Liu Heimu came forward to recruit the eight villages for Yang Tong. Since Chen Zu did not involve Chen Zu, Chen Zu did not know about it at the beginning, so he had no time to stop him.

So the next day, Yang Tong held a banquet in a big house to celebrate the participation of the other seven village leaders in Heihu Village. Chen Zu, who was kept in the dark, was very puzzled by this, wondering why Yang Tong suddenly held a banquet.

It was not until during this celebration banquet that Yang Tong picked up the wine bowl and said this with a smile that he suddenly realized.

He was shocked when he saw something suddenly.

Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng, Zhang Feng, Ma Hong and other seven village leaders joined Heihu Village like this?

Seeing Yang Tong, Liu Heimu, Guo Da and others in the big house, Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng, Zhang Feng, Ma Hong and others exchanged cups, Chen Zu suddenly realized that he seemed to have inexplicably become the only outsider here?

This made Chen Zu a little uneasy.

And at this moment, I don’t know whether Liu Heimu was drunk or deliberately pretending, he smiled at Chen Zu drunk and said, “How about the leader of the village Chen and the brothers who led the brothers to join my Heihu Village?”

"What?"

At this moment, Chen Zu, who was in a complicated mood, was interrupted by Liu Heimu's words, and he didn't react for a while.

At this time, Yang Tong smiled and smoothed out, "Heimei, you are drunk."

However, as he spoke, he suddenly changed his mind and said with a meaningful meaning: "If Master Chen respected Yang and led the crowd, Yang would definitely treat him well."

No, he was not trying to smooth things over, but was working with Liu Heimu to force Chen Zu.

In an instant, the big house where the originally toasted and scrambled to the table immediately became quiet. Everyone present looked at Chen Zu intentionally or unintentionally, as if they were waiting for Chen Zu's answer.

"I'm indeed the only outsider here..."

Looking around at the people in the big house, Chen Zu suddenly felt a little inexplicably chilled. He calmed down and smiled faintly: "Zhen Master Yang's kindness, Chen appreciated it, but now my village can still survive, so I won't bother you."

"That's a pity..."

Yang Tong narrowed his eyes and his face slightly darkened.

At this moment, you could clearly feel the atmosphere in the big house being stiff. Whether it was Chen Zu or the two confidants behind him, they were alert to it at this moment.

Fortunately, Guo Da came out to smooth things out in time: "Drink, drink."

Under Guo Da's smooth sailing, the bustle and noisy in the house gradually returned to the past. Everyone cheered and urged each other to drink, as if something had not happened just now.

But in fact, the big house looks like Chu Jiao, Zhang Feng and others, and they are still secretly paying attention to Yang Tong and Chen Zu.

Of course, they had joined the Heihu Village at this time, so there was no need to be wary of Yang Tong. They were just curious about how Yang Tong would deal with Chen Zu. Although Liu Heimu used the help of alcohol and joked that Chen Zu wanted Chen Zu to join the Heihu Village, in fact, anyone with a discerning eye could see that at the moment when the leaders of the Qijia Village had all joined the Heihu Village, Yang Tong naturally hoped that Chen Zu did not make an exception.

Unfortunately, Chen Zu did not accept it.

"As a matter of course I didn't accept it..."

Chu Jiao, who looked honest and honest, thought to himself.

He was not surprised by Chen Zu's rejection. After all, the fourteen counterfeit villages on the east side of the Shandong Province were both close to each other at first, but for various reasons in the past year, the Black Tiger Village has become increasingly powerful and can be said to be a leader.

Chu Jiao sent someone to inquire about this, and it seemed to be related to a person named "Zhou Hu". It seemed that it was after Zhou Hu defected to Yang Tong that various changes that were different from ordinary bandits in the Heihu Village occurred.

However, Chen Zu's clan was not inferior. Since Yang Tong killed Xu He, Yu Rong and Yuan Xu, Chen Zu quickly took over the territory of the three clans and became the only bandit in Runan County. His strength has also grown stronger and he can be called Yang Tong's first and Chen Zu's second.

Under such circumstances, Chen Zu certainly would not be willing to defect to Yang Tong, even if the strength of Heihu Village has soared due to the addition of their seven counterfeit villages.

Although there were some accidents on the day, it was still very satisfactory, like Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng, Zhang Feng, Ma Hong and other former leaders of Qizhai Village were all satisfied with the promise Yang Tong made in public during the banquet.

If anyone has a bad face, then there is only Chen Zu, the "only outsider".

After the banquet, Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng, Zhang Feng, Ma Hong and others each asked the old people from Heihu Village to get closer, such as Guo Da, Chen Mo, Wang Qing, Niu Heng, etc., but Chen Zu left alone and returned to his residence.

After returning to the house where he lived, Chen Zu's confidant couldn't help but scold: "Yang Tong is so despicable! He took advantage of the danger and forced the other seven villages to join his village. If he had known this, we could have sent someone to persuade the other seven families."

Chen Zu had a calm face and frowned without saying a word.

To be fair, it was not that he had thought that Yang Tong would do that, but that Yang Tong would just annex the other seven parishes so quickly. He thought that no matter how shameless Yang Tong was, he would have brought up this matter before he could repel Kunyang officers and soldiers.

Now, under Liu Hei's persuasion, the other seven parishes turned to Heihu Village, which made the power of Heihu Village stronger than before.

Even though Chu Jiao, Wu Sheng and others suffered losses in this attack on the officers and soldiers, Heihu Village still absorbed considerable camp personnel, which made the number of people in Heihu Village far exceeding that of Chen Zu's copycat, almost three times.

This made Chen Zu feel a little uneasy.

Although Chen Zu was ignorant, he knew the reason why he was sleeping soundly beside his bed. In the past, Yang Tong did not have the ability to merge with other villages, but now that the right place and people are all on his side, Chen Zu never believed that Yang Tong would always be on par with him in the future.

In fact, during today's banquet, Yang Tong and Liu Heimu sang and wanted him to join Heihu Village, and his actions fully proved his inference.

"...I just annexed the other seven villages, can't wait to annex my Chen Zu?"

After taking a sip of water, Chen Zu frowned and thought about the countermeasures.

At this time, a confidant beside him said unhappily: "Boss, since Heihu Village has recruited the other seven villages, they must be enough to repel the officers and soldiers. We might as well go back to the parcel and let them and the officers and soldiers kill each other and suffer both."

Chen Zu frowned slightly.

In fact, he also felt that his subordinates were right. Knowing that Yang Tong would probably attack them in the future, why should he help Heihu Village today? Leading his brothers back to his own village and watching Heihu Village and Kunyang officers and soldiers suffer both defeats. Isn’t this the best choice?

But after thinking about it, Chen Zu rejected this idea.

During today's banquet, although Yang Tong and Liu Heimu wanted to force him to join the Heihu Village, it was just a verbal attempt. If Chen Zu didn't want to refuse, no one could say anything about this. But if Chen Zu brought his brothers to abandon the Heihu Village and returned to his own village, disregarding the Kunyang officers and soldiers about to attack the Heihu Village, it would be equivalent to betraying the original alliance of the villages, and Yang Tong would be even more famously attacking him, just like Cai Fu at the time.

I believe that by then, Chu Jiao and other seven other village leaders who had just joined Heihu Village... the former village leader would never talk to him.

Don’t think that bandits have no rules and norms, and bandits still hate traitors.

"No need to say it!"

After interrupting the persuasion of the two confidants beside him, Chen Zu said in a deep voice: "After this crisis in Heihu Village, we will go back to our own parody!"

Although their confidants were unwilling to do so, since their boss had made such a decision, they could only accept it.

At the same time, Ishihara and Yang Gan, two captains under Magai who were responsible for leading the attack on the villages, finally found Feng Xing's village.

Unfortunately, Feng Xing and his gang had already defected to Heihu Village. The food, wealth, women and so on were taken away, leaving only some bulky and valuable equipment and an empty village.

The county soldiers under his command temporarily settled in this mountain village. Ishihara discussed with the captain Yang Gan: "Captain Yang, we searched the mountain for half a month and attacked several mountain villages. I guess the bandits in Yingshan have already learned about our movements. Today, this empty village can prove... At least I think that most of these missing fish have gone to Heihu Village. It would be useless for you and I to stay in the mountain. It would be better to go back to the county magistrate first."

"Brother said, let's go back to the camp first."

Yang Gan agreed immediately.

Speaking of which, Yang Gan is a veteran captain, while Shi Yuanzhe was born as a ranger and was promoted to captain by Magai. Logically speaking, Yang Gan would not have listened to Ishi Yuanzhe's opinions.

In terms of the reason, it is nothing more than that Ishihara made an indelible contribution in their attack on the mountain. It can almost be said that this time they achieved such unprecedented results, smashing several cliques and killing one of the bandits, Sun Yi, the leader of the bandits. It is entirely due to Ishihara's command. He is truly a ranger who once fought with the rebels in Jiangxia. Whether it is a sneak attack or an ambush, he can do it at will.

Two days later, Ishihara and Yang Gan returned to Magai's camp with their soldiers under their command.

I still remember that when they set out a while ago, Margate selected two hundred county soldiers, township heroes, and elite soldiers. Today, all the members returned, including more than 160 people alive, and more than 30 people turned into corpses.

But even though there were casualties, the morale of this team was extremely high. After all, they defeated several bandit villages, rescued nearly a hundred poor women, and seized dozens of boxes of wealth and countless grains. Unfortunately, they were short of manpower. They could not bring the food out of the mountains, so they could only set fire to burn it.

After finishing the report between Ishihara and Yang Gan, Magai praised the two, which made both Ishihara and Yang Gan quite happy.

While happy, Ishihara said to Magai: "Prince, although we have successfully destroyed several mountain villages this time, there are still many fish that have missed the net. As I said on the next day, I believe that those bandits have now defected to Heihu Village. The county magistrate should immediately attack Heihu Village. If you allow this bandits, there will be endless troubles."

"Um."

Magai frowned and nodded, seemingly agreeing.

That night, he wrote a good news and sent someone to the county town to hand it over to the county magistrate Liu Pi.

Immediately, he lay on the sleeper in the tent with his hands on his pillow.

Ishihara is right. At the moment when the other villages have missed the net and fled to Heihu Village, they must not tolerate Heihu Village. Otherwise, the threat of Heihu Village in the future will be far greater than that of all the previous bandits.

And he also had the opportunity to wipe out Yang Tong and his gang in Heihu Village for Kunyang County. As long as he sent someone to bite him when Yang Tong deliberately abandoned the mountain village, he would kill him.
Chapter completed!