In less than a quarter of an hour, the fight was over.

In addition to the serious injuries of more than ten Jiangning battalion soldiers, these so-called sergeants of the inspection department all fell, and falling did not mean death, not many really lost their lives, especially the people who were hit by flintlock pistols, lying on the ground, their expressions were very painful, but few people screamed, obviously enduring the pain.

The soldiers of the scout battalion surrounded these people, waiting for Su Tiancheng's order to start moving.

In the process of fighting, Su Tiancheng has been paying attention to the situation, it is precisely because of his feeling that the soldiers are ready to deal with this sudden attack, although the other party has made a lot of preparations, set up checkpoints in this wilderness, but unfortunately these people, do not understand the rules of officialdom, see the cavalry on the right track, still adhere to the principle, such a thing, it is impossible to happen in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, the officers who led the team, seeing such a formation, I am afraid that they have already farted and urinated, where do they dare to say about the inspection, They were not even allowed to leave.

These people are all good in terms of personal skills, but unfortunately they do not have a unified command, nor do they have the consciousness of arranging troops, relying on their personal abilities, thinking about attacking the army, which is almost the same as sending them to death.

Su Tiancheng has a preliminary judgment on the identity of these people, he can conclude that these people are not Ming sergeants, whether they are the sergeants of the guard station or the sergeant of the inspection department, the basic military common sense is clear, when launching an attack, they will pay attention to their own formation and protect each other, and the sergeants of the guard station and the inspection department do not have such good skills as them, let alone the courage to move forward.

Could it be that these people are the so-called people in the rivers and lakes?

After crossing over, Su Tiancheng has never found any people in the rivers and lakes, perhaps because the scope of his access is different. Basically, they are all people above the officialdom, followed by the army, and they rarely have the opportunity to understand the situation in other aspects, so that ten years have passed, and Su Tiancheng thinks that he has seen a lot of books before. When Su Tiancheng was the governor of Shaanxi, he had the opportunity to go to Shaolin Temple to have a look, but he didn't go, which was also due to his understanding of the rivers and lakes.

If these fallen sergeants are all so-called Jianghu people, he needs to figure out the reason for this.

Who sent these people to assassinate himself? What is the purpose, is it to kill yourself and make a mess, or is it just trying to scare yourself and not thinking about the real success of the assassination.

He didn't immediately demand that all of them be killed, and he still needed to figure out the situation.

The reason why these people assassinated themselves is the most important, and in recent times, Su Tiancheng has become extremely careful. The situation in the court is not clear, Lu Shanji's letter. said all the things, in fact, in it, you can see Zhu Youzhen's anxious figure, what do the ministers of civil and military affairs in the court think, envy, jealousy and hatred must exist, will anyone be mad. Thinking about assassinating himself, as for the Emperor Taiji of Houjin, he always thinks that he can die with a whimper, so that Huang Taiji can sit back and relax, and there is a possibility. It is not completely ruled out, that is, although the rogues have been exterminated, there are still some fish that have slipped through the net, these people are the cronies of Li Zicheng and others, and they are always looking for opportunities, thinking that they can assassinate themselves.

Anyway, when he entered Dezhou, Shandong, something like this happened, and Su Tiancheng was still very annoyed. In broad daylight, some people dare to set up checkpoints on official roads and carry out assassinations in this way, which shows what the officials in various parts of Shandong are doing, and it can also show that there may still be the possibility of using this form to exploit the people in various parts of Shandong.

Su Tiancheng didn't speak, of course the soldiers below understood the meaning, and soon someone selected more than a dozen people among the sergeants who fell to the ground and escorted them aside.

After a few minutes, the screams began to come out, the methods of the scouts are needless to say, their tasks are different, assassination, espionage intelligence, etc., are very good, any interested person, in their hands, even if it is a stone, it will be squeezed out of useful things.

Half an hour later, a soldier came to report it.

"My lord, my subordinates have interrogated, and two of them have confessed, and they are from the Blood Killing Alliance."

Su Tiancheng paused for a moment, he had never heard of the name of the Blood Killing Alliance, after crossing over, it was the first time he heard this kind of name with the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes, could it be said that in the Ming Dynasty, there was really a so-called Jianghu sect.

"What is the Bloodkiller Alliance?"

At this time, a soldier next to Su Tiancheng spoke.

"My lord, the Blood-Killing Alliance is a sect on the rivers and lakes, the main task of this sect is to kill people for others, after they accept the silver taels, complete the task assigned by the employer, it is said that this Blood-Killing Alliance is very famous in the south, and the government has little to do with them."

Su Tiancheng looked at the soldiers beside him.

"What's your name?"

"My lord, my subordinate Zhang Yu, the scout camp Xiaoqi."

"Well, you still know something, say it all, and by the way, introduce the situation of this so-called rivers and lakes."

Zhang Yu seems to have been prepared.

"My lord, my subordinates used to be in Wudang Mountain, and after they came down the mountain, they were coerced by the Liukou, and they met Lord Liu and entered the scout camp."

Su Tiancheng nodded, it turned out that Liu Yu was in Wudang Mountain before, no wonder he was so clear about the situation in the rivers and lakes.

"The four major schools recognized on the rivers and lakes are Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, and Hengshan, these four major schools, the imperial court is also recognized, Shaolin and Hengshan belong to Confucianism, and Wudang Emei belongs to Taoism.

"In addition to the four major sects, there are some so-called alliances, the blood-killing alliance belongs to one of the alliances, these alliances, basically do not follow the rules of the rivers and lakes to do things, the four major sects have a very clear requirement, that is, do not have any relationship with the government, do not meddle in anything involving the government, this is a very strict rule, anyone who violates this rule, will be punished by the sect, and even be abolished martial arts, after the abolition of martial arts, expelled from the sect, so, for so many years, The four major sects were able to stand tall and were also supported by the imperial court, but because of the wars, some alliances in the rivers and lakes were born, and these alliances had no principled position, and they could be hired by a wealthy gentry, and sometimes by the government, and what they did was assassination and bodyguards. ”

"The subordinates have a little understanding of the Blood-Killing Alliance, the Blood-Killing Alliance should be an alliance headquartered in Sichuan Province, and the momentum is a bit big, the leader of the Blood-Killing Alliance, once visited Shaolin and Wudang to learn skills, but he has not been able to do so."

"Later, the leader of the Blood-Killing Alliance found many other alliances to learn martial arts, and it is said that this alliance leader has extraordinary martial arts, and he has united many alliances by taking the opportunity to learn martial arts."

"The affairs in the rivers and lakes are all solved by themselves, and they will not trouble the government, and the inspection department in the middle of the government is also clear about these rules, and all matters involving assassinations in the rivers and lakes, after the inspection department investigates clearly, it will not be investigated, and it will be solved by the various sects or alliances themselves."

"Because of these circumstances, adults don't know much about the things in the rivers and lakes."

Su Tiancheng nodded, and finally knew that in the Ming Dynasty, the rivers and lakes still existed, but the organizations on the rivers and lakes did not intersect with the government, and the four major schools in the rivers and lakes adhered to the principle of not having any contact with the government.

"Is the Blood Killing Alliance thinking of assassinating this official this time?"

"My lord, my subordinates are still asking, and these two people said that they didn't know the specific arrangements, but their subordinates found a picture from them."

Su Tiancheng looked at the portrait painted on the picture, although the portrait was very simple, but he could see at a glance that the painting was himself.

"Since there are more than a hundred people, there must be leaders and leaders, find out this person, the rest of the personnel, Zhang Yu, your suggestion, how to deal with it."

"My lord, my subordinates think that if you leave the leader, all the rest will be killed, and no one will be left."

Su Tiancheng looked at Zhang Yu and was a little surprised, he didn't expect Zhang Yu to say this.

"My lord, the disputes in the rivers and lakes, grievances and grievances, it is often difficult to separate them clearly for a while, the four major factions hate these alliances in the rivers and lakes very much, because what these alliances do has involved the four major factions, and at the same time, the vast majority of those responsible for assassination operations are outlaws, and they are vicious, even when facing women and children, the old and weak, they will not show mercy, and in the rivers and lakes, they hate these outlaws."

Su Tiancheng thought for a moment.

"The two people who left to speak, at the same time find out the leader of them, continue the interrogation, and kill the rest."

Once the order is given, it is simple to execute.

The soldiers of the scout battalion were very skillful, and after killing these people of the Blood Killing Alliance, some of the soldiers dug a big pit not far from the official road, and the other part of the soldiers threw all the corpses into the pit, and after all the corpses were thrown into the pit, the soldiers who had already prepared for the battle began to bury them.

An hour later, calm returned to the official road, as if nothing had happened.

Su Tiancheng was not calm, he never imagined that he would have contact with the rivers and lakes. (To be continued......)