On the hill, Wang Ying lay on the crooked tree on the top of the mountain. The mung bean squinted his eyes and stared at the foot of the mountain with a thief light. After watching for a while, he was still chewing something in his mouth, and complained: "Today's sober soup is a little old!"

Zheng Tianshou wanted to run away, but he wanted to run away after seeing Li Kui yesterday and was about to discuss with Wang Ying. It would be a dead end to defend the village. Perhaps someone in the world could use force to break through Li Kui's arrangements under the strict defense of Li Kui. However, this definitely does not include Wang Ying and Zheng Tianshou.

How strong are they? Can you not know?

Li Kui was too lazy to even kill them.

The only way is to find the defense gaps of the government troops at the foot of the mountain. But it is not easy. Qingfeng Mountain, the size of a palm, gathered five or six thousand officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain. Not to mention, which of these people are real imperial guards, which can be temporarily supported by the wing army, and which are just people who are just making up for money and not doing things.

With so many people and so many eyes, it was a dream that he and Wang Ying wanted to run out of the encirclement.

Wang Ying slipped down from the tree, and Zheng Tianshou hurriedly greeted him and asked, "Brother, do you have a chance?"

Wang Ying sat down on the ground with anger and said dejectedly: "I understand. Li Kui kept our brothers' lives to relieve boredom. Yesterday, he scared us. Today, he will set fire to death. This time, it will be difficult for you and my brother to survive."

"Just do it all the time and kill you down the mountain to fight with Li Kui!" The hope of survival was blocked, and Zheng Tianshou immediately became ruthless. He and Wang Ying were not considered greedy and afraid of death. The evil things that would sit down in this life were enough to die ten times. They didn't even have the intention to surrender.

I used to want to capture a civil servant in charge and use it as a bargaining chip for negotiation.

Unfortunately, he and Zheng Tianshou were blind and fell in love with Li Kui at first sight. The two of them ran away like wild dogs lit up with their teeth, and then ran away with a stick and screamed.

Only the two brothers can feel the feeling of surprise and great sorrow.

Wang Ying said angrily: "I ran down and let Li Kui humiliate him once?"

He has experience in this area, and yesterday's painful experience will be unforgettable for him in his life.

Wang Ying had thought about it. Even if he committed suicide, he would never give Li Kui a chance to humiliate him again. Zheng Tianshou hugged his head in annoyance. He was obviously a handsome young man, like an old man who had gone bankrupt, with despair in his eyes.

Wang Ying said: "You can't do nothing. First, let the young people cut down the trees on the mountain into a clearing area, and don't be roasted by the officials. Then let everyone go to the cave to squeeze, hoping to stay until the evening."

Roasted suckling pig and roasted lamb are all delicious.

But the roasting person, especially the one who is likely to be roasted, will definitely not be too comfortable. If a person wants to die, there are too many ways to hang himself, jump into the river, and take poison, but basically no one can set himself in the fire to death. In the first place, it is too painful, and even the desperate person who is determined to die will not dare to try it. In addition, the burned person is beyond recognition. If it becomes ashes, it will be troublesome to affect reincarnation.

The official army sets fire, both advantages and disadvantages.

First of all, after the shrubs at the foot of the mountain were burned, the officers and soldiers wanted to attack, so there was no place to hide. Of course, the people on the mountain also lost the protection of vegetation when they went down the mountain.

As soon as the signal that the government army was preparing to set fire came out, it immediately became a construction site for the hot court.

The imperial guards at the foot of the mountain were busy logging. Fortunately, there were not many tall trees in Qingzhou, and there were stones underground, so it was difficult to grow tall trees. They were all shrubs two or three people tall, not tall, but very dense. The imperial guards were logging wood, in order to prevent the spread of the fire, the bandits were also busy logging, but this was self-rescue.

As for Zheng Tianshou and Wang Ying did not find the opportunity to rush down the mountain to fight against the imperial guards, it was mainly because after suffering a loss yesterday, Cao Yuanchun finally thought of the crossbowman.

A large number of crossbowmen were preparing to go down the mountain on the road. Any bandits who wanted to fish in troubled waters had to endure the horror of arrows like rain.

Cao Yuanchun commanded the troops and worked hard for more than a day before finally clearing out a safe area. Then he ordered his opponent: "Set the fire!"

Hundreds of arson points were lit at about the same time.

Qingfeng Mountain is like a huge pile of firewood. The flames at the foot of the mountain immediately rushed up under the heat wave. The fire became bigger and bigger, and thick smoke swept through the heat wave, as if it was about to swallow the entire Qingfeng Mountain.

Cough cough cough

Cough cough cough

A piece of rag was hanging on Wang Ying's face, soaked and stuck to his nose. Tears were smoked and rushing down, accompanied by coughing, which made him miserable. He didn't even have the thought of quarrel with Zheng Tianshou, like a sheep pen in winter, crowded in a small cave. He gasped in a big mouthful of thin air, and felt a sense of hotness and discomfort that his chest was about to burn.

"How many hours have you been?"

"It's almost dark."

"Li Kui, who is unethical and smoking, cannot fight with the man in a dignified manner. Even if he dies, the man will die standing still. It is really annoying that he will be bullied so much."

Wang Ying yelled and cursed. When the fire became smaller and felt that his chest was much more relaxed, he could no longer help but the anger in his heart and cursed Li Kui.

It seemed that his misfortune was entirely caused by Li Kui alone.

Zheng Tianshou was already covered in dust, and his fair and handsome face had long been smoked into bacon. He felt a little relieved and finally got over it.

If there weren't springs in the cave, they would have been roasted with hot flames.

After finally getting up, I saw the devastated scorched earth. From time to time, there were minions crawling out of the hideouts around me. I didn't care about anything else, so I could only ask someone to check the important supplies first.

The food was buried in the ground and was not burned.

Water source safety.

It seemed that the trouble caused by the officers and soldiers to the bandits was not unacceptable to them. The only change was that the mountain gate was burned away, the vegetation on the mountain was gone, and the Juyi Hall was gone, so they could no longer hide down the mountain.

"The village leader, more than 20 people died. The others survived."

Seeing the minions' admiring eyes, Wang Ying raised her chest and said proudly: "I went to the grassland to sell cattle and sheep, and I also encountered a fire. I survived this way."

Wang Ying showed off his knowledge.

But he didn't say that because of the fire, all the cattle and sheep he bought died. He lost all the capital. He had no choice but to become a bandit.

However, Wang Ying did not intend to give up completely at the moment. He was not in a desperate situation. There were food and drinks on the mountain. Although the trees on the mountain were burned, there were only two roads that could go up the mountain. One was in front of the mountain, which was the mountain road that the imperial guards had attacked before. The other was behind the mountain. As long as you guard these two roads, the Song army would still not be able to get up even if they burned Qingfeng Mountain.

Wang Ying stood on a stone and shouted arrogantly to his subordinates: "It's impolite to come but not to go. Song Jun will definitely come to search the mountains later. Let's lie secretly beside us, and when they come, we will rob and kill for a while, so that the imperial guards know that I, the hero of Qingfeng Mountain, is not so easy to deal with."

"Kill it! Kill a piece of armor without leaving it."

"The village master is invincible!"

Wang Ying just listens to this kind of words.

Before Wang Ying could shout a few words of courage, Cao Yuanchun, the commander of Qingzhou at the foot of the mountain, rectified the army and prepared to attack the mountain. Originally, Qingfeng Mountain was already scorched earth, and there were probably no living people. He thought to himself that if there was a advantage, he would not take advantage. As long as he rushed to the mountain, wouldn’t the credit be his?

This time, Cao Yuanchun gathered 400 elite troops, led by his several subordinates. It can be said that the Qingzhou General Administration has already all the elite troops. If Qingzhou General Administration cannot defeat Qingfeng Mountain, it means that Qingzhou General Administration has no choice but to take Qingfeng Mountain.

"Brothers, take down Qingfeng Mountain, kill the thief leader, and avenge the generals of Shima!"

"revenge!"

"revenge!"

Between the imperial guards, on the battlefield, there is still some friendship between robes. Cao Yuanchun thought that Qingfeng Mountain had been burned to such a ghost, so should the Shi Bao under his command die?

It is not wrong to use the word revenge.

The army set out and slowly marched towards the mountain.

Ruan Xiaowu looked at the posture and seemed to be quite powerful. He nodded vigorously. He didn't look like his brother Ruan Xiaoer, and opened his mouth apart. When he was outside, Xiaowu's mouth was still quite tight and he didn't talk much.

Zhao Tingzhi was also irritable. When people were anxious, they couldn't help but want to talk to someone to divert their irritability. But the one who was most suitable to chat with him should be Li Kui, who is comparable to his official position. How could Zhao Tingzhi communicate with Li Kui? Seeing Ruan Xiaowu's appearance, he couldn't help but snorted coldly: "Do you kid also understand the method of military formation?"

Zhao Tingzhi heard that Li Kui had a Ruan Xiaoer under him, who was now a general of the Imperial Guard. Ruan Xiaowu obviously did not have the evil and fierce aura of a soldier on Ruan Xiaoer, and he did not look like he was the real master.

Of course, Ruan Xiaoer didn't want to be a general at all. The civil officials and military generals of the Song Dynasty had to perform their duties and both had to take exams. The literary and military exams would eventually fall on the exam papers. However, Ruan Xiaoer's knowledge could not support him to fill the exam papers.

But there was no way, Li Kui asked him to go. If he didn't go, he would definitely be dealt with by Li Kui.

There was a wolf in front and a tiger behind. Ruan Xiaoer could only bow his head and be cowardly.

Xiao Wu has no official position yet, and his identity is just a follower around Li Kui, not even a history of books. This guy has been studying for two years and has learned a sparse and ordinary life. I hope he will write letters. Li Kui will have more strange symbols in the letters to his relatives and friends. Only Ruan Xiaowu can understand these symbols.

So, Ruan Xiaowu became the guard beside Li Kui.

Just an errand-run character.

Ruan Xiaowu looked at Zhao Tingzhi hesitantly. He couldn't figure out why this dog official talked to him? But Ruan Xiaowu still said what he said seriously, "The slogan is very good."

slogan?

Zhao Tingzhi's face turned dark and he was despised. He immediately lost his plan to argue with Ruan Xiaowu. On the contrary, Li Kui was in a good mood and said to Ruan Xiaowu: "Most of these bandits should not be dead. Cao Yuanchun doesn't understand bandits, so it's better to suffer some losses."

Zhao Tingzhi resented Li Kui's gloating, but he didn't believe that the thief who had been burned by the fire could survive. He mocked: "Mr. Li, this is not a field battle between Xixia and Qingtang, but a bandit suppression. How could it be as complicated as you think?"

Li Kui thought to himself that he was the most professional in suppressing bandits. There was one person in the Song Dynasty who dared to compete with him for suppressing bandits. However, this was not easy to say, because it was related to some secrets. But it did not prevent Li Kui from tying about something that Zhao Tingzhi could understand, which made the old guy feel uncomfortable: "The bandit leader has two necessary conditions when choosing a copycat."

Ruan Xiaowu said curiously: "What are the conditions?"

"Caves and spring water. Without these two things, it is difficult to store food and food. Secondly, there is no water source. As long as the water source is cut off, you can catch turtles in the jar. There are spring water and caves on Qingfeng Mountain. I have asked the locals before."

Li Kui said with a smile, as if he was not a court official at all, nor was he a bandit suppression at this time.

Zhao Tingzhi twisted his beard and, in a fit of anger, grabbed several of them and said angrily: "Why didn't you tell me before the attack of General Cao?"

"This is common sense, he won't not know it, right?" Li Kui asked with a smile.

Zhao Tingzhi, who was touched by a soft nail, no longer paid attention to Li Kui and even swore in his heart that he would never say a word to Li Kui in his life.

On the mountain.

Cao Yuanchun was very cautious at first. He and his generals arrived at the place where Shi Bao and the bandits fought, but did not find any enemy situation.

Continue to go up the mountain. After the vegetation on the mountain is destroyed, the bandits have no way to hide, and Cao Yuanchun doesn't have to worry about being attacked by bandits. As he gets closer and closer to the top of the mountain, his guardianship becomes smaller and smaller.

Just as he was about to order people to find Shi Bao's corpse, suddenly the bandits jumped out of the ashes and the battle began to unfold.

Cao Yuanchun was just close to the other party's hidden place and immediately fell into panic. Wang Ying seized the opportunity and rushed towards Cao Yuanchun. He did not hide his strength like he was dealing with Shi Bao. At the beginning of the battle, he put all his strength forward and attacked fiercely.

"kill!"

He slashed and killed two Cao Yuanchun's personal guards one after another. Wang Ying suddenly yelled at Cao Yuanchun. The man was already jumping in the air, raised his sword high, and slashed at Cao Yuanchun with great force.

The powerful and nobles of the generals spent a lot of effort on honing their martial arts skills.

Cao Yuanchun lost the lead, but he had no intention of surrendering. Instead, he fought hard. The knife in his hand was raised horizontally to block. If it weren't for the panic that he could perfectly guard against Wang Ying's attack. However, it was too hasty, making him feel a little embarrassed to resist. He retreated one after another, which made him in danger.

But Wang Ying knew that Cao Yuanchun did not let him find an opportunity to take advantage of, but instead his defense became more and more stable.
To be continued...