Warlords: Rising from the Northwest Border and Sweeping Across the Powers

Under the leadership of the two bandits, Fang Zhengfei led his company to advance quickly and soon arrived at the foot of Jiaban Mountain. Jiaban Mountain got its name because it is located in the middle of two mountains and there is only one small path leading up the mountain. Wang Mazi's lair is on a flat land halfway up the mountain.

Fang Zhengfei looked at the terrain in front of him. There was only a small path that could accommodate one person to climb up. As long as Wang Mazi arranged a few bandits with guns to guard the main road, it would still be difficult to attack.

Unfortunately, Wang Mazi was the local tyrant and had long been complacent. There was not even a bandit on guard outside his huge lair.

Fang Zhengfei led his men to quickly move up, and saw a flat land of about three to four hundred square meters next to the bamboo forest halfway up the mountain. On the flat land stood a dilapidated temple, and there was a circle of earthen houses built around the dilapidated temple.

In the open space in front of the ruined temple, fifty or sixty bandits sat around a bonfire, drinking wine and pulling out some roasted potatoes from the fire. The leader, Wang Mazi, was holding a chicken leg in his hand and eating with oil dripping from his mouth.

"Brothers, tomorrow we will go to Tashan Town and rob the rich families there. I will let us live a good life and eat meat every day!"

"Boss, I heard that the Yuan family in this town is related to the Du family in the county. If we mess with them, the Du family will come after us, and it will be difficult to deal with them."

"Damn it, you're the only one who's smart, aren't you? I've already made an agreement with the Yuan family. This time we're going to rob their rival, the Lu family. The Lu family has a grain store and a cloth shop in town, so they must have a lot of floating wealth. When the time comes, we'll give 20% of the looted items to the Yuan family, and the rest will be ours."

"Work hard, and next year I'll marry a wife, and then I'll find wives for you all. Good days are still to come."

"The boss is so kind. He never forgets us when something good happens."

"By the way, where are Xiao San and Er Huang? I asked them to go to the village and grab some meat, but why haven't they returned yet?"

"Who knows where those two guys are eating alone. Last time they came into the village, they bullied Old Liu's daughter-in-law. They came back and boasted to us about how pretty the daughter-in-law was."

"If we have a chance, let's go to Old Liu's house and take a good look at whether this young wife is as pretty as they say."

"Hahahaha!"

Fang Zhengfei, who was hiding in the distance, saw this scene. After roughly counting the number of bandits present, he roughly pulled the bandit Erhuang behind him and asked, "There are only more than 50 people here. Where are the others on the mountain?"

Er Huang said in a trembling voice: "Some people have already followed the Second Master to Tashan Town to scout the area, and some people may be sleeping in the house."

"Damn it!" Fang Zhengfei cursed and said thoughtfully, "We must not let anything go wrong here. If we alarm the bandits in Tashan Town, it will be difficult to catch them."

"Get ready to take action!"

The soldiers raised their rifles one by one and aimed at the bandits sitting in front of the fire.

"Boom, bang."

After a few gunshots, more than a dozen bandits who were drunk around the campfire fell down in an instant.

"Brothers! Follow me!"

Fang Zhengfei took the lead and rushed forward with hundreds of soldiers. Even at this time, some bandits had not reacted.

Wang Mazi immediately got on the ground and called out to his men: "Someone is coming, hurry up and get your guns and shoot them!"

Wang Mazi dragged his lame leg and crawled into the dilapidated temple as soon as possible. He picked up an old revolver and leaned against the door frame to shoot continuously.

Fang Zhengfei held the gun calmly, aiming in the direction of Wang Mazi. A bullet fired out and instantly hit Wang Mazi's right shoulder. Wang Mazi screamed and the gun in his hand fell to the ground.

Before he could pick up the gun, Fang Zheng quickly ran into the ruined temple and shot a bandit who was hiding behind a statue and was about to attack him. At the same time, he kicked Wang Mazi over, put the muzzle of the gun against Wang Mazi's forehead and said, "You must be Wang Mazi, right? I'm from the Sanjiang County Security Corps. I'm here today to kill you, a bunch of unscrupulous bandits."

The bandits sitting in front of the campfire were caught off guard and were all shot dead by the soldiers.

A soldier said in surprise with a look of 30% fear and 70% excitement: "I also killed bandits. I am a soldier who has truly seen blood!"

Li Lei shot and killed a bandit hiding on the roof of the earthen house on the left. The bandit screamed and slid down from the roof. Li Lei patted the soldier on the head and said, "Fuck you, you dared to be distracted during the battle. You don't even know how you died."

The soldier patted his chest with lingering fear and smiled honestly: "Thank you, deputy company commander."

Wang Mazi was trembling all over. He looked at Fang Zhengfei and blurted out, "Impossible. County Magistrate Ma said that as long as I help him, I will never be purged by the county!"

Fang Zhengfei said to the security guards behind him, "Tie up Wang Mazi for me, quickly clean up the battlefield, and count the spoils!"

In less than twenty minutes, the battle was over. The security soldiers killed a total of 59 bandits, and more than 20 people held their heads and squatted in a row to surrender.

On the security team's side, except for one soldier who was too nervous and fell and suffered minor scratches, there were no casualties. After several months of training, they fought a beautiful battle when they drew their swords for the first time.

Of course, this is also because Wang Mazi and his gang of bandits were too complacent and careless.

In addition, most of the guns and skilled people were taken to Tashan Town for scout by their second-in-command Dong Xiang.

"Report to the battalion commander! We have killed 59 people in total, 23 of whom surrendered! Another 30 people, led by their second-in-command Dong Xiang, went to Tashan Town!"

"Our troops seized 6 old rifles, 5 homemade rifles, more than 400 rounds of bullets, and more than kilograms of food!"

Fang Zhengfei nodded and made a prompt decision: "Send out 50 people to escort the surrendered bandits, Wang Mazi and the spoils back to the security regiment's base. The other soldiers will follow me to Tashan Town to wipe out their second in command and other bandits!"

"Yes, battalion commander!"

After a short rest, Fang Zhengfei's company was divided into two groups, and Fang Zhengfei personally led dozens of people to rush towards Tashan Town, thirty miles away.

On the other side, under the leadership of Su Zhengyang, the first battalion arrived at the foot of Qingfeng Mountain outside Yanlin Town at seven o'clock in the evening. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, everyone hid in the dense forest at the foot of Qingfeng Mountain. Liu Kangding and a few soldiers sneaked up the mountain along the path to find out the situation on Qingfeng Mountain.

Unlike Wang Mazi and his gang, all the roads leading up Qingfeng Mountain are guarded by Lu Guoquan's men, and it seems that the security is extremely tight.