Heishui Mountain is located on the bank of the Heishui River, Tongzhou is already a lot of mountains, and Heishui Mountain is just one of the inconspicuous ones, not big, but there is no good road around, even if there are some roads, it is rugged and difficult, now it is winter again, mostly snow, the road is extremely difficult to walk, a few days ago just had a heavy snowfall, Heishui Mountain is shrouded in heavy snow, bare branches and branches, but there is a layer of snow, if you look at it during the day, it is also white, quite natural, not into the mountain, it is really difficult to know that there is a village in this Heishui Mountain.

Chu Huan's group left Tongzhou City and went all the way north, and when they reached the fork in the road, they turned onto the road on the right, which was to go around to the left side of Heishui Mountain to attack.

Leaving at dusk, Pan Fu urged along the way, this time, even the generals did not ride horses, but trotted forward with the soldiers.

The Heishui River is actually not far from Tongzhou City, but the Heishui River is very long, but the Heishui Mountain is some distance, and the night is deep, fortunately, the Praetorian Guard has special training to walk at night, and they do not light torches, the front leader leads the way, and the back follows one after another.

Chu Huan was full of physical energy, and he trotted down this way, although he consumed a lot of physical strength, but he was able to walk forward, and after half of the night, the sky was about to dawn, and he faintly saw a white mountain in the distance.

Pan Fu pointed to the top of the mountain and said, "That's it, be careful, but don't let those bandits find out our traces!" Then he gave the order to go down, and trot to slow down, and to approach the black water mountain.

The five hundred soldiers were really tired and tight after a night of rapid marching, and if it weren't for the day's sleep and the full amount of pork, I'm afraid many people would not have been able to hold on to this.

It is only ten miles away from Heishui Mountain, there are almost no roads, the ground is full of gravel, it is extremely difficult to walk, after a while, Pan Fu ordered the soldiers to stop, and then he said in a deep voice: "Brothers, tonight we are not stronger than our feet, but faster than whose knife!" ”

There is no shortage of smart people among the soldiers, Wei Tianqing said that it was to compare the strength of the feet, and he believed it at first, but this overnight rapid march, many people had already guessed that they were only afraid of a surprise attack, but after all, they guessed that it was a minority, and most of them were still very surprised.

Pan Fu pointed to Heishui Mountain not far ahead, and said: "On that mountain, there is a group of bandits, the specific number is not clear, but there are only one or two hundred people in the sky, and our strength is ten times that of them." Originally, the little bandits could be solved by the Tongzhou battalion, but in order to train everyone with actual combat, and to give everyone the opportunity to be rewarded for meritorious service, we will let us do this errand ourselves. With a flickered expression, in the dark night, he held the saber and said in a deep voice: "Brothers, this time to suppress bandits, we must go all out to show the prestige of our Praetorian Guard, if they let one of them slip, we can't talk about elite soldiers." When you get closer, you have to be careful not to alarm the people on the mountain, we have to kill them by surprise...... Listen to the general's order, after you start to move, you will live if you can, otherwise no matter whether you are young or old, as long as you dare to resist...... No mercy! ”

His expression was grim, and his voice had a sense of calmness.

At that moment, Pan Fu changed Chu Huan and several other guard generals, and each led the soldiers to disperse and fanned towards the Heishui Mountain, Chu Huan took thirty people, and touched the side of the Heishui Mountain on the left side.

The five hundred soldiers fanned out like ghosts hovering at dawn, each with a sword drawn in his hand, and with a murderous look on his face, silently approaching the foot of the mountain.

It didn't take too long, and the five hundred sergeants had already touched the foot of Heishui Mountain, which was a dense forest of trees, like spears towering into the sky.

According to the prior deployment, except for the 300 people of Heishui River behind the mountain who were ambushed there and did not participate in the attack, the other three sergeants had to launch an attack on the mountain at the same time.

Therefore, when they reached the foot of the mountain, the five hundred soldiers were lying on their stomachs and did not attack immediately.

Pan Fu sat on the edge of a stone, waited for a long time, looked up at the sky, the sky slowly brightened, he just wanted to lead the army to kill it immediately, but the news from Wei Tianqing's side had not yet arrived, and before it was confirmed that Heishui Mountain was completely surrounded, he must not act rashly.

If it is estimated according to the route, Wei Tianqing's team of men and horses came from the front, and they should be the first to arrive.

Fat Liu was beside Chu Huan at this time, he was fat, and he had a lot of physical strength when he ran down this night, but fortunately, his body was solid, and he stopped to rest for a while, and he had already calmed down.

"My lord, if you really run into children later, and they fight back, do you really want to kill them?" Fat Liu had been wondering about such a question, and asked Chu Huan in a low voice.

Chu Huan's expression was calm at this time, he turned his head to look at Fat Liu, and asked rhetorically: "If you can't even beat a child, then you still want to kill the bandits?" ”

Fat Liu's face turned red, and he nodded: "What the adults mean, my subordinates understand." Looking at the mountain, the dense trees covered a lot of things, and for a while I couldn't see what the situation was on the mountain, and muttered in a low voice: "This place where dogs don't, how can bandits choose this kind of place!" ”

Naturally, no one answered him.

Pan Fu waited for a while, and finally a person came over, carrying a small hourglass in his hand, the man bowed over and approached, and said in a low voice: "General Pan Lang, the little one was sent by the ruler!" ”

"Have you all arrived?" Pan Fu hurriedly asked.

The man put the hourglass in his hand on a stone, and at this time there was not much sand in the hourglass, and said softly: "General Pan Lang, the ruler will send people to the left and right flanks at the same time, and the small one will come and tell you that the sand in this hourglass is exhausted, and you can start attacking on the mountain." ”

Pan Fu nodded and said, "Understood!" "Staring at the hourglass, there's not much left.

In this era, there is no watch, there is no way to check the time, and it is impossible to make a phone call, generally speaking, it is to radiate rockets to the sky as an offensive signal, but tonight to encircle and suppress, to be caught off guard, naturally can not launch rockets, so that the bandits on the mountain have a vigilance.

Waiting for the hourglass for a while, Pan Fu is like waiting for a thousand years, when the sand is completely drained, Pan Fu's spirit was shocked, the first to get up, jumped on a big stone, although the five hundred soldiers are prostrate on the ground, but can see Pan Fu's figure, see Pan Fu waved a knife, five hundred soldiers no longer hesitated, together with a bow from the foot of the mountain, to touch the mountain.

Chu Huan led dozens of soldiers on the left side into the mountain forest, which not only had towering trees, but also had many strange rocks on the ground, which was extremely difficult to climb.

Chu Huan held the knife, the fat willow was close to him, the soldiers were all silent like ghosts, and on the entire Heishui Mountain, except for the cold wind blowing in his ears, there was hardly a sound to hear.

This strange silence made Chu Huan feel a strange feeling in his heart.

The five hundred soldiers pulled it apart, like a knife pushing it up the mountain, and after climbing for a while, Chu Huan faintly saw that there really seemed to be a black shadow on the mountain, which seemed to be a building building.

In this way, the news is indeed correct, this Heishui Mountain is really entrenched in a gang of bandits.

In the middle of the line, he suddenly heard a commotion on the right side, Chu Huan frowned, only to see a figure flickering not far from the right, as if something had happened, he didn't know when, but he caught a glimpse of a soldier not far in front of him like a stone, suddenly sinking down, Chu Huan was surprised, he heard a scream, he stepped forward and rushed over, but saw a small pit in front of him, the soldier just fell into this pit, and then the faint morning light looked into the pit, Chu Huan couldn't help frowning, his face changed color.

I saw that the soldier had been pierced through his body by several bamboo thorns, and on the bamboo thorns, blood was dripping, and one of the bamboo thorns pierced the soldier's throat, and the soldier's eyes were wide open, his face was painful, and his body twitched freely, but after only a few convulsions, he stopped moving.

"There are traps!" Chu Huan immediately reacted in his heart.

Before he could think about it, he heard screams from the left and right, and there was no doubt that many soldiers had stepped into the trap, which was so vicious that if he fell, he would surely die.

"Everyone, be careful!" The continuous screams had already frightened the soldiers, and Chu Huan said in a deep voice: "There are traps on the mountain, you must be careful!" ”

Chu Huan clenched the big knife in his hand, he was very shocked in his heart, he leaned closer, knelt on the edge of the trap on one knee, looked at the four walls of the pit, and frowned, he thought that these traps had been arranged by Heishui Mountain a long time ago, but at this time, looking at the earth wall all around, there was new soil, which means that this trap was just dug up recently, maybe it was a trap buried in the past two days.

If this is the case, Chu Huan has to suspect that the bandits of Heishui Mountain have already known about the attack of the officers and soldiers, but the operation of the Praetorian Guards can be said to be extremely secretive, before the operation, only a handful of people knew about this military operation, the first level of the guard only got the news at dusk yesterday, and the soldiers only received the order to attack Heishui Village not long ago, such a secret military operation, how could the people of Heishui Village know, and even set a trap early?

Chu Huan only felt unbelievable, and suddenly heard a few screams, very miserable, Fat Liu had already shown anger, and said in a deep voice: "My lord, these bandits are ruthless and ......vicious!" ”

Chu Huan's expression was grim, it seemed that this time the encirclement and suppression of Heishui Mountain would never be as easy as imagined.

The appearance of the trap and the tragic death of his companions did not make the Praetorian Guards fearful, although they also caused a panic, but the well-trained Janissaries quickly calmed down, and the blood of their companions aroused the hatred of the soldiers, and they all grasped their broadswords and accelerated their climb up the mountain.

Chu Huan turned around and instructed his subordinates to be cautious every time they took a step forward, since there were already traps here, then there were more traps on the mountain.

There was no trace of the enemy, but many casualties were suffered first, and this gang of bandits was by no means easy to deal with.