I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 182 Target Shuanma Ridge

As Gu Wenxuan and his companions walked along the way, they could see small villages consisting of a dozen households at first, but later on, they could only see single-family houses, or two or three or three or five mountain villagers living side by side.

Not to mention a large village like Baijia Village, they had never seen a village with barely more than twenty households.

In this situation, they don't care about the accommodation conditions. No matter it is a bedroom, a living room or a woodshed, as long as they spread some straw and put bedding on it, it is a good place to sleep.

Of course, the accommodation was not free. Gu Wenxuan and the others brought salt, cloth, needles and thread and other items in exchange.

It is inconvenient for people in the mountains to buy anything. Firstly, it is because they have to travel a long distance out of the mountains. Secondly, most of them cannot survive outside, so they flee to the mountains and become illegal residents.

It was easy to buy other things, but to buy salt one had to register their household registration. They didn't dare go to the shop at all, so they could only exchange mountain products with villagers outside the mountain from time to time.

Gu Wenxuan knew this very well, so the main thing she brought was salt. As someone who dragged Bai Jingzhou to buy salt every month, the thing Gu Wenxuan lacked the most was salt.

After getting salt, cloth, needles and thread and other things that the mountain people urgently needed, and exchanging accommodation opportunities with different mountain people three times, Gu Wenxuan and his companions arrived safely at their destination, Nie County, Luzhou, covered in dust.

The group did not go to Shuanmaling immediately, but first found an inn in a nearby town and booked a small courtyard to stay in. On the one hand, they needed to get more information, and on the other hand, they also needed to wash up and have a good rest.

Bai Jingzhou's job was to gather information. He went out with Bai Jingshan and Ning Qirui. The three young men took advantage of their age and gathered a lot of information from the townspeople and passing merchants.

Previously, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan speculated that since there were more than 200 bandits who came down the mountain to rob the merchant caravans of wealthy merchants, then the number of people in that bandit den should conservatively be at least 300.

It turns out that their estimates were quite accurate.

After further investigation into the bandit's den, Bai Jingzhou was able to determine that the number of their fighters was between 260 and 280.

In addition, several leaders among them also brought their relatives to Shuanmaling.

After finding out the news, Bai Jingzhou returned to the inn carrying various cooked foods he bought from outside.

He called everyone together and said, "I heard that they don't usually send out a team of more than 200 people. Only when there is a big job, they will almost go out in full force like they did that time."

Gu Wenxuan nodded to show that she understood. "Then why don't we go to the places where they usually rob and give them a chance to rob while the mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole waits behind."

"Wait." Gu Yongming raised his hand, signaling the two not to talk about the battle plan first. He looked incredulous, but he still remembered to lower his voice, "Jingzhou, from what you said just now, what you are going to deal with this time is, a bandit group of more than 200 people?"

Jia Guizhi and the four brothers of the Fang family also stared with shocked eyes at Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, the two men who led the fight against the bandits.

Bai Jingzhou was still as calm and confident as before. He smiled and nodded slightly, "Don't worry, we won't rush in and fight directly."

Gu Wenxuan added, "That's right. We only have seventeen people at most, and the other side has the advantage of terrain. We must use some tricks."

For example, first poison them, then attack them with bows and arrows, and finally take advantage of their illness to kill them, and everyone rushes over together to finish off the few who have escaped the net.

Bai Jingzhou nodded in agreement. "I heard that a caravan will pass by the foot of Shuanmaling Mountain tomorrow. Not only have they hired ten escorts temporarily, but I also heard that there is something wrong with the tea stall at the foot of Shuanmaling Mountain."

They have already taken precautions, and it will not be easy for the other party to replicate their previous success.

But the other party obviously will not let this fat sheep go easily, so there will inevitably be a fight between the two parties.

Bai Jingzhou planned to try tomorrow to be the oriole behind the mantis, and take advantage of the opportunity when the bandits were targeting the caravan to stab the bandits in the back.

He explained his plan in detail, and everyone understood immediately that he wanted to separate the bandits in that mountain stronghold and then gradually nibble them away.

Gu Wenxuan agreed with Bai Jingzhou's plan, but she felt that they could actually make it even more perfect.

She waved her hand, signaling everyone to come closer.

Everyone did as they were told and waited for Gu Wenxuan to express her opinion.

Gu Wenxuan talked like this, and Bai Jingzhou wanted to laugh more and more. The others all had complicated expressions and strange looks, but none of them refuted Gu Wenxuan's proposal.

The next day, before dawn, Gu Wenxuan and others got up early.

They simply washed up, had a quick breakfast, and then walked out of the town ahead of the caravan at the first light of dawn in the sky.

Shuanmaling was not far from the town where they settled. According to the information Bai Jingzhou had obtained, the bandits on Shuanmaling would come down the mountain every once in a while.

A few times they went to the county town farther away from Shuanmaling to sell the stolen goods, but more often they came down the mountain just to sneak into this town for fun.

There aren't many high-end brothels in the town, but there are plenty of half-closed brothels doing prostitution.

Those bandits who were just small minions were not qualified to bring their families up the mountain, and they had no chance to get the beautiful women left behind on the mountain. So as long as they had some money in their pockets, they could not help but go down the mountain to drink, eat meat, gamble and look for women.

Because this town is close to Shuanmaling, it becomes the best place for them to sneak out and have fun.

Yesterday morning, Bai Jingzhou, who heard the news, not only pretended to be a customer and sneaked into the restaurant they frequented and listened to a lot of their drunken talk, but also spread the word that today the half-open door in this town would bring out two new beautiful girls to solicit business.

The bandits took this to heart and immediately agreed to sneak out to watch the fun today. They also agreed to bring along the third leader of their village, who was famous for his love of drinking, tomorrow.

From their conversation, Bai Jingzhou learned that their third in command was different from the other in command and managers.

Although their other heads and managers also have affairs with other women outside, they all have one or more women of their own at home.

Only their third in command had no interest in getting married and having children, and he never took concubines into his own house.