The best ring

Li Mao was a native of Tianji. When he was young, he liked to fight and often fought with others. After joining the army, he did not change this habit, but became more vicious.

Later, he could not stand the suffering of the military camp and became a deserter. After escaping from the military camp, he formed a team with a group of idle and brave so-called "rangers". They were under the banner of robbing the rich and helping the poor, but in fact, they did all kinds of bad things.

After that, they were besieged by the imperial army and fled all the way until they came to Fengling Pass. They were able to hide because Li Mao's team suffered heavy losses in the previous encirclement and suppression. The court of Tianji did not bother to send a large army to encircle and suppress, but only issued an imperial decree to Fang Wei, the garrison commander here, asking him to find Li Mao's forces and encircle and suppress them.

As for this imperial edict, Fang Wei did not pay much attention to it. In recent years, the rebels in their Tianji country have risen and fallen one after another, and they are numerous. Even before being encircled and suppressed, Li Mao's forces were not considered a big force in Tianji country. After being encircled and suppressed, they were naturally nothing. The court just issued an imperial edict casually, and they may not pay much attention to it. Their emperor has issued countless imperial edicts like this. Fang Wei alone has received no less than ten.

However, since the imperial edict has been issued, he has to pretend to do it. Moreover, there has never been a big war here in Fengling Pass. It is very difficult for Fang Wei to make merit on the battlefield. It is not bad to gain merit through this opportunity to encircle and suppress rebels and rangers.

Therefore, Fang Wei still encircled and suppressed the rebel forces near Fengling Pass. There were no large rebel forces near Fengling Pass. After all, this was already a border. Even if wars did not often occur here, once the border was lost, the court would definitely pay great attention and would definitely send a large army to encircle and suppress it. Therefore, the large rebel forces within the Tianji Kingdom did not intend to attack Fengling Pass.

It was just to deal with some small rebel forces like Li Mao. Fang Wei's Fengling Pass garrison was more than enough. Basically, it did not take too much effort to clear out most of the rebel forces around Fengling Pass.

However, Fang Wei was careful and did not clear out all the rebel forces around Fengling Pass, but kept a part of them, including Li Mao's forces.

Fang Wei not only did not clear out Li Mao and other forces, but also secretly funded them and helped them develop. Then, he asked them to go to other places to "rob the rich and help the poor". Naturally, a portion of the stolen property would be given to him, and most of it. He provided shelter to these forces. The court generally would not send a large army to encircle and suppress them, but would only let Fang Wei dispatch the city guards to clear them out. Whenever this happened, Fang Wei would let these forces hand over some people to serve as scapegoats so that he could report to the court. The main personnel of these forces were saved, and with the help of Fang Wei, they developed again, and the cycle continued.

In this way, Fang Wei could not only obtain a lot of wealth, but also get some credit from time to time. It was simply killing two birds with one stone. Li Mao and other forces were also willing to cooperate with Fang Wei. On the one hand, they could save their lives, and on the other hand, they could also obtain property and expand their forces.

However, these forces naturally have to obey Fang Wei's orders. This time, Li Mao received an order from Fang Wei to attack and kill a group of people. Fang Wei did not tell Li Mao the identity of this group of people, and Li Mao himself did not care. In these years, what he did was not enough to chop off ten heads, so he was not afraid to attack some big figures. Anyway, with Fang Wei's protection, he would not get into trouble.

On the contrary, if he did not obey Fang Wei's orders, it would be difficult for him to survive here.

However, what surprised Li Mao a little was that his first action was not successful. Even though Fang Wei had secretly provided help, including the location of the ambush, the provision of weapons, etc., they still failed.

Moreover, during the action, they actually encountered another group of people. Li Mao did not know the identity of those people. He only thought that they also received Fang Wei's order to attack and kill that group of people.

However, Li Mao was somewhat surprised that neither side succeeded under the siege. He knew very well that Fang Wei would not forgive him if he failed. Fortunately, Fang Wei gave them another chance.

This time, he must not fail again!

"Boss, why haven't those people appeared yet? Could they have been intercepted by others?" Just as Li Mao was thinking about how to complete this mission, a subordinate lying beside him whispered.

Li Mao frowned slightly after hearing this.

This worry was not groundless. When they attacked that group of people before, they encountered another group of people who were also attacking that group of people. If that group of people did not give up, they might set an ambush again, just like them. If those people acted earlier than them, they might really intercept them.

"Wait and see, wait for another half an hour. If they don't come again, we will go to the front to see." Li Mao thought for a while and said.

"Okay, boss."

However, just as Li Mao and his companions were staring at the road ahead, worrying whether their target would be intercepted, Wu Fan, Du Dezhong and his companions had already approached.

Wu Fan and his companions did not choose to charge headfirst, but dismounted and walked from the rear of Li Mao's ambush site when they were still some distance away from Li Mao and his companions.

Looking at the figures lying in front of him, Du Dezhong completely believed Wu Fan's words. Although he still didn't know how Wu Fan knew that these people were ambushing here, it was obvious that Wu Fan did not lie to them.

And because of Wu Fan's timely reminder, they can deal with it calmly instead of being forced to fight. In this way, the losses will be reduced a lot.

Thinking of this, Du Dezhong felt a little more grateful to Wu Fan. After all, Wu Fan's reminder indirectly saved the lives of his men, and even his life.

Wu Fan and Du Dezhong looked at each other, and then each of them brought a team of people and sneaked up from behind.

The team Du Dezhong brought were all elite soldiers in the army with good strength. They were not unfamiliar with sneaking up to assassinate.

Because they wanted to hide their bodies as much as possible, Li Mao's men chose to lie down in places with grass, and more importantly, lush grass. This way, they could be more dispersed. After all, not all places had lush grass. This gave Wu Fan, Du Dezhong and others more convenience to take action.