Chapter 21: Leave No Mouth Alive
The three thieves sitting by the campfire sat in an isosceles triangle, one of them facing away from a relatively steep cliff, and the other two were sitting facing each other.
Getting closer and closer to the three bandits, Liu Wei clearly saw that although the three people were talking to each other, their eyes never fixed on the faces of their companions, and their eyes were always wandering around.
"Difficult fellow!" Lying on the ground, looking at the three thieves, Liu Wei muttered secretly in his heart, and tightened the hand holding the firewood knife.
The night was deep, and the darkness gave Liu Wei and Zhou Cang the best cover.
Although the light of the campfire illuminated a small area nearby, it also caused a blind spot in front of the eyes of the three bandits.
Although they had been observing the surrounding environment all along, the position where Liu Wei and Zhou Cang were lying on their stomach was a blind spot for their vision, and when a few thieves looked here, there was a dark patch in front of them.
When he was about to climb to the place where the firelight could shine, Liu Wei waved his hand at Zhou Cang, who was following behind him, and both of them stopped, lying on the ground and quietly observing the three people.
"Brothers, I'm going to pee." After waiting in a dark corner for a while, the thief facing Liu Wei and Zhou Cang stood up, greeted the two thieves next to him, and walked towards the cliff behind him.
Watching the bandit walk towards the cliff, Liu Wei nodded to Zhou Cang, and the two separated from each other and touched the two bandits who were still sitting by the campfire.
Behind the two bandits, Liu Wei paused slightly, adjusted the angle of his body before jumping up violently, strangled the eyes of the thief sitting in front of him, and the firewood knife in the other hand also slashed at the thief's neck.
The bandit sitting opposite saw that someone suddenly rushed out, wiped his companion with a knife, his eyes opened, and he was about to shout, his neck also hurt suddenly, Zhou Cang strangled his head from behind, and wiped his neck with a knife.
As soon as the two people on the campfire were brought down, Liu Wei immediately turned and rushed towards the bandit who was facing the cliff and was urinating with his back to them.
The thief had just finished soaking in the urine, and was shaking with the words in his hand, when he suddenly heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground and someone running behind him, and quickly turned his head to see what was happening.
As soon as he turned his head, a hand covered his mouth, and then a blood-stained hatchet was placed on his neck.
"If you want to live, be honest." The bandit who was covering his mouth was trying to struggle, and a deep voice reached his ears, and he could even feel the hot breath of the person covering his mouth as he breathed.
Holding the thief hostage, Liu Wei dragged him back towards a dark corner, while Zhou Cang grabbed the collars of the two corpses on the ground and dragged them behind Liu Wei.
Retreating to a dark corner, Liu Wei let go of the firewood knife on the thief's neck, the hand covering his mouth pulled back, swept one leg behind the bandit, and threw the thief to the ground, and then knelt down on his knees, resisting the heart of the thief who fell to the ground, and the firewood knife was once again on the thief's neck.
This set of fast falls was clean and neat, and Zhou Cang, who dragged the corpse to follow, saw it, and couldn't help but secretly scream in his heart.
"How many of you are there? In which tent is the leader in? The firewood knife was pressed against the thief's throat, Liu Wei lowered his voice and asked coldly.
The bandit may have been frightened and trembling, but he didn't answer Liu Wei's question.
Liu Wei's eyes narrowed slightly, a ruthless light flashed in his eyes, and the firewood knife was closer to the thief's neck, the sharp blade was embedded in the skin, and the thief's neck was cut out of a thin hole, and a trace of blood seeped out along the firewood knife.
"Forty-two." The blade cut through the skin, and the pain made the bandit wake up a little, and he quickly replied, "The general sleeps in the seventh tent facing south. ”
"General?" The thief replied, Liu Wei furrowed his brows slightly, and asked the thief with a somewhat puzzled expression, "Who are you?" ”
"Sir." Zhou Cang threw the two corpses to the side, leaned over to him and whispered, "There is no doubt that they are bandits, and ordinary bandits call their leaders generals." ”
"Oh!" After getting the answer from Zhou Cang, Liu Wei nodded, stretched out his hand to cover the thief's mouth, and the firewood knife slashed at the thief's neck.
A stream of blood shot out, spurting up like a fountain, and the thief's body spasmed a few times, kicked his legs, and cut off his breath.
Seeing Liu Wei wipe the thief's neck, Zhou Cang was stunned and looked at him with some doubts.
"Leave no mouth alive." Liu Wei didn't give Zhou Cang much explanation, but lowered his voice and said these words, beckoned to him, and touched the tent with his waist bent.
More than a dozen horses were tied to a few large trees on the east side of the tent, and not far from the horses, some things wrapped in linen were piled up.
Liu Wei and Zhou Cang didn't go over to see what was in the sack, forty-two bandits, and after removing the three that had just been solved, there were thirty-nine left.
If these bandits wake up at this moment, there will inevitably be a scuffle, with Zhou Cang here, Liu Wei is not worried that he can't beat the bandits, but the villagers who come with him will also have some casualties, Liu Wei wants a successful infiltration, not a scuffle, and naturally refuses to take the risk of alarming those horses to wake up the bandits to see what is in the sack.
The two of them quietly touched the edge of the tent, Liu Wei beckoned to Zhou Cang, bent his waist, quickly jumped in front of a row of tents, and touched towards the tent of the bandit leader.
Outside the seventh tent on the south side, Liu Wei heard a thunderous snoring sound coming from the tent.
He made a stop gesture to Zhou Cang, who was following behind him, Zhou Cang stood outside the tent with a knife, and Liu Wei lifted the curtain of the tent and quietly touched in.
A thick curtain of cloth covered the moonlight outside, and it was dark inside the tent. After entering the tent, Liu Wei listened carefully to the snoring in the tent and identified the location of the snorer, before carefully rubbing it over.
Touching the edge of the bunk, Liu Wei stretched out his hand and probed forward flatly, feeling the sleeping man's snort, he lifted the firewood knife and rested it not far from the sleeping man's neck.
With these preparations, the hand that probed the other party's snort pressed sharply, and the firewood knife in the other hand slashed at the man's neck.
The sleeping man's mouth and nose were covered by Liu Wei, and he suddenly woke up, and was about to struggle, when his neck hurt, and the firewood knife had already cut his throat.
After solving the bandit leader, Liu argued out of the tent and nodded to Zhou Cang, who was guarding outside.
Glancing at Liu Wei, who was splattered with blood on his body, Zhou Cang followed behind him and got into another tent next to him.
Except for the tent of the bandit leader, there were three bandits sleeping in the other tents. The two of them got into nine tents in a row, and together with the bandit leader they had just killed, Liu Wei and Zhou Cang secretly killed twenty-eight people in a while.
Counting the three people they killed earlier, they had already taken care of thirty-one bandits, and there were only eleven bandits in the remaining tents.
When Zhou Cang wiped off the neck of the twenty-eighth bandit and was about to go to the next tent to deal with the remaining bandits, Liu Wei stretched out his hand to hold him and whispered to him: "Brother Zhou Cang, leave a few people for the villagers." ”
In the dark, Zhou Cang couldn't see Liu Bian's face, he could only hear his tone being extremely resolute, turned his head and glanced at where Liu Bian was standing, didn't speak, just said a soft "um", raised his feet and walked out of the tent.
To leave a few bandits for the villagers who were ambushed outside, Liu Wei took into account that Tao Hu and others had not killed anyone with their own hands, if he and Zhou Cang had eliminated all the bandits this time, those villagers who came with them would still not feel the atmosphere of killing, and if there were bandits invading them in the future, they would still not be able to pick up weapons to defend the village.
Together with Zhou Cang, two more tents were touched, and there were only six bandits left alive, Liu Wei and Zhou Cang glanced at each other, and ran towards the more than ten healthy horses tied not far away.
Running to a pile of sacks near the horses, Liu Wei raised the knife he had snatched from the bandit and stabbed it into one of the sacks.
When the steel knife was drawn, a handful of golden corn was brought out of the sack.
Reaching out to catch the corn, Liu Wei turned his head to look at Zhou Cang beside him, Zhou Cang was also turning his head to look at him, and the eyes of both of them showed a little joy.
There are twenty or thirty bags of corn piled up in front of them, although the number is not very large, but if it is transported back to the village, the villagers will be able to eat a few full meals.
The sack was very close to the more than ten horses, and the sound of their footsteps had just woken up the horses, and when Liu Wei pierced the sack with the steel knife in his hand, the movement startled the more than ten horses, and one of the most frightened horses lifted two premises and neighed twice.
Only two tents were not cleaned by Liu Wei and Zhou Cang, and the horse raised its front hooves and neighed, which alarmed the bandits in the tent, and a man quickly came out of one of the tents.
When the man reached the outside of the tent, he was still muttering and cursing something, and when he rubbed his eyes and saw two people standing next to the sack, he immediately exclaimed: "Who is it? Who is standing there? ”
Hearing the shout, Liu Wei and Zhou Cang turned their heads, and Liu Wei also made a gesture of raising his middle finger at the thief.
This gesture was naturally impossible for the bandits living in the late Han Dynasty to understand, and the bandits immediately understood that it was not their own people standing on the edge of the grain and grass.
"Brothers, there are thieves stealing food!" Sensing that something was wrong, the bandits who had come out of the tent were not stupid, and immediately shouted loudly.
The shouts of the bandits spread far and wide, not only to the ears of the other bandits behind them, but also to the ears of the villagers who were lying in ambush in the woods.
"Kill!" When the six remaining bandits in more than a dozen tents jumped out, more than a dozen villagers who had been with Liu Wei and Zhou Cang also rushed out of the forest brandishing firewood knives.