Changbai Mountain in early winter is ups and downs, like a dormant dragon.

Most of the leaves of the forests and trees are shining, the trees are bare, and the mountains also appear gray.

The pioneer camp of bandit suppression is like a long snake, winding forward among the mountains and fields.

Every five miles of marching, Luo Cheng would order the entire army to rest for a while, and every ten miles of marching, one big break. Only marching forty miles a day was Luo Cheng's order.

It was too fast, he was afraid of encountering a disaster, and he was also afraid that this newly integrated new army would be disconnected.

"Old Wu, soldiers are so fast. If we march slowly like this, the bandits in the mountains will have already noticed the movement. Isn't this agitating?"

"Who will we suppress in this way? No one of them will run away."

Luo Cheng ignored his impatience and said slowly, "Hastyness is not enough. Remember, this time we did not go into the mountain to raid, but to encircle and suppress the enemy. So it doesn't matter whether we will fight or not. Anyway, the monks can't run away from the temple. Let's sweep over here and destroy the secluded villages that fled the households and the nests of the bandits one by one."

"But what if they ran away?"

"Where to go? Run to hide elsewhere in the mountains? What's the matter? First break the nest and the thief's village, and the thieves will have no place to support them. If they ran outside the mountains, there would have been six large troops outside setting up a net of heaven and earth, and they would just fall into the net of themselves."

The fourth brother was very dissatisfied with it, but he had no choice but to go back to his hook and sickle team.

On the afternoon of the day when I entered the mountainous area, the scout had already reported that a village was found in front of me.

"According to the information we found before and the situation we just discovered on the spot, there are about 200 people gathered in this village. The main ones are some escaped Ding Yin households, including a group of bandits, about 20 to 30. This group of bandits controls this small village, and their relationship with those escaped households is pretty good."

It sounds strange, but it is indeed the case.

Those bandits often come out to rob, but they will not rob the fugitives in this village. On the contrary, they are still a symbiotic relationship.

The fugitives farm and hunt here, while the bandits go down the mountain to rob. They will sell some of the robbed production tools to the fugitives, buy food from the fugitives, and even absorb some fresh blood from the fugitives.

Those bandits are actually equivalent to the role of the government in this mountain. The fugitives will pay some protection fees and they will also provide some protection to prevent others from robbing these fugitives.

Because it is not far from the mountain, this village is actually not big.

"Have the thieves in this village participated in the last besiege of Zhangqiu County?" Luo Cheng asked.

"They have few people and small power, so they didn't participate last time. The last time they besieged Zhangqiu City were the thirteen relatively large forces in the Shanli."

"Then can the thieves in this village have records of doing evil and are they wanted by the government?"

"Yes, they are all wanted by the government."

"That's fine. Prepare for it and take action with this village first. This place is not far from the mountain. After taking the village, we can change to our first military station to transport grain."

When the fourth brother heard that the attack was about to start, he came over and volunteered as if he had chicken blood.

"Let me go, I will only take my team and be sure to take this village."

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Yangjiao Village.

Because the fugitives who first fled here found that this place looked like Yangjiao, they later established a village and named Yangjiao Village.

There are only more than a hundred people in Yangjiao Village, with a few people in the family, a single bachelor, and a group of heroes who protect the copycat.

On weekdays, you can barely live a life by cultivating some land on the hillside, growing some food, and hunting. After all, the biggest advantage of escaping into the mountains is that you don’t have to pay the rent for farming or transferring, and you don’t have to pay for free for 20 days a year, let alone all kinds of levies and chores.

Self-sufficiency is not a particularly bad time. Generally, self-sufficiency is fine. Although you have to worry about the government checking the mountain, in addition, shopping is inconvenient and it is difficult to buy salt and iron through normal channels. Fortunately, there are heroes who will take out the things they rob and sell them every time they go down the mountain to rob, and they will be sold to them.

As time goes by, everyone gets used to and even likes this kind of free life.

Sometimes, if the heroes in the village do big business, the people in the village will even help go down the mountain to get started.

"What do you think of Wang Fasi's proposal?"

In the village, in a simple wooden house, a group of heroes were drinking and chatting.

It’s cold, so I roast the fire while barbecuing the meat, and then warm the hot wine, which is so refreshing.

"It is not so easy to attack cities and land, raise flags and rebels. The court will not tolerate this anti-flagship. We are so good now, and the government turns a blind eye. Isn't life very free? If you really agree to Wang Bo, what are the benefits of us rebelling with him?"

"Does it be that I really believe that he can still take the Yang family's world? I really think that we will be granted the title of Duke and Marquis by then?" The boss took a sip of wine, "Bah, I don't believe this anyway."

Several people below also said, "Only Wang Bo can be the emperor? Who believes it? I won't say that he was beaten by Zhang Xutuo in Zouping last time. After all, Zhang Xutuo is famous. But this time, he ran to fight Zhangqiu City, but was defeated by a few babies. That would be really a laughing person. If I tell you, Wang Bo is actually a person with a reputation. He is half a year old and still dreams of an emperor!"

Everyone laughed.

"No matter who is the emperor in this world, we brothers are here to be our mountain king, and come and have a drink."

As bandits, these people have their own origins, such as killing and fleeing, those who are lazy and fleeing, those who are fleeing, those who are fleeing, and those who are evading from the military and avoiding classes. In short, they come from all over the world and finally come together. Everyone kowtowed and became brothers.

At first there were only three brothers on this mountain, but later it gradually developed to the current thirty-six brothers.

With more people, business is easier. In addition, there are more than a hundred people in this village, so I am not lonely here. Some brothers even marry wives or rob women to be the wife of the village. Life is really unhappy.

A corner of the village.

Two new bandits who had just joined the gang were on duty, saying they were standing guard, but in fact they were guarding the small house beside the small road at the entrance of the village to cook fire and drink.

"Come on, drink it again."

"I'll go pee first." One man put down his wine bowl and walked out of the hut with silence. When the cold wind outside blew, he couldn't help but make a cold war.

He shrank and started to snatch the guy.

Halfway through, I suddenly felt something cold on my neck slipping past.

Then my mouth was covered.

Blood spurted out, and the man was killed by the scout without even making a sound.

He gently put the body with the warm body to the ground. The scout leader who led the team waved back and suddenly several more figures approached quietly.

"Does it take so long for you to pee? If you can't drink it, you will surrender and admit defeat." Another person's voice came from inside.
Chapter completed!