In the early morning of February 17th, near Dabie Mountain.
For some people, Fang Qifo's death actually had a certain prediction. But for his death at this time, most people also have unexpected emotions in their hearts, more or less, mixed with anger, sadness, loss, astonishment, and so on.
For Tie Tianying, Zong Feixiao, and others, Fang Qifo's death was the last part of the entire layout that should not be missed. But in the end, Fang Qifo was rescued under the most impossible circumstances. During the chase, he bit down a group of fugitives, and he still had a fluke mentality in his heart. irreparable. That Ning Liheng's sudden action at this time, in the hearts of everyone in the punishment department, there is almost no preparation at all.
For them, anger is the first. For Baihua and the others, anger is actually second. It is just a conditioned reflex driven by sadness. And this kind of emotion is more complicated on the side of Lin Yechan, Sikong Nan and others, including Wang Yin who is hiding in the distance and watching the development quietly. In a sense, they even have a faint sense of frustration in their hearts.
After Fang Qifo was rescued, he once said a few words to Chen Fan, one of which was to admit that he did not know about the three Manichaeans who had the identity of Cao Kuaiying. He didn't know it, and Wang Yin might not know it either. Outside of Fang La's system, if there were Manichaeism's inner responders, only Sikong Nan would be left.
Of course, the case of Manichaeism involves a wide range, because the tentacles of religion also extend very long. For such a large sect, Fang Qifo and others could not fully grasp the details, and they were finally found by the thoughtful Wang Yin. The possibility exists. Such speculation, many years later. Nor has it been confirmed. But Fang Qifo's rescue, for everyone, did not directly bring about a good impact. Perhaps Fang Qifo had already figured this out the moment he left the cage.
He is a real burden, and he will make Fang Baihua and others lose the opportunity to escape. It will make Fang Baihua, Chen Fan and the others put their last strengths to work desperately, and it will also allow the power of the Punishment Department to really exert its strength, pursue and fight hard, and never give others a chance to get away with it. On the other side, being able to let all the people he really care about die in front of him may be the best revenge for some people.
Fang Qifo's head was suddenly cut off. Looking at the young man dressed as a scholar on the Tupo above. Lin Yechan and Sikongnan's heads were somewhat empty. But among these people, the ones who really had a complicated and astonished mood were not those outsiders, but Zhu Biao, who was following Ning Yi at this time.
He really didn't expect such a scene to happen.
After fighting with Chen Fan. Follow Ning Yi all the way south, he is the only one who knows part of the inside story among all the followers. Ning Yi wanted to save Chen Fan, wanted to save the woman named Watermelon, and even wanted to talk to Fang Qifo. Finally, Chen Fan and others were obsessed with them. He probably knew about these things.
However, the situation is serious. It was too late for the Secret Investigation Division to go south, and there were not many available people around Ning Yi. Although all kinds of trivial information have been summed up, in two days, no detailed outline can be organized. Zhu Biao had seen Ning Yi sitting in the room with his eyes closed and brooding, tapping his fingers more than once. The last time he saw Ning Yi like this was at Zhujiazhuang. After that time, Liang Shan died directly or indirectly in Ning Yi. There are tens of thousands of people in Yi's hands.
But Zhu Biao is not a fool, although he is usually carefree. But to be able to practice martial arts to this level, after all, he is still a person with a quick mind. In such a situation, there are many forces involved, but little information, if it is him. There is absolutely no way to think of it. And even Ning Yi, Zhu Biao can see the anxiety that has accumulated on him over time, and it is impossible to meet Fang Qifo, but it is only luck that Chen Fan and Liu Xigua can escape.
However, luck did not come. In the past two days, Ning Yi ran back and forth to calculate the changes. Under the situation that the situation became more and more clear, he also asked in detail about the terrain leading to the Dabie Mountains, but after all, due to time constraints Limited, no on-the-spot investigation was possible. Later, I also sent a few articles to the surrounding prefectures and counties, as a seemingly unintentional foreshadowing, but it did not play a role later.
Zhu Biao looked at these things in his heart, and knew that when things came to a head that night, he, Ning Yi and a group of people were still rushing to the front of the chasing team. Along the way, Ning Yi had speculated on several places where an ambush might be taken. There were two miscalculations, because it was always difficult to understand the terrain based on the terrain mentioned by others. Arrived in a hurry.
The firing of several elm cannons disrupted the entire situation, and Ning Yi's attitude and momentum in that moment truly overwhelmed everyone present. But Zhu Biao could understand that in this strong momentum, Ning Yi didn't have much leverage. Eight elm cannons and more than 20 people could not decide the whole situation, and even Ning Yi's shot this time had already taken a great risk.
After catching up all the way, that violent attitude is enough to shock many people around, but the limit is the limit. Ning Yi broke Liangshan, the whole layout is exquisite, every time I think about it, it is admirable, but it is also because of his participation in the whole thing, Zhu Biao also understands that the so-called miracle is not a castle in the air on top of delusion, every step of Ning Yi, It is only to expand the power that can be used to the maximum, which will eventually cause a chain reaction. How can these people with Fang Qifo escape, at the moment, it has become a dead end. Only this move of Ning Yi at this time was almost completely unexpected to Zhu Biao.
Even if Fang Qifo must die tonight, in front of his friends and women, whether he will die at the hands of the enemy or at the hands of his own are completely different concepts. When Ning Yi rushed up and swung the knife down, Zhu Biao's heart was stunned, but also flashed a hint of enlightenment.
It's just... how does this guy do it...
The mountain wind whistled, and on the suspension bridge behind, the woman's cry like a cry came over. Ning Yi stood in the faint light of the swaying fire on the top of the mountain, holding a knife in one hand and a human head in the other, his eyes swept coldly at the two groups of Manichaeans and the Ministry of Punishment below, then turned around and went down the mountain from the side that came up: "Kill them. Look for a chance to cut down the suspension bridge!"
Fang Baihua and others attacked fiercely, Zhu Biao blocked the opponent with a gun, and the crossbow shot out from the rear. Fang Baihua gritted his teeth because of what Ning Yi said, "looking for an opportunity to cut down the suspension bridge". After making two moves with Zhu Biao, he finally retreated and led a few people around him to the end of the suspension bridge. She knew that time was running out, and the people on the suspension bridge would not be able to get away with it any longer, so she shouted at the other side: "Go!" on the suspension bridge. Luo Bingren and others pulled the arm of the watermelon and ran towards it.
Zhu Biao knew in his heart that Ning Yi's purpose was not to take Fang Baihua's life after all. The hunters from below rushed up here, the flames flickered, Fang Baihua led the four around him to block the tidal wave of offensive coming in front. In a blink of an eye, there were three people. Some catchers tried to throw torches on the suspension bridge, Fang Baihua tried his best to knock down a few, but the end of the bridge still caught fire.
Over there, the watermelon, who had been dragged backwards, followed Ning Yi's figure as he walked down, and a long time passed. Finally, he shouted: "Devil! Ning Yi! No matter how fierce you are! I will find you! You wait for me—"
This sentence is full of threats. From a distance, Ning Yi raised his knife here, and the cold words passed in the night: "I'll wait for you!"
The exchange between the two sides has now ended.
Threats on the rivers and lakes are commonplace, and no one regards these two sentences as the same thing. Ning Yi walked down the slope. Zhu Biao and others rushed back, and Zong Feixiao, Tie Tianying, and Fan Zhong had also chased after them.
"Ning Yi, how dare you kill Fang Qifo..."
Ning Yi raised his head indifferently: "So what?"
"You know that the prisoner designated by the imperial court has a strict order from the Ministry of Punishment, asking him to go to Beijing alive..."
"You want this head?" Ning Yi raised Fang Qifo's head and handed it to Zong Feixiao, Zong Feixiao said solemnly: "I want to deal with you..." But Tie Tianying next to him stretched out his hand to take it and returned Without touching it, Ning Yi threw the head to the back again, into Zhu Biao's hand.
"Seal this head with lime! Zong Feixiao! Tie Tianying! Fan Zhong! Escorting Fang Qifo to the capital is your task. You set up a bureau without authorization and failed in the end! You want me to help you clean up this mess. Zong Feixiao, you dare to talk to me like this now!?"
"If I talk to you like this, I'll kill you today—"
Zong Feixiao had an angry look on his face, but when he pointed his finger at it, the fast catchers in the back suddenly looked like they were drawn with swords. Here, the members of the Secret Investigation Division also set up their crossbows in an instant. Ning Yi confronted the three with icy eyes, but he did not lose any advantage in his aura.
"Zong Cao Tou. If you are sure that you can bear the consequences of offending me, I will accompany you."
This sentence is not high-pitched, but it is a word that makes people feel chills. In the past, Ning Yi might not have verbally spoken such superficial threats, but at this time, it was difficult to tell exactly how he was feeling. After a few seconds of this confrontation, Ning Yi's eyes slowly swept across the three, and his fingers pointed down.
"Go back and think about it! Are you arrogant and arrogant? Did you lose Fang Qifo in your hands? Did I help you put away this mess? A threat from Fang Qifo, you actually I really hesitated. Where will the face of the imperial court be thrown away by you? After thinking about it, I will give you back the head! Also, Fang Qifo is dead, and the bandit chief is still there, Fang Baihua, Sikongnan, Lin Evil Chan, Wang Nanda, these Manichaeans demons, when will you wait—"
In the second half of this sentence, the tone has become more and more high-pitched, and Lin Yechan and others on the other side of the hill can probably hear it, and they don't know how they feel.
But no matter what the mood of Lin Yechan and Sikongnan, or what decision Zong Feixiao, Tie Tianying and others would make. At one end of the suspension bridge, Fang Baihua's subordinates eventually became less and less. When the last companion fell, the woman's body was already covered in blood, with scars everywhere, and even her face had a terrifying knife mark, but the woman waving the red spear, still The offensive enveloped the front, trying to push back the fast catchers who were rushing towards the suspension bridge.
Finally, a hook slid into her shoulder blades, and several of the arresters exerted their strength at the same time, pulling her to the ground, Fang Baihua shouted, and the spear swung over and stabbed at everyone, and also wrapped around the chain, surrounding Several more arresters rushed up, and the two sides exerted their strength again, and a group of cyan things rose in the air. At this moment, she did not know how much force she used to break the chain, swinging away the attacking crowd, and hit her body several times. The old blue flag of Yongle Dynasty was put on the spear.
The blood was about to cover her eyes, but she glanced at Fang Qifo's headless corpse for the last time—the approaching Chakuai had already dragged the corpse away—then turned around and rushed out!
Ning Yi on this side turned his head, and when Lin Yechan, Sikong Nan and others on the other side turned around, they saw the figure jumping out of the sky from the side of the suspension bridge. The figure fell, and Fang Baihua's last voice was faintly heard in the air:
"It is the equality of the law... There is no superiority... Let go of the evil and hoe the strong... For the people's eternal happiness... "
That was the slogan that Fang La shouted during the uprising. This voice and the blue flag only stayed in the air for a moment. It belonged to the last afterglow of the Jiang Nan La uprising, and it disappeared here.
The flames burned through the drawbridge, swinging the long, old drawbridge to the side of the cliff. The dozen or so surviving people rushed into the distant forest, and Lin Yechan and others were still chasing them from below...
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In the last years of the Wu Dynasty, due to the intensification of land annexation, the increase of the imperial court's harsh taxes, and the implementation of tyranny such as Hua Shigang, the Manichaean uprising led by Fang La shook half of Jiangnan. After being suppressed, Manichaeism still survived and developed at the bottom of the people. In the following years, Manichaeism uprisings broke out one after another, and all of them were suppressed.
At this time, due to the internal and external troubles of the Wu Dynasty, the idea of using powerful medicines for serious illnesses, and dealing with the aftermath of the rebellion, most of them adopted large-scale massacres, and until the fall of the Wu Dynasty, more than 200 people died under the sword successively because of the Mani teaching plan. Thousands.
Due to the limitations of the peasant uprising at this time, although there were a very small number of uprising leaders with relatively good and beautiful thoughts, the peasants who gained power in the uprising became more brutal and inhumane than the previous imperial government. , everywhere.
The oppressed rebels against the oppressor, ultimately only to gain the power to oppress others in return. It seems that only this theorem has never changed in all the chaos and turmoil.
No one was spared.