At the junction of Kunyang and Dingling, there is a village called 'Jiuhe Village', about half a month ago, a group of green forest thieves from the south captured the village.

The leader of this gang of green forest thieves is named Chao Leopard, born in Yiyang, Changsha, and was once a well-known local bandit leader, and was later recruited by the 'New Chu Army' in Changsha County, that is, the 'rebel army' commonly known as the Jin people north of the river, and turned into a rebel general from the Green Forest, leading his thieves to assist the New Chu army in counterattacking the Jin Kingdom.

Just as Ishihara revealed to Zhao Yu and others at the beginning, these 'Green Forest Rebels', including Chao Leopard, have uneven strength, and there are significant differences in personal morality, some Green Forest Thieves are really trying to assist the New Chu Army that is determined to 'overthrow the Violent Jin', they try not to hurt civilians, and even negotiate with the generals of the New Chu Army to avoid this war from affecting innocent people, but most of the 'Green Forest Rebels' are actually Green Forest Thieves, killing people and setting fires, raping ** people, and doing all kinds of evil, just like this Chao Leopard gang.

Since about half a month ago, Chao Bao and his gang occupied this village called 'Jiuhe Village', this village has been subjected to seedlings, and the young people in the village were slaughtered for resisting these 'righteous soldiers' on the same day, leaving only a group of old and weak, as well as a few cowardly villagers who did not dare to resist.

And the women in the village are even more humiliated, and they are raped by Chao Leopard and his gang every day, and they can't survive or die.

Just like Zhao Yu believes, not all of Chao Leopard's nearly 400 subordinates actually follow him sincerely, and at least about 300 of them are so-called 'pseudo-thieves', that is, Chao Leopard and his party are forced to enlist in the army one after another along the way.

These people succumbed to the obscenity of the leopard, and although they pity the villagers of Jiuhe Village, they dare not speak up for them, let alone resist the leopard, so they can only numbly obey the leopard's orders in exchange for food and a chance to survive.

They will even be forced to attack innocent people at the behest of the leopard.

Over time, once these 'pseudo-thieves' gradually realize that they can no longer turn back, and completely extinguish their conscience with the emotion of breaking the jar and breaking it, these people will become real thieves and thieves.

In view of the fact that the happiness was based on the disaster in Jiuhe Village, Chao Leopard, a gang of green forest thieves, has been living a very happy life recently, drinking and having fun every day, waiting for the order to 'continue to move forward' from the rear.

The order was naturally issued by the Xinchu army, to use an ugly analogy, the green forest thief was the eagle dog next to the Xinchu army, once the master gave the order, they had to pounce fiercely on the prey.

At first glance, the status of the Green Forest Thieves is low, but in fact, the Green Forest Thieves can also get benefits, such as looting property, and then Lazhuang Ding.

In view of the acquiescence and connivance of the Xinchu army, Chao Bao gradually expanded from less than 200 men when he attacked Jiangxia County to about 400 people today—not counting the losses along the way.

As for the food and property that was snatched, it was piled up with dozens of carts, which can be said to be quite fruitful.

On the evening of 18 July, Chao Bao, as usual, drank and had fun with a group of henchmen in a large house in Jiuhe Village.

From the side, several unclothed village girls endured the sorrow in their hearts and waited.

Suddenly, a green forest thief became lustful, pulled a village girl who was scooping wine for him, and pressed her under him, causing the woman to cry out for help in panic.

However, the leaders of the Green Forest Thieves, led by Chao Leopard, were laughing, and the rest of the women who were waiting for these wicked people at this time did not dare to come to the rescue, they shrank together in fear, and watched the woman from the same village being defiled again, and couldn't bear to turn their eyes away.

They have long been desperate, and they don't know when they will be able to escape from the grasp of these wicked people.

"Boss."

At this time, a person broke into the house and looked at the leopard who was drinking with a village girl in his arms on the kang.

"What's the matter?"

Chao Leopard's face showed a little unhappiness, and his right hand, which was covered with sweat, pinched the soft place on the chest of the woman in his arms, and the poor woman's face showed obvious pain, but she didn't dare to say anything, so she could only endure it silently.

"This little girl is so pretty......

The thieves who broke in looked at the village girl in their boss's arms with some envy, and replied with their fists clenched: "Boss, just outside the village, two men on horseback came and peeked out of the village...... The brothers were about to go out of the village to catch up, but the two men soon rode away. ”

"Oh? Horseback riding? ”

Chao Leopard showed a little surprise on his face and asked, "Can you tell who it is?" ”

The thieves shook their heads and said, "Those two are dressed in the clothes of ordinary civilians, but they are riding horses and seem to be carrying weapons......

Hearing this, the leader of Chao Leopard's henchmen in the house speculated: "Big brother, it may be a spy sent by a nearby county, most of them are coming for us." ”

"Hmm."

Chao Leopard nodded approvingly.

After all, horses are quite scarce, and even the most inferior horses are not affordable by ordinary civilians, let alone better horses, since the sneaky two people came on horseback, it can be seen that they are definitely not ordinary civilians, and nine times out of ten they are the county officials of the county seat in front.

Thinking of this, he asked the henchman leader: "Quanshou, what county is it from now on?" ”

The henchman named Quan Shou replied: "Big brother, to the west of this place, there is a county seat called Ye County, I heard that it is a big county; To the north of this place, across a river, there is also a county, called Kunyang, I heard that although this county is not as good as Ye County, it is also quite rich......"

Chao Leopard nodded relievedly: "Probably the county officials of Ye County or Kunyang came to spy on the whereabouts of my righteous army......

Speaking of this, he seemed to think of something, and suddenly realized: "Oh, it's this Ye County." ”

"Boss, what Ye County?"

The thieves in the house looked at each other, not understanding what Chao Leopard meant.

Seeing this, Chao Leopard explained: "Don't you wait, when I was in Dingling County a while ago, Brother Zhang Tai took care of me in private and told me not to go to Ye County......"

Zhang Tai is one of the giants among the thieves in the green forest, and it is said that there are thousands of pseudo-thieves under his hands, Chao Leopard has a good relationship with him, and Zhang Tai also takes care of him.

Although the green forest thieves have no relationship between their superiors and subordinates, and there is no one who commands whom, but in view of Zhang Tai's care for himself, Chao Leopard does not exclude joining Zhang Tai's gang, after all, those who mix with their green forest thieves must also find a powerful boss, otherwise, not to mention that they can't take advantage of anything, maybe they will be sent by the Xinchu army as a sacrifice.

The thieves in the house all knew Zhang Tai, and when they saw Chao Leopard mention it, they asked puzzledly: "Boss, why did Brother Zhang Tai tell you not to go to Ye County?" ”

Chao Leopard smiled and said, "You don't know. …… Boss Zhang Tai told me privately that Yexian was the next county seat that the Xinchu army was preparing to capture. As you know, not only the New Chu army in Jiangxia, Changsha, and Yuzhang, but also the New Chu army in Jingzhou in the west also crossed the river to attack south, but the new Chu army did not make much progress and was ...... by the Nanyang general Wang Whatde blocked it. That Wang Hede, is the general of the Jin State with an army of 100,000, and Brother Zhang Tai told me privately that Guan Shuo is going to attack Ye County next, because Ye County is in the northeast of Nanyang County, as long as this city is defeated, my Changsha Xinchu army can go around the back of Nanyang County, and together with Jing Chu's army, launch a front and back attack on the Jin army of Wang Hede. ”

Speaking of this, he took a long breath and said in a low voice: "But Yexian is not an easy place to fight, that 'Wang 100,000' general will definitely send his army to support Yexian, which are all the regular troops of the Jin Kingdom, and we can only die in vain in the past...... This Ye County still has to rely on the Changsha army ...... Guanshuo"

The thieves in the house suddenly realized.

Immediately, one of them asked, "Big brother, if you don't go to Ye County, where are we going?" ”

"Isn't there still Kunyang?" Chao Leopard touched his chin and smiled, then turned his head and asked Quan Shou: "Quan Shou, have you sent someone to investigate?" ”

Quan Shou nodded and said: "I have sent brothers to investigate, two days ago, a brother sent back news, whether it is Ye County or Kunyang, they are all in a hurry to recruit refugees recently, I have sent people to prepare to mix in, and then there is a ...... to join forces with the outside" Speaking of this, he asked Chao Leopard and said: "That...... The brothers I sent to Ye County, and I immediately asked them to withdraw? ”

Chao Leopard thought for a while and said: "If you finally get in, you don't need to withdraw it, send someone to tell them to be smart, don't be seen by the county guards of Ye County...... As for us, you can send some more people to Kunyang. ”

He pinched the chest of the village girl next to him, and said with a smile: "These Jiangbei people, how can they not learn well, one trick should be combined with the outside, let them be planted in our hands again and again......"

Quan Shou smiled and said, "What can they do?" Just like Dingling, such a big county, there are not even a thousand county soldiers, and the county soldiers have to be recruited temporarily, and those temporarily recruited county soldiers ......"

He shook his head, a slight look of contempt on his face, probably because of the fragile strength of those temporarily recruited county officials.

Seeing this, the thieves in the house also let out a knowing smile.

That night, Chao Leopard fell asleep with two young and beautiful village girls in his arms.

In the dream, he dreamed that he followed the Xinchu army all the way to Handan, the capital of the Jin State, and killed the tyrant of the Jin State who couldn't see his appearance clearly, and he was also named a general by Guan Shuo, the general of Xinchu, because of his merits, and he was rich and rich, with a group of wives and concubines.

At the same time, Chen Mo and Wang Qing led hundreds of black tigers to lurk in the wilderness outside the nine villages, hiding their whereabouts by night.

I have to say that the newcomers who joined the Black Tiger Village were extremely nervous at the moment, only to see them lying on the ground with the bamboo poles in their hands, sometimes nervously looking at the east to see if the sun was rising; From time to time, I looked at the village in the distance, for fear of alarming the green forest thieves hiding in the village.

In comparison, their predecessors, the villagers of Black Tiger Village, behaved much more calmly, and some even followed Wang Qing's example, lying on the ground and taking a nap, in the name of recuperation.

One thing to say, dare to take a nap on the eve of the upcoming raid, and still be able to fall asleep, it can be seen that the willpower is very powerful, after all, ordinary people can't do it at all.

Of course, most of the villagers are still secretly observing their four or nine novice subordinates to see how these people look, or, to see if there are green forest thieves among them.

I don't know if it's luck, or if the green forest thieves are procrastinating, so far among the newcomers recruited by the Black Tiger Crowd, there is no spy on the Green Forest Thief - of course, even if there are spies, these spies don't dare to speak out here, after all, the old people of the Black Tiger Thieves are staring at them, as long as they make a noise, I believe they will be killed immediately.

This is the Black Tiger Thief!

Like the Green Forest Thief, he is a black tiger thief born of a bandit!

Moreover, these people are very fierce, and they even dare to rob the weapons and equipment of officers and soldiers and regular troops.

Finally, the first light appeared on the horizon.

It's finally dawning.

Seeing this, Chen Mo quietly gave an order: slowly crawl towards the village in the distance.

Under Chen Mo's order, hundreds of black tigers slowly crawled forward with weapons in their hands.

When the light of the rising sun on the horizon was enough to illuminate the earth, Chen Mo immediately gave the order to raid: "Up!" ”

At the sound of the order, more than 100 old black tigers immediately got up, and their reaction speed was comparable to that of the regular army, compared to those newcomers who had just joined, their reaction was half a beat slower.

Seeing this, Wang Qing immediately shouted: "Leave them alone! …… Above! ”

I have to say, don't look at Wang Qing's usual carelessness, he is not serious, but he is still quite keen to grasp the battle situation.

Just like at this moment, he knew very well that he must seize the lead as soon as possible to deter the green forest thieves in the village in front of him, if he made the other party react and gather a crowd to resist, then they would have to pay a great price.

So, he didn't care about the backward newcomers at all, and rushed into the village with a gang of black tiger thieves.

At this time, in the village called Jiuhe Village, not all the green forest thieves were asleep, and there were also a large number of pseudo-thieves who acted as the village guards.

However, the vigilance of these false thieves, or rather their enthusiasm, is really unsatisfactory, or they sleep by the firewood and haystacks, or sit around the campfire, and look at the houses occupied by the green forest thieves with envious and complicated looks—of course, most people envy not only those who have houses to live in.

And at this time, the black tiger thieves led by Wang Qing rushed in like a swarm.

I have to say that when I saw Wang Qing's group of people, most of the pseudo-thieves in the village hadn't reacted yet, after all, most of the black tiger thieves were also dressed as ordinary civilians, and they were all dressed in a mess under the leather armor, and the only thing that was neat was that these people had a black cloth wrapped around their foreheads.

So at first glance, when the gang rushed into the village, most of the puppet thieves did not realize that they were attacking the enemy at first, and they wondered: what are these people doing? What are they doing here?

Even, there were a few pseudo-thieves who mistakenly thought that the other party was other green forest thieves, walked a few steps forward, and greeted Wang Qing from a distance: "Brothers, where are you?" This is our Chao Leopard Chao Boss's ......"

Speaking of this, his voice stopped abruptly, because he saw the hideous looks of Wang Qing and the others.

"Kill!"

Listening to an order, Wang Qing led dozens of black tiger thieves to kill among these pseudo-thieves.

In all fairness, the number of pseudo-thieves in the village who were not assigned to the house was definitely above Wang Qing's people, and after a rough sweep, there were more than 100 people in the vicinity, but just by looking at each other, no less than 50 people were cut down to the ground, which shocked those pseudo-thieves to retreat one after another.

Seeing this, Wang Qing also realized that the combat effectiveness of the gang of pseudo-thieves on the other side was not high, and immediately shouted: "Kill the house first!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his foot and kicked open the door of a nearby room, and immediately broke in with two black tiger thieves.

Hearing a bang, the green forest thief in the house was awakened, sat up on the couch shirtless, and immediately saw Wang Qing running towards him with a hideous face, and raised the knife in his hand towards him.

"Ah——!h

With two slashes, a scream rang out in the room.

Oh, it wasn't from the Green Forest thief, because this guy had already been hacked to death by Wang Qing several times, and blood flowed all over the bed.

It was the woman on the other side of the bed who screamed, naked, splashed with the blood of the green forest thief next to her, and she covered her eyes and screamed without caring about exposing her body.

Wang Qing glanced at the woman, ignoring that she was still screaming, and raised his hand to point to the back room.

The two black tiger thieves behind him understood, lifted the curtain and broke into the back room.

Immediately, a man came from inside the house and asked, "You, who are you?" ”

I only heard the sound of a few slashes like a cutting board and meat, and a heavy object fell to the ground in the room, accompanied by the screams of another woman.

Immediately, the two black tiger thieves strode out with knives that still dripped, with blood still dripping.

Seeing this, Wang Qing was about to turn around and go out, when he saw the young woman on the couch with a surprised and frightened look on her face, and asked weakly: "You, are you the county magistrate in the county?" ”

Hearing this, the two black tiger thieves laughed, and the woman's face was full of confusion.

And at this moment, I saw Wang Qing pick up a few women's clothes from the ground, throw them at the woman, and said with a wicked smile: "That's right, Lao Tzu's surname is Wang, and he is the county pawn of Kunyang!" ”

With that, he walked out of the house without looking back.

"Wang County's ......"

As soon as she heard that it was the county magistrate of Kunyang, the fear on the woman's face gradually faded, and she saw that she held the clothes that Wang Qing threw at her chest and watched Wang Qing walk to the house stupidly, and the flush on her cheeks flew up.

Just like Wang Qing, the rest of the black tiger thieves who followed him into the village were also the first to kill the green forest thieves who lived in the house, and in the face of this group of wolf-like black tiger thieves, those green forest thieves who lived in the house couldn't resist at all in a hurry, and they were hacked to death on the couch and kang one by one, so frightened that the women who were captured by them lost their faces and screamed loudly.

By the time Chen Mo entered the village with the newcomers who had just defected to the cottage, Wang Qing and the others had already slaughtered the green forest thieves in more than 20 rooms, and even slaughtered the green forest thieves and pseudo-thieves who were trying to fight back like killing chickens and dogs, and those newcomers were dumbfounded.

This is the Black Tiger Thief?

So fierce?!

Glancing at Chen Mo, the great commander beside him who could throw a bamboo pole through the trunk of the tree, the newcomers swallowed their saliva, and finally really realized what kind of group of black tiger thieves they joined.

Not to mention them, even Xu Bai and Wang Ping, who followed Chen Mo and others into the village, were shocked by the lethality of the black tiger thieves led by Wang Qing.

Of course, they were not surprised by this, after all, that was the original strength of the Black Tiger Thief.

"Green Forest Thief, but that's it!"

Liu Tu raised the butcher's knife high to boost morale: "Little ones, kill the past and help the left commander!" ”

"Wow!"

Not to mention the old black tiger thieves, even the newcomers who had just joined were also inspired by those seniors, and rushed forward one by one with long bamboo poles in hand.

Including Xu Bai and Wang Ping.

The two of them are a group of relatively strong abilities, and they both have nine newcomers under their command, compared to fighting themselves, they know very well that the purpose of today's raid battle is to train the troops, and to motivate these new recruits.

Therefore, Xu Bai commanded the nine newcomers under his command: "Don't be afraid, pick a single person, four or five people surround one person, advance and retreat together." ”

As he was talking, suddenly three green forest thieves rushed out from behind the room in front of him.

Xu Bai's nine subordinates were startled, but they still followed Xu Bai's order and surrounded the three people with bamboo poles.

"Thorn!"

With Xu Bai's order, the nine newcomers stabbed the bamboo poles in their hands at the same time, but the poor three green forest thieves couldn't dodge at all, even if they were wearing leather armor, they were also poked out of many holes by the nine bamboo poles, and fell to the ground screaming, blood flowed all over the ground.

"Kill them."

Xu Bai would not pity these thieves who were even more tyrannical and cruel than the black tiger thief, and immediately ordered with an expressionless face.

“……”

The nine men looked at each other.

Seeing this, Xu Bai frowned and shouted, "What are you waiting for?" Do it! ”

Frightened by his order, the three newcomers were alone, and subconsciously stabbed the bamboo pole in their hands at one of them, only to hear a miserable scream, the green forest thief was stabbed into the body by three bamboo poles, and the neck was also choked with green tendons.

Immediately, there was no breath.

The other two green forest thieves were startled and begged for mercy: "Spare your life, spare your life." ”

However, Xu Bai didn't know where to go, and ordered the nine subordinates: "There are two more, do it!" ”

"Puff-"

After a few sounds, the two green forest thieves were also stabbed to death by the nine newcomers.

Looking at the three corpses on the ground, the nine newcomers looked at each other.

They used to be honest and only carry hoes to farm in the fields, but they never imagined that one day they would actually kill people, and they killed the green forest thieves they once feared like tigers and leopards.

After a moment of trance, the nine people showed different expressions on their faces, some showed uncomfortable expressions, while others showed a treacherous smile as if they had been avenged.

Seeing that the nine people under his command did not react excessively, Xu Bai nodded.

He knew that everything was difficult at the beginning, as long as he passed this level, within a few days, these nine people would gradually get used to killing people, and they would no longer be afraid of the green forest thieves who had persecuted them.

Merely......

『…… Am I raising the next batch of Black Tiger Thieves?'

Thinking about it, Xu Bai couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

Looking up at his companion Wang Ping not far away, Xu Bai felt that the latter's face also showed a complicated look.

Obviously, Wang Ping and Xu Bai probably thought of one thing.

But just like a certain black tiger thief leader said openly in the county office, in the current chaos, Kunyang is not enough to rely on the county army alone, and also needs a black tiger thief who is more ferocious than the green forest thief.

Although they have been fighting with the Black Tiger Thief for many years, if Xu Bai and Wang Ping are asked to make a choice between the Black Tiger Thief and the Green Forest Thief, then they will undoubtedly choose the Black Tiger Thief, after all, the Black Tiger Thief has that Zhou Hu in charge, at least he has a conscience, and those Green Forest Thieves may have already fed their conscience to the dogs.

Having assisted the regular army in Jiangxia against the rebels, Xu Bai knew very well what the virtues of the so-called 'Green Forest Rebels' were.

It is no exaggeration to say that compared to those green forest thieves, the black tiger thief is simply a thief with both virtue and art.

"Keep going!"

Expressionlessly stepping over the three corpses of the Green Forest Thieves, Xu Bai continued to walk towards the depths of the village with nine of his subordinates with an expressionless face.

As he could see, the Black Tiger Thieves had fully gained the upper hand, and under the siege of this gang of evil thieves, the Green Forest Thieves and the pseudo-thieves who attached to them were killed and retreated, and almost in the blink of an eye, several Green Forest Thieves or Pseudo-Thieves were slaughtered by the Black Tiger Thieves.

Recalling the tragic scenes he saw in Jiangxia County back then, and now seeing those green forest thieves being killed by the black tiger thieves, Xu Bai suddenly felt inexplicably happy, and even the corners of his mouth raised a smile.

“…… Taste my Kunyang specialty, the chop south of the river! ”

He muttered.