After clearing the mole, Qi Jiguang led the men and horses all the way forward.

Five thousand cavalry, and made up the number in Miyun City, along the mountain path, light cavalry forward. At every hill in front, there are scouts who rush up the mountain, holding binoculars, to watch out for the enemy situation around the mountain to avoid being ambushed.

There are many mountain roads between Miyun and Gubeikou, although they are not wide, but the march is still possible. Therefore, it is very difficult for the Tatars, who have lost their traitors, to ambush again.

On the contrary, with the advantage of telescopes, it is easier to gain insight into the whereabouts of the other party and carry out counter-ambushes.

It's just that along the way, Qi Jiguang didn't meet the Tatar cavalry all the way. Even the 10,000 cavalry who had set up an ambush to fight before seemed to have retreated.

Qi Jiguang was a little uneasy in his heart, and asked Xiao Feng to discuss. Xiao Feng also felt that the situation was not quite right, but he couldn't say it clearly, so he could only let the horses and rangers step up their patrols, relying on the advantages of the telescope, and fortified step by step. 33

Finally, news came from Tanma that fire and smoke had been found ahead, which seemed to be the traces of enemy troops. Qi Jiguang immediately ordered the army to approach quickly and prepare for a surprise attack.

However, when the team rushed to the place where the smoke and dust started, everyone was stunned, and the murderous veterans couldn't help but have red eyes, and the horses roared uneasily, and only the military flag hunted in the wind.

This is a small mountain village, not an enemy ambush. The fires and smoke came from burning houses, corpses, scattered in the open spaces of the village, at the springs at the edge of the village, and even on the branches of the trees in the mountains.

There are men, there are women, there are children. The men were all beheaded, and the severed heads were neatly stacked in the center of the village, as if waiting for Qi Jiguang's team to harvest.

The woman's clothes hung on the branches like flags of shame, while the woman's body was mostly in the house, on the bed, on the floor, and even on the stove.

Some of the children's bodies were on millstones, some on branches, some in pots, but most of them were next to the woman's body.

Qi Jiguang wanted to block Xiao Feng's sight, but was pushed away by Xiao Feng roughly, he silently looked at the slaughtered village, his face was so calm that those veterans who had fought a hundred battles were afraid.

How tenacious does a person's nerves have to be to be indifferent to such a scene?

Then, they saw Xiao Feng with a calm face, and suddenly raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Gubeikou, wanting to say something, but he didn't say a word.

A mouthful of blood spurted out of Xiao Feng's mouth, staining his cyan placket and white robe.

Qi Jiguang was closest to him, and quickly reached out to support him. All the sergeants looked at Xiao Feng, their eyes were split, as long as Xiao Feng gave an order at this time, they would rush forward regardless of life and death, even if there was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of them, and a demon cave and demon cave.

Then Xiao Feng's words made everyone scratch their heads.

Xiao Feng grabbed Qi Jiguang's hand tightly, and almost burst out of his teeth.

"Something is wrong, there is no old man among the dead bodies!"

Everyone, including Qi Jiguang, was stunned. Then the sentry who rushed up the hill to lookout suddenly shouted at them with a loudspeaker.

"General! Mr. Xiao, no, the Tatar cavalry rushed over, on all sides! ”

The old men were all in the mountains at this time, running like wild beasts, and the flames of hatred burned their aging bodies, making them like crazy beasts.

Some of the old people fell down and never got up again, but many more chewed on the weeds in the mountains, drank the dirty water on the side of the road, and continued to run.

The years have robbed them of their robust bodies, but they have given them composure and forbearance. When the officers and soldiers began to slaughter the village, they tried to let the young people escape, but the young people, whose eyes were red from the blood of their wives and children, chose to take up arms and fight desperately.

So they fled, not for the sake of stealing their lives, but for the sake of final justice. They want to take revenge, they want to go to the capital to redress their grievances, and let the tragedy that happened in the deep mountains and dense forests be revealed.

The old people of various villages met from time to time in the mountains and forests. These mountains were measured step by step with their feet when they were young, whether it was the Tatars or the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, no one was more familiar with these mountains and forests than them.

So they evaded their pursuers, were able to get supplies on the way to escape, and were able to join up with the old people who had also fled.

When passing through Miyun City, the old people had their first dispute. Some of the old people decided to go to the city to inform the guard Lin Tong, while the other part was resolutely opposed.

"When you go to Miyun City, it's clear that you're a sheep in the tiger's mouth! They're all raccoon dogs! ”

"No, General Lin has been guarding Miyun City all these years, and he has said that he is a good person, not the kind of general who drinks the blood of soldiers and scrapes the ground."

"Even if he is not greedy, does he dare to expose the cavalry sent by the capital? I heard that there is a real person in the army this time! Long live trusting Daomen, he dares to do it? ”

"That is, this place is not far from Miyun City, if they are not in a group, that surnamed Qi has to dare to slaughter the people so blatantly?"

The two sides quarreled and finally parted ways. Some people went down the mountain into Miyun City, and the other part continued to walk the mountain road to the capital. The two sides agreed that those who entered the city, in case they were caught, would never confess to the people on the mountain.

The old people who were about to descend the mountain groped in their arms, finding a pitiful little to eat, and handed it to their companions who continued to walk the mountain road. Because the companions still have to walk for a long time, they need to eat. And they, they may not need anything

Lin Tong was patrolling the city, and suddenly got a report that some mountain people knocked on the mansion and shouted grievances, so he hurriedly walked down the city wall and entered the mansion.

Miyun City naturally has a Zhi County, but because it is a military fortress, Lin Tong's level is much higher than that of the Zhi County, so all disputes related to the sergeant, the people are used to going directly to the General's Mansion to shout grievances, and the Zhi County and Lin Tong have always tacitly recognized this.

Lin Tong thought that there was friction between the soldiers stationed in the city and the people again, which was also a common thing. But as soon as he ascended to the top, he knew something was wrong.

In the military general's mansion, the promotion hall is not as formal as the civil official hall, and there are no officials on the left and right, only a few personal soldiers. The pro-soldiers had obviously asked first, and they all looked at Lin Tong with strange expressions at this time.

At the foot of the hall knelt five old men, all of them ragged and scarred. But these are not the result of being hunted down, but by the branches of the dense forest in the mountains and forests.

Because they did not dare to take the big road, and even the small road was rarely walked, only the ravines and dense forests that horses could never walk.

They were skinny, like a skeleton with a crumpled human skin. Between the bones and the skin, it's like there's no meat and fat at all.

They should have been at the age of pure happiness, but they suffered a terrible tragedy, and what sustained them to come here was the fire of hatred that burned in their hearts and revealed from their eyes.

"Master General, you have been wronged! Wronged! ”

Lin Tong shivered for no reason, these old people who were so thin that they had lost their human form that their roars were like dying wolves in the ice and snow, making his whole body tense.

"Don't do this, old men, speak slowly. Come on, let someone get some porridge and rice. ”

At this time, they must not be given dry food, otherwise not to mention the elderly, even a man in the prime of life may eat the dead.

"General, we don't want to eat, we have to redress our grievances. Our village has been slaughtered, our families have been killed, those brutes! ”

An old man was too excited, kowtowed desperately, and when he kowtowed for the third time, he fell headlong. A few old people around turned a blind eye, just kowtowing desperately, and the bluestone floor was stained with Yin Yin blood in a moment.

A pro-soldier stepped forward to help the old man, and then he was stunned.

"Your Excellency...... Lost his breath. ”

Lin Tong stood up suddenly, waved his hand and motioned for the soldiers to help these old men up, and forced them to sit down and talk.

"Who killed it? Tatars? ”

Lin Tong was a little embarrassed at this time, as the main general of Miyun City, these old men were obviously from the mountain villages outside Miyun City, and theoretically belonged to the scope of his protection.

But since the Tatars broke through Gubeikou, Lin Tong has already formulated a strategy that cannot be held. It's not that he is cowardly, but he has limited soldiers and horses in Miyun City, and his self-protection is acceptable, and he will definitely lose a field battle with a large group of Tatar cavalry.

Miyun Mountain is high and densely forested, and Gubeikou has not been attacked before, but the Tatars have never gone up the mountain to search for these mountain villages. Because this is the territory of the Ming Dynasty after all, even if you catch a slave, it is not as easy to take it out as Datong.

In case the reinforcements arrived, the loop was blocked from outside the Gubei Pass, and the Tatars were also quite afraid of internal and external attacks. Besides, these mountain villages are not big in the first place, and they don't have much money, and the input-output ratio of the Tatars searching the mountains is really not cost-effective.

Why did they suddenly go up to the mountains and slaughter the village? Since it was a slaughter of the village, it was not for the sake of robbing slaves, why was that?

While he was meditating, the old men began to cry.

"It's not a Tatar, it's a cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, and the military flag is a 'Qi' character!"

Some people died, but not completely......