Chapter 240 Breaking through the den of thieves
"Chasing!" Li Guodong pointed forward in his hand.
Li Guodong, Wang Quan, Han Dashan, He Xing followed the thief and beat the dogs in the water, easily slashing the bandits from behind who didn't even dare to return their heads.
Five hundred new recruits lined up in neat formations, followed the veterans, and advanced step by step into the mountain village.
"Boss, please go back to Juyi Hall!" Several old thieves who Cheng Jikong brought out of his hometown shouted anxiously.
"Silly pig! Go back to Juyitang and wait for the officers and soldiers to chop their heads? Let's find a place to hide and let them run first, and then go down the mountain from the other side and leave by boat!" Cheng Jikong knocked the self-righteous guy's head with the hilt of the knife.
Unfortunately, all the thieves gathered when they saw Cheng Jikong's bandit leader's banner. The officers and soldiers and caravan guards followed each other and shot out feather arrows, shooting countless water bandits.
Cheng Jikong shouted to a confidant carrying a flag: "Please carry the flag and lead the others to the north by the lake! Take them on the boat and leave!"
"Brother, the villain takes them on the boat and leaves? What should you do?"
"Silly pig! There are Guangou Navy outside. If you take them on the boat and leave, can they leave? When Guangou Navy's attention is attracted, I will take people away from the other side! Remember, when Guangou Navy comes, you will surrender! If you unfortunately die in battle, I will give your family money!"
"Yes!" The confidant was loyal and carried the banner of "playing the way for heaven" and ran to the north by the water.
Seeing the flag running to the waterside where the boat was moored to the north, the bandits thought that the boss wanted to take them to the waterside to take the boat to run away, and they all rushed over with the flag.
When Li Guodong saw the bandits running to the water, he ordered the 500 recruits to pursue him. He led Wang Quan and others and fifty-six veterans into the mountain village.
"Brother, we don't care about the bandits who escaped to the lake?" Han Dashan asked.
"Don't worry, send a signal to Zheng Zhibao, and they will block the bandits." Li Guodong said.
A soldier sent out a firework signal and told the Zheng family navy that the bandits had gone to the north by the water, and asked the Zheng family navy to go to the north to intercept the bandits' way to the water.
Li Guodong took his men and went to Juyitang to kill him.
Zhang Fangzao, the third leader of the bandits, was quite clever. He did not follow the bandits to the waterside, but fled into the mountain village with more than a dozen old thieves, collecting gold, silver and soft materials. His plan was the same as Cheng Jikong, and he also wanted to wait for the officers and soldiers to eliminate the cannon fodder fleeing to the waterside and send people to search the mountain, they fled from another small path and escaped from the east. Who knew that Li Guodong and others would kill them directly up the mountain.
"San Zheng, run away, more than fifty officials have come up the mountain!" A loyal old thief came back to report.
"Run? What should I do if these gold, silver and treasures?" said another old thief.
"What's your life going to be gone, why do you need gold, silver and treasure?" The old thief who reported the message was so anxious that he almost cried.
Zhang Fangzao put a small and soft package on his back and turned around and ran out the door with the old thief.
As soon as he walked out of the door, he heard a sound of feather arrows breaking through the air. The old thief who stepped out the door had arrows pierced on his body and fell into a pool of blood.
Zhang Fangzao quickly turned his head and ran to the other side with his three confidants. Han Dashan and six Yebushu caught up with him, and several arrows roared and shot. Zhang Fangzao heard the sound and subconsciously lowered his head, and a feather arrow brushed his scalp by. But the three confidants behind him were not so lucky. One of them had seven or eight arrows behind him, pounced on the ground, like a hedgehog. The other two confidants, one was shot through the back heart by an arrow, and the other was shot in the leg.
The thief who was shot in the back by Han Dashan's arrow must be unable to survive. The one who was shot in the leg simply stopped running away, threw away the weapons, and knelt on the ground to surrender.
Zhang Fangzao rolled down the hillside and rolled to the foot of the mountain. Before he could stand up, he was stepped on his face with a strong foot: "Haha! I'll catch a thief!"
It was Wang Quan who caught Zhang Fangzao. He saw the thief rushing out of the house. He did not follow Han Dashan, but hid on the other side. Seeing the thief head running towards the hillside, he knew that the thief head was going down the mountain, so he jumped first. Zhang Fangzao rolled down the hillside and just landed in his hands.
Wang Quan knew that the credit for the extermination of the bandits would be his. After all, Li Guodong's identity was still a foreign general, and he did not belong to the officers and soldiers within the Ming system. If he went deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty to suppress bandits, he would be impeached by the censors. Wang Quan was a legal businessman, and it was reasonable to suppress bandits in the business guards. With these credits, donating a hundred households will be easy to do anything. He used to donate a hundred households to Zhao Xiancheng before, but now he donated another hundred households himself, and he has all his own business and military affairs.
Li Guodong rushed into the mountain village with his men. There were only a few remaining bandits left in the village, and they were chopped like chopped vegetables. The team quickly rushed to Juyi Hall, and He Xing led people to search for the remaining bandits. Li Guodong and Ye Bushu went through the boxes and searched in the mountain village, and found some gold, silver and fine soft materials.
A woman's crying came from the thief camp behind, so Li Guodong rushed over and saw more than a dozen young women locked in a room, with gold and silver jewelry spreading outside.
"They are all good women who have been harmed by the bandits. They can't survive even if they go home. Why not bring them back to our city?" Li Guodong said to him when he saw Wang Quan who was escorting Zhang Fang's escort.
Zhang Fangzao was tied up by many flowers and knelt in the middle of Juyi Hall. Outside, people were escorted to the mountain with captured bandits, and they were all taken into Juyi Hall.
Han Dashan, He Xing and others searched through the boxes and cabinets for a long time, but only found some scattered gold, silver, and soft soft materials, but the number was not large at all.
Seeing Li Guodong's dissatisfaction, He Xing stepped forward and said, "Brother, the thief must have hidden somewhere in the gold, silver and treasures. Let's find out after the trial."
Li Guodong looked at Zhang Fangzao and the bandits kneeling on the ground with a smile: "Everyone, as long as you are willing to tell where the gold and silver are hidden, I can give you a way out."
"The villain knows." A man who looked like an old thief raised his head.
"Then take our people to look for it! If you can't find it, you won't want your head." Li Guodong said expressionlessly. Then he asked the two Ye Bu to take the thief to look for it.
Not long after, two Ye Bushe walked in with a small bag of parcels. When they opened the parcel, they were filled with golden leaves and some jewelry.
"That's all?" Li Guodong said coldly as he looked at the thief.
"June, the villain doesn't know, the villain only knows this little thing." The thief knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
"Okay, you can go down!" Li Guodong smiled.
The thief knelt on the ground and kowtowed, asking in disbelief: "Can I leave?"
"Yes!" Li Guodong nodded expressionlessly.
After thanking the thief, he stood up quickly and left in a panic manner.
Chapter completed!