My god, run!!!

"Although the bandit who said he wanted to unify Shuang'er Mountain has the support of the national army, but... don't these other bandits have any support? Collaboration between officials and bandits has been a very normal thing in all dynasties. It's nothing more than a struggle for interests and factions." Zhou Zheng said.

"But this also gives us a good opportunity, a good opportunity to catch them all in one fell swoop and kill them all."

"What opportunity are you talking about?" Chen Xinyi asked hurriedly.

"Look, the bandits on both the east and west sides of Shuang'er Mountain are fighting among themselves. If they want to fight for a leader, the casualties will be even more severe. This is one reason."

"During the internal fighting, the weaker bandit groups will be eliminated first. Some of the smaller groups will definitely surrender to the larger groups when they see the situation is not right. This gives us a perfect opportunity. Once the larger groups leave, we can impersonate them and leave one or two bandits from the smaller groups to tip off the other groups. Then, we can kill all the bandits in these smaller groups. This is our second option."

"These are small bandit groups that have surrendered to the larger ones. Now we are going to kill all the bandits in these small bandit groups, leaving only one or two to escape. They will definitely tip off the other bandit groups."

"Other bandit groups will think that these big bandit groups have killed all of us small bandit groups that surrendered, saying that they want to fight for the leadership. In fact, they just want to wipe out all of us small bandit groups so that they can dominate alone. It's really a good calculation."

"In this case, there's no point in surrendering. We're all going to die anyway. We'll just have to fight these big bandit groups. The result will be that these small bandit groups will unite and fight this big bandit group to the death. This will eliminate many more bandits, and our chance will come again. We can pretend to be bandits from the big bandit group and kill these small bandit groups one by one. By the time these big bandits react, it will be too late. If we turn around and deal with these big bandit groups now, because the previous gunfights were too intense, resulting in heavy casualties among these bandits, there will not be many people left. At this time, it will be much easier for us to deal with these big bandit groups. This is the third point."

Hearing what Big Brother Zhou Zheng said, everyone gasped. Oh my God... This chain of schemes makes people shiver just thinking about it. Fortunately, this is their big brother. If it was an enemy, they couldn't even imagine what would happen. Let's really observe a second of silence for those bandits.

"If we move quickly enough, we can eliminate the bandits on either the east or west side first, and then use the same method to eliminate the bandits on the other side. It's all the same. The prerequisite is that we can't let these bandits go to the other side to report the situation. So, except for leaving one or two bandits behind to report the situation when we first eliminate the bandits, we won't leave any of these bandits behind later."

After saying this, Zhou Zheng thought for a moment and said, "It's better not to kill all these bandits."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned, their eyes wide open, their mouths hanging open. This was unbelievable. Big Brother Zhou Zheng didn't kill all these bandits? He actually spared some of their lives? This...

Seeing everyone's expressions, Zhou Zheng knew that no one understood what was happening, so he continued, "We're new here, and there are over 500 bandit groups, large and small, within a 20-kilometer radius of Shuang'er Mountain. Of course, this is just hearsay. We'll need to conduct on-site investigations to find out the exact number. There may be more than just 20 bandit groups."

"Among all these bandits, there must be local people from Shuang'er Mountain who are mixed in with these bandit groups. Many of these local people are just trying to make a living. We still want to settle down in Shuang'er Mountain! If we kill all the local people around Shuang'er Mountain who are mixed in with the bandit groups, what do you think the local people will think of us outsiders? How will they view us?"

"Although we killed all the bandits in Shuang'er Mountain without surviving a single one, among those we killed were their relatives, husbands, children, and family members. The people here were just ordinary people who went up the mountain to become bandits because their families were too poor to have enough food to eat."

"If we kill all these bandits, we will inadvertently offend the people around Shuang'er Mountain. These people will regard us as demons who kill without blinking an eye, and will alienate us. They may even cooperate with the government and other bandits to specifically oppose us."

"This is really not alarmist, it will definitely happen."

"That's why I decided not to kill all these bandits. What I meant was to kill all the bandits from these small bandit groups, and then we will screen the bandits from the big bandit groups that are left. We will release all those who haven't killed ordinary people or committed crimes, and kill the rest."

"This way, these released bandits will be grateful to us. Many of them are local people. This will be beneficial to our development in Shuang'er Mountain and will also help us recruit soldiers in the surrounding areas of Shuang'er Mountain in the future."

After hearing Zhou Zheng's explanation, everyone understood it in their hearts, because they were not executioners who only knew how to kill people. They would just let go those bandits who had not committed crimes or killed ordinary people. They did it to make a living. If they really couldn't survive, who would go up the mountain to become a bandit?

"Did you hear everything I said?"

"I heard it clearly, big brother," everyone answered together.