Liu Heimu came forward for Yang Tong to recruit the owner of Bazhai Village, because Chen Zu was not involved, Chen Zu did not know about it at first, so he did not have time to stop it.

So much so that the next day, when Yang Tong held a banquet in the big house to celebrate the other seven village owners joining the Black Tiger Village, Chen Zu, who was kept in the dark, was still very puzzled about why Yang Tong suddenly set up a banquet.

It wasn't until in this celebratory banquet that Yang Tong picked up the wine bowl and said it with a smile that he suddenly realized.

Suddenly, he was stunned.

Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng, Zhang Feng, Ma Hong and other other Qizhai owners joined the Black Tiger Village?

Seeing Yang Tong, Liu Heimu, Guo Da and others in the big house pushing cups and changing lamps with Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng, Zhang Feng, Ma Hong and others, Chen Zu suddenly realized that it seemed that he had somehow become the only outsider here?

This made Chen Zu feel a little uneasy.

And at this moment, I don't know whether Liu Heimu was drunk or deliberately pretending, he was drunk and smiled at Chen Zu: "What if the master of Chen Village also led all the brothers to my Black Tiger Village?" ”

"What?"

At this time, Chen Zu, who was in a complicated mood, was interrupted by Liu Heimu's words, and he didn't react for a while.

At this time, Yang Tong smiled and said, "Heimu, you're drunk." ”

However, as he spoke, he suddenly changed his words, and said meaningfully: "If the owner of Chen Zhai can afford Yang and lead the crowd, Yang will definitely treat him well." ”

No, he was not playing a round, but teaming up with Liu Heimu to persecute Chen Zu.

In an instant, the originally staggered big house immediately became quiet, and everyone present looked at Chen Zu intentionally or unintentionally, as if they were waiting for Chen Zu's reply.

"I'm the only outsider here......

Glancing around at the people in the big house, Chen Zu suddenly felt a little inexplicably cold, he calmed down, and said with a faint smile: "The kindness of the owner of Yang Zhai Chen is understood, but now I can still live in the village, so I won't bother your village." ”

"That's a shame......"

Yang Tong narrowed his eyes, and his face sank slightly.

At this time, he could obviously feel that the atmosphere in the big house was stiff, whether it was Chen Zu or the two henchmen behind him, they were all vigilant in their hearts at this moment.

Fortunately, at this time, Guo Da came forward in time: "Drink, drink." ”

Under Guo Da's round field, the liveliness and noise of Fang Cai gradually returned to the big house, and everyone pushed glasses and changed lamps and persuaded each other to drink, as if Fang Cai's incident had not happened.

But in fact, it seems that Chu Jiao, Zhang Feng and others in the big house are still secretly paying attention to Yang Tong and Chen Zu.

Of course, they who have joined the Black Tiger Village at this time, they don't need to be wary of Yang Tong anymore, they are just curious about how Yang Tong will deal with Chen Zu - although Liu Heimu is using the intention of alcohol to jokingly propose that he wants Chen Zu to join the Black Tiger Village, but in fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that at the moment when the seven village owners have all joined the Black Tiger Village, Yang Tong naturally hopes that Chen Zu will not make an exception.

It's a pity that Chen Zu didn't accept it.

"I didn't accept it......

Chu Jiao, who had an honest and honest face, thought secretly in his heart.

He was not surprised by Chen Zu's refusal, after all, the fourteen cottages on the east side of Yingshan Mountain were relatively close to each other's strength at first, but in the past year, due to various reasons, the Black Tiger Village has become stronger and stronger, which can be called a peerless ride.

In this regard, Chu Jiao sent someone to inquire secretly, and it seemed to be related to a person called 'Zhou Hu' - it seems that it was after Zhou Hu defected to Yang Tong's command that all kinds of changes appeared in the Black Tiger Village that were different from ordinary bandits.

However, Chen Zu's cottage is not far behind, since Yang Tong killed Xu He, Yu Rong, Yuan Xu, Chen Zu quickly took over the territory of the three villages, and became the only Ying mountain thief in Runan County, and his strength is also growing day by day, which can be called Yang Tong first, Chen Zu second.

In this case, of course, Chen Zu would not be willing to defect to Yang Tong, even if the strength of the Black Tiger Village has skyrocketed now because of the addition of their seven cottages.

The celebration banquet of the day, although there were some accidents, but on the whole it was still very satisfying, like Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng, Zhang Feng, Ma Hong and other original Qizhai owners, were very satisfied with the promise made by Yang Tong in public during the banquet.

If there is anyone with a bad complexion, there is only Chen Zu, the 'only outsider'.

After the banquet was over, Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng, Zhang Feng, and Ma Hong each found the old people of Black Tiger Village to get closer, such as Guo Da, Chen Mo, Wang Qing, Niu Heng, etc., but Chen Zu left alone and returned to his residence.

After returning to the house where he lived, Chen Zu's henchmen couldn't help but reprimand angrily: "This Yang Tonghao is despicable!" Taking advantage of the danger of others, force the rest of the seven villages to join his village, knowing this, we can also send people to persuade the other seven families. ”

Chen Zu kept his face calm and frowned silently.

In all fairness, he didn't expect Yang Tong to do that, he just didn't expect Yang Tong to annex the remaining seven cottages so quickly, he originally thought that no matter how shameless Yang Tong was, he would wait for the Kunyang officers and soldiers to be repelled before mentioning this matter.

Now, under the persuasion of Liu Heimu, the remaining seven cottages have all turned to the Black Tiger Village, which makes the power of the Black Tiger Village stronger than before.

Even though Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng and others lost some manpower in this crusade of officers and soldiers, the Black Tiger Village still absorbed a considerable number of villagers, making the number of people in the Black Tiger Village already more than the number of his Chen Zu's cottages, almost about three times.

This made Chen Zu faintly feel a little uneasy.

Although he Chen Zu does not learn and has no skills, but he also knows the truth that others are allowed to sleep next to the couch, in the past, Yang Tong did not have the strength to annex the rest of the cottages, but now as today, the place and people are on his side, Chen Zu never believes that Yang Tong will always be on an equal footing with him in the future.

In fact, during today's banquet, Yang Tong and Liu Heimu sang and wanted him to defect to Black Tiger Village, which also fully proved his inference.

『…… just annexed the rest of the seven villages, so you can't wait to annex my Chen Zu?"

Taking a sip of water, Chen Zu frowned and thought about countermeasures.

At this time, there was a henchman beside him who said unhappily: "Boss, since the Black Tiger Village has recruited the rest of the Qizhai people, presumably they are enough to repel the officers and soldiers, we might as well go back to the cottage and let them and the officers and soldiers lose both." ”

Chen Zu frowned slightly.

In fact, he also felt that his subordinates were right, knowing that Yang Tong would most likely attack them in the future, so why should he help Black Tiger Village today? Isn't it the best choice to lead the brothers back to their own cottage and sit back and watch the Black Tiger Village and the Kunyang officers and soldiers lose both?

But after thinking about it, Chen Zu vetoed the idea.

In today's banquet, although Yang Tong and Liu Heimu sang and wanted to force him to join the Black Tiger Village, it was only a verbal attempt after all, if he Chen Zu was unwilling, he could refuse, no one could say anything about this matter, but if he Chen Zu took all the brothers to abandon the Black Tiger Village and return to his own cottage at this moment, ignoring the fact that the Kunyang officers and soldiers were about to attack the Black Tiger Village, it would be tantamount to betraying the original alliance of Zhuzhai, so that Yang Tong would be more famous to attack him, just like Cai Ying at the beginning.

I believe that when the time comes, Chu Jiao, who has just defected to the Black Tiger Village, and the other seven village owners...... The original owner of the village will never speak for him.

Don't think that bandits have no rules and norms, and bandits also hate traitors.

"Needless to say!"

Interrupting the persuasion of the two henchmen beside him, Chen Zu said in a deep voice: "After the crisis of Black Tiger Village is over, we will go back to our own cottage!" ”

Although the left and right henchmen are unwilling, but their own boss has already made such a decision, they can only accept it.

At the same time, Ishihara and Yang Kang, the two catchers under Ma Gai who were responsible for leading the crowd to attack Zhuzhai, finally found Feng Xing's cottage.

It's a pity that Feng Xing and his gang have already defected to the Black Tiger Village, and all the food, wealth, and women in the cottage have been taken away, leaving only some bulky and worthless utensils and an empty cottage.

The county officials under his command temporarily settled in this cottage, and Ishihara discussed with Yang Dare to catch the head: "Yang Zhutou, we have searched in the mountains for half a month and attacked several cottages...... At least I think that most of these fish that slipped through the net went to Black Tiger Village, and it would be useless for you and me to stay in the mountains, so it would be better to go back to the county lieutenant first. ”

"Brother is right, let's go back to camp first."

Yang dared to agree.

Speaking of which, Yang Dang is a veteran head catcher, and Shi Principle was born as a ranger, and he was promoted to head catcher by Ma Gai not long ago, so it stands to reason that Yang Dare will not listen to Shi Yuan's opinion.

In terms of the reason, it is nothing more than Ishihara's contribution to their attack into the mountains, it can almost be said that this time they were able to achieve such unprecedented results, leveling several cottages in one fell swoop, and also killing one of the bandits' thief leader Sun Yi, all thanks to Ishihara's command, it is really worthy of being a ranger who has fought with the rebels in Jiangxia, whether it is a sneak attack or an ambush, it is easy to come.

Two days later, Ishihara and Yang Dang returned to Magai's camp with their county guards.

I still remember that when they set off a while ago, Ma Gai specially selected the elite among the two hundred county soldiers, village warriors, and rangers, and today all the people returned, of which more than 160 people were alive, and more than 30 people turned into corpses.

But despite the casualties, the morale of the team was unusually high, after all, they broke through several bandits' stockades, rescued nearly a hundred poor women, and seized dozens of boxes of wealth and countless grains - unfortunately they were short of manpower, and they could not bring them out of the mountains, so they had to set them on fire.

After Ishihara and Yang Kang's report, Ma Gai praised the two of them, which made Ishihara and Yang Kang quite happy.

Happy, Ishihara Masase said to Ma Gai: "County Lieutenant, although we have successfully destroyed several cottages this time, there are still many fish that have slipped through the net, as said on the next day, I believe that those bandits have now defected to the Black Tiger Village, and the county lieutenant should immediately attack the Black Tiger Village, if this group of thieves is allowed to do so, the future will be endless." ”

"Hmm."

Ma Gai frowned and nodded, seemingly convinced.

That night, he personally wrote a good news and sent it to the county seat to hand it over to the county commander Liu Bi.

Immediately, he lay on the sleeper in the tent with his hands on his pillows.

Ishihara is right, at the moment when the rest of the fish that have slipped through the net have defected to the Black Tiger Village, the Black Tiger Village must not be tolerated, otherwise, the threat of the Black Tiger Village in the future will far exceed that of the previous Ying bandits.

And he also has the opportunity to sweep away Yang Tong and his gang in the Black Tiger Village for Kunyang County in one fell swoop, as long as Yang Tong deliberately abandons the cottage and sends someone to bite it and kill them all.

Only in this way, he will pay a heavy price.