Chapter 49: Raising Food (4)
The interrogation of the Xidong robbers and prisoners went smoothly, and Chang Shen and Zhong Lei successively reported the interrogation to Zhang Songyu.
Judging from the information obtained from the interrogation, the two thieves confessed that the situation was basically the same, and they should have not lied. Zhang Song sent someone to tell Kong Yi the location of the warehouse, and Kong Yi immediately took a few people to the library of the West Cave thieves.
Although the two thieves captives confessed the treasury of the West Cave Thieves, and even the private vault locations of the two leaders of the West Cave Thieves, they did not explain what the West Cave Thieves, Huayang Thieves, and Xindi Thieves discussed a few days ago.
In order to find out what the West Cave Thieves, Huayang Thieves, and Xindi Thieves discussed a few days ago, Zhang Song looked at the big leader of the West Cave Thieves.
The big leader of the West Cave Thieves was still curled up on the ground, without any movement, if it weren't for seeing his chest and abdomen rise and fall a little with his breathing, Zhang Song really thought that he had trampled him to death just now.
"Zhang Jun, let me help you?" Chang Shen was very eye-catching, and hurriedly asked Zhang Song.
"Hmm." Zhang Song agreed, he saw that the leader of the West Cave thieves seemed to tremble, but he didn't pay attention to it, but turned to Zhong Lei and said: "Zhong Jun, you take care of it, especially to get the grain in the West Cave, count it, and don't let the soldiers hide it privately." I took the captive and asked a little bit about it. ”
"Okay. Zhang Jun, just go, I will do this well. ”
After agreeing, Zhong Lei left, and he kept issuing orders to the soldiers, which was nothing more than ordering the soldiers to tie up all the captives and pile the bodies together.
Seeing this, Zhang Song put his mind at ease, turned around and signaled to Chang Shen that he could start.
Chang Shen had already sent soldiers to wait for a large basin of cold water, and when he saw Zhang Song's signal, he poured the cold water on the head of the leader of the West Cave thieves, and the cold water in the cold winter stimulated the leader of the West Cave thieves and could no longer pretend to faint.
"Wake up, then get up." Zhang Song said lightly.
"You two go tie him up!" Chang Shen said to the two soldiers on the side.
With knives and guns pointed, the leader of the West Cave Thieves was honest and allowed the two soldiers to be bound. He knew very well the situation of the second leader of the West Cave Thieves, and he was afraid that Chang Shen would be dissatisfied, and Chang Shen would make him unable to live or die.
"Now that you've woken up, do you want to tell us about the situation?" Zhang Song smiled and looked at the big leader of the West Cave who was soaked and shivering.
The Great Leader of the West Cave Thieves raised his head and glared at Zhang Song and Chang Shen angrily. Zhang Song and Chang Shen looked at him calmly, not taking the anger of the Great Leader of the West Cave Thieves to heart at all.
After looking at each other for a while, the big leader of the West Cave Thieves looked up and looked around, only to see that the people of the West Cave Thieves had all been tied up, and the soldiers of Qingsong Valley were squatting aside, and there were corpses everywhere around, all of these corpses were dressed as West Cave Thieves, and the closest to him was the body of the second leader of the West Cave Thieves, with their heads and bodies separated, and their limbs twisted at a possible angle.
After seeing the situation clearly, the Great Leader of the West Cave Thieves knew that the general situation had gone, and then looked at Chang Shen's calm and cold eyes, and he sighed gloomily.
"If you want to know something, say it. I beg you to spare my life. ”
"A few days ago, what did you discuss with the Xindi Thieves and the Huayang Thieves? Why did the Huayang thieves send someone over today, what are they doing here? Zhang Song asked.
"This matter is very simple, it is related to food, you know, the Mengshan thieves and we hope to conquer Qingsong Valley, so we made full preparations for this, and at that time, we moved the grain of Xindi and Huayang to Xidong, which is the closest to Qingsong Valley. At that time, it was agreed that if there was food in any place, we would send someone first, so that we could prepare the food and send it the next day. Huayang sent people to ask for food. ”
"How many people are there now? Why do you only have a little bit of a thief here? Zhang Song asked again.
"The Mengshan thieves were scared by you, and only some of them were left here, and most of them went to Xindi and Huayang."
"How many people are there in Huayang and Xindi now?" Zhang Song asked.
"The specific personnel are not clear, but there are about one hundred and thirty or forty people in total."
"Then tell me about the other situations of the Huayang Thieves and the Xindi Thieves."
According to the narrative of the Great Leader of the West Cave Thieves, Huayang is closer to the Green Pine Valley than to the new land. Although the terrain of Huayang is not as dangerous as the West Cave, the Huayang thieves live in a cave, which has spring water, vents, and often hides a large amount of grain.
The Huayang thief couldn't be beaten by someone, so he went into the cave and didn't come out, and there was no problem in living in it for ten days and half a month. And the people outside the cave did not dare to enter rashly, because the terrain inside was complicated, and there was no one to lead the way, so it was easy to get lost in it and be killed by Huayang thieves.
The terrain of the new land was flat, but the new land thieves were all very good horsemen, and their horses were also very good, and when they could beat them, they came like the wind, and if they could not beat them, they retreated like a tide, and they were nowhere to be found.
Just as the leader of the West Cave Thieves finished speaking and Zhang Song pondered, there was a commotion in the distance, mixed with the crying of women. A moment later, He Qinghong led a group of women to Zhang Song.
The women were all in rags, trembling, pale, and their eyes were like frightened white rabbits.
"This is ......," Zhang Song asked in surprise.
"These are women from the West Cave, all hidden in a cave." He Qinghong said indignantly.
"Don't be afraid, the West Cave Thieves have been wiped out by our Qingsong Valley, their second leader has been executed by us, and the big leader has been arrested by us, right here, if you have any grievances, just speak out, and we will help you make the decision." Zhang Song said loudly to the group of women.
However, after a long time, no women came out to accuse the thieves, but they panicked and retreated, but the eyes that stared at the great leader of the thieves in the West Cave from time to time revealed who was the first evil.
The chief of the Western Cave Thieves replied to the women with a ferocious eye, like a wolf that saw a sheep and was ready to pounce on it and bite it. The women were stared at, and they became even more timid, and their bodies were curled up, and no one dared to look at the great leader of the West Cave Thieves anymore.
Zhang Song felt helpless, but it is understandable that a little psychological knowledge he had learned in his previous life told him that in the case of long-term abuse, the abused person will instinctively fear the abuser, and some extreme ones will rely on the abuser.
In a hurry, he definitely couldn't ask anything from the mouths of this group of women, so Zhang Song asked Yu He Qinghong to take the women aside, settle down for a while, and then go to Qingsong Valley together, and let them decide to stay tomorrow.
"The treasury of the West Cave thieves has been found, there is a large amount of grain and gold, and it is now being counted." Seeing that Zhang Song had finished dealing with the women's issue, Zhong Lei, who followed, said excitedly, "I have already sent someone to garrison it, and it will be transported to Qingsong Valley as soon as it is dawn." ”
"No, we'll start shipping to Green Pine Valley right away, and it'll be too late after dawn!" Zhang Song said, "Pass my order, and by the way, tie up this person, leaving five people to guard the prisoners." Everyone else went to deliver food, and the gold was gone. ”
As the order was conveyed, the torches were lit one after another, and the West Cave was illuminated by the torches.
The soldiers of Qingsong Valley immediately became happy and busy, and under the assignment of Zhong Lei, they searched for horses and pockets, and went to the warehouse to prepare to transport the materials back to Qingsong Valley.
After a while, the soldiers of Qingsong Valley carried torches and horses loaded with supplies, and happily walked out of the mountain gate of the West Cave one by one. The procession was like a fiery dragon, winding its way along the mountain road into the distance.
The captives crouched on the ground, watching the soldiers of Green Pine Valley carry away the supplies that belonged to them, but they could not resist, and their expressions were very depressed.
The big leader of the West Cave Thieves rolled his eyes, and saw that Zhang Song and Chang Shen's attention was attracted by the food, while the other five soldiers were watching over the more than twenty captives, and while the people were not paying attention, they let out a low muffled roar, jumped up, and galloped towards a horse.
However, the spear in Zhong Lei's hand, who had been prepared, swept sideways, hitting the chest of the leader of the thieves in the West Cave. The leader of the West Cave Thieves fell to the ground with a big "thud", but he soon let out another roar and was about to jump again.
When the other thieves saw this, their expressions became lively, and a few of them were eager to try. Zhang Song saw it in his eyes, he glanced at the thieves who were eager to try it with cold eyes, and shouted to Chang Shen.
"Kill him! Constant deep. ”
Since you don't have the consciousness of being a prisoner, it's useless to keep it, so it's better to kill it as soon as possible, so as not to drive other captives to move.
Chang Shen, who received the order, accurately pierced the chest of the Great Leader of the West Cave Thieves with a single brush of the spear. The Great Leader of the West Cave Thieves screamed miserably, shook a few times and fell to the ground, dying of exhaustion.
"You've all seen it! If anyone dares to resist again, they will be killed! Zhang Song's words were full of Sen Sen's murderous aura.
Chang Shen looked at the many captives with tiger eyes, the spear in his hand pointed at the captives, and there was blood hanging on them, and the captives were like frosted eggplants, they all lowered their heads, not daring to look at Chang Shen, let alone look up at Zhang Song.
"Zhang Jun, the grain can't be shipped, what should I do now?" Zhong Lei came over and asked in a sweat.
"How much food is left?" Zhang Song asked.
"There are about twenty stone of grain left, and all the gold is there." Zhong Lei said, "Do you want to keep people down, guard them first, and let's wait for another trip?" ”
Zhang Song raised his head, looked at the sky, and asked, "What time is it, and how long is it until dawn?" ”
"It's supposed to be ugly now, I don't know the specifics."
The ugly hour is from 3 o'clock to 5 o'clock in the morning of the previous life, and judging from the sky, it is about 4 o'clock now, so when the grain is transported back to the green pine valley, the sky should have been bright.
"How long will we have enough food to eat?" Zhang Song asked.
"It should be enough to eat for a month."
"Then let's go back, we don't want the rest of the food and gold?" Zhang Songdao.
"Don't want the gold too?" Zhong Lei's tone was hesitant and reluctant.
"That's right! Don't! Zhang Song looked at Zhong Lei.
Seeing Zhang Song staring at him, he knew that his mind had not been hidden from Zhang Song, Zhong Lei was a little embarrassed, so he nodded and ordered the troops to return to Qingsong Valley.