A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 19: Annexing Sushan Village

At the banquet that day, Li Gui shouted the slogan "annex all the mountains and unify Yishui", which ignited the wildfire in the hearts of the bandits.

Early the next morning, Li Gui called Li Laoqi over and asked him to take people down the mountain to find out information about the surrounding mountains.

You have to act quickly, otherwise when word spreads about Yushan's defeat of the Yishui County Yamen, other copycats will become wary.

Li Laoqi actually secretly resisted the idea of ​​annexing various mountains, but the good thing about him was that he was obedient enough to do whatever Li Gui asked him to do.

After receiving the order, Li Laoqi took a few people and secretly walked around the mountains to get a clear picture of the local terrain and the situation of the village.

He was originally a member of the bandits, and even if he was seen by the bandits, they would just treat him as someone who had crossed the line, and at most they would give him a beating and rush back. They would not think that he wanted to do harm to the village.

In just a few days, the bottom line of each mountain was figured out.

With this information, coupled with mental calculations and unintentional calculations, it is no longer a problem to capture the mountains.

Among them, Sushan has the most obvious loopholes and is the easiest to capture.

In order to build more confidence in his men and make the training more effective, Li Gui decided to take advantage of the weak and chose Sushan as his first target.

After suspending training for a day to let the soldiers have a good rest, Li Gui ordered the drumming to assemble early the next morning when it was still dark.

This group of people also knew that they were going to a battlefield today, a life-or-death battle, and very dangerous, so they made all the preparations they could to the extreme.

Although they don't have paper armor, the poor have their own way of doing things - they wear thick clothes.

Last time it was a defensive counterattack. The government officials came too quickly and they didn't have time to use it. Now they are prepared in advance. Of course, they must be armed to the teeth with everything.

Although it's a little hot, it's better than dying, right?
Fortunately, it is early in the morning and the weather is not that hot yet. If you move quickly, you may be able to have lunch on Sushan before noon.

Li Gui and a group of people were silent all the way and walked quickly and silently. They arrived at the foot of Sushan Mountain before noon.

Under the cover of the woods, a dilapidated cottage appeared in front of everyone.

They are also cottages, and the cottages here in Sushan are particularly broken.

Perhaps because they have never been conquered, the walls of these cottages are relatively low. Many of them are made of wooden frames and bamboo strips, with at most a layer of yellow mud on the outside.

The wall of Yushan is almost like this. After Li Gui came, he ordered the auxiliary soldiers to rebuild it, otherwise it would not be much better than other cottages.

The wall here in Sushan is particularly weak. You can see from a distance that there is a big hole in the wall on one side, but no one has repaired it.

In fact, in this kind of environment, night raids are the best, but most farmers in this era are night blind. Let alone night raids, it is easy to get lost even when walking at night.

When fighting breaks out at night, it is unclear whether the one stabbed to death is the enemy or one of our own.

After Li Gui and others approached carefully, they discovered that there was no one in front of the door. The dozens of amateur archers who had been hastily trained were of no use at all.

It was getting late and the sun was already high, but there was still no guard in front of the village gate.

This is not the case in the army. Who has the patience to guard the gate all day long?
The bandits are a mob with extremely poor discipline. Especially the mountain strongholds collude with Li Daguan in the city and are not worried about being punished by the government, so they are particularly poor in vigilance.

After looking at the environment, Li Gui immediately gave up his original plan to sneak in through the loophole, waved his hand, and led his soldiers to rush in through the main entrance.

After entering the village gate, there was an open space in front of them. A few people were scattered in the square. When they saw Li Gui and others suddenly rushing in, they were stunned.Li Gui took the lead and rushed forward in three or five steps. He raised his knife and started killing like a melon or a vegetable.

When the blood from No. 1's neck rose to the sky like a fountain, the thieves who were attacked reacted. They immediately screamed and turned around and ran away, without any sense of resistance.

Li Gui did not pursue him rashly, but ordered the spearmen to line up in the square and march forward in unison.

When the thieves gathered together and rushed out with dung forks, wooden sticks and the like in their hands, they ran into a forest of spears.

When the leader who was rushing in front saw the formation on the other side, without saying a word, he left the guy behind, turned around and ran away, shouting:

"The officers and soldiers are coming, run for your life..."

Don't blame him for admitting his mistake. Ordinary cottages don't even have a few steel knives. This kind of spear array has only been heard of but never seen.

What's more, there are more than a dozen people wearing armor in front of them. If this is not the configuration of an official army, who are they?
In fact, normally speaking, Li Gui's complete set of equipment, including one or two thousand strings, is definitely impossible to purchase. However, Li Gui directly took advantage of the evil and got a lot of weapons and equipment for free without spending a penny.

Seeing that the leader had fled, the other bandits would naturally not resist, so they immediately abandoned the bandits and dispersed.

"Thieves and birds!"

"Escape so fast!"

"Is this rat gall worthy enough to be a thief?"

Li Gui cursed in a low voice and ordered two teams to be chased separately. At the same time, he shouted: "Those who surrender kneel down to avoid death!"

As soon as these words came out, it was more effective than anything else. Immediately, people knelt on the roadside.

These days, the law also emphasizes not blaming the masses. Even if there is a rebellion, only the culprit is usually punished and the rest are ignored.

As long as they are not the leader of the copycat, they will all be surrendered immediately, each moving faster than the other, for fear that they will be killed if they are too slow.

This battle was fought so smoothly, without any resistance at all, and the intensity was not as intense as the previous arrests.

Of course, Li Gui also understood that there was a misunderstanding among the thieves, thinking that it was an important reason for the attack by the officers and soldiers, otherwise it would not have gone so smoothly.

If they get a few more official clothes, pretend to be officers and soldiers, and shout out the slogan of killing only the chief culprits, I am afraid that several other cottages will be completely destroyed without attack, and even the thieves' leaders will be tied up and sent out by their subordinates.

But this method of military training has no use except making soldiers arrogant and arrogant!
Li Gui asked people to gather all the surrendered thieves, collect their weapons, and surround them with gun formations. Then they stood in the middle of the square, waiting to receive the results of the battle.

After a while, the people who went out to chase the thieves came back one after another, bringing back with them the leaders who had escaped.

However, due to unfamiliarity with the route and other reasons, several leaders have disappeared, including the big leader from Sushan Village.

The team leader who led the tracking team came over to reply tremblingly, fearing that the moody leader of the stronghold would chop him to death with a knife.

But Li Gui actually didn't care whether the leader was caught or not. For him, the most valuable thing was already in hand.

He waved his hand casually, signaling the corps commander to step back, then called Li Laoqi over and said:

"Old rule, let them submit their names first!"

(End of this chapter)