Chapter 404: Interrogation
One "That's right, everyone hurry up and do what the military advisor says, don't be stupid, I don't have anything to look at." Li Zheng said to the generals who were still looking at him in surprise.
As soon as Li Zheng spoke, everyone also came back to their senses and began to do what to do, Li Zheng lifted the shoes that were sticky to the ground with blood, and decided to help with everyone and clean up here. After all, there are about 500 people in the Ghost Head Gang, and the corpses, horses, knives, etc. all need someone to clean up the mess.
"Young master, hurry up and change your clothes, the weather is cold, be careful of the wind chill, and there are more important things you need to do here!" Sun Wu shouted loudly on the stone platform in front of the village chief's door, and at the same time pointed to the 'third master' who was detained by Shi Qian beside him!
When Li Zheng saw Sun Wu's signal, he knew what he needed to do, he was definitely going to interrogate this 'third master' overnight. As the leader of the Ghost Head Gang, this 'Third Master' must know more about the surrounding terrain and the distribution of bandit gangs than the villagers, and he must pry open the mouth of this 'Third Master' and let him spit out more valuable things.
This matter cannot be lost, Li Zheng is not hypocritical, wearing a bloody suit to come to the 'third master', the 'third master' looked at Li Zheng's figure, and was so frightened that his body involuntarily shrank back, seeing the third master like this, Li Zheng couldn't help laughing, I didn't expect the third master to be so timid, Li Zheng told Shi Qian to quickly throw people into the house and prepare for interrogation overnight. Li Zheng secretly told Shi Qian again, asking Shi Qian to find a little chili oil, a small leather whip and other things, in case this 'third master' is a strong head, these things will help him open the mouth of the 'third master'.
Li Zheng returned to the room to change his clothes, the 'third master' was temporarily watched by Sun Wu and Wang Yangming, the 'third master' was tied up by Shi Qian, even if the two people's martial arts were not very good, it didn't matter, the 'third master' couldn't run at all. Because when he was in the blood pool, the blood had penetrated the clothes and had already stained the skin, in order to prevent the blood from being contaminated with the new clothes, Li Zheng cleaned it up a little with hot water, and washed his hair and face by the way, because there was too much blood in the hair, and the blood had coagulated and frozen on the hair, and it took several times to wash the head alone, and by the time Li Zheng was ready, it was already half an hour later.
Li Zheng also knew that he had taken a little too much time, so he hurriedly came to the room to prepare for the interrogation of the 'third master', Sun Wu and Wang Yangming had been waiting for a long time, and Shi Qian had already tied the third master to a chair firmly, and the left side also prepared a ghost head knife for himself, as long as this third master dared to move, he could pick up the ghost head knife and cut it at any time, and there were some chili oil, small leather whips, bamboo sticks and other torture props next to the ghost head gang, and Shi Qian, who had prepared all this, did not stay, but went directly to help everyone clean up the battlefield.
Sun Wu Wang Yangming sat separately, and Li Zheng naturally sat between the two of them, coughed violently, and reminded the 'third master' that the interrogation had officially begun, "Ghost three! Now that your life is in my hands, you'd better be honest with me, and when I ask you, you answer honestly, and you are not allowed to tell a lie, you know? Look at these props next to you, I don't want to use these things, you are also a person who understands, you don't need me to say more. ”
The 'Third Master' is indeed an understanding person, especially very familiar with these torture props, because the 'Third Master' in the 'Ghost Head Gang's favorite thing to do is to use torture, because the 'Third Master' likes the enemy's tragic cries and despair before death, so the 'Third Master' is very familiar with the use of these torture tools, and is also very clear about what kind of pain these torture tools can cause, but the 'Third Master' didn't expect that one day he would have to taste these torture tools.
When the 'Third Master' saw Shi Qian bring the same torture tools, the 'Third Master' was already so frightened that his soul was not possessed, and the 'Third Master' didn't want to try any of these torture instruments, so' The third master quickly made up his mind, he must cooperate with these people as much as possible, just now Li Zheng and they also heard what they said, they want to interrogate themselves, nothing more than want to ask themselves some questions, as long as they know, they must know everything and say everything, so that they can avoid this difficulty, otherwise, they will be punished by these torture instruments, and they will be more painful than death.
"Know...... Know! Don't worry, I know everything! The third master stammered and replied.
"Okay, sure enough, it's a person who understands, let's talk about your ghost head gang first, what is your status in the ghost head gang, where is your ghost head gang's lair, how many people, how many horses (cavalry)?" Li Zheng asked in a rough and majestic voice, hoping that his voice could bring fear to the third master, so that he could tell the truth.
"I ...... I am the third leader of the Ghost Head Gang, our Ghost Head Gang is on the Ghost Head Mountain, the villagers near the Ghost Head Mountain know the location, the Ghost Head Gang now has a total of 1,500 people, including 400 horses, 100 archers, the remaining 1,000 are infantry, and there are 400 villagers who have not been domesticated. This time I brought out 500 men, including 200 cavalry, and the remaining 300 infantry were also the elite of the gang. These 500 people have one-half of the combat power of the Upper Ghost Head Gang. "The third master said tremblingly, in order to make Li Zheng have no reason to torture themselves, so the 'third master' really knows everything, and also said some problem-related things, and Li Zheng doesn't know whether these things are true or false, so he can only temporarily believe what the 'ghost three' said.
"I heard that your Ghost Head Gang is one of the twelve major bandit gangs, you can tell me about those bandit gangs nearby, as well as their locations, and their power size." Li Zheng looked at Sun Wu and Wang Yangming and asked again.
"That's right, these twelve gangs refer to the twelve major thief gangs in the entire Jiaozhou, our ghost head gang is only ranked ninth, and the number one gang is called 'Thousand Buddha Mountain', there are 1,000 large and small commander-level characters alone, they have 20,000 men and horses on the surface, 3,000 cavalry, and we suspect this' Thousand Buddha Mountain' and hidden people, every year during the Chinese New Year, our twelve bandit groups will be invited to the annual meeting, saying that it is the annual meeting, in fact, it is to give them gifts, don't look at the outside said that it is the twelve bandit groups, in fact, it is the 'Thousand Buddha Mountain' family is dominant, and our eleven bandit groups have to look at his face and shape. Moreover, in order to stabilize the throne of the first bandit group in this 'Thousand Buddha Mountain', it also strictly restricts the number of our other eleven bandit groups, which must not exceed the total number of 2,000 people, of which the cavalry must not exceed 500, otherwise they will suppress it and wipe out your bandit group! ”
"In our Jiaozhi County, three of the twelve bandit groups are here, and the three of us can be said to be equally divided between Jiaozhi, of which the fourth-ranked Devil Gang is in the middle, the eighth Lion and Tiger Gang is on top, and our 'Ghost Head Gang' is below."
"This is near the county seat of Xing'an, it is our ghost head gang is in charge, there are all kinds of bandit gangs of all sizes below, small dozens of people, more than a few hundred, but there are no more than five hundred, we also limit the number of these small bandit groups, there are seventeen who need to pay tribute to us every month, each has more than 100 people, less than 500 people, and less than 100 people because there are too many, so it is not very clear."
After listening to the words of the third master, Li Zheng patted his thigh angrily, he really came to a troubled world, listen to the words of the 'third master', there are so many robbers in a small county, how can the villagers live, and the officers and soldiers don't care? Don't say anything else, let's just talk about the territory of the Ghost Head Gang, the Ghost Head Gang needs to send gold and silver wealth to the 'Thousand Buddha Mountain' forces every year, and the seventeen subordinate forces of the Ghost Head Gang need to send gold, silver and jewelry to the Ghost Head Gang every month, as well as those anonymous bandit groups, robbers and robbers, where do they come from the gold, silver and jewelry for everyone to offer, all of them are obtained by robbing the villagers, and in the end they still suffer the local people, they are exploited layer by layer, so that the villagers don't even have winter rations, these bandit groups are simply damned.
Li Zheng looked at Sun Wu and Wang Yangming beside him, and could see that the two of them were already full of anger, and obviously knew how cruel so many robbers were to exploit and oppress the people, and how difficult the life of the villagers was.
"You ...... You are so rampant, don't the officers and soldiers care about you? Sun Wu was a little angry and asked.
"Haha, officers and soldiers? Now that the emperor is mediocre and the eunuchs are traitors, we only need to give the government a few dollars, and as far as I know, there are several important leaders in the Thousand Buddha Mountains who are officials in the government. The third master said.
"Well, what kind of world is this, it is like this, it really doesn't give the villagers a way to live, there are officials above, there are robbers below, layers of exploitation, monthly oppression, when and when will the villagers be able to get out." Sun Wu sighed.
"As long as Ming Jun succeeds to the throne, kills the thief party, and lightly exposes the meager endowment, within three years, the people of the world will live and work in peace and contentment, and live happily in the world." Wang Yangming said word by word.
When Sun Wu heard Wang Yangming's words, he subconsciously looked at Li Zheng who was sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, this young master, thinking about the people everywhere, should be a generation of Ming Jun, everyone will be the emperor, I hope that when the time comes, it will really be as Yang Ming said, the people of the world will live and work in peace and contentment, and live happily in the world.
"Alright, don't get excited, let's stop here for today's interrogation. If there is any problem, it is not too late to ask tomorrow, it is not too early, it is time for us to rest. As soon as Li Zheng finished speaking, Wang Yangming made a detour behind the third master, and with a seemingly gentle hammer on the back of the third master's head, the third master fell asleep on the spot.
"Don't worry, I hit his brain acupoint, and I temporarily let him fall asleep, so that this 'ghost three' can do anything crooked." Wang Yangming said.
"Yang Ming, why did you want me to stop the interrogation just now?" Li Zheng asked suspiciously. Li Zheng originally wanted to ask some more questions, but he didn't expect 'Wang Yangming' to quietly give himself a look and let him stop the interrogation, although Li Zheng didn't understand why, but he still agreed with 'Wang Yangming's opinion and suspended the interrogation.
"Actually, we know enough, we don't need to ask, young master, what else do you want to ask next?" Wang Yangming asked with a smile.
"Of course, it's the personnel arrangement in his Guitou Mountain, the location of the traps, etc., so that when we attack Guitou Mountain in the future, we can save a lot of trouble." Li Zheng said with some excitement.
"Haha, non, non, you ask him about the trap mechanism on Guitou Mountain, the personnel arrangement, just like asking him what color his mother's belly pocket is, as soon as we ask, he knows that we want to attack Guitou Mountain, and he knows that it is difficult for him to survive, since he is dead both horizontally and vertically, why should he be honest with us." And once he says it, whether we believe it or not, it's okay if what he says is true, in case what he says is false, let's still believe it, the trap mechanism on this Ghost Head Mountain must be extremely vicious, even if our people are athletic, it is impossible to be foolproof, so the safest thing for us to do is to directly let this third master lead the way and directly attack the 'Ghost Head Mountain', their Ghost Head Mountain is just a group of rabble, and then it will be just a massacre. ”
"And he also said that the combat power of these five hundred people is already half of the combat power of the entire 'Ghost Head Gang', even if this 'Ghost Three' lies, I believe that these five hundred people are enough to top one-third of the combat power of the 'Ghost Head Gang', all of our people are good at one enemy and one hundred, and it is not a problem to deal with enemies twice as many as these people, so we can attack directly!" Wang Yangming explained.
"Young master, I feel that what Yang Ming said makes sense, I didn't even think of this, I'm really ashamed." Sun Wu said in admiration, and had to look up at Wang Yangming.
Sun Wu and Wang Yangming, whether it is military or ideological, can be described as half a catty, but the two have different opinions since the afternoon when discussing the plan, although Sun Wu agreed with Wang Yangming's point of view, but in his heart he still felt that Wang Yangming was inferior to himself in military affairs, so he always wanted to show his strength in front of Li Zheng, but he didn't expect that this interrogation gave Wang Yangming a chance to perform, and said Li Zheng's next move, and felt that it was inappropriate and stopped in time, Although Sun Wu was very unhappy in his heart, he also had to raise Wang Yangming's status in his heart to a higher level, and regarded Wang Yangming as a respectable opponent. This Wang Yangming's strength is definitely not weaker than himself, this scheming is too deep, he can think of such fine things, why didn't he think of these things, Sun Wu kept reflecting on himself in his heart!
"Okay, if you're right, then it's definitely no problem, don't ask these questions, don't ask them, then when will we attack Guitou Mountain?" Li Zheng asked with some excitement.
"Tonight!"
"Tonight!"
Sun Wu and Wang Yangming said in unison.
"This matter is sooner rather than later, the third master brought so many people out, if he doesn't go back tomorrow morning, it is likely to arouse the suspicion of others, and it is dark at night, they can't see how many people we have come, and most of them are sleeping, so our safety and success will be greatly increased." Sun Wu said.
"That's right, marching and fighting is to be fast, so tonight is an excellent time to defeat the Ghost Head Gang in one fell swoop, if we wait until the 'Ghost Head Gang' is on alert, it will be difficult for us to attack the 'Ghost Head Gang' again." Wang Yangming also said excitedly.
"Okay, I'm not as good as you when marching and fighting, so I'll listen to you about this, then you can start arranging a specific attack plan. This attack, I'm going to be with you, remember to arrange me too! Li Zheng also said excitedly.