Yang Bangxian is also a careful person, so he separated several people and asked for details, and found that there was no mistake. Still uneasy, he called the local woodcutters, herb pickers, and hunters to inquire about the situation, and found that the bandits were roughly the same, but they were not sure whether the beast path existed, because no one had walked it. Yang Bangxian had doubts in his heart, so he brought those people to interrogate alone, and under coercion and temptation, a bandit named Han Lao Er finally told the truth about this beast road. It turned out that this Han Lao Er was also a local medicine picker, and he was repeatedly exploited by the government because of his honest friendship. On one occasion, when the tax collector could not find him, he tied up his wife, who committed suicide by jumping into the water because she could not stand the insult, and the whereabouts of her young son are unknown. In a fit of rage, he killed the tax collector and died in the mountains. Once, in the process of being chased by the government, he had no escape, so he ventured to climb the wild vine and climb up, but unexpectedly found this narrow beast road.

Han Lao Er didn't know much about the policy of the Perak Army, he only knew that killing people paid for his life, thinking that he had killed the official tax collector and surrendered would definitely die, and his family was ruined and there was nowhere to go, so he was determined to be a bandit. It's just that he is not a brave and ruthless person, and he can only be the lowest level in the gang, so he can only eat some leftovers and cold food, and he asked someone to escape down the mountain under hunger and cold. Yang Bangxian heard the secret situation, so he promised to exempt him from death. In fact, this is not Yang Bangxian's own opinion, but the existing policy of the Perak Army. The top brass of the Perak Army, led by Ouyang Xuan, hated both the Mongols and the corrupt officials who oppressed the common people. Although homicide is a felony, this kind of desperate murderer is open to the net, and he is often punished lightly or even regarded as innocent. However, on the surface, the Perak Army still adheres to the Lin'an court as orthodoxy, and it is not appropriate to publicize this kind of judicial precedent in a big way.

According to Han Lao Er, the hidden beast path was detoured from the more precipitous Prince City to Jiufeng Mountain, and it took more than a day to trek. Yang Bangxian has heard of the origin of the Prince City, this mountain looks like a city from a distance, and the legend is that after Qin destroyed Shu, the last stronghold of the Prince of Shu to resist Qin. In fact, the summit of Prince City is covered with snow all year round, and the cold wind on the top of the mountain is very bitter even in summer, and it is impossible to stay for a long time in winter. Because the bandits didn't know that there was a hidden beast road in the direction of Prince City, and because the bandits would not have thought that someone would go to the direction of Prince City in the late autumn, Han Lao Er and others were able to escape from the bandits' den.

At that moment, Yang Bangxian consulted Huang Dagen and decided to take the hidden beast road to attack Jiufeng Mountain. Although Huang Dagen knew that this matter was very risky, he also agreed. Because the elimination of bandits in the mountains is really sooner rather than later for the production of the Perak army's ordnance. As the only place with copper ore resources under its rule, Pengzhou's production conditions are much better than Jiading's. Although there are copper ore resources in Yi District near Jiading, it will take a long time to mine them, and there were two to three hundred people mining in Pengzhou before the mine was produced, but the work was stopped due to the harassment of bandits in Jiufeng Mountain. In addition to taking over the copper mine, the Perak army also tried to resume production, but the mine was halfway up the mountain, and the bandits kept pushing down boulders from the top of the mountain, not only smashing houses and equipment, but even injuring many miners, and people were forced to stop mining in panic.

There were many Yibo soldiers in the Perak army, and there were also many people in the Miao Jiang who were good at climbing, and Yang Bangxian selected thirty people from them to form a commando. For ease of climbing, the soldiers carried only revolver muskets, waist knives and grenades. After listening to Han Lao'er's suggestion, Yang Bangxian ordered someone to urgently build crampons and ice axes, sew leather gloves and close-fitting leather robes and hats, and before leaving, he ate a large piece of fat pork and drank hot ginger syrup. According to Han Lao Er, there are actually only a few difficult sections to climb on this trip, and the length is only a few hundred meters, and the real threat is the bad climate. If you don't wear warm clothing, it is easy to lose body temperature. Although they were well prepared before descending the mountain, they were almost frozen to death during the descent, so that they were extremely weak and even unsteady on their feet for a long time after descending, and were easily captured by the Thunderbolts.

The assault team attacked from behind, and Yang Bangxian led people to feint from the front, attracting most of the bandits from the top of Jiufeng Mountain to the halfway up the mountain. Therefore, when the Thunderbolt army suddenly appeared and occupied the top of the mountain, more than ten bandits who stayed behind in the villagehold on the top of the mountain suddenly became a mess. It would be an exaggeration to say that the bandits' dens were stockades, they were just houses and shacks made of wooden planks and hay, and they had little defense. The dozen or so bandits were able to withstand the bombardment of grenades and muskets, and in the blink of an eye, they were all killed and wounded. The bandits halfway up the mountain heard the shouts of killing on the top of the mountain, and hurried back for reinforcements, but they were smashed by the stones rolling down in front of them. The commandos are now going to give them a taste of being stoned.

More than 200 bandits were stuck on the mountainside, and they were in a dilemma. Attack downward, the Thunderbolts below are outnumbered and have firearms, and the shotguns fired by those light guns easily block the entire mountain pass, turning the charging bandits into a sieve; Attack upwards, the grinding disc-sized stones that keep rolling down on the top of the mountain, carrying the fierce cold wind, even those who are not hit are terrified, and the occasional lucky one pans and rushes closer, only to die under the muskets and grenades that cut their heads and faces. Despite being in a desperate situation, the bandit leader and dozens of bandits with a heavy blood debt still refused to surrender, and they held the rest of the bandits hostage and determined to resist to the end.

The commandos on the top of the mountain saw that the bandits refused to surrender, so they simply set a fire to the bandits' den on the top of the mountain. The wind-blown wood and forage were excellent fuel, and for a time the wind fueled the fire, and the flames rushed into the air, crackling and burning. As soon as the bandits halfway up the mountain saw that there was a fire on the top of the mountain, they knew that they would freeze to death and starve to death if they attacked it, so they gave up the heart to rush up the mountain again. The leader of the bandits had to drive the bandits down the hill again, and after several times to no avail, they left corpses and wails on the mountain path. This bandit leader is also a single, and when he saw that his life was over, he stopped struggling and killed himself. Seeing that the bandit leader was dead, the remaining bandits surrendered one after another.

The Perak soldiers hated these bandits very much, not to mention that they delayed the construction of the Pengzhou industrial site, especially the arsenal, and even killed hundreds of innocent people, and even caused casualties among dozens of Perak soldiers, including commandos. Only twenty-seven of the thirty commandos reached the summit, and three fell off the cliff to their deaths during the climb. However, according to the Thunderbolt Army's rules, the punishment of criminals can only be decided by the judicial system, and not lynching. At the military-political joint meeting, the top level of the Perak Army also argued about this, and Ouyang Xuan clearly supported Yang Xiucai's opinion, believing that justice is the bottom line of social fairness and must not be arbitrarily done. Only in special circumstances such as the urgency of the war can it be dealt with immediately.

The Miao Jiang soldiers under Yang Bangxian suffered the most casualties in this attack on Jiufeng Mountain, with 17 dead and 35 wounded, so before the handover, these Miao Jiang soldiers beat the captives in order to vent their anger. A few days later, the screening of the captives proved the importance of Ouyang Xuan's insistence on an independent judicial trial. After the trial, among the more than 200 captives, only more than 20 were extremely heinous and required the death penalty, and most of them were serving hard labor, and more than 10 prisoners were released from the situation despite having minor crimes, such as Han Lao Er. This result made Yang Bangxian understand that human life is at stake, and he must not be careless. After all, as the head of the family, he will control the life and death of countless people in the future.