Zhuang Shaoyou looked at Wu Liang in some surprise, this guy is really well-informed, he just received the report.

He waved his hand casually and said, "Brother Decai, please take a seat!" ”

After Wu Liang sat down, he smiled and said, "General, you must already know about the tragedy in Zhaojiazhuang, it was done by the bandits of the Great Black Mountain, and his subordinates came here for this matter." ”

Zhuang Shaoyou was a little puzzled, could it be that this Wu Liang knew something? So he motioned for him to continue.

Wu Liang said slowly: "General, this Great Black Mountain bandit has been around for a long time, and it has been decades since then, although the Great Black Mountain does not occupy a large area, it is also tall and dangerous in this southern Liaoning region, so there are seven or eight groups of bandits in the mountain.

Each gang of bandits ranges from twenty or thirty to seventy or eighty people, and they make a living by robbing houses and houses on weekdays, and the government has suppressed them for decades, but they are all inexhaustible wildfires, and the spring breeze blows and grows!

But since three years ago, these bandits suddenly began to fight fiercely, and in less than three months, these bandits have actually merged into a single unit. ”

Zhuang Shaoyou listened carefully and asked casually, "Oh? Synthesized into a strand? Being able to dominate the big black mountain thieves can be regarded as having some skills! ”

Wu Liang continued: "General, this problem is here, they have been fighting separately for decades, and they have been merged into one

The most important thing is that it was not the largest gang that completed this, but a very inconspicuous gang of small bandits, with only about 30 people, who knew that it would suddenly break out and unify the Great Black Mountain! ”

"Oh? Brother Decai, do you know who the leader of the gang of bandits is? How can you do this? ”

"General, my subordinates don't know, but my subordinates have some special guesses. The gang of bandits arose three years ago, and the previous county commander Zhou also came here three years to take office! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Could it be just a coincidence?" ”

"The subordinates can't be sure, but those bandits have been on fire for three months, and the trouble is known to the whole county, so it is said that the county order Zhou should take the opportunity to exterminate it, but Zhou always deliberately delays and prevaricates for various reasons.

Everyone said that Zhou was as timid as a mouse, greedy for life and afraid of death, especially those city defense troops.

As a result, after the confluence of those bandits, Zhou began to move, he made an impassioned call, and then asked the city defense army of 500 people to exterminate the bandits

As a result, the bandits who had been talking about it when they saw the officials and soldiers before actually took the initiative to meet them, and on the Great Black Mountain, they set ambushes and released cold arrows, killing the officers and soldiers and returning in defeat, and when they went, they had a team of 500 people, and when they came back, there were only more than 200 people left.

Zhou took the opportunity to put the generals of the city defense army in prison for questioning, and then sent his cronies to take over the city defense army. ”

Wu Liang sighed and continued: "Originally, General Chang came to suppress the Yellow Turban Army and could easily destroy these bandits, but he was prevaricated by Zhou for various reasons

General Chang is not familiar with the situation here, so he doesn't care, but he is very honest in the county these days, and he hasn't committed any trouble for several months.

Until now, it has begun to move again, and this time the methods are extremely cruel, which has never been done before

In the past, the bandits robbed, but they rarely killed people, especially this kind of village slaughter, because those bandits were also forced to fall into the grass by the poor people nearby, so the subordinates felt that this matter was quite strange, and they came to tell them! Please be careful, general! ”

After hearing this, Zhuang Shaoyou frowned and thought for a long time, and asked, "Why does Brother Decai know so much?" ”

Wu Liang smiled slightly and said: "General, my subordinates have studied for a few years, so they have been doing some book work in the county office, but later I felt that it was not good to do things under Zhou, so I resigned and went home to stay."

My subordinates have a bad habit of inquiring about some gossip, so I basically know a little bit about the things within a hundred miles of Yudi County, and the nickname "Jack-of-all-trades" made the general laugh! Hehe! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou was also dumbfounded, it turned out that this guy was a gossip man!

But when he thought of those hateful big black thieves, he couldn't help frowning again.

Wu Liang saw that Zhuang Shaoyou was deep in thought, so he got up and left.

Zhuang Shaoyou came out of the study, looked at the snow all over the courtyard, and his heart fell into deep thought:

I have just accepted Yuqi County for less than a month, and there is a shortage of manpower, and there are only 100 people.

There are more than 300 bandits in the Great Black Mountain, why did Zhaojiazhuang slaughter the village this time? Demonstrate to me?

That's not right! I haven't offended them, so why did they do it?

Is it really related to Zhou as Wu Liang said?

But even if those bandits were supported by Monday's hands, what can it mean? Why did they slaughter the village? Why did Zhou instigate them to do such a thing?

Week? Week! That's right!

That week, he was here as a county magistrate for three years, and the looted people's fat and ointment were unintentionally dug out by himself, I remember that Qin Ling said that there were tens of thousands of taels of silver!

Right! It must be for the money!

Zhuang Shaoyou was a little excited, and finally found Zhou's motive, the 10,000 taels of silver, in this case, all the actions of that week were for the 10,000 taels of silver!

It has been more than 20 days since Zhou escaped, and this long time is enough for him to move the rescuers, but there is no shadow of the rescuers, that is, he did not ask for helpers, as for the reason, you can ignore him first!

The nearby county town does not have enough troops, so Zhou plans to run here desperately to instigate the big black mountain thieves to oppose him, the Zhaojiazhuang tragedy is to provoke himself and seduce himself to suppress the thieves, the number of bandits is not large, so they can only ambush, or sneak attack the county seat, choose one of the two!

After Zhuang Shaoyou thought about the stakes clearly, he suddenly became enlightened, thought about it for half an hour, and then called his subordinates to order many matters.

Early the next morning, a team of 500 people left the city from the east gate of the county seat, and cautiously headed east along the way.

An hour later, somewhere in Great Black Mountain

A fat young man sat on the top, and next to him was a tall man, about thirty years old, and both remained silent.

After a long time, the tall man said: "Brother-in-law, the thieves in the county went out of the city from the east gate early in the morning, and the number of people is five hundred, and there are at most a hundred people left in the city. ”

This young fat man who is called his brother-in-law is the former county magistrate Zhou of Yuqi County, and the tall man is his uncle Liu Cao.

Of course, Zhou is older than Liu Cao.

The Zhou family is a native of Hejian in Jizhou, and they went to Liaodong to be the county commander, and their families were thrown in their hometown and not brought over.

On the way to take office, I met Liu Cao's sister, and saw that she was good-looking, so she took her as a concubine, and later learned that Liu Cao was the leader of a small group of bandits, and Zhou was not a good stubble, so he planned with Liu Cao for a long time, and secretly supported Liu Cao to unify the big black mountain bandits.

There are two purposes, one is to help Zhou rob property and do some inconvenient things, and the other is that Zhou is very ambitious.

Zhou had already controlled the 500 city defense army in Yuqi County before, plus the 300 big black mountain thieves, if it developed slowly, it could also make some achievements, at least the problem of controlling the southern Liaoning region was not too big, after all, it was a very troublesome thing to exterminate from Xiangping.

However, Zhou Zhi was talented, treacherous and cunning, but cowardly as a mouse, and was frightened when he heard that General Chang was defeated and died, and immediately ran away, but regretted it afterwards.

Zhou ran to Xiangping to ask Gongsun Du for help, and after failing, he went to bribe Gongsun Du's son Sun Kang, but failed again.

Zhou was desperate, so he had to run back to the Great Black Mountain to borrow Liu Cao's Great Black Mountain Thief to recapture the county seat, at least to recapture the silver.

As long as you can recapture the batch of 10,000 taels of silver, coupled with the accumulation of the Great Black Mountain in the past three years, you should be able to recruit troops and buy horses to recapture the county seat!

The Zhaojiazhuang tragedy was planned by Zhou Zhou, wanting to provoke Zhuang Shaoyou and let him send troops to Da Heishan to suppress bandits, and then he took advantage of the danger of Da Heishan to deal with it, and at the same time sent troops to raid the empty county seat.

This morning, I received a report from Dongyu County's eyeliner, and the five hundred people in the county came here, and the purpose was obvious.

Zhou is as timid as a mouse and has the advantage of being timid as a mouse, that is, he is very cautious and does not want to take any risks.

Liu Cao did not study, he did not do his job when he was young, he was a famous gangster in ten miles and eight towns, and later killed people and ran to Daheishan to be a bandit, after several years of development, he also became the leader of a small group of bandits

Later, he met Zhou, and then he grew rapidly, and he became a big boss with the big black mountain thief, and established this big village in the depths of the big black mountain, and he was at ease every day.

Liu Cao was already impatient to wait, and Zhou still couldn't make up his mind, so he couldn't help but persuade again:

"Brother-in-law, didn't that gang of thieves already follow the trap we designed at the beginning? Let's hurry up and hit the county seat!

There are dozens of people in this cottage who are enough to defend it, and he is not scared of thousands of troops at all, the important thing is to quickly raid the county town and seize the batch of silver, so that he can recruit troops and buy horses!

If you don't want to go, then stay in this cottage, I'll leave you fifty good hands, and then I'll take the rest of the people to steal the county seat." ”

Zhou frowned and said, "There are five hundred people from that gang of thieves!" How did these fifty people stay? ”

Liu Cao said with some dissatisfaction: "Brother-in-law, this cottage is easy to defend and difficult to attack, one husband should be closed, fifty people are enough."

In this way, I will leave you a hundred people, and I will take two hundred people, no matter how little, it will be difficult to attack the county seat, and even if you can attack it, there will not be enough people to recapture that batch of silver! ”

Monday listened to Silver's matter, gritted his teeth, and finally agreed.