There must be a demon when something goes wrong, Huang Qiong herself is better to be cautious. Thinking of this, Huang Qiong did not hesitate at all, and ordered to the Zhao Duwei: "Immediately search this mountain village carefully, see what those villagers have taken with them before leaving, and see if you can find a person who has not left." ”

"Remember, don't take the sheep by the hand. If you find someone, don't frighten them, but bring them directly to the king. Also, send for them to be led to a hidden place at once. You should also be on guard, and if a stranger approaches this place, you don't need to ask for instructions, and you will be arrested first. ”

After that, he didn't care about the others, and walked towards the nearest house first. Pushing open the door and taking a closer look, Huang Qiong found that the family was in a hurry. Except for food and livestock, almost nothing was taken with the rest. Left in the yard, there was no direct call to take away the chickens and ducks or even the hungry.

The farm tools in the yard were thrown on the ground. The scene in front of her told Huang Qiong that this was definitely not accidental. For the peasant households who have worked hard for a year, and the harvest is not only finished and taxed, but the rest can only barely feed themselves, no one will do this. The disappearance of these villagers can only be said to have been deliberately carried out.

After pondering for a moment, Huang Qiong turned his head and asked Zhao Duwei, who had been following him, "Zhao Duwei, what you just said is not wrong, something must have happened here." You say, could it be that the defenders at the gate found out that we were coming, and deliberately forcibly relocated the villagers here? ”

"Lord Wang, according to the order of the army, as long as the enemy army has not arrived to defend the city in wartime, scouts must be sent within fifty miles to reconnoiter the enemy. The Admiral thought that if it was really deliberate on the part of the defenders, then it meant that they had discovered our whereabouts and had even made preparations. ”

"At least judging from the clues that have been revealed at the moment, the last general thinks that the tiger prison defenders are now very likely to change. There are 3,000 elites on the pass, but we only have 500 cavalry in our hands. Once there is an abnormality, it will be too dangerous for the prince. The Admiral advises you to retreat some distance with your brothers. ”

"The last general will see if he can sneak into the customs and feel the situation in the customs? That Jiang Dutong had not been in office for a long time, and the last general thought that he might not really control the 3,000 men. The last general still has a lot of old knowledge in the Tiger Prison Pass Army. After the last general entered the customs, he contacted them. ”

"The last general doesn't believe it, if that Jiang Dutong really defected to the rebels, the three thousand elites on this pass will be willing to rebel with him? The old knowledge of the last general, the character of the last general is still clear, and he is definitely not the kind of person who tends to be inflammatory. The last general thought that with them as an internal response, even if Jiang Dutong really betrayed, we could also have certain contingency measures. ”

Before Huang Qiong could answer this Zhao Duwei's words, Fan Jian, who had already walked around the village and didn't know when he would come back, said: "No need, there has been an accident in the Tiger Prison Pass, and now the customs must be closely interrogating strangers." Although you grew up here, you can't hide the momentum of the rest of your life now. ”

"And none of your old brothers can guarantee that they have changed. Lao Zhao, people are changing at any time. No one can guarantee that those old brothers you were back then have changed now. When you enter the customs now, you take the initiative to send them to the door. Lord Wang, the sword went around the village, and found a lot of horseshoe prints in the village. ”

"And every household, except for the lack of food, the rest is not lacking. But in almost every house, traces of being kicked have been found. In addition to this, the sword also found this in the village. With that, Fan Jian handed the things in his hand to Huang Qiong. Huang Qiong took it and took a look, but found that it was the hairpin on the helmet of the Great Qi soldiers.

After seeing that Huang Qiong obviously recognized this thing, Fan Jian pointed to the hairpin on the helmet of Captain Zhao on the side and said, "Lord Wang, look at the hairpin on this hairpin and the hairpin on the head of the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, what is the difference?" ”

Hearing Fan Jian's words, Huang Qiong picked up the hairpin and looked at it carefully, but she didn't find any difference except for the different colors. However, Huang Qiong suddenly picked up the hairpin and sniffed it carefully before saying, "No, there is a bloody smell on this hairpin." ”

Seeing that Huang Qiong found out that the hairpin was wrong, Fan Jian nodded and said: "Lord Wang, according to the imperial court's custom, the hairpins of the soldiers of the four battalions are all red. This black hairpin should be the local guard according to the regulations. Although the garrison of Tiger Prison Pass is directly under the jurisdiction of the front division of the palace, it can also be regarded as a local guard. ”

"And within a radius of dozens of miles around here, there are no other garrisons except for the garrison of Tiger Prison Pass. Therefore, this hairpin sword thought that it should be the garrison of Tiger Prison Pass. The sword thought that we should do a careful search to see where there was blood in the vicinity. Since this hairpin smells of blood, some traces will definitely be found in this vicinity. ”

Looking at Fan Jian in front of him and looking at the hairpin in his hand, Huang Qiong did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered Zhao Duwei to execute. Sure enough, it didn't take long for several sergeants who had dug three feet to search the ground near the village and ran over to tell them that they had found several bodies that had been hastily buried in a depression in the east of the village. Judging from the clothes on their bodies, they are all soldiers of Daqi.

"What?" Hearing the announcement, Huang Qiong couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly rushed over with a few people around her. When I saw these corpses that were dead and blind, their eyes were wide open, and they wanted to accuse something. Wang Dalong, who was following Huang Qiong, suddenly knelt down and cried sadly: "Third Brother Liu, Wang **zi, Brother He, how can it be you?" ”

Seeing Wang Dalong's irrepressible sadness, Huang Qiong, who knew that the matter was getting big now, hurriedly signaled Liu Hu and Zhao Duwei beside him to immediately help him up. After he was in a more stable mood, he spoke: "Dalong, what, do you know all these people?" ”

"Back to the prince's words, these people are all good brothers who fought together on the battlefield when they were in the border army. They were transferred back the year before the young, and at that time, the little one used to laugh at them about how much money they spent in the military department to get transferred to such a fat shortage. If the small ones are not good, they will come to them to fight the autumn wind. ”

"These people, although their kung fu is not as good as the small ones, they are all veterans who have only survived a hundred battles. It's just that the little ones didn't expect that they didn't die on the battlefield of the border army, but they died inexplicably here in the Tiger Prison. Lord Wang, you must help them take revenge. Wang Dalong seemed to have a deep relationship with these people, and he couldn't cry when he answered Huang Qiong.

Compared with Liu Hu, who had a good relationship with Wang Dalong and hurriedly comforted him. Fan Jian ignored the crying Wang Dalong, but walked to the corpse and took a closer look before saying, "Look, Lord Wang, their fatal injuries are all in the back. Judging from the depth of the knife edge, almost all of them are fatal. This shows that the people who do it are doing it without their defense. ”

In other words, the people behind the scenes should be people they are familiar with. Otherwise, according to Da Long, these people are all veterans who have come down from the battlefield and survived a hundred battles. People who are not very familiar with each other will not be so careless and fall into the Tao. And they all had only one wound on their backs, indicating that they were all killed without resistance. ”

"There is no sign of binding on their hands. This means that they were not killed by other places and moved their bodies here. Lord Wang, they died here, I'm afraid someone did it deliberately. And to be able to quietly transfer them here and find an opportunity to kill them, except for the Lord of the Metropolitan Command, I am afraid that it will be difficult for others to do it. ”

Speaking of this, Fan Jian turned to Wang Dalong and said, "Guard, now is not the time to be sad. Can you tell me how your brothers are doing? What position do they hold in the Tiger Prison Pass Army now, do you know it? If you want to avenge your brothers, tell us the truth. ”

"There are a few of them, before the border army was transferred back, Liu Sange was the captain, and the other two were all hundred. According to the rules for border army officers to be promoted to one level after being transferred from within the country, their current positions should not be low. At least Wang **zi and Brother He, the promotion to the captain is certain. As for what position they hold now, I really don't know. ”

"And their character has nothing to say, they are all well-known men. None of them are the children of a family, they all come from the big soldiers to fight hard. I am also loyal to the imperial court, and I can vouch for this with my head. Those of us who fought on the battlefield don't have as many fancy intestines as the guards. ”

Regarding Fan Jian's inquiry, Wang Dalong did not hesitate at all, and replied directly. And this tone is somewhat choking. If Fan Jian didn't believe his words, he would find Fan Jian to fight hard. This kind of upright man cares a lot about what others think of them.

The excitement in Wang Dalong's tone, with Fan Jian's city mansion, naturally he would not have the same insight as him. Just patted Wang Dalong's chest and said, "Dalong, don't be careful, the sword is just asking." As the saying goes, people gather like and things divide into groups. Dalong is an upright man, and the brothers he interacts with are naturally the same kind of people. ”

After saying that, Fan Jian turned to Huang Qiong and said, "Lord Wang, according to what Dalong said, these people are definitely military attaches with real power in the garrison at present. Since he can let that Jiang Dutong secretly attack, it is enough to show that he does not have all the garrisons in the Tiger Prison Pass at the moment. can make him so vicious, it is very likely that a few people are the biggest obstacle to his rebellion, so he is allowed to do such a vicious hand. ”

"Judging by the blood stains on these three people, they should have been killed no earlier than yesterday. Judging from these signs, that Jiang Dutong should have made up his mind to join the rebels, but it is estimated that this determination will not last long. Therefore, when it came to getting rid of these military attachés in the army, it was obviously a bit hasty. ”

"The reason why the villagers here were forcibly relocated to Guannai should also be because he was trying to cover up these things. Tu Cun, it is estimated that at least he does not dare to do it now, and there is no need to do it. This also shows that this guy is still somewhat taboo now, and he doesn't dare to let go of some things. Otherwise, this would not be the case in this village. ”

"Lord Wang, although the sword is not familiar with military affairs, he also knows that it takes a certain amount of time for a large army to prepare from receiving the holy decree to assembling and setting off. The prince received the holy decree yesterday, and set off with 500 elite horsemen in the afternoon of the same day, and went to danger alone day and night. This morning, he rushed to the outside of the Tiger Prison Pass, which Jiang Dutong might not have been able to expect. Fifty miles of scouts, the sword was not seen on the way here. ”

Speaking of this, Fan Jian turned his head to Zhao Duwei and said, "When Jian was at home in his early years, he used to read several military books. For military affairs, the sword is not very clear. Captain Zhao is a veteran, he should know whether this scout is cavalry or infantry? What is the difference? ”