The bandits were suddenly hit hard, and one by one they were stunned on the mountainside and stopped! It's impossible, the bows and arrows of officers and soldiers at such a distance can't be lethal! What kind of weapon is this? But before they could react, the soldiers in the second platoon opened fire again!

"Second row shooting!" After the gunpowder exploded, the choking smell of saltpeter permeated the mountain, as if it were the smell of death. The bandits stood still on the mountainside, and naturally became the best targets. On the short mountain road, blood is splashed! The soldiers of the second platoon fired a salvo and killed twenty-six more bandits. In front of the flintlock rifle, these fierce bandits are as fragile as papier-mâché. The twenty-six bandits who were shot fell on the mountainside like soulless sandbags.

The bandits woke up from a dream, and when they screamed, some of them tried to flee to the foot of the mountain. The leader of the bandits slashed a deserter in the back, blood flew everywhere, and the deserter fell to the ground screaming. He shouted loudly: "The officer can only fight once if he is slow to load, and we will win if we rush up!" ”

Encouraged by the great leader, the bandits gathered their courage and rushed to the top of the mountain. However, this 150-meter mountain road is not so easy to walk.

"Third row! Shoot! "In the deafening sound of gunfire, thirty black fogs emerged from the muzzles of Minnie's rifles one after another, enveloping half of the mountain. The bullet was like a call from death, rushing towards the bandits who were struggling to climb the mountain more than a hundred meters away.

At a distance of more than 100 meters, the armor-piercing ability of the flintlock rifle is very strong, and it cannot be resisted even if it is wearing armor, not to mention that most bandits are not armored. One by one, the bullets burrowed into the bandits' bodies, breaking through their skins and spinning deeper into them, tearing their internal organs into a bloody mess.

"Fourth row shooting!" Another large cloud of smoke rose from the top of the hill, and the soldiers of the fourth platoon pressed the trigger. Jiang Chong, a soldier in the fourth row, aimed at a bandit who rushed to the front, who was wearing cotton armor and was obviously a bandit leader. Jiang Chong calmed down and pressed the trigger.

The bolt struck the powder tray with a soft "click", but it failed to ignite the ignition powder. Although the flintlock pistol made of steel bolt has an eighty percent ignition rate, it is not always successful in ignition. Jiang Chong was not able to shoot smoothly in the first shot. However, Jiang Chong had already gotten used to this situation in training, and he still aimed his gun at the bandit leader and pressed the trigger for the second time.

There was a loud "pop", and the bolt hit the gunpowder and spewed flames, and the fire was everywhere, and Jiang Chong was stimulated by the bright light and closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, he found that the leader had fallen on the mountain road. At this distance, the cotton armor could not protect the bullets of the flintlock pistol. This was Jiang Chong's first time shooting an enemy, Jiang Chong patted the stones beside him, and excitedly looked at his comrades around to see if anyone noticed his sniping. However, the surrounding comrades-in-arms were all loading, and no one looked at Jiang Chong. Jiang Chong was stunned, and quickly took out the strip to clean the chamber of the gun, preparing for the next shot.

After the fourth platoon was finished, twenty-five more bandits fell on the mountain road. In the first round of shooting, the flintlock rifle killed more than a hundred bandits. The flintlock rifle demonstrated a lethality beyond its time. Seeing that the muskets on the hill had finished a round, the "crossing the mountain" shouted with red eyes: "Their guns are finished!" Rush up! Rush up and win! ”

One hundred and seventy steps from the top of the mountain, the bandits, who had suffered heavy losses, screamed and rushed to the top of the mountain with all their might! These bandits gathered in the mountains, but they did not understand the reload speed of the flintlock gun. Five or six seconds after the fourth platoon finished firing, the first platoon was already loaded with bullets. A hundred meters from the front of the bandits, the first platoon of soldiers began to aim.

"First row, shoot!" In the stunned gaze of the bandits, there was another crackling shooting sound from the top of the mountain, and an overwhelming black smoke came out, and thirty-one bullets were fired at the bandits!

"Ahh "Ahh

Just a few hundred meters of mountain road, it has been turned into a slaughterhouse. A bandit was shot in the head with a bullet that swirled at high speed and burst through the skull, surging out a cloud of blood and brains. A thief was shot in the stomach, and Mini's bullet entered his body and stalled, ruffling his kidneys and bladder, causing him to fall to the ground in an instant. One of the bandits was hit in the leg bone by Mini's bullet, and his thigh was broken at once, and he fell on the mountainside and screamed loudly, and the scream hit the bandits' morale fiercely.

The bandits found out that something was wrong, and the fire on the top of the mountain was not only far but also fast to load. Some of the bandits gradually lost the courage to rush upwards and began to retreat, letting the rest of their companions go ahead to withstand the fire from the top of the mountain.

"Second row! Shoot! "Third row! Shoot! ”

Every time the platoon started firing, a group of bandits fell on the mountain road. The Mini rifle is like a lawn mower, frantically harvesting the lives of bandits on the mountain road. No matter how fierce the bandit, no matter how good your martial arts are, you can fight again, and it is a matter of one shot in front of the flintlock rifle. The bandits of the Salt Mountains were the first targets of the flintlock rifles, and by the time the bandits discovered the power of the rifles, it was too late. The bandits lost the courage to continue the fight and turned around one by one and fled to the bottom of the mountain. Even the leader of the bandits who was extremely brave and brave also understood that continuing to charge was definitely sending him to death, and he grabbed the big knife and ran wildly back and forth.

"Fourth row! Shoot! "First row! Shoot! ”

The bullets hit the back, the back of the head, and the thighs, and the bandits fell to the mountainside screaming. With their backs to the top of the mountain, the bandits left dozens and dozens of corpses on the mountain road. The bandits have lost their fighting spirit, and all the weapons in their hands have been discarded, even those wearing armor have thrown away their helmets, just to be able to run faster.

They wanted to flee one hundred and fifty meters from where the massacre began, out of what they thought they were within range of their muskets. However, they didn't know that the Mini rifle had a 90 percent hit rate at 200 meters, and even if it hit a target 250 meters away, it had a 60 percent hit rate. The reason why Li Zhi let them go 150 meters before opening fire was so that they had no way to escape.

"Second row! Shoot! "Third row! Shoot! ”

The bandits fled two hundred meters away, but the slaughter continued. The mountain road was full of corpses, and the panicked bandits would even trip over the corpses on the ground. Looking at the bandits who kept falling around him, he was terrified. Ever since he pulled the banner and pulled up the team in Yunfeng Peak, when has he suffered such a big setback? It was the last time he went all the way to the county gate and defeated the archers of the county order, and he only died three good hands. In this county, Guo Shankong has become a character like an overlord, and he doesn't need to do anything to rob the village, and he will obediently pay money and goods when he sends someone to the other party.

However, today, that is, the work of a cup of tea, he has left nearly 200 brothers on this hillside. I have never been the only one who robbed other people's money and ravaged other people's daughters-in-law and daughters, and when I killed others, when did I ever be so embarrassed? Now, I'm so embarrassed that I don't even know if I can save my life. He was already one hundred or forty steps away from the top of the mountain, but the flintlock pistol on the top of the mountain was still harvesting the lives of his brothers!

Where are these officers and soldiers, this is a divine soldier, where is this officer and soldier from? Could it be that after five or six years of dominating Yanshan County, he is going to die here today? Guoshan couldn't help but glance back and saw Yang Peng commanding the battle on the top of the mountain. The military attache who defeated himself was so young. There was a "snap", and I don't know who aimed at the sky and fired a shot at him. The shot was accurate, and the "Over the Mountain" was hit in the back of the head. The bullet from the flintlock pistol went into the head of the mountain, killing him instantly. He fell forward, screaming and falling in a pool of blood.

The other bandits were shocked to see this, but no one dared to stop and lift themselves up the mountain. Yang Peng's soldiers let out a cheer when they saw the leader of the bandits being knocked down. Yang Peng seemed to see the coming victory and whistled proudly. The big leader was killed, and the bandits who were still alive were even more panicked.

The more than forty bandits who were still fleeing for their lives had been driven crazy by the rifles on the top of the mountain. The rifle pursued them to a distance of two hundred and fifty meters, and the range seemed to be unlimited. They wanted to kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, but the person who knelt down just now had already been killed, and even the rifle on the top of the kneeling bandit mountain did not let go, and they still shot indiscriminately. They finally gave up running down the mountain, and instead went into the woods of the cliffs, where they were almost impossible to walk, and crawled up the steep cliffs with their hands and feet.

For these thieves who fled for their lives, Yang Peng would not let go. At his command, the soldiers rushed down to the top of the hill with their guns in hand, walked to the mountainside and opened fire on the bandits who were crawling through the woods of the cliff. After a burst of gunfire, more than thirty bandits fell on the hard-to-climb cliff. Finally a dozen bandits climbed far away, unable to reach through the trees. Yang Peng asked the troops to climb into the cliffs and woods in squads to chase and kill. Ten minutes later, most of the last dozen bandits were also killed, and the soldiers cut off their heads and brought them out.

Seeing that the last few bandits were also beheaded, the soldiers cheered loudly and high-fived each other. But after the excitement of victory, the soldiers calmed down, and looking at the bloody battlefield, someone vomited. The battlefield was littered with corpses, and some of the people whose hands and feet had been broken were not dead, screaming and screaming beside the corpses, and the sound made people feel like they were in Shura hell. Severed limbs were everywhere, and the smell of blood was disgusting. There was blood everywhere, collecting on the mountain road and flowing down the mountain, like a stream.

This is not a fight, the flintlock rifle turns the fight into a slaughter. Yang Peng's first large-scale battle of this era ended in a massacre and a complete victory. In addition to the corpse of Yang Peng, who was "over the mountain", he wanted to transport it out entirely, Yang Peng cut off all the dead and seriously injured bandits, and handed over the heads to the people to put on the trolley. The first time the corpse was disposed of, many soldiers vomited when they cut off their heads. More than twenty horses were seized and distributed by Yang Peng to three reconnaissance squads to speed up the response of the scouts. After disposing of the corpses and loot, Yang Peng tied up all the bandits who could still move as guides, and led the troops to kill Jiyun Peak.

The bandits arranged a walled gate at the most dangerous place of Jiyun Peak, and they were prepared to defend it according to the danger. However, this time he crossed the mountain and poured out to attack Li Zhi, leaving only more than 30 old and weak bandits in the cottage. Yang Peng lifted the corpse of the mountain under the gate of the village, and the remaining few old and weak people knelt down and hurriedly opened the gate of the village. Yang Peng secretly said that these old and weak are clever, if these old and weak do not open the door, Yang Peng is going to make a well fence in front of the cottage and shoot these old and weak with a rifle in a high place.

When the door of the village opened, Yang Peng asked the soldiers to go in and tie up the old and weak bandits, and began to count the population and materials in the cottage. After some torture and interrogation, Yang Peng figured out the situation in the cottage:

There are 32 old and weak thieves in the cottage, these people have done robbery and business and killed good people, Yang Peng tied them all up and prepared to escort them back to deal with it when the time comes. There are also nine blacksmiths in the cottage, who are specially designed to create weapons for the bandits. These people have never killed anyone and done bad things, but it is also a sin to fight for the tiger, Li Zhi asked the soldiers to beat these people with thirty boards, and then threw them in the wild.

There were more than 80 snatched women in the cottage, who were used as playthings and slaves by the thieves, and they were all rescued by Yang Peng. In this era of the Song Dynasty, women paid attention to chastity, and these women didn't feel it when they sank in the thieves' den, but when they saw Yang Peng with the officers and soldiers killed, they all felt that they had no face to see people in this life, and three people actually committed suicide by biting their tongues in shame.

These women, Yang Peng, did not make it difficult, and only let them follow the troops back to the city the next day. In the vault of the cottage, there were more than 8,200 taels of silver and 130 taels of gold. There were three horses, five donkeys, and three mules in the stables. There were twenty-one pieces of silk of various colors, forty-two pieces of cotton, a hundred and thirteen jars of spirits, and one hundred and sixty-six swords. For these loot, Yang Peng was unceremonious and took them all personally.

Of course, the spoils of war were rewarded with soldiers. For the soldiers who participated in the battle, Yang Peng was rewarded with five taels to ten taels of silver according to their battlefield performance. The men who transported the goods were also rewarded with three taels of silver each. The battle was easy and enjoyable, and with so much silver rewarded, the soldiers and civilians were all happy. In the end, Yang Peng found five craftsmen in the cottage. Yang Peng sat in the house of the leader of the cottage and asked these craftsmen to come up.

As soon as they saw Yang Peng, these craftsmen kowtowed like pounding garlic and begged for mercy loudly: "My lord, spare my life!" Adults! Although we fell into the grass in the cottage, we didn't do anything bad! The crossbows we made were never used because we didn't have bows and arrows! Adults! Yang Peng glanced at the five craftsmen and said slowly: "Where did you learn the technology?" The five craftsmen looked at each other, and finally the first one came out and replied, "We were originally blacksmiths hired by Bianjing, and we learned the methods from him." ”

"On the way to escape, we heard that our Shangguan was beheaded by the official family for treason, we are craftsmen, and we were rebels by our superiors, so we dare not return to Bianjing. There was no way to go all the way north, so he fell into the grass and inserted Yunfeng to cast a crossbow for these bandits. However, there was a shortage of materials on the mountain, so we only forged two machine crossbows. ”

Yang Peng looked at the five gunsmiths, thought for a while, and asked the person in front of him, "What's your name?" "My name is Cao Yu!" Hearing the words of these blacksmiths, Yang Peng was overjoyed, and secretly found a treasure. Self-made machine crossbow Yang Peng will not. But with these five craftsmen, Yang Peng can use some of the techniques he knows to improve the machine crossbow of this era. If your troops have a large number of light crossbows and flintlock rifles, the firepower of your troops will be greatly increased.

However, these craftsmen are rebels, thieves and grasshoppers, if they don't punish them, they will look down on Yang Peng and will not work hard. Yang Peng thought for a while and said, "You five have been thieves repeatedly, and I will punish you for being slaves." Wait a minute, I will find someone to sign a deed of sale with you, and in the future, you will be my slaves to forge a crossbow for me, and you will have no monthly money for three meals a day. After forging the new crossbow I need, I will restore your status as a craftsman and pay you every month. ”

The five craftsmen glanced at each other, and their faces were full of joy. They were already very happy that the official didn't kill them, and the official actually gave them a clear way, which made them so happy. They are not afraid of being slaves, and they are also called by these thieves as slaves, not only do they not take the money, but they are always worried about the encirclement and suppression of the officers and soldiers, and the day is in danger. Now that he is with Li Zhi, not only is his safety guaranteed, but he also has the hope of restoring his identity as a craftsman, which is not a great thing.

The five of them hurriedly crawled on the ground and said loudly: "We originally intended to be slaves and cast crossbows for adults!" ”

Yang Peng smiled and nodded. The next day, when Yang Peng's troops returned to Yanshan County with more than 30 bandits, old and weak, and more than a dozen carts of bandits, the entire county caused a sensation. The news that Lord Yang had eliminated the mountain sky spread quickly throughout the county, and for a while, thousands of people were empty, and all of them flocked to the city gate to watch the selection of the thieves return. As soon as Yang Peng's troops entered the city, they were surrounded by thousands of people.

In the past few years, he has robbed the people and killed the good people, and he doesn't know how much blood debt he owes, and at this time he was exterminated, how can the people not cheer and cheer? Yang Peng knew the psychology of the people, and specially hung the corpses of the people on a carriage to show the people. The burly body of the mountain sky turned into a corpse at this time, and it looked very conspicuous hanging from the carriage. The people spat on the corpse of Guo Shankong one after another, expressing their anger at Guo Shankong!

"Look! Killing people without blinking an eye over the mountain is dead! "That's a lot of heads! It's all the heads of those evil bandits! "There are so many alive and tied up! This next one is honest! "Lord Yang is so powerful, he actually brought such a few people to serve the mountain and the empty pot!" "Lord Yang is really brave, I can't imagine that my Great Song still has such a brave military attaché!"

On the contrary, more than 80 women followed the soldiers into the city, which made the people feel conflicted: the people were not only happy that the women in the county had escaped from the clutches of the bandits, but also ashamed that these women had been humiliated by the bandits and lost their chastity, and their existence would be an unspeakable scandal in the county in the future. But this is not a problem for Yang Peng to consider.

The news of Yang Peng's triumph soon spread throughout the city, and the officials and gentry got the news and gathered at the gate of the county office. After a while, the county magistrate also knew the news, and ran outside with these officials and gentry in a panic. When they arrived at the gate of the city, they saw the Xuanfeng Regiment and the officer Yang Peng who were surrounded by the people.

Seeing Yang Peng, who was riding on a tall horse, returning triumphantly, the county commander's beard was stirred, and he was a little speechless. The crowd of onlookers grew more and more, and at this time, even the city wall was full of people, and everyone crowded there to see the head of the bandit and the hero who defeated the bandit. However, when the people saw that the county order was coming, they still took the initiative to avoid it and made way for the officials and gentry to walk to Yang Peng.

The magistrate approached, and saw that none of Yang Peng's troops were injured, and the old man was even more surprised, as if he had seen a group of divine generals. The county commander glanced at Yang Peng and asked loudly, "Lord Yang, the thieves in the thieves' nest in Cloud Peak, have you already arrested all of them?" Yang Peng patted his Wusun BMW and said loudly: "The blessing of Lord Tuoxian has not missed a single one!" "No one in your department was hurt?" "No one was hurt!"

The county commander gasped, and secretly said that this is really a heavenly soldier? Even the Yang family army, which exterminated the Khitan back then, couldn't win more with less without being injured. Yang Peng was so brave that the county commander's face was very embarrassed. He looked at the officials and gentry on the left and right, and saw that they all had shameful faces. Yang Peng was unwilling to let go of the county order like this, he looked at the county order wearing a seven-grade official robe, rode on the horse and smiled. "Lord County, it was like that then, how is it today?"

The county magistrate was so embarrassed by Yang Peng's words that his face was flushed, and he closed his eyes in shame, refusing to open his eyes for a long time. After a while, the old county commander suddenly screamed, opened his eyes, gritted his teeth and shook the long sleeves of his official uniform, pushed Jin Shan, and threw the jade pillar towards Li Zhichang, and said loudly: "Thank you, Lord Yang, for bravely brave and dangerous places regardless of previous suspicions, eliminate violence and peace for my small county, and exterminate bandits!" ”

The status of civil officials in the Great Song Dynasty was very high, and military attachés often knelt down when they saw civil officials of the same level. A magistrate to a military attache has never seen this happen. If it weren't for the fact that Lord Yang had won such a big battle, the people would have thought that they were wrong. However, since the county order took the lead, a group of officials and gentry also hurriedly followed, and several people in the county and the county raised their heads one by one, shouting loudly: "Thank you Lord Yang for bravely brave the danger regardless of the previous suspicions, eliminate violence and peace for my small county, and destroy the bandits!" ”

Not only did the officials and gentry salute Yang Peng, but the talented children in the crowd saw their parents taking the lead in saluting, so they also bowed to the ground one by one and bowed to Yang Peng who was riding on a horse. When the people saw the gentlemen saluting like this, they knew that the scene was solemn at this time, and they did not dare to speak, but they quieted the east gate, which was surrounded by thousands of people.

In the center of thousands of people, Yang Peng rode on a horse and looked at the officials and gentry who were bowing to the ground, arched his hand in vain, and said lightly: "Why worry about it?" When the county magistrate who fell to the ground heard these fluttering words, his face turned even redder, and he took a step forward, almost falling to the ground. When they went to suppress the bandits, only Yang Peng and Liu Zhiliang had horses, but on the way back, there were more than 30 donkeys and horses.

When Yang Peng returned to Hope City and handed over the head of the bandits and the old and weak bandits to Zhang Xiang, Zhang Xiang looked at Yang Peng differently: Yang Peng finished handling the work of clearing the bandits, and returned to Hope Village to start expanding the production capacity of the soap workshop. It took Yang Peng a month to go to Yanshan to suppress the bandits, and it was already mid-December, and Hope Village was waiting to be developed: the rammed earth city wall of New Hope Village had been repaired by three-quarters, and the brick-wrapping work had been half completed. Since mid-September, the second group of masons and carpenters have been repairing villas in Hope Village, and 600 cottages have been repaired so far.

A soap factory to accommodate the expansion of production capacity has also been built, south of New Hope Village. Yang Peng had the intention of moving all the factories and workers in Cangzhou City to Hope Village, and the newly built soap workshop would certainly not recruit people in Cangzhou City. This time, Yang Peng directly held a "job fair" in Hope Village to recruit people, and asked all the hired new employees to move into Hope Village and rent a newly built villa.

The cottage has four bedrooms, and the rent is two dollars and seven cents of silver a month. If the worker is a bachelor, it costs only seven cents to sublet a house. Even for couples with children, renting two houses separately costs only one and a half cents, less than one-tenth of a worker's monthly salary, and the workers can afford it. The job fair went smoothly, and it only took half a day for Yang Peng to recruit 80 new employees who were honest and willing to move into Hope Village.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.