I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

Five o'clock in the morning is the time when people sleep the deepest.

Four figures were crouching stealthily behind the rocks on the roadside, watching everything around them cautiously.

The city wall of Tai'an County is obviously better than that of Taiping County. There are stones mixed in the soil, and soldiers patrolling back and forth on the city wall.

"Tsk tsk tsk! Look at their public security, it's much better than ours. Even if they follow my method, they won't lose too much in the end." Jiang Yuan looked up and down and nodded with satisfaction.

"Chen Qing, bring here everything I asked you to make." Jiang Yuan spoke in an orderly manner.

Wang Gang carried two scarecrows and stuck them hard into the ground. Chen Qing and others were busy for a while and had stuck nearly a hundred scarecrows into the ground.

Jiang Yuan frowned. The scarecrow in front of him had hands and feet, and barely looked like a human. The one behind him was just a bunch of grass.

Fortunately, it was dark, so it was not difficult to get away with it.

When everything was ready, Jiang Yuan and the other three immediately lit torches and shouted together.

"I am following the orders of Governor Tian Wen to lead the troops to suppress the bandits!"

The four of them used all their strength, and the sound continued to echo over Tai'an County.

Jiang Yuan and his men didn't have time to pause and shouted again, "Tai'an County garrison soldiers, rush out quickly! Let's wipe out the bandits together!"

"Kill!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

At this moment, the soldiers patrolling on the city wall suddenly became excited and pointed their torches at the place where Jiang Yuan and the other three were standing.

"Reinforcements! Reinforcements are really coming!"

"Kill! Kill them!"

After a few loud shouts, a middle-aged man dressed as a leader drew his sword and jumped directly from the city gate tower.

The horse thieves stationed outside the city all stood up instantly and looked cautiously in the direction where Jiang Yuan and the other three were standing.

"Almost done, let's go back to Taiping County!" Jiang Yuan climbed onto Wang Gang's back very nimbly.

The four of them ran out with their heads down.

The soldiers who rushed out of Tai'an County directly encountered the horse thieves, and the two sides started fighting.

Gradually, the middle-aged man who was the first to rush out of the city gate felt something was wrong.

Damn it! What's going on? Why are those people just standing there and not coming over?

With strong doubts, the middle-aged man forced back his opponent and rushed to where Jiang Yuan and the other four had just stood.

"Damn it! Scarecrow! You've fallen into the trap!" The middle-aged man roared angrily and killed a horse thief with a backhanded blow.

"Retreat! Retreat back into the city and don't come out!"

"Hahaha! You were lured out by a bunch of scarecrows. I wonder which leader came up with this plan!"

"What a bunch of idiots! Brothers, charge into the city and don't let them close the gates!"

The wild laughter of several horse thief captains could be heard.

The middle-aged man looked sad and angry. The city gate was already wide open and it would be difficult to close it. As long as these soldiers were eliminated, more than 2,000 people in Tai'an County would become sheep.

"Guard the city gate! Never let the thieves enter the city even if you die!"

The middle-aged man shouted loudly and rushed back to the city gate alone.

There were about two hundred soldiers in the city, and the bandits could not defeat them immediately, so the battle was extremely stalemate.

"Hurry up and go to the other two counties to call for help! We must take this city no matter what!" A leader of the horse thieves shouted.

……

Jiang Yuan and his three companions ran all the way to Taiping County and watched the surrounding situation nervously.

Jiang Yuan's forehead was already covered with sweat.

According to his original plan, he would use reinforcements to lure out the soldiers stationed in Tai'an County and let them fight a bloody battle with the horse bandits.

Jiang Yuan had long experienced the public security in Tai'an County. Even more than a hundred horse thieves had no chance of breaking through.

At that time, the horse thieves from Taiping County and Taizong County will definitely be called over.

At this time, Jiang Yuan and his men rushed into the city, although Taiping County had not yet had time to recruit soldiers.

But there are constables.

Who are these constables? They are the bandits from the Black Cloud Mountain. When the time comes, I will lead more than 300 bandits to rush to Tai'an County. Instead of attacking them from both sides, I will definitely be able to kill all the horse bandits without leaving a single one alive.

The most crucial thing now is to see whether these horse thieves in Taiping County will leave.

If I leave, everything will be fine and everything will develop according to Jiang Yuan's plan.

But if not, the lives and deaths of more than 2,000 people in Tai'an County would all be attributed to Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan rubbed his hands together, his eyes fixed on the surroundings.

In the blink of an eye, nearly an hour had passed, and the horse thieves lying in ambush around Taiping County still did not make any movement.

"Impossible! Aren't you planning to gather together and attack Tai'an County?" Jiang Yuan's face looked a little ferocious.

If he really didn't go, he would be responsible for more than two thousand lives.

Even though Jiang Yuan admitted that he was not a good person, he could not withstand such psychological torture.

"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer..." Jiang Yuan's lips trembled.

As time passed, the unwillingness to believe on Jiang Yuan's face became more and more obvious.

The dim moonlight reflects human nature, and the crazy gamblers are in disbelief.

"How is this possible! How is this possible!" Jiang Yuan seemed to be deflated, sitting on the ground with a pale face.

Half an hour has passed, and the horse thieves here are still silent.

"Sir, how should I put it? Victory and defeat are common in the military." Zhao Kai spoke to comfort him.

Before Jiang Yuan could speak, a loud shout suddenly came from the distance.

"Hatu! Go support Tai'an County! We can't hold on any longer!"

Jiang Yuan stood up instantly as if he had been injected with chicken blood. Under the dim moonlight, a horse thief with a broken arm shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Die!"

A hoarse voice suddenly sounded behind the horse thief. A soldier whose chest had been pierced by a long sword used his last bit of strength to grab the long sword on his chest and rushed towards the horse thief.

A soldier and a thief fell to the side of the road at the same time. This scene made Jiang Yuan's heart wrench.

It’s not that the bandits didn’t come to ask for help, but that the soldiers of Tai’an County were too selfless, so the bandits only passed on the message now.

"Brothers! Support the Second Chief!"

The third leader Hatu roared, stood up from the dense forest, jumped on his horse and rushed towards Tai'an County.

Hundreds of horse thieves left Taiping County at the same time.

"Sir!" Zhao Kai growled. Although they were both soldiers, the death of the soldier in Tai'an County had deeply touched him.

Jiang Yuan lay on Wang Gang's back again, biting and making noises.

"Enter the city! Bring people to attack!"

Even rabbits will bite when they are cornered, let alone humans. After being shot with an arrow for no apparent reason and having experienced such a long period of mental torture, Jiang Yuan was already furious.

Wang Gang and the other two took a step at the same time and flew directly towards the gate tower of Taiping County.

This time, because they were well prepared, before the people lying in ambush could launch a magic attack, Chen Qing had already kicked them over.

"Damn it! You two have made up yourselves. I am Chen Qing, and this is the county magistrate!" Chen Qing cursed loudly.

He grabbed one of them by the collar and asked, "Where is Ma Zhi? Where did Wang Jue and Kong Xuan go?"

"In, in the county government office..." The guy being carried weakly pointed his finger at the county government office which was already brightly lit.

Jiang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the cowardly Ma Zhi had not run away yet.

Without saying a word, Wang Gang carried Jiang Yuan on his back again and rushed to the county government office.

"Ma Zhi!"

Jiang Yuan shouted loudly from a distance.

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure rushed out from the county government office, crawling and rolling.

"My lord! My lord! You are finally back!"