Chapter 50 Wooden Box
Under Mei Sanniang's guidance, Xu Yan found the secret wall and took a long time to use his weak arm to remove a small nanmu box. It was smaller than his palm and looked very delicate.
What Mei Sanniang said was in the box, but Xu Yan didn't want to see it anymore. She put it in her arms, left the courtyard with the woman on her back, and left the bandit village from the vegetable garden behind.
Soon, the staggering figure disappeared among the vast mountains with Mei Sanniang on her back.
It was bright and countless corpses were tilted around the quiet mountain village. There was no corpse energy yet. Soon, this mountain village would become a paradise for wild beasts to eat.
At the foot of Qiyuan Mountain, a team of hundreds of people is slowly approaching.
These people are yamen runners and constables in Yongning Town. The leader rode a horse and held a knife. He looked majestic, but had a look of bitterness. The hundreds of servants following him grinned, and secretly cursed his superiors in his heart.
Yabo runners and constables are used to maintain towns. Catching thieves and beating thieves are their main job. Suppressing bandits should be the responsibility of the garrisons in various places. Besides, are Yuanshan bandits so easy to deal with? Two years ago, the government of another town sent 200 constables and more than 300 yabo runners into the mountains to encircle and suppress them. When they went there, there were 500 people, and when they came back, there were not even 100 people left.
Those were all evil bandits who killed people without blinking. These officers and soldiers were with their families and no one wanted to do the hard work.
"Captain Wang, can you always be faster? It's been so many days. I don't know if my poor daughter is dead or alive."
Walking in the front was a fat man, sweating profusely at this time. While urging Captain Wang to the horse, he looked around anxiously, looking for traces of Yuanshan Village. Nearly a hundred guards were following the fat man.
"Mr. Zhao, don't worry, the suppression of bandits is of great importance. If we do not clarify the number of bandits and their nests, it is absolutely not the best way to attack rashly. We must know ourselves and our enemies."
The Captain King on the horse was still slowly urging his horse to go, so he could let him capture the thieves. Suppressing the bandits was just to drive the ducks to put them on the shelves. How fierce the Yuanshan bandits were? Can the Captain Mianbai Dao not hear it? If the magistrate hadn't been able to stand Zhao Yuanwai crying in the yamen all day long, he wouldn't have sent these hundreds of yamen runners and constables.
It is said to be a bandit suppression. In Captain Wang's mind, this time he brought people into the mountain was just a way to explore the way. As long as he explored the exact location of Yuanshan Village, he would be done and he would go back to report to the court. The magistrate would report to the court. As for which army the court dispatched to attack Yuanshan Village, he would not care about his king's affairs.
With a clear way of protecting oneself, these captains and even the magistrates can all be in harmony with each other.
Captain Wang was cautious. He had been walking and stopping since entering the mountain. Every time he passed a mountain bag, he had to send his subordinates to explore the way. Only when he was sure there was no danger would he continue to march.
He was not in a hurry. Mr. Zhao was sweating on the side and kept urging him. In this way, a team of five or six hundred people dragged on and went into the mountains in the morning until noon to see the shadow of Yuanshan Village from afar.
"Sir, there is no movement in the village."
The detective who was exploring the road touched the edge of the mountain village, ran back without daring to go in, reporting the news he found, but there was no movement.
"No movement?"
Captain Wang turned over and dismounted, and set up a shed from a distance to watch. He couldn't see if there was anyone in the village, but he would never take another step forward.
"Sir, please order to attack the mountain." Mr. Zhao rubbed his hands in a hurry. Seeing the bandit camp right in front of him, he became more and more anxious.
"There is no sound in such a huge village, and there must be a fraud." Captain Wang pretended to say: "It is inappropriate to attack the mountain rashly, it is inappropriate."
Rumble!
Captain Wang was about to tell Mr. Zhao beside him about the taboos of military strategists. After dragging him for a while, he was about to go back. At this moment, the other side of the mountain suddenly shook, and countless birds were frightened, as if a group of beasts appeared in the forest.
The team of hundreds of people was so scared that they were so close that they were so scared that they could not be ordered by Shangguan. They turned around and fled. The movements seemed to have been practiced thousands of times, and they were uniform. Including Captain Wang, these yamen runners who were supposed to protect the people, left Zhao Yuanwai and rushed out of the mountain without looking back.
Mr. Zhao was already shocked by the actions of the official officer. When he came to his senses and was about to escape, a war horse suddenly rushed out of the forest on one side, followed by the second and third horses.
A total of five hundred iron cavalry!
The cavalry buried in iron armor rushed to Yuanshan Village as soon as they appeared. After the Pegasus, the simple village wall was stepped into mud. The knights were out of their sheath and bowed their bows one by one. Five hundred iron cavalry were full of murderous auras like five hundred Shura.
Captain Wang, who had run away, looked back and looked back. When he recognized that the group of cavalry was not bandits but was dressed in a border army uniform, he quickly gathered his dispersed subordinates, and then took the lead in rushing towards the village.
If the border troops set off the road, Yuanshanzhai will definitely not have good results. If you don’t pick up such credit, you won’t pick up anything.
When a group of weak soldiers who had collapsed before the battle returned and rushed into the mountain village, the scene in front of them once again surprised them.
Five hundred iron cavalry remained safely and still maintained a charge formation. In front of the iron cavalry were corpses all over the mountains. Thousands of Yuanshan bandits were hunched over, and their bodies were terrifying. Not only were their mouths and eyes crooked, but there were also many of them staring out.
"General, it's a poison."
At the front of the five hundred iron cavalry, there was a stalker who carried a sword to report. After a while, this person had cut open more than a dozen corpses, and without exception, all black blood was leaking.
"Poison?"
The general in charge took off his armor and showed a young face. It was Cheng Yu's third son, Cheng Yu, deputy general of the border army. He frowned and ordered: "Search for the village, find me the body of a little Taoist priest, and bring them together when they see some living."
Look!
He said with a loud bang, five hundred iron cavalry rode out and began to sort out the entire village. After half an hour, the cavalry returned one after another, without exception, all of them were empty-handed.
"General, more than one thousand, one hundred bandits, no one has ever lived."
"General, no boy in Taoist robe was found."
Listening to his subordinates' rewards, Cheng Yu's eyebrows frowned even tighter. Captain Wang, not far away, wanted to come forward to say hello, but saw Cheng Yu's face from afar. The captain from Yongning Town did not dare to come.
"It's such a big deal to kill thousands of people at one time." Cheng Yu whispered coldly: "What a cruel scheming!"
Cheng Yu didn't know who poisoned Yuanshanzhai, but the people who could poison the entire Yuanshanzhai must be caused by differences within the Yuanshanzhai. If outsiders take action, unless they are practitioners, ordinary innate warriors will not be able to kill thousands of people at once.
Cheng Yu was a little regretful when he was not found the little Taoist priest who saved his father's life. Fortunately, no one saw a corpse in a Taoist robe. Since that is the case, the little Taoist priest should still be alive.
He drove his horse and Cheng Yu ordered to return to the camp, leaving the corpse-scattered village, followed by five hundred iron cavalry.
For a moment, Cheng Yu linked the three words "Little Taoist" with the evil hands that poisoned thousands of people in his mind, but the next moment he threw them behind him.
Not everyone can kill people. It is absolutely impossible for a half-year-old child to kill all Yuan Shanzhai.
Seeing the border troops withdraw, Captain Wang was so proud this time that he took the lead in rushing into the bandit camp full of corpses. He did not dare to come to live bandits, and he was not afraid of dead bandits. So from time to time, there would be surprise shouts from the yamen runners who found Caibao, and the crying of Mr. Zhao who could not find his daughter.
Chapter completed!