"General, have mercy!" The moment the escapee was pulled off his horse, Hu Laoqi seemed to have had his backbone broken, and quickly collapsed to the ground, kowtow and begging for mercy.
If the whole fort worked together to hold on to the end, he would still have the courage to make a gamble, and the officers and soldiers would not dare to massacre the village. But now, the behavior of the escapees is tantamount to asking for trouble. If he continues to hold on, the officers and soldiers will
With enough reasons, Hu Jiabao will be killed and blood will flow into a river.
"It's up to you to be merciful or not, not to me!" Zhang Huan glanced at Hu Laoqi with disdain and responded with a sigh, "Don't tell me, you don't know anything about their behavior. Regarding the Red Lotus Sect,
You recruit them truthfully. The more you recruit, the better it will be for me to show mercy to Hu Jiabao in the name of your clansman who works in the transportation department."
After saying that, he quickly turned his gaze to Liu Hong, the head of the army, and ordered in a deep voice, "Take the prisoners separately for interrogation, and tell them that there is only one chance to make meritorious deeds. Whoever recruits faster, more, and more accurately will win."
He can get away with it. After that, I recommend him to find another place to be a police officer!"
"Yes!" Liu Hong agreed, and immediately organized people to interrogate the prisoners separately. Hu Laoqi, after hearing Zhang Huan's words, felt increasingly desperate.
As the patriarch of a big family, how could he not know the quality of those juniors who were riding horses to escape? Hearing that there were opportunities to make meritorious deeds and to go to other places to work as detectives and bullies, he must have recruited them quickly.
Including him, the leader of the clan, any previous dealings with the Red Lotus Sect are guaranteed to be exposed.
Just when he was so desperate that he suddenly lost his life, he suddenly heard someone softly admonishing him: "Old man, the reason why you were in contact with the Red Lotus Sect in the first place was just because you saw how powerful they were and wanted to bring peace to the whole family. You may not really believe it.
The Holy Mother they pushed out didn't necessarily want to rebel with them. Now, since their ambitions have been exposed, why do you still want to follow them all the way? Tell them what you know as soon as possible, and we will take care of ourselves.
Lead the troops and leave without touching a finger of your Hu Family Fort."
"If you don't believe it, think about it. Will other soldiers and horses come here like us and not even enter your village gate?" As if worried that Hu Laoqi didn't believe it, the voice continued to add, "Even if you don't recruit today,
Will the next patriarch of the fortress be like you? And if another day the local government officials come with archers and ask you to go to the county magistrate for questioning, will they not even drink?"
"I'm recruiting, I'm willing to recruit!" If Hu Laoqi doesn't know how to seize the opportunity, he will be a clan leader for nothing. He raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat on his face and responded decisively, "Invite two generals, and also Xiao Laoer
An opportunity to make meritorious deeds!"
"Marquis Du Yu, look..." A few words broke Hu Laoqi's last line of defense. Han Qing turned his eyes to Zhang Huan and asked in a low voice.
"You're better at asking questions than I am, so I'll do as you say!" Zhang Huan smiled and nodded without hesitation.
Han Qing immediately borrowed pen and paper and took Hu Lao Qi aside for interrogation alone. Relying on his experience as a gold medal divorce counselor in his previous life, he induced Hu Lao Qi to distance the Red Lotus Sect from the Hu family with little effort.
The nearest rudder position in the fort was occupied.
It just so happened that the captured Hu family members had all confessed. Han Qing and Zhang Huan compared all the confessions together and quickly determined which ones were true and which ones were made by Hu Laoqi and others for the sake of giving.
Exonerate yourself and deliberately drag others into the water.
The two discussed for a while and quickly decided on the next step of action. Then they led their troops and left.
Hu Laoqi and the few useless juniors under his command were all left at the gate of Hujiapu without touching a finger. Even the pigs, sheep and other labor supplies that Hu Laoqi took out earlier were returned in full.
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"This, this..." After the disaster, Hu Laoqi felt as if he had had a nightmare. He opened his mouth and kept biting his fingers.
As the saying goes, "The bandits are like a comb, and the soldiers are like a grate." In the past, here in Hujiabao, no matter whether they were soldiers or bandits, a layer of skin would be peeled off.
But this time, Hujiabao clearly had something to gain by the "soldiers", but in the end, he didn't lose anything. How could he dare to believe that what he just experienced was not a dream?
However, soon, the severe pain from his fingers made him completely regain his consciousness.
It's not a dream, but those "soldiers" really let Hujiabao go! However, Hujiabao's life will probably not be easy in the future.
It would be great if those "soldiers" could uproot the entire Red Lotus Sect. In the future, Hujiabao would spend money to take care of it, so that the local government would not treat him as a remnant of the Red Lotus Sect.
If those "soldiers" were just going through the motions, or unfortunately lost the battle, and people from the Red Lotus Sect came looking for them, Hujiabao wouldn't be able to escape so easily!
Thinking of the bloody revenge he was about to face, Hu Laoqi couldn't help shivering in the cold wind.
At this moment, he sincerely hopes that the officers and soldiers can win the battle. He sincerely hopes that the officers and soldiers can sweep the Red Lotus Sect from top to bottom, plowing the courtyard and sweeping holes, and never let anyone go!
"Master Qi, do you want to take a small road and send a message to Captain Qu? The officers and soldiers are not familiar with it..." Seeing that Hu Lao Qi was still silent, a tribesman stepped forward to support him and asked for instructions in a low voice.
"What the hell!" Hu Laoqi suddenly raised his palm and slapped it on the other person's face, "Do you want to ruin the lives of the whole clan? What grudges do they have against you? Come on, take him.
I was tied up in the vegetable cellar and not allowed to come out within a month!"
"Uncle Qi, calm down, calm down!" Several middle-aged men who had just come out of the castle to inquire about the situation hurriedly stepped forward to hug Hu Lao Qi. At the same time, they used their eyes to signal the young people around them to fight the beaten person away.
"If you don't want to cause the genocide, just do what I say!" Hu Laoqi refused to give face to everyone. He broke away and roared loudly, "Tie Hu Mantang up and put him in the vegetable cellar.
Several others who went with the Red Lotus to ambush the officers and soldiers were also tied up and locked up. From now on, the gate of the fortress will be closed and no one is allowed to enter or exit. If anyone dares to say a word about today's incident, I will open an ancestral hall.
, beat him to death with sticks in front of our ancestors!"
"Hey, hey, Qi Shu calm down, Qi Uncle calm down, we listen to you, listen to you!" Several middle-aged people did not dare to persuade anymore, and agreed repeatedly to carry out the patriarch's order. After a while, Hujiabao
The gates and doors were closed tightly, completely isolated from the world.
"Old Thirteen, pick some of the younger ones. Let's go to Jizhou tonight to join our relatives. If you go there, don't come back!" That night, Hu Laoqi called one of his brothers again.
He came to his side and announced his decision in a deep voice.
"Seventh Brother, that's the Liao Kingdom over there!" The elder of the Hu family, known as Lao Shisan, was shocked and blurted out the reminder.
"So what about the Liao Kingdom, we can survive at least!" Hu Laoqi sighed and added in a deep voice, "We can't just wait to be exterminated. The Red Lotus Sect has been in existence since I was in my twenties.
We have recruited many disciples. The officers and soldiers may not be able to do anything to them this time. If they take their breath away, they will definitely find our Hu family."
"This..." Hu Shisan was speechless. He nodded with tears in his eyes, turned around and went down to pick his nephew and pack his luggage.
"This is fate. We are ordinary people." Hu Laoqi sighed again and whispered. "I hope the officers and soldiers will be serious and don't leave any tails!"
In Huan and Qing, there is a mixture of various ethnic groups, sects that believe in various gods, and there are countless bandits in the villages. Therefore, since the fall of the Tang Dynasty, there has been no peace for a few days.
The patriarch of a big family like him has long summed up a whole set of survival wisdom.
Soldiers are like fire, bandits are like sand, and ordinary people are always like grass.
All year round, wildfires burn and wind and sand bury the grass, but as long as the grass roots are rooted in the soil and disperse quietly, they will not really die.
After the fires are extinguished and the sand subsides, the landscape will be lush again in the coming year.