An hour ago.

"Oh no, it's on fire! it's on fire!"

In Pingyuan County, a house suddenly burst into flames for some reason, and the fire was extremely fierce.

On this night, the sound of killing outside the city shook the sky, and at this time, there was an unprovoked fire in the county, disturbing the people in panic, for fear that some thieves would suddenly invade the county, burn, kill and loot.

After all, the conscription notice said a few days ago that there were indeed bandits outside the city.

"Get out of the way!"

A dark shadow rushed from the side, but it was a black-clothed masked man, armed with a long sword, and dispersed the terrified people around him.

Then the man rushed into the burning courtyard and went straight to one of the rooms.

"What's the matter with you! Why did the generals who let you assassinate Pingyuan County be arrested before you could do anything?" There were several men in black tied up in this room, bound to the torture rack, with whip marks all over their bodies, and their skin was open.

These people were the ones who were captured alive by He Yi and secretly infiltrated the city.

After being severely tortured by Pei Dong, these people were thrown here and left no one for two days.

Without water or food, they were tortured by hunger for two days, which had brought them to the brink of collapse. At this time, the house suddenly caught fire again, and their hands and feet were tied, and they could not leave at all, and they almost fainted from the smoke.

Seeing the flames getting closer and closer to them, the despair of waiting for death is really not something ordinary people can bear. Seeing someone coming, these black-clothed people cried again and again as if they had grasped the last straw, "It's our disadvantage to do things, I beg your adult to help!"

The fire is getting bigger and bigger, and it won't be long before it burns into this room. The man in black glanced at them coldly, but he snorted and said, "I didn't want to save you, but at present, I am short of manpower, so I have the right to spare your life, and I will listen to my command and break out of the city!"

"Yes, yes, if you are willing to save us, you will do your best to help you break through!

"Su Qian. The man in black whispered a name.

With that, he cut the ropes with a dagger and let them go.

"It turned out to be Lord Su who burned down the armory! If you can capture Pingyuan County this time, Lord Su should be the first to take the credit!" Several people suddenly showed a look of surprise when they heard this name. Although they didn't recognize Su Qian's appearance, they knew the name Su Qian, and they knew that Su Qian had infiltrated Pingyuan County a long time ago.

Since they are their own people, then they are saved.

"! I don't take the first credit, do I want to give it to you? Forget it, don't talk about it, it's not good to attack the city tonight, let's take advantage of the chaos to break through!" Su Qian shook his head, untied these people one by one, and then led them out of the fire scene and ran towards the city gate together.

......

The battle at the city gate was in an extremely anxious and fierce state.

Just now, batch after batch of Li Rong Zhai troops rushed in from the gap in the city gate, fighting with the city defense army, swords and swords, and blood appeared.

Soon after, the gap was cleared, leaving a dozen bodies on both sides of the war, temporarily separated.

"Come with me. ”

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su Qian, who was hiding in the dark, waved his hand to several black-clothed people behind him, found the opportunity, and quickly jumped out of the gap in the city gate.

After running all the way out for several miles, he stopped and straightened himself up a little.

"Okay, let's rest in place, those plain defenders are not many in number, and the defense is still weak, so they shouldn't send troops to chase us. Su Qian gasped and said. A moment later, he pointed to the whip wounds on several people and scolded: "Spineless thing." ”

Obviously, Su Qian blamed these people for not resisting torture.

Several people glanced at each other, and one of them said, "Don't worry, Lord Su, before we entered the plain, Master Junshi had already asked us to make a confession, just in case." So the information we told them before was all fake!"

"Oh?" Su Qian's eyes lit up.

Somehow, his hand unconsciously touched the dagger at his waist.

He glanced at a few people behind him, and said with an extremely dissatisfied expression: "It's not that I said you, the armory in Pingyuan County has been burned clean by me, if you can assassinate the generals of Pingyuan County without knowing it, you will definitely be able to take the entire Pingyuan City in one fell swoop tonight, but how did you waste people be discovered?"

One of the men in black hurriedly said: "We entered the city by taking advantage of a dispute, at that time, it was impossible for anyone to find out about us, could it be your side......"

"Bastard, if I leak the news, will the people of Plains County let me burn down the armory?" Su Qian scolded.

"No, no, no, the little ones don't dare. The man was extremely frightened, and hurriedly lowered his head and looked at the other people, not knowing how to answer Su Qian's question for a while, for fear that if he said the wrong thing, he would be punished again.

"In my opinion, among you, there must be an inner ghost!" Su Qian looked at him with a knife-like gaze, quietly took out the dagger, immediately stretched out his hand to the person who spoke just now, and said coldly: "Don't forget to pour dirty water on me at this time, the inner ghost must be you!"

Su Qian put the dagger forward and placed it in front of the man's neck, and there was an undoubted power in his tone.

"My lord has wronged, how can I be an inner ghost?" The man was terrified, but he pounced and knelt in front of Su Qian.

"How could it be you?" Su Qian snorted.

"My lord, my lord, do you know, two years ago, in order to bribe Huyang Taishou, the Pingyuan county commander took my newlywed wife away and sent it as a gift, and since that day, the little one has sworn to be the enemy of the county!" The man knelt in front of He Yi and cried: "The revenge of taking his wife, a great shame, the villain has been practicing assassination for the past two years, just to be able to take revenge one day! How can he defect?"

Recalling the old feud of the past, the man choked up and grieved, and it didn't seem to be a fake.

"Is there such a thing?"

Su Qian frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he pointed to another person and said, "Since you left Pingyuan, you guy has been sneaky, since it's not him, it must be you!"

At the beginning of last year, the child in the family was seriously ill, and the villain risked his life to go deep into the dry snow forest to collect medicine, and accidentally dug up a rare life-saving spiritual grass, only hated the villain's mouth was not strict, and he leaked the news, and the spiritual grass was also robbed by the people of the government to bribe the Qi Sect, causing my child to die-the villain and the official government were incompatible, and he couldn't wait to eat his flesh and drink his blood! How could it be an inner ghost?"

Like the previous person, he knelt down in front of Su Qian with a thud, recalling the old days, and gritting his teeth with hatred.

“......”

Su Qian listened, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

He originally thought that the people in this Lirong Village were all villains and thieves who should be killed, but under careful questioning, it didn't seem to be as bad as he imagined.

Everyone, there is a story.

Think about it, if you are not forced to be helpless, who will choose to fall into the grass?

Sighing softly, Su Qian continued: "Okay, the five of you, I will ask you a question one by one, if you can answer it, it will prove that you are innocent, if you can't answer it, or if it is different from the other four people's answers, it must be an internal ghost - start with you!"

Su Qian pointed to the first person on the far left and said, "Tell me about the specific location of our Lirong Village, and the direction of the gate of the village." ”

The first person hurriedly replied: "Further east, find a small road, go forward seven or eight miles, you can see three mountains connected together, the valley formed at the junction is the Li Rong camp, the gate of the village facing west." ”

"Not bad!" Su Qian nodded and asked the second person: "Now that the army has come out, how many men and horses are left behind in Dazhai?"

The second person replied: "This expedition is already all the soldiers and horses of the cottage, and there are only less than 100 people left behind in the cottage." ”

Su Qian nodded again and asked the third person: "Tell me, what is my identity?"

The third person replied: "Master Su, you are really good at laughing, you and the military advisor, but we are the right-hand man of the family, if it were not for the assistance of the two of you, how could we have today's power in Lirongzhai?"

Su Qian turned to the fourth person: "You, let me ask you, how is the situation of the ordnance and reserves in the village?"

The fourth man replied: "There are fifty good horses in the village, but the horses are useless in the mountains, but there are more reserves of swords, guns, arrows and crossbows, all of which are placed in the cellar of the back mountain, and there is a grain hole on the side, the small ones have not been entered, and the specific situation is not very clear..."

"Okay, you come to the last question. Su Qian turned his head to look at the last person and said, "How is the situation of the defense in the village?"

The fifth person replied: "The inside of the village is secret, and it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, so there is no defense, only two sentinels at the gate of the wall..."

Five questions, five answers.

After getting the news he wanted, Su Qian planned to let them leave.

But it's not back to Lirong Village.

"Alright, let's go, a few of you. The task is not completed, even if you go back, you will inevitably kill your head, listen to me, leave Lirong Village, and find another place to live. Su Qian waved his hand at them and whispered.

"This ...... Master Xie Su instructed. Several people looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and then bowed to Su Qian and left in another direction.

They also knew in their hearts that they had made a mistake this time, and if they captured the city, it would be okay to say, but if they couldn't attack it, they would definitely become the target of public criticism.

When these people walked away, Su Qian also slowly tore off the black cloth covering his face, revealing a slightly tired face.

It was He Yi.