Lin Fan led the army to drive outside the town, and then saw a stone tablet more than half a person high on the side of the road, on which the three big characters of "Qiling Town" were neatly engraved with "Qiling Town".

Pointing to this stone stele, Lin Fan laughed softly: "Good name!" The land of Gyeonggi is worthy of the feet of the Son of Heaven, it is a small and inconspicuous town here, and the name is so extraordinary! ”

Li Qingshan also echoed him and said: "The word Qiling is really not small. And the capital is indeed a place where the kings of the world gather, and this name is not worth it! ”

"It has been hundreds of years since the capital of the previous dynasty was established here. For a long time, the king's spirit of the world has returned to the Beijing Division, and the accumulation of hundreds of years has led to this supreme atmosphere. When we defeat Manzhen and win this battle, if I have the opportunity, I will definitely take a good tour of the various scenery in the capital with you and enjoy the magnificent scenery of Gyeonggi. In this way, we are not a trip in vain! Lin Fan laughed at everyone.

"Adults can talk about it, we have written down this sentence, if the adults break their promises, we will not agree!" Everyone was not polite to Lin Fan, and replied with a smile.

"Don't worry, I'll have a treat at that time, and invite everyone to the best restaurant in the capital for a big meal!" Lin Fan responded generously.

Then he said righteously: "But I can say ugly things in front, I have enough to eat and drink here, and there is no other thing." But if any of you want to drink the wine, you will have to pay for it out of your own pocket, and don't even think of taking a copper plate from me, and I will never go out with you. ”

Everyone said unceremoniously: "Hahaha, since the adults have said so, then we have to go by ourselves when we go to have fun, and we can't bring the adults with us!" ”

Lin Fan gritted his teeth: "You dare!" ”

"Ahem!"

Lin Fan coughed lightly, and then he said with a straight face: "Also, although I can't go through the door, I can jump out of the window and over the wall." If you dare not take me with you, believe it or not, I will strip you all naked and tie you to a pillar for public display? ”

"The adults can't scare us, we really want to be stripped naked for public display, just so that these recruits in the camp can see the majesty of the old man!"

In the face of Lin Fan's powerless threat, everyone didn't take it seriously, and their words obviously made up their minds to leave Lin Fan behind to have fun after the war was over.

The chatter was over, and the army continued to march.

When Lin Fan and the others came to the entrance of the town, the team of scouts who had explored the path earlier were already waiting in front.

Lin Fan asked them, "What is the situation in the town?" Will our army be stationed here, will it disturb the people of the town? Have you been appeased? ”

Several people bowed their heads and remained silent.

"Where are the lieutenant chiefs and lieutenant chiefs in the town? When the army drove out of the town, why didn't they come out to meet them? ”

It wasn't until Lin Fan asked again that one of them said, "Alas, my lord, there are no more people in the town!" ”

Wang Hu scolded: "Nonsense, this town is quite large, and it doesn't look like a desert, how can there be no people in the town?" ”

The scout replied respectfully: "The villain doesn't dare to hide it, and ask a few adults to follow us into the town, what is the specific situation in the town, you will know when you enter the town!" ”

In fact, before Lin Fan entered the town, he already had a bad premonition in his heart.

Now that the Manzhen army has entered the customs, the world is not peaceful. It is reasonable that the people dare not go out in order to avoid trouble, so Lin Fan is not surprised that they can't see a single person along the way.

But now that it was getting late, there was not even a trace of cooking smoke in the town, which was too weird, as if they were seeing a lifeless dead town.

Lin Fan and the others let the army stay outside the town for a while, and then entered the town with their own soldiers to check the situation.

After a heavy snowfall, everything in the town was covered in snow, and there was not a single movement in the town, except for a few wild dogs scurrying through the streets in search of food.

The wild dogs here are not afraid of people at all, even if Lin Fan and them approached, they were alarmed by the sound of the collision of armor, and they only looked up

People, baring their teeth and warning them, then buried their heads in their own food again.

An Ning picked up a rock and smashed it hard at a wild dog that was scavenging in the middle of the street.

The wild dog is in pain, perhaps because it is used to being wild, and it is not to be outdone when it is disturbed to eat. At the corners of its mouth, there are still traces of flesh and blood.

However, its warning demonstration did not do anything, and instead of deterring these people, it was quickly hit by another stone in its head.

A good dog doesn't eat the loss in front of him, and the wild dog now understands that he can't afford to provoke these people in front of him, so he runs away with his tail and whimpering!

Driving away the wild dog that was eating, and seeing the so-called food on the ground, An Ning almost couldn't help but vomit.

"it!" He cursed in a low voice, then stepped forward quickly, and used the hilt of his knife to peel open the thick layer of snow, revealing something covered in the snow below.

Then everyone understood why An Ning scolded just now, this was buried in the snow underneath was a person's corpse.

Outwardly, the man was a young man, and his death was no more than two days.

The wild dog eats nothing else, it eats people!

The carcass was blue-black at low temperatures, and now it is no longer the same under the gnawing of wild dogs.

The few pieces of clothing on this man's body had already been torn by the wild dogs, and only some ragged strips of cloth were still hanging from his body.

His face was blurred with flesh and blood, and now it was unrecognizable, and some tooth marks could still be faintly seen on the remaining flesh and blood. His stomach was hollowed out, and his intestines were scattered all around.

Lin Fan, it's not that they haven't seen bloody recruits, they have fought so many battles, and they have seen a lot of flesh and blood on the battlefield, broken arms and stumps.

But the scene in front of them still made them feel unspeakably uncomfortable, only to feel a surge in their stomachs, and even someone had already covered their mouths and ran to the corner of the wall to vomit.

Because of the corpses below, the snow here is a little higher than the ground.

Lin Fan raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and the entire street was full of such bulges.

Under each of these protrusions, there may be a human life, and the people in the town may be under it.

Lin Fan ordered the army to enter the town, clear the snow from the town, and collect the corpses of the people in the town.

After the army entered the town, corpses were quickly discovered, and people were killed in almost every street and alley, inside and outside the courtyard.

By nightfall, the corpses of the townspeople had finally been gathered. After counting, there were 1,174 people in total.

An Ning even led people to rummage through the cellars of every house in the town, but still found no living mouth, not a single one.

It may be that the people of the town have been poisoned, or it may be that some people have escaped alive, but they are afraid that the thieves will return, so they dare not return to the town.

Among these corpses were old men with goosebumps, young people in the prime of life, girls who were no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, and babies waiting to be fed.

Maybe just a few days ago, they could get together to laugh and have fun.

Today, however, they were all cold corpses lying on the ground, without a trace of life.

Judging from the wounds, they were all killed by sharp weapons, the scimitars of the Manzhen cavalry.

And from the perspective of time, it is very likely that the murderer is the same group of people as Lin Fan and the Manzhen cavalry they met today.

This kind of scene made An Ning and the others secretly cry, and An Ning said: "If we could have arrived a day earlier, there might not have been such a thing!" ”

Wang Hu smashed his fist on the courtyard wall of a house, and the force was so great that the snow on the wall shook down a large area.

He said angrily: "These real dog thieves are simply inferior to pigs and dogs!" I knew that I would kill them all today and avenge the people! ”

Chen Fangshu said: "It's too late to say this now, instead of being senselessly sentimental, it is better to think about how to avoid such things as much as possible in the future!" ”

Lin Fan also said: "What Fang Shu said is right, it is useless to say this now. What we have to do is not to be sad and regretful here, but to drive the real people out of the customs, so that the people can live a stable life from now on! ”

This town is just one of the towns that everyone happened to encounter on the march, and there are only a few such towns in the entire Gyeonggi region.

What happened to the soul is just a microcosm of the land of Gyeonggi now.

It is not difficult to imagine what the situation of the villages and towns that have no protection under the Manzhen butcher's knife is now, except for a few big cities.

Originally, in today's battle, the officers and soldiers were outnumbered, but they still suffered a lot of losses, which will inevitably make everyone fear the Manzhen army in their hearts.

And what happened in the town was so tragic that this tragic situation made most of the soldiers in the army fear of the Manzhen cavalry disappear, and replaced it with a heart full of sadness and anger.

At night, Lin Fan was asking people to strengthen their vigilance, in addition to guarding against the surprise attack of the Manchu Zhen army at night.

The soldiers were also instructed to take good care of the bodies of the people so that they would not be eaten and destroyed by wild dogs or other wild animals.

There was nothing to do all night, and when it was dawn the next day, Lin Fan and the others began to bury the people in the town.

There is a cemetery outside the town of Qiling, where the people of the town have been resting for generations.

The soldiers buried all the people in the town here, because they did not know the generations and names, at the time of burial, everyone had to bury these people together, regardless of the age and inferiority, and it became a large tomb.

After erecting the tombstone, Lin Fan led everyone to respectfully salute three incense sticks to the deceased people.

After paying tribute to these people, with a solemn atmosphere, Lin Fan said to the soldiers of the whole army in front of the tomb: "Soldiers, our responsibility to serve in the army is to protect the land and protect the family, and to protect the court!" ”

"Today, there are barbarians from outside, who have invaded our land, and killed my people; There were thieves in the rebellion, causing swords and soldiers to rise everywhere and the people to suffer. Today, the country is worried about overthrowing, and the people are slaughtered! ”

"As the army of the imperial court, we will be humiliated by the enemy outside and a thief at the inside!"

"You might as well look behind me, and now the people lying in the tomb are all my people of Dayun."

"They could have lived this life in peace and contentment, without worries, but now they are all dead under the butcher's knife of the Manzhen cavalry."

"This is the territory of my Great Cloud Dynasty, and it is also the Gyeonggi of my Great Cloud Dynasty, and it is the place where our Yun people have lived for generations. In the land of our Yun people, our people have been slain like this! ”

"If we can't drive the Manzhen army out of the pass, then today's events will definitely be repeated."

"Today is the slaughter of the people of Qiling Town, so wait until tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, when the Manzhen army continues to attack, how can the people of Huainan Dao be left alone!"

"If we are indifferent to the killing of the people here today, it will be too late to regret it when the people of Huainan Province are slaughtered in the future!"

Xu thought of the tragic situation of the slaughter in his hometown in the future, and the expressions of the soldiers became more and more solemn.

Even if no one spoke, the resentment towards Manzhen was irrepressible.

"Manzhen is just a barbarian, but he wants to occupy my land, kill my people, and destroy my country. Although I don't have great talent, as a cloud person, I only have one thing to say, that is: never agree! ”

Lin Fan pulled out his sword and pointed it at the sky: "Today, I, Lin Fan, swear here, if I don't expel Manzhen from the customs in this battle, I swear not to return home!" ”

An Ning shouted: "If you don't drive the Tartars, you will not return to your hometown!" ”

"If you don't drive the Tartars, you swear not to return home!" All the soldiers shouted in unison.

"If you don't drive the Tartars, you swear not to return home!"

"If you don't drive the Tartars, you swear not to return home!"