On the galloping road across Bolangsha, Meng Xiang, who was sweating profusely, rode back and forth on his horse. The weather was unbearably hot, and he had to take off his protective black robe embroidered with gold piping.
The thin shirt underneath was revealed. His sleeves were rolled up high, and the blue-black evil dragon tattoo on his strong arms revealed his original identity as a pirate.
In order to control the pirates, Hai Dongqing set a rule. Anyone who joins Peach Blossom Island as a bandit must not only swear allegiance, but also have to have a tattoo on his face. These days, except criminals, they will have tattoos on their faces.
Apart from the mark, only the bodies of animals will be branded. Most people will not tattoo their bodies at all. As the saying goes, the body is born from its parents, and those who torment their own bodies are definitely not good things. But Haidongqing is known for his
This method allows pirates to give up all illusions. After getting tattoos, they will become bandits for life.
From top to bottom, everyone got tattoos according to their job rank. Hai Dongqing had nine blue dragons tattooed on his chest and back. The eight kings under him also got tattoos of blue dragons. The only difference was the number. The one below had tattoos.
There are many types of tigers, poisonous dragons, and wolf heads. Some of the ordinary pirates are very ingenious, and there are also some who have crabs, fish, and shrimps stabbed. It's just a fun thing.
As the head of the Eight Great Vajras, Meng Xiang had an evil dragon tattooed on each of his arms and back. Before this, only the saints of the Qing Sect and the blessed daughters of the followers had witnessed this kind of thing on Hai Dongqing and others.
Tattoos that mark the evil they have done. Unfortunately, they cannot be revealed to outsiders.
At this time, Meng Xiang no longer cared about anything. He rode his horse and ran all over Chidao. Wherever he went, he asked the congregants if they could see where Lin Jue and others were going. None of the congregants had the answer he wanted.
.Lin Jue and others disappeared under his nose.
Meng Xiang angrily cursed. He checked the traces on the official road on the east side of Bolangsha and confirmed that Lin Jue and others had not left Bolangsha. He knew that they must have taken advantage of the fast pace of the cavalry to break away from their own side.
within a visual distance, and then hid somewhere. In the vast Bolangsha, with a radius of ten miles, dunes, swamps, trees and thorns, where can you go to find this group of people who hate you to the bone? Most people must have reached this point.
, will consider whether to continue to bite Lin Jue. It is time to make a decision whether to continue to attack the city or retreat. But Meng Xiang is not the case. He is already angry with Lin Jue and has decided to give up the siege and want to kill Lin Jue.
Jue and others surrounded and killed each other in Bolangsha to relieve the anger in their hearts.
Meng Xiang was already like a mad dog who was driven to panic. The city and other things were no longer in his consideration. He just wanted to vent his anger.
"Let me all go down along both sides of the galloping road and search in small teams. It is impossible for them not to leave traces. With so many people and horses, there will be mixed traces wherever they go. No team is equipped with fireworks signals, but if they are found, they will immediately
Send a signal. If we don’t find these turtles and kill them today, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart." Meng Xiang gave the order.
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All the congregants looked at Meng Xiang speechlessly. They were tired, hot, and hungry, and had been tortured to death. That was all, Meng Xiang actually asked them to go into the swamps and thorns in the Bolangsha sand dunes to search.
, this is even more fatal. Many of the believers are local people. The area around Xucheng is not far from Yangwu. Everyone knows about the dangers of Bolangsha. I don’t know how many people accidentally entered it and died unexpectedly, but they knew how to do it.
How dangerous it is.
"Mr. Meng, brothers have had enough. We have suffered a defeat now, so many people have died, and the food and grass have been burned. Do we still want to stay here? Tell my subordinates that we should return to Xucheng to rest.
Whether to attack again or have other plans, we will decide when the time comes. In the current situation, the morale of the army is weak and morale is low. It is not appropriate to toss the brothers here for two hundred cavalry." Li Yunqing, the leader of the Xucheng Branch Altar, suggested.
"No, no one is allowed to withdraw without my order. I will capture that boy Lin Jue, cut him into pieces, and chop him alive." Meng Xiang shouted angrily.
Li Yunqing frowned and said: "Meng Shoujiao, why do you have trouble with that kid? Now is not the time for us to act on impulse. Brothers can't stand it anymore. If this continues, I may not be able to restrain myself."
Meng Xiang turned his head and glared at Li Yunqing and said: "What, you can't restrain me? I don't think the people below can't restrain you, but you, Li Yunqing, are going to be unable to restrain you. I tell you, don't think that you have strangled five hundred forbidden troops and established a
Great merit. Then you can act arrogantly in front of me. In today's battle, you were timid and your performance was extremely poor. I gave you face without blaming you, but you must be self-aware. You must bear great responsibility for today's defeat."
Li Yunqing's face turned pale, his anger welled up, and he muttered: "I have no ability, so I'm the one to blame. Are you taking the blame for me? It's really unreasonable."
Meng Xiang heard this clearly and shouted sternly: "Master Li Tan, what did you say? Say it again? Do you want to commit a crime? Do you remember Article 19 of the teachings of our Qingjiao? Anyone who commits a crime will be punished as apostate. Do you want me?"
Cut off your head with a knife?"
Li Yunqing was originally a gangster on the street, but he mixed up with the Youth Cult and became the altar leader. Naturally, he had a bad temper. At this moment, he was tired and extremely dissatisfied with Meng Xiang, and he couldn't hold it in any longer.
So he retorted loudly: "Mr. Meng, you failed to attack the city yourself, but you put the responsibility on others. You are the leader, and tens of thousands of brothers followed you to attack the city. You can't even take a small county town, but you come to blame.
Others are really funny. If it were me, I would have won it a long time ago. You blame me for it. Victory and defeat are a common thing in military affairs. If you lose, you just need to regroup. But you treat your brothers as human beings. In this weather,
Being hungry and sleepy, I forced people to find the two hundred cavalrymen who were hiding somewhere to vent their anger. I finally figured it out. What the man surnamed Lin said was true. You wanted to kill him to silence him.
Don’t you think it’s better for him to shake your old foundation everywhere?”
Meng Xiang's body was shaken, and his eyes were fierce. He didn't expect that Li Yunqing would dare to say these words in public. This showed that Li Yunqing and the others had actually doubted the identity of himself and the leader of the village. This matter was more serious than anything else.
If the identity of the leader of the stronghold is exposed, how can the followers follow him? How can they confuse the people?
"Li Yunqing, you actually believe other people's rumors. It's just that you doubt my identity. Do you even dare to doubt the identity of the Holy Duke? I think you have eaten the heart of a bear and the gall of a leopard. You have drank too much feces and urine, and your brain has been damaged."
Alright." Meng Xiang shouted coldly.
Li Yunqing also realized that what he said was too much. He might be rude to Meng Xiang, but dragging the Shenggong into it would be a big trouble. So he smacked his lips and said: "I didn't say the Shenggong. In my mind, the Shenggong is like this."
A god-like existence, I just talk about things."
Meng Xiang sneered and said: "It's too late for you to change your words now. Li Yunqing, you disobeyed orders, committed rebellion, spread rumors and framed up the reputation of the Holy Duke, and deserved your death. Today, the Prime Minister of Japan will deal with you, the apostate devil, on behalf of the Holy Duke."
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Li Yunqing was shocked when he heard this. Before he could react, Meng Xiang quickly pulled out the large ring knife from his waist and split Li Yunqing in half from the shoulder and neck with just one blow. Suddenly, blood flowed all over the floor.
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"Ah!" The bandit Sakon screamed in fright.
Meng Xiang took back the big ring knife, spat at Li Yunqing's body, and shouted loudly: "Listen to me, whoever dares to disobey military orders will end up like this. Whoever dares to gossip will be punished for the rest of his life.
I can't say anything. Now, come and search for me. Anyone who dares to disobey will be killed without mercy."
Under Meng Xiang's despotic power, the believers dared not speak out and had no choice but to obey. Dozens of search teams slowly entered from both sides of the road into the sand dunes and swamps among the trees and thorns, and at first they walked aimlessly.
Search. Meng Xiang even sent several waves of men to climb to the nearby high hills and look down, trying to find traces of Lin Jue and others through this all-round search.
The sun is so strong that it makes people dizzy. The sand dunes are even more airtight among the trees. Entering them is like entering a steamer. The searching team of believers were fettered by the dense trees and thorns.
They were sweating and squirming in the trees. Mosquitoes were flying around them. The mosquitoes that had invaded their territory bit them unceremoniously, and even though they waved their hands to drive them away, they never flinched.
In a patch of woods to the north of the middle section of the Chidao, a religious slave led a dozen of his followers as they trudged forward on the black water-covered ground. They finally passed through a thorny woodland, and in front of them was a slightly thorny forest.
On the more open grassland, more than a dozen congregants breathed a long sigh of relief. They were finally free from the entanglement of those damn mosquitoes and spiky vines in the forest. A congregant walked forward quickly, but there was something under his feet.
There was a sound of bubbling water.
"Be careful, this is a swamp." A member of the congregation suddenly remembered the previous warnings from others. They said that the danger in this swamp was more terrifying than the thorns and poisonous insects in the woods. So he warned.
Unfortunately, his reminder came a little late. The congregant rushing in front suddenly felt that his whole body was sinking rapidly. In just a moment of confusion, less than half of his body was already sinking into the smelly water and sludge.
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"Ah, that's incredible." The congregant shouted in panic, raising his feet to try to get out. But his legs and feet seemed to be tightly held by something under the water. Not only could they not be pulled out at all, but they continued to sink.
The poisonous blisters burst and emitted an unpleasant stench. They soon sank to the waist.
"Save me!" the congregant shouted in panic.
"Don't move, don't move, we'll pull you up." The dozen or so bandits behind him panicked. One bandit took a few steps forward and tried to reach out to pull the bandit who was stuck in the quagmire. Suddenly,
Half of his own legs were also submerged in the water. The bandit opposite, who had already sunk to his waist, held on to his hand and dragged his entire body deeper and deeper.
At this time, everyone realized that they were actually in danger. Their feet could collapse at any time, and they themselves could fall into the quagmire at any time. After realizing this, the more than ten religious bandits behind them turned around and ran back.
. Followed the original footprints and returned to the woods. Only one bandit was left in the swamp, sunk to his waist in the mud, and another bandit who had his arm pulled and half of his body tilted in the mud.
