Xiang Qingniu's face was always a bit ugly. Ever since Fang Jie speculated that he was a Buddhist sect and started preaching in the southwest of the Sui Dynasty, the faint murderous intent in his eyes made people feel chills. Such a fat man who is amiable 90% of the time, the slight abnormality shown in this 10% of the time makes people feel nervous.
Fang Jie knew that Xiang Qingniu had a knot in his heart.
The person whose pseudonym Xiang Qingzheng left in Xiang Qingniu's heart.
More than ten years ago, Xiang Qingzheng left Chang'an to travel west, and when he returned, he was already a skeleton-like person. Even so, he still desperately tried to kill the hopeless Dalun Mingwang. In the end, Xiang Qingniu was unable to see Xiang Qingzheng for the last time. What kind of sadness would this be for a person who is willing to follow the second senior brother's surname
"Fang Jie."
Xiang Qingniu didn't call Xiao Fangfang this time, and he didn't have that cute and cunning smile on his face.
"While..."
He chased after Fang Jie, and said very seriously: "If it is really a member of the Buddhist sect, I will take action."
Fang Jie nodded and didn't say anything more.
All the roads outside Chencun, large and small, have been blocked by the Black Banner Army. The chief general was assassinated, and the 60,000 Black Banner Army officers and soldiers felt a fire in their hearts. After the people from the Xiaoqi School found out that the assassins might be hiding in Chencun, the soldiers of the Black Banner Army could not wait to rush in and dig those assassins into pieces.
When Fang Jie arrived outside Chen Village, half of the people in the village escaped spontaneously, and the people from the Xiaoqi School were questioning each other, whether they saw someone who looked like a disciple of the Buddha Sect. The news I got after questioning made people feel chills. In this small village, less than half of the people were called into the sect.
Recently, Xiaoqi School's main target is Yunnan Road, Jiangnan and Dongjiang, and it doesn't pay close attention to the things that are under the eyes of the family. Who knew that those cult members would be so courageous, and they already had a large number of believers in Huangyang Dao. It was just because he was not as covert as usual in preaching, and the local government couldn't keep an eye on it so carefully because the people had nothing to do throughout the winter. No one thought that the cult's spread would be so fast.
During the slack season of the common people, the young and strong men either train at the farming site, or go to work at the Zhuqueshan camp. Now there are many construction projects in the camp, which require a lot of labor. These people go to work in winter to earn some money. Can subsidize the family. Besides, the Black Banner Army took great care of the common people. Even if they didn't pay money and only took care of food, the men were willing to go to the camp to help.
Most of the rest of the village are old and weak women and children, and these people happen to be the first choice for the spread of the cult. Especially those peasant women, who had no knowledge at all, were fooled around by those cultists who said something that seemed to make sense.
"Are you Muramasa?"
Liao Sheng glanced at the old man standing in front of the crowd, walked over and asked in a cold voice.
"General Hui, I am the village official of Chen Village, and my name is Chen Handian."
The old man answered quickly.
Liao Sheng looked at the old man, thought for a while and asked, "How many people are there in your village?"
"Returning to the general, there are a total of 622 people, including men, women and children. Thirty-one people work at the Tuntian Point on the west side of Zhuque Mountain, and 103 people work at the Daying Water Village on Zhuque Mountain. While working, there should be more, but after the warm spring, many come back."
"There are only more than half of the people outside the village now?"
Liao Sheng glanced at the number of people and asked.
Chen Handian glanced subconsciously, and then replied timidly: "General, I counted just now, and there are still 270 people in the village who have not come out."
Liao Sheng asked again: "Why did you come out and the rest didn't?"
Chen Handian replied: "After the army surrounded the village, no officials entered the village. I saw that something was wrong, so I beat the gong to make the people gather outside the village. Those who didn't come out... probably... probably didn't come out." Do you hear me?"
"did not hear it?"
Liao Sheng snorted coldly and said: "Chen Handian, I don't want you to hide anything now. Something must have happened to you. General Xiahou, who was taking turns guarding Xinyang, was assassinated, and four generals in the army were killed. This matter The matter is too big, and the lord has already been alarmed, and now the lord has arrived. Think about how the lord treats you, and if you feel that you are worthy of your conscience, continue to lie. Without you, I can also find out!"
"The country... the Duke of the country is here too?!"
Chen Handian was obviously taken aback, his eyes began to wander around. When he saw a young man in a black robe and a huge and majestic white lion beside the crowd, he trembled involuntarily with fright.
"In the village... there are indeed some outsiders."
Chen Handian stammered and said: "In winter, an outsider who claimed to be from the place where the gods live in the north came to the village and begged for water from the people in the village. He didn't leave after that, and told the villagers at the entrance of the village that day Some stories of good deeds. At that time, the village was slack, so everyone went to listen to it, and they all felt that what the man said made sense. Gradually, some people were obsessed with it. At first, I felt something was wrong, But that person didn't encourage the common people to do anything, instead he talked about the principles of Taoism to be good, so I didn't bother..."
"How many people like this are there in the village!"
Liao Sheng asked angrily.
"There are... a dozen or so."
Chen Handian suddenly thumped and fell to his knees: "I really don't know that those people dared to assassinate General Xiahou. The people outside have heard the stories of the famous generals of the Black Banner Army. Even if they were beaten to death, we would not dare to take them in. They went to the village a few days ago and said they would rest for a while and leave soon. No one would have guessed that they committed such an earth-shattering crime... Now the Most of the people who didn’t come out were detained by them.”
"Where?"
Liao Sheng asked.
"Liu Tuhu's house is at the back of the village. His house is big. His mother-in-law deeply believes in those missionaries and treats them like gods, so she took them in at home."
Liao Sheng squatted down, broke a wooden stick and handed it to Chen Handian: "Draw out all the terrain and houses in the village, try to draw as carefully as possible, you are the village leader, what are the names of the hundred and ten households in this village, where do they live, where do they live?" How about the house, how many trees are there in the yard, draw as many as you can remember, the more detailed the better. Especially in Liu Butcher's house, it's best that there are no mistakes at all!"
In fact, Chen Handian was scared out of his wits a long time ago, so he didn't dare to delay at this moment. He drew the map of the village according to his own memory and revised it from time to time.
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Fang Jie walked up to Liao Sheng and stopped. Liao Sheng pointed to the map Chen Handian had just drawn and said, "My lord, this is Liu Tuhu's house. It's a big place. In the beginning, more than a dozen people from the cult lived in his house. But Now there are more than 200 people who have not come out, and they are obviously detained by these cult members. Therefore, my subordinates speculate that here, here, here, these places are guarded by cult members."
Liao Sheng pointed out several important locations in the village: "These cultists have been in Chencun for several days and have not left. Now they are detaining the people. It is obviously premeditated. They are just waiting for our troops to come over." , but still can't figure out what their purpose is."
"Hold people hostage..."
Fang Jie pondered for a while, looked at the terrain of the village, and then ordered: "Let all the soldiers retreat, and replace the village with troops from Xiaoqi School and Jingbu Battalion, take these people five miles away, and send someone to watch them. Come on, no one is allowed to leave."
"Here."
Liao Sheng agreed, turned around and told people to do it.
"Fatty."
Fang Jie turned his head and glanced at Xiang Qingniu: "Let the two seniors of Yiqiguan guard the east and north of the village respectively. You enter the village from the west, and I enter the village from the south."
"I also need to go."
As usual, Mo Ningzhi walked a few steps forward with Mo Ningzhi, and straightened the hair that was blown by the wind on his forehead: "If it is really a member of the Buddhist sect, I will also enter the village. I have not yet met with the Western Region Buddhist sect." I have played against each other, I don’t want to miss it.”
Not far away, Mu Xiaoyao, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, opened his eyes, looked at Fang Jie and said, "There are no practitioners in the front of the village, and there are eight practitioners above the seventh rank, two of the eighth rank, and one of the ninth rank. , and one more... I can't rely on my perception. The man's cultivation base is obviously very strong. After realizing the situation in the village, he immediately sealed off an area with his cultivation base. I couldn't get in, so I don't know if there are still people. other practitioners."
"Seal it?"
Fang Jie frowned slightly, and turned back to tell Chen Xiaoru: "The previous military order is not to be carried out. Everyone, including the Jingbu Battalion and the Xiaoqi School, retreated one mile away from the village. Guard against Mo Ningzhi, I will come to the south, and leave the west to Daoist."
"Let me go in too, I'll get closer so I can perceive it more clearly."
Mu Xiaoyao said.
Fang Jie shook his head: "No, you and Qingfan stay outside. If there is any accident over there, the two of you will rush to help."
Shen Qingfan and Mu Xiaoyao nodded and did not argue any more.
"I don't think it's that simple..."
Xiang Qingniu suddenly said: "Cultivators are very arrogant. Since they deliberately lured us here, they have nothing to fear. Why do they want to hijack the people? Only the lowly people in the world will know how to do this. Using it is no different from hooligans. They detain the people, will they have any other plans?"
Xiang Qingniu said: "If they threaten the common people, we won't be able to take action."
"Two hundred and seventy people..."
Fang Jie murmured, that was the number of people held hostage in the village.
There was something chilling in his eyes, a look that couldn't be described clearly.
"Enter the village."
Fang explained two words, and then strode into the village.
Just when they were about to reach the entrance of the village, suddenly there was a very soft and light but absolutely clear voice in the village, which was clearly heard by everyone outside the village.
"It came really quickly... Daoist Xiang Qingniu, the black flag military solution, you two can enter the village, and no one else is allowed to enter. I have 270 innocent people in my hand. How many of you are there?" If one person enters the village, I will kill ten people. For people of your status, the life and death of the people may not be important. But you are all people who like to make a name for themselves. If this is the case, then let your own name be fulfilled Bar."
Fang Jie and Xiang Qingniu looked at each other, and then said to Mo Ningzhi and Yiqiguan, "Stay outside, the two of us go in."
The two walked into the village side by side, and everyone felt a little nervous.
No one knows what those cult members in the village want to do. Perhaps they made such a big case to lure Fang Jie and Xiang Qingniu. But... why the two of them
"I know who it is."
After hearing what the man said, Xiang Qingniu's expression changed, he shook his head and said, "He did lure us here on purpose, it must be the two of us."
Fang Jie nodded: "I missed it then, don't miss it again this time."