On Wild Wolf Mountain, after Zhang Ben got Xiao Jiu's message, he counted the people overnight, leaving only four henchmen to take care of the prisoners in Wild Wolf Mountain, and then took people back to Hare Mountain.

Although the shrimp crawler noticed a trace of abnormality from Zhang Ben's hurried movements, he was still a guilty body now, so he naturally did not dare to act rashly.

Early in the morning of the second day, Zhang Ben and his entourage had just returned from Wild Wolf Mountain, and they were resting at this time, while Xiao Jiu took Jinzi, Lao Ma, and five or six of his men and began to investigate around Hare Mountain.

In response to the encirclement and suppression of the government, the first thing is the defense of the village, since it was attacked by the Wild Wolf Mountain, Xiao Jiu added a few bright and dark posts at the foot of the mountain, and the people of the Hare Mountain took turns on duty to guard against enemy attacks.

The wall of the cottage has also been reinforced, and some horses and stabbing piles have been added, but Xiao Jiu feels that it is not enough, he can expect that the number of people dispatched by the county government to suppress bandits this time will definitely exceed the last time, and these defenses will not be able to stop the bandit team at all.

Although the last time the suppression of bandits happened to be organized by the army of the county, the main force is still the county government soldiers and Xiangyong, the number is enough 150, this time the landlords in Lingshui County rushed to donate money and grain, and the number of people raised will be more than 200 people.

Moreover, the officials in the county government will definitely fight the bandits, and there will be brave men under the heavy reward, and they will no longer have the attitude of being confused.

Thinking of this, Xiao Jiu checked more carefully, for fear of missing a detail, and whenever he found some omissions, he also let his peers remember them, and then repair them.

After inspecting the cottage, Xiao Jiu climbed to the top of Hare Mountain again, and overlooked the terrain around Hare Mountain from top to bottom.

Xiao Jiu also knows that blind defense is only a strategy after all, and only offense is the best defense.

Hare Mountain is just a small mountain, there is only one path up and down the mountain, there is a shrub forest in the back mountain of the village, crawling and shrouding dozens of miles, if you flee from the dense forest, the government can not encircle and suppress it at all, just like the wild wolf mountain thieves before, when they attacked the cottage, they also walked the back mountain woodland.

But Xiao Jiu didn't want to give up this village that had been in business for a long time, and the grain collected in various villages and towns could not find a suitable place to transport it away in a short time, so Xiao Jiu started the idea of an ambush.

It is unthinkable that they can ambush and suppress the bandit team at the bottom of the mountain, and they will all be annihilated, but if they can lose part of their strength, even if it will not make the county government dispel the idea of suppressing bandits, it will be much easier for the follow-up cottage to resist.

Thinking like this, Xiao Jiu turned his gaze to a forest path seven or eight miles away from Hare Mountain, Pinglin Road.

This forest road is about three miles long, the path is tortuous, and there are tall forests on both sides, so it is a good choice to arrange a trap and ambush here.

Moreover, since ancient times, in the face of the encirclement and suppression of the government, unless it is a large-scale gang force, most of them will flee when they hear the wind, and there are very few who dare to stand up to the government.

Moreover, after the Pinglin Road, there is a narrow valley in the middle of the mountain road up Hare Mountain, and there is room to use the means.

Thinking of this, Xiao Jiu smiled slightly, and a plan came to his mind.

The gold and old horses on both sides looked at Xiao Jiu smiling at the endless mountain, and they didn't understand what Xiao Jiu was thinking, but they also knew that they must have thought of something to plan to resist the officers and soldiers.

Especially Lao Ma, before he made wine in the cottage, he had seen Xiao Jiu's smile.

"Maybe this time we can turn evil into good fortune." , Lao Ma thought in his heart.

When Xiao Jiu was intensively preparing for the anti-bandit action of the government, the county government in Lingshui County had almost raised money and food for the bandits.

This grain requisition can be described as a response to a hundred calls, and there is no need for the county government to be half guided and half coerced at all, these landlords and old fortunes all have money to pay, and those who have grain are paid, and even some people who take the initiative to respond to the recruitment of the county government from their own long-term workers and family members.

Looking at the increasing numbers in the account books, the county commander Liu Hong was a little complacent, and this crackdown on bandits would inevitably turn into his own political achievements and become his own name for upward promotion.

Dreaming of soaring, Liu Hong's mustache trembled slightly, and he couldn't help but smile.

It's just that he can't let go of the bandit leader Xiao Jiu, if he can't get the refining method of soju, the benefits he can get will be greatly reduced.

and Song Yuqiao, the shopkeeper of Wanzhen Building who took measures to suppress bandits at the beginning, saw that the matter of suppressing bandits was a certainty, and began to put his mind at ease.

He is a businessman at heart, he can smile at everyone and leave a kind impression on others, but if he really encounters visible benefits, then he will also take desperate risks.

Ten days after the start of the grain requisition, the county government of Lingshui County began to put up notices on a large scale, recruiting villagers from all over the country to go out of the city to suppress bandits, and the price marked was very gratifying.

However, there were very few young and strong people in the villages and towns who could be recruited, and only some landlords and wealthy households responded to the call, but some peddlers and craftsmen in the cities who did not depend on the land for their livelihood rushed to sign up, taking this as a good thing to collect money.

The money and grain have been collected, and the team to suppress the bandits has basically been raised, and a few days later, all of them will be assembled at the gate of the yamen of the county seat, waiting for the people from the government to lead the team to arrange tasks and go out of the city to suppress the bandits.

The mobilization meeting before the suppression of bandits was also very lively, and a temporary high platform was even set up at the entrance of the yamen.

I saw the high-spirited county magistrate Liu Hong sitting on a chair of eight immortals in the middle of the high platform, and the government personnel and the rich landlords who donated grain were standing left and right.

Master Yang, who was holding a simple megaphone, made a fierce speech to the crowd of people gathered under the stands and the team of bandits who were about to set off.

"Dear people, fellow township parties, I am Yang Bangde, the chief secretary of this county, and today I swear to suppress bandits on behalf of the government."

"Mountain bandits, they must be suppressed at any time, and if they are not suppressed, they will not work."

"Let's think about it, you were eating dinner and singing at home, and suddenly you were robbed by the mountain bandits."

"This kind of thing is not only tragic, it is simply tragic."

What Master Yang said was sonorous and powerful, full of tension, and all the landlords and wealthy households present wept when they listened.

Yes, others may not know the harm of banditry, but they understand what kind of pain Xiao Heizi has brought to them, not to mention being humiliated, they will be robbed of a lot of food, how can they bear it?

There is also the unlucky rich man Sun of the Jar Village, except for the female dependents of the family, and his two sons were all lit by Xiao Jiu, which is a tragedy in the world.

Now that the government has sent troops to suppress the bandits, they have a hundred supporters in their hearts, and they only hope to eliminate this hateful mountain bandit with a knife on their necks as soon as possible.

Unlike these landlords, the young men who were temporarily recruited in the bandit team were not interested in Master Yang's previous excited declaration, and the people who came to the city from the countryside to do business or buy were even more scornful.