"Catch them! Don't let them run!"

"Don't let them into the mountains! These thieves are fucking rats!"

"Kill them all!

In the mountains on the border of the Southern Jin Dynasty, a fierce battle took place, and in the dim twilight, the sound of arrows, the sound of swords intersecting, and the howl of despair before death could be heard from time to time.

The combined number of both sides participating in the battle did not exceed five hundred, but in the southern part of the continent, which had been peaceful for a long time, the battle that could throw down dozens of corpses could certainly be regarded as fierce.

The side involved in the battle was the regular cavalry of the Southern Jin Dynasty, well-trained, superior in combat effectiveness, and there were many more people than the other side, so they quickly won the victory and began the pursuit.

Dozens of people who were pursued went into the mountains in panic, and from time to time someone was hit by an arrow in the back, and fell into the bushes with a miserable howl, but fortunately it was late and the mountain road was difficult, and finally they escaped most of them.

The night was deep, shrouding the Luoxia Mountains, and the strange cries of crows occasionally sounded in the depths of the dense forest. This mountain belongs to the reckless mountains of the Xiling Divine Kingdom, but it is already deep in the territory of the Southern Jin Dynasty.

Around the campfire, a dozen wounded lay down, some with arrows, some with their arms cut off by tomahawks, and the wounded let out low howls of pain from time to time.

Several men in black and gold armor, sitting closest and warmest to the fire, clearly had a higher status in the group than the rest of the group, their armor was tattooed with dense gold patterns, and it seemed that it was extremely expensive, not at all like what a group of bandits could have.

Listening to the howls of their companions and the crows of the woods, their faces became more and more gloomy, and they could not help but look at the chieftain, who had been silent, as if they wanted some comfort from him.

The leader was a middle-aged man, and he was also wearing black armor, but the golden patterns on the armor were more dense and faint, revealing a faint symbol.

The middle-aged man's name is Zimo, and he used to be the cavalry commander of the Ruling Division of the Xiling Temple. The men around the campfire, like him, had once been the temple's cavalry commander.

When Ye Hongyu killed the former ruling chief priest and sat on the Moyu Divine Throne, these strong men who had made a lot of contributions to the Xiling Temple were brutally abolished and expelled from Taoshan for unwarranted reasons.

Over the past few years, the cathar cavalry under their command has been the most powerful armed force on the face of the Temple Judge, at least in the battle to hunt down the remnants of the Demon Sect and heresy, most of the bloody storm and grim impression left by the Judgment Division in the world have been recorded in their accounts.

In other words, the hands of these former rulers were stained with so much blood that they had no home to return to, and no one dared to take them in at the risk of angering the current Judgment Throne.

Ye Hongyu's punishment of them completely deprived them of their power and cultivation, and even the wealth they had looted over the years was not spared, and in the end they only left them an old horse, a hundred taels of silver, which originally belonged to all their servants, and this black gold armor that originally represented glory and majesty but now only can't bring memories, can only bring humiliation and fear.

They didn't dare to go back to the Xiling Divine Kingdom, and there was nowhere to go, so they had to wander in the countries on the outskirts of Xiling, and the silver taels were quickly spent, and these lords were stunned to find that they had to start thinking about the next meal and where to cover themselves like those lowly ant people.

These temple leaders are not without the skills to make a living. However, they are all extremely proud characters, how can they be asked to do work such as picker and coolie?

The most troublesome thing is that the years in the Xiling Temple have cultivated their habit of commanding, creating their mentality of being high and treating mortals like dogs, which can be called majestic in the past, and now they have become ordinary people after leaving Xiling, which has become an obstacle to life.

A few days ago, the commanders' team had a dispute with a certain powerful man in the Song Kingdom, and a commander could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, and ordered Hu Cong to cut off the head of the powerful man. Then the crowd broke into the manor without a second stop, and robbed it of all the gold and silver in it.

Staying in a luxurious inn in the state city, enjoying the wine and women brought by the gold and silver, all of a sudden, these former commanders, who had been lost for days, discovered a way to survive without groveling, which was simple and straightforward, and the money came very quickly.

Although their cultivation has been abolished, they are not even as good as ordinary strong men, but after all, they were once the cavalry commanders of the Xiling Temple, and they have extremely high strategy and command ability, and the combat effectiveness of the servants who follow them is also very strong, at least not comparable to those guards in the secular society. So naturally, everyone started to make a living by robbing houses and houses, and in a short period of time, they successively raided several rural clans.

During this process, everyone, including Zimo, remained silent and did not say anything, but they knew very well that they who had sworn to protect light and justice were falling into the bottomless black abyss, and they still felt extremely strong humiliation and pain in their hearts.

Luckily they now have a lot of gold and silver, so they can buy a lot of liquor and women' to anesthetize themselves and live day by day. Unfortunately, this narcotics, which accelerated their depravity, became more and more violent during robbery, and some began to rape and even torture.

Zimo clearly realized that problems would definitely occur if this continued, and tried his best to restrain them, but the temple leaders who began to fall were like tigers released from their cages, and the dirty dust falling from the glorious peach mountain was even more irritating to their madness, and they couldn't restrain it at all.

One day in the middle of summer, in the course of a routine night robbery, I don't know which commander or servant went crazy and beheaded a nobleman who had surrendered, and the crazy atmosphere suddenly spread, and the massacre occurred tragically in the manor, with desperate cries, the nobleman was wiped out.

Robbery is naturally accompanied by death, and even rape is not uncommon, but when a Southern Jin nobleman is destroyed, especially if the manor is not far from the capital of the Southern Jin Dynasty, they get into trouble.

This tragedy did not alarm the strong people in the Sword Pavilion, but it was enough to alarm the Southern Jin Dynasty. In the process of investigating the case, after the Southern Jin Dynasty court found out that the murderer was wearing the armor of the temple cavalry, it was still quite cautious, and sent a letter to the Xiling Temple, confirming that these people were sinners who had been expelled from Taoshan and were no longer eligible to enjoy the protection of the temple, so the caution at the beginning of the Southern Jin Dynasty court turned into anger

The Southern Jin Dynasty began to widely disseminate sea fishing documents, awarding extremely high bounties to those who reported the sea, and on these sea fishing documents, these murderers were given a new name: Fallen Knights.

The Southern Jin Dynasty was strong, second only to the Tang Empire in the world, and now they were treated so strictly, no matter how keen their eyes were, no matter how good their command was, it didn't make any sense, and they suddenly fell into a miserable storm, and fled miserably.

In the process of fleeing, there are constantly Hu Cong who died or fled, even these commanders also died one, several people were seriously injured, and the team of more than 100 people when they left Xiling is now only a few dozen people left, and today they are almost wiped out in the encirclement and suppression outside the mountains and forests.

Around the campfire, the low howls of pain kept echoing, and the people's expressions were so desperate and gloomy.

"Are we here waiting to die?"

A burly and powerful man stood up, walked to the fire, looked at his companions, who had no armor and were most wounded by arrows, and said in a loud voice, "Why don't we leave?"

The servant who is equivalent to a knight is the most loyal, and once the rebel is no one will take him in, this person says that he will leave, which proves that the current situation has indeed reached the most critical moment.

A cavalry commander looked at this servant, his face was extremely gloomy, and he roared angrily: "Guo Nu, I treat you well, if it weren't for me, how could you be here today? You dare to betray? Don't forget it, you servants have also gone to the sea to catch papers, where can you go?"

The Hu Cong named Guo Nu looked at his master and sneered and said: "I have been a cow and a horse for you for so many years, but now you have fallen into this situation, you are embarrassed to say that you are not thin on me, as for the sea fishing paperwork...... Except for a few of you adults who have portraits, who knows such an inconspicuous figure as us? We have also robbed a lot of silver these days, and we all walked separately, and who can find us if we hide it?"

The commander was furious and said, "Don't forget that the money is with me. ”

Guo Nu looked at him disdainfully and said: "I know you won't give you the silver, knights like you, even death won't make us feel better, but don't forget it, your cultivation has been abolished by the judgment of the Divine Throne, you are now a group of wasted people, do you still think it was in the past?"

He looked at the servants sitting outside the fire and shouted, "What are you still hesitating about? We have been able to grab so much silver these days, these guys have long been wasted, they can't even pick up knives, where are our opponents?"

The bonfire was not strong, and it was dark in the forest farther away, and it was impossible to see the expressions on the faces of those congers, but it was faintly visible that they had all raised their heads.

The commanders used to be high up in the sky, and they could be benevolent to their subordinates, or they could dispose of them as if they were animals, but tonight they were rebelled against by their own subordinates, which is really unbearable humiliation. However, they had to admit that the current situation was extremely dangerous, and if they were not careful, they might really expose the corpses to the barren forest.

At this moment, Guo Nu's voice stopped abruptly.

A very thin wire appeared on his neck at some point, and then suddenly tightened!

The wire sank deep into his skin, and blood poured out in an instant.

Guo Nu's eyes widened in horror, his hands were desperately picking at his neck, trying to pull out the wire, but his movements were in vain, the more he struggled, the deeper the thin wire sank, layer by layer, cut his trachea, then his esophagus, and all the blood vessels.