Outside the already ruined Shixiang Town, many poles had been temporarily erected, as well as headless corpses that had been uprooted and hung on them.

On the edge of the small river outside the town, several groups of people and horses were temporarily camped, forming a kind of semi-encirclement confrontation with the banner of the Duanzhou Tutuan that had settled in the town first.

As the camps moved back and forth, rumors and rumours flowed and brewed.

"What do those brutes and rats say?"

"It is said that among the grass thieves, there are miraculous people who call for wind and rain"

"I invited Zhu Rongshen and wantonly exerted his power, destroying the entire street"

"You can still breathe fire while fighting, and the people who are in ambush can't stop it, so you can only rush out for the other party."

"Pounce on your mother, what the hell is this."

"Is it a soft egg that paints gold on your face?"

Some of them are river thieves who beg for a living on the small river, some are smugglers who come and go to the near sea, some are barbarian chieftains in the mountains, and some are Hu merchants' subordinates from other regions.

These characters, who had little chance to intersect in the past, were all able to gather here because of the guarantor of a certain local lord who ruined his family and sent people to make contact;

Although this old man retired from the Ministry of Rites, he posthumously presented the Lang official with a rank of five grades, but after all, he was a former Beijing official of Zhishi, and he was still quite a highly admired figure in this Lingnan foreign state where culture and education were not prosperous and the barbaric miasma was poor; Even in daily life, even if it is the history of the Xiazhou assassin of the ruling party, he has to put down his figure and posture and send people to ask for advice and greet him from time to time.

Therefore, in the case of the collapse of the situation in Lingdong this time and the thieves stole the Guangfu, the officials of Taishou and Zhengyin and Zuo Yi successively fled in fear of the thieves like tigers, and resolutely stood up to turn the tide, and finally began to preside over the situation in the state city with cheers and rejoicing;

Just by greeting the powerful families in their respective localities, there was a response to the news, and many local regiments and township soldiers were pulled out everywhere, temporarily maintaining the situation in most places in Duanzhou.

And under the command of this old man alone, thousands of men and horses were mobilized and gathered, and they were all armed with the armor in the official treasury; Then, he took advantage of the general situation and sent his children to go around to appease the marginal forces of those mountain barbarians, river thieves, and smugglers, and lured them to the children of wealthy people with a future as a lure, co-opted and driven under the banner of begging thieves to redress their rebellion, and at the same time provoked and exterminated those who did not go well;

And the capture of Shixiang Town is just one of the aftermaths after it is fully launched, but at this moment, the faces of these leaders are very bad.

Although their reasons and motives are different, they are at least temporarily identical in their purposes; It was this grass thief from the north who took the opportunity to steal Lingdong and handed over a letter of surrender to the imperial court to obtain the qualification to recruit an or be whitewashed and become a beloved.

Therefore, compared with the leaders of the Tutuan soldiers who were organized by the big families and the powerful in the background, they were obviously more hardworking and desperate, and the price they paid was much greater, but in the end, they were able to let a team of grass thieves break through;

Therefore, those Tutuan generals who have always been close to the government have obviously begun to manipulate this matter to withhold their share of profits and fulfill the promised rewards. He even preemptively grasped the defenses, and refused to let them enter the town with follow-up men.

And the leader who came together to ask for an explanation had just surrounded and blocked a Tutuan military general who was in charge of liaison and negotiation outside the town.

"It was your people who said that there was a lot of salt and iron here."

In the center, a copper-skinned man with a feather crown on his head had a bad face

"As a result, there are more than 200 Ding Zhuang in the village, and I went to see the ancestral god. Nothing was found."

"Is this a puppet who can be deceived and deceived?"

"It is said that a lot of valuable incense and cloth have been hoarded here,"

Then the bare-chested, thick-haired leader of the Xiongjiang Thieves also followed suit

"The brethren fought desperately to get in, but there were only mouths full of dust"

"Did they all die in vain?"

"Since there is no prior benefit to be delivered,"

Another representative of the merchant who looked different from the eastern soil and had a deep eagle nose also said loudly.

"Don't blame us for taking it ourselves."

"The most piercing end of the city is still won by my people and means."

"Could it be that you can't wait to break the contract."

"You've already taken advantage of the benefits of Sihui City."

The fierce and powerful smuggler leader is even more unabashedly threatening.

"Could it be that this little bit of profit in Shixiang Town is reluctant?"

"Then don't blame them, just shoot and scatter on your own"

"My son has cut off the heads of more than 300 grass thieves."

"With your dirt balls, you still can't go to heaven."

"That's exactly what it is."

The others were even more impassioned, drawing their knives and gripping the handles, echoing loudly.

"It's a big deal, why don't you turn around and ask someone to fight for it."

"Look at the hard bones of you dirt dogs, or the sharper knives of our brothers."

Under this rush and threats, I saw that this local regiment official, who represented the government, no longer spoke and insisted more, but gave way to the tacit attitude of retreating; Only then did they roar towards the ruined town.

"Captain Wen, how does this make it?"

The people around the Tutuan officer couldn't help but call out eagerly

"The rest of the town are all righteous men and good people who have their hearts set on the court."

"In order to cooperate with the inside and outside to assist the officers and soldiers, it is a lot to take down those grass thieves."

"There's no way around it."

Captain Wen, who looked a little old, couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"Now the grass thieves are still strong, and the government still needs to gather strength."

"Volunteers from all walks of life also have their own thoughts and desires. The old man also has to take care of one or two,"

As he said this, his expression and eyes became firm again.

"Right now, let's use these miscellaneous currents to delay and consume one or two grass thieves."

"Even if there are some righteous people in the town, they can only make trade-offs for the sake of the overall situation."

"When the court recovers in the future, I will double down on these miscellaneous streams."

However, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Before they do, get out of the way of all the people you know well."

"Other people who can't take care of it for the time being, just treat them as a small sacrifice for the sake of the country."

"But turn around, let those who have withdrawn and publicize more,"

"The remnants of these vulgar grass thieves are perverse and perverse, and they are guilty of the tragic crimes of the village,"

"But on the orders of the captain."

The representative from the town saw that the matter was irreparable, and he could only accept the reality with a sigh, but his mind began to calculate his own benefits and losses.

After all, Captain Wen had just given him a temporary right to decide who to withdraw from the disaster, which could be regarded as a disguised bribery and appeasement. After all, he is not the most influential among those townspeople, but he also has his own interests and positions, as well as the corresponding proximity.

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After continuing to walk for two days, after re-entering the territory of the suburbs of Guangzhou, the team, which stopped at an abandoned post station to rest, had another episode in private.

"Brother monk, my life is yours to pick up"

Deputy Lieutenant Lu, who was spread out on the stretcher and described the bones, did not have to look at him seriously.

"So, I owe you my life."

"If there is any dispatch in the future, just say it."

With this beginning and precursor, almost most of the people who followed in the process of patrolling the dozens of injured and sick people expressed similar gratitude or corresponding gratitude;

It's just that Zhou Huai'an never threw away their cumbersome illness along the way, but severely reprimanded and deterred those who put forward similar ideas or tended to put them into action. It is these feelings of gratitude and thoughts that arise from every word and deed at the critical juncture between life and death that have been amplified and strengthened to some extent.

Of course, he laughed at this wave of surprises, but on the surface he still had to make a certain modest and tranquil unexpected; Then tell and comfort each other seriously, this is just a convenient way, I really don't dare to be too greedy, and the more important thing is that they must have the will to survive, or the firm belief that they have persevered all the way.

By the way, I used the small stories and jokes I knew about those bad streets from my bosom friend, and poured a bunch of plausible cheap chicken soup for the soul, so that the other party fell into some kind of unclear consciousness that made sense very reasonable, which can be regarded as laying a more profound foundation for further development in the future.

In the process of leading the team to escape this time, under the persecution of danger and survival, Zhou Huai'an completely squeezed out his biological scanning and detection capabilities, plus the night vision and farsightedness brought by this unknown auxiliary system, and provided this team with a certain mode of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and obtained supplements and assistance from the field in time at several critical moments.

But at the corresponding price, he had to devour a lot of high-calorie things; For example, hundreds of catties of stone honey and dried meat, more than a dozen waxed geese, and most of the hind legs of the cow are miscellaneous, so as to ensure that they are not too weak and tired on the way.

Although they tried their best to cover up and embellish, they still surprised the soldiers of the rebels who came down with them, and came up with the rumors and discussions that the monk's deputy was suspected of being "gluttonous".

But the bigger gains are in the hearts of the people first, such as turning the follower Xiaoqi into an admirer in a certain sense, and the dozen or so subordinates led by Lao Guan have become the best team in a sense; Together with the 100 people who fled back together, most of them have faintly become their most direct or indirect and potential supporters in the Fury Wind Camp in the subtle daily obedience and recognition during this time.