The battle continued, and the two sides entered a stalemate. Whether it was at the city gate or at the breach in the city wall, the city defenders kept the bandits out of the city and prevented them from taking a single step.

As the war progressed, more and more recruits slowly overcame their fears. They picked up the knives and guns in their hands and rushed towards the bandits.

Zhang Kainiu in the back saw that the bandits under his command had not rushed into the county seat for so long. With a wave of his hand, he asked all the remaining bandits to join the siege battle. He also picked up the long knife in his hand and rushed towards the gap in the city wall.

When he saw that Chimur was killing his brothers, he was immediately furious, raised his long knife and rushed towards Chimur.

Chi Mu'er saw that these bandits were vulnerable and was depressed, when he saw that someone took the initiative to find him, he was not angry but happy, raised the long hammer in his hand and fought with Zhang Kainiu.

Zhang Kainiu used to be Zheng Guo's general, and his kung fu was quite good, which is why he was able to recover this group of bandits and become their leader.

But after he fought with Chimur, he found that the martial arts he was proud of couldn't compare to this reckless man.

Zhang Kainiu's heart couldn't help but be secretly surprised, it seems that the young prince of Fuguo still has some outstanding features, and he can actually attract such a fierce general to his command.

After more than a dozen rounds of fighting, Zhang Kainiu was obviously at a disadvantage, and several bandits next to him saw this. hurriedly came up and besieged Chimur with Zhang Kainiu, which made Zhang Kainiu stabilize the situation.

The battle lasted more than an hour, and a number of people died on both sides, but the bandits never made it to the edge of the city.

At this time, the sound of gongs suddenly came from the rear of the bandits, and all the bandits in the Phoenix Cottage heard this gong sound, and immediately left the opponent who was fighting, turned around and retreated.

These bandits come and go as fast as they come. After a while, all of them were evacuated from the city wall, leaving only a pool of blood on the city wall, and the corpses of some bandits and soldiers.

"Strategist, why did you beat the drum of retreating?" Zhang Kainiu returned to the back and asked the scholar Zhang Xiu strangely.

"Big brother! We can't fight like this, the brothers are too wounded and wounded. In this way, even if we capture the county seat of Wuxian, we will suffer heavy losses, and it will be cheap, those guys on the hills," said scholar Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Kai Niu looked at the bandits behind him, and found that in this short period of time, the bandits had lost more than 200 people. He suddenly came to his senses: "Thank you to the military advisor, the owner of this village only cares about killing the enemy and does not observe the situation on the field." ”

"Brothers! Today the situation is not in our favor. We'll retreat to the mountains first, and we'll pick up these guys who don't know how to lift up the next day. Zhang Kainiu gave an order and left the county seat of Wu County with his bandits.

Seeing that the bandits suddenly stopped fighting and all evacuated the surrounding areas of the county seat, the soldiers on the city wall suddenly became happy and cheered in unison. Finally repelled the bandits and kept their homeland, which was a battle they had been proud of for several years.

In this battle, the bandits of Phoenix Mountain left more than a hundred corpses. And the soldiers defending the city in Wu County actually killed more than 200 people, and more than 100 people were injured, which made Yang Yun and others feel distressed. However, in order for these recruits to grow, these costs must be paid.

Yang Yun ordered that the wounded soldiers should be treated as soon as possible, and for those who died in battle, sufficient pensions should be given in time.

Although this battle repelled the bandits, everyone knows that for Wu County, the bigger test is still to come. Therefore, everyone did not become complacent because they repelled the bandits. On the contrary, the pace of repairing the walls and training soldiers was accelerated.

The good thing about this battle is that the robes paid with their lives and blood. Let these county soldiers in Wu County understand the lack of their own strength while losing their brothers.

Now, they understand that if they want to save their lives on the battlefield, then they have to train harder. Therefore, in the various trainings organized by Liu Yuan later, these soldiers participated in all kinds of training very hard as if they were a different person.

Finally repelled the bandits. It also gives confidence to all the people of Wu County. The message they happily passed on to each other had a hint of expectation for the new King Wu.

In this case, more people devoted themselves to the repair of the city walls. There are also some strong men. Sign up to join the ranks of the county soldiers. Liu Yuan selected some people from the young and middle-aged people who signed up to supplement the county soldiers, making the number of county soldiers reach about 3,500.

"Judging from this bandit siege, there are still many bandit spies in our county. They can directly find the weakest part of our city wall, and if we don't find these guys, we will have great difficulties if we want to defend the county seat. In a room behind the county office, Guo Long said to Yang Yun and others.

"Yes! During the battle, Brother Ju also called me to pay attention to which soldiers were suspicious, and I had arranged for a list of these people to be recorded. The next step is to check out which spies are arranged by the bandits in the county. Liu Yuan said.

"Now while we continue to strengthen the county's protection capacity, the most important task is to find out the people in the county who collude with bandits. Liu Yuan, you are in charge of the suspicious people in the county soldiers, Zhong Xiancheng, you and the two girls Yanqin and Liu Yue will work together to find out who may be colluding with the bandits among the people, especially those merchants and landlords in the city. This time it was Ju Yuanguang who spoke.

With the continuous efforts of Liu Yuan, Zhong Wenrui and others, everyone found out more than 30 people and soldiers in the city who had colluded with bandits in the county seat.

Yang Yun asked these people to take them to the square of the county seat, and showed evidence of their contact with the bandits in Wu County in front of the people in the county seat.

Seeing that these people actually colluded with bandits and harmed the interests of the people in the city. These ordinary people in Wu County were indignant one by one, they angrily accused these people of their behavior, and some even picked up eggs and vegetables and threw them at these bandits.

After the people vented their anger in their hearts, Yang Yun ordered all these bandits to be beheaded for public display. His move was praised by the people in the city, which made Yang Yun's reputation in Wu County improve a lot.

"Big brother, this time we can't attack the county seat of Wuxian, and we can't steal chickens and rice. We must avenge this vengeance. In the righteous hall on Phoenix Mountain, a small leader said loudly to everyone in the hall.

"Yes, yes, we must take revenge."

"Damn, for so many years, we have only been the officers and soldiers, but I didn't expect to be beaten by the officers and soldiers today, it's really embarrassing, this breath must be earned."

The bandits shouted one by one, venting the anger in their hearts.

"Ahem!" The open cow who was sitting on the upper hand coughed lightly. Everyone in the hall immediately fell silent, and they all turned their heads to look at Zhang Kainiu.

"Yes, we have to fight for this breath, but we also have to sum it up, what should we do now?" Zhang Kai Niu swept the people in the Juyi Hall, and said slowly.

Most of the bandits in Phoenix Mountain are people who don't have much culture and only know how to do things. Seeing that Zhang Kainiu wanted everyone to come up with ideas, everyone couldn't help but turn their heads to Zhang Xiu, because in their hearts, this Xiucai was the most resourceful one in the cottage.

Seeing that everyone's eyes fell on him, Zhang Xiu slowly stood up and said loudly to everyone. "Now if we want to take revenge, we have to speed up our actions, if we wait, they have completed all the city walls in the county, and the soldiers are almost trained, we will have a lot of trouble if we want to take Wu County."

"However, if we only rely on our cottage, even if the brothers try their best to take the county seat, we will lose a lot. In this way, we will not have the strength to suppress the other hills. So this time, we must contact the bandits in other mountains, and each cottage will send troops together to take this county seat. After Zhang Xiu finished speaking, he looked at the people in the hall and saw that everyone was listening carefully to his speech, he was very satisfied, so he continued.

"When the time comes, we will pay attention to preserving our strength, and when their strength is greatly damaged, will they dare to compete with us for things in the county?" Zhang Xiu has the title of "poisoner" among the bandits in Wu County, and Yin people are his forte.

Zhang Xiu, as the military advisor of Phoenix Mountain, won the trust of Zhang Kainiu. When he said this, he opened the arms of the cow, and his hands were, and letters were sent to the various mountains around Wu County.

All this that happened in the cottage, everyone in Yang Yun's forces, who had been staying in the county town, didn't know at all. Having finally defeated the incoming bandits, they are now busy training their soldiers to repair the city walls every day, and they can finally free up their hands and feet to pay attention to other things.

But Yang Yun didn't expect that their series of actions would be so unsmooth.

In the territory of Wu County, the common people live very poorly, and the most important thing to think about all day is how to fill their stomachs, and they have no time to do other things. Therefore, there are relatively few scholars in Wu County, and finally there are some people who have a slightly better family background and are successful in reading, but they have left Wu County to develop in other places.

There were very few scholars who stayed in Wu County, but these few scholars were unwilling to accept the recruitment of Yang Yun and others. Serving the county government, or serving His Royal Highness King Wu, they are not interested.

The county magistrate Guo Long and the county Cheng Zhong Wenrui personally visited some well-known scholars in Wu County and asked them to go out of the mountain and take up positions in the county government, but they were all rejected without exception.

In addition, Yang Yun noticed that there were relatively few traditional Chinese medicine halls in Wuxian County, and in line with the principle of alleviating the suffering of the common people, he asked a few doctors to be brought from the capital. Two medical centers were opened in the county seat of Wu County.

But what Yang Yun didn't expect was that there were very few people who came to the hospital to see a doctor. The people who are sick in the county seat of Wu County do not like to go to the hospital to see a doctor. When a family member is sick, they usually go to a Taoist temple or temple in the county town and ask a Taoist priest or monk to help them eliminate disasters and enlighten them.

In the hearts of the people of Wu County, the gods are their highest spiritual sustenance. Compared with the imperial court and the county government, the gods are the most reliable.

Therefore, in the county seat of Wu County, the Taoist priests of the Taoist temple and the monks of the temple are the people with the highest status.