(Today is the eighth day, as long as your support is still there, I can stick to it every day!) Everyone knows that writing such an article as a hegemony is not a routine thing, so it takes a long time to sit for a long time, and the cervical spine is very painful to sit for a long time, not to complain, but to say, for your support, I can fight as much as I want! ）

Chapter 579 Asking for a confession is still a skill

Just outside the camp, on a fairly flat ground at the foot of Suzaku Mountain, the remains of the soldiers who died in battle were buried here, and the wooden monuments stood neatly as if the soldiers were alive, and their bodies were straight. That's what they were like when they lined up, so proud.

This was the first batch of soldiers killed in battle after the Black Flag Army set up camp in Suzaku Mountain, and Fang Xie personally attended the funeral. Fighting Luchuan, 462 people were killed in the battle, attacking Boyang, killing 215 people, and exploring the Hukou Stream and killing 50 Xiao cavalry schools.

The names on the tombstone are solemn and solemn.

Fang Xie looked at the wooden monuments arranged so neatly, and stood quietly for a while. It wasn't until the sun set in the west that he left and returned to the council hall.

Chen Xiaoru's stick wound is not yet healed, and he looks a little awkward when he walks, but this stubborn man has not been supported by anyone, gritting his teeth and holding on. In the past few days, he also personally led people to explore the Hukou Stream, and hid outside for three days, and finally caught a few Hukou Stream scouts who came out of the Hukou Stream and were about to step on the plate.

Fang Xie looked at Chen Xiaoru, took out a bottle of wound medicine from his cuff and threw it over: "The wound medicine that he came yesterday and Sanjin Hou, foreigners' things, have some effect on treating red injuries." ”

"General Xie!"

Chen Xiaoru took the medicine for the injury, and his nose was a little sour.

"Bring someone in."

Fang Xie commanded, and several Xiao Riding Girls escorted the captured Hukou Jian scouts into the hall. Fang Xie looked at the people, they were all extremely strong men. From the appearance of these scouts and the way they walked, it can be seen that they are indeed well-trained people. When these people came in, they looked around, and although their faces were not good-looking, they were far calmer than those soldiers under Dou Tiande and Gao Beidou.

The scouts were escorted up and stood in a row, and the Riding School kicked the crook of the leg by the shoulders in the back and then all knelt down.

Fang Xie Zai took a closer look and found that one of them looked at him with a flickering look in his eyes. He stood up and walked behind them and commanded, "Open their palms." ”

Because his arms were tied and his palms were behind his back, Xiao Riding School went up and broke the hands of these people, and Fang Xie looked at them one by one.

"If you don't hold a knife for more than five years, you won't have such a thick cocoon, so seven or eight out of ten of you are not natives of Huangyang Dao. There are no soldiers to defend Huangyang Road, and the county soldiers have long been disbanded, and you are not ordinary people. ”

Fang Xie said lightly: "You people are all well-trained veterans, so threats and intimidation or even cutting off your hands and feet may not make you speak, I am also a scout, so I know that the scouts are all hard-nosed and hard-headed men, so I want to ask you questions calmly, and you can answer calmly." ”

Fang Xie walked in front of them and looked at the person in the center: "You know me?" Look at the twinkle in your eyes, could it be that you have seen me before? ”

This person was the one whose eyes flickered when he saw Fang Xie just now, and he refused to answer after hearing Fang Xie ask him, turning his face away.

Fang Xie didn't care, walked back and sat down and said: "If it weren't for this troubled era, you veterans would still be serving in the barracks, receiving a military salary that is not too thin every month, and the relatives at home will not have to pay taxes because of you. But now, you have to take off your coat and go into the mountains to be robbers, although most of the plunderers are rich and noble, but no one says anything good about you. ”

"I know that a real soldier will not betray his comrades for any threat, and I don't want to say anything like that to exchange the truth for my life, but you can think about it, if you die, who will protect your relatives at home? If anyone is willing to tell me what is going on in the tiger's mouth, I will let all of you go and give you a sum of money that will be enough to support your family. Your family may not have been caught up in the scourge of war yet, but since you are a qualified scout, you should be able to see that no one is immune to the scourge of war! Just because you're safe now doesn't mean you'll be safe in the future. ”

After saying this, Fang Xie stopped talking.

He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes, as if he was thinking about something.

No one spoke below, and the scouts looked at each other and chose to shut up.

"It would be nice if Mr. Zhuo was here."

After a long while, Fang Xie muttered, and then pointed to the scout who had looked at him a little strangely before, and ordered: "Take him down first, and he will be punished whatever he wants, and if he refuses to say anything within an hour, he will be replaced by another one." But if all of them refuse to speak, their integrity will be fulfilled. ”

Fang got up and left after explaining, as if he had lost patience with these people.

Chen Xiaoru waved his hand, and Xiao Riding School came up and escorted those people down. The man assigned by Fang Xie was dragged into an empty house and tied to a stake with a rope. Not far in front of him was a stove, and the soldering iron in it was already burning red. The walls are hung with leather whips and sticks and other torture instruments, and they look quite complete. Chen Xiaoru is from a hundred households in the Ouchi Guards, so he is naturally no stranger to these torture instruments.

The door was not closed, so the scout was tied up and saw several of his companions being dragged over, presumably locked up in other rooms, he was no stranger to this method, and it was the most basic way to interrogate them separately and then summarize and verify the confessions. Whether it is the yamen of the local county or the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department of the capital, or the people of the Ouchi Guard, they are very good at it.

So the scout also knew what kind of torture he was going to face next.

He took a deep breath and was not ready when a terrible shout came from the next room. It seems that the Xiao Riding School in the next room is even more impatient, so they will be escorted in and start the execution.

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The scout in the second room on the left was whipped from his shirt in just a few moments, and his entire upper body was covered with bruises. He gritted his teeth and endured it, and his brain involuntarily sounded that when he caught the enemy scout before, he was also interrogated like this, and he was not unfamiliar at all, but the role was changed.

Soon, the severe pain made his mind a little blurred, his throat was no longer sound, and his throat was already hoarse. The standard of a tough guy is not to be beaten and not shouted, that is all a lie. It's an instinctive reaction to shout out because of the sudden pain, and it's not like you can't keep silent if you want to endure it all the time.

When you bite your lips, you won't even be able to control your throat.

The riding school opposite him, perhaps tired from the fight, sat down on the opposite chair after handing the whip to the other person. The second Xiao Riding School came over and smiled at him: "You are still a man, you listen, the people on trial in the room next to you are shouting louder than you." I've been in the Ouchi Guard for so many years, and I've not met many men like you. However, the more people like you fight, the more addicted they become, you should understand, right? ”

The scout knew that what the Riding School said was right, because the executioner was more interested in the more stubborn prisoners because of the things in human nature, and the more they beat them, the more addicted they became.

But because of this reminder from the Xiao Riding School, he suddenly discovered something.

Counting from the room he was in to the right, there were loud and small shouts coming from every room, one after another, except for the room next to him. He suddenly remembered that the general had asked his companion in the next room, "Do you know me?" You just looked at me with a little flickering eyes, have you seen me before? ”

So he suddenly felt a little panic in his heart, followed by anger.

There was no shouting, which only meant that the guy was not being tortured.

Why?

Before he could think about it, the whip rained down again, and his entire upper body was almost untouched, and the riding school didn't seem to stop. After another quarter of an hour, he still couldn't hold on and passed out.

A bucket of cold water was poured on him, bringing him back to his senses again.

The first one to beat him looked like he had regained his strength, and walked over to pick up the red-hot soldering iron from the stove, and as the soldering iron got closer and closer to him, he felt the temperature on the soldering iron more and more clearly. Just when the soldering iron was almost on the skin of his chest, and the corners of his mouth were already twitching slightly from the burning pain, the cavalry general walked in from outside.

He looked up at the man with difficulty, and noticed that there was a smile on his face.

After Chen Xiaoru came in, he waved his hand and told Xiao Cavalry School to stop: "Don't use torture anymore, the general ordered to release these people, find them clean clothes, apply wound medicine, fifty taels of silver each, and send them away." ”

The scout was stunned for a moment, and instantly understood what it meant.

Not long ago, the great general had said that if one of the scouts confessed, the others could leave.

Is there any other possibility to let him go now?

Xiao Cavalry came over and loosened the tie on him, and then after smearing the wound medicine on him indiscriminately for a while, he threw a suit of clothes and a package at his feet: "Put on your own clothes, the package contains dry food and fifty taels of silver, the general is kind to let you go, if you are obsessed and return to the tiger's mouth, you know what will happen." The reason why I let you go with confidence is because I am not afraid that you will tell you about the things in the camp. In Huangyang Road, no one can bring troops here, and I believe you know that this sentence is not a lie to you. ”

The riding school that beat him before said coldly, and then turned to leave.

The scout was silent for a while, but he bent down to pick up his clothes and put them on, and after getting dressed, he hesitated for a while, and finally picked up the package and carried it out the door. As he went out, he saw that the scouts who had been tortured in several other rooms had also come out, with the same look of surprise and anger.

Only no one came out of the first room, and the door was closed.

The scouts came together and understood each other's thoughts from the look in their eyes. There was no conversation between them, because they all knew that someone had betrayed them. A Xiao cavalry school came over and said coldly: "Follow me, send you down the mountain where you should go back, don't you don't know how to cherish your life, even if you don't understand the situation in your tiger's mouth, can't you still beat down that projectile land?" ”

They followed the riding school as if they were going out, and no one looked back.

In the first room, the scout who had seen Fang Jie's eyes twinkle before was pressed against the window by the Xiao Riding School, and from the small hole that was specially dug, he watched his companions pass by the window, and he could see the expressions on their faces.

Fang Xie sat on the chair, pointed to the window, and said in a flat tone: "You should know by now, even if you don't say anything, I will let you go and go back with them immediately, can you still live?" You should be glad I chose you, because you don't have to be beaten to the ground. Of course, you can also choose not to say anything, and I will send someone to send you to the outside of Hukou Valley, intact. ”