Chapter 182 The First Bandit Suppression Campaign (Please Subscribe!)
The next morning, Lin Mu said goodbye to the merchant. Lin Mu was going to Dongye County, while the merchant continued to discuss the acquisition with Lin Dong and others. The merchant was ready to complete the order in his hand first and keep his promise, so as to find the ghost town mentioned by Lin Mu.
Along the wide official road, galloping forward, when the morning sun rose in the sky, he arrived at the west gate. In the bright sunshine, the high city wall of Dongye County looked a little mottled and golden.
Xiaohu had arrived at the county in the morning with twenty guards. They stood beside a sentry box at the gate of the city.
The soldiers, on their dark faces, their bright eyes shone with confident and strong eyes, and everyone had a happy smile on their faces. Their straight bodies were like pine trees standing on the top of the mountain. The swords and spears in their hands were white, dazzling and cold under the sun.
After the baptism of the battlefield, they grew up quickly. Looking at the spirited soldiers, holding their weapons steadily and powerfully, their faces were relaxed. Lin Mu did not go with the expedition against the bandits, but he could imagine the brutality of the siege, especially the Dong'an Mountain Battle. After experiencing the brutal battlefield, these soldiers truly became fierce soldiers.
Lin Mu rode forward, and Xiaohu came forward to meet him. Xiaohu also participated in this operation to bring Lin Mu the mission token. Liu Feng and other old Qinglong members were not convenient to appear in places like the county during the day.
"My lord, I have fulfilled my mission and successfully completed the mission!" Xiaohu smiled brightly. In the past six months, Xiaohu has been growing up.
His immature face has become so dark and mature, and his body has grown stronger and taller. Fortunately, there are no scars on his face, otherwise his appearance alone would definitely scare children.
"Good! Xiaohu, you are becoming more and more like a general. You are no longer the immature boy before, and no longer the little soldier who killed wolves with me." Lin Mu dismounted easily, smiled and patted his shoulder and said.
"Haha, it was all because of the careful training of Lord Feng Zhong that I became so powerful." Xiaohu scratched his head and laughed easily when he heard Lin Mu talking about the scene of killing wolves together.
"Okay, keep working hard! When you can be independent, I will let you lead an army, become a general, and gallop on the battlefield!" Lin Mu promised.
"I still have a long way to go to be independent, and I haven't even recognized all those Chinese characters." Xiaohu shook his head depressed.
"It's okay, you didn't have a foundation before, and now it's the stage of laying the foundation, take it slowly! Believe in yourself, believe that with the foundation of our territory, can't we train you into a general, haha!"
"Yeah!" Xiaohu nodded heavily. He had never been to a school or a private school before, and he didn't know a single word. He certainly hadn't read the art of war, and he couldn't even write a written report. These were all important factors that shackled his growth.
Lin Mu established a private school and attached importance to education. One of them was to eliminate illiteracy. Whether it was a soldier in the army or a deputy leader, anyone with an enterprising spirit could enter a private school to learn knowledge, recognize words, and the tuition was waived.
"You are persistent and work hard. I believe you will learn it soon." Lin Mu praised.
"Tell me about this operation. Let's go and talk as we walk." Lin Mu led the horse and walked with Xiaohu.
On the way, Lin Mu slowly learned the actual situation of this operation.
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After receiving Lin Mu's information, Liu Feng led 80,000 elite soldiers to ambush in the woods south of Dong'an Mountain.
In addition, following Liu Feng were the Night Shadow Department's Tian 29, 28, and 27. The three of them were responsible for the transmission of information from the east, west, and north of Dong'an Mountain respectively. The three of them had a page of Qiankun sub-page in their hands, and were also responsible for connecting the spies on the mountain. The Night Shadow Department had already lurked dozens of spies into Dong'an Mountain, one of which was to burn food, arrows, wooden bows, city defense kerosene and other military supplies when the war broke out, and cut off their capital for resistance.
Every backbone member of the Night Shadow Department's Tianbu was a shadow who had learned the earth-level skills. Not only was their information espionage and collection strong, but their martial arts were also very outstanding. The black internal force that permeated the rapier, once it was used, was the passing of lives.
According to the plan, this was an annihilation operation, leaving no one alive. The Night Shadow Division went all out. In addition to the main attack in the south, the Heaven Division was stationed on the other three sides to prevent them from breaking out and escaping.
It was dark and windy at night, and the foot of Dong'an Mountain was unusually quiet, like a giant beast lurking in the dark, ready to eat people at any time.
The mountain stronghold was built along the halfway up Dong'an Mountain, and the entire mountain stronghold surrounded the area above the halfway up Dong'an Mountain. The peaks above the halfway up the mountain, the wood and other things were basically cut down, and a number of strongholds were built.
The Dongshan bandits were notorious in the vicinity, robbing passing merchants, robbing money and killing people; going down the mountain to rob villages, squeezing villagers to the greatest extent, robbing women, and so on.
The county soldiers of Dongye County also pretended to encircle and suppress them, but they were all beaten back and did nothing.
From the perspective of modern people like Lin Mu, these bandits are so exposed to the public, and their base is entrenched on the mountain. Aren't they afraid of being surrounded and suppressed by the government? If there are such people in modern times, they will be killed as soon as they appear. But they are actually alive and well, and they go down the mountain to rob from time to time. They are really too rampant. It's a pity that in this era, such people exist and exist tenaciously.
Late at night, in the Dong'an mountain village, the bonfire is jumping, and next to it are the patrolling bandits. From a distance, the bonfires are like stars, dotted on the hillside of Dong'an Mountain, like forming a chain, set on the hillside of Dong'an Mountain. The patrolling bandits in the mountain village are relaxed and lazy, not knowing that the god of death is staring at them in the dark.
The soldiers of the True Dragon Legion were ready to attack from the south gate with all their strength. They were just waiting for the information from the Night Shadow Division.
As the night deepened, a cool mountain breeze blew gently, easing the emotions of the soldiers who looked a little nervous.
Many soldiers remembered the strategic military order mentioned by the team leader today, and they were inevitably nervous:
"【Wind Dragon Division Camp】press, all arrows are loaded, use arrows to suppress the enemy, and reduce the pressure on the charging 【Hu Ben Division Camp】, 【Tian Yuan Division Camp】 and 【Qian Sheng Division Camp】. Before their three divisions rush to the city wall, they all shoot with all their strength, and there is no need to save arrows. When their three divisions rush to the city wall and break the city gate, you will charge forward. When you encounter the enemy, don't hold back, kill them all! Remember, leave no one alive, this is a military order! Everyone remember it in mind!"
Tens of thousands of people attacking, can't hide their bodies, and will inevitably attract the attention of the bandits, but with the obstruction of the Night Shadow Division, they should not react so quickly.
Seize this time difference and capture the city wall, then this attack will be half successful.
Sure enough, on the top of the mountain, several fireworks with flames rising into the sky slowly appeared, and it was the secret agents of the Night Shadow Department who played their role.
On the twenty-seventh day, they also received a letter from the mountain stronghold, and a few lines of words slowly appeared on the pages:
On the eighty-ninth day, the mission is completed!
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On the one hundred and seventeenth day, the mission is completed!
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"Liu Feng, the military captain, you can attack!" Tian Twenty-Seven said to Liu Feng, who was calm and composed.
"Okay, soldiers, this is our first battle. The opposite is a group of vicious mountain bandits, notorious, no mercy! Follow the plan, attack!" There are no flags, no drums, everyone holds swords, guns and shields in a low profile, and quickly advances and attacks along the opened mountain road.
There are lurking mountain bandit sentinels halfway, and Liu Feng and his men kill them when they meet them, regardless of whether they send a signal or not. Everyone moves forward as fast as possible and kills the bandits they meet along the way as fast as possible.
The city wall is the first target.
After several years of development, the wall of Dong'an Mountain has been built to a height of six or seven feet, which ordinary people cannot climb.
A huge three-foot-wide city gate stands in it. The True Dragon Corps, which has no siege equipment, can't take this gate head-on, but the Night Shadow Corps sneaks up on the bandits guarding the city gate, opens the gate, and welcomes the soldiers in.
When the True Dragon Corps began to attack, Dong'an Mountain was also in full swing. The bandits carried buckets of water to put out the fire, and also woke up the elite who were resting.
Compared to waking them up, destroying the supplies defending the city is more important.
Xiaohu led the [Hu Ben Battalion] to attack from the right wing, He Yuan led the [Tian Yuan Battalion] to attack from the left wing, Wang Sheng led the [Qian Sheng Battalion] to attack from the middle, and Liu Feng led the [Feng Long Battalion] to fan out and suppress the archers on the city wall with bows and arrows.
The three battalions rushed up like prehistoric beasts, and all the bandits who blocked along the way were killed.
The sound of shouting and roaring slowly resounded throughout the Dong'an Mountain. The soldiers of the True Dragon Corps turned into messengers of death and ruthlessly harvested the lives of the bandits.
Before the Tiger Guards' three battalions charged to the city wall halfway up the mountain, the gate slowly opened, and they rushed into the mountain stronghold and started killing.
Except for the well-equipped bandits on the city wall, the soldiers who came to support them were all lacking clothes and helmets, and even the weapons in their hands were hoes. It seems that the action of the Night Shadow Division to destroy military supplies was very successful.
After rushing into the mountain stronghold, the soldiers of the True Dragon Corps shouted, "The county soldiers of the Han Dynasty are suppressing bandits, and surrendering will not be killed!" This is standing on the righteousness and overwhelming their momentum.
This behavior really made some bandits put down their weapons, but unfortunately, they were wrong. They mistakenly thought that these well-equipped, well-mannered, and powerful soldiers were county soldiers.
They were the True Dragon Corps, so afterward, these surrendered bandits were also killed, but their bodies were left intact.
After capturing the city wall, the four divisions gathered and attacked the houses in the center of the mountain stronghold with all their strength, where the bandits were hiding.
In this battle, in addition to the outstanding performance of the four divisions, the Night Shadow Division also played a huge role. They were like soul-catching messengers walking in the dark, and one sword could kill a bandit leader above the team leader. The team leader, military marquis, military lieutenant, and even the three leaders of Dong'an Mountain died in assassination.
The Night Shadow Division is not suitable for frontal confrontation, and the sharpest is assassination. The Dong'an bandits failed to organize an effective defensive offensive because too many leaders died.
The siege lasted from midnight to dawn, and the True Dragon Legion did not suffer heavy casualties. The corpses scattered along the ground were all bandits.
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