In the propaganda of the Kunyang County Ya to the people in the city, the Black Tiger Thieves and Wolves defeated more than 5,000 people of the rebel general Xu Baojun with less than 1,000 people, but in fact, according to the casualties of the rebel army afterwards, Xu Baojun's losses last night were only more than 3,000 people.

About half of the soldiers still fled to the main camp of the rebel army where Guan Shuo and his general Liu De were stationed.

After some thought, Guan Shuo incorporated these soldiers into Liu De's command, so that Liu De's establishment could be restored to a scale of nearly 10,000 people.

As Zhao Yu expected, the night attack on Xu Baojun did not make Guan Shuo dispel the idea of 'besieging Kunyang', and even Guan Shuo became more and more determined about this - in order to besiege Kunyang, he had already paid the heavy price of the general Xu Bao and more than 3,000 soldiers, how could he retreat without doing anything?

Therefore, almost at the same time that Chen Mo and Wang Qing led the wolf to return to Kunyang County, Guan Shuo re-planned and ordered Liu De to replace the late Xu Bao to lead the army to attack the eastern city wall of Kunyang.

As for the southern city wall, Guan Shuo was ready to lead his straightforward army and personally command the battle.

The idea of besieging Kunyang remains unchanged!

Under Guan Shuo's order, whether it was the army directly under his command, or the army under the command of Huang Kang and Liu Deer, they all seized the time to build a camp on the same day, after all, 'Xu Bao's night attack' has fully demonstrated that Kunyang County is not as weak as they imagined, as long as there is an opportunity, the other party will still take the initiative to attack.

In order to prevent something similar from happening again, Guan Shuo decided to go down to the camp first, so that the damned 'Kunyang wolves' would not have a chance to sneak attack.

Kunyang County also knew that the rebels were in a hurry to set up a camp, after all, the distance of five miles was not too far, even if he stood on the city wall, he could vaguely see that there were rebel soldiers and soldiers busy back and forth in the distance, not to mention, Ma Gai and Le Gui, the guard of the North City Gate, also sent the county army and the black tiger thief under their command to investigate, and peeked at the actions of the three rebels at close range.

In response to this matter, Ma Gai said to Chen Mo while chatting on the city wall: "As expected by the great leader, the rebels do not plan to retreat, if they build a camp today, I am afraid it will be difficult for the brigade wolf to sneak attack again." ”

"It shouldn't be built today."

Chen Mo shook his head and guessed: "The forests in the vicinity have already been cut down and brought back to the city, and those that are too late to bring back to the city have all been burned and burned...... If the rebels want to cut down wood and build a village, I am afraid that they will have to go to the East Wing Mountain and Zhushan Mountain...... Calculating the schedule, it should not be completed in three or five days. ”

The east wing mountain in his mouth refers to the horizontal mountains on the north and even northeast sides of Kunyang County, while the pillar mountain refers to the longitudinal mountains on the west and northwest sides of Kunyang, which is also the hill where Wu Zhi, the former county governor of Suiping County, took the group of refugees to hide.

For these two mountains, Zhao Yu did not order the strong wall to clear the wilderness, on the one hand, it is too late to send people, on the other hand, in this era of 'relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water', if the mountains near Kunyang are all set on fire, it is definitely an immeasurable loss for Kunyang County.

It's like saying that the group of refugees led by Wu Zhi, if Zhao Yu had ordered a fire in Zhushan at that time, those refugees would have starved to death, unlike now, at least they could barely feed some people with the prey they hunted in the mountains.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Zhao Yu spared the mountains around Kunyang County, and only cut down and burned all the forests within ten miles of Kunyang County.

Because of this, Chen Mo was optimistic that the rebels besieging him on three sides of Kunyang would definitely not be able to build a camp in one day, and this meant that the wolves in his camp still had the opportunity to sneak attack the rebels at night.

However, the scouts of the county army sent out by Ma Gai brought back bad news: "...... I saw the rebels digging and building a wall as a stronghold......"

After hearing this, even Chen Mo couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, realizing that he had underestimated the wit of the rebels on the other side.

Soon, this matter reached Zhao Yu's ears, but he didn't care much about it.

After all, in Zhao Yu's opinion, Guan Shuo still has tens of thousands of troops and more than 10,000 green forest thieves under his command, even if they do everything they can to obstruct it, they still can't completely stop the other party's plan to build a camp in the end, unless they have the ability to take the initiative to attack and force Guan Shuo to retreat.

Therefore, whether the rebels under Guan Shuo built the camp a few days earlier or a few days later, there is not much difference in essence.

Compared with this matter, he was more interested in Ishihara and Chen Gui.

Chen Mo did not lose his trust, and after returning to the city today, he conveyed Ishihara's meaning to Zhao Yu, which made Zhao Yu quite surprised and happy.

Maybe even Ishihara himself doesn't know, in fact, Zhao Yu has a very good impression of Ishihara, because Ishihara also has a huge credit for Yang Tong's death back then - although it was under Zhao Yu's calculations, even Ishihara was kept in the dark.

From the initial visit to the Black Tiger Village to the later replacement of Yang Tong as the leader of the Black Tiger Village, Zhao Yu benefited from four 'nobles' along the way.

The first is Chen Mo, if Chen Mo hadn't taken Zhao Yu and Jingnu up the mountain, Zhao Yu would not have thought of taking this thief's den as the starting point for his revenge;

The second is Guo Da, after Yang Tong's death that day, Wang Qing, Liu Heimu and others rushed to be the owner of the village, if there was no Guo Da's initial silence and later support, Zhao Yu would not have been able to win the position of the owner of the village.

The third is Chen Zu, when there was almost no subordinate at the beginning, Chen Zu personally got rid of Yang Tong for Zhao Yu, which was extremely crucial.

And the four are Ishihara.

Yang Tong, who once responded to every call, finally fell into a lonely and fled back to the cottage in a hurry, and was intercepted and killed by Chen Zu halfway, Ishihara played a key role, which can be said to be a great credit to Zhao Yu.

Because of this, Chen Mo, Guo Da, and Chen Zu were reused by Zhao Yu one after another, and Ishihara, Zhao Yu also tolerated his hostility to Heihuzhai and even to him again and again, anyway, in Zhao Yu's opinion, this Shiyuan was also rotten meat in his pot and couldn't run out of his palm.

Sure enough, for some reason, Ishihara begged Chen Mo to convey to Zhao Yu the intention of 'hoping to be reused', which made Zhao Yu very happy, and after the military discussion with everyone that day, he sent someone to invite Ishihara and Chen Gui to the second floor of the Black Tiger House.

"You may be seated."

Sitting behind the low square table on the second floor, Zhao Yu raised his hand and motioned for Shi Yuan and Chen Gui to take a seat. 33

From the side, Jingnu also poured a bowl of water for Shi Yuan and Chen Gui.

To this day, many people know that this woman, who also wears a tiger mask, is the woman of Zhou Hu, the leader of the Black Tiger Thieves, or even the only woman.

Therefore, seeing that the other party poured water on the two of them, Chen Gui hurriedly thanked: "Thank you, madam." ”

"Ma'am?" The masked Jingnu was stunned.

"No, isn't it?" Chen Gui glanced at Zhao Yu, who was sitting next to him, and shouted tentatively: "Zhou ...... Madam? ”

"Huh."

A cheerful laugh came from under the mask of the Silent Girl, which was very good.

Although she also knew that she was only the concubine of the young master, she was still very happy to be called Madame.

She was in a good mood and sat back beside Zhao Yu, slightly half a position behind.

At this time, Zhao Yu looked at Shi Yuan and Chen Gui, and said with a smile: "When the Great Commander returned to the city today, he told me that you two want to be reused by Zhou?" ”

"Yes!" Ishihara nodded, but Xuan even corrected with a serious face: "However, I hope to be reused in the county army." ”

Hearing this, Chen Gui glanced at Ishihara, and hurriedly said: "Ishihara, he can't speak, Leader Zhou, don't misunderstand, what he means ......"

Before he could finish explaining, Zhao Yu raised his hand to interrupt him.

"Has he seen that Magai is my man?"

Zhao Yu looked at Shi Yuan with some surprise, and said casually tentatively: "Since you want to be reused in the county army, why don't you discuss it with County Lieutenant Ma?" I remember that Lieutenant Ma valued you very much......"

"Hmph." Ishihara snorted lightly and said with a slight mockery: "Of course, Lieutenant Ma attaches great importance to Shi, but it's a pity that Lieutenant Ma can't call the shots in many things now......"

"Ah Yuan." Chen Gui reminded in a low voice.

"Hahaha......"

To the surprise of Shi Yuan and Chen Gui, Zhao Yu was not angry, but laughed.

"What is Chief Zhou laughing at?" Ishihara frowned and asked a little unpleasantly.

"Nothing." Zhao Yu smiled and shook his head.

Of course, he is laughing at Ishihara's blind confidence in Ma Gai, you must know that so far, many people have seen that Ma Gai is the internal response of his Black Tiger Village, such as Zhang Jing of the Five Tigers of Chenmen, Yang Ding of Ye County and others, and even Xun Yi, the governor of the western region, also saw it, but Shi Yuan, who followed Ma Gai all day long, did not see it, thinking that Ma Gai was enduring humiliation, weakness and wronging him in Black Tiger Village, which made Zhao Yu feel very interesting.

Of course, this is a good phenomenon, after all, Zhao Yu always felt that his Black Tiger Village should not only develop the people on the 'bright side', but also the people in the 'secret', and it would be difficult to ensure that he would not be wiped out by Yingchuan County in the future, and even he could in turn influence the attitude of the county, and even the attitude of the imperial court.

Thinking of this, he nodded and affirmed: "In fact, Lieutenant Ma can call the shots, at least in this matter...... You will say this, it can be seen that you have a prejudice against Zhou? ”

He looked up at Ishihara and asked gently, "Why do you have prejudices against Zhou?" ”

"Leader Zhou misunderstood...... Chen Gui hurriedly opened his mouth to play a round.

Zhao Yu smiled and waved his hand and said, "Chen Gui, you don't have to be in a hurry to explain, I don't mean to blame, I just think it's strange, because I have never been hostile to you from the beginning, why do you have prejudices against me?" ”

"......" Shi Yuan and Chen Gui looked at Zhao Yu in surprise.

"Don't believe me?" Zhao Yu chuckled, and then lowered his voice and said: "Xu Bai and Wang Ping, the two of them have mixed into my Black Tiger Village, you really can't recognize them when I wait for one?" ”

Hearing this, Shi Yuan and Chen Gui's faces changed greatly, and they stared at Zhao Yu with a shocked expression, and the atmosphere in the room also became tense.

After a while, Ishihara asked with a complicated expression, "...... Why? ”

Of course, Zhao Yu could understand Ishihara's brainless question, and said, "Why?" As I said, I have no ill will towards you. ”

“……”

Ishihara and Chen Gui looked at each other.

Of course, they would doubt the words of the leader of the black tiger thieves in front of them, but the facts were in front of them, and they had to believe them.