When he woke up the next day, when Ma Gai was about to gather his subordinates to discuss the attack on the Black Tiger Village, he was reported to him by the head catcher.

"County lieutenant, those women that Ishihara and Yang Dang brought to our camp were tried to escape at night yesterday."

"Escape?"

Ma Gai glanced at He Feng, frowned and said, "If they want to return to their hometown, why stop them? ”

Hearing this, He Feng said with a strange expression: "If they want to return to the township, their subordinates will naturally not stop them, but the problem is that they want to escape to Black Tiger Village." ”

"What?" Ma Gai felt a little incredible: "Black Tiger Village? ”

Seeing this, He Feng nodded and explained, "Yes, Black Tiger Village." …… They didn't know where they heard that the group of bandits who had kidnapped them had escaped to Black Tiger Village, so they decided to flee at night and join them. ”

Ma Gai stopped talking, frowning and pacing in the tent.

In fact, he hadn't heard of such things.

It is never new for thieves to do evil, these thieves kidnap young women from nearby villages, but when the county officials rescue those women, most of those poor innocent women do not want to return to their hometowns, feeling shameless to see their relatives.

If these women are forcibly sent back to their hometowns, the fate of these women is often even more miserable, obviously not their fault, but they are unjustifiably blamed and slighted, and in the end, these women often cannot resist the prejudices of others and choose to commit suicide.

Even, some of these women will take the initiative to find the bandits who kidnapped them in the first place, and go to them.

"Call Ishihara and Yang Dang to come over."

"Yes!"

After a while, Ishihara and Yang Dang came to Ma Gai's tent, and Ma Gai told him about it, and the two looked at each other, as if they didn't feel strange.

Seeing this, Ma Gai was surprised and asked, "What?" You two already expected it? ”

Glancing at Ishihara, Yang Dang clasped his fists and said, "In fact, it's not the first time that those women want to escape, and when the two of us return to the camp, some people want to escape...... But in the end, I called someone to arrest him. At this point, he explained: "I dare not let them escape, for if they encounter the beasts of the mountains, they will surely die." ”

Ma Gai nodded slightly, and said, "Just now, He Feng came to me and said that most of those women did not want to return to their hometowns, and he asked me if there was a way to settle these women...... What do you two think? ”

Ishihara and Yang Dare looked at each other, after all, this is indeed a problem that is not easy to solve, they can't use vicious means such as persecution, house arrest and even beatings to force those women to obey them like those bandits, right?

"Why don't you ask Liu Gong?"

Yang dared to avoid the important and said lightly.

Margai was silent.

He knows very well that Liu Bi, the county commander of Kunyang County, although Liu Bi is quite competent as a county commander, but this person has a cold temperament, and he is most reluctant to do those thankless things, if he sends those women to the county seat, Liu Bi will definitely send someone to send those women back to their hometowns, regardless of whether those women are willing or not, and no matter what their outcome is.

And such a move will undoubtedly make many innocent women finally choose to commit suicide.

After thinking about it, Ma Gai said: "In this case, you two go and tell those women, that we will not force them to return to their hometown, and if they are willing to return to their hometown, we will let them go; If they don't want to return to their homeland, they are placed in ...... Let's go to Fengcun. ”

"Toyomura?" Yang Dang hesitated a little when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "County Lieutenant, there are all kinds of signs that Fengcun is secretly connected to the Black Tiger Village......

Ma Gai immediately shouted: "Enough! Don't say such things again in the future, don't you know why? If it weren't for the fact that he had no choice, how could Toyomura succumb to a group of evil bandits! Besides, Fengcun secretly communicates with Black Tiger Village, which will only make you and me lose face! ”

"Yes, my subordinates are taught."

Yang Dang lowered his head red-faced.

On the side, Ishihara looked at Ma Gai with admiration, but in the years he and his companions had traveled north and south, he had seen many officials who were upright and jealous, but many times, jealousy and hatred would hurt the innocent, just like Toyomura.

Fengcun was robbed by the Black Tiger Village once, but it was incredibly left behind a lot of rations, and even recently, Fengcun suddenly became rich inexplicably, and took some money from unknown sources to buy chicks and other poultry in the county seat, no matter how you look at it, it is not right.

If it were replaced by a jealous and hateful county lieutenant, he would arrest all the people in Fengcun and ask him for the crime, but the county lieutenant in front of him was obviously a humane county lieutenant, and he knew very well that Fengcun was helpless in front of a group of bandits, so he turned a blind eye to Fengcun's various behaviors.

Ishihara appreciated this very much, after all, in his opinion, the first evil is the Black Tiger Village, as long as the bandits of the Black Tiger Village are exterminated, all problems will be solved, why bother to embarrass the villagers of Feng Village?

On the same day, Ma Gai summoned Li Zhengcen of Fengcun and asked him to assist Ishihara and Yang Kang to bring the nearly 100 women to Fengcun to settle down.

Cen Zhi did not dare to disobey Ma Gai's order, so he could only do so.

As Ma Gai guessed, most of the nearly 100 women who were taken captive from other townships in Kunyang, and even across counties, were afraid to return to their hometowns, and only a few dozen people wanted to return to their hometowns.

During this period, Ma Gai also sent people to transport the money and stolen money of the bandits seized by Ishihara and Yang Dang to the county seat.

Subsequently, he once again summoned Ishihara, He Feng, Shi Che, Yang Kang and several other headhunters to discuss the strategy of attacking the Black Tiger Village.

On July 28, Ma Gai led nearly 1,000 warriors to attack the Black Tiger Village.

I have to say that even if things have come to this point, this county lieutenant has not yet made up his mind in his heart, not only wanting to completely wipe out Yingshan Tiger Yang Tong and his gang for Kunyang County, but also afraid that Yang Tonggou will jump off the wall in a hurry and burst out of his Ma Gai's confession, and his mood is really entangled.

But the warriors of the thief army under his command did not have this tangled emotion, because Ishihara and Yang Dang swept away the rest of the cottages in one fell swoop, and the nearly 1,000 people of the thief army were full of morale, and they all shouted that they wanted to level the Black Tiger Village in one breath and kill the thieves on the mountain in exchange for a bounty.

In the face of such a morale-like thief army, when Yang Tong discussed countermeasures in the big house, Yang Tong once again proposed to retreat to Xinzhai.

Seeing this, Chen Zu opened his mouth and sneered: "Guo Da, I heard that you originally thought that the owners of the village here may not be willing to really help Guizhai to the death, so you proposed to retreat to the new village, but now, the seven owners of the village have all defected to Guizhai, why do you still insist on retreating?" Couldn't you still believe Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng and others? Or, are you going to talk about Chen? ”

Obviously, Chen Zu deliberately wanted to embarrass Yang Tong, Guo Da and others.

But it's a pity that Guo Da and Zhao Yu are good friends, and Zhao Yu has long guessed that Chen Zu will make a similar move, so he has already discussed with Guo Da how to deal with it.

No, in the face of Chen Zu's ridicule, Guo Da had no different color, and explained with a smile: "Master Chen Zhai misunderstood. …… As the owner of Chen Zhai said, I did think that the people in our village were not in harmony that day, so I proposed to retreat to Xinzhai. Fortunately, the seven village owners are well aware of the righteousness and are willing to defect to my Black Tiger Village, sharing the joys and sorrows with me, how can I doubt them? It was only because of our defeat in the early stage that all the village owners were attacked by the officers and soldiers, so that at present, the morale of the officers and soldiers under the mountain is high. Under such circumstances, I think that holding on to the death will cause heavy losses to our brothers, whether it is my Black Tiger Village or the Lord of Chen Village. Therefore, I propose to retreat to Xinzhai to avoid the front of the officers and men, and take advantage of the terrain in the vicinity of Xinzhai to gradually eat away at the strength of the officers and men, reverse the morale of both the enemy and us, and finally achieve the goal of repelling them in one fell swoop. …… I don't know if this explanation can be satisfied? ”

His remarks were discussed with Zhao Yu, how could Chen Zu find flaws.

At most, he could only sneer and mock: "In other words, whether the seven village owners defected to Guizhai or not actually has nothing to do with the overall situation?" ”

"Master Chen is wrong to think so."

Guo Da said with a smile: "The seven village owners defected to my Black Tiger Village, so I dared to think about counterattacking the officers and soldiers." ”

Listening to Guo Da's watertight answer, although Chen Zu wanted to separate Yang Tong and Chu Jiao and other former Qizhai owners, so that Chu Jiao and others could realize that Yang Tong actually wanted to take the opportunity to annex their true colors, but there was nothing he could do.

I have to say that Chen Zu wanted to instigate the relationship between Yang Tong and his gang and the owner of Qizhai Village, but this was actually just a waste of effort.

Could it be that only he Chen Zu is smart? Others like Liu Heimu, Chu Jiao, and Zhang Feng are all fools at the mercy of Yang Tong and Guo Da?

How can it be!

In fact, when Guo Da still put forward the proposal to retreat to Xinzhai, the original owner of Qizhai Village understood - whether they defected to Black Tiger Village or not actually had nothing to do with whether Black Tiger Village retreated to Xinzhai or not, probably Yang Tong, Guo Da and others had already considered countermeasures.

Even Liu Heimu understood, realizing that what Guo Da said to him that day was purely to use him to persuade several other village owners to defect to Black Tiger Village.

But so what?

The rice has been cooked, the wood has been cooked, can Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng, Zhang Feng and others still regret it?

What's more, Yang Tong did make all kinds of promises to them to ensure that they could get certain rights in Black Tiger Village in the future.

It is precisely because of this that when Guo Da proposed to retreat to Xinzhai again today, Liu Heimu, Chu Jiao, Zhang Feng and others did not raise any more objections, only Chen Zu.

Of course, they will not show solidarity with Chen Zu.

"Whatever you want."

In the entire big house, only he questioned Guo Da, everyone else watched coldly, and Chen Zu didn't bother to get involved.

Although he does need the Black Tiger Village as a shield, since Yang Tong, Guo Da and others insist on giving up the old village and retreating to the new village, what can he say?

On the same day, Ma Gai personally led nearly a thousand thieves and warriors to attack the Black Tiger Village, and the thieves in the Black Tiger Village resisted a little, and then withdrew to the deep mountains one after another, and withdrew to the new village on the top of the mountain.

Before sunset, Ma Gai led the crowd to capture the cottage.

Watching the county guards, village warriors, and rangers under his command excitedly collect the money and food that the bandits didn't have time to take away, he looked at the direction where the group of thieves had fled and let out a long sigh.

He was never able to make that difficult decision on his own, so he entrusted it to Ishihara, Yang Kang and others.

If Shi Yuan, Yang Dang and others can bite this group of thieves and take the opportunity to kill Yang Tong, the leader of this group of bandits, then he will find the county order Liu Bi to surrender.

He deeply hated Yang Tong for causing him to be in fear of being ruined all the time, and if he could 'die with Yang Tong', he felt that it was worth it.

But if Yang Tong is still alive......

That's not worth it.