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At the foot of Helan Mountain, it is only thirty or forty miles away from Niujiaodun, and it takes one or two hours to ride back and forth on horseback. Xu Xingxia and his entourage set off from Niujiaodun and soon arrived at their destination. Xu Xingxia said that he wanted to suppress bandits, but he didn't just say it, there are indeed many bandits in Helan Mountain. Some of these bandits were Han Chinese, some Tatars, and even Uighurs, descendants of the Dangxiang people. It's basically impossible to figure out all of their origins.

These bandits entrenched in Helan Mountain often became the main force attacking Ningxia Town. Many pastures at the foot of Helan Mountain are often harassed by horse thieves. Every time the Tatars arrived, they would follow the Tatars and take advantage of the fire. Therefore, the people of Ningxia Town are also quite disgusted when they talk about these bandits.

In the twenty-second year of Wanli and the thirty-first year of Wanli, the Tatar cavalry marched southward and made Ningxia Town thousands of miles red and dilapidated. After the Tatar cavalry retreated, the horse thieves in Helan Mountain all went out one after another, followed behind the Tatar cavalry, and continued to rob homes and houses, doing all kinds of evil, so that the whole town of Ningxia was full of fire, but there was no good way. These horse thieves, like the Tatar cavalry, are wandering, coming and going without a trace, and it is very difficult to catch them.

No one knows how many horse thieves there are in Helan Mountain. There may be three thousand, there may be five thousand, and some even say that there may be tens of thousands. The figure of tens of thousands is indeed a bit outrageous. But three or five thousand people, it is still possible. The exact number is recorded in the 31st year of Wanli, when at least 3,000 horse thieves attacked the western part of Ningxia Town and plundered a large amount of property.

Helan Mountain is just between several important towns on the nine sides, Yansui Town in the east, Guyuan Town in the south, Gansu Town in the west, and Ningxia Town needless to say. Over the years, due to the long-term arrears of money and food, there have been more and more deserters in the important towns of the nine borders, and many people have fled to Helan Mountain to become horse thieves. There are also a lot of military households in Ningxia Town. Those fugitive military households, or important criminals wanted by the imperial court, often hide in Helan Mountain, and over time, the number of horse thieves will definitely not decrease.

When it comes to the horse thieves in Helan Mountain, the most impressive thing is not their cruelty, not their plunder, but their kidnapping methods. Kidnapping is the most important means for the horse thieves in Helan Mountain to survive. They will arrange eyeliner in advance, find a target, and then make a sudden move, kidnap the target into the mountains, and then extort money. Generally speaking, their blackmail can basically be obtained. Therefore, the net worth of some horse thieves is quite rich.

Of course, for the poor military households, the kidnapping of the horse thieves in Helan Mountain has nothing to do with them. A horse thief will not kidnap a poor ghost. Knowing that you don't even have money for food, what are you kidnapping you for? Do you have nothing to do when you're idle? Therefore, in the first half of Xu Xingxia's life, he didn't know much about the horse thieves in Helan Mountain. It seems that no one in the military households of Fort Weizhen has been kidnapped by horse thieves. However, horse thieves do exist.

The defense area controlled by Xu Xingxia included the northernmost part of Helan Mountain. There is a carved nest peak here, and there used to be a lot of bandits, but recently it has become a little less. The reason for the decrease in bandits is that there is less and less oil and water near Fort Weizhen. Xu Xingxia's original intention was to deal with the bandits of Diaowo Peak and train his troops through actual combat.

When the white-clothed army came to the vicinity of Diaowo Peak, Xu Xingxia waved his hand to stop the team. Here is more than ten miles away from Diaowo Peak, in fact, there are more than ten miles of mountain roads. The surrounding mountainous areas of Diaowo Peak are high and densely forested, and the roads are rugged, which is quite difficult to walk. On some sections, you even need to dismount and walk. It is precisely because of the complex terrain that Diaowo Peak will become a bandit's den.

"You guys wait here, Wang Baihu and I will go to the mountains first." Xu Xingxia jumped off the horse and said lightly. After that, he pushed Wang Shoulu to the front.

Wang Shoulu's whole body trembled suddenly, and he refused to continue to move forward. Of course, he realized that once he entered the mountain alone with Xu Xingxia, the fate could be imagined. However, Xu Xingxia didn't care about his feelings at all, and kept pushing him forward. Wang Shoulu stumbled and was pushed forward by Xu Xingxia. Chen Hai, who was in the back, had no choice but to look at Wang Shoulu with sympathetic eyes. From now on, Wang Shoulu is a dead man.

Sure enough, Xu Xingxia pushed Wang Shoulu into the dense forest of Diaowo Peak, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he overthrew him in the thorn forest in front of him. Wang Shoulu was suddenly stabbed all over his face with blood, and even one eye was blinded by Gyeonggi. However, he didn't dare to be angry with Xu Xingxia. The only thing he can do now is to save his life as much as possible.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me." Wang Shoulu desperately begged for mercy.

"Tell me why I won't kill you." Xu Xingxia said coldly.

"Do you know why Sobud came to you so quickly?" Wang Shoulu went out and pleaded. At this point, if he didn't come up with something useful to Xu Xingxia, Xu Xingxia's butcher's knife would be raised soon.

"I don't know." Xu Xingxia said coldly. In fact, he knew very well that Sobud must have been attracted by internal annihilation. Without the guidance of internal annihilation, Sobud's actions could not have been so fast and so accurate. It's just that he can't be sure who this internal annihilation is. He estimated that it was either Peng Feng or Zhang Qiuqing, but unfortunately there was no evidence.

"If I tell you the inside story, you let me go." Wang Shoulu pleaded.

"Good!" Xu Xingxia nodded and readily agreed. It seems that he is indeed going to spare Wang Shoulu's surname. However, what he really thinks in his heart, I'm afraid only God knows. He's not a soft-hearted man.

Wang Shoulu bit his shriveled lip, hesitated for a moment, and then said dryly: "It was the top that sent someone to inform the Tartars." ”

Xu Xingxia said coldly: "Which one is top?" ”

Wang Shoulu said with difficulty: "That's it...... It is...... Vice-Senno-sama ......"

Xu Xingxia's smile slowly stiffened, and he said meaningfully: "Zhang Qiuqing? ”

Wang Shoulu said with relief: "Yes, it's him." It was he who sent to get in touch with the Tatar fines, and as a result, soon after, Sobud went south. ”

Xu Xingxia's gaze slowly fell on Wang Shoulu's body, as if he was looking at a dead man. The inside information that Wang Shoulu told him was similar to his guess. The high-level of the guard is really inextricably linked with the Tartars. In order to kill their own subordinates, they can even relay information to the Tatars and kill people with a knife. This is the behavior of high-ranking officials of the Ming army.

Wang Shoulu hurriedly said: "I have already told you the inside story, you have to let me go." ”

Xu Xingxia nodded, and said indifferently: "Okay, let's go!" ”

Wang Shoulu hurriedly crawled away.

"Whew!"

Suddenly, a sharpened wooden stick flew from behind and slammed into Wang Shoulu's heart. Wang Shoulu snorted and fell to the ground, motionless. The tip of the stick peeked through his chest, bringing out a large amount of blood, staining the mountain path red.

Xu Xingxia stepped forward, pulled out the wooden stick, threw it aside, stretched out his foot and kicked Wang Shoulu's corpse, and said to himself coldly: "Childish! Thought I'd let you go? ”

No matter what kind of secret Wang Shoulu told him, he would kill the other party mercilessly. Because, such a guy, it's not a pity to die. He was sure that the person responsible for informing the Tatars of the fine work must have been Wang Shoulu. Otherwise, he would not have known the inside story. This kind of guy who is in touch with foreign countries, it's not too much to kill 10,000.

In addition, only by killing Wang Shoulu could he take control of Weizhen Fort alone. Wang Shoulu, as the head snake of Weizhenbao, has been in business for more than ten years, and has a lot of henchmen and eyeliner in Weizhenbao, and there are very few military households who still follow Wang Shoulu. Only by killing him can he completely eliminate his influence in Fort Weizhen.

Originally, Xu Xingxia was still thinking about how to kill Wang Shoulu and take charge of Weizhen Fort alone, but he didn't expect that Wang Shoulu would actually send it to the door himself. Others ran to the horn pier to die, how could Xu Xingxia not be satisfied? Without Wang Shoulu, Weizhenbao in the future will be his Xu Xingxia's world, and he can build it as he wants.

Fort Weizhen and Niujiaodun are two completely different concepts. No matter how well the horn pier is, it is just a beacon pier, and it has no big use except for alarming. However, Fort Wytown is different. Fort Weizhen is perfectly capable of being developed as a base. Fort Weizhen has a population of more than 1,000 people, shops, artisans, pastures, farmland, and the only thing missing is a strong army. And he, Xu Xingxia, can just provide a strong army.

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Seeing Xu Xingxia riding a horse alone and coming out of Diaowo Peak, Chen Hai's face suddenly turned gray. Wang Shoulu did not appear, apparently no. To put it more appropriately, Wang Shoulu should have been eliminated by Xu Xingxia. Wang Shoulu is dead, and the next one is very likely to be him. If he can still sit still, he will be a god.

Xu Xingxia came to Chen Hai and said calmly: "Wang Baihu volunteered to go to the mountains to inquire about the news of the bandits, let's wait!" ”

Chen Hai knelt down with a puff, begged for mercy and said, "Xu Baihu, you have a lot of adults, just let the villain go!" It's the villain who has eyes but no beads, and the villain who has eyes but no beads! ”

Xu Xingxia pretended to have a surprised expression, looked Chen Hai up and down, as if he didn't understand why he knelt down, and said slowly: "That's strange, when did you offend me?" ”

Chen Hai had to bite the bullet and said honestly: "Xu Baihu, we were also dominated by the superiors, so we came to Niujiaodun." Really, really, that's not what we intended! I never wanted to offend you! ”

Xu Xingxia said coldly: "You talk like this, it makes me feel embarrassed." If I don't keep you on the horns, your superiors may punish you. If I keep you at Horn Pier......"

Chen Hai hurriedly said: "I am willing to go back, I am willing to go back." ”

Xu Xingxia said casually: "Okay, let's go!" ”

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