Margai betrayed?

When Guo Da said that sentence, Zhao Yu thought about the possibility of this matter again.

But he still felt that the confession signed by Ma Gai was still very binding.

Some people may think that Ma Gai was threatened when he signed the confession that day, even if Heihuzhai published the confession to the public, Ma Gai can also explain this, explaining that he signed the confession admitting that he secretly communicated with Heihuzhai because he was forced to be helpless and had no choice, and maybe the court and the people would forgive him because of this.

In reality, however, this is not possible.

Because Ma Gai is a county lieutenant, he is the number one person in charge of anti-theft in the county, and he represents 'justice' in concept, so he is not allowed to have anything to do with the bandits who are 'evil', as long as he signs the confession, regardless of whether the people will sympathize with it or not, but the court will never forgive, lest other court officials follow suit.

Therefore, once it is known by the imperial court, Ma Gai will be disgraced and imprisoned, and at worst, he will be directly regarded as an accomplice of the thief and questioned, unless Ma Gai has a strong backer behind him and can settle the matter for him.

But for the details of Ma Gai, Zhao Yu and Guo Da had inquired before deciding to force Ma Gai to surrender, Ma Gai is a native of Kunyang, born in the Ma family in the county, although his family is not small, but it is far from being big, and it is not enough to settle this matter for Ma Gai.

What's more, they haven't let Ma Gai do anything against his conscience so far, so it stands to reason that Ma Gai will not take the risk of betraying them.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yu shook his head and said, "It should be...... Not. ”

Guo Da opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly caught a glimpse of Jingnu coming out of the house, and immediately closed his mouth.

Under his gaze, Jingnu walked outside the house and said to Zhao Yu and Guo Da with a smile: "Brother, I'm going to the room, can you talk to Brother Guo Da in the house?" ”

Guo Da smiled and praised a few words, and from the side, Zhao Yu also invited Guo Da into the house after seeing Jingnu walking away.

At this time, there were no irrelevant people in the house, Guo Da had no worries, frowned and continued the topic with Zhao Yu: "I also think that the person surnamed Ma may not have that guts, but things do deviate from your original plan......"

Indeed, according to Zhao Yu and Guo Da's plan, Ma Gai sent officers and soldiers to attack the cottages of Zhang Feng, Ma Hong, Sun Yi and others, not so much an attack as a drive, and in disguise drove Zhang Feng, Ma Hong, Sun Yi and others who had lost their nest to the Black Tiger Village, and secretly helped the Black Tiger Village to absorb these bandits.

But now Ma Gai is good, and he attacked the cottage of Zhang Feng and Ma Hong at once, killing all the thieves who stayed in the cottage, and also set up an ambush to ambush Sun Yi, who tried to return to his cottage, and killed him in one fell swoop.

This was clearly contrary to the instructions given to Ma Gai in the cave that day.

To put it bluntly, although Ma Gai did not dare to openly resist the order given to him by the Black Tiger Village, in private, he was doing his best to sabotage the intentions of Yang Tong, Zhao Yu, and Guo Da, and kill the remaining thieves in Bazhai as much as possible, so that the Black Tiger Village could not recruit more people.

It's no wonder that Guo Da said angrily that Ma Gai had betrayed them.

After thinking about it, Zhao Yu asked Guo Dadao: "What is the situation in the village now?" ”

Guo Da exhaled and said in a deep voice: "After Zhang Feng and Ma Hong fled back this morning, except for Chen Zu, the rest of the villages were panicked, everyone was in danger, and the boss had no choice, so he let them go back to the cottage...... Now in the village, Chen Zu and his people are still there, and the rest are only Zhang Feng and Ma Hong. After a pause, he added: "The boss is quite angry and has ordered me to come and discuss with you to see how this matter should be handled." ”

"How? What else can be done? ”

Zhao Yu smiled and said: "The one surnamed Ma, I can roughly guess his thoughts, he doesn't dare to resist us on the surface, but his conscience and duty make him unwilling to be used by us, so that there is an unprecedented giant in his Kunyang County, so to a certain extent, he disobeys our orders and tries to kill the rest of the people in Bazhai, so that we can't absorb more manpower...... All I can say about this is that his loyalty is commendable, but unfortunately it was in vain. …… In time, only my Black Tiger Village family is left in the east of Yingshan, as long as the banner of my Black Tiger Village does not fall, there will inevitably be desperate people in the future, and they will continue to defect to us, how much can he stop? ”

"Hmm."

Hearing Zhao Yu's words, Guo Dashen nodded approvingly.

Immediately, he asked, "Ah Hu, do you think you should teach Ma Gai a lesson?" The boss deliberately sent someone to cut off one of his wife's hands......"

Hearing this, Zhao Yu's eyelids jumped a few times unconsciously, and he said quietly: "That will only backfire." …… I am not surprised that Ma Gai made an attempt to resist us, after all, this man is an upright person, he can't accept that he is in the same league as thieves, and the best way to deal with such a person is to break his faith, make him realize that he has no point in resisting us, and then slowly, use wealth and other things to corrupt him, and finally make him surrender. On the other hand, if he sends someone to hurt his family, it will only fuel his hatred for us, and it will not be good if he entrusts his wife and children to others, and invites the county officials to come in with him with the determination to lose his reputation at the cost of his own life. …… Of course, warnings still have to be warned, just find a severed finger to scare him afterwards, there is no need to really send someone to cut off one of his wife's hands. ”

"Hmm."

Guo Da nodded slightly.

Although there is a little deviation in the strategy of 'merging Bazhai', but on the whole it is not much worse, no, Zhang Feng and Ma Hong have lost the cottage, if they don't want to be savages in the mountains and forests, then they can only choose to defect to the Black Tiger Village.

On the seventh day of the seventh month, Ma Gai tried to attack the Black Tiger Village.

When the hundreds of officers and soldiers under his command assembled at the foot of the mountain, even Yang Tong was a little nervous, because he was not as sure as Zhao Yu, and he was not sure if Ma Gai was still under his control.

Therefore, when Ma Gai was preparing to attack the mountain, Yang Tong was also a little panicked in his heart, and he didn't know whether he should immediately abandon the old village and flee to the new village.

He was swelling day by day a while ago, as if he had been beaten back to his original form all of a sudden, he could no longer care about the unhappiness with Zhao Yu, and immediately summoned Zhao Yu to ask for countermeasures.

This incident made Zhao Yu secretly sneer.

The color is strong and inward, and Li Lingzhi is dizzy, this is the master of Yang Dazhai!

It is undeniable that with the growing growth of his Black Tiger Village a while ago, this Yang Tong has indeed undergone some changes, and it has become different from the ordinary little thief, but unfortunately, although there are good changes in this Yang Tong, more are negative.

For example, compared to the growing ambition, but lacking the corresponding skills and the city, there will only be two moves back and forth, one move to show good envelopment, and the other move to force and threaten.

Not to mention that Zhao Yu can't be evened, even the contradiction between Niu Heng and Liu Heimu can't be settled.

Of course, sneering in private is a sneer, but on the surface, Zhao Yu still has to show respect for this big village master, after all, the current Black Tiger Village is still Yang Tong's master.

Therefore, Zhao Yu comforted Yang Dao: "Don't worry, the master of the big village, although Na Ma Gai may have some personal ideas, he doesn't dare to really fight against the master of the big village." …… Look at the past few days, he could have tried to attack my Black Tiger Village at night, but he didn't do that, which is enough to prove that he doesn't want to tear his face with the owner of the big village. Therefore, I think that his attack on the mountain is just a feint, and we only need a slight counterattack, and he will inevitably retreat. ”

Probably because Zhao Yu had not made a mistake in judgment so far, Yang Tong did not doubt Zhao Yu's judgment this time, so under Zhao Yu's persuasion, he gave up and immediately fled to the top of the mountain, preparing to fight the officers and soldiers in the old village.

At this time, Wu Sheng, Chu Jiao, Feng Xing, and Liu Mao had already left the Black Tiger Village with their respective bandits, except for Zhang Feng and Ma Hong, who defected to the Black Tiger Village because they had nowhere to go, only Chen Zu was still 'helping' Yang Tong.

Regarding the matter of helping Yang Tong, the thieves under Chen Zu also discussed with Chen Zu: "Boss, except for Zhang Feng and Ma Hong, there is nowhere to go, and they take people to the Black Tiger Village, and the other villages are scattered, so we are still here...... Have you really made up your mind to help Yang Tong? ”

"Let's see what happens." Chen Zu said to the thieves under him: "If the Black Tiger Village is destined to be unsaved, let's go back to the cottage, there is no need to bury Yang Tong; But if the Black Tiger Village can still block the officers and soldiers, let's help him...... After all, he has a good location in the cottage and loses the 'caravan advantage', which is a pity. ”

Listening to his words, you can know that Chen Zu is just watching the battle situation for the time being, and he has never thought of fighting everything for the Black Tiger Village.

Of course, he was not obligated to do so.

However, just as Zhao Yu judged, Ma Gai's attack on the Black Tiger Village this time was just a tentative feint, when the officers and soldiers sent up the mountain were blocked by Yang Tong, Chen Mo, Wang Qing, Niu Heng, Liu Heimu, Chen Zu and others, and it was difficult to break through the cottage for a while, Ma Gai did not hesitate to give the order to retreat.

And for two or three days after that, there was no movement.

On the other side, Ishihara, Yang Kang and others broke the cottages of Wu Sheng and Feng Xing in the past few days, and Wu Sheng and Feng Xing saw that their respective cottages could not be defended, so they could only take their brothers to the Black Tiger Village.

Subsequently, following Wu Sheng and Feng Xing, the cottage of Chu Jiao and his gang was also attacked, although Chu Jiao and his gang repelled the attack of a group of officers and soldiers, but Chu Jiao, Chu Yan and his son were not happy.

Because they found that there were too many officers and soldiers flocking to them.

In addition to the large number of people, most of these officers and soldiers seem to be county guards in the county seat, equipped with crossbows that are not common on weekdays, and when they encounter these bandits, those officers and soldiers basically greet them with crossbow arrows first, and Chu Jiao's gang has lost manpower in the past few days, and they are basically killed by crossbow arrows.

"It seems that Ma Gai has learned that Zhuzhai helped Black Tiger Village last time, so he decided to solve Zhuzhai first this time......

In the case that he couldn't resist, Chu Jiao gritted his teeth and made a decision, gave up the cottage, and led the brothers to defect to the Black Tiger Village.

On the other side, although Feng Xing and his gang were temporarily attacked by officers and soldiers, seeing that the rest of the cottages were swept away by officers and soldiers one by one, he was so frightened that he decided to give up the cottage and report to the Black Tiger Village to keep warm.

As of 19 July, there were only two thieves left on the eastern side of Yingshan Mountain, Chen Zu and Yang Tong.