That night, Guo Song led a thousand troops to set off secretly, a thousand soldiers all rode horses, with ten days of supplies, they took Shangluo Road, through Lantian County south to Shangzhou, along the Danshui, towards the twilight, seven days later everyone arrived at Wuguan, they carried out supplies in Wuguan, and continued to travel along the Danshui, three days later arrived in Neixiang County, entered the boundary of Dengzhou.

The nest of Li Hanhui's bandits is located in Fangcheng Mountain at the junction of Dengzhou and Dugi Province, with Ye County belonging to Dugi Province to the north and Fangcheng County of Dengzhou to the south.

In the afternoon of this day, the team stopped to rest in a dense forest outside Ye County, Guo Song called Liang Wu and said to him: "The Wanmen Restaurant next to the south gate of Ye County is likely to be Li Hanhui's stronghold in Ye County, you bring a few good brothers to bring the shopkeeper to me, remember, generally there are their pigeon signal points in the backyard, if you find a carrier pigeon, destroy the carrier pigeon first." ”

"Obey the order!"

Liang Wu bowed and hurried away.

At this time, Xu Jingnan asked with a smile on the side: "How does the envoy know that Wanmen Restaurant is Li Hanhui's stronghold?" ”

"Of course, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince told me, but why it has always existed and has not been defeated, to be honest, I am also a little confused, I guess it is some kind of tacit agreement reached between Ye County and Li Hanhui, Li Hanhui has been ravaging Dengzhou all these years, but he has never violated Dugi Dao, I am afraid there are still some unknown secrets in this."

"The envoy is right, this Li Hanhui is not an ordinary bandit, he was originally a guard of Kuoguan, and he has a deep friendship with the magistrate of Dugi Province, he has not been exterminated to this day, and there is a reason, the prince asked us to destroy it first, I am afraid it is also a point."

Half an hour later, Liang Wu galloped with a team of cavalry, they brought a middle-aged man, Liang Wu turned over and dismounted and said to Guo Song: "There are indeed carrier pigeons in their backyard, which were destroyed by humble duties, and more than a dozen other bartenders were arrested and detained by the county government. ”

"This is the shopkeeper of the restaurant?" Guo Song glanced at the middle-aged man and asked.

"Yes! This person is Li Hanhui's brother, called Li Hanzhang. ”

Guo Song nodded, "You go and interrogate!" I need all the information he knows. ”

Liang Wu nodded, and dragged the terrified restaurant shopkeeper into the woods, and after a while, there were bursts of terrible screams, and a quarter of an hour later, Liang Wu came out with a detailed confession.

"He has explained everything, and he has also drawn a map of the mountain, there should be no fake!"

"Is he still alive?" Guo Song asked.

"He cut off half of his ear when he was lowly, and he was so frightened that he was incontinent, and he was a coward."

Guo Song nodded, "He should know the path, let him take us up the mountain later!" ”

Guo Song carefully read the confession, and then looked at the map of the mountain, he corresponded to some of the information given to him by the prince, basically they can match, Li Hanhui's nest is in Tiemen Mountain, the mountain is high and dense, you can go up the mountain from Fangcheng County, you can also go up from Ye County, but the main road is in Fangcheng County, and Ye County is the back mountain.

According to the confession, Li Hanhui had more than 2,300 people on the mountain, basically all wanted criminals or ruffians who had fled from all over the Central Plains, and they were fully equipped, built hundreds of wooden houses in a vacant lot halfway up the mountain, and also built a walled wall with wooden fences.

Guo Song looked at the drawings for a moment, and then said to his subordinates: "Bring me the shopkeeper, and I'll ask him again." ”

After a while, the shopkeeper was brought up by the soldiers, half of his left ear was cut off, his face was covered with blood, his eyes were full of fear and title, he came up and knelt down and kowtowed, "I'm just an ordinary peasant, I haven't done anything evil, at most I helped Li Hanhui buy salt and grain, and begged the general to spare my life!" ”

"It's okay if you don't want to die, but you must make meritorious service, and use meritorious service to atone for your crimes."

"As long as I can do it, I will do it with all my might."

Guo Song nodded, "Are you going to deliver to the mountain recently?" ”

"In the past few days, I have to send a batch of salt and cloth up the mountain, and the salt is in the store, and it is usually a few guys who carry it up the mountain."

Guo Song asked again: "I look at the picture you draw, it seems that the cottage is halfway up the mountain, what is behind the cottage?" ”

"General Qiyu, behind the cottage are cliffs, a hundred feet high, like an iron gate, so it is called Tiemen Mountain, and it is also called ape sorrow, no one can go up, Li Hanhui found several big caves at the foot of the cliff to store food and materials."

Guo Song spread out the copycat map, which was drawn by the shopkeeper just now, he pointed to the map and asked, "Which building is Li Hanhui's residence?" ”

The shopkeeper pointed to the middle one, "This largest wooden building is, it is called Zhongyi Building, below is Shuai Hall, and the second and third floors are Li Hanhui's residence." ”

Guo Song asked the shopkeeper to take him down, and then brought Liang Wu and Xu Jingnan to them, and said to them: "Liang Wu took the shopkeeper up the mountain to deliver salt in disguise, deceived and opened the gate of the village and killed it, Xu joined the army and led fifty people to guard the horses at the foot of the mountain, and the time was set at two watches, understand!" ”

Liang Wu knew Guo Song too well, and he smiled: "The envoy is going to surprise again!" ”

Guo Song nodded, "The combination of Zhengqi is the way to win, in case the salt is discovered, it will cause unnecessary casualties to our army, so I need to make a move!" ”

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Tiemen Mountain is named after a single peak on the top of the mountain that resembles an iron gate, under the single peak, is Li Hanhui's lair, Li Hanhui has been operating here for seven or eight years, and gradually became the largest bandit in the Central Plains, he is quite famous in Wanbei and the Central Plains, he claims to have tens of thousands of strong troops, but in fact his strength is only more than 2,000 people, part of the grain comes from the mountain farming, and the other part of the grain comes from all over the plunder.

In order to purchase salt, cloth and other things, and also to inquire about the news, Li Hanhui opened Wanmen Restaurant in Ye County, which was run by his brother Li Hanzhang.

At night, Li Hanzhang led a dozen men to march up the mountain with bamboo baskets on their backs, the bamboo baskets were filled with salt and cloth, and the leader of these dozen men was Liang Wu, who hid their weapons in the cloth and followed Li Hanzhang to climb the mountain.

They took the Houshan Road, and the army of Dugi Province attacked them from the future, and the army of Dengzhou could not easily cross the border to attack the mountain, so the defense of the Houshan was a little looser, but there was a post five hundred steps up the mountain, which was garrisoned by five minions, and if they found something abnormal, they would shoot rockets to notify the cottage.

Dozens of paces behind Liang Wu and them, more than 900 Tang soldiers followed them from a distance.

"See that wooden house?"

The shopkeeper Li Hanzhang pointed to a wooden house not far away and said: "That's the outpost I said, there are five minions in it, every time I go up the mountain, they will ask for salt and food, but they usually go up the mountain during the day, and today is the night, it is estimated that they all sleep." ”

"Aren't there any standing guards?" Liang Wu asked.

Li Hanzhang shook his head, "They are all a group of bandits, not an army, there are no shifts on duty, besides, there are no officers and soldiers attacking the mountains from the north, and there is no need for them to be so vigilant." ”

Liang Wu had become more cautious, and he glanced at a soldier with a high level of light skill, and the soldier understood, and he put down his basket and ran into the darkness.

A short time later, the soldier came back and reported, "There are indeed five minions in the cabin, but they are all sleeping, and there is no one on duty!" ”

Liang Wu then ordered: "Order Yao Jin to lead the brothers to kill them!" ”

In the night, dozens of soldiers surrounded the wooden house, and Captain Yao Jin kicked open the wooden door and led the brothers to kill them.........

The hour of the first watch had passed, and Guo Song was climbing on the cliff like an ape, he was dressed in black, with a bow and arrow and a black sword on his back, and he was fast on the cliff.

There were a lot of thick vines on the cliff, which was very suitable for him to climb, and in just a moment, Guo Song arrived at the back of the cottage, and he jumped down from the cliff one zhang high.

This is the innermost part of the cottage, it is very quiet around, there are no patrol soldiers, only soldiers patrol the gate of the wall.

The whole open space is about the size of a football field, very narrow and long, there are three rows of hundreds of wooden houses, the roof is thatched, because the place is too narrow, the distance between the wooden houses is very close, even less than two feet apart, people have to side to pass, looking at the dense houses, Guo Song suddenly had a bold idea.

Guo Song found the three-story Zhongyi Building, Li Hanhui was in it, he was not in a hurry to enter, but found a warehouse, there was a door outside the warehouse, there was a lock on it, Guo Song cut the iron lock, and dodged into the warehouse.

In a short time, he found what he was looking for in the warehouse, a few gourds filled with lamp oil, hanging on the wall.

He wrapped a dozen short sticks around strips of cloth, soaked them in lamp oil, and then made a dozen torches, and then left the warehouse with the torches and lamp oil.......