When the news came that the group of thieves attacked the pavilion and was surrounded and exterminated by the county soldiers and county soldiers, Mingyue had already returned to the county from Nanxiang.

He was overjoyed at first: "How many bandits have you captured?" “

"More than 30 were killed, 50 or 60 were captured, and only a few escaped."

At this time, Mingyue was a little disappointed: "So little? “

It turned out that it was Feiping's idea to recruit fugitives in that Tingyi Tun Grain, and it would be convenient for the fugitives to come and run to the nearest Tun Grain, and it would also become a bait under the noses of the bandits.

They will be a team of 100 county soldiers, stationed in a few nearby Lilu, on the one hand, you can watch the fugitives attached to the first annex, you can also stare at the pavilion, once there is a police, you can immediately reinforce, in addition, Zhao Kuo also sent dozens of cavalry in the county soldiers to Nanxiang, ready to help at any time.

Coupled with the dozens of armor soldiers hidden in the granary of the pavilion, hundreds of people were mobilized before and after, but the final result was that only more than 100 people were eliminated, compared to the thousands of thieves under Wei Yao, this number is simply not worth mentioning.

"Could it be that Wei Yao saw through my plan and deliberately let people go down the mountain to tempt?" Thinking like this, Mingyue immediately ordered that Fei Ping interrogate the captured thief, and be sure to ask what the truth on the mountain is, as well as the thief leader Wei Yao, who has not moved for so many days, what is his idea!

The red-faced thief who was wounded and captured was hard-mouthed, and he didn't say anything, but the group of thieves under his command was much easier to deal with, and with a little torture, he told him everything about the situation on the mountain and why they came to loot the pavilion.

At this point, Mingyue knew Wei Yao's plan.

"He's going to run?"

When the county officials from the wealthy families of Qi County learned about it, they all breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that they could finally let this Wei Yao leave Qi County, and they hoped that Wei Yao would take the initiative to wander around than to go up the mountain to suppress thieves.

"Rogue is more difficult to deal with than bandits." Mingyue didn't think so, according to the script he and Cai Ze envisioned, Wei Yao could go, but he couldn't take the initiative to avoid it, but he should be beaten away by the county guards, and fled in defeat, in the next five or ten years, when he thought of Qi County, he had palpitations, and he was so afraid that he didn't dare to approach......

"Now that the thieves have lost hundreds of elites, the thief leader Wei Yao wants to abandon the mountain and flee, the thieves must have different opinions and panic, this is a good opportunity to wipe out the thieves in one fell swoop!"

If you can intercept the thieves who are about to leave the mountain, you can catch them off guard.

So Mingyue gave an order, and Zhao Kuo took the county soldiers who had finished recuperating after exterminating the water thieves last month, and prepared to go to Nanxiang, cooperating with the families of Gong Zhongyin, and the county soldiers of Feiping, who were about to encircle the mountains and suppress them.

Two or three thousand people were dispatched, the battle was naturally not small, the weapons in the arsenal had to be distributed to Ding Zhuang, and the food needed for a few days had to be prepared......

……

When brought out of prison, the red-faced thief feels like a rookie dog in the hands of a butcher, to be thrown onto a chopping board and killed in full view.

That night, he led the people to attack the pavilion at night, but accidentally fell into an ambush, the county guards should have been preparing for a long time, and the cavalry from Taiyuan County had already been waiting for the rabbit for a long time, the thieves were cut off from the east, west, north and south, and were surrounded in the middle, and the county guards held spears to force them back to the pavilion from the road, and those tall cavalry rushed in front of them and divided them.

The thieves had no order, and they suddenly suffered bad luck, and suddenly lost their fighting spirit, except for the red-faced thief and a few cronies who resisted stubbornly, and everyone else quickly threw their weapons and surrendered.

"Capture the red-faced thief, reward 10,000 dollars!"

He didn't last long, and soon after the bounty was announced, he was attacked from behind with a stick, and the last thing the red-faced thief saw when he looked back was another bandit he had rescued from under the horse's hooves, looking at him with horror and guilt......

By the time he regained consciousness, he was already in Nanxiang Prison, hanging between two pillars, and the prison officer in front of him was discussing how to execute him.

No matter how painful the punishment was, the bare-faced thief gritted his teeth and refused to say a word.

But his cronies, who were all captured, were not so tough, and under the personal interrogation of a squinting fat official, they only lasted a quarter of an hour at most, and then they hurriedly confessed all the truth and truth on the mountain......

When Hihei stood in front of him, the red-faced thief opened one eye and spat bloodshot at Hipei's feet.

"No matter what means you use, Naigong will not confide in half a word!"

"What a strong man." Fei Ping was still smiling, and praised with his palm: "The thieves have all confessed, it seems that there is no need to say much." “

The red-faced thief's eyes widened and looked at this treacherous official with a Handan accent: "Then kill me!" “

"There's no hurry." Fei Ping smiled: "My son-in-law, I still need to borrow something from you." “

As if jokingly, he patted the red-faced thief on the neck: "Don't be afraid, it's not your head, it's just your reputation." “

In this way, the red-faced thief was taken out by the county guard, loaded into a prisoner car, and dragged with a group of captured thieves to the market in the center of the township, exposed to the sun and the eyes of everyone.

The crowd had been ruled by the villagers beforehand, and they all came out of their houses to watch, and the already narrow bazaar was suddenly crowded and crowded, including the villagers and the fugitives who had only recently come out of the mountains and forests, and they stared at these bandits with scattered hair and dirty, talking to each other and talking about each other.

"Who is this?"

"It is said to be a group of thieves in Sheep's Head Mountain."

"I know, that's the captain...... The leader of the thief, the red-faced thief, is said to be extremely brave and can defeat the tiger...... "The red-faced thief who spoke was still a little familiar, and seemed to be a fugitive, who had assisted him in robbing a wealthy family, and looked at him with adoring eyes.

Seeing that it was almost over, Hihei glanced at the crowd, and then announced their crimes, raising his voice and trying to make everyone hear.

"Gongzi Liannan Township people are displaced, and they pay money to buy grain from Jinyang, so that we can escort them here and distribute them to the fugitives, which is Gongzi's benevolent heart. However, the thieves did not even let go of these life-saving foods, and the leader of the thieves, Wei Yao, sent the thieves down the mountain, wanting to loot the food, so that the people would continue to suffer from freezing and starvation......"

As soon as Feiping finished speaking, a scolding rang out in the crowd.

"thief!"

"This is the life-saving ration of the mountain people, and it is also the seed for next year!"

While cursing, a stone flew out of the crowd and struck the red-faced thief, smashing a bruise on his forehead.

More stones and leaves followed, raining down on the bandits.

Compared with the arrows and spears and halberds they had experienced, these stones and vegetable leaves could not cause them substantial damage at all, but the red-faced thief was still stunned, and his heart was full of indignation.

They are different from the water thieves of Zhaoyu Qi, Wei Yao claims to be righteous thieves, rarely does things to harm the people, sometimes robs the chief, and will rescue those suffering subordinate concubines, and distribute the excess food to the poor who help them, so they can gain a foothold in Nanxiang and get the secret assistance of the people.

But now, the red-faced thief clearly sees that the fugitive who once led the way for him, went to rob the hero, and called himself "hero" is now throwing filth at him with his head!

He suddenly came to his senses, remembering what Wei Yao had said to himself when he decided to leave Sheep's Head Mountain with everyone......

No matter how they get along day and night on weekdays, once they get the promise of resuming their old lives, once they get enough benefits, those mountain people will still abandon him like a mustard!

Because after all, they are still thieves! He is a thief who may take away the wives and daughters of the people at any time and spoil their food. Over the years, even though Wei Yao used the establishment of the army to manage the thieves, and also absorbed a lot of fresh blood from the mountain people, there were still many conflicts that broke out every year because of various things.

The mountain people laughed when they shared the benefits of the bandits, but they were always worried in their hearts, this is the peasants, they are afraid of rain and wind, and they are afraid of the wind and the government, they are afraid of thieves, in short, they are afraid of everything.

Sometimes they submit to what is more frightening, and sometimes they are subservient to what makes them less afraid......

Now, under the instigation of the smiling official, the people's praise of the bandit "hero" has completely turned into the scolding of the "thief"!

After so many years of "chivalrous deeds", this moment seems to have become a joke in the world!

The red-faced thief understood what the smiling little official meant, their "fame" that had been based in Nanxiang for more than ten years, at the moment when he led everyone down the mountain to rob the grain, was trampled on today!

And it was torn apart by the same people, with their own hands......

"Foolish...... How foolish ......" He didn't even have the strength to shout, and could only mumble weakly.

Hihei watched with satisfaction as the people fought against the bandits, and it was not until they were so excited that they almost killed the thieves that they let the embarrassed group of thieves take them down.

When the red-faced thief was carried past him again, Hihei noticed that even though he was tortured, his eyes were still burning like fire, and they dimmed.

……

Under the auspices of Fei Ping, Nanxiang's propaganda war had an excellent effect, and overnight, the bandits who originally had the meaning of "chivalrous righteousness" and "robbing the rich and helping the poor" fell into disrepute among the people, because they wanted to move the life-saving rations of the relief and the seeds of the fugitives for next year......

At this point, most of the fugitives have a clear relationship with the bandits - they are even the most active to humiliate the thieves, lest the government feel that they have had the experience of "being a thief".

And the number of people who fled from the mountains to defect has also increased again, and some even claim to have run from the thieves' lair.

"His hero can also be his enemy......"

After learning the news from Nanxiang, Mingyue sighed.

Good and evil, just like the heads and tails of a copper coin, lie in people's hearts, and they are all tricks to deceive people.

In any case, the time is ripe for the thief!

In mid-June, under the leadership of Chang'an Jun and Zhao Kuo, a total of more than 2,000 troops marched from Qi County to Zhener Mountain!