Longchuan Village.

The burned houses at the entrance of the village are crumbling, blood can still be seen from time to time on the roads that have been cleaned up, and the collected corpses are piled up outside the village, and people are cutting down trees not far away to make coffins.

The sound of wailing and crying spread all over the village, and the white mourning clothes could be seen everywhere, although the Japanese invaded the village, but in the last wave, more than 30 villagers were killed, and the scattered officers and soldiers and village warriors were killed and wounded more than 200, making it hard to believe that the opponent was just a group of less than 100 Japanese invaders.

In the mansion in the center of the village, Hu Zongming sat in the main seat, and Qian Zheng, Gu Chengzhi, Zhong Nan, Yang Wen and others sat at the bottom, all with gloomy expressions.

In a firewood house not far away.

Wang Lu, who was tied to the chair, hung his head weakly, with bandages on his head, but he was covered with scaly wounds all over his body.

"Wow!"

A basin of cold water that had just been drawn from the well splashed it, and Wang Lu was excited, trembling and trying to curl up.

Wang Yi, who had just rushed all the way from Yiwu, raised his wooden stick with a dark face and lifted Wang Lu's chin, "Say it again." ”

Wang Lu coughed a few times, spit out a tooth, and reluctantly opened his mouth: "I was captured by the Japanese Invaders...... If you don't catch the widows, catch me......"

"On the 30th of April, you went down the mountain to buy baked cakes and meat for the Japanese invaders, and you also bought out the medicinal herbs for the two pharmacies."

Xu Wei, who seemed to be thinner than before, paced over and grabbed Wang Lu's chin in one step, his eyes flashing with a fierce light.

"On May 3, you appeared outside Jixi County, and then took a detour to Longchuan Village, where three villagers who went up the mountain to cut firewood recognized you."

"And that road is the way for the Japanese to raid Longchuan Village."

"So coincidentally?"

Xu Wei let go of his hand and slapped it over, "What do you think...... What will happen if I hand you over to Longchuan Village? ”

"Don't ...... Don't ......" Wang Lu in the chair struggled, he knew the consequences too well, and burying him alive was a happy death.

"Yes...... It was the bookkeeper of the medicine store who smashed me......"

"What medicine store bookkeeper?"

"The blue-clad ...... His name is Tan Yuan, and he is said to be the account office of a medicine store in Songjiang Prefecture, and the Ming people in the Wakou know him......"

"Ahem." Wang Yi on the side nodded lightly, indicating that it was Qian Yuan.

At this time, the door was pushed open, Zhang San hurriedly walked in, and whispered a few words in Xu Wei's ear.

"Are you Wang Zhi's cousin?" Xu Wei pursed his lips, although he couldn't figure it all out, but he vaguely knew something.

"Continue?" Wang Yi picked up the torture instrument that had just been beaten.

"Go on."

The wailing continued to sound, and after three teas, Xu Wei walked out of the firewood room with a piece of paper full of words.

"Dispose of it?" Zhang San asked in a low voice.

Before Wang Yi could answer, Xu Wei paused, "No, lock it up, maybe it will be useful in the future." ”

The three of them walked into the lobby, which had been silent, and the first person to ask was Qian Zheng, who looked at Xu Wei nervously, for fear of bringing some bad news.

"About 90 people entered the Huizhou Mansion, and six people were looted near Songming Mountain in She County, five of whom were either doctors and apprentices in the medical hall, or people from the medicine store, because the Japanese guide was injured......"

"Why did Brother Na Yuan ......?"

Wang Yi glanced at Yang Wen, "Before the victory of Chongde the year before last, the young master once encountered a group of robbers on the road, and one of the robbers escaped because he broke his leg and did not enter Chongde County. ”

"Squeak." Yang Wen's right hand holding the handrail couldn't help but exert force, it was he who broke the man's leg, "At that time, the young master spent money to buy a road, pretending to be the account office of the Songjiang Gu family medicine store. ”

"One of them was injured and could not trek and was killed, three were killed outside Longchuan Village, and only two of them, one was Zhancai, and the other was Wang Lu." Xu Wei continued: "A total of ten corpses of Japanese robbers were picked up outside the village, which means that there are about 80 Japanese robbers, and more than 70 of them are real Japanese people. ”

"Really?" Hu Zongming raised his eyebrows, "Can you understand Chinese?" ”

"I don't understand." Xu Wei glanced at the confession, "Judging from Wang Lu's confession, this group of would-be robbers will continue to go north...... Uh, it should be Jingde. ”

Everyone fell silent, and their eyes were focused on Qian Zheng, because Jingde belonged to Ning Guofu, according to the rules, Qian Zheng, the general judge of Huizhou, could not pursue across the border, and most of the reinforcements this time were local villagers and guards.

"Keep pursuing." Yang Wencai didn't care what Qian Zheng thought.

"Eighteen people were killed and nine were seriously wounded." Wang Yi took over the conversation, "Thirty-two people came from Yiwu, and there are still fifty or sixty people available. ”

"Jiading, Chongde, Huating, Linpingshan......" Zhang San gritted his teeth and said: "We have never suffered such a big loss, let alone that the young master is still in their hands." ”

"The three hundred soldiers sent by the Governor's Yamen are useless at all." Zhong Nan touched the Miao knife on his waist and shook his head and said, "Huizhou guards and townsmen...... There are still one hundred and fifty people on my side, and more than two hundred people together, as long as you are careful, it should not be a big problem. ”

Qian Zheng, who had been wanting to speak but couldn't get into his mouth, slammed the table, "Continue to pursue, go together, and go out to raise money for the country." ”

Wang Yi nodded slightly, turned his head to look at Hu Zongming, "The wounded stay in Longchuan, and look ......."

"The old man will take care of this matter." Hu Zongming waved his hand, "It's just this gangster...... It's a bit weird, Huizhou Mansion has always been barren......"

"Before in Hangzhou, Hu Zhongcheng felt that this group of would-be robbers was extremely strange, killing a lot, and their combat power was extraordinary, setting fires everywhere, but almost not looting property." Xu Wei held the hot tea in his hand but didn't drink it, licked his dry lips and said: "In the battle outside the village three days ago, although the number of Japanese pirates was small, they were extremely cunning...... Slippery and strategic, fierce and combative, very thief! ”

Hu Zongming let out a long sigh, he has been in office for six years, and he has no heart to recover, his cousin Hu Zongxian has been the governor of Zhejiang for less than half a year, and the Japanese raided the Huizhou Mansion, which has never been touched, and went straight to Longchuan Village, which is really not good news for the Longchuan Hu family.

Qian Zheng looked left and right, and asked tentatively, "How is Brother Yuan?" ”

Xu Wei and Wang Yi glanced at each other, and the latter smiled reluctantly: "It's not bad, at least it's not hurt, and it's not abused." ”

"Are you sure you can get out?"

There was silence in the hall, who can say for sure this kind of thing, three days ago, the Japanese seemed to be retreating, and the three captured people took the opportunity to escape but were hacked to death one by one at the entrance of the village.

Qian Zheng pulled his hair vigorously regardless of decency, if his nephew died in the hands of the widows, how would he explain to his widowed sister-in-law, and how to explain to his brother under Jiuquan.

"Zhancai is not yet 20 years old, and he has made many military exploits on the southeast coast, with a thousand strategies in his chest and a good plan in his belly."

Xu Wei said loudly: "Although he is coerced by the Japanese invaders now, as long as he is not thrown away by the Japanese invaders, Zhancai will definitely have a chance to get out safely." ”

Anyone can say what is encouraging morale, but no one can listen to it, since the Japanese invaded the Huizhou capital, hundreds of soldiers and civilians have died under the sword, and its ferocity can be seen.

"It's a big deal, Xu will pay him for this life!" Diagram of the Avenue of the Heavens