Chapter 26: Another Great Victory

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  To avoid being discovered that they were going to the bandits' lair, they walked through some remote areas, places where even medicine farmers wouldn't go, so it was much slower and the journey was much longer. After two days and two nights.

  "Report to the captain, we have already investigated the information ahead." This time it was Li Lu who came back to report. It was a large mountain stronghold, with fifty bandits on the opposing side, five rifles, twenty shotguns and ten earth cannons.

  It's impossible to climb the mountain from the main road, or they'll be discovered. However, behind the mountain stronghold, there is a cliff that can be climbed, and it just so happens that their scouting party has brought a rope with them - it's just a bit slower than usual.

  The setup on the mountain was like this, there were several stone houses on the mountain, which served as their gathering hall. Normally, these bandits would gamble and have fun inside the hall. At the entrance of the hall, there were two sentries with loaded guns. The other bandits did not have guns on them, except for those five bandits who carried rifles with magazines.

  There were also several checkpoints on the road up the mountain, and the guns held by the guards were just crude shotguns. This was roughly their equipment. Li Lu and the three others had gathered quite detailed information, even going as far as to sneak under the bandits' noses at night. As it turned out, these bandit checkpoints were just for show.

  Soon, Liu He figured out the layout of the bandit's lair. "Come on, everyone gather around, I'll tell you." Soon, everyone gathered around, "Captain, how are we going to do this? You tell us."

  "Today, we rested in the forest during the day. The combat and reserve teams took a nap, while the logistics team worked hard to keep watch on the perimeter. At around 2 am, or around the time of Chen, our combat and reserve teams began to climb the mountain. The logistics team stayed below and didn't come up. After we finished fighting, we'll give you a signal."

  Liu He drew a diagram on the ground, this time the first shot was the reconnaissance team's business, they needed to go up with their bare hands and take down the two sentries at the door, without disturbing the bandits inside. It is estimated that the bandits would be sleeping at this time, their bedrooms had ten rooms, just right for two people to enter each room. Without saying a word, they went up and fired first, not letting the bandits touch the guns. Similarly, Liu He and Zhang Zhen, Li Shu took care of the five leaders with box guns. The rooms of these leaders were also clear, one big leader was in a single room, the other four leaders were two people per room, which just let Zhang Zhen take care of the big leader, Liu He and Li Shu each took care of two leaders, just right for one person to enter one room.

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  The general attack began at 2 am. "Captain, we climbed up with this rope, now they are all asleep, they just fell asleep, can they really hold on? They have been gambling in the hall until this time."

  Yes, it was just when the bandits were asleep that they attacked. "Up." Liu He gave an order and everyone climbed up to the top of the cliff like a monkey.

  It wasn't until they arrived at this place that Liu He realized what was meant by "it's not the same as seeing it with your own eyes". This location overlooked the entire bandit lair, and they felt secure here, without even posting a single guard. However, upon closer consideration, this was a cliff several dozen meters high - they hadn't considered the possibility of someone climbing up from here, so naturally they thought this was the safest place.

  At a little past four in the morning, more than twenty people had climbed up. "Alright, everyone check your own guns and get ready for action." "Mine's fine, mine's fine." A chorus of low murmurs of confirmation.

  "Alright, Li Lu, you go first." "Yes," Li Lu replied softly, "Xia Ji, you go up, Liu San, you stay here." In the mountain stronghold, it was a place with bright lights and few shadows. It seemed that these bandits were also afraid of someone destroying their stronghold, so they lit many torches at night.

  But this did not stop Li Lu and Xia Ji, who were now rolling around on the ground like monkeys, dodging and weaving as they made their way through the shadows. The two sentries up ahead had no idea that death was approaching, and they continued to pace back and forth, trying to stay awake.

  From a distance, Liu He saw Li Lu's hand rise, which meant to go up together. In the summer, he nodded slightly, and the two of them rushed up together, simultaneously pinching the necks of those two bandits, then twisting with force, these two bandits just died like that. The two slowly put the bodies of the bandits on the ground, then picked up their guns.

  Li Lu walked stealthily to the door of a room, listened inside for a while, then beckoned to Liu He and others, "Up." Liu He said in a low voice, because beforehand Liu He had already arranged who would go where, who was responsible for which room, so everyone naturally went to their respective targets.

  It just so happened that the bandits didn't turn off the lights when they slept. "Bang." Liu He first kicked open the door, and inside the room there were two beds, each with a bandit on it. Because they heard the sound of the door being kicked open, the two bandits quickly pulled out their guns from under their pillows. Naturally, Liu He wouldn't let them fire, "Bang bang", and the two bandits fell to the ground dead.

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  At the same time Liu He fired his gun, gunfire also rang out from other rooms. "Report to Captain, bandit leader beheaded." "Report to Captain, I am responsible for two bandit leaders beheaded, report to Captain, we annihilated three bandits."

  Suddenly, the sound of reports filled the air. "Everyone count the guns they've seized." "Three rifles, two rifles, one rifle..." Before long, all the guns had been counted: five short-barreled guns and twenty long-barreled guns. There were no local-made cannons, and only twenty-five people had died, which meant that there were still twenty-five others living elsewhere.

  "Alright, you five go down and block their way out of the mountain. I'm afraid if they hear gunshots, they'll be scared off. Also, get all the remaining personnel to climb up here."

  When Liu Hebu was arranging the task, it was already bright outside. "Captain, there is another cave here. The people in the cave, raise your hands and come out to me. Otherwise, I will shoot."

  "Bang." A shot was fired inside the cave, fortunately it was a blank round. Since it was quite far from the shouting team members, no one was injured. However, someone got angry and shouted "Come out! You dare to fire a gun!" "Bang bang bang." Several guns fired simultaneously.

  "Grandpa, stop shooting, we surrender, the one who shot has been killed by you." "You, throw out the guns inside and come out with your hands up," "Grandpa, don't shoot, we've thrown out the guns." Then I saw a dozen or so people walking out with their hands raised.

  "You, one person with a gun, drag the muzzle towards here and walk. If you take it somewhere else, I'll shoot him dead." Only six homemade guns were thrown out from inside, Liu He and others were still afraid that someone inside might be holding a gun, so they came up with this method. Dragging the muzzle naturally wouldn't allow them to fire, if anyone dared to make a small move, naturally they wouldn't let him off.

  "Bang, bang, bang." Suddenly, several gunshots rang out from the foot of the mountain. "Have someone go down and take a look at what's going on below," he ordered. Before Liu He could even arrange for personnel to go down, someone ran up to report, "Reporting to Captain, four people tried to escape and were shot dead by us. These are their guns." At this time, someone brought up four crude cannons.

  This is just right, captured nineteen people, killed two people in the cave, and four people at the foot of the mountain. This is just right, exactly fifty people.