The group of miscellaneous soldiers in the back looked at this scene, and many people began to retreat, after all, many of them were still Xinding, Xinding who had been defeated from various armies, and many troops were temporarily captured by strong men, these people may not even know how to disassemble the guns in their hands, and the bullets fired are not as good as the amount of normal soldiers on the battlefield for half a day, so they have no immunity to this kind of scene, and even many of them ran to the side to vomit while holding their stomachs.

"Tell the spies to go into the forest to search!" Yama Zhiguo ordered, and the group of soldiers in the special service platoon that he selected behind him and had rich combat experience immediately entered the forest with their guns, and now no one is interested in the two girls, and the sperm worms in the brain are scared back.

Half an hour later, the soldiers of the special service platoon ran back, and the leading platoon commander Bai Xinhou shook his head with the Steng submachine gun wrapped in white cloth in his hand, indicating that there was nothing.

Shan Zhiguo has been accustomed to Bai Xinhou's taciturn surname, but he also knows that as long as Bai Xinhou shakes his head, it really means nothing, although he doesn't say anything, but he has always said the same, and he has rich combat experience, he has participated in various battles of all sizes, and after the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the people were defeated by mistake, and Bai Xinhou's unit survived only a few dozen people, so he simply found a place to occupy the mountain as the king, if it weren't for the kindness of the mountain to him, he would not have died with the team down the mountain.

If Shan Zhiguo trusts Ma Guangfu, then Bai Xinhou is the person who lets him sit next to him when he dares to fall asleep, in Shan Zhiguo's heart, Bai Xinhou is the best person in the military division, but this guy can't die, he is only willing to lead the spy platoon such a personal guard, and is willing to become the shadow behind Shan Zhiguo.

"Xinhou, tell me what's going on? Who did this to you? Here are the partisans of the Communist Party? Or are there bandits? Shan Zhiguo asked in a low voice, afraid that his doubts would make the army unstable.

Bai Xinhou half-squinted his eyes, looked tired, and pointed at the location of the corpses of Wang Jin and Wang Datong with the muzzle of his gun, and then looked at Shan Zhiguo.

Shan Zhiguo was stunned for a while, and then said, "You mean, those two dead people did it?" ”

Bai Xinhou nodded, like a mute.

Shan Zhiguo looked at Bai Xinhou with a strange look, because he, the spy platoon commander and shadow military division, never joked, he took a deep breath, and suddenly raised his gun to aim at the two girls, but Bai Xinhou blocked it with his body.

"Get out of the way, I don't kill them, I can't explain to the brothers, and I can't say that the dead did it, right?" Shan Zhiguo said in a deep voice.

"They are medicine primers, we can't kill them, kill them, we can't get out of here at all." Bai Xinhou finally spoke, and his voice sounded inconsistent with his actual age, much more immature.

"Medicine primer?" Shan Zhiguo frowned, "Xinhou, what are you talking about?" ”

"Do you know the medicine?" Bai Xinhou asked, and waved his hand to let the two soldiers under his command help the two girls clean up, get dressed and follow them, "Anyway, now the death of the chief of staff and the two guards can't be pursued any longer, we have to go, keep walking, until someone comes out to see us." ”

"What potion? Xinhou, what are you talking about? Why didn't you pursue it? Although Shan Zhiguo was very puzzled and angry, in the face of Bai Xinhou, he did not erupt, but desperately suppressed, his scalp felt numb, as if he felt that a group of wolves were peeping at him in the dark.

"Regiment leader, tell the team to keep going, and don't worry about anything else." After Bai Xinhou finished speaking, he pulled out his bayonet and walked to the two girls, cut off a small poke of their hair, carefully tied it up, and inserted it on the belt of Shan Zhiguo, then squatted down and asked the two girls, "Let me ask you, who asked you to come here in the middle of the night, where are you going, who are the benefactors, acquaintances or generous foot merchants?" ”

The two girls shook their heads and nodded, looking like they wanted to speak, but they didn't know who would say it first.

Bai Xinhou pointed to the woman on the left and said, "You say it first." ”

The woman on the left gasped and said: "Sir, we are the girls of the night red flute in Baizhen, a month ago there was a familiar old benefactor with a foot merchant, saying that it was his brother, very rich, let the two of us serve for a good life, the foot merchant was really very generous, lived in the night red flute for three days, gave a lot of money, all real money, and then privately gave us a gold bar for one person, let us go to the bamboo village tonight a month later to find him." ”

"Yes." The girl on the right continued, "We didn't plan to go, after all, we can't leave the night red flute, but the old bustard asked us to go, because the foot merchant is really generous, just three days of money enough to redeem us several times, and said that we will go again, maybe we can get together the 'dowry' and open another night red flute." ”

There is a lot of jargon mixed in the words of the two girls, of course, the night red flute is the kiln where they sold themselves, and the "dowry" is the money that the girl wants to redeem herself or leave the kiln to do business by herself, and the old bustard will not ask for this part of the money, but just take it symbolically, and then give it to them, just like the dowry given by the mother's family when a woman gets married.

Bai Xinhou and Shan Zhiguo can understand, Bai Xinhou nodded silently after listening, and closed his eyes for a long time before asking: "Let me ask you, is there a sweet fragrance on that foot merchant?" Like the weird smell that only people who like to play with Fushou cream? But he never touched the big cigarette during the three days he lived in the night red flute, and he flatly denied that he smoked that thing, right? ”

"Yes, yes, sir, how do you know?" One of the girls was surprised.

"You follow us, we won't touch you again, you will collect the money you gave before, and I will send you to Zhuzhai." Bai Xinhou got up, and no longer gave the two girls a chance to speak, and walked straight towards the small hill in front of him, and Shan Zhiguo followed closely until Bai Xinhou had something to say, and it was something that could only be said to him alone.

At the foot of the hill, this ragtag army, which had been renamed the "Animal Regiment" by Shan Zhiguo, continued to march slowly, and a very small number of miscellaneous soldiers were still carrying their trousers, complaining that the hemp rope that tied the trousers had been torn off in a moment of excitement, and now they could only march with their trousers.

Bai Xinhou looked at the so-called logistics troops at the back of the team, which were just two carriages pulling dry meat and grain, and he called the heralds to ask them to transfer the logistics troops to the middle of the team, and the positions of the front team and the rear team were reversed, after all, the front team should retreat and take a slow rest.

After Bai Xinhou finished doing what he was supposed to do, he turned his head and said, "Commander, have you heard a word?" ”

"What?" Shan Zhiguo stood next to Bai Xinhou, and his voice was extremely low.

"Respect medicine and gold, and establish the eight directions as gods." Bai Xinhou said word for word.

"What? What is revered as God? "Of course the mountain doesn't understand.

Bai Xin's face was expressionless: "You know the corpse chaser, right?" The legend of this group of magicians originated in the area where we are today, but they are found in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Xianggui, Guangdong and other places, the so-called 'Xiangxi corpse, Sichuan West coffin, Jinxi Feng Shui' refers to Xiangxi has a corpse chaser, Sichuan has a coffin opener, Jinxi has a land master, are considered to be a more well-known group of magicians, the coffin opener heard that it is very mysterious, but all future generations want to take the things in the tomb of the ancestors, must invite them, the land master of Jinxi does not need me to explain, in fact, the corpse chaser does not need me to explain, but about the 'medicine gold' and ' I said earlier. The 'Eight Directions' are two groups of people who are separated from the corpse chasers and are opposed. ”

Shan Zhiguo nodded slightly, motioning for Bai Xinhou to continue.

"Originally, the corpse chaser just used foreign magic to lead the corpses of dead strangers to return home, but from the Tatar Qing Dynasty, some people among the corpse chasers found that Fushou paste, that is, opium was very profitable, and in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, China did not have its own real estate opium, until the late Qing Dynasty, in order to prevent the loss of silver, the Qing court tacitly agreed to the cultivation of opium in Yunguichuan and other places, so that even if the money used to buy and sell opium was only given by Chinese to Chinese, it would not fall into the hands of foreigners, However, this is also a method of demolishing the east wall and repairing the west wall, but there is a group of corpse chasers who know very well that the opium production method of the estate is not as fine as that of foreigners, and most of the people who have money to smoke opium will choose foreign goods, so they began to use corpses to transport opium, and started this business. Bai Xinhou sat down as he spoke, and it seemed that he was going to talk for a long time.

Bai Xinhou's actions made Shan Zhiguo have a bad premonition, because Bai Xinhou rarely took it so seriously, and once he got serious, there must be something big, and it was the kind of big thing that couldn't be solved in a short time.

After Bai Xinhou finished saying that, he began to become mute again, Shan Zhiguo thought he was thinking, closed his mouth and didn't ask questions, until the team walked under the hillside, Shan Zhiguo finally couldn't help but ask: "What is the connection between what you said and what happened before?" And what do you mean when you say that those two girls are medicine primers? ”

"Meat medicine." Bai Xinhou shook his head as he explained, "Actually, I don't know much, these are all things I learned from talking to a foot merchant who often came to do business when I was the king of the mountain, although the foot merchant did not reveal his true identity, but I know that he may be a member of the medicine gold, that is, a corpse chaser, but he can only use some low-level methods." ”

"Wait a while, you said that Yaojin and Bafang are separated and opposed among the corpse chasers, why are they separated, and why are they opposed? Do you have money to earn together? "The mountain rule is very incomprehensible.

Bai Xinhou squinted at him and said lightly: "This is the same reason as the Kuomintang and the Communist Party used to be one family, and later they were separated and opposed because of different ideas, right?" Maybe it's not an appropriate analogy, but I think you should understand it. ”

Shan Zhiguo nodded: "In other words, the concept of Yaojin and Bafang is different?" ”

"Yes, the medicine is based on profits, and I think that in order to strengthen the corpse chaser faction, what is needed is money, but where does the money come from? Raiding houses and robberies will be caught by the government, thieves and petty deception they think that the money is too slow, and selling opium is the best way to make them do it without attracting attention, but Bafang doesn't think so, Bafang thinks that sorcerers like corpse chasers should not show their heads and do their duty. At that time, the corpse chasers were divided into two factions, strictly speaking, three factions, and the remaining part decided not to participate in either side and do their best, while the eight parties began to stop the medicine, at first it was just persuasion, and then it evolved to privately report to the government, but at that time, opium was rampant, and the officials only recognized money, and even sometimes the government ruled that the people used opium to replace silver for repaying debts, and over time Bafang felt desperate...... "Bai Xinhou lit a cigarette, only took a puff, and pinched it between his fingers.

"Confrontation, fighting, right?" The mountain rule country understands.

"It's not that simple, it's not just a fight, but the method is very cruel, because the medicine and the eight parties are brothers, you have me, I have you, no matter how you pick it up, you can't pick it clean, so there are a lot of people who report for various reasons, resulting in you ambushing me today, tomorrow I ambush you, countless dead and wounded, until today the struggle between these two groups of people has not stopped, but the only agreement they have reached is that no matter how they fight, they can't let anyone other than the corpse chaser interfere, if someone interferes, They will unite for the time being. Bai Xinhou wiped the sweat from his face, looking a little uneasy.

"Countless dead and wounded? There are so many corpse chasers in this world? "Yama Zhiguo didn't believe it, after all, folklore is just a legend, and very few people have seen it with their own eyes.

"They will control the corpse to fight, they will also pay to hire a lot of teams similar to the militia, and they will even collude with the bandits, and both sides will resort to all the despicable and shameless means in order to completely destroy the other." Bai Xinhou shook his head and said, "Regiment Commander, when the chief of staff died before, when I saw that kind of tragic situation, I knew that it must be related to the medicinal gold, and only the tooth corpse can do this kind of thing." ”

"Tooth corpses?" Yama Zhiguo instantly felt as if he didn't know anything about the world.

Bai Xinhou got up: "Let's talk as we go, in short, the head of the regiment next, you have to listen to me, don't have any conflict with the corpse chaser of Yaojin, even if our number is several times that of them, don't act rashly, they are a group of monsters who kill people without blinking an eye, and are extremely cruel!" ”

When Shan Zhiguo saw Bai Xinhou's face full of warnings, he had to nod.

On the way to Zhuzhai, Bai Xinhou explained to Shan Zhiguo what he knew—the reason why Yaojin was called this name was because they regarded opium as the most expensive thing in medicine, after all, the first opium called Fushou Paste was also falsely claimed by sellers that it could cure all kinds of diseases. Therefore, the group of corpse chasers called their organization that produced and sold all kinds of opium "medicine gold".

Yaojin's way of making opium is also different from others, because they are corpse chasers, it can be said that they rely on corpses for food, so they also studied the use of corpses for opium boiling, as for the detailed method, Bai Xinhou is not clear.

"I heard that before using corpses to make opium, there is a very important process, spending three days a month before the meat medicine to feed them a special drug, and after another month, the body of the meat medicine will completely absorb the drug, and then it will be killed by the medicine money, and then it will be made with raw opium." Bai Xinhou rode the donkey left behind by the horse Guangfu, but ordered the soldiers of the guard platoon to camp around the bamboo village, kill the donkey, and let it go with its master, and the meat could be shared with the soldiers, and both sides had a comfort.

"I don't understand, how can a corpse be mixed with raw opium to make it?" Shan Zhiguo shook his head, the more he thought about it, the more strange he felt, he used to be a member of the army of smoking guns, and then he was forced to quit because of the war, but the process was very painful, and he also vowed never to touch that thing in the future.

"Commander, why don't you restrain the chief of staff and the bodies of those two brothers?" Bai Xinhou didn't answer Yama Zhiguo's question, and his expression seemed to be that he had said everything he knew.