This is the first Spring Festival so lively after Li Qi and the others gathered together, and it is also the first Spring Festival that Gao Xining and their sisters have not spent in Jizhou City.

For people who are accustomed to living in a big city, moving to Yanshan is a difficult thing to adapt.

There are no dazzling shops, no teahouses, restaurants, theaters, and busy streets.

Accustomed to the prosperity and splendor, it will feel very monotonous here.

The winter here seems so solemn, there is no green on the mountain, there is no birdsong and flowers in the mountain in winter, and there is no sound of music and silk and bamboo here, only the sound of Jin Ge of training soldiers and horses.

Gao Xining didn't have anything to do with it, she was used to staying by Li Qi's side, and the place where Li Qi was was all that.

Her whole mind was on Li Qi, and she completely ignored herself.

However, Xiahou Yuli and the others seemed a little unaccustomed, there was no place to buy rouge gouache, and there was no place to make new clothes, so the days here seemed a little monotonous and boring.

Gao Xining participates in military training every day, and in front of the 800 court lieutenants, she will never let herself look like a delicate and weak girl.

In front of Tingweijun, she is a vigorous and resolute Du Tingwei.

As the days passed, Li Qi and they continued to change the green forest team, and by the beginning of spring of the second year, the team had a new look.

Although the weather in March was still a little cold, Li Qi and his team had already led the team to cultivate the tuntian at the foot of the mountain, which was the road that the Yanshan camp had walked, so there was nothing difficult.

Xiahou Zhuo sent someone to deliver a letter, he had already taken over the teams of Daizhou Pass and Xinzhou Pass, and made a promise to the team of the Yanshan camp over there, and the morale of the army was also stabilized.

Li Qi knew that Xiahou Zhuo's life was hard, so he sent a lot of supplies from Yanshan Operation.

Moreover, the food and grass needed by the defenders of Daizhou Pass and Xinzhou Pass were also supplied by Li Qi to ensure that they would not be missing.

At the beginning of April, Li Qi and his team led people to divert water from the river down the mountain to irrigate their farmland, and they saw from a distance that many refugees were walking in groups on the official road, dressed in rags.

Li Qi felt strange that these refugees came from the west, and although the fields in the west were not fertile, there were very few rebels, and the people should be able to get by.

So Li Qi ran to the side of the road and stopped people and asked.

"Old man, what's going on?"

Li Qi asked after handing an old man a pot of water.

The old man said with a sad face: "I can't live anymore, so I have to flee, and if I don't leave, I won't even die." ”

Li Qi asked: "There is a natural disaster?" ”

"No, natural disasters are not terrible, man-made disasters are."

The old man sighed and said: "Last year, there was a gang of horse thieves who forcibly occupied the county seat, and at first it was nothing, but then they became more and more troops, and began to rob the people. ”

The old man looked at Li Qi and said: "They are more ruthless than the government, after the government collects it every year, at least there is some food left to make do with it, but those horse thieves are as ruthless as scraping the ground, and they don't give us a single grain left.....

Li Qi frowned, and he asked, "What is the name of the horse thief team?" ”

"Yes."

The old man replied: "After the horse thief's team occupied three or four county seats, he built a cottage in Tanglin Mountain, and also built a very large altar. ”

"He said that his Taoist sect is called Tanglin Zhengdao, and he proclaimed himself the head of Donglin, and the people in our place must join the religion, and the rice, flour, money, and grain they looted away are the cost of joining the church."

"He also said that as long as he joins the Tanglin Righteous Path, he can be protected by the Daomen Divine Soldiers, what Daomen Divine Soldiers, it is a group of horse thieves, if one person does not join the religion, they will kill one person, and if the family does not join the religion, they will set fire to the family."

There was only grief and indignation in the old man's eyes, and there were no tears anymore.

"My nephew was beaten to death by them, and then he hung his body on the city wall, let the wind and rain blow, and said that this was a divine punishment."

When Li Qi heard this, his face was already a little pale.

He asked, "Old man, do you know the name of this so-called Tanglin Sect Master?" ”

The old man shook his head and said, "I don't know, I just heard that the big thief escaped from Yanshan." ”

Li Qi raised his eyebrows.

He looked at the number of refugees, there were probably hundreds, and anyway, the cottage also needed people to farm, so he left all the people behind.

He returned to the camp and brought Don to his counter.

"It's only been just over half a year, what bullshit Tanglin Sect has already controlled the range of four or five counties, and it is said that there are hundreds of thousands of sect members, I suspect that the so-called Tanglin Sect is the West Fence."

After listening to Li Qi's words, Tang Pidi nodded: "You want to destroy this group of people?" ”

Li Qi said: "Yanshan Camp also needs to establish a reputation now, these people have insulted the reputation of the Daomen, and they are so evil, if we destroy them, the western counties can be famous." ”

Tang Pi said: "You have to find out the situation first." ”

Li Qi said: "You still have to take care of the military training at home, I will take someone to find out the situation, if it is fast, it will be enough in a month, and if it is slow, it will be about two or three months, if you can enter the army, I will send someone back to tell you." ”

Tang Pi said: "In this matter, you can arrange for others to go." ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "I also feel depressed on the mountain, go out for a walk, and besides, this is the first battle that our Ning army is going to fight, so it's better to be cautious, I will go by myself, I can see the terrain clearly, draw a map, and formulate a strategy." ”

After thinking about it, Tang Pidi felt that it was feasible, so he agreed: "Then you have to bring more talents, don't bring the old people of Yanshan Camp, if it is really those people from Xilizi, you may be able to recognize it." ”

"Don't worry."

Li Qi smiled: "If there is really any danger, am I not running fast enough?" ”

After he discussed it with Tang Pidi, he invited Mr. Ye to come over, and brought Yan Qingzhi, Yu Jiuling, Zhang Yuxu, Peng Seventeen, plus a Tantai Suppression Realm, such a few people are already strong enough.

Bringing dozens of elite scouts, they left the Yanshan camp the next day, hired a young man from the refugees as a guide, and headed all the way west.

This young man's name is Liu Tiedan, he is in his twenties, and he has never practiced martial arts, but he has the strength to do hard labor all year round, and he is also clever.

On the way, Liu Tiedan told the story of Tanglin Road in detail again.

"At the beginning, they sent people to walk in various villages and towns, pretending to be ghosts, and one of them was called the Donglin Dao Divine Envoy, as if he really knew some spells or something, and he looked very strange."

Liu Tie said: "At the beginning, they were in a crowded place, casting spells, and many of the villagers saw it with their own eyes, the person who was called the Tanglin Divine Envoy, raised his finger and pointed it, and the birds in the sky fell to the ground and died. ”

Li Qi looked at Zhang Yuxu, and Zhang Yuxu said: "It sounds like it's all tricks, it's not unusual." ”

Liu Tiedan continued: "The Tanglin Divine Envoy recruited disciples from all over the country, and everyone who joined the religion sent a small bag of grain, so at the beginning, many people joined the religion for these foods. ”

"Later, the number of people in Tanglin Dao has been very large, and in just a few months, from the year before to the year after the year, many people in several counties have become disciples of Tanglin Dao."

"They began to march a lot of people, and those disciples marched in groups, carrying a throne, and the divine envoy sprinkled rune paper as he walked, and said that whoever picked up the rune paper would be able to drive away evil spirits and save their lives, and many people picked it up."

"Countrymen, there are few people who read, and no one actually recognizes what is written on the rune paper, and later a gentleman from a private school said that the paper is full of rebellion, and the court knows that he will be killed."

Liu Tie said: "Then many people threw away the rune paper, but the people of Tanglin Road came again, saying that the person who threw the rune paper would have a divine punishment and would not be able to die, but as long as you join Tanglin Road, you can get the protection of God, and the court will not dare to do anything to you, and many people also joined Tanglin Road at that time." ”

"Later, at least half of the people in each village were believers in Tanglin Dao, and in March after the year, the people of Tanglin Dao suddenly said that anyone who does not join the religion is a demon and a disaster."

"They said that these people who don't join the religion just want to go to the court to report the news, and those who join the religion are all those who picked up the talisman paper at the beginning, and those who don't join the religion want to go to the informant, and they want to exchange the lives of the villagers for rewards."

Liu Tiedan's face darkened: "Since March, many people have done something to the villagers, I never thought that one day, the originally very friendly neighbors would actually attack the villagers for so many years. ”

"It's like they're under the crosshairs."

Liu Tie Dan looked at Li Qi and said: "Boss, you may not have seen such a person, when they beat and killed people, that face didn't seem to be a human face." ”

"I've seen it, I've seen it when I've been very young. ”

Yu Jiuling clenched his fists, anger already overflowing in his eyes.

Liu Tie said: "My family did not join Tanglin Dao, but my uncle's family joined, and that day ...... Uncle came to my house with an iron fork, and my father thought that Uncle was going to call him to go to the field together. ”

"As soon as I opened the door, my uncle asked my father, just ask you, you can't enter Tanglin Road, my father didn't come over at that time, and my uncle has persuaded him a few times before, but my father said he didn't want to, and my uncle didn't feel sorry."

"But that morning, when my uncle heard what my father said, he suddenly shouted to kill the demon, and shouted that he didn't think that you were my own brother, and he actually wanted to harm me, and then stabbed my father to death with an iron fork."

Liu Tie let out a heavy breath and raised his hand to wipe away his tears.

"They seem to be crazy, all of them are crazy."

He looked at Li Qi and said, "When I protected my mother and my sister to escape, there were people everywhere in the village, all of them were villagers, how could they do it?" ”

Li Qi couldn't answer.

"The more troubled the times, the more evil people like this will come out and do evil."

"Kill it." ”

Liu Tie said: "How can it be so easy, now the people of those counties are already disciples of Tanglin Dao, and they are all of one heart." ”

He looked at the situation and said: "When we stopped on the road, there were people who escaped from the same way behind us who said that since the murder in March, the head of the sect issued a notice, saying that anyone who came from outside could be sent by the imperial court, and whoever found it should report to Tanglin Dao. ”

"The notice also said that in the past, it was those horse thieves and bandits from other counties who came to our place to rob us, and Tanglin called on the people, women, the elderly, and children to stay at home and farm, and the men all gathered and went to other places to take back what others had stolen from us, and said that whoever snatched it back was theirs."

Hearing this, Li Qi's heart tightened.

This so-called Tanglin Sect Master is very intelligent, and he quickly formed an army with the help of the power of religion.

Judging from the information obtained so far, this person is a bit terrifying.

If this person is really Xilizi, there should be someone else behind him who is helping him to give advice.