After killing those who deserved to be killed, Qin Xiao did not immediately attack the battlefield with force. Instead, he winked. Zhao Chun and Wu Zheng quickly organized people to repair the outside of the stronghold and guard it.
"From today on, this village belongs to us!" Qin Xiao sat sideways in the lobby, one hand resting on the lion's head on the armrest of the heavy wooden armchair, and the other on the handle of the knife.
The bloody tip of the knife touched the ground. His face was covered in blood and his eyes were sharp. He looked like a more ferocious bandit leader.
Scanning everyone in the circle with extremely oppressive eyes, he said solemnly: "How you were in the past will be the same in the future."
However, the villagers who were chosen to work as odd jobs in Ma Bandit Village were immediately happy. As long as they had enough food and clothing, they didn't care who had the final say in the village. They just hoped in their hearts that the leader would be stronger this time and would not be overtaken by others again.
The next time they are affected, they will be affected in the same way as the neighboring villages where they lost their lives this time.
To be subdued by the horse bandits, these people are ordinary people who are too afraid of being displaced. They only want food and clothing. They have long been indifferent to war and killing.
It is not difficult to conquer them.
What was difficult was that not all of the horse bandits were killed. Most of them were trembling, tied and kneeling in front of Qin Xiao with their heads hanging down. The brave faces at the front were ferocious, and the blood stains and knife wounds on their faces added a hint of violence.
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"Brother, could you please take these people down and distribute them?" Qin Xiao turned to Liucheng and said.
They are now playing the role of gangsters, so Qin Xiao will naturally not reveal the identity or name of any of them.
Qin Xiao shook his head: "There must be more than just horse bandits in the village. People in Jinyong City may not have one or two nails. We made a lot of noise last night. Once the city gate opens, if any villagers want to enter the city together, we can't stop them.
, I don’t know who the spies are now. The owner of this place has changed, and after daybreak, the governor of Jinyong City will definitely know."
"I also said..."
Qin Xiao asked Liucheng to take half of the people back to guard the city in case anyone in the city looked for them.
There was no one who refused to surrender, so Qin Xiao let them go and returned to their original posts.
Without these easily frightened people, Qin Xiao's face became even more gloomy, and he said to the captured horse bandits: "I know that there are your people in the villages outside. If any of you give me a name, I will verify it and you will be spared."
His life."
Hahahahahaha, dreaming! You officials are more ferocious than us bandits! We fall into the trap of being bandits, and we are never afraid of being reviled. But you... you want both fame and fortune, a group of blood-sucking poisonous insects!
I'll kill you anyway, what a lot of nonsense!"
Yes, Qin Xiao and the others did not intend to kill these people. They took back those who could be kidnapped.
Qin Xiao led the people to clean up all the way to the outermost area, making sure that there was no fish on the list that had slipped through the net, and then turned back again.
For those who were kidnapped, Qin Xiao simply announced decisively that the place had changed hands. Those who surrendered should continue to do what they should do, and those who did not surrender would be killed.
There are a dozen villages in total, and the distance between them is much further than the distance they surrounded the Ma bandit village from the outside.
It is worth mentioning that the people in Ma bandit village built a not-narrow road for carriages or ox carts to pass. These people came on horseback and alerted Lan An from a distance. He and Xiao Liu cooperated to ambush and kill the people.
ambush.
In the blink of an eye, how many people were left in each village? Where did they live? What skills did they have? They were all revealed one by one.
At this time, it was already bright.
"two!"
Only the outermost villages whose granaries were burned down by Xiaoliu noticed something was wrong. They didn't wait for a long time for people from Ma Bandi Village to investigate. Half of them stayed to guard, and the other half came to Ma Bandi Village together.
Let Liucheng take five people to count the villages, and he took the rest of the people, two in a team, and set off to different villages.
Qin Xiao simply took notes and killed all those who had not spoken. Those who had spoken were still tied up, leaving three people to guard them.
One person couldn't bear it and opened his mouth, and the others immediately rushed to follow him.
"three!"
"I said, I said..."
The people below trembled, as if they were being led to the execution ground, and the hanging guillotine kept falling as Qin Xiao reported the count.
"Okay." Liucheng cooperated very well and took thirty or forty people from Ma Bandi Village down.
The flying head rolled to the ground, spun around in a circle, and stopped next to him when someone blocked it. Both of them could not stop trembling.
Qin Xiao's eyes turned cold, and he waved his hand with a knife, cutting off his head in a sweeping sweep.
Even the neighboring villages are separated by one mile, and the farthest ones are even dozens of miles apart.
Liucheng thought it right, so he picked out the people who were not seriously injured and whose faces were not visible and took them back.
"Let Xiaoliu and A'an have a hard time. Keep an eye on the people who went to Jinyong City this morning. If they are suspicious, take action directly." Qin Xiao turned around and ordered Zhao Chun.
It would be even harder for him to meet visitors like this. Liucheng's injuries were not serious, and they were all on his back and arms. He could hide them by cleaning up and changing clothes.
Qin Xiao didn't need to say much about the rest. Even if the governor of Jinyong City would not suspect them for a while, he would definitely send someone to inquire about their whereabouts as soon as possible.
"You only have one chance. I'll count to five. If no one speaks, this will be your fate!" Qin Xiao stood up, raised a slap, and withdrew a finger, "One!"
Clean up from the inside out, because Ma Bandit Village is four or five miles away from the two closest villages, so they were not disturbed during the fight.
But in the end, Lan An's arrow caused the wine jar to explode, and the noise was quite loud. However, the people in both villages were very ambitious, or they were extremely confident in the village's defense like iron barrels, and they probably regarded it as thunder. Qin Xiao and others When they lurked over, they were still sleeping soundly and easily tied up the person.
"Bah!" A strong man at the front spat, grinning, and his exposed teeth were stained with blood, which looked particularly terrifying, "You want to kill people, wipe out the roots, and unknowingly change the owner of this place. How can we survive if we monopolize the benefits?
At this time, they only have a few people left in Jinyong City, and they must have someone with sufficient status to mediate with the people in the county governor's office.
Warm blood spurted onto the man kneeling next to the man whose head was missing, making him tremble.
"Young Master, please go back, I will take care of the aftermath here." Liucheng said proactively, looking at Qin Xiao's face as white as tissue paper.
"Young Master, if you keep these people, there will be trouble in the future." Zhao Chun was worried that being sent by the horse bandits to supervise a village proved that these people were by no means idlers, but they succumbed too easily.
"At this time, people's hearts are not stable, so it is not appropriate to commit any more crimes." Qin Xiao looked at the group of people dispersed in the distance, "We have no one to send. If the people in the village don't see them, they will definitely be scared."
"If they join forces..."
"Heh." Qin Xiao chuckled softly and turned around to pick out the people who signed up yesterday. "I have verified that the people you named are correct. I will also keep my promise and spare your lives."