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The boy on the tower, who was obviously only sixteen or seventeen years old, was the first to die in battle today, less than five feet tall, carrying an eight-foot spear in his arms, and carrying a longbow on his back. The night before dawn was full of cold, and he was half-shrunk in the high arrow tower, and the cold wind penetrated into his thin jacket, so that he could not help but stamping and pacing on the narrow arrow tower to resist the cold.

The special warfare capital shot a sharp arrow from the strong bow of the first section of the mountain, and hit him in the chest. The young man snorted, and the whole boy fell directly from the three-zhang high arrow tower, and fell heavily to the ground like a broken sack, making a dull sound.

The Pure Pirates arranged two people to be on duty on the arrow tower in front of the wall, but before dawn was the time when they were the most lax, and this laxity directly killed them. Duan Shan killed one with an arrow, and the other guard was also shot by another special operations soldier.

However, the other man was shot in the abdomen, and when he was dying, he let out a loud scream. The shouts were heard for a long time in the silent night, and the lurking attack ended there, and a noise sounded in the gate, and a dozen bandits had rushed out with torches.

Duan Shan cursed hatefully, and immediately ordered a direct attack.

Li Jing sat on his horse and watched the battle, and on the side was the prison army Zhang Chengye.

From here, the top of a wooded ridge overlooks a Buddhist temple, a mill, thatched huts and stables. Overlooking barren weeds, scorched trees, and ubiquitous mud. The trees are almost completely bald. The few brown leaves left on the branches could not block the view. Zhang Chengye watched with excitement as he watched the battle that had begun below. But he sat very honestly on his horse and watched the battle from behind, and did not ask to go to the front. This was Li Jing's request to him before he came out, and he could participate in this crackdown on bandits, but he could only watch the battle from the rear. In order to protect his safety, Li Jing also specially set up a 50-member prison guard team for Zhang Chengye from among those Liao prisoners of war and slaves, and followed him for personal protection.

The eastern horizon shone with gold dust, and a half-moon peeked out of the low-running clouds. The wind was cold. Li Jing heard the sound of water and the creaking of the mill's large wooden wheel. There was rain in the air of dawn, but no rain fell. The rocket cut through the morning mist, leaving a ribbon-like pale trail that was nailed into the wooden walls of the cottage. Some shot through the narrow windows that were closed, and wisps of smoke quickly rose from them.

Two Pure Sea Pirates, armed with battle axes, rushed out of the Juyi Hall in the cottage side by side, and Duan Shan and the other archers were waiting for them. Sharp arrows were fired, and one of them was killed instantly, and the iron armor on the other man blocked him, although the arrow entered his body. But it's still deadly. He stumbled and continued forward, being hit by another arrow. But he was not dead, his desperate heart before dying made him charge forward regardless of the pain, Duan Shan took a flying axe from his back, and shook it at the man, and the flying axe swirled and roared directly on the head of the pirate, immediately stopping his progress.

Duan Shan's humanoid beast was always full of violence, a strong bow with one stone, two single-handled, double-edged steel battle axes, and two small flying axes always stuck in his back. Fighting alone, it can be said that he can completely fight ten in one fight. This is the elite of the special combat team, whether it is long-range or close-range, immediately or off the horse, stealth or raid, ambush or block, these people are all good.

This time, the special operations recruited a group of people from the Liaodong prisoners of war and slaves, as well as the Da Xie sailors, a full 200 special elites. This battle was an actual combat drill that Li Jing pulled him out. Li Jing has always believed that the best soldiers are tempered from the flames of war, and only soldiers who have passed the test of blood and fire are truly good soldiers.

It's a cottage, but it's also a pirate's lair.

Although pirates raid the sea, many pirates do not have their nests on the sea. Conversely, more pirate lairs are on the shore or even in the mountains. There are many pirates with dual identities, and some pirates are officers and soldiers on the surface, but they secretly rob bandits. Some are coastal fishermen, and they often take the opportunity to buy and sell one or two. There are also many professional pirates, but they are usually well hidden, and they have another identity on the shore.

They married wives and had children, and even the village itself was an ordinary village, and no one knew that they were actually pirates.

Li Jing is now leading the special operations to attack such a cottage, this seemingly ordinary small village in the mountains of Huangxian County, Dengzhou, but the rest is a generation of pirate tribes. They don't go to sea all year round, but only a few times a year, and they also have a name for the sea, called the Pure Pirates.

The Pure Pirates have not been exterminated because they only attack a few times a year and are so well hidden.

After the reorganization of the army in Shamen Town, Li Jing made a plan to train troops in battle. Take turns to take each battalion out of the gang and exterminate the pirates and mountain bandits near Dengzhou. The nests of many mountain bandits and pirates are very secretive, but Li Jing has professional intelligence spies from the Plum Blossom Gate, and Aunt Gongsun has a lot of this information in her hands. Li Jing brought them all over, discussed them with the officers for a long time, and sent Li Wei's reconnaissance battalion to investigate the terrain and the detailed information of the cottages. Then they gave the bandits to the battalions below.

The special operations are all due to their outstanding combat power, so they all sent troops alone to directly exterminate the Pure Pirates. This group of pirates is well hidden, and there are about 1,000 people in the entire cottage, including more than 200 young and strong people. There are wooden fence walls, and there are two arrow towers in the walled gate.

However, these are not difficult things for special warfare.

Flames lit up in the village, and a man in his forties with a teenager with a crossbow broke out, stood in the corner of the house, and fired two arrows at the attacking special operations soldiers. Then he dodged back and reloaded, and after a while, father and son probed again and prepared to shoot.

But as soon as they poked their heads out, there were already seven or eight powerful arrows waiting for him, whistling. Several of the arrows hit Dahan, who reacted quickly and dodged back, but was injured but not dead. But his son was inexperienced. A feathered arrow pierces through the neck from one end. The other end is revealed. The blood came out, his qi was weak, his eyes gradually faded, and he finally died.

In the white morning mist, the special combat team continued to clear from all sides of the cottage and surrounded the center of the righteous hall.

The pirates of the Pure Pirates roared angrily and continued to kill from one house to another, and even some women rushed forward with knives. A pirate couple storms out the door, the husband holding a spear. Backed by a round shield. The wife followed behind with a large shield and a fishing fork. As soon as they rushed out of the house, Duan Shan's bow and arrow were already aimed at them.

An arrow flew away, and as soon as the leg of the pirate wife behind stepped out of the threshold, she was hit in the calf by an arrow, and fell to the ground with a scream. The pirate husband hurriedly looked back, but Duan Shan's second arrow flew again and hit the pirate's shoulder socket.

The smoke is getting thicker. Crossbow bolts flew back and forth.

The battle didn't last long, and the pirates suffered heavy casualties. Either they fought desperately until they died. Either abandon the weapon and surrender. The two pirates flipped on their horses and tried to escape. But just after running a few steps, several spears suddenly stabbed out of the grass valley in front of him, stabbing the two people on the horse down, and the war horses were also obtained by the soldiers of the special warfare capital.

The soldiers of the special warfare capital, who had won a great victory, did not stop, and they took advantage of the blood boiling all over their bodies to begin to clean the battlefield according to the standards learned in the teaching class every night, and began to search the whole village.

After a while, the first soldiers returned to the clearing in the wall, and they brought back the captives who were hiding in the wall. There were about five or six hundred people, all of them pirate families, women, old people and children.

"They were hiding in the cellar." The soldiers loudly reported that every pirate had a cellar, but for those who were specially trained in the special warfare capital, it was almost nothing. The captives trembled with fear.

"Interrogate them briefly, and find out all the money, food, and belongings, as well as where their ships are hiding." Li Jing only glanced at these pirates, and he was not interested. This group of pirates will definitely not have much money and food, because many of their wives, children, and old people are yellow-faced, hungry and thin.

However, although the mosquito legs are small, they are also meat, and Li Jing does not plan to waste them. Training troops with war is also about nurturing war with war. While training troops, it is also necessary to collect money and food from the bandits as much as possible through the suppression of bandits.

Zhang Chengye was full of amazement from beginning to end, seeing with his own eyes that only 200 people from the special operations capital captured a pirate lair of 1,000 people in such a short period of time, which was really exciting. Hearing Li Jing's order, he couldn't help asking: "General, these people are all pirates, according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, when their guilt is discovered, they will all be executed, and their wives and girls will be slaves." ”

Li Jing smiled: "It's too cheap to kill them, although we are not short of people in Shamen Town now, we are also short of money and food." Wouldn't it be better for us to pull all these pirates to Liaohai and sell them, and exchange them for money, food, and materials? ”

He was a little surprised, he didn't expect Li Jing to sell these people as slaves, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Zhang Jianjun, these slaves are killed in vain, it is better to exchange them for something practical. What's more, the money and food exchanged for it are not only for our own use in Shamen Town, but also for some to be saved and dedicated to the Son of Heaven in the future. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Chengye was immediately moved by Li Jing. Since there is still a part of the Son of Heaven here, then there is no problem. "Sell, sell them all, the general has to tell his soldiers not to kill these pirates at will."

The interrogation was quickly completed, and Duan Shan personally led people to find out some of the hidden money and food. After the final count, the results of the battle were counted, and 173 pirates were killed in this battle, including some armed pirate women and teenagers, and a total of 1,123 pirates, young and young, were captured. In addition, more than 2,000 stones of grain were seized, as well as more than 8,000 copper coins and more than 3,000 horses of cloth and silk. In addition, there are more than 300 cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, etc. And there are five pirate ships.

Although the capture was less than expected, Li Jing was already very satisfied with the fact that there were zero deaths in this special operation, and more than ten casualties were achieved. Although the harvest is not much, if it is compared to production, the bandits still come quickly.

"Pack up and take the pirate captives back!" (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )