No matter how things end on the rivers and lakes, all in all, the Bixia Yuanjun Temple bloody case, as well as the Bai Yujing Seven Sword Sect bloody cases, these two cases were announced to have been solved with Yi Shuihuan's arrest. With the "king catcher" Li Xuanyi personally presiding, at least in the official face, these two bloody cases can no longer be related to Cheng Li by any means.

Of course, Cheng Li is currently in the imperial court, and he can be described as hot. So there are few people who dare to use these two cases to play on the topic. took the opportunity to make it difficult for Cheng Li. But above the officialdom, the situation is fickle, and it is always better to avoid trouble.

After the case was concluded, Cheng Li no longer delayed. Early the next morning, he took Guan'er and the people of the Demon Temple, led the 1,000 elites of the Yulin Army, and set off south again. There was no more obstacle along the way, and the army marched day and night. It is less than half a moon, and it has entered the boundary of Yangzhou.

Yangzhou belongs to the south of the Yangtze River, and it is the first prosperous and rich place in the world except for Bai Yujing. Since ancient times, it has been the title of "Yangzhou is rich in the world". Even the common people in ordinary villages and towns live in great prosperity.

Many businessmen have been to Fuso and Kojuri, as well as Ryukyu and other countries. I have seen with my own eyes what local names, what two classes of nobles, what kings, etc., no matter clothing, food, housing and transportation, at most they are only equal to the relatively wealthy rich peasants in Yangzhou. If it is a local common person, in the eyes of the merchants of Great Wei, it is even worse than the beggars of Great Wei.

However, the Yulin Army led by Cheng Li, the first village they saw after entering the Yangzhou boundary only left behind broken walls everywhere and at least hundreds of charred black corpses among the weeds.

Cheng Li grabbed the reins of the horse, straddled the back of the "servant" of the dragon horse, and silently watched everything in front of him. Although Guan'er has always jumped out, at this time, she was also infected by Cheng Li and the surrounding atmosphere, and her eyebrows showed an unbearable look.

Cheng Weibo, the deputy general of the Yulin Army, also stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "It seems that the Japanese have landed on the shore. Most of the time this village was attacked by them, which is why it suffered misfortune. ”

Cheng Li nodded and said, "That's probably it." In any case, these are the people of the Middle Atom, and they can't look at their abandoned corpses in the wilderness and ignore them. Let the army camp on the spot. Divide half of the manpower and gather all the bones in the village and bury them. ”

Cheng Weibo clenched his fists and led his life. The soldiers of the Yulin Army then dismounted. Half of the soldiers camped on the spot, while half went to the village to collect the remains of the victims.

The number of victims is greater than originally thought. The Yulin Army Brigade entered the village in the afternoon. But after all the remains were collected, it was already nightfall. A bright moon quietly hung high in the sky.

In a depressing atmosphere, all the Yulin Army took turns to eat dinner. Cheng Li put down the dishes and chopsticks, suddenly stood up, and instructed Cheng Weibo: "Send more people to arrange sentry posts to prevent the enemy from sneaking up at night." I'm going out for a while. ”

Immediately, he ignored Cheng Weibo's reaction, took a step, and walked out of the tent. Wan'er's big black eyes turned and shouted, "Brother Cheng, wait for someone." "Hurry up from behind.

Cheng Li glanced at her, did not speak, and let her follow. He pulled the dragon horse "Taifu" out of the camp, turned over on his horse, and rode to the southeast and galloped.

After a while, the "servant" ran up a small hill and calmly stopped his steps. Behind him, Guan'er also chased the horses to catch up. While panting, he said, "Brother Cheng, why are you running so fast." It's so late, and the pirates won't run away. If we want to kill, we still have time. ”

Cheng Li said in a deep voice: "Guan'er, do you know that I want to kill someone?"

Wan'er smiled: "Of course." In the afternoon, I went to see it for myself. The remains of many of the victims are still very fresh. It will never be more than twelve hours before the time of death. Most of those wouldn't have gone far. So Brother Cheng, you must want to catch up, kill all those widows, and avenge the victims in the village. ”

Cheng Li smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "I understand it myself." As the commander of an army, I shouldn't have left the soldiers of the army alone and killed people by myself.

But when I saw the miserable situation in the village, it was like a fire in my heart, and I couldn't suppress it no matter what. If you don't kill all the damned pirates, this fire won't be extinguished. ”

Wan'er rarely put away her smile and sighed, "Actually...... Brother Cheng, I'm just like you. When I buried the victims during the day, I noticed that there were even many children among them. The eldest was only five or six years old, and the youngest was still in infancy.

Those damned pirates, how did they do it? They are even worse than beasts! Although the Holy Gate is called a demon by those righteous paths, even we will never kill children. ”

Cheng Li said slowly: "So, you must return a tooth for a tooth, blood for blood! ”

As he spoke, Cheng Li had already unfolded his spiritual power to the extreme. Coupled with the secret assistance of Ryoma's "Taifu", the coverage of the spiritual power net has reached an astonishing level of nearly 100 miles.

Therefore, in just a moment, Cheng Li has already discovered something. He didn't say much more, and immediately rode out. Gallop northeast. Guan'er also hurriedly followed from behind, refusing to be left behind.

The two of them ran out of more than forty miles in one go, and suddenly, the sound of waves faintly came from ahead. There were bursts of rough laughter in the middle of it. Cheng Li turned over and dismounted, patted the "servant" twice on the neck, signaling it to hide on its own for the time being, and he jumped up to the treetops, condescendingly, following the sound.

As far as the eye can see, there is a beach about 30 zhang ahead. Bonfires were burning on the beach, and hundreds of would-be robbers with large knives at their waists were sitting around the bonfires, laughing and singing loudly while drinking and meat.

These widows are fierce in appearance and rude in demeanor, and at a glance you know that they are definitely veterans of murder and arson. Around them, there were more than 20 boats, large and small. These ships are full of stuff and stuff. It seems that they are all the spoils of war after the pirates plundered the village everywhere.

In addition, there were even dozens of young Central Plains women who were put around their necks with a thick hemp rope by these widows and forced to kneel on all fours. These Central Plains women are all disheveled, and they are constantly being despised by those widows. The slightest disobedience was immediately beaten and kicked by the Japanese and humiliated. It's like treating these Central Plains women as animals.

This situation and this scene are like hell, which makes Cheng Li and Guan'er both angry and angry, and the killing intent soars, and it is already in full swing in an instant, and it can no longer be contained.