The caravan entered the oasis and went straight to the small temple of the Holy Fire. The three of them were very excited in their hearts, and quietly followed up, lurking in the shadows, watching their actions.

The elder scarcely had to shout, and when he heard the commotion of the caravan, he hurried out to meet the guests. In the homes of several Flame Cultists nearby, more than a dozen big men also came out, following behind the elder.

The people in the caravan were also dressed as Holy Fire cultists.

The bearded man led by him shouted a few words at the elder, and the elder waved his hand, and the people around him hurried back to the temple, took out a copper urn, and placed it firmly on the ground.

There were several spoons hanging from the mouth of the copper urn, and the men in the camel caravan flocked to it, picked up the spoons, scooped up the water from the copper urn, and drank it in large gulps.

"Hey, didn't this old man just say that there is no water in the Holy Fire Temple, what a lie. Guo Hua scolded indignantly and in a low voice.

"Huh-" the magpie was also happy, "I was born in Broken Leaf when I was a child, and my grandfather and mother rarely interacted with these Holy Fire cultists, and they also told us not to go to their places casually, saying that they were very bad. ”

“......”

"These Holy Fire cultists are well-organized, and on the surface they have dealings with everyone, laughing and laughing, but in fact, most of the time, their daily lives are confined to their own community, and what they say and do is a set of rhetoric on their own side, and another rhetoric on the outsider's side, very cunning and treacherous. ”

"So bad?" Guo said, a little incredulous.

"Yes, didn't you understand it just now, it's just a bowl of water, and you give it to others to drink, not for us to drink. And they often talk about the 'virtue of the Holy Fire', saying that as a member of the Holy Fire Sect, you must have some virtues and rules, and on their own side, it is to help each other and treat each other sincerely, but for those outside the sect, it means something else entirely. ”

"Ah, virtue, and the inside and outside of each other?" Guo asked again.

"Yes, I heard from an elder in the village a while ago that a young man had offended the gods of the Holy Fire cultists, and was taken by those Holy Fire cultists and tied to a specially made wooden frame, one vertical and one horizontal, in the shape of a cross, and the human arms were stretched out and tied to the horizontal log, and the head, body, legs, and feet were tied to vertical wooden poles. ”

"Lynching, whipping?" asked Guo with a smile.

"Whipping? well—there is this, and after more than a thousand lashes, the young man has been whipped to death, and before he is done, he cut the blood vessels of his feet, neck, and hands, and kept the man's blood clean—"

"Huh?" the magpie said this, Guo Yu and Dugu Huan were stunned, "Isn't that person dead?"

"Surely he was dead, not only was he dead, but he was not finished, but they drained the man's blood, and emptied his entrails, and threw them all to the dogs to eat, and finally put the young man's skin with the huge cross, and placed it in front of the temple of the Holy Fire, and exposed the body for seven days, and the last fire was burned. ”

"Where is this Holy Fire Cult, this is obviously an evil Fire Cult. Guo Hua was indignant.

At that time, I also heard the old people in that village talk about the sins of the Holy Fire Cultists, but most of them were about how they invaded the surrounding tribal villages and towns, and they were all about the big picture, and it was also a common thing to attack and invade between tribes.

At that time, I just thought they were hateful, but I really didn't expect their religious rituals to be so evil and cruel.

After the camel chaseers finished drinking water, they became lively again. These people have always been babbling and like to be noisy.

They began to unload the camels and the wagons.

These things were all wrapped in large sheets of leather or blankets, and it was impossible to see what was inside.

But looking at the weight and the shape of the strip, Guo Yu guessed that it was a long knife and a spear.

The magpie suddenly remembered those magnetic powders again, and looked at them with a plate, although they were separated by a distance of more than ten steps, those magnetic powders were still affected, and there were slight changes, and the magnetic powders condensed into thin bamboo shoots, pointing at each other.

"Yes, it must be an ordnance blade. Guo Hua affirmed.

"Well, an iron pot or something, it's not enough to be wrapped in skin. The magpie chimed in.

Dugu Huan didn't talk much, his hand tightened his grip on the hilt, and he waited for Guo Huan's words, rushed over to knock them down and confiscate their blades.

Guo Yu motioned for the two of them to calm down and wait for them to move everything into the Holy Fire Temple before they started.

If you put things in the temple, you can't run away. Put it on the camel and the cart, and after a while the people run away, and you have to chase it.

Seeing that the last package of goods was unloaded from the car and was about to be moved into the temple, Guo Yu rushed over with an arrow step.

Originally, Guo Hua also wanted to take out his official seal letter and let them open the package and inspect the goods to verify their guesses.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Guo Mifu appeared, these guys immediately pulled out the scimitar hidden under the camel's saddle, and couldn't help but say that they cut it over according to Guo Mifu.

Hey, that's a hassle-free. Save a lot of hypocritical polite words.

These people are the opponents of Guo Hua and the three of them, three times five divided by two, the dead and the dead, and the captured are all cleaned up.

Tie the Elder of the Holy Flame and several small leaders of the camel team to the tree with their backhands, and leave them to the magpie to watch, Guo Hua and Dugu Huan strode into the Holy Fire Temple to find the whereabouts of the thing.

With the help of the magnetic powder, it was easy to find the entrance to the secret passage hidden behind the statue of the Lord God of Light in Hellfire.

The secret passage extended diagonally downward, and after more than twenty steps, it began to flatten out. Blow the fire fold and light the torch on the wall step by step.

There were still more than fifty steps left, and secret rooms of different sizes were dug out on both sides of the secret passage, totaling as many as fourteen.

The two of them went their separate ways, each smashing open the wooden door on one side to inspect the inside.

The situation is as alarming as it might have been speculated.

Some of these secret rooms store large quantities of weapons, armor, and horse armor, while others store rice, jerky, and wine. Some are used as bedrooms.

It's an underground arsenal.

These long and short weapons, bows and arrows, are enough to equip 3,000 people, more than 200 armors, and 50 horse armors.

Guo Hua and Dugu Huan looked at it for a long time and sighed, and they were afraid for a while.

Luckily, they found a roster in a secret room that served as a meeting place, written in large stone script.

The three of them collected cow and horse dung, lit three piles of wolf smoke, and put three different smoke pills into the cow and horse dung to change the color of the wolf smoke.

This is a signal for a small call for help. It is also a signal to spot a small group of enemies.

Yang Shuzheng, the general of Broken Leaves, personally ordered his troops and sent a hundred-man cavalry team to bring several bandit leaders, weapons and equipment back to Broken Leaf City.

That caravan came in handy.

In order to prevent future troubles forever, Guo Hua destroyed the Holy Fire Temple and the five bandits' houses with the secret technique of the Earth Scroll, and added the seal of the Buddha Gate.

The staff in General Broken Leaf's Mansion naturally have many people who understand Dashi's language. In less than half an hour, the entire roster was translated.

After Yang Shuzheng finished reading the captured ordnance, rice, grain, and dried meat, as well as the roster, he also felt a chill on his spine, and cold sweat broke out.

This is also too scary, it is like a wolf lying on the side of the couch, waking up today.

The people on the roster were all Flame Cultists living in Shattered Leaf City and the surrounding Prison Mansions, and each name still had a little blood stained on it. It's a bit like the painting of the Tang people.

The staff said that it was the unique "drawing" method of the Holy Fire cultists, who pierced the tip of the tongue with a knife and licked it.

This way of drawing is quite disgusting.

They also have a name on this roster, called the Holy Fire Blood Warrior. That's what it means.

Just look at the name and know it's an anti-thief team.

Yang Shuzheng hurriedly sent a secret order, sent three hundred-man cavalry teams to various oasis tribes and the Prison Mansion to arrest the thieves, and closed the city gate early, arrested all the Holy Fire cultists in the city, and killed them immediately if they resisted.

The more than 1,000 Flame Cultists in Shattered Leaf City were all caught before dark, and more than 800 people were killed on the spot when they encountered resistance.

The next day was not yet noon, and the three teams of 100 sent out also returned one after another.

Except for the Holy Fire Cultists in the city of Prison Mansion who caught a few alive, those who lived in the oasis had their blades hidden in their homes, and when they saw that the officers and soldiers were coming, they resisted with weapons, and they were all killed on the spot, and they all had their heads cut off and came back to their lives.

The case of the Holy Fire cultists forming a party to plot rebellion was quickly tried and clearly tried, and the evidence of the hidden blades, rosters, ordnance and armaments in the family was readily available and irrefutable.

Rebellion is a heinous and heinous crime. Border fortresses, gangs hiding ordnance, forming gangs and bandits, resisting officials and soldiers, and those with conclusive evidence can make a decision on the spot and be directly executed.

There were still more than 670 bandits alive, and these people could have been made into slaves, used as official slaves, or sold to merchants and eunuchs.

But considering their danger, Yang Shuzheng thought about it and was cautious, so he had to kill them all.

Nearly 700 condemned prisoners, the executions must have been made public.

With such a large-scale execution, Yang Shuzheng couldn't help but be a little worried about the risk of public opinion among the people.

In any case, these Flame cultists were not quite the same as regular armies. I am afraid that the people will treat them as ordinary people, which will arouse sympathy, and then cause antagonism and even hatred towards the government and the imperial court.

The Holy Fire cultists were very cunning, and apart from destroying the temple and killing the monks last time, they rarely directly harassed the people in Shattered Leaf City and the nearby oasis. The people in and around the city do not know enough about their brutality and bloodshed.

There must be a way to get the people to accept such a large-scale public execution.

The people have to understand that these Holy Fire cultists are different from ordinary horse bandits and bandits, and the target of their hatred is not just one or two temples, let it develop and expand, and eventually the entire broken leaf will become their Shura battlefield, until in the end, they will finally kill and enslave all innocent people.

Therefore they should all be put to death.

This kind of thing, just relying on a bunch of scimitar armor and a roster, it is difficult to convince the public, after all, it is necessary to execute six or seven hundred people at a time.

Guo Hua thought of a way.

You can bring in the people of the town where the Green Heads were besieged last time, and those in other villages, but if you have been harassed by the Green Bands, you can invite five hundred and eight hundred people.

Pick a few delegates and tell us about the tragic massacre of their village by the Flame cultists.

"Are they willing to come?" Yang Shuzheng was a little worried, he often spent more time in Broken Leaf City, and he didn't have a deep grasp of the situation of the tribes in remote villages and towns.