The heavily armed Nine-Headed Bird soldiers held their firearms in the gatehouse of Yacheng and looked ahead with vigilant expressions. Zhang Donggou walked to the door, raised his head, pointed to the nine-headed bird icon on his chest, and took off his team badge from his waist to light up.

One of the prisoners looked at him with scrutinizing eyes, then raised his right fist and smashed it against the Hydra logo on his left chest, saluted him, and asked the team to open the door and let him in.

After entering the Yacheng, Zhang Donggou found that the atmosphere inside was becoming more and more tense, and there were heavily armed team members everywhere. After greeting his teammates guarding the door, Zhang Donggou walked towards his team's barracks. Not surprisingly, the members of the gun-carrying team were also fully armed, and they were all standing on the edge of the schoolyard, waiting for orders.

There is a prison in Yacheng, which is underground. Liu Jun walked into the dungeon accompanied by several officers, it was extremely hot outside, but it was very cold and dark inside, and there was a smell of mold and dust wafting in the air. Liu Jun stood there for a while, until his eyes adjusted to the darkness of the dungeon, and then continued to walk.

The dungeon is neither big nor small, it was set up in the original inspection department to hold arrested bandits and smugglers, enough to hold twenty or thirty people at the same time. Deep underground, there is only one exit, and the cell is closed by an iron bar, and trying to escape from here is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Two rows of cells are set up along the stone walls on both sides of the dungeon, with a passage of more than two feet in the middle, and under the wall at the end, there is an open space, which is regarded as a temporary interrogation room, or torture department.

On that wall, there were all kinds of torture instruments such as soldering irons, leather whips, iron sticks, sharp knives, etc., and even in the dim light, there was a line of large characters written in white plaster on the wall.

"Be lenient in confession, strict in resisting!"

Under the eight big characters, several military prisons saw Liu Jun coming and stopped their work one after another. Behind them, on a wooden pole, hung a naked man, already with many whip marks on his body.

"Oh, how's it going, has anything come to the trial?" Liu Jun said to Chang Sheng, who had been sitting on the side watching just now.

"It's pretty much it." Chang Sheng handed his audit record to Liu Jun, who picked up the bloodstained record and looked at it a few times, "Are you sure they are Lao Hui's subordinates?" ”

"It's all the meticulous work of Lao Huihui's subordinates, a total of eighteen people have mixed in, and they have all been taken down." Chang Shengyu reported, with some pride in his voice. Although the thieves were cunning, they still did not escape the eyes of the patrol, and these people had just infiltrated the tiger head fort, and before they even had time to make a move, they were arrested one after another.

The ancestors of the Chang Sheng family used to be executioners, but it was a long time ago, in the Yuan Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, his ancestor joined the anti-Yuan rebel army, and later became a petty official, but by the time of Chang Sheng's grandfather, there was no one in the family to be an official, so he changed to business. Now Chang Sheng is in charge of military discipline, and now he is also in charge of anti-intermediary, which is quite easy.

"It's hard work, it's rare that you took a day off today, but you ran into this kind of thing." Liu Jun patted his brother's shoulder.

"Now that they have been interrogated and confessed, these bandits have all been dealt with." Chang Sheng glanced at the thief who had passed out. He has no mercy for these people, and even in the team, because of his military discipline, Chang Sheng has always been the image of a black-faced god, and most of the team members are a little afraid of him.

Liu Jun pinched his chin and pondered, what happened was already very clear. Among the group of thieves who besieged Zhao Patrol last time, there were more than a dozen elite horse thieves, and these people were all old brothers. In addition to a few who escaped, this group of old brothers who came back were all slaughtered by Liu Jun.

What Liu Jun didn't know was that among the horse thieves he killed, there was a young man whose identity was not simple, he was the son of Lao Huihui's brother and his own nephew. Originally, Lao Huihui didn't send him out last time, but the young man was bent on making meritorious contributions, so he secretly followed out, and then directly killed Liu Jun's subordinates.

When he saw his nephew again, he saw only a human head, a human head that had long since rotted and could not be seen. Lao Hui was furious, and his brother was even more furious.

It is said that this person is quite ruthless, likes to kill people the most, and he decoction of wine, and he also likes the wives of ** officials and gentry, regardless of the old ugly, the more valuable the husband's status, the more he likes it, even the old woman of fifty or sixty years old. This thief led the thief to come, but he was cunning, and first selected many elites, disguised as merchants and ordinary people, infiltrated the passes, prepared to cooperate with the outside and waited for the opportunity to seize the door. ”

No matter how elite a thief is, he is a thief after all, and under Chang Sheng's torture, he finally revealed the information.

"Three thousand thieves are coming." Liu Jun felt a little toothache, since the leader of the team was Lao Huihui's own brother, then these three thousand thieves were definitely not the same rabble as the three hundred last time, and they collapsed with one blow. Moreover, this group of thieves was so cunning that they did not kill them directly, but first sent a fine work over and infiltrated the fort, preparing to open the city.

Fortunately, Liu Jun suppressed several groups of thieves, and recently he was using salt sellers to open a knife, so he was also worried about the retaliation of those people, so he increased the patrol team and asked them to be more vigilant, but let Hutou Fort dismantle the thieves' tricks.

"Send this information to Fort Conservation immediately." Liu Jun spoke.

There's a tough battle to fight this time.

"Close the gate of the fort, impose martial law, from now on in the fort, no one is allowed to enter or leave, and no one is allowed to leave the fort without my handwritten letter. Then we will send men to inspect the inns, shops, and houses, and we will have to make sure that there are no other works lurking in the fort. ”

Liu Jun glanced at the dungeon again, and his eyes swept among the bandits.

"Usual." Liu Jun stretched out his hand and beckoned to Chang Sheng, "Do you think there is anything in these meticulous works that are willing to do it anyway?" ”

"Big brother, what do you mean?"

"If we can get one or two of them to turn back, and then let these people go back and report it, and say that they are ready to work together at any time, do you think it is feasible?"

"Difficult." Chang Sheng shook his head, "And I don't believe in these bandits, we don't have anything to make them turn back, there is no guarantee." In case he agrees now, he will tell the truth about the situation when he goes back, and we will be passive. ”

"And what about pretending to let a few of them escape?"

"Let them escape?"

"First deliberately let them hear some 'important information,' such as our battle plan, and then accidentally let them escape." Liu Jun said a little sinisterly.

"Captured, escaped, and brought back important information? I'm afraid that Ma Shoucheng won't believe it. ”

"Then you can think for me if there is any other way to make use of these details." After all, the other party is three thousand thieves, and maybe there will be more increases, Liu Jun is still a little worried with this small tiger head fort. Even if you can hold on to the fort, it will pay a great price.

Chang Sheng thought about it for a long time, but couldn't think of it.

"By the way, since these thieves are here to lurk and prepare to cooperate with the outside, how do they plan to contact Ma Shoucheng, there must be some signals or something, right?" Liu Jun asked.

"No contact." Chang Sheng shook his head, of course he had tried this, "The thieves will raid the Tiger Head Fort tonight, and then when our attention is focused on the city wall, the lurking thieves will set fire to the city, create chaos, and even assassinate you, the eldest brother, and find a way to snatch the castle gate." ”

"Is that so?" Liu Jun thought for a while, "Immediately pass on my order, cancel the previous order, don't be martial law first, everyone is tight inside and outside, guard the city gate, but don't be too nervous, we have to make the horse thieves think that we haven't discovered their attack plan yet." ”

"Wouldn't that be too dangerous?"

"Come and don't be rude, since the horse thief thinks of us so simply, let him taste our power himself."

Because the thieves were numerous, Liu Jun finally gave up his adventure plan to go out of the city to ambush the thieves. There are nearly six hundred of the Nine-headed Bird and the reserves, and they can even temporarily arm a few hundred more from the homeless people in the fort, and it is not a problem to make up a thousand. But there are 3,000 thieves, and they are still old rogues.

These people are not ordinary bandits, and it is too risky to go out and fight. Liu Jun planned to defend the fort, but fortunately, after this period of rushing work, Hutou Fort had a four-zhang high fort wall, and also dug a four-zhang wide and three-zhang deep fort trench, with these, the defense was more favorable.

The fourth watch, the last dark hour before dawn, is also the time of the day when people sleep the deepest.

To the south of the Tiger Head Fort, the Drill Sky Leopard Horse Shoucheng led a large group of bandits and quietly arrived.

Although Ma Shoucheng is cruel, he is very cunning, and he has rebelled with his brother since the early years of Chongzhen, and has been rebelling for more than ten years now. In recent years, the southern conquest and the northern war, the east and the west, can be regarded as a long time of strong winds and waves.

But the youngest and favorite son died in the hands of a small martial artist in Macheng. If it weren't for the eldest brother's obstruction, he would have led his troops to level Macheng. After waiting for so long, they finally collected the information, and the squires in Macheng finally became careless again, and those people who had been temporarily gathered before were disbanded and returned home, and even several elite villagers such as Baoshengbao were also moved to other counties.

In the five passes in the north of Macheng County, there is only one patrol archer, dozens of people, and only Liu Jun, his killer enemy stationed in Hutou Pass, and his county regiment that has not been formed for more than a month is just training.

After waiting for a long time, he finally got his chance.

After leading 3,000 brothers to kill, he did not directly attack the Tiger Head Fort, but took great pains to send the elite to sneak into the passes, and then he led his troops through three passes one after another overnight, first to the west, then to the south and then to the east, and finally went around to the south of the Tiger Head Fort.

Ma Shoucheng rode on the horse, looking at the dark castle, with a hideous smile on his face, Liu Jun of the dog day, you never dreamed that Lao Tzu had gone around under your castle. The castle was silent, convincing him that the people in the castle did not even know that he had arrived at the city.

Sleep and have a good dream.

He smiled and raised his right hand, "Kill it, slaughter everyone who can pant, don't let go of any one!" ”