Li Yunze and Bai Yuannian sat on their horses and observed the bandits.
Bai Yuannian whispered: "Your Highness, these people don't look like ordinary bandits."
Li Yunze nodded lightly, "They are all professionally trained. The reason why they are disguised as vicious bandits.
The purpose is to keep people away from here. I think there must be some ulterior secret hidden in this mountain. "
Li Yunze had already discovered it when the two parties started fighting.
Although the leading bandit speaks rudely and speaks like a grandfather, he seems to be a gangster. If you look closely, you will find that he is just pretending.
Li Yunze concluded that most of the people here must have been on the battlefield.
And the mountain should be a secret base set up by some powerful person here.
This time when he went out, the guards Lin Zhong arranged for him were all middle-class and expert, and they were more than enough to deal with more than a hundred people.
After about a quarter of an hour, the bandits were subdued. About half of them were dead, and the rest were tied up with ropes.
Yan brought the bandit leader who just called himself grandpa to Li Yunze.
Although they were tied up with ropes, they were still very arrogant and kept shouting,
"I'm telling you, it's best to be wise and let me go. Otherwise, when my brother comes over, Grandpa, I will let you die without a burial place."
The knife in Yan Yi's hand pressed hard on his neck, and blood spurted out instantly.
The arrogant bandit leader also shut his mouth.
Seeing that he calmed down, Li Yunze said calmly, "How many people are there on the mountain? Who is your master? If you tell the truth, I will spare your life."
The bandit leader paused for a moment, then said "hum" nonchalantly, pretending not to understand and asked:
"What kind of master? I am the boss of the village. If you have any questions, just ask me."
"Since I gave you the chance and you didn't want it, then don't blame me for being rude."
Seeing that he was out of luck, Li Yunze didn't bother to waste any time. He winked at Yan Yi and said, "Send him on his way."
"Yes, Master."
As soon as Yan raised the knife, the bandit leader's neck was cut. When he fell to the ground, his eyes were still wide open.
He never expected that he would die so quickly.
According to the way he used to judge people, shouldn't Li Yunze say a few harsh words and continue to question him?
Why did he send him on his way just after a disagreement? This is too unreasonable.
But he would never get an answer to this question.
Li Yunze asked Yan Yi to bring another person over.
He didn't expect to ask anything from the bandit leader's mouth.
Anyone who can sit in that position must be the master's confidant. The reason why I did this just now was to scare the monkeys.
There are fifty or sixty people left, as long as one is afraid of death.
Li Yunze is interrogating here, while Mr. Bai and his guards are questioning on the other side.
After killing six people in a row, it was the seventh person's turn. Before he could be questioned, the bandit was so frightened that he took the initiative.
"I will tell you everything. I just ask the hero to spare my life."
Yan put a bloody knife on his neck, "Let's talk about the situation on the mountain first. How many people are there?
Who is your master? Tell them all honestly, and if there is any untruth, those people will be your fate. "
The bandit nodded repeatedly, "There are more than 400 people on the mountain, more than 100 people are forging iron and making weapons, and the rest are just like us.
We pretended to be bandits and were responsible for patrolling the mountains.
As for who the master is? I don't know, and I've never seen it, but someone comes over once every six months to pull a weapon.
I came here during the famine the year before last. The boss at that time saw that I was in good health, so he kept me. "
He was afraid that Li Yunze wouldn't believe it, so he raised his hand and swore, "My hero, everything I said is true.
Although I did a lot of bad things with them, I never killed anyone. At most, I knocked people unconscious.
Two scholars passed by here last year, and the boss wanted to kill them.
I couldn't bear it, so I said I would do it for them, knocked them unconscious, and then secretly let them go. "
Li Yunze asked people to take him aside, and then asked the guards to bring more people over for interrogation. The answers he got were similar.
There were also a few people who refused to explain and ended the conversation directly.
Li Yunze took a look and found that these terminated people should have come out of the military camp.
Their place is thirty miles away from Hu Yangcheng.
There are endless mountains everywhere in the northwest. King Liang probably wouldn't build a weapons depot here.
Then this should be the territory of King Xia or King An. Li Mingze guessed that it was most likely King Xia's.
According to the information just interrogated, some of them have been here for several years.
From this point of view, the Xia King should have had a rebellious intention for a long time.
And he has already reached out to Hu Yangcheng. It seems that many people underestimate him.
Li Yunze stroked the sword on his waist with his right hand and pondered there.
Those people just said that there were more than 400 people on the mountain. This number must be much higher.
This time he came out with forty guards.
Moreover, I am not familiar with the mountain, and I don’t know if there are any traps or traps on it, so I can’t attack it hastily.
But we can't wait too long. If these bandits haven't gone up the mountain for so long, the people above will definitely become suspicious.
He thought for a moment and asked Yan Yi, "How many of us are there in Hu Yangcheng now?"
Yan Yi immediately said: "There are one hundred and sixty people, but more than twenty are shopkeepers and clerks in the shop. None of them have martial arts skills. The remaining more than one hundred people were just transferred here last month."
Originally there were only more than forty people here. After the young master knew his master's plan, he specially transferred 500 people from various places and distributed them in Taicheng, Huyangcheng and Yuncheng.
Li Yunze told him, "Send someone to Hu Yangcheng right away to call a hundred people over, and then dispose of these corpses. I will go to the mountain to explore the road first."
Yan Yi was worried that he would go alone, "Master, I heard that the terrain of Yunxiu Mountain is steep and there is only a cliff on the way into the mountain. It is too dangerous for you to go alone. How about I take a few people to go with you?"
"No, I can go alone. Meet here in an hour."
Li Yunze said that he had already jumped on the horse and told him before leaving.
"Hurry up and clean up this place, don't let anyone find out the clues, and then find a more hidden place to stay."
"Yes, Master, you should be more careful and send a signal if there is danger."
Li Yunze nodded and rode up the mountain.
He asked the first person to draw a simple route up the mountain.
They walked this road frequently and the traces were obvious. Li Yunze kept walking along that road.
Soon we passed a steep cliff. After passing this cliff, we walked for about another quarter of an hour. He saw a high wall.
Tie the horse far away, go up to the tallest tree outside the wall, and carefully explore inside.
