The setting sun left the last touch of red, and sank unwillingly behind the mountain. The tired bird returns to its nest, and the cry of "woo ya" seems to confirm that it has returned again and again.

At this time, the light was dim, and it was difficult to see the black and oppressive figures stretching behind the trees and reeds on both sides of the official road. They all bowed their bodies, with knives pinned to their waists and hidden weapons in their hands, waiting for a group of men and horses to pass by.

Siege towers and crashes are both siege weapons, and ordinary state capital city defenses are really difficult to resist. However, when the Shatuo army attacked Suzhou City, they actually used siege towers and crashes!

The outpost was set up to defend against foreign enemies, and the military camp was not equipped with siege equipment. Siege towers and crashing trees are unique to the garrison barracks, and at this time, they appear on the battlefield where the enemy army is attacking its own walls. There is only one reason: some garrison barracks have surrendered to the enemy, and these siege weapons have been privately given to Shatuo. This is the last thing Xia Muchao wants to see. For Dahua, internal strife is much more terrible than foreign enemies.

Xia Muchao tightly held Zhuge Pingtai's 800 miles in his hand, and the urgent report from Suzhou: Mei Yuanchen, the son of Mei Siyuan, sneaked into the enemy camp at night, and had wisely persuaded the Shatuo army to withdraw, and our army promised to pursue but not attack, and followed the Chihedan Department all the way until the exit. At this time, the last general led the ironclad army on the way. However, there is a matter, the last general must first report to the imperial court: yesterday when the Shatuo army stormed Suzhou City, there were siege towers and crashes in the forward camp, fortunately Mei Siyuan and General Xu Ding'an led the cavalry into the enemy formation before the enemy attack, so that its siege equipment was not used, and then it was obtained by the last general. The matter is serious, and the general will not dare to make an arbitrary decision, so I would like to submit this secret letter to the imperial court. Huangzhou General Zhuge Pingtai.

"Is it the military camp of the Anxian garrison? Guo Zimu is a close confidant of King Yi, so he should not collaborate with the enemy. Could these weapons have come from the military camp of the Shengjun garrison? Le Chengshuo has always been steady, and he would have done such a treasonous thing? If it weren't for these two places, could it be the military camp stationed in the north? Zhao Qianming? Zhao Qianming..." Xia Muchao thought carefully, but he didn't hear the call of the Chinese side outside the country.

"Lord Wang!" Hua Fang called again. At this time, it is getting dark, and it is really not suitable to hurry. He had already explored the road first, and there was a small town ten miles ahead, and he could settle here tonight, so he had come to ask for instructions.

Xia Muchao came back to his senses and asked, "Oh, what's the matter?"

"Lord Wang, it's dark and it's not appropriate to do it again. The subordinates have already explored, there is a small town ten miles ahead, do you want to turn over and settle down to rest?" Hua Fang said respectfully.

"Go, don't disturb the people. Although Xia Muchao wanted to go to Jinzhou earlier, he also knew the principle of combining work and rest, so he ordered immediately.

When Hua Fang got the order, he drove his horse to the head of the team, whispered a few words with Lu Jianting, who was in the lead, and drove his horse to the sedan chair where Xia Muchao was. His duty is to protect the prince's thoroughness, and he always keeps it in mind whenever and wherever he is.

"Boom, boom!boom!" The sound of sharp weapons breaking through the sky came from the grass and trees on both sides of the official road, and it was heard endlessly.

"Be on guard!" Han Qi shouted, and then took a volley and rushed into the grass and trees beside him. The secret weapon was launched quickly and densely, and nearly 100 people had been hit in an instant. With a warning from Han Qi, Ying Sheng, Hua Fang, Qi Qi and Tao Tao were firmly guarding the four corners of Xia Muchao's sedan chair, and the guards and soldiers also quickly gathered over and surrounded three human walls. Lu Jianting, the leader of the team, led a team of personal soldiers to kill the grass and trees on the left, and Zhou Xukuan, who was at the end of the team, also led a team of personal soldiers to kill the grass and trees on the right side.

"Kill!"... ......

... ...

Half an hour passed, and the two sides of the official road gradually quieted down.

"Lord Wang, the cooking is done, twelve live mouths have been caught, and the remaining two hundred and fifteen people have been killed!" This is the largest attack on the Jaw King's Mansion in the past ten years. These two hundred and twenty-seven people are all killers of the dead, and they have no worries about being ruthless.

"Let's go, stop in the town ahead. Xia Muchao said with a frown. "These people, are they too anxious? Since I received the order to come to Anxian, I know that this place is dangerous, how can I not be unprepared?" Xia Muchao thought coldly: "Alas, there are dangers here, and it is still beyond my expectations, and it has been difficult to think about the source for more than a year!"

A group of men and horses were left here to report to the governor's office and dispose of the corpses, and the rest continued to march, all the way to the town of Zhigen. When the sedan chariot arrived in Zhigenzhen, everything was ready. Hua Fang led dozens of people to ride quickly ahead of the brigade, found several large ancestral halls next to each other in the town, gave some silver, and quickly emptied those places. When those few people saw the swords and guns of these dozens of errand officials, they all avoided from afar, for fear of killing and exterminating the clan.

"Lord Wang, it's settled, please rest. Lu Jianting stood in front of Xia Muchao's sedan chair, and he personally inspected it inside and outside the room, and he bowed down to report.

Xia Muchao came down from the chariot and said to the gluttony on the side: "The twelve people who were caught will be tried tonight." Tomorrow we will reach the realm of Anham, and we must know clearly who is friend and foe. ”

Gluttony has always been a good interrogator, and the last time He Zhan bought a murderous assassination of Xia Chengyi and others, he also tried it, and immediately hugged his hands and said: "Lord Wang, please be relieved, your subordinates will definitely be clear!"

It was late at night, the lights were flickering, someone was coming, and the footsteps were near. One, two... Seven people, six dogs came in.

This is a relatively old ancestral hall, and in the middle is a large patio for lighting. The patio was improvised with wooden stakes and became a cage in which the twelve captives were kept. Looking at the dense guards outside, these twelve people knew that they must be more than lucky. Do their business, sooner or later one will die. They are not afraid of death, they just want to get a high price, so that the family behind them has no worries about food and clothing.

"Bang!" there was a few sounds of metal clashing. The twelve people unconsciously pressed in, and they all knew that it was the torture instrument that made the sound. Interrogation of their torture instruments. If they had a choice, they would have cut themselves off a long time ago, and they would first have beaten them unconscious with heavy hands when they rushed into the bushes, and then they would have killed them on a large scale. When they woke up, their hands and feet were tied, and all their lower teeth had been knocked out and locked up.

Two guards opened the prison door, set up a prisoner, and walked out. At this time, several other guards each moved a long wooden table and brought six dogs. The captive saw the torture instrument on the ground, and his face trembled, and he couldn't stop shaking. It was a boning knife and a couple of knives for stripping.

He stripped him of his clothes and tied them to a table. Gluttony said coldly.

The captive resisted desperately, but could not stop himself from being tied up on the torture table. At this moment, he was already naked, like a white-skinned pig with a shaved hair. And the gluttony is holding a boning knife, full of the appearance of a butcher. Seeing that the gluttony was approaching step by step, the despair in his eyes was almost breaking through his eyes. He was speechless from the extreme fear, but kept shaking his body, shaking his head, and tears rolling down his face.

The gluttony didn't speak, he turned the boning knife and cut it off the captive's leg, "hiss~" where the tip of the knife slid over, remembering the slight sound of flesh separation, and a howl of extreme pain, "Ah~~~"

"Listen, old woman, what is the sound? Who is so miserable?"

"Yes, I heard it too. Isn't it like the sound of a pig being killed!" replied an old woman.

... ...

Gluttony took the freshly cut bloody human flesh and threw it in front of several dogs. A few of the dogs had apparently deliberately not fed them, and were already very hungry at the moment, so they rushed up and bit the piece of meat. When the eleven people in the prison saw it, they all broke out in a cold sweat, and they kept swallowing their saliva, and their eyes were full of endless fear and remorse. At this time, I suddenly heard the gluttony scolding loudly: "Dogs and beasts, what are you anxious about! There are twelve people here, enough for you to eat!"

As soon as he said this, the eleven people inside were so frightened that their faces were distorted, and they let out a cry of "woo", and the smell of stench came to their nostrils for a while, which was very unpleasant. As if two of them had fainted.

There are two large water tanks next to the patio, which have been filled with two tanks of water, which were originally used for fire prevention, but at this time they also came in handy. A guard carrying a bucket full of water rushed at the two men, and in a few moments the two men woke up. When you wake up, you cry.

"Ah~~~~" On the torture table, the captive let out another terrible cry. His right arm had been chopped off shoulder-high, bleeding from the ground. As far as knife work is concerned, Tao Tao is really not a good butcher, this knife is not cut neatly, the skin and flesh under the armpit are still connected, and finally it is forcibly torn off. Two guards stepped forward and pressed the wound on his severed arm with a cotton cloth coated in lime powder to stop the bleeding. Stopping the bleeding is to let him live longer, to feel the pain more deeply, so that his companions can watch more scenes.

"Bang!" a bloody, twitching arm was thrown in front of the dogs, and they tore it apart.

"Woo... Please, give us a good time! Please, please... They never felt that they were afraid of death, until this point. Perhaps, they are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of this kind of torture before death, the torture from hell.

No one paid attention to them, just as no one heard their shouts.

Tao Tao put down the boning knife and chose a small chopping knife. The knife was taken from the captives on the torture table, and there was no bloodshed, and it turned out that it was the back of the knife that lifted his flesh. Just as the captive was a little lucky, the gluttony slashed at his left waist, cut off a piece of meat an inch wide, and made a hole in his waist. The gluttony stretched out two fingers and inserted them, flipped over in a while, pulled out an object, and threw it in front of the prison.

When the eleven looked at it, they realized that it was actually a kidney! A dog rushed over, picked up the fresh man's kidney, and ate it.

Two eyeballs...

A tongue...

A piece of intestines...

A heart that's still beating...

Eleven people vomited incessantly, pulled feces and urine, and their hands and feet kept shaking. "The brave are fearless", only the real brave will not have fear in his heart. This is eleven people obviously don't count, they are only outlaws at most.

"Knock! knock!" there was a knock on the door. Xia Muchao knew that gluttony had already done the job.

Tao Tao handed over a piece of paper with a few words written on it.

Xia Muchao took the paper and glanced at it, with a cold smile on his face.