"PS: How do I feel, the 'Black Tiger Thief' is still more energetic than the 'Black Tiger Crowd'."

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After the war, Chen Mo ordered the casualties to be counted.

After a while, the approximate number of casualties was counted, only a few of the old brothers of the Black Tiger Thief were wounded, and no one died, while the brothers who joined were more than forty people with various degrees of injuries, nine of whom died.

On the side of the Green Forest Thieves, a total of about 150 people died in this battle, about 100 pseudo-thieves surrendered, and the rest fled in all directions.

In such a disparity in casualties, the Black Tiger Thieves cheered in oblivion.

These evil thieves who are kings and hegemons in Kunyang originally looked down on those green forest thieves who would only attack civilians, and they didn't think that they would be inferior to these miscellaneous things, and the facts also proved that their black tiger thieves had an almost one-sided advantage over the green forest thieves.

Probably worried about the spread of the idea of underestimating the enemy, Chen Mo immediately gathered the black tiger thieves under his command and reprimanded him.

In his opinion, the reason why there was such a huge disparity in casualties between the enemy and us this time was mainly because the green forest thieves did not take precautions.

And this is exactly the case, like Chao Leopard, a group of green forest thieves, followed a large number of green forest thieves and the main force of the rebel army, killing all the way to this point, everywhere they went, the county army was in a hurry, even if there was still a heart to resist, they only dared to hide in the county town and resist with the help of the city wall.

Who would have thought that there would be such a group of hard-headed guys who would actually attack them across the county border.

Therefore, Chen Mo warned his brothers: "Today's victory is only because the green forest thieves are defenseless, and it is not our ability, so don't underestimate them because of this." …… The Green Forest Thieves followed the rebel army and attacked all the way from Jiangnan County to this place, how could they be so weak? When they are prepared next time, it will be difficult for us to win with a sneak attack. ”

Hearing his words, a black tiger thief veteran said dissatisfiedly: "Why should the Great Commander increase the prestige of others and destroy his own morale? ”

Chen Mo didn't get angry when he heard this, and said with a chuckle: "Unless you can defeat the Green Forest Thief next time, I dare to believe it." ”

As soon as the words fell, the black tiger thieves below shouted one after another.

"Done! …… As long as we reward a mother-in-law, let him be a green forest thief or a red forest thief, and defeat them all. ”

"Isn't it the Green Forest Thief? Today, Lao Tzu killed five people, and he doubled his day and killed ten of them...... Then again, Commander, when will the promise be made to our mother-in-law? ”

Listening to the shouts of this group of black tiger thieves, even Chen Mo was a little speechless, because these people didn't care about the revenge of the green forest thieves at all, they only cared about the 'mother-in-law reward' promised before the war.

But think about it, for these black tiger thieves who are still fighting singles in their thirties, having the opportunity to get a daughter-in-law and continue their offspring while solving their physical needs is indeed what they are most concerned about at present.

In desperation, Chen Mo could only make a promise: "After returning to Kunyang, I will mention this matter to the Grand Commander!" ”

Hearing this, all the black tiger thieves and veterans cheered: "Long live! Long live the Grand Commander! Long live the Great Chief! ”

It has been a rule since ancient times that every battle must be rewarded, not only before the war, but also after the war, so as to ensure morale, and the black tiger thief is no exception.

Although this time it was a sneak attack, it was also a victory after all, and it was a big victory, so Chen Mo was not stingy, and immediately ordered to reward his brothers in Jiuhe Village.

Of course, it is said to be a reward, in fact, it is to pick up the wine and meat left by the green forest thieves to eat and drink, after all, there is only a little pickled meat and marinated poultry, even if it is transported back to Kunyang, it will not be of much use, it is better to use it to win people's hearts and boost morale.

This kind of celebration doesn't take much effort, after all, it has been delayed for a long time, and Chen Mo is also worried about being retaliated by the green forest thief, after all, the leader of the green forest thief called Chao Leopard has released cruel words before fleeing, although Chen Mo doesn't care, but he still has to be careful in his actions.

As for the encouragement mentioned here, in fact, it is mainly to reward those new brothers who have just killed people today, and the old brothers in the village do not need this kind of encouragement - their morale is bursting because of the 'promise to reward the mother-in-law', and Chen Mo wants to give them fire instead.

Under Chen Mo's instructions, the new villagers who participated in the raid on the Green Forest Thieves today were all given a piece of cured meat or pickled poultry, although the number was not much, at best, it was the thickness of two fingers, and they could only taste it, but for these new villagers who had not known the taste of meat for a long time, this was already an exciting reward.

After all, since the general shortage of food in the world and the promulgation of the 'ban on wine' by the imperial court, although there are still wineries that continue to brew wine despite the suffering of the people, most of the wineries have been closed, which means that wine has become a scarce thing, and it is not easy to get.

As for the pseudo-thieves who surrendered to the Black Tiger Village, these people don't have such a good treatment, not to mention that the Green Forest thieves look down on them, the Black Tiger Thieves generally look down on them, even if they are newcomers who have just joined, but even so, these people have also been given a rice ball.

"What do you want these people for?"

I saw that at the door of a room, Wang Qing, the commander of the left, was leaning against the door with a wine bowl, looking at the pseudo-thief who was diligently carrying the corpse in the distance.

After these pseudo-thieves surrendered to the Black Tiger Thieves, they became the servants of the Black Tiger Thieves, but like most of the Black Tiger Thieves, Wang Qing also looked down on this group of guys, after all, this group of people 'betrayed' the former villagers and succumbed to the help of the Green Forest Thieves, and the Black Tiger Thieves have always looked down on traitors.

"So what do you say? Kill them? ”

At this time, Chen Mo was also standing beside Wang Qing, and asked casually after hearing this.

Unexpectedly, Wang Qing, a guy who cares about human life, said indifferently: "It's just that I have killed more than 100 people, give me twenty brothers, and I will bury all the corpses for you when you drink a bowl of wine." ”

Chen Mo was so happy that he was about to speak, but he saw a village girl in the house holding a bowl of wine, and came to Wang Qing's side with a slightly red face, with a little shyness, and said crisply: "Wang Zhutou, I scooped a bowl of wine for you......"

Chen Mo and Wang Qing turned their heads to look at the village girl.

This young village girl named Ah Xiu is the innocent village girl who was rescued by Wang Qing himself from a green forest thief today.

Of course, it was said that it was rescue, but in fact, Wang Qing rushed into the house with a knife and hacked the unsuspecting green forest thief to death on the kang, and the blood of the green forest thief at that time also splashed the face of the village girl named Ah Xiu, so frightened that she covered her face and screamed.

Afterwards, when the black tiger thieves took control of the village, these women who had been abused by the green forest thieves probably volunteered to help the black tiger thieves cook rice and soju out of the psychology of repaying their gratitude, and this Ah Xiu was also one of them.

Isn't it a little too obvious?

Looking at the empty bowl in his hand, and then at the bowl with half a bowl of warm wine left in Wang Qing's hand, the corners of Chen Mo's eyes twitched.

"Thank you."

Under Chen Mo's strange gaze, he saw Wang Qing drink the wine in the bowl in one gulp, and then handed the empty bowl to Ah Xiu while replacing the full bowl from her hand.

Maybe it was the touch of her fingers when she picked up the bowl, or the wicked smile on Wang Qing's handsome face, the woman blushed, hung her head in a panic, and ran back to the fire in the house.

There was another young village girl sitting there, and when she saw her companion coming back, she leaned sideways and whispered a few words in her ear, and immediately, Ah Xiu's face became even redder, and she secretly looked at Wang Qing leaning against the door from time to time.

"Why didn't anyone greet this guy in the face......

Glancing at Wang Qing, who was leaning against the door and drinking warm wine one sip, Chen Mo glanced at the empty bowl in his hand, his face slightly tense.

As the leader of the Black Tiger Village, Chen Mo is confident that he is better than Wang Qing in all other aspects, but he is not as handsome as Wang Qing...... Although Chen Mo didn't want to admit it, the guy next to him was indeed the most handsome one in his cottage, even if it was Chen Zu, who was in second place.

Originally, Chen Mo didn't care, but at this moment, he was a little concerned......

"Bastard." He muttered quietly.

"Huh?" Wang Qing glanced at Chen Mo inexplicably.

In the distance, the former pseudo-thieves, now the servants of the Black Tiger Thieves, are still carrying the corpses of the Green Forest Thieves.

I saw that the corpses of those green forest thieves had already been stripped naked by the new pawns of the black tiger thieves - originally, the new soldiers only wanted to snatch the weapons and armor from the hands of these green forest thieves, but their actions were reprimanded by the old-timers.

The dead don't need clothes, especially these miscellaneous pieces called green forest thieves, rather than burying this group of miscellaneous people, it is better to send them to Kunyang, Kunyang needs these clothes.

As a result, the black tiger thief recruits even stripped the clothes on the corpse, so that what the black tiger thief servants were carrying at the moment was a headless, bare corpse, which made it feel oozing when they thought about it.

By the time these servants had finished disposing of the corpses, the black tiger thief's so-called celebration was almost over, so Chen Mo gave the order to prepare to evacuate.

It may have been on the side that she heard Chen Mo's order, and the woman named Ah Xiu plucked up the courage to come to Chen Mo and asked as if she was in trouble: "Chen, Commander Chen, we ...... What will happen to us? ”

Different from the shyness in the face of Wang Qingshi, at this moment, her face was full of panic, she wrung the corners of her clothes with her hands and begged: "Most of the sisters in the village, most of their relatives were killed by those thieves, we have nowhere to go, can we ...... Can you take us with you? I can do laundry, cook, raise chickens, ducks, pigs, I can go to the field, I can do everything......"

Chen Mo pondered for a moment.

In all fairness, he originally planned to kill these innocent women who had been abused by the Green Forest Thieves, although not all of these women were from this village, and some of them were taken captive by the Green Forest Thieves from other villages, but as the Ah Xiu in front of him said, most of the relatives of these poor women were killed by the Green Forest Thieves, and if they were ignored, it would be difficult for them to survive, so at least they should be brought to Kunyang.

But unfortunately, Kunyang County will not accept these women who have experienced ups and downs, after all, Kunyang County has to keep food to accept people who are helpful in defending the city.

Thinking of this, Chen Mo said: "When I evacuate, I will take you to Kunyang County, but whether you can enter the city depends on the decision of the Kunyang County Ya, or you can also choose to defect to my Black Tiger Village......

"Black Tiger...... Stockade? ”

Ah Xiu was taken aback, and asked in a low voice with a little timidity, "Great Commander, ...... Are you a bandit? ”

Chen Mo didn't deny it, nodded and said with relief: "Yes, we are indeed bandits, but my Black Tiger Village will not do anything to kill civilians indiscriminately, and my Black Tiger Village has obtained the permission of the Kunyang County Ya to resist the Green Forest Thieves together......"

Hearing Chen Mo admit it in person, Ah Xiu had a little panic on his face, but he was probably quite calm, after all, so far, the bandits outside with black scarves on their heads have not done anything out of the ordinary, at most they have been verbally teasing them - compared to the brutal Green Forest Thieves, these bandits are simply not like bandits.

The question is......

She secretly glanced at Wang Qing beside her, and summoned up the courage to ask shyly, "That...... Then will I be able to see Wang Zhutou in the future? ”

Glancing at Wang Qing, who couldn't help laughing, Chen Mo said angrily: "What Wang catches the head?" This guy is also from my Black Tiger Village, and he is Chen's subordinate! ”

With that, he glanced at the girl meaningfully, and moved his hand behind his back and holding an empty bowl slightly.

It's a pity that the girl didn't have that kind of city, and she didn't understand Chen Mo's hints, so she saw a little surprise on her face, but she quickly suppressed it, bit her lip and said, "That's ...... I am willing to go to Black Tiger Village. ”

Probably because her performance was too obvious, Wang Qing looked at her a few times with interest, and saw that her pretty face was crimson, and she was quite a bit of a loss.

A moment later, under Ah Xiu's persuasion, the surviving young women in the village all expressed their willingness to defect to the Black Tiger Village.

After learning of this, the old soldiers of the black tiger thief cheered again, after all, the young women in the village are really not enough for them.

About half an hour later, Chen Mo and Wang Qing led the Black Tiger Thieves, led the servants who threw themselves at them, took those lucky women, and slowly marched towards Kunyang County with dozens of carts of property stolen from the Green Forest Thieves.

As for the nine-household village, Chen Mo discussed with Wang Qing for a while, but in the end it was not burned down.

They felt that as long as they kept this empty village, they would inevitably have green forest thieves move in one day, and then their black tiger thieves would be able to loot those green forest thieves again and again.

Yes, although he didn't want his subordinates to become arrogant and complacent, but in general, even Chen Mo couldn't look down on those green forest thieves.

In his opinion, those so-called green forest thieves can only train their troops in Black Tiger Village at best - the real threat in Kunyang County is still the main force of the rebel army that claims to be hundreds of thousands.

Probably before dusk in the evening, Chen Mo, Wang Qing and his party returned to Kunyang.

Long before they returned to Kunyang, they had already sent someone to notify Kunyang County first, informing the county government of the good news of the 'great victory in the first battle', and informing them of the leader of the Black Tiger Village, Zhao Yu.

Although he won by sneak attack, the record of breaking more than 400 enemies, killing nearly 200 enemies, and only killing and wounding dozens of people made Kunyang County Ya quite excited.

Li Xu, the county magistrate, said energetically: "Although I have implemented 'wartime control' in Kunyang, I can make an exception once and take in those innocent women......"

Zhao Yu understood what this county man meant as soon as he heard it, and said with a smile: "The county prince wants those women to tell the people in the city about the hardships they have experienced again and again? ”

Hearing Zhao Yu say this, not to mention that Ma Gai, Shi Yuan, Chen Gui and others all felt that the proposal was not considered, even Li Xu himself felt it, and immediately said, "Well, that's not what I mean......

Zhao Yu didn't delve into it, and said conclusively: "How vicious the green forest thieves are, you only need to look at the refugees outside the city to know, and there is no need to let those women dictate to add to their pain." What is needed in the city right now is confidence, the confidence to repel the Green Forest Thieves and the rebels! …… This time, Chen Mo and the others will bring the heads of nearly two hundred green forest thieves, and hang all of them on the city wall to warn the green forest thieves, if they still plan to invade my Kunyang County, then these people are their examples! ”

Hearing this, Ishihara and Chen Gui also nodded.

Although they still have a great deal of guilt against the leader of the black tiger thieves in front of them, in this matter, the two of them are very supportive of the former: for the gang of green forest thieves, there is no need to pay any attention to morality!

In contrast, it was the county magistrate Liu Bi and the county seat Li Xu who were a little worried about this: "Will it anger the green forest thieves and be retaliated by their madness?" ”

Zhao Yu said calmly: "If this is the case, there will be more and more thieves hanging on my Kunyang City!" ”

Seeing that Zhao Yu was so calm, everyone in the room nodded convincingly.

Seeing this scene, Ishihara and Chen Gui couldn't help but glance at each other.

Although they are reluctant, they must admit that compared with the slightly weaker county commander Liu Bi and the county commander Li Xu, today's Kunyang really needs a strong and strategic 'leader' like Zhou Hu, otherwise, Kunyang may not be able to survive this disaster.

On the same day, Shi Yuan and Chen Gui took a group of county soldiers to hand over the heads of nearly 200 green forest thieves from the black tiger thieves under Chen Mo and Wang Qing, tied these heads with ropes, and hung them all outside the city wall.

After learning of the incident, Wu Zhi, the county governor of Xiping County, who volunteered to stay outside the city with the refugees, also showed some surprise at this.

『Kunyang...... Are you planning to fight the rebels and the Green Forest Thieves?'

No wonder Wu Zhi would think so, after all, hanging the head is undoubtedly a provocation to the green forest thief.

And if the Green Forest Thieves come, will the main force of the rebel army be far away?

Thinking of this, Wu Zhi suddenly felt a little unable to understand this Kunyang County.

In addition to Wu Zhi and the others, the green forest thieves and spies among the refugees outside the mixed city at this time also saw those heads hanging high and were surprised.

This Kunyang County, not only dare to kill their people, but also dare to hang their heads?

On the same day, many green forest thieves secretly left, and each reported to their green forest thieves, among them, there was Chao Leopard.

The next day, on July 20, Chao Leopard finally learned where the 'Black Turban Pawn' who attacked him yesterday came from.

He gritted his teeth and scolded: "Kunyang County...... Okay, Lao Tzu originally planned to lead people to attack Kunyang County, but he never thought that Kunyang County would dare to send someone to attack Lao Tzu first, okay, good, this revenge will not be avenged, I swear not to be a person! ”

From the side, his henchman Quan Shou suggested: "Big brother, it is a county town after all, we are short of manpower at the moment, so it is better to ask Boss Zhang Tai for help...... As long as Boss Zhang Tai is willing to come forward, we will kill more than a dozen righteous troops to Kunyang together, without the army of Xinchu, we can also set foot in Kunyang and kill those bastards with black scarves on their heads! ”

"Well, that's it!"

Chao Leopard nodded, and immediately took the remaining brothers to the boss he recognized, Zhang Tai, that is, the leader of the Green Forest Thieves in this direction.

A day later, Chao Leopard took a few henchmen and took the lead in riding a horse to a village called 'Fengzhuang' in Dingling County.

It was a large village with hundreds of households, but now, it has been occupied by Zhang Tai, the leader of the green forest thieves, and the villagers who originally lived here, but all those who were unwilling to obey these green forest thieves were also slaughtered, and the women in the village, whether they were married or not, whether they had given birth to children, if they did not have the courage to commit suicide, they were all humiliated by the green forest thieves 'Zhang Tai's gang'.

Similar to the situation of Chao Bao and his gang in Jiuhu Village, Zhang Tai and his gang also acted in this village, enjoying themselves while waiting for the rebel army to stabilize the county seat of Dingling, and then continue to attack.

On this day, Chao Leopard came to this Fengzhuang with a group of henchmen to express his hope to see the big leader Zhang Tai to the green forest thieves on duty.

Most of the green forest thieves under Zhang Tai knew Chao Leopard, and knew that the latter was the 'young junior' that his boss wanted to woo, so he naturally didn't dare to make things difficult, and immediately told Zhang Tai about it.

"Oh, the leopard is here? Have you come to give me a gift? ”

After learning of Chao Leopard's arrival, Zhang Tai was very surprised and immediately sent someone to invite Chao Leopard into the house.

After seeing Chao Leopard, Zhang Tai greeted with a smile: "Ah Leopard, I am not happy in your village, why did you suddenly think of coming to see my eldest brother?" ”

"Don't mention it."

Chao Leopard said with annoyance: "The village I occupied was attacked by the county army in Kunyang, and the old brother alone killed nearly seventy or eighty people, and the looted property, women, and village were all robbed by those bastards with black scarves......

"What? Kunyang's county army? ”

Zhang Tai was slightly stunned, and also seemed quite surprised, after all, the county and county troops they met along the way only dared to shrink on the city wall to defend, so Kunyang County's courage was great......

"Is it the county army of Kunyang County? It can't be Ye County, right? ”

Zhang Taihu asked.

He had a channel to get the news, so he learned in advance that Ye County was a hard stubble, because Wang Shangde, the general of Nanyang County, would not let Ye County behind him be broken by their rebel army, once Ye County was breached, Wang Shangde would be attacked by the two rebel armies.

Therefore, in Zhang Tai's view, Ye County, who will inevitably get the help of Wang Shangde's troops, has the confidence to take the initiative to attack and kill his Green Forest Righteous Army.

As for Kunyang...... What does Kunyang rely on?

Facing Zhang Tai's confusion, Chao Leopard shook his head and said: "No, big brother, it's from Kunyang County, I got the news from the brothers this morning, that damn Kunyang people, and hung my brother's head on the city wall......"

Speaking of this, he exhaled viciously, clenched his fists and said to Zhang Tai: "This revenge can't be avenged!" The younger brother came to see the eldest brother today, hoping that the eldest brother could pull the younger brother and borrow my hands to take revenge on Kunyang. ”

"Oh? Hang the heads of your brothers on the walls? ”

Zhang Tai listened quietly, thinking in his heart.

He wanted to become the leader of the Green Forest Rebel Army, so that he could discuss interests with the generals of the Xinchu army in the future, so naturally he would not turn a blind eye to Kunyang's measures - otherwise how would he convince the public in the future? How can you get Chao Leopard, the leader of these small groups of green forest thieves, to obey him?

And now, Kunyang County has made deeds that insult his 'righteous army', so he must make Kunyang pay a heavy price.

"Ah Leopard, don't worry, you and your brothers are all compatriots of my rebel army, humiliating you and others is humiliating my rebel army. Since the stupid people of Kunyang dare to do such an act, as you say, they must pay the price! ”

"Thank you, big brother!"

Chao Leopard let out a long sigh of relief.

He knew that with Zhang Tai's promise, the county of Kunyang would be stable.

Damn Kunyang County, especially those guys with black scarves on their heads, will eventually die without a place to be buried!