In Fengcheng Township, Yu's Neizhuang once again secretly opened it under the dim night where he could not see his fingers.
Then amidst the fine movement, many figures that describe sneaky and cripple came out; it's just that these scattered figures didn't have time to run far, they all turned into screams and screams in a sudden.
"Ah, my feet..."
"There are traps..."
"I can't move anymore, come and help..."
"Help.."
Then, in the bright flames and shaking lights outside Zhuangzi, these fugitives who hugged their feet and covered their legs on the ground groaning and crying, soon under the intimidation of brilliant swords and crossbows, they squeezed into action Captive.
There were also unbelievers who struggled to get up and wanted to run again, and then they were shot through their bodies amidst a scream of screams, and they fell on the mud and field ridges in a sumo fight. Upon seeing this scene, Yu Niancheng turned his head and walked down the wall without saying a word, leaving only a bunch of expressions of shrinking and horror behind him, as well as whispering discussions.
Because this is already the sixth day that Yujia Neizhuang has been under siege. In these six days, it was enough for many things to happen inside and outside Zhuangzi. For example, the private houses in Fengcheng Township except Zhuangzi were being emptied one by one.
Although these thief forces still have no active attack or attack, they just have time to build fortifications, stacking fences, and resisting horses outside Zhuangzi. They themselves are constantly squeezing and pressing, Zhuangzi The hearts of the people floating in endlessly.
And from the third day of the trap, under the complaint of the head of the temple responsible for the supply of food, Zhuangzi no longer killed pigs and sheep to provide meat and vegetables. Instead, they used aged wax and salted fish to stew into soup. To supply to the strong men who guard the wall;
On the fifth day, even a little oily meat in the soup was gone, only the dark aged pickled vegetable soup, paired with barely enough gluten noodles. As a result, even those in charge of Zhuang Ding complained to himself.
Therefore, the patriarch decided to kill three more pigs and let people rest until midnight after a meal of meat and vegetables. Then he called out and waited for an opportunity to rush out to see if some people could run out to report letters and ask for help. Who I think these besiegers have long been prepared.
So on the second day, except for the faintly remaining blood stains and footprints on the ground, nothing seemed to have happened. However, the pessimism and disappointment on the walls of Zhuangzi's courtyard has spread to everyone's face along with various rumors in the invisible corners.
And in the camp set up temporarily outside Zhuangzi. Having eaten the canned food with dry food for several days, Yu Eshui was once again a little cautious, and asked Chen Guanshui, the leader of the team who was looking at this lifeless Zhuangzi:
"School Wei Chen, how long do we have to wait here... Didn't we say that we had gathered people, so we went directly to Zhuangzi to ask..."
"It's because the situation has changed. According to the preliminary situation we have now, this Zhuangzi's problem is much more serious than expected... and even involves the anti-riot incident..."
Chen Guan Shui Que turned around and explained patiently for him.
"Therefore, it is necessary to act more carefully and securely now, so as not to involve more irrelevant people, and even become a shield for a small number of the most sinful generations, or deceit to drive the fate of filling the battle... "
"The same is also to draw the snake out of the cave, so that those who collude or have a relationship with it; take the initiative to jump out or show signs. Now the few people in the county who want to inform the news have already taken down; collude with it. Some of the other people in the country are under close surveillance."
"Furthermore, if you want to uproot the roots and credibility of the generations in the Hengduan Township, instead of just punishing the people on the surface, then you have to be more patient and prepare more with time. Means."
In fact, in the past few days, the Taiping Army’s anti-reaction rangers have successively captured many gangs trying to break through the blockade, or secretly returned to Zhuangzi, or spied on the unknown. People, I am afraid that there are not hundreds of people.
After interrogating and interrogating these temporary captures, many people were arrested along the way; and a dozen important suspects who had long-term relationships with them and had close interests were locked and controlled according to their plans.
And what he didn’t say was that after the incident was reported, it quickly attracted the attention of the Anti-Rebellion Committee. Therefore, this time he planned to use the corresponding processing process and results as a typical and representative representative of local conditions. One of the basic modes of sex, it can be extended to other places where it will be needed in the future.
While talking, I saw an information soldier on horseback speeding up and handing over a wooden folder document. Chen Guanshui smiled involuntarily after taking a look.
"Now it's okay, Niutouwu has been attacked... and the water thief leader who was exiled has been caught, and now he is escorted over..."
And the patriarch Yu Nianzong, who was inside the wall, brought a crowd of people to the ancestral hall, facing the lights, candles and cigarettes, and being smoked into a mottled night full of divine memorial tablets, he prayed and prayed sincerely and quietly. Pray.
To this end, he also secretly made a ambition, as long as the ancestors of the past can bless the family through this disaster, he will work with the ancestors to rebuild and expand the ancestral hall, and preach a great sacrifice for ten days, in order to congratulate and reward it.
Of course, although he is thinking of the ancestor’s blessing in his heart, he actually knows it very well; the hope and reliance on Zhuangwai’s current situation may fall on the foreign son-in-law of Niutouwu;
The so-called son-in-law is that the Yu clan will send out a woman from the clan regularly, so that the head of the water thieves who are entrenched in Niutouwu will be robbed halfway along with the supplies for the marriage, thinking of temporary prohibition and selfish desire. .
Of course, the lives of these poor women who fell into the den of thieves will not last long. But compared to the fact that the family is in this troubled world, it is an indispensable price and sacrifice to be able to hold one's own side and even have a strong career.
Anyway, the corresponding candidate, he always has a way not to let Dafang and his recent support take over. And under this age, there is always no lack of shabby doors for orphans and widows among the clansmen; it happens that they are adopted as adopted daughters by their clan chiefs and clan elders, and no one dares to talk too much.
It’s just that if you want to invite this at all costs to attract the crowd, or even re-execute the old tricks of encircling Zhao to save the Wei and plundering the county seat, as long as the price to be paid by the clan afterwards is also extremely painful.
I kept praying until the night; I used my kneeling legs and feet to rest on the woman's chest. Yu Nianzong managed to close his eyes easily but had another dream; I dreamed that Da Lang who was out was waiting for a few My sons, all of them have become famous and brought them back.
They saw the thieves who besieged Zhuangzi like wolves and tigers, attacking and killing them all on the spot. Then he cut all the captured necks and opened his mouth, and put them outside Zhuangzi to let the crows peck at the things that didn't have long eyes.
Yu Donglou and Yu Eshui, who were eating inside and out, were also caught and escorted in front of him. After breaking their hands and feet, they wrapped their whole body with silk cloth, poured lamp oil and hung them on the wall to make a fire.
And watching this scene, those clansmen full of awe and admiration, as well as the officers and soldiers brought back by a few children, are all praising and praising their own obedience, and vowed to ask for a scattered grace for themselves. Then he began to consider how to concoct the little girl in the East Building and whether to send it to Niutouwu.
However, these cheers and praises suddenly became a bit harsh, like crying and wailing. Patriarch Yu Nianze was suddenly awakened and found that there were panicked shouts and banging gongs, and the noise of running around and knocking over and tripping objects.
And the women who should have been waiting by her side disappeared.
"Zhuangzi is broken,"
"The culprit came in."
"Come on..."
Following these stern shouts, the shirtless villagers rushed out to get together, just trying to find the intruder, but they were shot by their own arrows from the wall amidst the sound of Huo Huo. Screaming and falling to the ground in a pool of blood.
And on the brick wall of the original village, there have been a few huge gaps. And there are many dangling swordsmen and armor pieces, reflecting the reflection of the swaying torch, and rushing toward Shuangchi to kill; and the resistance and counterattack encountered along the way are submerged one after another in the fleeting fights and shouts. in.
"The Taiping Army was ordered to arrest lawless desperadoes and rebels..."
"Good people stay in their own homes, and they must not mistakenly seek death..."
And in these slogans approaching one after another. Located in the most prosperous and exquisite building in the heart of the village, the elders of the ancestors of each house, who were once aloof, are also like rats who have been flooded in their nests, rushing out of their disheveled clothes, and loudly Calling for each other and relatives hid in the ancestral hall.
However, it seems that the tall and solid brick walls of the ancestral hall did not stop the armed invasion. The poisonous smoke balls smashed into the broken windows one by one made their plan of power and self-preservation vanished.
So these gray-haired clan chiefs were picked out one by one in the fierce coughing and crying, and then dragged down to the ground without any dignity, until they were pulled into the largest drying valley near Zhuangzi. , Was tied up and knelt on the ground with a sign in his hands.
At the same time, the large pond outside the village was gradually drained while the sky was turning white, revealing what was hidden among the silt, water weeds, and fishes that were struggling to bounce. Many of them were soaked. White bones, some of them still carry rotten wooden shackles and shackles.
After hearing the news, the people who voluntarily or involuntarily drove over from the nearby four villages and eight townships gradually filled the terraces and fields outside Zhuangzi after three poles of the sun. Subsequently, a well-prepared drama is about to kick off.
However, at this moment, Chen Guanshui, who was checking all kinds of evidence and torturing his confession overnight, received unexpected news.
"What, the patriarch is missing? ... I searched every corner carefully and couldn't find it?"
Immediately he found Yu Eshui and said.
"Brother Eshui, do you know there are rumors of secret roads or cellars in this village..."
"That said, I know there is one place..."
Yu Eshui thought and thought for a while before saying.
It is said that the cellar is actually a rather large private prison. Then, according to the height of the ground, a wooden grid was used to make a water prison with a lot of water and a few dry and dirty dry rooms on the ground.
Although the dry room is empty, there are heavy stains on the walls that have turned black; it still shows what happened. Among the sewage in the dungeon, two large and one small three bones were picked out with a bamboo fork; but other than that, there was no discovery.
Then, in the complex eyes of those detained Yu clan members, with all kinds of awe, resentment, prayers and admiration, Yu Eshui came to a woman who looked like a walking dead and said:
"I know you were taken over by that old thing, now he has finished the ball, but people don't know where to hide; if you want a chance to get revenge, maybe you should tell me something..."
"... Do you know that Kuro is still well..."
The woman didn't answer, but suddenly asked with a hoarse voice.
"Of course Kuro is very good now, and he still has a great future. The old thing sent someone to murder him and failed. Instead, he was captured to have these things now..."
Yu Eshui did not hesitate.
"The slave can be at ease..."
The woman lowered her eyes and said quietly.
Then, in the private prison full of decay and stench, as the relay sergeants continued to wash down a large bucket of water, layer by layer on the ground flowed through the dirty water, and finally gathered on the wall with the ground. , There was a bubbling and flowing sound.
Then, a strong man with a sledgehammer and a chisel came forward and struck one by one along the wall and the ground; they cut through an empty space without hitting a few times, and then more chisels went up and struggling. With a tilt, he immediately coaxed a large piece of wooden plywood to hold the hard soil portal.
So several armored soldiers holding half-length group cards, spikes, and fire bridles, hid in them one after another, and then broke out a burst of abnormal yells and roars; finally, there were intermittent screams and wailing.
When they reappeared in the dungeon, each hand dragged a smashed flesh and blood human body; and the last one shrank and was dragged out, only a loose undershirt could not cover the jagged ribs and brown spots The old man is surprisingly the patriarch Yu Nianzong.
"Soldier wait a minute, I'm afraid this is a big misunderstanding..."
It's just that he is still talking about with a smile.
"We are close friends with Song Limu and Zhang Neiban in the county... and the leader Liu of the rebel army has protected me..."
"This must be caused by treacherous people and instigation. Of course, I have a big family, and there are people from the unscrupulous tribe to the south.. It is extremely oversight that I am under."
However, when he escorted out of the dungeon and saw the woman standing outside, he couldn't help but change his face and said with stern expression:
"It's you bastard!!!, in vain, I have taken you to be beside me, so I repay it like this..."
Then, a heavy earhook suddenly made him turn his head over, and he could no longer speak. At this time, Chen Guanshui, who was watching with cold eyes,
Then he said to her:
"The little lady said that most of the places where things might be hidden have already been found... So there are still human relationships outside the law..."
"I will also honor the promise to give this old man to you for a period of time after the public trial has been gathered... as long as he can live to accept the punishment of the Ming dynasty..."
At this moment, half of his face swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the patriarch Yu Nianzong, whose mouth was full of blood and broken teeth, couldn't help but screamed and made a vague sound, and fell into the deepest panic, despair and fear. Up. (End of this chapter)