Three Kingdoms: My Wife Is Diao Chan

Chapter 252
Chapter 253
Mang Mountain is a general name, starting from Guangwu Mountain in Xingyang in the east, Qingyao Mountain in Xin'an in the west, north of Luoyang, and the south bank of the Yellow River, these mountains and hills are collectively called Mang Mountain.

The area where Cao Chong suppressed the bandits was mainly in Yanshi County. To be precise, it was near Shouyang Mountain, a hilly and mountainous area about fifty or sixty miles from east to west and twenty to thirty miles from north to south.

Although Mang Mountain is called a mountain, it is basically low loess hills and terraces. The highest peak is only 300 meters, and there are no steep cliffs.

So, Cao Chong didn't believe that there were cliffs behind the bandit's cottage at all. When he went around the valley, he saw that the cliffs were just an ordinary hillside connecting a very narrow mountain stream.

After seeing the situation behind the valley, Cao Chong concluded that this must be the escape route of the bandits, a good place to sit and wait.

The mountain stream is very narrow, and the vegetation is not very dense. Cao Chong's 600 or [-] people can't ambush here.

Cao Chong simply let most of the soldiers stay outside the mountain stream, and only took more than 100 people to hide in the jungle on both sides of the mountain stream. It is estimated that there will not be many thieves escaping from here. Although the hillside is not very steep, it is not enough for a large group of people to pass through. of.

While Cao Chong was waiting bored, a soldier pointed to the hillside and said, "Young master, look over there, there is thick smoke!"

Cao Chong looked up, and sure enough there was a thick smoke rising into the sky. The location was opposite the hillside, which should be the valley where bandits gathered.

"It should be that Guo Lingyin led the troops into the valley, and soon there will be thieves fleeing over the mountain to us. Everyone hide well and try to catch them alive!"

Cao Chong reckoned that most of the bandit leaders who could escape from the back mountain were bandit leaders, and they should be able to interrogate a lot of things, so he ordered to try to capture them alive, but he soon regretted his order!
The thieves came very quickly, and less than half a stick of incense rose from the thick smoke, a group of thieves climbed over the hill, slowly descended the hillside, and came towards the mountain stream.

There were quite a few thieves who escaped from the hillside, more than a hundred, but one-third of them were women and children!
Seeing that there were so many women and children mixed in, Cao Chong gave up his plan to let the soldiers shoot a wave of arrows from the jungle first, and let people come out of the hiding place, and at the same time let the soldiers from outside the mountain stream come in.

The thieves who escaped were obviously very confident in their escape route. They never expected that there would be an ambush in the mountain stream. After coming down from the hillside, they drank water and rested directly by the stream. Women and children even sat directly on the stones and grass beside the stream.

Although the hillside is not very steep, it will take a lot of energy for the thief to turn over the mountain from the valley and then come down the hillside, not to mention bringing so many women and children with him, so he immediately starts to rest as soon as he reaches the mountain stream.

Seeing this, Cao Chong led his men out of the hiding place and surrounded the thief directly beside the mountain stream.

The thieves didn't expect that there were officers and soldiers in the mountain stream behind the valley, they were startled, and rushed over with weapons in hand!
Cao Chong had been prepared for a long time, and while resisting, he shouted loudly.

"Those who surrender will not die!"

The bandits ignored the sergeant's persuasion to surrender, and directly launched a countercharge against the officers and soldiers like crazy when they were obviously at a disadvantage in terms of number, equipment, and physical strength!
This group of bandits was fierce enough, and when they saw being surrounded by officers and soldiers, they didn't show any timidity at all, let alone surrendering or begging for mercy, they didn't even have the intention of defending, they charged directly!

Cao Chong and all the sergeants didn't expect the desperate bandits to be so crazy, and Cao Chong ordered to catch them as alive as possible, so they didn't use bows and arrows. Instead, they were caught off guard by the bandits in the encirclement, causing casualties in an instant!
Seeing casualties among the sergeants, Cao Chong was about to change his order, when the soldiers around him suddenly put their shields in front of Cao Chong!

boom!boom!The sound of two arrows hitting the shield sounded!
Between me and my young master, we are standing so far away, and there are still people who shoot sniper arrows at him!
Cao Chong was shocked into a cold sweat by two cold arrows shot at him!
Cao Chong saw through the gap in the shield that there were two teenage boys beside the stream, and they were using both hands and feet to string two hand crossbows, and there were two young women beside them handing them arrows!
Cao Chong's personal guards didn't need orders at all, and directly shot more than a dozen bows and arrows at the two and a half boys. Someone threatened the coach, and the personal guards didn't care whether you were a woman or a child.

At this time, soldiers from outside the mountain stream also rushed in, and the narrow mountain stream was instantly filled with officers and soldiers.

Facing the heavy encirclement of ten times the officers and soldiers, those bandits became even crazier, ignoring other things, just looking for the officers and soldiers desperately!

"Resistors, shoot and kill!" Cao Chong was very angry!
Ten times the number of enemies, the equipment and weapons are superior to the opponent, and they are still occupying the best location and waiting for work, but dozens of bandits killed a dozen sergeants and seriously injured more than 20!

If this record is placed on someone else, at least he will have to be beaten with a military stick!

The war ended soon, and no matter how brutal the bandits were, they wouldn't be able to hold out for long given the overall disadvantage.

None of the dozens of bandits surrendered, and they really managed to die without hesitation!Even those women and children didn't beg for mercy, they all looked at Cao Chong with hatred and vicious eyes.

Cao Chong didn't bother. In this troubled world, there are people of all kinds. These people's brains have long been out of order!
Moreover, Cao Chong also saw that a group of women and children who ran out of the bandit's den were all dressed in silk, gold and silver, and covered in jewels and emeralds!It is better than what my daughter-in-law Diao Chan wears!
Cao Chong didn't care about these women and children, these are not poor people!He frowned and looked at the high place on the hillside. After such a long time, no officer and soldier chased him over the mountain.

Is the battle in the valley not over yet?Or was Guo He negligent and didn't notice anyone escaped at all?

Cao Chong waited in the mountain stream for another half day and one night, but he still did not see any officers and soldiers chasing after him over the hillside, nor did he see any bandits escape, and the black smoke on the other side of the hillside was still rising!

It's been half a day and one night, what's going on in the valley?
Cao Chong decided to go to the valley again. He originally planned to go directly to Luoyang. The credit for capturing the bandit's lair was attributed to Guo He, and Cao Chong never planned to take advantage of it.

Cao Chong came to suppress the bandits, one was for system tasks, and the other was to get some information from the bandits, such as who ordered them?

As a result, the bandits who ran out from the back mountain would rather die than surrender. As for the women and children, they knew from their hatred eyes that they didn't want to ask anything, and they probably didn't know.

So Cao Chong put his hopes on Liu Ji, the leader of the bandits who dealt with Lu Xun, and his subordinates. Cao Chong didn't pay much attention to the bandit's lair, and there was Xiahouba there. If there were any special circumstances , Xia Houba will also come back and report to Cao Chong.

(End of this chapter)