Chapter 100 Childish! Think I will let you go?

The foot of Helan Mountain is only thirty or forty miles away from Niujiaodun, and it takes only one or two hours to ride a horse. Xu Xingxia and his group set out from Niujiaodun and soon arrived at their destination. Xu Xingxia said that he wanted to suppress bandits, not just talk nonsense. There were indeed many bandits in Helan Mountain. Some of these bandits were caused by Han people, some were Tatars, and some were even descendants of Uighurs and Dangxiang people. It is basically impossible to understand their origins.

These bandits entrenched in Helan Mountain often became the main force that plagued Ningxia Town. Many pastures at the foot of Helan Mountain are often disturbed by horse thieves. Every time the Tatars arrive, they will follow the Tatars to take advantage of the situation. Therefore, the people of Ningxia Town are also very disgusted when talking about these bandits.

In the 22nd year of Wanli and the 31st year of Wanli, the Tatar cavalry marched southward, making Ningxia town thousands of miles away and dilapidated. After the Tatar cavalry retreated, the horse thieves from Helan Mountain all went out and followed the Tatar cavalry and continued to rob the house and do all their evil deeds, making Ningxia town full of fire, but there was no good way. These horse thieves, like the Tatar cavalry, were all wandering whereabouts and came without a trace, and it was difficult to catch them.

No one knows how many horse thieves in Helan Mountain are. There may be three thousand, maybe five thousand, and some people even say there may be tens of thousands. Tens of thousands are indeed a bit outrageous. But three or five thousand people are still possible. The accurate number records are that in the 31st year of Wanli, at that time, at least three thousand horse thieves were dispatched to harass the western part of Ningxia Town and plundering a large amount of property.

The Helan Mountain is just between several important towns in Jiubian. Yansui Town is on the east, Guyuan Town is on the south, and Gansu Town is on the west. There is no need to mention Ningxia Town. Over the years, due to the long-term arrears of money and grain, there have been more and more deserters in the important towns in Jiubian. Many people fled to Helan Mountain to be horse thieves. Ningxia Town itself has a large number of military households. Those fleeing military households, or those wanted by the imperial court, are often hidden in Helan Mountain. Over time, the number of horse thieves will definitely not be short.

When it comes to the horse thieves in Helan Mountain, the most impressive thing is actually not their cruelty or their plunder, but their kidnapping methods. Kidnapping is the most important means for the horse thieves in Helan Mountain to survive. They will arrange their spies in advance, find good targets, and then suddenly go out to kidnap the targets into the mountains, and then blackmail them. Generally speaking, their blackmails can basically get them. Therefore, some horse thieves have a lot of wealth.

Of course, for the poor military households, the kidnapping of the horse thieves in Helan Mountain has nothing to do with them. Horse thieves will not kidnap poor people. Even though you know that you don’t even have money to eat, what are you doing? Why are you doing 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 in Weizhenbao had been kidnapped by horse thieves. However, horse thieves do exist.

The defense zone controlled by Xu Xingxia includes the northernmost end of Helan Mountain. There is a Diaowo Peak, which used to be a lot of bandits, but has only become less recently. The reason for the fewer bandits is that there is less and less oil near Weizhen Fort. Xu Xingxia originally meant to deal with the bandits in Diaowo Peak and train troops through actual combat.

When the white-clothed army arrived near Diaowo Peak, Xu Xingxia waved his hand and asked the team to stop. There are actually more than ten miles of mountain roads here. The surrounding mountains of Diaowo Peak are high and dense forests, and the roads are rugged, which is quite difficult to walk. Some sections of the road even need to get off the horse and walk. It is precisely because of the complex terrain that Diaowo Peak has become a bandit's nest.

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

Wang Shoulu suddenly shivered all over and refused to move forward when he died. Of course, he realized that once he entered the mountain alone with Xu Xingxia, the outcome 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 behind had to look at Wang Shoulu with sympathy. From now on, Wang Shoulu was a dead person.

Sure enough, Xu Xingxia pushed Wang Shoulu into the dense forest of Diaowo Peak, and once he stretched out his hand, he overthrew him into the thorn forest in front. Wang Shoulu was suddenly stabbed with blood, and even his eyes were blinded by Jingji. However, he did not dare to get angry with Xu Xingxia. The only thing he could do now was to save his life as much as possible.

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

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

"Do you know why Sobude came to you so soon?" Wang Shoulu took the initiative and begged. At this point, if he didn't take out anything useful to Xu Xingxia, Xu Xingxia's butcher knife would be raised soon.

"I don't know." Xu Xingxia said coldly. In fact, he knew very well that Sobud must have been brought by a traitor. Without the traitor's guidance, Sobud's actions could not be so fast or so accurate. However, he could not be sure who this traitor was. He probably was either Peng Feng or Zhang Qiuqing, but unfortunately there was no evidence.

"If I tell you the inside story, you can let me live a life." Wang Shoulu begged.

"Okay!" Xu Xingxia nodded and agreed readily. It seemed that he was indeed going to forgive Wang Shoulu's life. However, only God knows what he was thinking in his heart. He is not a rude person.

Wang Shoulu bit his shriveled lips and hesitated for a moment before he said arduously: "It was the leader who sent someone to notify the Tartars."

Xu Xingxia said coldly: "Who is the one?"

Wang Shoulu said with difficulty: "It's...it's...the deputy Qianhu..."

Xu Xingxia's smile slowly became stiff and said meaningfully: "Zhang Qiuqing?"

Wang Shoulu said with relief: "Yes, it's him. He sent people to contact the Tatars in detail, and as a result, Sobud went south soon."

Xu Xingxia's eyes slowly fell on Wang Shoulu, as if he was looking at a dead person. The inside information that Wang Shoulu told him was similar to his guess. The senior officials of the garrison were indeed closely related to the Tartars. In order to kill their subordinates, they could even transfer the information to the Tatars and use a knife to kill people. This was the behavior of the 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, you go!"

Wang Shoulu hurriedly rolled and crawled.

"call!"

Suddenly, a sharpened wooden stick flew from behind and penetrated into Wang Shoulu's back heart. Wang Shoulu groaned and threw himself to the ground, motionless. The tip of the wooden stick came out of his chest, bringing out a lot of blood, dyeing the mountain road all red.

Xu Xingxia went forward, pulled out the wooden stick, threw it aside, and kicked Wang Shoulu's body, and said coldly to himself: "Childish! Do you think I will let you go?"

No matter what secret Wang Shoulu had, he would kill the other party mercilessly. Because such a guy would not be jealous of death. He was sure that the person responsible for notifying the Tatars was Wang Shoulu. Otherwise, he would not know this inside story. Such a guy who is knowledgeable about foreign countries would not be too much to kill ten thousand people.

In addition, only by killing Wang Shoulu can he control Weizhen Fort alone. As a local snake in Weizhen Fort, Wang Shoulu has been in charge for more than ten years and has many confidants and spies in Weizhen Fort, and has a very small number of military households who follow Wang Shoulu. Only by killing him can he completely eliminate his influence in Weizhen Fort.

Originally, Xu Xingxia was still thinking about how to kill Wang Shoulu and take charge of Weizhen Fort. Unexpectedly, Wang Shoulu came to the door by himself. Others ran to Niujiaoduan to die. How could Xu Xingxia not be satisfied? Without Wang Shoulu, the Weizhen Fort in the future would be the world of Xu Xingxia. Build whatever he wanted.

Weizhen Fort and Niujiao Dun are two completely different concepts. No matter how good the Niujiao Dun is, they are just a beacon and have no major uses except calling the police. However, Weizhen Fort is different. Weizhen Fort can be developed as a base. Weizhen Fort has a population of thousands, including shops, craftsmen, ranches, and farmland. The only thing that is missing is a strong army. Xu Xingxia, who can just provide a strong army.

Seeing Xu Xingxia riding alone from Diaowo Peak, Chen Hai's face turned gray. Wang Shoulu did not show up, obviously there was no more. To put it more appropriately, Wang Shoulu should have been removed by Xu Xingxia. Wang Shoulu was dead, and the next one was most likely to be him. If he could still sit still, he would be a god.

Xu Xingxia came to Chen Hai and said calmly: "Wang Baihu volunteered to go to the mountains to inquire about the bandits. Let's wait!"

Chen Hai knelt down with a thud, begging for mercy and said, "Xu Baihu, you have a lot of lords, just let go of the villain! It's a villain who has no eyes, and a villain who has no eyes!"

Xu Xingxia pretended to be surprised and looked at Chen Hai up and down, as if she didn't understand why he had to kneel down, and said slowly: "This is strange, when did you offend me?"

Chen Hai had to bite the bullet and said honestly: "Xu Baihu, we were also under the control of our superiors and came to Niujiaodu. Really, really, this is not our original intention! I have never thought of offending you!"

Xu Xingxia said coldly: "You speak like this, it will make me feel embarrassed. If I don't keep you in Niujiaoduan, your superiors may punish you. If I keep you in Niujiaoduan..."

Chen Hai hurriedly said, "I am willing to go back, I am willing to go back."
Chapter completed!