At night, the originally noisy Black Tiger Village gradually became quieter, but in this quiet atmosphere, it revealed a bit weird.

In one of the houses, a woman who had put her child to sleep stood at the window, uneasily peeking out of the window.

The man in the house noticed the woman's actions and said angrily, "What are you looking at?" If someone in the village really wants to leave, what use can you do here? ”

The man's name is Bao Jin, he is an old man in the Yang Tong period, he had his share in following Yang Tong down the mountain to loot, and then Yang Tong died, he defected to Guo Da, although he has not mixed with the small leader, but it is enough to be called the backbone of the village, at least he will not be messed up because of the shouts of the officers and soldiers to persuade him to surrender.

And the woman leaning against the window and peeking out of the house at this moment was the one he came down the mountain to loot back then, and it was a woman from the nearby Xu Township, let's call it Xu's.

Probably after getting along for a long time, Bao Jin and Xu gradually developed feelings for each other, as if they were a couple with a general secular relationship, and Xu also gave birth to a son to Bao Xin.

"Am I in a hurry?"

Xu Shi said worriedly: "Originally, the number of people in the village was not as large as the officers and soldiers under the mountain, if someone secretly escaped, wouldn't there be no way to keep the cottage?" ”

"If you can't keep it, you can't keep it."

Bao Jin said with a smile: "This is called the old not going, the new not coming, didn't the big leader say, if we can't keep it, we will withdraw, and when the limelight is over, we will come back, even if there are 5,000 or 6,000 officers and soldiers under the mountain, what can we do?" We are not young children who have never been surrounded and suppressed. ”

When he said this, Bao Jin's tone was a little proud.

Also, his Black Tiger Village has been encircled and suppressed four times without being destroyed, and even caused heavy losses to the officers and soldiers and troops who came to encircle and suppress it many times, which is really rare in the world.

"Having said that...... Xu Shi hesitated for a moment, then frowned and said, "I'd better clean up, so as not to pull anything down when I evacuate." ”

As she spoke, she walked to the vertical cabinet in the room, pulled out the drawers, and sorted out the wealth and jewelry in it.

There were not many of them, because she didn't dare to ask for some 'stained' blood-stained things, they were all taken by men to exchange for wine and eat, and only some innocent private things were kept by her.

Glancing at the woman's unproductive appearance, Bao Jin shook his head, got up and walked to the window, and glanced at the silent outside of the house.

In the evening, he learned that it was not uncommon for the small leaders in the village to invite their brothers to drink, and he could probably guess the meaning.

However, he did not participate, because he knew very well that only those who were not determined would be dragged by those small leaders to drink, lest those people secretly descend the mountain and surrender the officers and soldiers in a panic.

may have noticed the man's actions, and the woman took the opportunity to bury herself and said: "You still say me, don't you remember it yourself?" ”

"Less nonsense."

Bao Jin replied angrily, so angry that the woman gave him a fierce look.

As Bao Xin learned, tonight, the small leaders in the cottage invariably invited people to drink, such as Liu Tu, at this moment in Liu Tu's house, there were more than 20 black tigers drinking and talking, including Xu Bai and Wang Ping.

After drinking, Liu Tu smug about the results of his acquaintance with the Great Commander Chen Mo back then, boasting that he didn't know Chen Mo at that time, and he heard the boos of the more than 20 black tigers present.

If you don't fight with Commander Chen Mo, you don't know each other, are you being beaten?

For Chen Mo's strength, the villagers in the cottage are too clear, after all, they have all been trained by Chen Mo, and even studied with Chen Mo one-on-one, and even have good strength like Liu Tu, Xu Bai, and Wang Ping, and have been selected by Chen Mo many times as the object of demonstration moves.

All in all, there is no less sin.

Under the boos of the brothers, Liu Tu was not annoyed, but he bent his neck to defend himself, boasting that his strength was at least half that of Chen Mo.

However, Xu Bai thought that Liu Tu would not turn his face, and even felt that Liu Tu was just deliberately doing so, intending to get closer to the brothers present.

Thanks to Liu Tu's blessing, the atmosphere in the room was very harmonious, as if everyone had forgotten the 'covenant to enter the night', until a guy who couldn't understand the atmosphere inadvertently broke it.

"Boss, the pony monkey hasn't come back, he's been out to pee for a while......"

An uninteresting fellow said meaninglessly.

Suddenly, the atmosphere in the room, which had been full of laughter, suddenly froze, and everyone's expressions and manners became treacherous, some people were silent and bowed their heads to drink, while others secretly watched the expressions of others.

Rao is Liu Tu, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

After a long time, Liu Tu nodded, and said with a little melancholy: "Everyone has their own ambitions, so you don't have to force them." …… It's okay to avoid arguments, and if anyone here wants to leave, just follow the example of the pony monkey...... bar. ”

This provocative remark made the atmosphere in the room drop to a low point, and everyone in the room looked at the wine in the bowl in front of them, and lost interest for a while.

During this period, Xu Bai and Wang Ping glanced at each other.

They knew very well that the Black Tiger Village was facing the biggest crisis in history, so they were also hesitating about what to choose, whether to continue to mix in the Black Tiger Thieves and wait for an opportunity to find out the details of the leader Zhou Hu, or stop and find an excuse to leave.

Just thinking about it, Xu Bai suddenly felt a urge to urinate welling up in his heart.

He quietly shifted his position and changed his sitting position, but he didn't dare to bring it up, after all, the atmosphere in the room was so bad that if he proposed to pee, he would probably be misunderstood by the others—although it wasn't too bad.

Just as the people in the house became unusually quiet, the door suddenly opened, and the bandit, known as the pony monkey, walked in with a shaking head.

Not?

More than two dozen pairs of eyes in the room looked at the pony monkey in unison.

"Why, what?"

As soon as he closed the door and was about to return to his seat, the pony monkey suddenly saw everyone in the room staring at him with indescribable eyes, and couldn't help but take a step back.

"Y-Why did you go?" A black tiger member asked in surprise.

"Didn't you say it, peeing?" The pony monkey replied impatiently.

"Pee for so long?"

"You want to care?"

"Pony monkey, you can't be squatting and peeing but your legs are weak, are you?"

"I'll fuck you!"

Between everyone's laughter and scolding, the atmosphere in the room quickly picked up, and Xu Bai saw Liu Tu breathe a sigh of relief with his own eyes.

Now, it should be no problem......

Thinking of this, Xu Bai moved closer to Liu Tu and whispered, "Boss, I'll go pee." ”

"......" Liu Tu looked at Xu Bai and stopped talking, but finally nodded and didn't say anything.

In all fairness, Liu Tu did not agree with the concept of the big leader Zhao Yu, who wanted to leave, let them go? In his opinion, a person who is a copycat for one day will be a copycat person for life! Whoever dares to flee is a traitor!

But unfortunately, not only the big leader is this concept, but also Chen Mo, who he followed, has this view, so there are some words that Liu Tu can only put in his heart.

However, Liu Tu's meaning, Xu Bai roughly understood.

His operation with Wang Ping to infiltrate the Black Tiger Village was very successful, why is it very successful? Because Chen Mo and Liu Tu valued them very much, it was because he proposed to go out to pee that Liu Tu hesitated for a longer time than before.

Should you take this opportunity to leave Black Tiger Village?

Standing in the corner of the cottage wall, Xu Bai happily poured urine on the wooden wall.

By the way, it is against the rules of the village to defecate in the village, and several thatched houses have been built in the cottage, but the people in the village do not abide by this rule very much - who is willing to walk a long way in the middle of the night to pee? It can be solved nearby.

After peeing and shaking the handle, Xu Bai just stuffed things back into his pants, and was about to go back to Liu Tu's house while resting his trouser ropes, when suddenly he saw two black shadows sneakily coming to the wall and whispering, as if they were discussing how to get out over the wall.

“……”

Xu Bai was silent, and stood in place and watched for a moment.

Under his secret peeping, one of them helped the other person climb over the wooden wall, but when the latter person was about to climb over the wall to get out, the person suddenly looked at Xu Bai for some reason.

Although he was quite far away and couldn't see what the person on the other side looked like, it was not difficult for Xu Bai to guess that the person must be full of shame and confusion at the moment.

And the fact was just as Xu Bai expected, under his gaze, the man in the distance quickly turned around and fled back to the village.

Shaking his head slightly, Xu Bai did not make any comments on this.

But he can conclude that the black tiger thieves who 'escaped' tonight are only a few after all, and the vast majority of the black tiger thieves should still stay, the reason is that on the one hand, the officers and soldiers under the mountain have not been able to force the black tiger thieves to a dead end, and the other reason is that the leader of the black tiger thieves, Zhou Hu.

On the way back to Liu Tuna's house, Xu Bai recalled Zhou Hu's speech in front of the Juyi Hall today.

It was this speech that made Xu Bai have a great change in his opinion of Zhou Hu - he would never have thought that Zhou Hu, as the leader of the black tiger thieves, had always hoped to lead the villagers to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

Regardless of whether what the other party said is true or not, there is one thing that Xu Bai cannot deny, that is, after Zhou Hu replaced Yang Tong, the way of the black tiger thief has indeed changed a lot, at least this group of guys will not easily kill innocents.

In this regard, Xu Bai had a very strange idea in his heart.

Reason told him that most of the black tiger thieves were burdened with human lives, and even if the thief leader Zhou Hu had the idea of abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, he would definitely not be able to forgive, otherwise he would not be able to explain to those who had been killed by the black tiger thieves.

But at the same time, there was another voice in his heart that he couldn't describe: Why not give them a chance?

Xu Bai knew that this voice came from his feelings.

Since he mixed into the cottage before the winter last year, he lived in this thief's den like a mountain village for a period of time, and then he deeply realized that the black tiger thieves were not exactly a group of thieves who did all kinds of evil, in addition to many women and children who were willing to live here, there were also many righteous people like Chen Mo and Liu Tu who had lost their footing for a while.

Even Zhou Hu, the leader of the Black Tiger Thieves, has greatly changed Xu Bai's impression of him since today's speech.

Let's wait and see for a while...... Since he came to find out the details of that Zhou Hu, how could he easily give up halfway?

Shaking his head, Xu Bai thought to himself.

A moment later, he returned to Liu Tu's house.

The moment he pushed the door open and entered the house, he saw smiles on the faces of everyone in the room.

Liu Tu, who breathed a sigh of relief, scolded with a smile: "Xu Bai, why have you been so long?" ”

Xu Bai did not mention that he witnessed the two villagers trying to escape over the wall, and said with a smile: "Young, good kidneys." ”

Everyone in the room was stunned, and then burst into laughter.

Even Wang Ping laughed out loud with a smile on his face.

The night passed, and the commander Chen Mo summoned Liu Tu and other small leaders to count their brothers.

After counting, it was learned that overnight last night, about thirty or so Black Tigers quietly left - no, these people who left can no longer be called Black Tigers.

After silently listening to the pleadings of the little leaders, Chen Mo said in a deep voice: "Okay! That's the end of the matter, and I have something to announce. Presumably you also know that yesterday by the order of the big leader, Wang Qing and Chu Yan led people down the mountain, as for what happened, you don't have to know, when Wang Qing and Chu Yan returned to the cottage one day, you will naturally know. …… Before Wang Qing and Chu Yan returned to the cottage, everyone listened to my orders, Legui and Chu Ben, no problem, right? ”

Hearing Chen Mo's words, the little leader named Le Gui immediately clasped his fists and said, "No problem." Before the boss left, he had commanded us to obey the orders of the Great Leader and the Great Commander. ”

The young leader named Chu Ben also said: "Brother Clan has ordered, everything is subject to the big leader and the big leader. ”

Le Gui is Wang Qing's henchman, and Chu Ben is Chu Yan's brother and Chu Jiao's nephew.

Chen Mo nodded with satisfaction, and immediately ordered: "Okay, since that's the case, Legui, your people are still guarding the eastern slope; Chu Ben, your people guard the southern slope; Liu Tu, you go to the southeast slope...... Since the cobweb narrow road has not yet been built on the eastern and southern slopes, you two should be more cautious, and if the officers and men show signs of attacking the mountain, they will immediately send someone to report it, and I should come to support as appropriate. ”

"Yes!"

A small leader clenched his fists to receive orders, and his demeanor and attitude were no different from those of a soldier, obviously during this time, Chen Mo did not use the army's dogma to restrain the villagers.

After explaining the matter, Chen Mo took the lead in leaving, leaving a small group of leaders to ask Le Gui and Chu Ben for news.

They asked Le Gui first: "Le Gui, why did the left commander go?" ”

Le Gui shook his head and said: "I don't know, yesterday the big leader finished the call in front of the Juyi Hall, and then sent someone to call the boss over, when he came back, the boss was very interested, I haven't seen the boss so excited for many years." At that time, I asked him, and the boss only said that the big leader asked him to do a big thing, but as for what the big thing was, the boss didn't say it, saying that he was afraid of scaring me to death...... Eventually, the boss called out to twenty or so brothers and left. ”

So everyone asked Chu Ben again: "Chu Ben, why did the right commander go?" ”

Chu Ben was younger than Chu Yan, and with a bit of naivety, he shook his head and said: "It's similar to what Legui said, after my brother came back, he said that he was going to do a big thing, let me temporarily guard the southern slope for him, if anything happens, ask Uncle Jiao, the big commander and the big leader." ”

A small group of leaders looked at each other.

At the same time, in the Yexian military camp at the foot of the mountain, the county lieutenant Gao Chun was telling Yang Ding about last night's 'harvest'.

"My lord, as of dawn today, a total of twenty-three black tiger thieves have descended the mountain and surrendered to us."

"That's the kind of person?" Yang Ding asked with a frown, not looking very satisfied with this number.

Or some people will ask, those black tiger thieves who are not determined to flee and flee at night, why do they surrender to the Yexian army?

The reason is very simple, because yesterday Wei Chi mentioned when he shouted to persuade the Black Tiger Thief to surrender that if the original Black Tiger Thief was willing to give up resistance and go down the mountain to draw a clear line with the Black Tiger Village, as long as he ran to the camp in Ye County to 'report', he could receive 500 copper coins.

Five hundred copper coins, not too much, no less, equivalent to two months' income of an ordinary man.

The reason why Yang Ding gave this money in vain was nothing more than to know how many of them had turned their backs on Zhou Hu, so that he could order the officers and soldiers to attack the cottage - unless there were special circumstances, he did not want to use the Yingchuan army that he pretended to be 5,000 but was actually only 2,000 men.

As for the loss of some money for this, Yang Ding didn't care, after all, first, Lu Kuang, the president of the Luye Freemasonry, supported this crackdown on the thieves, and secondly, his own family background was not thin, not to mention a few thousands, tens of thousands of dollars, even if it was several times more, dozens of times, he would not care too much.

The only thing he cared about was that he didn't want to suffer too many casualties in this anti-thief operation.

From the side, Wei Dong, the old general, heard Yang Ding's question, and smiled and explained: "Turning your back on your companions, this is originally an unrighteous act, how many people are willing to be cheeky to receive the reward?" There are more than two dozen people, which is good. ”

"That's right." Yang Ding suddenly realized.

Gao Chun also nodded in support of Wei Dong's point of view, and immediately said to Yang Ding: "Those twenty or so people are now gathering outside the camp waiting for the reward to be paid......

Yang Ding suddenly met the meeting, nodded and instructed Wei Chi: "Wei Chi, you go and do it, when you send the money, ask these people if they are willing to be our guides, you can promise them that after the Black Tiger Village is broken, there will be another rich reward." ”

"Yes."

Wei Chi clenched his fists and left.

Immediately, when Wei Chi went to the camp to distribute the reward, Yang Ding also took Wei Dong, Gao Chun and others to peep from afar.

As they peeked, they suddenly heard someone from the group of black tiger thieves outside the camp scolding: "I'll fuck you!" Who are you? ”

Hearing the scolding from afar, Yang Ding couldn't help but be surprised.

From the side, Gao Chun said with a little regret: "It's a pity, it seems that they don't want to be a guide for me......"

Sure enough, after a while, Wei Chi walked up to Yang Ding and the others, shook his head and said, "Young master, those people don't want to be guides. ”

Hearing this, Yang Ding looked at the former black tiger thieves who had gone their separate ways after receiving the bounty.

Probably sensing Yang Ding's regret, Wei Dong said with a smile: "If you don't want to, you don't want to, anyway, if it goes on like this, in a few days, at least more than half of the black tiger thieves will turn their backs on that Zhou Hu. …… Therefore, the old man suggested that the young master should consider marching troops from the east and south to surround the Black Tiger Village, lest the tiger see the opportunity and flee with the crowd that week. Ying Mountain is so big, once he leads the crowd to flee into the mountain, where can we go to find him? ”

Yang Dingding nodded and affirmed Wei Dong's suggestion: "The old man is right, let the two county lieutenants Huang Ben and Ding Wu take some of them to surround it." ”

On the same day, Yang Ding sent someone to inform Huang Ben and Ding Wu, and ordered them to lead a part of the county army to outflank the east and north sides to cut off the retreat of the black tiger thieves to escape.

If you can sit and watch the black tiger thief collapse without blood, why let the officers and soldiers of the five counties take risks?

It is undeniable that Yang Ding's point of view is correct, but he would not have thought that under his step-by-step pressing, the black tiger thief is plotting a big thing......

On the same day, when Yang Ding was reading a book in the Chinese military tent in the camp, Wang Qing, the left commander of the Black Tiger Village, had arrived in Runan County with more than 20 Black Tiger thieves.

They disguised themselves as ordinary civilians, in groups of three or five, and entered the city without any danger, and those county guards who were idle and yawning at the city gate would not have thought that a group of vicious bandits had infiltrated the city under their noses.

It's no wonder, after all, how dare ordinary bandits offend the county seat? What's more, it's what Wang Qing and the others are going to do next......

After entering the city, Wang Qing and the others immediately went straight to the county government and met near the county office.

After confirming that the number of people was correct, Wang Qing licked his lips, lifted his clothes, and pulled out two knives that he had hidden in his trouser legs.

The black tiger thieves behind him followed suit.

This group of evil criminals actually showed their weapons on the street in broad daylight, ignoring the shocked and horrified eyes of the people in the past, and went straight to the county office.

"Who are you? What are you going to do?! ”

The two county guards on duty outside the county government were shocked, although they were suspicious and afraid, they were still loyal to their duties and stepped forward to stop them, but unfortunately, they were cut down by Wang Qing in front of them.

"Leave eight people to guard the gate of the county government, and the rest follow me!"

Under the leadership of Wang Qing, eight black tiger thieves guarded the county office, and the rest followed Wang Qing straight to the party room where the county commander Liu Yi was.

During this period, some officials and county officials in the county government also saw this group of uninvited guests, and shouted and asked, "Who are you waiting for?" It can be known that this is the county government! Never wait for a place where you can be presumptuous! ”

"Noise!"

Wang Qing brushed two knives and slashed it to the ground.

Seeing this, one of the officials was shocked and scolded: "Do you still have the royal law?!" ”

"Wang Fa?" Wang Qing sneered, grabbed the man and threatened with a knife: "Liu Yi, the county commander of Runan County, where is it?" Take me there! ”

As soon as the official heard this, he knew that Wang Qing was trying to be unfavorable to his county's order, so how could he say it, he shook his head and said, "I don't know, you can kill me!" ”

"Lao Tzu doesn't kill the defenseless, get out!"

Wang Qing sneered, directly pushed the man to the side, and led the black tiger thieves to continue forward.

The scribe who was pushed away looked at the back of Wang Qing and the others leaving in a daze, and didn't react for a while.

I have to say that Wang Qing is still open to these unarmed scribes, but he is not so polite to those county guards and headhunters who rushed to stop him with weapons, only to see him brandishing double knives, and those headhunters and county guards who tried to stop him were cut down to the ground by him, and blood flowed all over the ground, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

In view of the fact that the county government is so big in total, although there is no one to guide the way, Wang Qing and the others finally broke into the county magistrate Liu Yi's house and saw the county magistrate Liu who had learned of the attack and was shivering under the desk......

"Yo, you must be Liu Yi, the county magistrate of Runan, right? …… Do you come out on your own, or am I dragging you out? ”

Squatting in front of the desk, Wang Qing thought he was kind and smiled at Liu Xianling, who was hiding underneath, and asked.

However, when Liu Yi saw the blood on his face and body, he trembled even more.

He swallowed his saliva, trembling and flattering: "This, what do you call this strong man?" Why did you take someone to offend the county government and make such a ...... Such a thing? ”

"You don't recognize me?" Wang Qing smiled evilly, grabbed Liu Yi's clothes and pulled him out: "Look clearly!" Do you recognize it? ”

Liu Yi took a closer look, and then turned ashen: "Black Tiger Thief, Wang Qing ......"

Obediently, Wang Qing showed a hearty smile on his face, but Liu Yi was shocked and angry.

He couldn't believe that a group of bandits dared to enter his county government in broad daylight to his detriment.

This group of rebellious black tiger thieves is simply going against the sky!