A middle-aged man with a gloomy face outside the Xiaomo Courtyard was sitting upright on a half-mutilated stone pier, holding a bloodstained ring-headed long knife in his hand, and he couldn't help frowning tightly when he looked at it. This middle-aged man was dressed in linen clothes, about forty-seven or eight years old. Looking at the knife of the head of the ring in his hand, he looked at a monk standing beside him from time to time. The monk was younger, in his early forties. At this time, he was looking at the little Moyuan with a calm face, and he had already calmed down the fight.

"You didn't say... Those people are also related to the battalion soldiers in the state capital! ”

As he spoke, the middle-aged man took the long knife of the ring head in his hand and looked at it for a long time, and plunged it into the dirt in front of him. Without waiting for the monk to reply, he continued to say with a little anxiety in his tone: "If this thing gets out!" Let the masters of these state divisions and battalions know! Fan still has good fruit to eat?! Even if Fan is a county captain... But how can the state division camp be the master to be provoked?! Manifestation! That's not quite what you said at the beginning! You just said that there are just some monks, who have run out of your main courtyard! didn't say that there were still state division battalion soldiers with them! That's good! Fan killed so many soldiers in the state division battalion, even if these dead were just some soldiers, how could the soldiers in the state division battalion be so easy to kill?! Hum! If Fan had a role to play in this... I can't keep it, so I'll confess you, Master Shengjing's proud disciple! ”

The monk standing beside the middle-aged man, after listening to the middle-aged man's long call, still said lightly with an unchanged face: "The poor monk didn't expect that they would find the battalion soldiers in the state division as helpers. Lord Fan... Now that everyone has been killed, what else is there to say? As long as we kill everyone on this mountain, then this news will naturally not be revealed. It's just..."The monk couldn't help but have a trace of ridicule on his face as he spoke, and then said to the middle-aged man: "I just don't want them to be less than forty people, and they can escape from the encirclement of our hundreds of people." And he fled, and he killed and injured so many of us. Lord Fan, it was a certain death to surround them in the courtyard. Why..."

"Humph! What do you mean by that?! Are you saying that Lord Ben's men are all useless?! If you want to say that Xianming set it up, this plan to kill from the outside of the courtyard is not bad! If they were fenced up, they would be able to be killed in the courtyard! But Lord Ben has already said it just now! You didn't tell me that they actually found the battalion soldiers in the state division as helpers! That's why I couldn't surround them and let them escape! Feelings, this hacked to death and slashed, is not a monk under your hands! ”

The middle-aged man said angrily, and slowly stood up from the stone pier where he was sitting. At this time, he really regretted that he shouldn't have helped this Xianming monk... Now not only has he lost many of his subordinates, but he has also been involved in the state division forces that even he dare not provoke! If it is said that in the territory of Anzun County, he Fan Ji can also be regarded as the number one person. But if you get out of this Anzun County... That's not easy to say. Although he is now the lieutenant of Anzun County, he is in charge of the soldiers of a county. But the only one who can really manage this county lieutenant is his own county soldier. The other four county soldiers were held by the other four military commanders. And his official position as a county lieutenant can't be done for much time... The four military colleagues have also been watching the post of county lieutenant for a long time.

{County Lieutenant: In charge of the military power of a county, under the county guard, above the county officials.} In the Great Yan system, each county has a captain in charge of a battalion of about 2,000 county soldiers. The first battalion is divided into five divisions, each with about 400 people, and the army is in charge of the army. Generally, those who hold the positions of county lieutenants and military commanders are all children of local warriors in the county, and are rarely held by outsiders. }

If it weren't for this Xianming finding himself and promising himself that if he could help him, he would settle the matter of Xiao Moyuan... He will help himself to continue to sit steadily, and if he is now a county lieutenant, he will not wade into this troubled water! And... I have already received a lot of goods from Xianming, and now it's too late to do it! At present, he can only kill all these state divisions and battalions according to what he said! Can't leak the slightest rumor! If not... As long as this matter leaks out, let alone the families of these battalion masters in the state division, will they find trouble for themselves. Just those four military horses who have long been eyeing the post of county lieutenant, I am afraid that they will not let go of such a good opportunity to suppress themselves! Especially that old man Cao, doesn't he have a grudge against himself for directly bypassing him and taking on the current position of county lieutenant? Among the four military horses, he is the most difficult to get along with himself. If he knew that he had killed the soldiers of the state division in private...

Just when Fan Jiong's face was shocked and Monk Xianming ignored him, a county soldier colonel was covered in blood and ran over from not far away. Fan Jiong and Xianming saw the junior colonel of the county soldiers running over, but they both lifted their spirits and looked at them. Without waiting for the junior colonel of the county to run closer, Fan Wei couldn't wait to ask first, "What?" Are there any monks? ”

When the junior colonel saw the adults asking, he hurriedly knelt down on one knee and clasped his fists with his hands and said, "Return, go back to the adult!" Among the small chasing people, no monk was found! ”

Fan Ji listened to the answer of the junior colonel of the county soldiers, and couldn't help frowning and muttered to himself: "Why is it still not!" How come it still doesn't! This is already the third group of people who rushed out of the courtyard after catching up! How come it hasn't been found yet! ”

Although Fan Wei was very anxious at this time, he still patiently continued to say to the little school: "No life? ”

The junior colonel of the county soldier said: "Back to the adult's words!" I didn't leave a living mouth as the adults ordered! It's just that... The younger one took his brothers to hunt down... There were quite a few dead and wounded...."

At this time, Fan Ji was already numb to the deaths and injuries of his subordinate county soldiers. Now how can he care about how many dead and wounded? As long as you can kill the battalion soldiers in the state division and the monk Xianming is looking for, even if you fold all the hundreds of people you brought, what's the matter?! No matter how he says it, he is also the captain of a county, and now he brings his own headquarters. Even with many dead and wounded... He still has a way to cover it up. But the premise is that the soldiers and monks of this state division must be killed!

Fan Jiong waved his hand to let the little colonel leave, and then called a middle-aged man not far from him. This big man was born burly, and he was wiping a long knife in his hand. As soon as he heard Fan Ji call him, he hurriedly put the long knife into the sheath and stepped forward a few steps forward to hug his fist and said, "My lord! ”

Looking at the right-hand man in front of him, Fan Chong, a general who is not weak in martial arts, Fan Ji lowered his voice and instructed him: "Go and send a message to Fan Dian and Fan Xing under the mountain, and ask them to take the people under the mountain and search for me!" Lord Ben doesn't believe it! I don't have enough people for a hundred or so, so I can't kill them if I come another hundred people?! In addition, find a few mountain toes to lead the way, and be sure to find out all the people to this adult! ”

After listening to his lord's command, Fan Zhong responded in a deep voice, and immediately led a few of his subordinates down the mountain. After Fan Ji finished instructing Fan Chong, he looked at the monk Xianming again, who seemed to be fine, and said, "Xianming, shouldn't you also make some efforts?" Since this lord has used half of his own people. Shouldn't the monks in the temple you brought with you also be used? Hum! If only people were really sneaking away under our noses! It's not just Fan who is going to suffer, you can't please either! Don't forget that you found Fan after receiving the order of Master Shengjing. If this matter is not handled well, you will not be able to explain it to the commander! ”

Xianming nodded slightly, and then called his name, and the accompanying monk whispered a few words to him. After listening to Xianming's instructions, the monk also hurried down the mountain. Then Xian Ming said lightly to Fan Ji: "Even if the adults don't say it, the poor monk will send someone to spread the word, and ask the disciples of the precept hall who came with him under the mountain to also come to the mountain to search for the whereabouts of those people." ”

Xianming spoke, but he couldn't help but secretly in his heart... Hum! It's really a group of wine bags and rice bags! Obviously, so many people surrounded the small Mo courtyard, but they still let the courtyard run away a lot! even ran away from the person who was as light as this killing! What a bunch of useless people!

"That's good! That's it! The more people you have, the better! ”

Fan Ji couldn't help nodding after listening to what Xianming said, and then he sighed slightly and continued: "Right now... Those who ran out of the courtyard were in addition to the three groups that had already caught up with and killed. There were only two groups left who escaped from the courtyard and never caught up! As long as the two groups of people who haven't caught up in the end are caught up and killed, then this matter will naturally be gone! I think the monk you want to kill is in these two groups! ”

Just as Fan Ji wanted to say something to Xianming who was standing next to him, another bloodstained junior colonel ran in front of Fan Ji and Xianming. Fan Jiong couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the little school, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" Caught up? ”

The blood-stained county soldier colonel clenched his fists and replied: "Back to the adult, the younger one has already killed those who escaped from the courtyard with his brothers!" ”

This time, without waiting for Fan Ji to continue asking, Xianming took the first step to ask, "Are there any monks?" ”

Fan Jiong followed suit and asked, "Are there any monks among these people?" ”

The junior colonel shook his head and said, "There is no monk..."

Xianming listened to the reply of the county soldier school, but he couldn't help but look at Fan Jiong. And what Fan Ji thinks at this time is the same as Xianming... Since they broke out of the courtyard before and after, except for the last group that has not yet been caught up, they have all been caught up and killed! There must be a monk among the last group of people who are still on the run! Just catch up with this last group of monks and kill them...

"Go! If you die, throw them into this little courtyard first! Those who are injured and can't move are all here for this adult! The rest will go to the mountains with Lord Ben! Be sure to find me the last one who escaped! ”

After thinking about it, Fan Ji said to the junior colonel of the county soldiers, and hurriedly called his own people. And the monk Xianming, who was looking at all this in front of him, whispered something to another accompanying monk, and couldn't help frowning slightly.