“Any casualties?”0

“There were seven wounded, one of whom was severely wounded, but no one died,” the soldier answered. “The bandits were nothing but rabble, but their stockade was solid.” Bandits like the ones here were typically poor, and they had no origin energy to speak of. Facing a regular army, their fate would have been to lie on the ground and wait to be slaughtered.0

Fu Xin spat to the side. “There were still people who got wounded? Still, there are villages everywhere. Why not just seize one of those instead? We’d have food and drink, and it’d be better than this barren mountain.”0

Attacking honest villagers was always easier than doing the same to mountain bandits.0

“This place is more concealed,” said Hong Chenglue as he stepped out from one of the row houses. “And we have food and drink here as well.”0

Back when he had been stationed in Bailu Town, he had already known that this bandit den was the largest within fifty kilometers, and it was more than three hundred strong. With so many mouths to feed, they could not possibly rely solely on robbery. Rumor had it they colluded with merchants down at the foot of the mountain, exchanging loot for grain.0

Even with Hong Chenglue leading a lightning assault, it had still taken eight to ten hours to bring them down. When they broke open the storehouses afterward, they found no shortage of grain and...0