Shimen Mountain.
This place is the main road leading to Qinzhou, not very far from Qinzhou. Xiao Yuan is a soldier at morning o'clock, and ordered He Gui to suppress the bandits.
Therefore, towards noon, the latter had arrived with his troops.
After finding a place to rest and recuperate temporarily near Shimen Mountain, He Gui began to ask the troops to light fires and cook meals.
Not long after, smoke rose from the chimneys, and the leading soldiers began to get busy. Such a big movement was near the bandit's lair, and it was impossible for the other party to know about it even if they wanted to know about it.
In the dense forest, there was a guard patrolling the mountain. Seeing so many troops, the guard was frightened at first and immediately fell to the ground. After taking a few steps back, he immediately turned around and ran away.
"What a disaster! What a disaster -"
As soon as he ran back to the stronghold, the gangster screamed crazily and rushed into the hall of the stronghold in panic.
In the hall, sitting on the big tiger-skin chair directly above, was a burly man with a beard, a ferocious appearance, disheveled hair, and a breast.
This man is the bandit leader of Shimen Mountain, named Lei Bao. In his early years, he was a gangster who burned, killed, raped and committed all kinds of evil. Because he was wanted by the government, he assembled a group of grass bandits and occupied the mountain as king.
Looking at the panicked minions, Lei Bao frowned and shouted in a deep voice: "Why are you panicking! What happened!?"
"The big...big boss, officers, officers and soldiers, there are officers and soldiers." The little guy stammered.
"What!?" Lei Bao couldn't help but stood up and asked: "How many!"
"Very, many, at least thousands of people." The minion replied in a trembling voice.
"Well..." Upon hearing this, Lei Bao first took a deep breath, and then slowly sat back down.
Over the years, they had robbed so many people and done so many evil things. Naturally, they had been prepared for the encirclement and suppression by the officers and soldiers.
He did not panic, but looked at the person sitting next to him and said, "Second brother, are you all ready to join us?"
"Don't worry, brother, we have expected this day for a long time, and we are just waiting for them to come!" The second master of the cottage was full of confidence.
"Okay! Tell the brothers, kill as many as you come! Let's see if these officers and soldiers dare to come and suppress us in the future!"
He Gui sent troops to suppress the bandits, firstly he did not study the terrain, secondly he did not send out scouts to inquire about the situation, thirdly he did not hide his whereabouts, and he clearly gave the opponent sufficient preparation time. It is not difficult to see from this that he was a complete waste.
At this moment, he was sighing and looking depressed.
When his deputy general saw this, he couldn't help but said: "Since the governor has given the order, how will the general attack next? Do you have a detailed plan?"
"How else can we attack?" He Gui glanced at him and said angrily: "We can only attack by force."
"But this..." The deputy general wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.
"What is this and that? He is the prefect and he insists on suppressing the bandits. What can I do but suppress them!" He Gui complained and then said: "Give me the order and attack directly after dinner."
"This...yes, I understand." He was the commander-in-chief and had no military strategy. The deputy-general had no choice but to respond.
After the meal, He Gui did not hesitate to launch a strong attack on Shimen Mountain.
The mountain roads here are winding and there are many steep mountains around, making it difficult for the soldiers to march. However, following He Gui's order, the soldiers could only launch a full-scale attack.
If you look down from a high altitude, you can see groups of soldiers in the mountains and forests everywhere, forming an encirclement and attacking the stronghold. But when these soldiers were halfway through, something unexpected happened.
The ground in the forest was covered with dead leaves. Someone accidentally stepped on a simple mechanism and was hoisted into the air by a rope.
Someone lost his footing, fell directly into the trap, and was pricked with holes by the bamboo thorns below.
Someone was hit by a boulder and died instantly vomiting blood.
There were also many soldiers who were turned into hedgehogs by random arrows from nowhere...
The screams spread all over the dense forest, and as soon as they fell in one place, they started up again in that place, almost becoming one, one after another.
He Gui didn't know what happened. Under the protection of many soldiers, he immediately shouted in panic: "What's going on! What's going on!?"
"General, all the attacking formations in our unit seem to be under attack. There is an ambush on the other side!" A general returned.
"What!?" He Gui was shocked and was about to say something, but at this moment, in the surrounding dense forest, a large area of leaves shook, and then, countless random arrows were shot from the forest.
Plop, plop!
In just an instant, dozens of soldiers were shot to the ground, and screams filled the whole place.
"Protect this general! Quick! Protect this general——"
In such a situation, He Gui was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder were split apart, and he kept screaming miserably.
As he shouted, countless soldiers immediately protected him behind him and began to wave their weapons to block arrows.
Ding-ding sounds came from time to time, and soldiers around him screamed and fell to the ground from time to time. This scene seemed very scary to He Gui, who had never been on the battlefield.
He couldn't hold on anymore, and while running backwards, he shouted repeatedly: "Retreat! Escape quickly——"
He came quickly and retreated even faster, only leaving corpses on the ground. Until now, he has not seen an enemy and has no idea where the enemy is.
Such an incompetent person is greedy for life and afraid of death, but he holds an important position in the army. If he continues to hang around, when the real war comes, he doesn't know how many people will be killed!
After he exited Shimen Mountain, his face was in a state of embarrassment, and his armor was crooked. The soldiers who followed him originally had the intention to suppress bandits, but after this, they no longer had any fighting spirit.
The army was not like an army. The soldiers were dejected. The deputy general also walked over quickly, moved the corners of his mouth and said, "General, our actions just now were a little too hasty."
"Can you blame me!" He Gui glared at him and complained dissatisfiedly: "The only one to blame is our new prefect! Who asked him to talk about suppressing bandits!"
The Qinzhou army did not suppress the bandits and allowed the bandits to run rampant. So what else would the army do?
The deputy general wanted to say something, but He Gui was the superior. After he swallowed, he did not dare to refute, but asked: "Then, what should we do next?"
"No fight!" He Gui waved his hand impatiently and said with lingering fear: "I almost died in the forest just now! This bandit can't be suppressed! Isn't it better to stay in the military camp! Why provoke these bandits? They are robbing us, so if we let them fight, they won’t be able to do anything to us!”
What he said was simply ridiculous to a soldier!
The deputy general shook his head secretly and said: "General, the governor has issued a military order. If you don't suppress the bandits, how will you explain it?"
"Hmph! I have my own way of doing this."
He Gui said: "We will stay here for three to five days. At that time, if we go back and report, we will just say that we can't fight. Isn't that the end?"
