Chapter Twenty-Seven: Exterminating the Mountain Bandits
"Into the mountains!"
Lin Bei waved his hand and issued an order.
The soldiers listened to the order, immediately put on wet cloths, and rushed towards the mountain area where the mountain bandits were located.
The soldiers were in front and the smoke was behind, but due to the poor geography, the mountain bandits on the mountain only saw the soldiers entering the mountain, but did not find the smoke temporarily blocked by the woods.
"You're going to use the smoke to force down the bandits?"
At this time, Zhou Jinwei looked at the scene in front of her with an excited face.
Lin Bei's trick, no one seems to have used it in history, and even if it has been used, it will benefit very little.
After all, to deal with the mountain bandits, any assistance is futile, and only by being able to completely strangle the mountain bandits on the rugged mountain can they never suffer in the future.
"But the smoke has not yet poured up the mountain, how can you let the soldiers go up the mountain first, then the smoke is useless."
Zhou Jinwei asked the doubts in her heart.
Lin Bei smiled: "If the smoke is thicker, the mountain bandits on the mountain will have fled a long time ago, stupid." ”
When the remaining officers and soldiers heard this, their eyes lit up.
Zhou Jinwei was stunned, and after thinking about it, it was indeed right.
"Head! Officers and soldiers have gone up the mountain! Their direction is exactly where we are! ”
In the village where the bandits were, a bandit was panting and reported to the leader of the bandits.
"What! Did the poor really tell us where we were? ”
When the mountain bandit heard the news, his heart jumped, but in the next second, he sneered again.
"What are you afraid of, by the time they arrive at us, I'm afraid it will already be an hour later, and by that time, we will shoot them with bows and arrows at high points!"
"This time, let this group of arrogant officers and soldiers pay a terrible price!"
The mountain bandit leader rubbed his big hand against the trembling woman beside him, laughing uncontrollably.
The mountain bandits present were also not afraid.
Prior to this, they had been surrounded and suppressed several times by the officers and soldiers of Jiangbei, and each time they escaped without one or two dead people.
As long as they occupy the high points and counterattack with bows and arrows, those officers and soldiers can only be blocked outside the stockade.
These officers and soldiers of the imperial court are more miserable than those officers and soldiers in Jiangbei when they walk the mountain road, and they still want to encircle and suppress them?
It's just a dream.
What's more, there are more than 100 of them, walking together, even if they are blind, they can shoot one or two casually, not to mention that they are good archers who have been trained for a long time.
"Tell the brothers to get ready! Follow me to shoot the officers and soldiers! ”
Under the leadership of the mountain bandit leader, more than 100 mountain bandits armed with bows and arrows were distributed at every high point of the stockade, waiting for the arrival of officers and soldiers.
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In the green grass, Bian Long was wearing cloth clothes and gestured to several officers and soldiers behind him.
The officers and soldiers behind him nodded, then lowered their bodies and climbed quickly, occupying a higher hiding point.
On the day of the break, Lin Bei taught them some simple gestures for communication, and at this time they were able to communicate simply without speaking.
Bian Long glanced at the smoke that was about to cover him behind him, and made a pause gesture.
All the soldiers lay on their stomachs in the grass and did not move.
Now they can even hear laughter coming from the wooden stockade in front of them.
The mountain bandits sat on the high platform and drank heavily, facing the mountains and forests without movement, the corners of their mouths hooked up with a sneer.
These officers and soldiers were even more unbearable than he had imagined, and he had thought that these so-called elite merchants would rush to their stockade in half an hour.
But now half an hour has passed, and there is not even a hint of wind and grass.
"Head! There's smoke down there! ”
At this moment, a mountain bandit hurriedly ran to the bottom of the high platform.
"Smoke? They were going to set fire to the mountain? ”
The mountain bandit leader was slightly stunned, and then laughed.
It rains all year round in the north of the river, and it has just rained heavily two days ago, and this morning it was foggy, and everywhere was a little wet, and it may take several hours to wait until the mountain fire burned to the village.
Not to mention, there is a great possibility that it will not burn.
"Brothers, this General Lin seems to be nothing more than an embroidered pillow, let's go down the mountain tonight to surprise them!"
The leader of the mountain bandits drank half a jar of wine and shouted a little drunk.
"Hahaha!"
The mountain bandits laughed in response, and the laughter spread far and wide in the mountains.
After a stick of incense, the smoke has gradually spread into the stockade along the direction of the wind, and the mountains and forests below have also been covered by thick smoke, and the visibility of the mountain bandits is also declining wildly.
Bian Long, who was lying in the grass, was unconcealably excited on his face.
He looked at the gradually thick white smoke, put on a wet cloth, and the knife was unsheathed, and the tip of the knife pointed straight at the stockade.
The six hundred soldiers behind him also drew their swords and gradually dispersed, closing in on the stockade in the thick smoke.
When he touched the gate of the stockade, Bian Long rushed out of the smoke, raised his knife, and cut down the mountain bandits guarding the gate neatly.
"Kill!!"
Suddenly, the shouts of killing in the mountains and forests soared to the sky.
There were blurred figures in all directions, which suddenly made the mountain bandits in the village panic, and the thick smoke choked their eyes, making them powerless to parry.
Where did they dare to fight with the soldiers, and for a while they smeared oil on the soles of their feet and disappeared without a trace.
And the mountain bandits who occupied the high point, armed with bows and arrows, looked at the thick smoke below, and half of the figures could not be seen.
"Head! Evacuate! Those officers and soldiers have been killed in the stockade!"
At this time, the leader of the mountain bandits was still holding the empty jar, and when he heard the reports of other mountain bandits, his heart chuckled, and his drunken mind woke up instantly.
But he is not without the ability to become the leader of the mountain bandits, and after cutting down a mountain bandit who is about to escape, there are more than 30 mountain bandits gathered around him.
"Let's kill together!"
The leader of the mountain bandits shouted angrily, and then took the lead, jumped off the high platform, and fought with the officers and soldiers.
Seeing that their heads were so brave, the mountain bandits also turned their heads up and turned back to fight back.
But what they didn't know was that the bandit leader had already quickly sneaked out of the village with the most trusted bandit beside him and ran down the mountain in another direction.
And where would the mountain bandits who remained in the stockade be the opponents of the well-trained soldiers, and after a short battle, dozens of mountain bandits became the ghosts of the sword.
In fact, the soldiers have lost half of their physical strength after half an hour of climbing, and the mountain bandits who are in the stockade, with intact physical strength and a deep understanding of the terrain, will have some disadvantages.
But these mountain bandits don't want to die, as long as they see soldiers, they run away, in the thick smoke, they can't tell the direction, and their eyes are still full of tears.
In such a situation, the mountain bandits continued to die under the swords of the soldiers.
In just one stick of incense, the stockade was full of the corpses of mountain bandits.
The soldiers paid the only price for a few wounded who fell and were injured by not adapting to the mountain road.
On the other side, the bandit leader led more than 20 bandits to a village at the bottom of the mountain.
This is also the escape route he has thought of a long time ago.
The officers and men had already consumed most of their physical strength by climbing the mountain, and with the fight with other mountain bandits, they definitely did not have the physical strength to pursue and kill them again.