After hearing this, Yang Ding asked in surprise: "Even if you have already found out these forks?"

Wei Chi nodded solemnly.

"Can a thousand soldiers ensure victory?" Yang Ding asked.

"This..." Wei Chi hesitated.

Seeing this, Yang Ding understood and paced back and forth in the tent with a serious expression.

There are actually one thousand soldiers on one side, but Wei Chi said that he dared to try only if there are one thousand soldiers, and his attitude just now also shows that he did not ensure his confidence in winning, he could just try.

It can be seen that if you want to ensure victory, you must be prepared to make greater losses. It is far from enough to rely on a thousand county soldiers alone.

This made Yang Ding hesitate.

After thinking for a while, Yang Ding ordered Wei Chi and Gao Chun to say, "You two will go to comfort the injured on my behalf first, and I will discuss with the old man."

"Yes!" Wei Chi and Gao Chun left with their fists.

After the two left, Wei Dong smiled and said, "Young Master doesn't want too many casualties, right?"

"Well." Yang Ding did not hide it and nodded truthfully.

Seeing this, a few praises flashed through Wei Dong's eyes, but immediately, he said seriously: "The young master is kind-hearted, but as the saying goes, kindness does not control the soldiers. If the young master wants to destroy the black tiger thief, he must be prepared to pay a huge price..."

“With that being said…”

Yang Ding looked melancholy and changed his mouth, "Summon Zou Bu, Ding Wu and others to ask about the situation of the battle first."

As soon as he heard this, Wei Dong, the hometown general, knew that his young master did not want to continue this topic, so he stopped talking.

A moment later, Yang Ding summoned Zou Bu, Huang Ben, Ding Wu and Ma Gai.

To be fair, today the officers and soldiers of five counties attacked Heihu Mountain in three groups. Yang Ding was not satisfied with the battle situation of each group. Fortunately, this was just a tentative feint attack to test the strength of the Heihu thief and the feasibility of these three routes of military use. Therefore, Yang Ding did not care much about victory or defeat.

After the four county lieutenants arrived in Qi, he asked Zou Bu and Ding Wudao: "Zou County lieutenant, Ding County lieutenant, I wonder how the two were injured and killed today?"

Zou Bu took the lead in replying: "The thief used the rolling stone and the squat as the defense, causing considerable casualties among my men. More than thirty people were killed and more than fifty people were seriously injured..."

Yang Ding could barely accept the number of casualties, so he nodded and turned to look at Ding Wu.

Seeing this, Ding Wu also clasped his fists and said, "Like the lieutenant Zou, I attacked the southern slope, and the black tiger thieves on the southern slope also tried to use the rolling stones and forced my men to retreat. Fortunately, I had talked with the lieutenant Gao about the black tiger thief and had some preparations in advance, so my losses were not great. As long as several people were killed, there were nearly a hundred injured people, most of whom were shot by the black tiger thief with crossbow arrows..."

He slightly exaggerated the number of injured people. In his opinion, Yang Ding would not send people to count one by one.

As expected, Yang Ding did not doubt the number reported by Ding Wu at all, nodded and said, "Today's test, the three counties have different casualties, but they have roughly understood the strength of the Black Tiger Thieves... First of all, the road on the southeast slope is the narrow spider web path mentioned by Ma County. This road is probably impossible to go. According to my general Wei Chi, unless there are several times the troops that are as strong as the Black Tiger Thieves, regardless of casualties, it will be difficult to break through. Therefore, I think we should focus on Dongpo and Nanpo... Zou County Wei and Ding County Wei, what do you think?"

Looking at Zou Bu with a hesitant look, Ding Wu thought for a while and said, "It is generally feasible, but there is no flat mountain road in the south slope, probably the same is true for the east slope. When Ma County Ma burned the trees on Heihu Mountain with a fire. Even after a year or two, the Heihu Mountain was still bare. In this way, the Black Tiger Thieves just need to guard the mountain and shoot arrows down the mountain, which is really not conducive to our sneak attack on the mountain..."

Hearing the word "archery", Yang Ding glanced at Ma Gai and asked quietly: "Prince Ma, when Wei Chi reported to me just now, there was something that Yang thought was incredible, that was the weapons of the Black Tiger Thieves... A mere bandit actually had many leather armor and crossbow tools. I wonder what the reason was?"

Ma Gai's eyes flashed a little, and then spread his hands and said, "Sorry, County Magistrate Yang, he is not aware of this either."

Can I send someone to check the armory in Guixian? - Yang Ding wanted to ask this at this moment, but he still held it back because he knew that if the Black Tiger Thief really conspired with Ma Gai to obtain the equipment in the armory in Kunyang County, Ma Gai would definitely try to cover up the traces and deceive them with excuses such as "scrap".

At this time, you will undoubtedly startle and alert the enemy.

Thinking of this, he quietly exposed the matter and ordered everyone calmly: "Since it is not easy to attack, I will surround the mountain for a few days. When I think about a strategy to break the enemy, I will also let the soldiers take some rest."

"Yes." All the county magistrates did not doubt that there were him, and they all held their fists and took the order.

After the four county magistrates left, Yang Ding sat at the table in the tent and thoughtfully.

Suddenly, he turned to Wei Dong and said, "Old man, send someone to borrow troops from Yingchuan County!"

"Borrow troops?"

Wei Dong was stunned for a moment, with a little doubt on his face, but he nodded.
Chapter completed!