The fully armed nine-headed bird soldiers were holding muskets in the gatehouse of Yacheng, looking ahead with vigilance. Zhang Donggou walked to the door, raised his head, pointed to the nine-headed bird icon on his chest, and took off his team card from his waist and lit it up.

A military prison looked at him with a scrutiny, then raised his right fist and smashed it on the nine-headed bird sign on the clothes on his left chest, saluted him, and asked the team members to open the door and let him enter.

After entering the Yacheng, Zhang Donggou found that the atmosphere inside was getting tense, with fully armed team members everywhere. He greeted his teammates who were guarding the gate, and Zhang Donggou walked towards his team's barracks. As expected, the members of the gun lifting team were already fully armed, standing on the side of the small school field, waiting for orders.

There is a prison in Yacheng, underground. Liu Jun walked into the dungeon accompanied by several officers. It was extremely hot outside, but it was very cold and dark inside. There was a smell of mold and dust floating in the air. Liu Jun stood there for a while until his eyes adapted to the darkness of the dungeon and continued to move forward.

The dungeon is not big or small. It was set up in the original inspection department to detain bandits and smugglers, etc., which were enough to imprison twenty or thirty people at the same time. Deep in the ground, there is only one exit, and the cell is closed with an iron fence. It is a dream to escape from here.

Two rows of prison cells are set up along the stone walls on both sides of the dungeon, with a passage of more than two meters in the middle. When you walk to the end, there is an open space, which is considered a temporary interrogation room or torture office.

On the wall, there were various torture instruments such as iron whip, iron stick, sharp knife, etc., and even under the dim light, there was a line of large characters written in white gray on the wall.

"Frankly confess and be lenient, resist strictness"

Under the eight big characters, several military prisoners saw Liu Jun coming and stopped their work. Behind them, a man with all his body was hanging from a wooden pole, with many whip marks on his body.

"Oh, how about it? Has something been found?" Liu Jun said to Chang Sheng, who had been sitting aside and watching, who had been comforting his brother.

"It's almost done." Chang Sheng handed his audit record to Liu Jun. Liu Jun picked up the blood-stained record and looked at it a few times, "Is it sure they are Lao Huihui's subordinates?"

"It's all the careful works of Lao Huihui. A total of eighteen people have been caught in, and they have all been taken down." Chang Sheng reported the report, and his voice was a little proud. Although the thief was cunning, he still did not escape the patrol team's eyes. These people had just sneaked into the Tigerhead Castle, and before they even had time to make any moves, they were arrested one by one.

The ancestors of Changsheng's family were once executioners, but they were a long time ago, in the Yuan Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, his ancestors joined the anti-Yuan rebel army and later became a small official. However, since the time of Changsheng's grandfather, no one in the family had become an official and changed to business. Now Changsheng is the position of Jiutou Bird's tutoring, and his primary school is in charge of military discipline, and now he is also responsible for counter-espionage, etc., which is quite easy to do.

"Thank you for your hard work, it's rare that you took a day off today, but you encountered this incident." Liu Jun patted his brother's shoulder.

"Since you have all been questioned and confessed, you have dealt with these bandits." Chang Sheng glanced at the bandit who had fainted and said in detail. He had no mercy on these people. Even in the team, because he was in charge of military discipline, Chang Sheng was always showing his image as a black-faced god, and most of the team members were afraid of him.

Liu Jun pinched his chin and pondered. The incident was clear. Among the thieves who besieged inspector Zhao last time, there were more than a dozen elite horse thieves, all of whom were Lao Huihui's old brothers. Except for a few who escaped, this group of Lao Huihui's old brothers were killed by Liu Jun.

Liu Jun didn't know that among the horse thieves he killed, there was a young man who was not simple in his identity. He was the son of Lao Huihui's brother and his nephew. Lao Huihui didn't send him out last time, but the young man wanted to make meritorious service, so he secretly came out, and then he died directly at Liu Jun's subordinates.

When Lao Huihui saw his nephew again, he only saw a head of a man, a head of a man who had already rotten and could not see his face. Lao Huihui was furious, and his brother was even more furious.

"Old Huihui's brother, Zou Tianbao Ma Shou, was able to accept his brother's promise and brought three thousand bandits to kill him. It is said that this man is very cruel and ruthless. He likes to kill and have fun. He also likes the wife of officials and gentry. No matter whether he is old or ugly, the more his husband is, the more he likes him. He doesn't even let the old woman in his fifties or sixties go. The thief led the thief to come, but he was cunning. He first selected many elite soldiers, pretending to be vendors and people, sneaking into various passes, preparing to work inside and outside, and waiting for an opportunity to seize the door."

No matter how elite a thief is, he is still a thief. Under Chang Sheng's torture, the information was finally revealed.

"Three thousand thieves are coming." Liu Jun felt a little tooth pain. Since the leader of the team was Lao Huihui's brother, the three thousand thieves must not be the same as the last thief, and they collapsed with one blow. Moreover, this group of thieves were so cunning that they did not kill directly, but sent a small trick to sneak into the fort, preparing to be the inner guard to open the city.

Fortunately, Liu Jun suppressed several groups of thieves and was attacking salt vendors recently, so he was worried about the revenge of those people, so he added patrol teams to make them more vigilant, but let the Tigerheads destroy the thieves' treacherous plan.

"Send this information to Baosheng Fort immediately." Liu Jun spoke.

There is a tough battle this time.

"Close the fort gate and implement martial law. From now on, no one is allowed to enter or leave the fort. Without my handwritten letter, no one is allowed to leave the fort. Then send someone to check the inns and shops and houses, and we must ensure that there are no other detailed works lurking in the fort."

Liu Jun glanced at the dungeon again, and glanced at the thieves and bandits.

"Old Chang." Liu Jun reached out and asked Chang Sheng, "Do you think there are any of these detailed works that are willing to be correct?"

"Brother, do you mean?"

"If we can make one or two people go back and report the news, we will say that we are ready to cooperate with the inside and outside at any time. Do you think it is feasible?"

"It's hard." Chang Sheng shook his head, "And I don't believe these thieves. We have nothing to let them back. We can't guarantee it. If he agrees now and goes back, he will tell the situation truthfully, and we will be passive."

"What about pretending to let a few of them escape?"

"Let them escape?"

"First deliberately let them hear some important information, such as our combat plan, and then accidentally let them run away." Liu Jun said insidiously.

"I was arrested, ran away again, and brought back important information? I'm afraid Ma Shoucheng won't believe it."

"Then think about it for me, are there any other ways to use these detailed works." After all, the other party is a three thousand thieves, and maybe there will be more. Liu Jun is still a little worried with this small tiger-headed castle. Even if he can hold it by sticking to the castle, he will pay a lot of money.

Chang Sheng thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out.

"By the way, since these thieves are lurking and are ready to cooperate inside and outside, how do they plan to contact Ma Shoucheng? There must be any signals or something?" Liu Jun asked.

"There is no contact signal." Chang Sheng shook his head. Of course he had tried this. "The thief will raid the Hutou Castle at night tonight, and then when our attention is focused on the city wall, the lurking thief will set fire in the city, create chaos, and even assassinate you, and find a way to snatch the fort gate."

"How is that?" Liu Jun thought for a while, "I will send my order immediately, cancel the previous order, and don't be martial law first. Everyone is tight inside and loose outside, guard the city gates, but don't be too nervous. We have to make the horse thieves think that we have not discovered their offensive plan yet."

"Will this be too dangerous?"

"It's impolite to come without going. Since the horse thief thinks so simple, let him taste our power by himself."

Because the thieves were in large numbers, Liu Jun finally gave up the adventure of going out of the city to ambush the thieves. The nine-headed bird has nearly 600 formally with the reserve team members, and can even temporarily arm a few hundred people from the fort. It is not a problem to raise a thousand. But there are three thousand thieves, and they are still some old bandits.

These people are not ordinary bandits, so it is too risky to go out to fight. Liu Jun planned to defend the fort by relying on the fort. Fortunately, after this period of work, Hutou Castle has a four-meter-high fort wall and a four-meter-wide and three-meter-deep fort protection trench. With these, defense is even more beneficial.

At the fourth update, the last dark moment before dawn, this is also the most familiar time for people to sleep in the day.

To the south of the Tigerhead Castle, the Sky-Chunting Horse Shoucheng and a large group of bandits arrived quietly.

Although Ma Shoucheng was cruel, he was very cunning. He followed his brother from the beginning of Chongzhen to rebel, and now he has been rebelling for more than ten years. In recent years, fighting south and north, robbing east and west, has been considered a long-standing storm.

But his youngest favorite son died at the hands of a small martial artist in Macheng. If it weren't for the big brother's obstacle, he would have led his troops to flatten Macheng. After waiting for so long, he finally collected the information. The gentry in Macheng finally became careless again. The Minzhuang who had been temporarily summoned before were disbanded and returned home. Even several elite township warriors such as Baosheng Fort were moved to other counties.

There was only one patrol archers in the northern five gates of Macheng County, only dozens of people. Only Hutou Pass was stationed with his son-killing enemy Liu Jun, and his team formed a county training team that had only been more than a month ago.

After waiting for a long time, he finally waited for the opportunity.

After leading three thousand brothers to the death, he did not directly attack the Hutou Fort. Instead, he tried his best to send elite troops to sneak into each pass. Then he led his troops to cross three passes overnight, first heading west, then turning south and then east, circled around a large circle, and finally went around the south of Hutou Fort.

Ma Shoucheng rode on the horse, looking at the dark castle, with a hideous smile on his face. Damn Liu Jun, you never dreamed that I had already walked around your castle. The castle was quiet, which made him believe that the people in the castle didn't know that he had arrived at the city at this time.

Go to bed and have a good dream.

He raised his right hand with a grim smile, "When you kill, Tu Guang will breathe, don't let anyone go."
Chapter completed!