The situation in the mining area was obviously much stricter than that in the Xijian District, and because the terrain was too open, the limited number of police officers could not control the situation at the beginning of the riots, so they retreated to the Xijian District early and abandoned the pit with the help of high walls. When Lu Li led people to this direction, he could see from a distance that the sheds outside the mine were in a mess, almost all the buildings made of bamboo and wood had been burned, many places had been burned to ruins, and some mining machinery had also been destroyed by the mob.

However, perhaps the previous confrontation outside the West Prison District has been reported, and there are no groups of thugs in the field of vision of the vigilante group. Lu Li did not dare to be careless, so the troops slowed down their marching speed and kept the battle formation to advance forward one by one.

Soon the remains of the two police officers who were killed were discovered, their heads had been smashed beyond recognition by blunt objects and stones, and they could only be identified by the black uniforms on their bodies. Although there are no exact statistics yet, it is clear that the number of police officers killed in the riots is not high. Almost all of the people in charge of the day-to-day order in the mining area were ordinary police officers, and many of the people who were fatally hit when the riots broke out before they could even react to what was happening.

Lu Li didn't have a big reaction after checking the remains, but just ordered with an expressionless face: "Anyone who sees a thug with a weapon in hand can kill them directly without warning!"

As a proud Haihan soldier, Lu Li was deeply saddened by the fact that such a situation had occurred in the area he was responsible for, and at the same time, it also aroused his anger of revenge - all heretics who challenged the authority of Haihan must pay a heavy price for this!

At this time, Tong Guò interrogated the prisoners who were injured at the gate of the western prison area, and there was further information: the people who took the lead in the mining area were still a group of Li prisoners, and almost all of them were "newcomers" who had been arrested in recent months. This also coincides with the previous judgment of the military, it is true that someone planned this series of coordinated actions, and the identity of the culprit remains to be ascertained.

Lu Li believed that the planners of this qiē would not stop at planning a riot and escape from prison in the Shilu mining area, and that there would definitely be further actions, because even if all these thousands of prisoners escaped, there would be no second place within a radius of tens of miles that could provide the supplies needed by so many people. These people then had only three options, one was to continue to attack the Shilu military camp ≌≌≌≌≌, m.↗.co∧m and the prison area to get the necessary supplies, but this seemed to be beyond their current capacity; the second was to flee to Changhua County by the sea, but there were also troops of the Haihan militia stationed there, and the port was also in the Haihan control, and the result of escaping through the mountains and mountains was likely to be difficult to escape; the last way was to flee into the mountains to seek the support of Li Tong, but there were so many people that no Li Tong could support, and if the Li prisoners who led this riot led this uncontrollable torrent to their own Li Tong, which is almost tantamount to self-defeating.

In order to calm down the situation, the Haihan militia must now do everything possible to catch the person who took the lead in the uprising and find out what happened. While Lu Li was directing the team to march, he was also quickly thinking about how to catch a few people who knew the inside story next to obtain more detailed information.

At this very juncture, several prisoners came out of hiding with their hands raised, shouting for the militia soldiers not to shoot. Lu Li saw that the person who took the lead was someone he knew, so he quickly ordered not to shoot, and asked the person who took the lead to come and talk back.

"Company Commander Lu, I can be regarded as waiting for you! Let all the military masters don't shoot, our group of people are all good people who keep to themselves!" The man hurriedly came to him, and quickly knelt down for Lu Li.

"Li Maozai, get up, what's going on?" Lu Li raised his hand weakly, signaling him to hurry up and get down to business.

This person is Li Maozai, a son of the Li family who led the wolf into the house in 168 and was besieged by the rogues, and was later caught. After the Shilu project was launched in 169, he was escorted to Changhua to participate in the road construction project, and because of his good appearance, he was promoted to the head of the cell, and he was in charge of several prisoner teams, and he was considered a privileged class among the prisoners in the hard labor camp. After the railway was opened to traffic and the Shilu iron ore was officially mined, Li Maozai was assigned to the mining area as a production scheduler, and he usually had some contact with the management of the Shilu mining area, but he also knew Lu Li, so he came out to recognize Lu Li when he saw the troops coming.

"Company Commander Huilu, when I went to work this morning, I noticed that something was wrong, and I saw that there were suddenly many unfamiliar faces in several teams, but they were not under the jurisdiction of people, and it was not easy to talk directly......," Li Maozai immediately began to report.

When Li Maozai went to work in the morning, he noticed several unusual situations, one was that some unfamiliar faces appeared on the mining site, and the other was that the atmosphere of some teams was obviously wrong. According to Li Maozai's law, it was similar to the situation when the rogue infiltrated some counties in Guangdong and planned to launch a joint venture between the inside and the outside.

When it was time to put on lunch at noon, someone came to greet Li Maozai and asked him to wait for him to "act when the opportunity arises" and be smart. Although Li Maozai didn't know why, he had already guessed that someone was planning to make trouble in the mining area. But before he could think about whether to report it immediately, other teams reported the news that someone was missing. Li Maozai thought that these people were just trying to get out of prison, but he was relieved, he had been in the hard labor camp for three years, so he naturally knew what the rules were here, and it was not difficult to escape, but the difficult thing was how to ensure his survival after escaping. More than 30 people escaped in one go, and Li Maozai thought that these people probably hadn't thought about how they could survive in the reckless mountains around them, and he wasn't optimistic that they would really be able to escape the pursuit.

Soon the police and members of the vigilante came to interrogate some of the prisoners and asked about the condition and whereabouts of the escaped prisoners. Li Maozai also knew that the militia would go into the mountains to arrest them next, and after a few hours, the militia would bring back the heads of some of them and hang them on the gate of the prison area as an example.

However, this time the situation seemed to be a little different, and shortly after the fugitive hunt team left, several places in Pit 1 were launched at the same time. The thugs quickly killed several police officers guarding the construction site with mining tools in their hands, and then began a series of riots.

Seeing that some teams were collectively involved in the riots, Li Maozai only then understood why someone reminded him to "act at the opportunity" at noon, which seemed to refer to this time. Apparently many of the prisoners thought it was a great opportunity to escape, and when they saw the police retreating, they couldn't help but join in the riot.

But Li Maozai had really felt the power of the Haihan militia on the battlefield, and he also knew that there were militia members stationed in the Shilu mining area, so he did not rush to join in, but restrained his subordinates and asked them not to participate in this riot. Li Maozai saw very clearly that if this rabble could outperform the well-trained Haihan militia with loaded guns and ammunition, then he would knock the iron ore all over the mountains into pieces and swallow it piece by piece.

Of course, he also considered the problem of getting out of himself, because in the face of such a large-scale riot, the Haihan people were afraid that they would have to execute many people in the future, and if he wanted to clear his name, the most useful means was to provide some valuable information to the Haihan people, just like what he did after being captured by the Haihan militia.

So Li Maozai also took advantage of the chaos to bring a few clever subordinates to inquire about the news, because he was in charge of hundreds of people, and he was also a face-saving figure among the prisoners, and in the end, he really heard something.

"Is Daming Jinyiwei involved in this matter?" Lu Li was also slightly shocked when he heard the news that Li Maozai came out. Of course, he knows very well what kind of institution the Daming Jinyi Guard is, but since last year's Liaoyuan Operation, the entire Jinyi Guard on Qiongzhou Island has been completely cleaned, and he didn't expect that there would still be Jinyi Guards on the island to this day.

"It's true! Company Commander Lu, there is absolutely no problem with this source, there are at least three cell bosses who participated in the riot who have the same words as me, and they only need to capture the mining area of Shilu and capture a few Haihan chiefs alive, and they can get a reward from the imperial court...... People are people who know the severity, how can they be in the same stream with them......" In the back, Li Maozai seized the opportunity to clear his name.

"Heavy! What else is the news!" Lu Li had to interrupt him, "Do you know where the person in charge of the other party is now?"

Li Maozai hurriedly responded: "Yes, yes, it's a gaffe...... The person in charge did not enter the mining area, but met in the nearby mountains and forests, and when this side succeeded, he coerced these thousands of prisoners to occupy the Shilu mining area first, cut off the road, and confront Haihan!"

"I see, that's ......" Lu Li seemed to think of why the people behind the scenes would go to great lengths to instigate such a riot in the Shilu Iron Mine, where birds don't, and the other party was probably not targeting any great resources here, but more importantly, staring at these thousands of prisoners who had conflicts of interest with Haihan!

Li Maozai continued: "Previously, these people went to attack the West Prison District, and after they came back from a loss, they retreated to the west. One speculates that they may be planning to coup the prisoners of Pit 2 and carry out other schemes!"

"No. 2 Pit?" Lu Li said with a hint of mockery at the corner of his mouth, but he didn't explain further.

Normally, Mine No. 2 will also arrange thousands of people to work, but today, in order to welcome the arrival of the business delegation, the No. 2 Mine temporarily canceled the scheduled production tasks in the morning, because Qiao Zhiya and Gu Kai both hope to ensure that the guests can see the hot labor scene there during the afternoon visit, rather than a large area of tired and crooked coolies. The rioters were apparently unaware of the temporary change, and they were trying to gather another group of men from Mine 2, and it seemed that they were going to go down the drain.

Ten thousand steps back, even if Mine No. 2 allows them to coerce some prisoners, it will still not help. Those who planned this event probably did not anticipate the response of the Haihan side to this incident, and overestimated the willingness of the prisoners to participate in the riot. According to Li Maozai's law, in fact, only three or four out of ten prisoners actually participated in the riot, and more than half of them chose to wait and see like him.

Most of the prisoners who participated in the riots were unacquitted felons, who were already in the minority of the prisoners, and those whose sentences were originally only one or two years or less, or who had been charged with very minor crimes, were naturally reluctant to take the risk of participating in the riots to regain their freedom. There are even more people like Li Maozai who know how powerful they are, but from the very beginning they were not optimistic about the organizers of the riot and were unwilling to step into this mud pit.

Taking Li Maozai himself as an example, he has been serving more than three years in prison, and with the commutation of points, the remaining sentence is less than a year. What else could he do with a man who had no land, no property, who had been imprisoned, and who had been expelled from the clan? He had already tried it three years ago, and it was not even as good as being a cell boss in a forced labor camp now. With his current connections and prestige in the hard labor camp, he can apply to stay as a prison guard after serving his sentence, and maybe he will be able to apply for naturalization in another year or two, and it will be a way out to settle down under the rule of the Haihan people at that time.

In recent months, officials of the Ming Dynasty have been organized to come to Shilu to visit the hard labor camp, and even if Li Maozai does not have the opportunity to go out, he can see some clues from the arrival of these officials and the increase in the identity of prisoners in the hard labor camp in the past six months -- this Qiongzhou Island is only afraid that it has changed its surname to Haihan, and the Ming seems to have acquiesced to this.

Instead of following the chaos, it is better to take this opportunity to report more reports and report those prisoners who participated in the riot, so that he can earn more points for himself to reduce his sentence, isn't it much safer than risking his escape?

The people who organized this incident obviously couldn't figure out the psychology of people like Li Maozai, and as a result, there weren't as many people who participated in the incident as planned. The more than 2,000 prisoners and miners in the No. 1 Mine were only six or seven hundred people involved, and most of the others, like Li Maozai, first found a place to avoid the limelight, and when the Haihan militia arrived, they came out and surrendered one after another.

Of course, Lu Li didn't dare to be careless, but still ordered his subordinates to search all the prisoners who surrendered voluntarily, and asked Li Maozai to pick a few reliable subordinates to recognize people next to him, and pick out those thugs who tried to fish in troubled waters.

Lu Li didn't forget to let people rush back to the barracks and inform Gu Kai, who was still in anxiety, of the information he knew. Gu Kai, who received the news, was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly informed many guests of the news that the riot outside had subsided, and then used the radio to contact Qiao Zhiya on the way to withdraw the army, and informed him of the news he knew.