Li Yan said: "I see that when you left, Yizhimei was very excited, why is this? ”

Shi Kefa sighed: "Yizhimei's father has died in prison. [Full text reading. We originally said that as long as we could catch you, we would release him, but the old man didn't survive it, and there was nothing he could do. ”

Li Yan sighed: "No wonder." I thought that Yizhimei was useless to you, and you would kill him. Shi Kefa said: "I am an official soldier, but I will not kill innocents indiscriminately." Li Yan sneered: "Are there still fewer officers and soldiers who indiscriminately kill innocents today?" Shi Kefa was speechless, so he had to say: "I'm not them." And you should also be glad that it was not Zuo Liangyu who came this time. Li Yan said: "How do you say this?" ”

Shi Kefa said: "If it were him, you would have to suffer." And his military discipline is not good, you can think of the worst of what will happen along the way. ”

An officer and soldier brought some dry food, Shi Kefa fed Li Yan a few mouthfuls, and then poured him some water, and then said, "Let's go, the road is still long." ”

The group got on their horses and started to hurry again, and Li Yan could see that they were walking in the northeast direction, which was Hong Chengchou's territory. He also knew that Gao Yingxiang and other troops had left Xi'an and were ready to return to the Central Plains. Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng both went to fight the peasant army, and it seems that Hong Chengchou's purpose of arresting him is mostly related to this.

Shi Kefa escorted Li Yan and rarely took the big road, and specially picked up some small roads to travel. It seems that he is also afraid that someone will come to rob Li Yan from behind. You must know that Li Yan is an important figure in the Qin army, he is missing, Bai Qi will definitely send a large team of people to find him, and what he has to do now is to stay as far away from Meixian as possible. Therefore, they did not dare to stop for a long time, and ran away until it was completely dark, and then they found a deserted village to live in.

The village was deserted, full of broken walls, broken houses and rubble, and it seemed that the people had fled. Shi Kefa was very meticulous, and he ordered everyone not to light a fire and cook, so as not to be seen and attacked.

Everyone ate some dry food to satisfy their hunger, at this evening, the weather was still a little cold, the soldiers all brought wine bags, which were filled with spirits, and drank a few sips to keep out the cold, Shi Kefa also let Li Yan drink some, and then began to rest.

Everyone lived in two dilapidated houses, and Shi Kefa asked several soldiers to take turns looking at Li Yan and not letting him run away.

Li Yan knew that in such a situation, he would not be able to escape. This place is about 100 miles away from Meixian County, and the black lights are blind, and they run out alone, either eaten by wild wolves or eaten by hungry people. Besides, with his hands tied, he couldn't run far.

It's better to wait until dawn before making plans.

Thinking of this, Li Yan closed his eyes and rested, and when he was about to fall asleep in a daze, he suddenly felt movement, and when he opened his eyes, he saw several figures standing in the dark in front of him.

He thought that someone had come to save him, and he was overjoyed, but when those people arrived in front of him, they saw clearly that it was a few officers and soldiers in the same room as him.

These officers and soldiers stared at him, and the eyes were terrifying.

Li Yan asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

One of the soldiers lowered his voice and said viciously, "What are we going to do?" We're going to abolish you. ”

As soon as Li Yan wanted to scream, several soldiers pounced on him like wolves, pressed him to the ground, and pressed his mouth directly against the dirt, making him unable to scream. Then one of them took a mass of rags and stuffed it into his mouth. Li Yan's hands were tied, all of them struggled, and he couldn't scream in his mouth, he could only whine.

The two soldiers held Li Yan's hands and feet respectively, and the other soldier pulled out his waist knife and said, "The surname is Li, you killed many of us in Huayin City, and my brother died in that battle." Today, I can avenge him. Although there is an order from above that I can't kill you, I also have a bad breath and will abolish you first. ”

Another soldier said, "Brother Zhang, what do you want to do with your idea?" ”

The soldier surnamed Zhang said: "You hold him down, I picked his hamstrings first." so that he will not be able to stand up for the rest of his life. Walk and crawl like a dog in the future. ”

Li Yan's heart was cold, and he secretly thought that they were going to turn me into a waste.

He shook his body desperately, but like a little mouse surrounded by a pack of cats, it didn't help at all.

Seeing that the knife was about to fall on Li Yan's leg, a soldier said, "Brother Zhang, this is not good. What if he is going to be crippled and unable to ride a horse? And this kid has a hard heart, in case of suicide, we can't afford to be guilty. ”

Another soldier also said: "Yes, Brother Zhang, let's think of a separate way to get angry." Neither cripple him, nor hinder his horseback. In this way, General Shi knew about it, and it was impossible for him to punish him too severely. ”

The surnamed Zhang thought about it, dragged Li Yan up, and sneered: "Count your luck, the hamstrings will be kept for you first, but you have something to eat, don't be complacent." ”

As he spoke, he put away the single knife and pulled out a dagger from his waist, the blade of this knife was quite long, about a foot long, it shook in front of Li Yan's eyes, and suddenly stabbed it under Li Yan's collarbone and in the shoulder socket.

Li Yan was so painful that his whole body was shocked, and he let out a miserable scream in his mouth, but he was blocked by the cloth and couldn't scream, just hummed. The knife pierced about a few inches, and the surnamed Zhang didn't stop, and squeezed it hard a few times until the tip of the knife was completely penetrated and exposed from under Li Yan's back shoulder blade.

The blood flowed like an infusion.

The other two soldiers were very experienced, and when they saw what the surname Zhang did, they knew what he meant, and the two of them lit two sticks of firewood with a fire breaker, and when the flame of the firewood burned, they looked at each other and put two fire sticks into Li Yan's two wounds at the same time.

There was a loud sound, and the blazing flames immediately sealed the blood vessels of the wound, but Li Yan was so painful that his heart palpitated, and he immediately fainted.

But he didn't faint for long, and he was woken up by a second severe pain, and the surnamed Zhang stabbed a hole in his other shoulder.

When the wound was burned by the fire and did not bleed, several soldiers put an iron chain through his left shoulder and then through his right shoulder, and the chains on both sides grew more than a foot and hung on his body.

Even if it is a piece of lute bone, it is a form of torture. Every action or step taken by a tortured person will hurt into the heart and lungs, making people unable to survive or die.

Li Yan fainted several times in a row, and the soldiers looked at him in pain, so they sneered a few times and fell asleep. This time, you don't have to worry about Li Yan running away, now Li Yan will shrink into a ball of pain even when he walks.

This night, Li Yan was so painful that he couldn't stop breaking out in a cold sweat, where could he still sleep. And he didn't even dare to move, and even his heartbeat would cause severe pain in the wound.

Early the next morning, Shi Kefa ordered to hurry and came to the room where Li Yan was being held to take a look, several soldiers were kneeling on the ground, and Li Yan was shrinking in the corner, trembling incessantly, his face was as pale as a dead man.

Shi Kefa thought that Li Yan was sick, so he hurriedly came to his side to take a look, and his heart was shocked, he saw the chain on Li Yan's body. Looking back at the kneeling subordinates, he immediately became furious, came to them, kicked several soldiers to the ground one by one, and scolded: "Bastard, who made you do this to him? It's better to kill it with a knife. Why are you so cruel. ”

The soldier surnamed Zhang replied: "General, everything is my idea, if you want to kill, kill me." ”

Shi Kefa forcibly suppressed his anger: "Why do you wear his pipa bone?" He's just a kid. ”

The surnamed Zhang replied: "He commanded the Qin army in Huayin, killed so many of us, and killed my brother, my brother, who is just a child......"

Speaking of this, he burst into tears and began to cry.

Shi Kefa was furious, drew his knife in his hand, raised it in the air, shook it a few times, but did not fall. He understood that this was not the time to kill, so he put away his knife and commanded: "Take off the chain from his body and wrap the wound, otherwise don't try to hurry, he will slow us down." ”

A few soldiers thought about it, Li Yan had a chain on his body, and he was riding on a horse and was bumpy and bumpy, so he couldn't hurt him to death! There's really no way to get there. So they came to Li Yan's side and pulled out the chain from the wound for him.

Pulling the chain outward, it was similar to wearing a chain, and it hurt so much that Li Yan died, but he was very hard, gritted his teeth, just hummed vigorously, and didn't scream.

Several soldiers looked at it, and they also admired this young man a little in their hearts. They had seen people who had been chained out, shouting and crying out in pain, and this Li Yan in front of them seemed to be using all his strength to prevent himself from screaming.

It was easy to take off the chain, Li Yan was already sweating through his heavy clothes and was very weak. Shi Kefa is still very good, he personally bandaged Li Yan's wounds and used gold sore medicine. He said while covering the wound: "This is not my idea, please forgive me." I have inquired about your personality and know that you once helped the victims of disasters in your hometown in Henan, and you have a good reputation in the local area. But why are you willing to be a thief? I took you to meet Lord Hong, as long as you are willing to change, I will definitely do my best to protect you. Not only can you live, but you can also glorify your ancestors. ”

Li Yan stiffened and squeezed out a few words from his teeth: "What is an official?" What is Minmin? What is a thief......

When Shi Kefa heard this, his heart was displeased, he knew that Li Yan had seen through this officialdom and would never surrender.

After the bandaging was done, Shi Kefa led people to continue on the road, at this time Li Yan was already in pain and could not ride alone, Shi Kefa asked a relatively thin soldier to ride with him, and supported him in the back to prevent him from falling, so that he walked slowly.

At dusk the next day, they had already arrived in the realm of eternal life. At this time, Hong Chengchou was east of Pucheng, chasing Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai. Shi Kefa began to turn east, preparing to go to Pucheng.

That night, they camped in Yongshou County. This county has fallen into the hands of the Qin army at this time, but the Qin army did not garrison here, nor did they assign people to manage it, because it was far away from Xi'an, and it could not be taken care of, so it almost became an ownerless territory, and every household closed its doors at night, so as not to be robbed. The buyers and sellers even hired thugs to take care of the home.

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