The bandit, whose mouth was bleeding, said something unclearly. Wei Qing didn't hear it clearly, so he asked again: "I want to ask you, how many people are there in the village now?
Wei Qing raised his voice, his tone already beginning to be impatient.
"..."
When the bandit heard this, he endured the pain and said word by word: "In the village, the old master still has more than a hundred brothers."
When Wei Qing and Hou Guangyun heard this, they looked at each other silently, with some anxiety and worry in their eyes.
They had estimated the number of bandits on Niutoushan before, and they all felt that less than two to three hundred was a more reasonable number, and that it was only four hundred at most.
However, I didn't expect that there were so many bandits in Niutoushan. Three to four hundred people came out to rob, but more than a hundred people were left to guard the mountain stronghold.
Just now, a few bandits ran away.
The people over at Niutoushan must know about it, and if they go there now, they must be on guard.
After asking all the questions, Hou Guangyun pointed at the two bandits on the ground and asked, "What should we do with these two people?"
"Cut it."
Wei Qing said without looking back.
This bandit who knew everything never dreamed that he would end up like this.
If he had known earlier, he would have said nothing, just like the brother next to him, so that he could still be regarded as a hero.
The next second, two heads rolled down from the necks of the two bandits.
"..."
There is a mountain peak not far from here. This mountain peak looks like a bull's head. The top of the mountain is shrouded in misty and dense clouds all year round.
At this moment, a rapid march was heading towards Niutoushan.
This urgent march was naturally Wei Qing, Hou Guangyun and his party.
After arriving at Niutoushan, Wei Qing saw all the guards at Niutoushan.
At this time, Niutoushan was already on alert, and people were standing in every dangerous place.
The terrain of Niutoushan is very steep. The only place that is relatively flat is where the bandits built stone walls with hundreds of kilograms of stones stacked on top of each other.
No wonder this group of bandits has been able to exist for so many years. This terrain is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Just when Wei Qing was frowning and considering whether to attack by force, Hou Guangyun, the captain of the personal guard, looked at the thick snow on the mountain and suddenly came up with a good idea.
Faced with Hou Guangyun's plan to attack the mountain with a catapult to cause an avalanche, Wei Qing was surprised. He did not expect that Hou Guangyun, who was usually powerful and rough, could come up with such a genius strategy.
Looking at the snow-covered Niutou Mountain in front of him, Wei Qing couldn't help but sigh.
"It's really God's calculations. When the bandit leader chose such a place as his base camp, he probably thought that it was surrounded by mountains and would be easy to defend but difficult to attack."
"However, when the mountain is covered with heavy snow, if you use a giant object to hit the mountain walls on both sides and cause an avalanche, wouldn't this place become a deadly place?"
"Really, God help us, as long as we block the mountain pass, none of these bandits can escape. This is called catching a turtle in a jar!"
"Guangyun, your plan is really brilliant!"
"..."
After deciding on the plan, Wei Qing and more than a hundred people began to cut down pine trees nearby and build a crude trebuchet.
There is strength in numbers, and after more than an hour, a trebuchet that can carry several tons of heavy stones was ready.
As the soldiers shouted, howled and pulled the hemp rope, they began to push the lifting cover, and the millstone below began to vibrate.
Amidst the squeaking sound of the wooden frame, a huge stone weighing several tons, like a meteor falling to the ground, shot out from the thick clouds and slammed into the mountain wall.
The huge stone, relying on the force of inertial dive, hit the mountain wall hard.
There was a muffled sound of "boom", and a big hole was immediately punched out of the hard mountain wall.
The rubble collapsed and shattered, flying in all directions, and dust rose everywhere. The sound was extremely terrifying.
What's even more frightening is that as the boulders continue to hit the mountain, the snow on the top of Niutou Mountain begins to loosen up.
The snow fell silently, and everything was so peaceful. However, the next second, countless snow particles swept in like a violent storm, burying everything.
There was a loud rumbling sound, as if the sky was shattering and the earth was cracking, and waves of ice and snow pressed down like snow-white ocean waves.
The snow-white snow waves bring unfathomable fear, because extreme cold can take away all life.
In the mountains in the cold winter, avalanches are the most terrifying and ruthless.
Suddenly, countless pieces of ice and snow slid down rapidly, covering the entire valley, as if nature was trying to destroy everything.
The bandits who originally regarded Niutou Mountain as a place to save their lives began to flee down the mountain as soon as they saw the avalanche.
Unfortunately, what was waiting at the foot of the mountain was Wei Qing and others, elite soldiers who had already sharpened their guns and wielded them with murderous intent.
The remaining more than a hundred bandits in Niutoushan were wiped out by Wei Qing and others with the help of an avalanche in less than half a quarter of an hour.
At present, only Zhongxia, the head of Niutoushan, is left alive on Niutoushan.
"..."
The sixty-year-old Niutoushan headmaster Zhongxia, who was tied up, faced Wei Qing with all his white hair growing out, like an old king of beasts roaring to defend his last dignity before his death.
Looking at the creator of this crime, Wei Qing did not hesitate. He pulled out the sword from his waist, raised the sword and slashed it across.
The leader of Niutoushan, Zhongxia, clutched his throat and fell in a pool of blood. This also announced that the Niutoushan bandits that had been ravaging the Mengton Mountains for many years had disappeared.
An old man with angry eyes and scars on his face was lying on his back, dying.
"..."
After taking away the bandits from Niutoushan, Wei Qing and others were not in a hurry to go to Niutoushan to find the treasures that the bandits had accumulated for many years.
First, the avalanche has just ended and the snow layer is fragile. If a large number of people enter, it will easily cause a second avalanche.
Secondly, Wei Qing and others had insufficient food supplies.
So after dealing with the bandits in Niutoushan, Wei Qing and others immediately went back home to recuperate.
Three days later, they rushed to Niutou Mountain to dig out the things left by the bandits on Niutou Mountain.
Wei Qing and his men took the lead in digging out the snow, while Hou Guangyun went straight to the money and grain in the warehouse.
After several days of digging, a considerable part of the snow was cleared out, and the treasures, food and other things hidden by the bandits were also found by Wei Qing and the others.
Hou Guangyun went straight to the warehouse and found many good things from the warehouse.
Needless to say, weapons, equipment, swords, etc., he also brought back twenty large boxes, which were all filled with copper plates. It is conservatively estimated that there are at least a thousand copper plates, and there are hundreds of thousands of copper plates.
