Half an hour later, the night was thicker, and in the Purple Mountain, the barren grass was vast.

The residence of Xiaolingwei's relatives is so quiet that even the sound of cicadas can be heard clearly.

The sporadic firelight gradually appeared in the distance, under the dark night sky, the smoke and dust were billowing, and the flag covered the sky and the sun, Liu Yuanbin gritted his teeth and covered the wound on his left arm, and clenched the reins of the horse.

In the distance, he galloped back to a squad of sentinel riders, and dismounted as the leader:

"Report to the general, half a mile away is the residence of Xiaolingwei's relatives, we have surrounded this place on all sides, and one person has been missed, and my subordinates have asked for dismissal!"

Liu Yuanbin was stunned for a moment, and then sneered.

The next moment, in the darkness on all sides, the officers and soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion rushed out and directly broke into the villages and towns where Xiaolingwei's relatives were stationed.

They kicked open the doors of the houses, and they carried them out one by one like animals, and placed them in the square.

In the square, there were officers with lists in their hands, asking for the names of these relatives of Xiaolingwei one by one.

"What's it called?"

The man in his forties who was questioned was stunned for a moment and didn't know what to do, just blindly begging for mercy and crying softly.

The officer of the Yongwei Battalion in front of him obviously had no patience, so he directly grabbed his clothes and picked him up, glared at him with round eyes and asked loudly:

"Let me ask again, what is your name and where are you from?"

The man trembled, kept kowtowing and said: "Master Jun, villain Liu Neng, ancestor Huaiyou Shuzhou, moved here with the army to guard the mausoleum during the Yongle period." ”

"Master Jun, the villain doesn't know anything..."

The officer let out a faint "um", walked up to the next relative side by side, and asked expressionlessly, "What about you, what is your name, and where are you from?" ”

Seeing that the person before was fine, the person behind him was obviously a lot calmer, nodded and said: "Little Zhao Er, the ancestor of Haozhou, also went to the Purple Mountain with the army during the Yongle period to be the leader of Emperor Taizu. ”

The officer of the Yongwei Battalion was stunned for a moment, and then waved his hand.

"Pull it down, cut it."

Such a change obviously made the Haozhou man named Zhao Er unconvinced, he struggled frantically and shouted, but it was useless.

Soon, the screaming stopped abruptly.

Liu Yuanbin's part of the people has other places to go next, and no one has the time to sympathize with the families of these rebels who participated in the rebellion.

Of course, in the face of those ignorant children, maybe this group of murderous men will have some regrets.

But that's about it.

After all, a thief is a thief, no one will question the emperor's decision, and if they want to blame, blame their greedy family members, so that they lost their lives easily at a young age.

As for explaining to them, it's a waste of words, anyway, before long, they will be dead people.

At this moment, after the officer questioned, he found that the girl in front of him was only a teenager, her eyes were full of innocence, and her heart was also soft.

was about to speak, but found that Liu Yuanbin came to his side, quickly turned around, clasped his fists and saluted:

"General."

Liu Yuanbin nodded, then waved his hand to let the officer go down, leaned over and picked up the girl with tears in the corners of her eyes, touched her hair, and said softly:

"Uncle wants to play a game with you, wait a while, you will suddenly have a pain in your neck, and then you will no longer feel it, do you want to try."

The little girl blinked and looked at Liu Yuanbin, she was still a little scared, but when she heard that she was going to play a game, she quickly nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

Liu Yuanbin's eyes were sour, he hugged the little girl tightly, stroked her hair with his hand, and said gently: "Be good, close your eyes, the game is about to start." ”

The little girl obediently closed her eyes, the corners of her mouth curled, and her face was full of smiles.

Liu Yuanbin gently put her down, couldn't bear to look at it anymore, turned around, and waved his hand.

With a click, the little girl didn't say a word, and fell in a pool of blood with a smile, Liu Yuanbin turned around and saw it, and the corners of her mouth were trembling.

Dozens of family members of the anti-thieves were all picked out and beheaded, and many soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion stood quietly on both sides, waiting for the commander's dispatch.

But Liu Yuanbin, the famous cavalry general of the Yongwei Battalion, who was not even afraid of death during the Southwest War, couldn't even pronounce a syllable.

He sat on the ground, staring blankly at the corpse of the little girl, and suddenly his body trembled, climbed forward, and picked up the windmill that the little girl was holding tightly in his hand.

After a while, he clung to the windmill again, got up and got on his horse, and then regained his heroic spirit, and said in a loud voice:

"The whole team, go to the Xiaoling Guard Barracks!"

He can't let such a tragedy happen in any family, as long as the thousands of Xiaoling guards stationed in the station belong to the imperial court, these people who are still alive will not die.

......

Yu Ren was ambushed, and none of his relatives remained.

Hearing this news, the thousands of officers and soldiers in the Xiaoling Guard Battalion were all panicked and scurried around the garrison, neither fleeing nor resisting.

Now their identities are too embarrassing, if the court punishes them for the crime of anti-thieves, none of their thousands of people, including those tens of thousands of relatives, will survive.

Since ancient times, rebellion has not been a trivial matter.

"Boom..."

Not long after, there was a sound of footsteps outside the camp.

The people on the watchtower ran down in panic and shouted as they ran through the crowd: "The Yongwei Battalion is here, the Yongwei Battalion has been ordered to kill us!" ”

Yu Ren is dead, and even the senior officers with dozens of Xiaolingwei have died in Xiamafang, and the highest of these people left behind is just a small commander.

This commander was usually squeezed out by Yu Ren's cronies, and he didn't have any real power, but now at this time, he has become the backbone of everyone.

"Wu Yanshi, the Yongwei Battalion is about to come in, you have an idea!"

"yes, we can't stand and die!"

"It's really not good, let's fight, even if you die, it's better than waiting for death like this!"

Wu Ye, the commander of Xiaolingwei in his thirties, was taken care of and questioned by everyone for the first time, and he was suddenly a little panicked.

The audience talked for a while, and Wu Ye suddenly reacted and reprimanded loudly:

"Fight, it's the Yongwei Battalion next to the Son of Heaven! What do you fight, just use the broken knife in your hand to bend the rusty spear? ”

"You die, what should you do if your family is in the name of a thief? Have you all thought about this? Wu Ye thought of his wife and daughter, his eyes rolled, he glared at the person who spoke, and said very firmly:

"Now there is only one way, open the camp gate and surrender to the Yongwei Battalion!"

The words landed, and the camp suddenly exploded.

"Surrender?"

"We are already thieves, the emperor has issued orders saying that he will kill us, and now surrender, aren't you looking for your own death?"

"The oracles have been issued, and we have no chance..."

"I regret it so much, I haven't gotten married yet, my father and mother are just a seedling for me, I don't say anything when I'm dead, and I even make them thieves, I regret it so much!"

The crowd was in a commotion, and some actually sat on the ground and cried.

"Can you trust me Wu Ye?" Wu Ye stood there, his expression was bright and dark, and when he saw that the first sound failed to attract attention, he climbed to a high place and shouted:

"Can you trust me Wu Ye?!"

Everyone turned their heads and was silent for a moment, no one continued to make noise, but the mood was very low.

Wu Ye slowly walked down the high platform and said resolutely:

"You kidnapped me and pushed me out, I'll go and tell General Liu that it's Yu Ren and those people who are making trouble, and it's really not okay to add me Wu Ye alone."

"The emperor is a good emperor, as long as everyone sincerely changes and serves the imperial court, I believe he will not kill innocents indiscriminately..."

Someone looked at him and asked, "What if?" ”

When Wu Ye heard this, he laughed self-deprecatingly.

"In case Your Majesty makes up his mind to kill all of us thieves, this is also the result of our own fault and not confronting that Yu Ren as soon as possible."

When they heard this, they were silent, and they had nothing to say.