In other words, Zhang Qixiu couldn't help but worry when he saw that Tang Li's was taken to an unknown place, but there was nothing he could do, seeing that those military masters were not easy to talk to, he didn't dare to ask.

But at noon, when he had crossed the mountain and felt thirsty, he untied the kettle and drank two sips, when he heard one of the leading soldiers say with a serious face: "After crossing this mountain, we will come to the Jitou Ridge, where there is a village, which is the den of the thieves, and you can only go and capture the women, children, old and children, who are fighting with our army in another place." ”

When everyone heard that they were about to arrive at the thief's den, they couldn't help but be secretly frightened, and Zhang Qixiu subconsciously held the knife on his waist.

When the group arrived on the mountain, the leader waved his hand to rest on the spot, so that everyone could quickly breathe, only to see the leader sitting on the stone, took the kettle handed by his subordinates, took a sip of water, and said to the yellow-skinned people: "This mission is not too dangerous, but we must not let the thieves escape, once there is anyone who dares to resist, kill them." ”

"Master, I know that most of you haven't really killed anyone yet, but at this time you're already on the battlefield, if you don't be ruthless, you will be the one who dies. ”

There was a commotion in the crowd, and an old man dressed in tattered clothes suddenly wept bitterly and shouted, "I don't want to kill anyone, I don't want to ...... Killing, I'm afraid of death, I'm not doing it, I'm going to quit!"

After saying that, he was about to run away from here, the general sitting on the stone frowned, and one of the martial artists hiding among these people took a knife to the back of the old man who was running, and his strength was so great that he cut the tattered clothes with a knife, not to mention, the white bones on his back were clearly visible, the old man wailed twice, fell to the ground and convulsed a few times, and it seemed that he couldn't live.

"Flee from the battle, disturb the morale of the army, and when you are killed, I will see if any of you still have this idea. The general sitting on the stone swept over the crowd with a gloomy look, and immediately fell silent.

Immediately the general made a gesture, and the soldiers on the side immediately comprehended the knife and walked towards the old man who fell to the ground and convulsed, and when he was completely breathing, he casually cut off his left ear and put it in the cloth bag he carried with him.

Zhang Qixiu's face was full of disbelief, and he whispered, "Cut your ears...... Isn't that how you treat the enemy?"

Why can you cut off the ears of people who are your own so skillfully?

It's just that before Zhang Qixiu could say anything, there was a rapid sound of arrows in the air, and it exploded with a snap when it flew into the air, and the general shouted, pulled out his knife and pointed downward, and said sharply: "Rush me, those who dare to resist, kill!"

A group of people swarmed down from the top of the mountain, Zhang Qixiu was also mixed with the flow of people and followed closely down, what caught his eye was not the fence towering, there were wolf Yantai and all kinds of defense institutions of the cottage, but the village entrance yellow-haired old dog two or three, six or seven planing chickens, stunned women and children more than ten people in the ordinary small village, saw a group of people running from the mountain wildly, a few middle-aged men ran out of the village, loudly exchanging old and young women and children and so on to run backwards.

Trembling all over, they were carrying hoes, sickles and other tools, opening their mouths wide and shouting something, the old dogs barked wildly, the tender chickens were flying, and the men who ran out of the village were hacked to death by the crowd of people who swarmed down before they could resist a few times, after all, it was a team of martial artists and regular soldiers, far from what they could resist.

The rest of the people began to shout and rush to the village, Qiu Youwei said, no one can let go!

Zhang Qixiu, who was stunned at the place where the men who ran out of the village fell, looked at the fallen people in fear, he rushed slowly, and the group of people in front of him shouted like crazy to kill Zhentian, he couldn't hear what those people were saying, and when those people were dying, he found out that these people spoke a rare local dialect!

When he was a child, he begged with his sister for a while, and he learned some of these words, and the fallen men said:

"Who are you? We in Wushui County will definitely not let you thieves go!"

"Run, kids, let those kids go......"

"Why? We are also the sons of the Tang Kingdom, why did we kill us? What mistakes did we make?"

Zhang Qixiu was stunned, this obviously didn't look like a thief! Looking at the few people who fell to the ground, blood flowed profusely. Zhang Qixiu couldn't help but fall to his knees and yelled, "Don't hurt anyone." ”

These people didn't seem to be thieves, but not many people heard his howl.

Then the general's rough hand put on his shoulder, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to understand what they said." ”

Then he took off the kettle and took a sip of water. pinched Zhang Qixiu's neck again, so that he couldn't shout out, and then told him with a melancholy face, "Young man, you shouldn't have come here, but you can't leave when you come, don't blame me for being ruthless, blame you for being unlucky." ”

The village shouted to kill the sky, and what was even more unexpected was that in the other direction, an army of more than twenty people in full armor rushed out. I saw that the army rushed into the village, and I couldn't help but say, I cut down people when I saw them. Including those militias who had stormed the village before.

One of them shouted, "It's you! Aren't you a soldier under Captain Qiu?"

Zhang Qixiu, who was strangled by the neck, finally understood what the so-called "bandits" were all about. The Tang State gave relatively generous compensation for the sacrifices caused by the civilians and bandits. One of them is that if people suffer heavy casualties during the suppression of bandits, they will be exempted from local taxes depending on the situation.

Presumably, the hereditary county magistrate of Wushui County said that this is what he wants, although the Tang Kingdom is rich, but the taxes are still very heavy. As long as the people involved in the suppression of the bandits die, they must be able to get a very relaxed tax exemption policy.

And these people who are killed by them can also have their ears cut off. The head of the thief is another great reward.

The name is good, and the reward is rich. That's the reward that only those who survive can get. It is estimated that those who survived should have become the lackeys of this county order a long time ago.

Presumably, in order to ensure that today's matter is not leaked out, the people who know about this matter, except for those who are in the same league as He County's order, the rest should be wiped out, right? In other words, Zhang Qixiu took a look at this originally peaceful village. At the moment, it is already drenched in blood. He knew that none of the people inside would be spared, how could he be so ruthless? Looking at the tragic situation in front of him, Zhang Qixiu's tears flowed down his eyes and he began to cry with a whimper.

And the general who was calmly watching this scene on the side smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll give you a good time when the time comes." ”

At this moment, a contemptuous voice suddenly came from behind him, "Who do you want to give pleasure to?"

The general turned his head sharply, and a fist smashed straight into his face, and he couldn't dodge for a while, and the bridge of his nose was directly smashed by Tang Li's fist, and the nosebleed spurted out instantly.

Immediately, Tang Li's turn and kick back, swept the general's calf with a kick, causing him to fall directly to the ground, and then punched him in the heart, staggered his palms, and pushed hard, breaking the general's neck.

Zhang Qixiu looked at Tang Li, who withdrew his fist, in surprise, and shouted, "Brother Li, you're actually fine!"

Tang Li smiled at him, untied the general's saber and threw it to Zhang Qixiu, and said, "This is just a small-scale impact, if you want to survive, you will have to follow me closely." ”

Half an hour ago.

After Tang Li's group was taken to a place by that group, I saw those people looking at Tang Li's face unkindly. The leader sighed and said, "Don't blame us, it's you who are too jumpy. ”

Immediately, an order was given, and everyone pulled out their long knives and pointed at Tang Li.

Tang Li looked at these people with a strange expression, "This is about to start, kill me?"

"Can you tell me what's going on?"

The leader looked a little arrogant, smiled and said: "It's okay to tell you, do you really think that there are so many bandits in Wushui County? Do you understand that?"

Tang Li nodded thoughtfully, "That is to say, the so-called thieves are the group of militiamen you recruited, just find an excuse at will, and then find a place to bury bones, these things will be unknown to anyone, it is a clumsy method, but there are always poor people who take their lives in order to earn those few taels of silver." The county lord is a good means!"

"Okay, knowing this, let you be a dead ghost, go on the road!"

Tang Lihe smiled, "With a few of you, you can kill me?"

The leader made a gesture, and everyone slashed at Tang Li, "We are here to deal with you self-righteous martial artists." ”

The long knife swung violently, and Tang Li's leaned back to dodge the fatal blow. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he slashed into the hand of a soldier who swung his knife at Tang Li, and quickly snatched the long knife in his hand. One turned and smeared it on the neck of another soldier. Then a kick. Kick away another soldier coming at him.

Tang raised his knife to block the leader's slash at him, and the two sides exchanged punches. The punch of the leader who couldn't die just hit Tang Li's chest, making Tang Li's teeth grin.

Well, the leader sneered, shouted that he had a wound in the chest, and attacked him in the chest.

The rest of the people all slashed at Tang Li's chest, just to make him take care of himself. Tang Lixi could only keep retreating, widening the distance between him and a few people. In a moment, Tang Li's knife with these people had gone through dozens of moves, but these people's knives still couldn't touch Tang Li's sleeve. On the contrary, two more soldiers were seized by Tang Li, who was seriously injured with a single knife because of a moment's mistake.

Tang Li's knife is extremely heavy.

Only three people were left to fight with Tang Li, and the pressure suddenly increased. And Tang Li's was more and more relaxed, Tang Li's smile, "The biggest mistake you made was to dare to fight alone with me just for the few of you." ”

Anyway, he has also fought with the armies of Yuichiro and others, and as far as a few of them are concerned, they are not as strong as Zhang Erhu's personal soldiers.

"Since you want to kill me, then it's okay for me to kill you, right?"

After saying this, Tang Li's speed suddenly rose and rushed towards the remaining three. Seeing that the situation was not good, the leader wanted to shout loudly to attract reinforcements. Tang Li's lunge was in front of his face, and he clenched his fist and struck him in the jaw with an uppercut. Before he could scream, he bit his tongue, and the whole mouth instantly smelled of blood, but the pain didn't last long. The knife in Tang Li's hand quickly wiped from his neck, and he didn't pay attention to the slight blood stains on his body.

He quickly snatched the long knife in his hand, and at this time held a long knife in his left and right hands, and flew out violently, and the flying knife flew towards the soldiers who were fleeing in both directions. Hearing a pop, the two soldiers fell down in response, and Tang Lifu quickly ran up to mend the knife with his hand.

Since then, the team that wanted to hunt Tang Li's men and horses was wiped out. Tang Lixi picked up the general's long knife, weighed it, the weight was acceptable, and then rushed towards the dense forest, this forest Tang Lixi was not familiar with, and could only rely on the previous memories to walk, I expected to walk faster, should be able to save Zhang Qixiu. After saving Zhang Qixiu, I went to settle accounts with the dog official.

I have two taels of silver, but I can't just spend it in vain.