That night, Ishihara and his group returned to the old village of Heihu Village and reported to Magai what they saw today.

Although Magai was quite surprised, he was not surprised. After all, he knew much more than Ishihara. Naturally, he could guess more than Ishihara.

The question is, what should I do if I use this new copycat?

On the second day of August, Ma Gai was in the old village of Heihu Village. In the big house where Yang Tong discussed major events with everyone and held a banquet, he discussed countermeasures with three chiefs, Ishihara, He Feng and Yang Gan. Ishihara's companions Xu Bai, Wang Pin and Chen Gui were also lucky enough to listen.

Due to some unspeakable reasons, Magai's attack on Yingshan bandits has achieved great results. What's even more incredible is that with great achievements, the casualties of nearly a thousand soldiers under his command of the siege were not large, and so far, only less than a hundred people have been lost.

Nowadays, half of the soldiers who fought against the bandits were led by the captain Shi Che, and are still stationed in the camps at the foot of the mountain, while the other half are stationed in the old village of Heihu Village with Magai. In terms of troops alone, they are fully capable of launching an offensive against the village on the top of the mountain.

But this is just in terms of military strength. If objective factors are added, neither Magai nor everyone present will be very confident.

The problem is that the mountain village is located on the main peak of this mountain. The mountain road is dangerous and obstructed on the way. It is almost impossible to let the officers and soldiers kill to the top of the mountain in one go. After all, their army of thieves can only be a group of county soldiers, township braves and rangers. Unless a group of people are recruited, a sea of ​​people is adopted, and a strong attack is launched at the cost of casualties, it is really difficult for the bandits on the opposite side to defend the high ground.

Taking this into consideration, Ishihara suggested to Magai: "Civilian, can you report to the county magistrate? Please ask the county magistrate to recruit some more people?"

Ma Gai shook his head when he heard this, frowned and said, "I'm afraid it's difficult... The autumn harvest in September is approaching, and I think it's difficult for the county to pull out any manpower. Even if we are from our side, a group of people will probably be gone in September..."

Shi Yuan's expression frightened: "In other words, we only have one month left?"

Magai nodded slightly: "It's probably that."

The next day, with Magai's permission, three captains, Ishihara, He Feng and Yang Gan, tried to lead people to attack the top of the mountain.

Before the new Heihuzhai village on the top of the mountain and the old Heihuzhai village on the hillside, in the forest with a straight line of about ten miles, hundreds of officers and soldiers of the anti-thieves fought a tug-of-war with unknown numbers of bandits.

Although the officers and soldiers had many crossbow tools, unfortunately, the bandits of Heihu Village also seized a batch of crossbows when they repelled the officers and soldiers the first two times. Although the wooden crossbows they made were extremely poor in their heads and almost failed to hit the officers and soldiers, because there were trees everywhere in that area, it was difficult for the officers and soldiers to kill the bandits, so the two sides did not make much difference.

After arriving at this for five or six days, Ishihara could no longer hold back and selected a hundred elites with Xu Bai, Wang Pin and Chen Gui, three companions, and tried to attack up the mountain in one breath.

But unfortunately, there are also many brave bandits on the Black Tiger Village on the top of the mountain, such as Chen Mo, Wang Qing, Niu Heng, Chu Yan, etc., who are all warriors that ordinary people cannot get close to. Even Chu Jiao, Zhang Feng, Ma Hong and other former leaders of the seven villages were all fierce people who licked blood from the knife. In order to defend the last mountain village on the top of the mountain, these people repelled the attacks of Ishihara and others again and again, so that Ishihara and others tried six or seven times, but were repelled every time, and even more than 30 people died for it.

The failure of attacking the mountains many times made the officers and soldiers of the anti-thieves who were originally enormously depressed.

In this way, both sides spent September.

Just as Magai said at the beginning, some rural heroes made a request to leave and prepared to return to their hometown to help with the autumn harvest.

After learning about this, Ishihara and Yang Gan waited for the captain to find Ma Gai and asked: "County lieutenant, please wait for me some more time. We will definitely be able to conquer that mountain village!"

At the request of Ishihara, Yang Gan and others, Magai rejected the request of the township heroes who wanted to leave with his majesty as a county magistrate and ordered his subordinates to continue to attack the mountain.

But in fact, Magai himself knew very well that it was difficult for them to make any progress in this battle.

Others may not know, but he knows very well that the contribution he has earned so far in the fight against the thieves is really only attributed to them? No!

In fact, there are secret helps from Heihu Village!

To put it bluntly, it was Yang Tong from Heihu Village who secretly provided him with the opportunity to sneak attack on the other counterfeits, so that both sides could benefit from it. Magai got the credit for defeating the other counterfeits, while Yang Tong got the conditions to annex the other counterfeits.

Even the old village of Heihu Village was deliberately given to him by Yang Tong's group of people.

However, the new mountain village on the top of the mountain is the last refuge for Yang Tong and others. No matter how you think about it, you will know that Yang Tong and the bandits under his command will inevitably defend themselves desperately.

When the morale of the officers and soldiers of the anti-thieves was high, Ishihara, Yang Gan and others were unable to break through the mountain village. At present, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the anti-thieves army was sluggish because of the long-term combat but no progress. Can Ishihara, Yang Gan and others achieve better results?

Just think about it and know that this is impossible.

But in order to avoid suspicion, it can also be said that because of guilt, Magai still agreed to the insistence of Ishihara, Yang Gan and others.

As he expected, the two sides were in a stalemate until October, and Ishihara, Yang Gan and others still failed to break through the clover. Seeing that late autumn was coming and the cold winter was approaching, probably everyone in the fight against the bandits no longer hoped to break through the clover this year.

Of course, judging from the results of the battle, the achievements of the anti-thieves led by Magai this time were already brilliant enough.

At least Liu Pi, the county magistrate of Kunyang County, and Lu Kuang, the president of Luye Masonic Society, were very satisfied with this.

Especially Liu Pi, as early as early September, had sent people to send good news to the county, informing him that Kunyang County eliminated several bandits of response, and Yingchuan County also sent people to commend Kunyang County, commending Liu Pi, who was the county magistrate and Ma Gai, who was the county magistrate.

On the end of October, the sky began to snow and the weather quickly cooled down.

Although Ishihara wanted to completely wipe out Yingshan Hu Yang Tong and his gang and avenge their dead companions, he could not resist the officers and soldiers of the thieves who had fought against the thieves gradually became homesick and family. In addition to the weather, he finally gave up.

However, through the two months of siege and attacks of the bandits, he also realized the weakness of the officers and soldiers of the anti-threat army. For example, this anti-threat army lacks an elite force that can be used to attack.

He believes that this is the biggest reason why they failed to break through the mountaintop.

He made a suggestion to Magai: "County lieutenant, if we want to break this cottage next year, we must train an elite force for it."

His words were not aimless, nor were they shirking responsibility.

After all, the anti-thief army under Magai is nicely called officers and soldiers, but in fact, it is composed of county soldiers, township heroes, goose heroes and others. To put it bluntly, except for the responsible county soldiers, the rest are attracted by bounties, and they are expected to sacrifice their lives to fight against the bandits independently. Hey! At best, these people can only fight a smooth battle. Once the situation is unfavorable to their side, the group will definitely turn around and escape immediately.

It's okay to fight the little thieves with these, but if I want to attack a brave and commanding bandit like Yang Tong and his gang, Ishihara believes that it's far from enough.

Therefore, according to his idea, it would be best to directly invite the army to encircle and suppress it. However, he also understood that the county magistrate Liu Pi and the county magistrate Ma Gai did not want to make the huge bandits in Kunyang County known to everyone, which led to being questioned by the county. Therefore, he proposed a plan of rights and interests, that is, Kunyang County trains an elite team who dares to kill and fight.

Magai thought about it but did not refuse.

In November, the weather cooled down rapidly, and the officers and soldiers of the anti-thieves who had been surrounded and suppressed for several months in Yingshan. Finally, they retreated under the leadership of Magai.

They emptied everything that could be moved away from the old village of Heihu Village, burned all the old village into pieces, and then slowly retreated.

After learning about this, Yang Tong ordered the reward of the bandits in the new village of Heihu Village on the top of the mountain, and ordered the gang to take out all the leftover wine and food in the village as a celebration.

However, as a strong supporter to help Heihu Village overcome difficulties, Chen Zu was ignorant and led his brothers to leave before Heihu Village celebrated.

Even when Chu Jiao, Zhang Feng and others asked him in surprise for reasons, Chen Zu said bluntly: "I'm afraid that I would end up like Xu He and the other three, so I was cut off my head while drinking!"

I have to say that the atmosphere was really stiff at that time, and Chu Jiao, Zhang Feng and others looked at each other.

Although they also speculated that after the Kunyang officers and soldiers retreated, Yang Tong might really attack Chen Zu and achieve the goal of unifying and responding to the eastern part of Shandong.

In fact, Yang Tong, Guo Da and others are indeed preparing.

On the ninth day of November, it was snowing heavily. In order to make up for the food consumed in the past two months, the new village of Heihuzhai should be precisely the leaders of the main village who took their men down the mountain. According to the old rules before, some guarded the spots and plundered the caravans passing along the way to collect money for the road, while others went straight to the villages at the foot of the mountain to ask those villages to repay the debts owed to the villages and repay them with chickens, ducks, grain and other items.

Given that this plundering model has been in place for a long time, no one dared to resist. The caravans passing by along the way were sighing, "Why are these guys coming again?", they honestly contributed some money, and villages like Fengcun and other villages also honestly contributed poultry and food.

The bandits in Heihu Village easily got a lot of supplies that could survive the winter without any effort or killing people.

While these bandits were busy preparing supplies for winter, Zhao Yu drew a mountain map of the eastern part of Yingshan in the house where he and Jingnu were in the main village.

The marks and circles on the map represent the branch he intends to build, and the thick lines represent the mountain passages he intends to repair.

And just then, Guo Da suddenly came to visit. Seeing Zhao Yu meticulously drawing the mountain map, he smiled and said, "I just told the boss that the one who does the best in the whole village is Ahu, look..."

Zhao Yu smiled slightly.

Of course, he must do his best. After all, these will be his foundation in the future. If he doesn't do his best, who will do his best for him?

While smiling, Zhao Yu asked Guo Da, "Brother Guo Da is preparing to attack Chen Zu?"

"Well!" Guo Da had already regarded Zhao Yu as a brother, so naturally there was no need to hide it.

After getting Guo Da's affirmation, Zhao Yu laughed in his heart, saying that Yang Tong was so impatient. Chen Zu had just helped him to repel the officers and soldiers of Kunyang, but Yang Tong was fine, so he turned around and was about to attack Chen Zu.

But that's fine. After Yang Tong defeated Chen Zu, annexed the bandits under his command, and completely unify the eastern part of Yingshan, he could finally attack Yang Tong.
Chapter completed!