and go down and have a look!" ”

Wang Bo found a few torches and led a few dun soldiers down the entrance of the cave, and Liu Yan also stood on the edge of the cave and looked down.

"Captain A, I found it, a lot of gold and silver!"

Liu Yan was immediately overjoyed, and said secretly: "This gang of thieves really knows how to hide, and they were almost deceived!" ”

Then Liu Yan also went down to take a look, it turned out that the entrance of this cave was a cellar, and there were chests full of gold and silver below, there were more than ten of them!

After counting, there were fifteen gold ingots in this cellar, each about ten taels, and more than 300 silver ingots, all of which were fifty taels of official silver, which was estimated to be the official treasury silver stolen by those thieves.

If you want to use the gold and silver, it will take some hands and feet, and you must remove all the marks on the gold and silver ingots, and it is best to smash these gold and silver ingots, and all of them will be broken on the spot and used for silver.

Liu Yan ordered someone to bring up the gold and silver, and then ordered Wang Bo to take people to look for it again, and make sure that there was no other cellar before stopping.

The value of this seizure was about 1,600 or 700 taels of silver, which was not a great fortune for the current Dapanbao, but it could be regarded as a windfall.

At dawn, the corpses of the thieves up and down the cliff were basically buried on the spot, and the open flames everywhere were all extinguished, and the Three Banners and Dun troops gathered on the cliff to rest.

Xiaoqi officials Wang Yue, Wang Bo, and Xu Ming were all smiling, Xu Ming said: "A chief, a thief camp can copy out one or two thousand taels of silver, there should be a lot of thieves in the territory of the first thousand households in our Xiahe Village, how many treasures should these thieves have!" ”

Liu Yan also nodded, suppressing bandits to make money is indeed a way, and it can also train soldiers and reassure the people, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.

But now Liu Yan let everyone rest for a while, and then gathered the men and horses to return to Dapan Fort, and the more than 1,000 taels of gold and silver were also taken away.