"Into the mountains!"
Lin Bei waved his hand and issued an order.
The soldiers obeyed the order, immediately put on wet cloths, and rushed towards the mountain area where the bandits were.
The soldiers were in front, and the thick smoke was behind them. However, due to the geographical difference, the bandits on the mountain only saw the soldiers entering the mountain, but did not notice the thick smoke that was temporarily blocked by the woods.
"Are you going to use smoke to drive down the bandits?"
At this time, Zhou Jinwei looked at the scene in front of her with excitement.
It seems that no one in history has used this trick of Lin Bei's, and even if it has been used, the benefit is minimal.
After all, any assistance is futile when dealing with bandits. Only by being able to completely kill the bandits on the rugged mountains can future troubles be avoided forever.
"But the thick smoke has not yet poured towards the mountain. How can you let the soldiers go up the mountain first? Then the thick smoke is useless."
Zhou Jinwei asked the doubts in her heart.
Lin Bei smiled: "If the smoke were thicker, the bandits on the mountain would have fled long ago, stupid."
When the remaining officers and soldiers heard this, their eyes lit up.
Zhou Jinwei was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, it was indeed true.
"Boss! The officers and soldiers are going up the mountain! Their direction is right here!"
In the village where the bandits were, a bandit was panting and reporting to the bandit leader.
"What! Did those poor people really tell us our location?"
When the bandit heard the news, his heart skipped a beat, but the next second, he sneered again.
"What are you afraid of? By the time they arrive at us, it will probably be an hour later. By then, we will shoot them with bows and arrows from a high point!"
"This time, let these arrogant officers and soldiers pay a heavy price!"
The bandit leader rubbed the trembling woman next to him with his big hands and laughed wildly.
The bandits present were not afraid either.
Before that, they had been surrounded and suppressed several times by Jiangbei officers and soldiers, and each time they managed to escape without losing one or two people.
As long as they occupy the high point and use bows and arrows to counterattack, those officers and soldiers can only be blocked outside the stockade.
These officers and soldiers of the imperial court have a more difficult journey on the mountain road than those in Jiangbei. Are they still thinking of encircling and suppressing them?
It's just a fool's errand.
What's more, there are more than a hundred of them, walking together, even a blind man can kill one or two at will, not to mention that they are good archers who have trained for a long time.
"Tell brothers to get ready! Let me shoot the officers and soldiers!"
Led by the bandit leader, more than a hundred bandits armed with bows and arrows were distributed at every high point in the village, waiting for the arrival of officers and soldiers.
…
Among the green grass, Bian Long was wearing civilian clothes and gestured to several officers and soldiers behind him.
The officers and soldiers behind him nodded, then lowered their bodies and climbed quickly to occupy a higher hiding spot.
On his day off, Lin Bei taught them some simple gestures for communication. At this time, they were able to communicate simply without speaking.
Bian Long glanced at the thick smoke that was about to cover him behind him and made a pause gesture.
All the soldiers lay down in the grass and did not move.
Now they could even hear laughter coming from the wooden stockade ahead.
The bandit sat on a high platform and drank heavily, facing the motionless forest with a sneer on his lips.
These officers and soldiers were worse than he imagined. He had thought that these so-called elite soldiers of the great merchants would rush to their stronghold within half an hour.
But it's been half an hour now, and there's not even the slightest movement.
"Head! There is thick smoke coming from below!"
At this moment, a bandit hurriedly ran to the bottom of the high platform.
"Thick smoke? Are they planning to set the mountain on fire?"
The bandit leader was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
It rains all year round in Jiangbei. It rained heavily just two days ago. It was still foggy this morning and everywhere was a little moist. It might take several hours until the wildfires reached the village.
Not to mention that there is a huge possibility that it will not be burned.
"Brothers, it seems that General Lin is just an embroidered pillow. Let's go down the mountain to give them a surprise tonight!"
The bandit leader drank half a jar of wine and shouted drunkenly.
"Hahaha!"
The bandits laughed in response, and their laughter spread far and wide in the mountains.
After one stick of incense, the thick smoke gradually spread into the village in the direction of the wind. The forest below was also covered in thick smoke, and the visibility of the bandits was also decreasing crazily.
Bian Long, who was lying in the grass, could not hide his excitement.
He looked at the increasingly thick white smoke, put on a wet cloth, took out the knife's sheath, and pointed the tip of the knife directly at the village.
The six hundred soldiers behind him also drew their swords, gradually dispersed, and approached the stockade amidst the thick smoke.
When he reached the gate of the village, Bian Long rushed out from the thick smoke, raised his knife, and chopped down the bandit guarding the gate neatly.
"kill!!"
All of a sudden, the shouts of killing rose to the sky in the forest.
There were blurry figures in all directions, which immediately panicked the bandits in the village. The thick smoke was so harsh that they were unable to resist.
How could they dare to fight with the soldiers? They immediately greased the soles of their feet and disappeared.
The bandits occupying the high point, holding bows and arrows, looked at the thick smoke below, half of them invisible.
"Boss! Escape quickly! Those officers and soldiers have already entered the village!"
At this time, the bandit leader was still holding an empty jar. When he heard the reports from other bandits, his heart pounded and his drunken mind suddenly woke up.
But he was not without ability to become the bandit leader. After cutting down a bandit who was trying to escape, more than 30 bandits gathered around him.
"Fight out together!"
The bandit leader shouted angrily, then took the lead, jumped off the high platform, and started fighting with the officers and soldiers.
When the bandits saw how brave they were, they also turned around and fought back.
But what they didn't know was that the bandit leader quickly slipped out of the village with his most trusted bandits and ran down the mountain in the other direction.
How could the bandits still in the village be a match for the well-trained soldiers? After a brief fight, dozens of bandits were killed by the sword.
In fact, after half an hour of climbing, the soldiers had lost half of their physical strength. Facing the bandits who were still in the stronghold and who knew the terrain well, they were somewhat at a disadvantage.
But these bandits didn't want to die. As soon as they saw the soldiers, they ran away. In the thick smoke, they couldn't tell their direction, and their eyes were still filled with tears.
Under such a situation, the bandits continued to die under the swords of the soldiers.
In just one moment of burning incense, the village was filled with corpses of bandits.
The price the soldiers paid was only a few wounded who were not adapted to the mountain road and fell.
On the other side, the bandit leader led more than 20 bandits to a village at the foot of the mountain.
This was also the escape route he had long thought of.
The officers and soldiers had already consumed most of their physical strength by climbing the mountain. In addition, they were fighting with other bandits, and they would definitely not have the physical strength to chase them again.
