Lu Da turned his head suddenly, and Lao Xiong, Zhang Tong, Han Qichu, and Yue Kill all looked at Du Qing.

The village chief's father and son had a look of surprise on their faces.

"Don't say? Then I'll speak for you. There wasn't much time, Twilight only concluded, "The man was stunned and sent to the bandits." ”

Lu Da and the others were shocked, but when they saw that the village chief's father and son looked even more shocked, they knew that Dusk Qing was right! Lu Dayi grabbed the village chief's collar and said angrily: "Damn, you colluded with the horse bandits? Which horse bandit den did Lao Tzu's people send to? ”

The village chief trembled with fright and shook his head repeatedly.

"General." Twilight pulled Lu Da's hand away and said, "They were forced by the horse bandits. ”

Lu Da turned his head to look at her, and the village chief's father and son trembled even more.

Generals, generals?

Twilight looked at the village chief, father and son, and continued, "You don't want to do these things, but the horse bandits threaten you with the lives of your family or the whole village, and you have to do it. The whole village knows about this, and you have been doing these things for at least half a year, and if anyone passes by to stay overnight, you will stun them and send them to the horse bandits. ”

Twilight paused for a moment, and saw that the frightened expressions of the village chief's father and son gradually turned into surprise, and then said, "Then let's say, which village of horse bandits have they given to?" What do those horse bandits want passers-by to do? ”

The village chief's father and son were still amazed, and they couldn't come back to their senses for a while.

Lu Da and the others also looked at Twilight, and they didn't know how she saw this.

"There are flaws everywhere." Seeing that Lu Da wanted to ask, Du Qing simply explained, picking a simple explanation, "As soon as we entered the village, all the villagers who saw us dodged and returned home, we were just passers-by, not robbers, and we didn't have a blade in our hands, why did they dodge?" I don't think it's to hide from us, but as soon as a passerby comes to the village, it means that the bandits are coming. ”

"Remember the boy who came to open the door for us? That kid is snow-white and cute, don't you think something is wrong? Five or six years old is the age when I like to play in the yard, the northwest sun is scorching, the wind knife cuts people, the child's cheeks should be red, there are traces of the sun and the wind. The child was so white that he must have been kept in the house, and he was not allowed to go out to play. Look at him talking and walking, he should be not sick, why should he be kept in the house? When his father saw us, he hurriedly hid the child, for fear that we would take the child away or hurt him. The border pass is in the midst of a war, and what makes the people so scared is that the Hu people are horse bandits, have the Hu people broken through the border pass? No, that's a horse bandit! ”

"Don't you think there's a problem with him being so wary of the living, and he is willing to let us stay overnight? Ordering meals carefully is as it should be. ”

"Also, we came by horse-drawn carriage, and the gate of this courtyard is so low that even the carriage cannot enter, so it can be seen that there are no cattle and horses in the family. There are four people in his family, and women and children are not counted as laborers, so he kidnapped six of us with his father and son, how can he send us away? We have horse-drawn carriages, but not necessarily everyone who comes to the village to stay overnight has a carriage, right? So, how do people get out of the village after being stunned? The answer is that they don't need to send it, there will be horse bandits to pick it up. ”

"Why horse bandits? Very simple! Stun us, don't seek money, don't kill us, just to tie up, idle? Naturally, someone instructed it, and why did they obey? Naturally, it is out of fear. Who can make them so afraid? Horse bandits! ”

Twilight looked at the village chief's father and son, "So, now the question is, when will those bandits come?" How many people are there? Answer now! ”

No one answered.

The young man had forgotten the sharp pain in his wrist, and only opened his mouth, and the steamed buns in his mouth fell out. The boy looked unremarkable, and when he sat outside the carriage, he looked like an ordinary servant. From outside the courtyard to inside the house, she never said a word, how did she know that she was such a powerful person?

Lu Da looked at Du Qing, and then at the village chief's father and son, if it wasn't out of place, he really wanted to say something - this kid, how do you have a brain!

Compared to Lu Da, Han Qichu smiled inappropriately, he thought that it was amazing to listen to her words to deduce the murderer in the mountains of Qingzhou, and it would still be amazing to hear Gao Jian tonight......

"How do you ...... brain?" Zhang Tong muttered, from entering the village to staying at this house, he only felt that there were some problems with this village, but he really couldn't say what the problem was. He dared to guarantee that even if he didn't see anything at the beginning, everything was clear in her eyes?

He looked at her, remembering her usual cold and reticent, and then looking at her endless talking, the clear light in her eyes seemed to be able to solve a mystery in the world.

In this world...... There is such a wise woman.

In the house, everyone was amazed, but Yue Kill had a cold face, how could there be such a showy woman in this world? She couldn't say less!

After Twilight finished reasoning, there were indeed fewer words, and seeing that the father and son did not speak, she handed it over to Lu Dashen.

Lu Dadao: "Lao Tzu tells you the truth, Lao Tzu is the deputy general of the Northwest Army, and all the soldiers in this room are the soldiers of the Northwest Army, and the soldiers of the Northwest Army who were stunned by you a few days ago are also the soldiers of the Northwest Army!" The general was busy with the front-line war, and when he heard that there had been an abnormal movement of the horse bandits in the past six months, he sent someone to investigate, but he knew that people were missing one by one, so Lao Tzu had to bring people himself. Since you called Lao Tzu to find out tonight, you only have two ways, either to sue Lao Tzu about the horse bandits, and Lao Tzu will not be held accountable if you are coerced. Either Lao Tzu kidnaps you to see the general, and in the future to suppress bandits, you will be considered a gangster! ”

How could the village chief's father and son have thought that Lu Da was actually the deputy general of the Northwest Army? The Northwest Army is the patron saint of the people in the Northwest, ten years of guarding, the people love, every household for the Northwest Army, for Yuan Xiu for the immortal tablet, who knew that tonight was almost stunned to give the horse bandits the Northwest Army?

The father and son knelt down with a puff, and the old man wept bitterly, "General, we villagers really don't know that there are soldiers of the Northwest Army among those passers-by, you know, we will never do this!" ”

There was no need for Lu Da to ask, the young man said everything, he looked at Du Qing and said: "General, this military master under you is really a god, and he is not bad at all!" It was the horse bandits who asked us to do this, and those sweat pills were given by the horse bandits, and they didn't kill passers-by, they just took people away, men, women, and children! It's been more than half a year since the Hu people called, and the next few villages don't know what it's like, and there are hundreds of people who have been arrested from our village alone! ”

Lu Da glanced back at Twilight Qing and asked, "Do you know what they are doing with taking people away?" Forcing good people to be bandits? ”

The horse bandits in the northwest had been suppressed by the Northwest Army before, and they gathered again when the Wuhu Coalition Army knocked on the side a few years ago. At that time, a group of people were killed, and another group was recruited, and the remaining number of those were only three or three, less than half of the previous number. They feel that there are few people and they are weak, so they arrest passers-by and force them to be bandits? But what is the use of old people, women and children?

"We don't know, and these bandits don't talk to us......," the young man shook his head, thought for a while, and said, "But I know that they only need men!" ”

"How?"

"That's what I overheard, that night there was a young couple in the village who came to spend the night, and the horse bandits came to pick them up...... Another woman tasted and tasted it, and another said, "The man is thinner, and he dies in a few days when he is labored." More ...... The two men didn't say anything, but took the man off the horse and left. ”

The young man knelt on the ground, clutching his broken wrist and bowing his head.

The room was silent for a while, and the old bear stood behind the man, so angry that he squatted down and strangled his neck, and said angrily: "There is also a woman in your family, how can you bear to do this!" ”

The young man lowered his head and cried, and the old man next to him cried tremblingly: "General, we are also forced!" The lives of the whole village! Those horse bandits were so ferocious that when the Northwest Army did not come, the nearby villages were bullied and scared by the horse bandits, and they said that they would kill them, and there was a child in my family...... I really don't dare to disobey the general! ”

"Fuck you! This place is only 300 miles away from Gezhou City, and horse bandits are rampant, will you wait to go to the state city to report to the official? He dared to ignore the assassination, and the general slaughtered him! ”

"Don't you dare to report to the official, don't you dare to report to the official!" The old man waved his hand again and again, with a frightened look on his face, "Those horse bandits, there is a lookout post nearby, and every move in the village is under their noses. Which village, how many people came, they all knew! Come to collect it at night, they come with a few people, we have to hand over a few people, and the number has never been worse than half! If you dare to hide one, this, the lives of the whole village...... If you dare to report to the official, maybe we haven't come back yet, and the women and children in the village have been poisoned by horse bandits! ”

Lu Da narrowed his eyes, "That is, six horse bandits will come tonight?" ”

"Yes, they come every time at night, on horseback! When outsiders came to our village, every house was closed at night, and the big guys were afraid to hear the sound of horses' hooves at the entrance of the village. The old man lowered his voice.

The room was silent for a while, and Lu Da couldn't help but glance at Twilight, what this kid said was all hit!

"Which village are those horse bandits from? There are thirteen villages around here, do you know which ones have people in them? Lu Da asked.

The old man shook his head, the light in the room was like a bean, shining on his cloudy eyes, and his low voice sounded a little weird at night, "The general is wrong, there is no one in those stockades!" ”

No one?

Lu Da was stunned, his face sank, "Just now you also said that the horse bandits have a lookout post nearby, and every move in the village is under their noses, and now you say that there is no one in the village, you think Lao Tzu is a three-year-old child, so coaxing?" ”

All the way they went, they passed by seven villages and did not encounter any robbers, and those villages did look like empty villages, but since there were horse bandits in this village, and there were lookout posts nearby, there must be people in the village.

"There are people in the lookout post, but there is no one in the stockade during the day! In the early years, there were many bandits in this vicinity, and those horse bandits asked the nearby villages to send rice and grain to the village every month. Those who came to the village to spend the night said that they had not encountered horse bandits on the road, and some people did not know that those horse bandits had returned, and thought that the village was empty, and they were curious to go up and take a look. It is said that there is no one in the village, but at night those horse bandits will come out again, and when they enter the village, they will come out of the village. In these villages near us, there are rumors that those horse bandit villages are ......"

"What's it?"

The old man knelt in the dim light and looked out the window, muttered in his throat, and squeezed out two words, "Ghost Village!" ”

The room was quiet, and Twilight knew that the old man was telling the truth, but it was only what he saw and heard, not the truth. She doesn't believe in the ghost village, a radius of 500 miles, except for villages and villages, is the yellow sandstone, where can the horse bandits live? Only in the stockade! It's just that they don't come out during the day, and they only appear at night, and they act a little strangely. The men who were arrested were going to do labor, and the horse bandits were repairing fortifications in the village?

These questions could not be known from the mouth of the village chief's father and son, and if they wanted to ask, they could only ask the horse bandits.

Since the horse bandits came at the right time, they waited in this courtyard and found out when they caught someone and asked.

Lao Xiong and Zhang Tong tied up the father and son, gagged and looked in the house, and the six of them waited in the house.

After waiting for about two hours, the sound of horses' hooves came from the entrance of the village.

The sound of insects in the village was silent, the moonlight shone on the dead and silent village, and every house closed its doors and turned off the lights, only to see a dark candle in the village chief's house, leading the sound of the horse's hooves from afar.

At the gate of the courtyard, a carriage stopped quietly beside the old tree, and a thin horse kicked the horse's hooves restlessly and snorted.

On the narrow village road, six high-headed horses of the gods gradually approached in the night, and when they reached the gate of the courtyard, the six men in black dismounted, only to hear the sound of talking.

"The carriage will be pulled back in a moment."

"This skinny horse, pull back the white waste horse grass, even his mother's meat is old! It's better to pull it back than to slaughter it! ”

"Yes, look at our horses! Haha......"

"Huh?"

The man in the back was laughing, and heard a sound from the front, the man in front of him knocked on the door, and the person who opened the door was quite strong, not the son of the village chief who often came to open the door. The moonlight was clear, but the man stood under the eaves, and he couldn't see his face clearly for a while.

It was this stunned effort that the man under the eaves suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed his collar and pulled him into the courtyard!

The horse bandit was also tall and big, and he was dragged to a stumbling position, and two thin figures suddenly flashed out behind the door, stretched out their hands and dragged them together, and the two people behind them were also dragged into the courtyard coldly! At last three people were startled, two of them touched the knife at their waist, and another raised his cuff as if an arrow was about to be shot. The curtain of the carriage parked at the gate of the courtyard suddenly opened, and a cold light shot out, stabbing the man's wrist, and the blood exploded, and before the man could howl miserably, he was kicked in the waist and was kicked down. The man was pounced on the two men who had drawn their swords in front of them, and the two of them stumbled a step, and suddenly a man of considerable height jumped out of the carriage, and threw one into the courtyard with one in one hand, and kicked the horse bandit with a wounded wrist as well.

The courtyard door slammed shut, and there were a few muffled noises inside, and in the blink of an eye, it was quiet.

The moonlight shone on the old village, and the night was long and deep.

Inside, the interrogation had just begun.

The village chief, father and son, cowered under the window, not daring to look at the six horse bandits who had been tied up.

Yue Kill and Zhang Tong were guarding the door, Lao Xiong and Han Qichu stood on each side, and Lu Da and Du Qing looked at the six horse bandits. All six of them gagged, and Lu Da pulled out the cloth from one of them and asked, "Which village are you from?" ”

The horse bandit looked fierce, ignored Lu Da, turned his head to stare at the village chief's father and son who were shrinking under the window, and his face was hideous, "You dare to betray Lao Tzu!" Lao Tzu killed your wife......"

Bang!

Before the cruel words were finished, Lu Da kicked the horse bandit, only to hear a bang, the muffled sound of the back of his head hitting the ground, like a gourd that had opened a scoop, accompanied by a cracking sound, seeing Lu Da's feet stomping on the horse bandit's chest, and crushing his toes, the horse bandit's eyes widened, his eyes were bloodshot, and his mouth was spewing bloody stars, splashing a painful face. Lu Da crushed again, and the painful expression on the horse bandit's face suddenly distorted, the blood star in his mouth turned into black blood gushing out, his body twisted, his legs kicked, and he was silent.

A man was crushed to death with a single kick, and the village chief's father and son were so frightened that they almost collapsed. The fierce light in the eyes of the five horse bandits next to him was suppressed with horror, and their eyes stared at Lu Da with straight eyes.

"Lao Tzu shaved his beard, you fucking won't recognize Lao Tzu! Take a closer look at who Lao Tzu is, and then talk to Lao Tzu! Lu Da brought the oil lamp on the table and shone it next to his face, the flames danced, and he saw a strange but somewhat familiar face. With a smooth chin and a much more handsome face, the ferocious methods are a nightmare that the horse bandits in the northwest horse village can't forget.

Lu, Lu......

"Okay, if you know Lao Tzu, then don't talk nonsense to Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu asked, you answered, if you say a useless word, Lao Tzu will kill people! Lu Dayi pulled the cloth from a person's mouth, pinched the man's chin, grinned, and no matter how handsome his face was, he smiled a little hideously.

The bandit looked frightened, and began to nod his head without listening to what he asked.

A person next to him seemed to be awakened when he saw it, with a cloth in his mouth and a whimper and shook his head.

Lu Da smiled at the man, stepped on the man, and in the same scene as Fang Cai, the man died after a few convulsions.

There were only four horse bandits left, only to feel a cool air behind them, and the fear in their hearts came out layer by layer, and some forgotten memories came back to their minds at this moment. A few years ago, the Northwest Army suppressed bandits, the bandit village was more afraid of Lu Da than Yuan Xiu, this person treated the enemy ruthlessly, grabbed the horse bandits, tied people to the horse's tail with a rope, and dragged the horse with his face down, the northwest yellow sand was fine, and the face was grinding all the way on the ground, and the face was worn out when he turned over!

Those years were a nightmare for the Thirteen Bandits, but a few years have passed, and tonight Lu Da ripped back his memory with such a ruthless method.

"I, I, I, I say! I say! The bandit's voice was shrill and terrified.

This time, the three people next to him didn't stop him.

Lu Da smiled with satisfaction, "Very good, which village are you from?" ”

"I, we are the people of the horse village, now there is no, there is no thirteen horse village, there is only one village! A ......"

The first sentence made everyone stunned, and Twilight said, "He is telling the truth." ”

Lu Da glanced at her, and didn't ask her how she found out, anyway, they had seen her brain, she said yes, and he believed it!

"Then you're all gathered in one stockade? Which one is it? ”

"No, our people are scattered in five surrounding stockades."

"Didn't you say you only have one stockade? Are you fucking bluffing? Lu Da frowned, and he raised his foot to kick.

The horse bandit shrank back in fright, and hurriedly said, "No, no, no! Indeed, our people are scattered in five stockades, but they belong to one stockade, because, because...... The bottom of the stockade is all opened! ”

Lu Da's expression froze, and the old bear also showed surprise.

"You have captured passers-by as laborers in order to open up the stockade?" Lu Da asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, yes!" The bandit nodded.

"Why do you want to open up the stockade?"

"In order to facilitate the brothers to change the village, there are also horses to be transported into the village."

"Transporting horses?" Lu Da narrowed his eyes, remembering the six strong horses he saw outside when he opened the door just now, "Those horses are not like the horses raised on the Hucha grassland, they are like Hu horses, how did you bring them in?" ”

The northwest is a border pass, there is horse control, since the peace of the horse gang, the number of horse farms and horses are registered in the government, all horse farms are under the supervision of the Northwest Army. It is not impossible for people to have horses in their homes, but there is a limit to the number of horses, most of them are used to pull carriages, and their qualifications cannot become war horses.

But the horses I saw at the door just now were not very clear because of the night, and Lu Da was not sure whether they were Huma, but those horses were definitely war horses!

Where did these bandits get their horses?

"This ...... Only the big bosses know. The horse bandit said that he didn't know, and he was afraid that Lu Da would kill him, so he hurriedly said, "The big boss has often met with a black-robed man at night in the past six months, and every time the black-robed man leaves, a batch of horses will come every three or five days, and they will be sent in from the secret passage, and there have been several batches. ”

"How many?"

"Five or six thousand."

Lu Da's face suddenly sank, the old bear hissed, and Han Qichu looked back at Zhang Tong and saw that he was also surprised.

Although there is a big gap between five or six thousand horses and the 100,000 elite cavalry of the Northwest Army, the problem is not in this gap, but in the fact that these horses are all war horses. Under the nose of the Northwest Army, five or six thousand war horses were smuggled in half a year, where did the horses come from and which way they went?

"What do you want to do with so many war horses?" Lu Da clamped the jaw of the horse bandit, and the candle flame crackled, as if he could hear the sound of bones being squeezed.

The horse bandit was in great pain, and Lu Da's hand was slightly relaxed, so he quickly replied: "We don't know this, we don't know this...... I only know that the big boss said that there will be big things to do! ”