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On the early morning of July 18, Zhao Yu took Jingnu and Niu Heng, together with the county commander Liu Bi, the county magistrate Li Xu, the county lieutenant Ma Gai and others to climb the southern city wall of Kunyang City and climb the heights to inspect the situation of the refugees outside the city.

At this time, the refugees outside the city basically could not see men between the ages of thirteen and thirty-five, who either joined the Kunyang County Army or defected to the Black Tiger Village; As for the young women, most of them defected to the Black Tiger Village, up to thirty years old, down to three or four years old, five or six years old, and even those who had given birth to children, as long as they were young and good-looking, they were escorted to the Black Tiger Village as a scarce treasure by the Black Tiger Crowd.

It's not that the black tigers are hungry and thirsty, even the little girls of three or four years old, five or six years old, these thieves are very good at their calculations - anyway, these little girls can't eat too much food every day, although the current age is not suitable, but it is not appropriate to raise them in the village for a few years?

For a similar purpose, Guo Da also signaled the Black Tigers to recruit a group of orphans under the age of ten, probably to cultivate a group of people who are loyal to the cottage and Zhao Yu, after all, the people in the cottage are actually not loyal to the cottage and Zhao Yu, most of them are just because they have nowhere to go, and their loyalty is only because they know that they can live a better life by following the 'leader Zhou Hu'.

From the general village to Chu Jiao, Wang Qing, Liu Heimu and other big leaders, most of them are like this.

Regarding this, Zhao Yu was actually not dissatisfied, after all, human nature is like this, but obviously Guo Da was not satisfied with this, so Zhao Yu let him go.

Of course, it cannot be said that the refugees outside the city are completely left with a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, in fact, there are still some men and women who are 'suitable for recruitment', some are young people who are dissatisfied with Kunyang's actions, and some women who cannot give up their sick and weak husbands, among which the most eye-catching is Wu Zhi, the former county governor of Suiping County.

Dissatisfied with Kunyang County's 'discriminatory treatment' of refugees, this person not only refused Kunyang County's recruitment when he failed to ask Kunyang County to accept all the refugees, but also persuaded a group of equally strong young people to try to protect as many people as possible with the strength of their dozens of people.

For such people, Zhao Yu, Liu Bi, Ma Gai and others deeply admire.

After all, there are so many refugees outside the city, even if they are left as of today, there are still more than 3,000, not including the refugees who have not yet fled to Kunyang, Kunyang is just a medium-sized county, where can it afford so many refugees?

Although there is still plenty of food in Kunyang County at the moment, this does not mean that there will be no food crisis in Kunyang, if a large number of refugees are absorbed at the moment, once the rebel army besieges the city, Kunyang County may not have civil strife because of the food crisis - once there is civil strife, it will basically be over.

It is precisely because they also know this truth, whether it is Liu Bi, Ma Gai, Li Xu and other county officials, or Shi Yuan, Chen Gui, Yang Kang and other county officials, they all tacitly accepted Zhao Yu's decision and kept silent about it.

After all, they also know what is more important.

Just when Zhao Yu was observing the refugees outside the city, Li Xu, the county leader, said on the side: "The refugees outside the city, the anger is gradually getting worse, yesterday I listened to He Fenghe's head-catching report, when he led the people of the Brotherhood out of the city to cut down trees and bamboo in the mountains in the northwest of the city, there was a group of refugees who deliberately harassed and caused trouble......

After a pause, he lowered his voice and said, "He Zhutou was forced to kill one person and frighten the remnants. ”

"Is it a Green Forest Thief?" Zhao Yu asked calmly.

Li Xu hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "...... It should be ordinary people. ”

Hearing this, Liu Bi, the county commander next to him, let out a long breath, and his face became a little ugly.

He knew about it last night, so he wasn't surprised, but at this moment, when he heard Li Xu mention it, his face was still not very good-looking, after all, He Feng's behavior could be regarded as 'killing people', although it was a mob that was killed.

Killing a mob was nothing, but if something like this continued in the future, it would obviously damage his prestige as a magistrate of Kunyang County.

He glanced at the leader of the Black Tiger Thieves beside him.

In view of the fact that Zhou Hu seized the 'command' a while ago, Liu Bi was also very worried that his official position would not be kept, but he didn't expect that after the incident, Zhou Hu immediately talked to him and promised not to replace his position as a county commander - Liu Bi was right to think about it afterwards, this Zhou Hu's ambition is obviously not only this, how can he rob him of the county commander's position?

All in all, Zhou Hu assigned him a task that day, that is, he was responsible for inspiring and motivating the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city.

This is a pretty good errand, as long as he can repel the rebels this time, I believe that his prestige in Kunyang will no longer be unmatched.

Of course, even at that time, he couldn't get out of Zhou Hu's control, after all, Zhou Hu had a way to soak him.

In order to prevent his reputation from being damaged, Liu Bi lowered his voice and said to Zhao Yu: "Leader Zhou, there must be green forest thieves instigating, it is better to send someone to talk to Na Wu Zhi again, and order him to step up the search for the green forest thieves among the refugees to prevent similar things from happening again......"

Zhao Yu glanced at Liu Bi and said calmly: "Do you think that Wu Zhi doesn't know that there are green forest thieves among his refugees?" ”

Liu Bi frowned and said: "I understand what Leader Zhou means, Leader Zhou suspects that he is trying to use the Green Forest Thief to put pressure on me Kunyang, but if it goes on like this, I am afraid that both sides will lose, I think that we can relax some more conditions, for example, in terms of soup kitchen......"

Yes, even if refugees from outside the city were not allowed to enter the city, out of morality, the Kunyang County Ya still appointed the brotherhood to come forward and set up a soup kitchen outside the city to give soup to the refugees outside the city.

It's just that the weight, a bowl of porridge with a thin view of the bottom of the bowl per person, at best, can barely keep the refugees outside the city alive, and this is the reason why most of the refugees outside the city are 'quiet', because they have no strength.

From the side, Li Xu also echoed Liu Bi's proposal: "Just like what Leader Zhou said that day, when people are cornered, they can do anything, and we can't at least let the refugees outside the city be used by the green forest thieves......"

Zhao Yu thought about it for a while, nodded and said, "Okay." …… Lieutenant Ma? ”

"Yes." Ma Gai naturally hugged his fists, as if the leader of the black tiger thieves beside him was his boss.

"You go out of the city to negotiate with that Wu Zhi."

"Yes!"

A moment later, Zhao Yu led the group into the city gate tower.

After everyone sat down, he said with a straight face: "Compared with the anger of the refugees outside the city, I am more concerned about the green forest thieves mixed in it. ”

"Yes." Ma Gai nodded and said, "I asked Ishihara, and he thinks that these people are most likely the Green Forest Thieves, who are observing the weak points of my Kunyang city wall. ”

Zhao Yu nodded and said: "It has been half a month since the fall of Dingling in late June, and I think the rebel army is planning to continue to advance the army, as the pioneer of the rebel army, those green forest thieves will naturally take the lead." In this regard, my Kunyang policy remains unchanged, the county government and the county army still focus on guarding the county seat, as for the green forest thieves who sneaked into my Kunyang County, let me Black Tiger Village take the lead, weigh the strength of these green forest thieves, and train soldiers by the way. ”

Hearing this, Li Xu asked in surprise, "Leader Zhou wants to take the initiative?" ”

Seeing Zhao Yu nodded, he hurriedly persuaded: "Why don't you wait and see for a while?" ”

In all fairness, Li Xiancheng didn't care much about the casualties of the Black Tiger Thief, but the problem was that now the Black Tiger Thief was also an important force to defend his Kunyang, and if the casualties were too heavy, then the county army would have to fight alone.

However, as Zhou Hu said, if there is no black tiger thief waiting for the opportunity to go out, harass the rebel army and the green forest thief, and share the pressure for his county, it is almost impossible to defend a lonely city in Kunyang alone.

Therefore, he thought that Zhou Hu should be more cautious and wait until he saw the situation clearly before sending the Black Tiger Thief out - by the way, he could also let the Black Tiger Thief practice for a few more days.

But Zhao Yu had a different point of view, he shook his head and said: "I asked Shi Yuan two days ago, according to Shi Zhutou, although the Green Forest thieves seem to be hundreds of people in a group at first glance, a group of thousands of people, and the momentum is violent, but most of them are civilians who are coerced by them, and these civilians dare not resist the Green Thief Forest, in order to save their lives, they help the abuse, and assist the Green Forest Thieves in persecuting the villages along the way...... Let's call them 'hypocrites.'" If we can accurately get rid of the leaders of those green forest thieves, these coerced 'pseudo-thieves' may not continue to resist, or even turn against them...... If we sit back and wait until the main force of the rebels surrounds my Kunyang, those pseudo-thieves may not dare to defect, and we will have to spend more effort to deal with them. ”

"Having said that......" Li Xu, who has a conservative personality, still hesitates.

On the same day, Zhao Yu sent someone to notify Chen Mo and Wang Qing, who were practicing in the area of Xiangcun.

As Li Xu said, Zhao Yu's intention to let the Black Tiger people take immediate action to fight the Black Tiger Thieves was really a bit hasty, even Chen Mo felt that it was too hasty, because those young people who defected to his Black Tiger Village had only been training for a few days now, not to mention the formation, even if they lined up, there would inevitably be chaos.

What's more, most of the young people who defected to the Black Tiger Village had not yet obtained weapons and armor, and each person was only given a sharpened long bamboo pole, although the sharpened bamboo pole was not incapable of killing, but this kind of 'weapon', it is difficult not to keep the morale of the new defectors.

Because of this, Wang Qing sneered after learning about this: "Let those little cubs carry bamboo poles to kill the green forest thieves? I see, the big boss is going to send them to death, right? ”

"Shut up!"

Chen Mo immediately stopped Wang Qing's joke, after all, this kind of inappropriate joke would seriously affect morale, especially for the group of newcomers who had just joined and had not yet received qualified weapons and equipment.

He said in a deep voice: "At present, the rebel army has not invaded on a large scale, and there is only a group of green forest thieves operating in my Kunyang or the county to the south, so it is better to use this group of people to train the army." Once the rebel army enters the country in a big way, it will be even more difficult to fight. …… As a left-wing commander, don't you have this kind of foresight? ”

Wang Qing's eyes widened when he heard this, and he immediately seemed to think of something, shrugged his shoulders and said: "If you have it, you can fight it, there is a lot of nonsense, anyway, you are the commander, and you are responsible for what happens." ”

“……”

Glancing at Wang Qing, Chen Mo summoned a black tiger outside the house and ordered: "Pass the order, tell everyone to gather, and prepare to fight with the green forest thieves." ”

"Yes!" The black tiger walked away with his fists clenched.

About a moment later, the black tigers like Liu Tu, Le Gui, Xu Bai, Wang Ping and others returned to the village with the Xinzhai people under their hands one after another.

When they learned that they were about to rush to fight the Green Forest Thieves, the newcomers were in an uproar.

They gathered in the open space in the village, shouting loudly.

"To fight the Green Forest Thieves?"

"We only have one bamboo pole, how can we fight?"

"Tell us to take this bamboo pole and fight the green forest thieves? Isn't this telling us to die? ”

These newcomers were indignant, and Liu Tu, Le Gui and other small leaders did not even prohibit them from shouting and reprimanding.

And at this moment, a deep shout came from the side: "Silence! ”

Everyone turned their heads to take a look, and immediately saw the general leader Chen Mo walking from a distance with Wang Qing, the commander of the left, only to see Chen Mo passing by a newcomer from the Black Tiger Village who was holding a bamboo pole, snatched the bamboo pole in his hand, and threw it out like a spear, only to hear a bang, the bamboo pole actually penetrated a tree not far away, stuck in the trunk.

"Shhhh

Looking at the bamboo pole that was stuck in the trunk of the tree and kept trembling, the newcomers of the Black Tiger Village who were holding the bamboo pole gasped and swallowed their saliva in disbelief.

Judging from the penetrating force of the bamboo pole through the trunk of the tree, it does not matter whether the enemy wears leather armor or not......

At this time, Chen Mo walked to the tree with an expressionless face, pulled out the bamboo pole with one arm, and immediately looked around at the stunned newcomers of Black Tiger Village, and said expressionlessly: "Who said that bamboo poles can't kill?!" ”

“……”

The newcomers of the Black Tiger Village looked at each other and looked at the hole in the trunk with a strange expression.

It was only then that they realized that the sharpened bamboo pole had such power.

Glancing around, Chen Mo shouted in a deep voice: "What do you think you are?" Is it a soldier? All weapons and armor must be ready? It doesn't hurt for me to tell you, my Black Tigers are from bandits, and the weapons in the hands of the old brothers in the village and the armor on their bodies were all snatched back by themselves! …… We have robbed the officers and soldiers, and we have also robbed the regular army, and the next one is the green forest thief! Want weapons and armor? Kill all the Green Forest Thieves, their weapons and armor are yours! ”

“……”

Shocked by Chen Mo's momentum, the newcomers looked at each other.

Only then did they know that the weapons and armor in the hands of those seniors in the village were actually snatched from the officers and soldiers and the regular army......

This group of bandits, known as the Black Tiger Thieves, turned out to be so brave?

Seeing that the newcomers present were shocked by themselves, Chen Mo slowed down his tone and said: "Don't be frightened by the green forest thieves, you are now a member of my Black Tiger Village, and my Black Tiger Village has never suffered a loss so far, whether it is facing peers, officers and soldiers, or regular troops." …… If you want to survive, you will honestly obey your predecessors, and you will do whatever he tells you to do, advance and kill the enemy, and retreat! …… The old people in the village will not let you die in vain, as long as you obey the order, you can survive! …… Got it?! ”

"Clear, understood......"

A group of newcomers replied one after another.

"Say it again!"

"Understood!"

Under the sneering gaze of the old black tigers, the newcomers shouted in unison.

"Good!"

Chen Mo nodded with satisfaction, and immediately ordered: "Take the chief and the tun chief as a team and go to the south of the county!" …… Let's go! ”

"Yes!"

About half an hour later, nearly a thousand black tigers left the village one after another, heading towards the south of the county.

Chen Mo wasn't worried that these newcomers would run away halfway, after all, these people only had a day or two of rations with them, even if they fled halfway, how could they support themselves?

The only thing he was worried about was that there were green forest thieves among them, who had quietly left halfway to report to their companions.

If this happens, it will be much more difficult for them to sneak up on the Green Forest Thieves.

After these black tigers left, Chen Mo and Wang Qing also took a few accompanying black tigers and left the village on horseback.

After an hour's ride, they came to the south of Kunyang County and came to the edge of the Shahe River.

At this time, I could vaguely see many refugees in the distance crossing the bridge in groups and heading towards Kunyang County in the distance.

After watching for a while, Chen Mo instructed the following Black Tigers on horseback: "You guys, go around to find out the traces of the Green Forest Thieves, especially the nearby villages and manors, and after finding out your whereabouts, immediately find a way to meet me." ”

"Yes!"

Several black tigers on horseback hugged their fists and led the order, driving their mounts in several directions, leaving only Chen Mo and Wang Qing.

"Let's go, let's go south too." Chen Mo said casually.

Wang Qing rolled his eyes, but he still rode his horse to catch up with Chen Mo, crossed the Sand River with him, and came to the south bank of the Sand River.

The south bank of the Shahe River is the junction of Kunyang and Ye County and Dingling, to the southwest can reach Ye County, to the southeast is Dingling, compared to the place close to the county seat, it seems a little desolate here, there are no people in a radius of several miles at a glance, only some refugees carrying bags on their backs.

So Chen Mo and Wang Qing continued to travel south, and they entered the county of Dingling County.

It didn't take long for the two of them to find a still populated village, which seemed to be quite small, with dozens of houses scattered at a cursory glance.

There seems to be a sign of people in the village.

Pointing to the distance, Chen Mo asked Wang Qingdao, "Do you know what that village is called?" ”

"I don't know." Wang Qing rolled his eyes.

Chen Mo didn't care either, and after watching from a distance for a while, he said, "That should be a hiding place for a green forest thief......"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Wang Qing roll his eyes and interrupt: "Nonsense! Both the rebels and the Green Forest Bandits have already broken through the county seat of Dingling, how could this village be spared if its location is so conspicuous? …… As long as there are living people in the village, nine times out of ten they are green forest thieves. ”

I have to say that Wang Qing's judgment is still very reasonable, but his attitude made Chen Mo very dissatisfied, only to see Chen Mo frowning and glancing at Wang Qing, and said unhappily: "You are reluctant to follow me, so why are you following me?" ”

Hearing this, Wang Qing grinned and said with a smile: "I want to see your death with my own eyes." If you die, then I will be the Grand Commander. ”

Chen Mo was not angry, and asked with a smile when he heard this, "Don't you pull me?" ”

"Then it depends on your attitude." Wang Qing touched his chin and said, "If you are willing to beg me at that time, it is not that I can't pull you." …… Of course, I still have to be the commander. ”

“……”

Glancing at Wang Qing, Chen Mo shook his head speechlessly, clamped his legs between the horse's belly, and slowly leaned towards the village in the distance.

Seeing this, Wang Qing was shocked, and hurriedly drove forward and asked Chen Mo: "Hey, what are you doing?" ”

Chen Mo pouted at the village in the distance, and said with a natural expression: "Take a closer look, so as not to make a mistake." ”

"Are you crazy?" Wang Qing was stunned and said: "There are only two of us, in case the horse is shot by others, we will not have time to run." ”

Hearing this, Chen Mo was quite surprised, looked at Wang Qing a few times and asked, "Haven't you always been very brave?" ”

Wang Qing rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Is this a brave thing?" It's stupid! …… Just the two of us, do you still have to lean over? Are you stupid? ”

"It's fine." Chen Moyi was bold, turned his horse and slowly moved forward, until he came to a distance less than a mile away from the village, put his hands in front of him, and peeked at the village from afar.

Wang Qing had no choice but to follow.

As they expected, the people who walked back and forth in the village did not look like good people in any way.

Even, because they were downwind, they could faintly hear the shouting and scolding from the distant village, as well as the cries of women and children.

"It's a hiding place for green forest thieves, yes."

After saying a word to Wang Qing, Chen Mo looked around, wanting to see if there were other strongholds of green forest thieves nearby, after all, as far as he knew, the green forest thieves were only a general name, just like the Ying mountain thieves who had 'Yingshan Fourteen Thieves' and 'Yingshan Nine Thieves', the green forest thieves in the distance were obviously only one of the green forest thieves.

Facing a group of green forest thieves alone, Chen Mo is not afraid, he is afraid of alarming the other green forest thieves, and the other party attacks in groups, then his black tigers may not be able to withstand it.

However, the situation was okay, within a radius of a few miles, Chen Mo did not notice that there were villages or buildings suitable for other green forest thieves to hide.

Nodding, he turned his head to Wang Qing and said, "How about it, let's take this green forest thief first." ”

"Okay." Wang Qing licked his lips.

Sneak attack is naturally the best at night, but considering that there are so many new villagers in the village, those people have no experience in fighting and sneak attacks, and it is easy to hurt their own people at night, so in the end, Chen Mo decided to launch a sneak attack in the early morning of the next day.

In order to hide people's eyes and ears and prevent the news from leaking, when Chen Mo and Wang Qing returned to Kunyang County to meet Liu Tu, Le Gui and other small leaders, they did not immediately march towards the village occupied by the gang of green forest thieves.

Around midnight, hundreds of black tigers came to the vicinity of the village, and they lurked in the night, like a pack of wolves, staring at the village in the distance where there were still sounds of amusement and obscenity, waiting for the first light to appear in the sky, and then launched a surprise attack on the village.

At this time, the green forest thieves in the village in the distance did not know that the hospitable Kunyang people had sent quite famous local specialties to them......

- Black Tiger Thief!