"PS: I fell asleep last night when I was entangled in the excessive plot, and I can't help but say sorry to the book friends who are waiting for more. As for my book friends who say that I have one change every day, let's talk and look at my conscience, I'm just lazy to score chapters, if you count the number of words, I'm worth two or three changes from some authors."

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On the morning of the fifth day of the seventh month, when the siege plan failed, Huang Ben, Gao Chun, and Ma Gai could only lead the officers and soldiers to return to Yingshan again to search for traces of the remnants of the Black Tiger Village in the deep mountains, but unfortunately, they searched for a whole day and did not find any trace of the remnants of the Black Tiger Village.

Seeing this situation, Huang Ben said wistfully when discussing countermeasures with Gao Chun and Ma Gai: "It seems that it is really going west, towards Luyang and Liangxian. ”

Hearing this, Gao Chun and Ma Gai had their own thoughts.

The next day, that is, on the sixth day of the seventh month, Huang Ben, Gao Chun, and Ma Gai led the officers and soldiers back to the main camp.

At this time, Zhang Jing had already packed his bags and waited for Huang Ben, Gao Chun, and Ma Gai to return.

He wasn't going to say goodbye to the three of them, but he wanted to know the results of the three of them chasing the Black Tiger Village group to see if the three of them could catch the conspirator of the Black Tiger Village.

But facts have proved that Zhang Jing's previous judgment was correct, Huang Ben, Gao Chun, and Ma Gai were busy for two days and two nights, but they didn't even catch the tail of the Black Tiger Village group, and they were played around by the other party's 'open fire strategy'.

After learning the result from Huang Ben's mouth, Zhang Jing didn't say anything, took out two letters and handed them to Huang Ben, and entrusted: "These two letters, please ask Huang County Lieutenant to hand them over on your behalf, one for Lu Kuang of the Luye Freemasonry, and one for Mrs. Mao." ”

After that, he ignored Huang Ben, who looked hesitant, and Gao Chun and Ma Gai, who had even more strange faces, and left the main camp with Li Ying and other guards with a light hum, and went straight to Liangcheng.

After all, the Black Tiger Village group has fled into the deep mountains, as if the tiger has entered the deep mountains and the fish have returned to the rivers and seas, not to mention the thieves and soldiers in Kunyang, Yexian, and Runan, even if he transfers the army under his command, he may not be able to find the traces of those Black Tiger Village Yu Kou in the hundreds of miles of Yingshan, in this case, what is he still doing when he stays here and wastes his time?

Just like Li Cheng said, it seems that this kind of thief suppression is not the duty of a general like him, so let Kunyang, Yexian, and Runan counties have a headache for themselves.

In addition to sneering, Zhang Jing also carefully analyzed the breakthrough plan of Yu Kou of Black Tiger Village.

After learning the whole process, of course he could guess that the Black Tiger Village Yu Kou deliberately lit the torches and extinguished the torches several times before, just to make Ishihara and the others make a misjudgment that they were trying to escape to the north and to Runan County, and even ambushed Ishihara and his gang for this reason, and when Ishihara and Huang Ben, Gao Chun, Ma Gai and others had almost determined the misjudgment of 'the remnants of the Black Tiger Village to break through to Runan', it was convenient to extinguish the torches again.

However, when they extinguished the torches this time, they unexpectedly changed the direction of the breakthrough, but poor Ishihara, Huang Ben, Gao Chun, and Ma Gai didn't know, and they stupidly continued to pursue north, but those Black Tiger Village Yu Kou slipped out of their noses.

In Zhang Jing's opinion, the biggest responsibility that night lay with Ishihara, because his misjudgment greatly affected the judgment of Huang Ben, Gao Chun, and Ma Gai, but Zhang Jing also knew that this could not be blamed on Ishihara, after all, the trick on the other side was indeed very clever, and even he couldn't help but applaud it.

"It's a pity that such talents fall into the grass."

On the way out, Zhang Jing looked back at the old site of the main village of Black Tiger Village, and let out a sigh of emotion.

In fact, he was very interested in the plotter of the Black Tiger Village, after all, the other party defeated him Zhang Jing......

Yes, in the game of the battle of Xiangcun, it was indeed him Zhang Jing who lost, and the other party saw through his trap and went the opposite way, not only using the facts as evidence to protect the internal response of Ma Gai, the black tiger village, so that Zhang Jing could no longer identify Ma Gai, but also severely damaged the people and horses of Gao Chun, the county lieutenant of Ye County, under his nose, which made Gao Chun's attitude towards Zhang Jing change greatly, so that he became a general in the court, and after this incident, he was squeezed out by three county lieutenants.

All of this is thanks to the mastermind of the Black Tiger Village.

Of course, although the taste of losing was not pleasant, Zhang Jing did not hate the other party because of this, on the contrary, he was very interested in the schemer, and even hoped that such talents could be caught in his army and used by him.

It's a pity that Huang Ben, Gao Chun, and Ma Gai failed to let him get his wish in the end.

In general, Zhang Jing is relatively open-minded, but in comparison, his guard Li Cheng is angry about this.

Li Cheng said to Zhang Jing: "General, we are kind enough to help him suppress the thief, but Huang Ben, Gao Chun, and Ma Gai dare to join forces to exclude you, not to mention, that Ma Gai is still suspected to be the internal response of the Black Tiger Village, so let's just let it go?" ”

"What do you want?" Zhang Jing asked Li Yingdao with a smile.

Li Cheng said in a deep voice: "We can teach them a lesson......

Hearing this, Zhang Jing shook his head with a smile and said: "That Gao Chun, but the county lieutenant promoted by Mao Gong, even if it is for the sake of Mao Gong and Old Lady Mao's face, I can't blame him, not to mention that he is not wrong, if it is my subordinates who have suffered heavy losses due to lack of support from friendly troops, I will also turn my face, in comparison, Gao Chun's attitude is still good, if it were me, I would have beaten the other party down." As for Huang Ben, it can't be blamed, he is sandwiched between Gao Chun, Ma Gai and us, and he is also quite embarrassed. ”

"What about Margai?" Li Cheng said in a deep voice: "This person is the internal response of the Black Tiger Village. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Jing pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Although this is my judgment, you also know that we have no evidence to prove this...... Let's do this first, if that Ma Gai is really the internal response of the Black Tiger Village, and in the future, he will follow the Yu Kou of the Black Tiger Village to do evil, and sooner or later he will be recognized. In contrast, I care more about Liangcheng's side now......"

A few days ago, the guards he sent to Liangcheng sent back the latest news about Liangcheng.

He and Li Cheng are not mistaken, the county lieutenant of Liang County, or the more popular lieutenant, is indeed Xu Lian, and he is still Xu Lian, but for some reason, Liang Cheng added a 'ministry captain', and the person who received this official position was precisely that Tong Yan.

Why did Liang Cheng set up a 'Ministry Captain'? ’

The so-called Ministry Captain, that is, the Commander of other departments, generally only in the border counties where the harassment of foreign invaders is serious will set up such an official position, such as Yanmen County, which is well known to the world, when the harassment of foreign Kou is serious, there may be many places attacked in one day, and a Metropolitan Lieutenant cannot cope with it at all, so in the case of having a Metropolitan Lieutenant, Yanmen County also has a Provincial Lieutenant, or even multiple Lieutenants, to deal with the problem of foreign harassment.

But this is in the border county, and in the county in the country, one lieutenant is usually enough to control, so what is the purpose of setting up another lieutenant?

After thinking about it, Zhang Jing decided to go to Liangcheng to find out.

Zhang Jing's departure made Ma Gai really relieved.

I have to say that he is really afraid of this General Zhang Jingzhang, he thinks that he has not shown any flaws during this time, but Zhang Jing can see through at a glance that he is the internal response of the Black Tiger Village.

Fortunately, with Gao Chun's disguised help to him, he finally sent this General Zhang away.

However, how does the matter of Black Tiger Village end?

After Zhang Jing left, Ma Gai had some discussions with Huang Ben and Gao Chun.

Now that the remaining Kou of Black Tiger Village had fled, there was no point in the officers and soldiers of the three counties continuing to stay here, so Huang Ben and Gao Chun returned to Runan and Yexian with their respective officers and soldiers.

And Ma Gai also led his officers and soldiers back to Kunyang County.

Before leaving, Huang Ben handed over the two letters that Zhang Jing asked him to convey, and said, "General Zhang probably can't pull his face and ask you, you can hand it over for him." By the way, you go back and remind Luyang, I guess that Yu Kou of Black Tiger Village should have gone to Luyang and Liang County. ”

"Hmm." Gao Chun nodded.

Two days later, Gao Chun led the few remaining officers and soldiers back to Ye County, and personally handed over the two letters to Mrs. Mao and Lu Kuang of the Luye Freemasonry.

Mrs. Mao was very happy to read Zhang Jing's letter, nodded and praised: "What a polite young man." ”

In contrast, Lu Kuang of the Luye Freemasonry was also very happy, after all, he had gained a lot from promoting the suppression of thieves in the three counties this time, not only did he pull out the nail of the Black Tiger Village, but even the thief leader of the Black Tiger Village, Yang Tong, died, although some Yu Kou escaped into the depths of Yingshan.

After delivering these two letters, Gao Chun personally went to Luyang and had a drink with Ding Wu, the lieutenant of Luyang County.

Gao Chun and Ding Wu, that is also an old acquaintance.

Especially in the past few years, in the environment of 'Lu Ye Gongji', Gao Chun and Ding Wu naturally became more familiar, and they went to the banquet of the Hou Mansion in Luyang Township together many times.

When Gao Chun informed Ding Wu of the speculation that Yu Kou of Black Tiger Village had most likely fled to Luyang County, Ding Wu laughed, as if he didn't care.

While pouring wine for Gao Chun, he teased: "You three, it's really useless, 17,800 people went to encircle and suppress a group of hundreds of thieves, not to mention more than half of the casualties, and actually let the other party escape two or three hundred people?" ”

In view of the fact that they have been friends for many years, Gao Chun was not annoyed, but retorted with embarrassment: "You don't want to underestimate those thieves, these thieves are not ordinary......"

Ding Wu interrupted Gao Chun's words with a smile, and said with a smile while holding the wine bowl: "Have you been to those towns in our Luyang to see?" If you had seen it, you would not doubt my words. I'm not a Kunyang ...... Luyang."

I am afraid that only Gao Chun, who is the county lieutenant of Ye County, can understand this.

At that time, tens of thousands of refugees poured into Yexian and Luyang in batches from Wannan and Wanbei, which once led to a sharp increase in the population of the two counties, serious fluctuations in the price of rice and grain, and even the refugees once caused riots in the two counties.

In the case of the imperial court's delay in responding to this, Zhao Jing, the marquis of Luyang Township, came up with the method of 'work for relief', and united the governments of Luyang and Yexian to stabilize the flow of refugees.

The so-called crisis is both dangerous and opportunity, and this wave of refugees is also the same for Luyang.

After the wave of refugees, the population of Luyang county increased by nearly 40%, and the surplus labor force made it possible for Luyang County to hire labor at a low price to carry out various internal affairs.

In this environment, the population of the townships under Luyang County is far more than that of ordinary counties, especially in the special townships with work sites, such as Zheng Township, which is bounded by the ditch that is still being dug, Zheng Township in the west and Xintun in the east, with a combined population of more than 1,000 people, and more than half of them are young and strong.

Therefore, as Gao Chun said, there may be a group of thieves with a scale of two or three hundred people fleeing to the territory of Luyang, and Ding Wu is not panicked at all.

Because the townships under his Luyang County are densely populated, if there are thieves who don't have long eyes and run to attack a village like Zheng Township, they may not need Ding Wu to lead the officers and soldiers in the county to rescue, and those townships will have enough manpower to repel those bandits, or even capture them.

However, due to Gao Chun's repeated reminders, Ding Wu finally said that he would take people to all parts of the county to search for the traces of the bandits.

A few days later, that is, around mid-July, Zhao Yu led Yu Kou of Black Tiger Village across Yingshan Mountain and came to the junction of Luyang and Liang County on the west side of Yingshan.

There is no way, the roads in the mountains are difficult to travel, and there are many women and children, so the speed of Zhao Yu's group is naturally far less than that of Gao Chun.

At this time, the food carried has already been eaten, and the top priority is to find a place to settle as soon as possible, and then find a way to get food.

Except for Jingnu, Guo Da is the only one who knows Zhao Yu's life experience, and knows that Luyang County is Zhao Yu's hometown, so he doesn't want to be in Zhao Yu's hometown.

Therefore, when Zhao Yu discussed countermeasures with the leaders, he suggested: "Going down the mountain directly to loot is easy to attract the attention of Luyang County. …… We can look around and see if we have any of our peers. ”

Although Chen Mo, Chu Jiao and others felt very strange about Guo Da's statement, they did not object, after all, Guo Da's consideration was not unreasonable.

Of course, Zhao Yu could guess Guo Da's good intentions, and he would not hesitate on such a thing as black eating black, he was just worried that things were not as simple as Guo Da thought.

You must know that there are not so many bandits in Luyang.

Now where they are located, that is, the west mountain of Yingshan, the road at the foot of the west side of the mountain, is the 'Rulu channel', that is, the 'Ruyang-Liangxian-Luyang' channel, when the Rushui counties transported money and grain to Luyang County, it was this road.

It is precisely because this road is the closest road from Rushui counties to Luyang, therefore, in order to prevent nearby bandits from robbing the money and grain transported to Luyang by Rushui counties, Ding Wu intensified his efforts to crack down on the bandits and beat away all the nearby bandits - as long as they dared to take the lead at that time, they were all beaten by this Ding Du Lieutenant, and one was found and one was exterminated.

After accepting those refugees, some of them were young and strong; And if the food is tight, simply ask the Luyang Township Marquis Mansion for help, and the Luyang Township Marquis Mansion is very supportive of the action against the bandits.

Under the suppression of Ding Wu, the thieves around Luyang could hardly survive, and either fled to the east mountain of Yingshan, that is, the area of Kunyang and Runan, or moved north to the Rushui counties to cause chaos.

Therefore, it is far more difficult to find a den of thieves in this area than it is to find a mountain village.

No, Chen Mo, Chu Jiao, Zhang Feng and others searched for a whole day or two, but they didn't find their peers' nests nearby, but found a small mountain village with about 100 houses.

After learning about this, Guo Da was dumbfounded.

It's no wonder, after all, Guo Da, like Yang Tong, are both people from Kunyang County, and they have never been to Luyang County, how do you know the situation in Luyang County?

"What can I do?"

Dumbfounded, Guo Da and Zhao Yu discussed privately.

As Guo Da guessed, subjectively Zhao Yu did not want to persecute the people in his hometown, but the problem was that he now had more than 200 people under his command to feed.

After some hesitation, Zhao Yu finally decided to seize the mountain village, because according to the results of Chen Mo and others' investigation, although there were more than 100 houses in that mountain village, most of them were vacant, and only about 20 households lived, which was simply the best place for Zhao Yu and others to live at present.

On that day, he took Chen Mo, Niu Heng, Chu Yan and dozens of other thieves to the vicinity of the mountain village.

Guo Da, who questioned whether he wanted to be with him, repeatedly told these people before the action: "Try not to kill people." ”

Chen Mo, Niu Heng, Chu Yan and others all felt very strange when they heard it, but they didn't ask anything, after all, these three people are not murderous people, if they can achieve their goals without killing people, then they will naturally not kill people.

There are only twenty or thirty households in that mountain village, where is the opponent of Yu Kou in Black Tiger Village, it is almost just a stick of incense, Chen Mo and the others beat down the dozen or so men who stayed behind and occupied this mountain village.

What should we do with these twenty or thirty mountain people?

Zhao Yu thought about this for a while.

Directly released, that will definitely not work, after all, they released these mountain people, these mountain people must have gone directly to the county to report to the official, and it is guaranteed that tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, Ding Wu, the county lieutenant of Luyang County, will bring people to kill him.

In all fairness, the county lieutenant Ding had a good relationship with him Zhao Yu back then, but now, Zhao Yu didn't dare to guarantee it.

If there were other options, Zhao Yu didn't want to reveal his identity, lest the news spread and startle the snake.

After thinking about it, he decided to have a good talk with the head of this mountain village.

In order to prevent the other party from recognizing him, Zhao Yu asked Jingnu to weave a mask out of hay to cover her face.

Seeing Zhao Yu's dress, Chen Mo, Niu Heng, and Chu Yan all felt very strange.

Niu Heng immediately asked, "Ah Hu, what are you doing?" ”

Zhao Yu explained: "I am too young to convince the public, so I cover it with a mask so that people don't know my exact age, so that I can more easily deter others." ”

Hearing this, Niu Heng suddenly realized, and gave a thumbs up to praise Zhao Yu for his cleverness: "This method is good, it is worthy of being a tiger." ”

On the side, Chen Mo and Chu Yan showed strange looks.

Even, Chu Yan couldn't help but mutter: "If you are mistaken for a dwarf because of this, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing?" ”

Hearing this guy's muttering, Jing Nu, who was standing beside Zhao Yu, hurriedly covered her mouth with her hands, and it was very hard to hold back her laughter, and Chen Mo and Guo Da on the side also used fake coughs to cover up their emotions of wanting to laugh.

In this regard, Zhao Yu couldn't help but roll his eyes.

There's no way, if you're mistaken for it, the key is that your appearance still has to be hidden, after all, this is already the ground of Luyang, God knows how many people can recognize him?

A moment later, after Zhao Yu put on his ridiculous-looking hay mask, Niu Heng brought the head of the mountain village over.

The head of this mountain village is called Yu Chang, a native of Caiyang County, Nanyang County, and the group of refugees who fled to Luyang that year, but unlike other refugees who were blocked outside the county to seek acceptance, Yu Chang, who was born as a hunter, took his family up the mountain at that time and continued to hunt for a living.

At first, there were only a few households, and then gradually grew to a dozen, dozens, and even at the most, there were hundreds of households in the village.

But then Luyang County gradually stabilized, and because it was difficult to obtain prey stably, the people who had gathered in the mountain villages moved down the mountain one after another and went to various work sites, which led to a lot of vacant houses in the mountain villages.

After understanding the specific situation, Zhao Yu deliberately said in a thick voice to Chang: "We are thieves on the eastern side of Yingshan Mountain, temporarily relocated here for some reason, and live temporarily in your village, as long as you are honest and obedient, I can guarantee that no one will be harmed." ”

Because he deliberately spoke in a rough voice, and there were Chen Mo, Chu Yan, Niu Heng, and Guo Da standing around him, Yu Chang didn't notice anything wrong, and asked stubbornly, "Really?" Your Majesty, can you really guarantee that no one will be injured? ”

"Absolutely!"

Zhao Yu solemnly made a promise: "The premise is that you are obedient and obedient, if you secretly report to the officials and attract officers and soldiers, then don't blame me for being unkind." ”

"No, no, no." That Yu Chang swore a promise.

After reaching an agreement with Yu Chang, Zhao Yu immediately sent someone to inform Chen Zu, Chu Jiao and others, and asked them to bring the rest of the people to this mountain village.

The next day, when he saw Chen Zu, Chu Jiao and others leading more than 200 people to this mountain village, Yu Chang was also startled.

After all, in his impression, there are dozens of bandits on the scale of a few hundred people, and it is incredible that there are women and children among this group of bandits, and looking at the state of those women and children, it doesn't seem like they were taken hostage, but more like they actively followed.

"Bandit...... Do you have any family members?'

Shaking his head and leaving the cranky thoughts in his heart behind, Yu Chang hurriedly ran to see the diminutive leader of the thieves.

After learning of Yu Chang's request to see, Zhao Yu guessed the reason.

Sure enough, after seeing the leader of the thieves who was short in stature and wearing a mask again, Yu Chang was really embarrassed and said: "Great King, although the Great King is merciful and promises not to harm the villagers, the people under your command ...... It's too much, and the food rations in the village are far from enough......"

Zhao Yu interrupted him and said in a thick voice: "You don't need to worry about this matter, I will find a way." Since I promised you not to hurt anyone, I naturally won't sit back and watch you starve to death by us and others, so you don't need to worry about this. ”

"W-Oh well."

After getting Zhao Yu's promise, Yu Chang left suspiciously, leaving Zhao Yu alone in the house to ponder.

How to get enough food as soon as possible is indeed a difficult problem, and the bigger problem is that it cannot be stimulated to Luyang County.

The next day, Guo Da hurriedly came to Zhao Yu and said in a low voice: "Ah Hu, something happened, after dusk last night, that Wang Qing secretly took people away and attacked a nearby village. ”

"Isn't it for everyone to be honest?"

Zhao Yu frowned and asked, "Which village?" Who caught you? You know what? ”

Guo Da nodded and said, "I don't know." But according to Wang Qing's subordinates, there seemed to be two villages over there, and they attacked one of the villages at that time, but they didn't expect hundreds of young people to quickly pour out of that village, Wang Qing and others panicked and wanted to escape, but they were cut off by hundreds of young people from another village. As for the person who caught Wang Qing, it seems to be called Ding Lu......"

"Dinglu?"

Zhao Yu frowned, and then he nodded.

"I know where."