The Reborn Wife is Farming

"This is the most dangerous," Qi Haoran flashed an angry look on his face, "Xixia's army is equipped with a kind of broadsword. I have fought against their soldiers before, and I know the inertia of wounds caused by that kind of knife. There are more than two hundred people in the village. No. If there are only a few people, it can be said to be a coincidence, but more than two hundred people, including children, all suffered the same kind of knife wounds, and the moves are all from the Xixia army. You tell the general, this may be a vendetta , or an accident?"

Lieutenant Zhong's hands trembled, and he couldn't help covering his face. He didn't want to admit this fact. If it was true, it meant that the foreign enemy had already opened the gate of their house and rushed to the second courtyard. The owner and family members who lived in the third entrance still lived as usual without knowing it. No, maybe the foreign enemies not only rushed to the second entrance, but they might even sneak into their backyard in disguise.

Thinking of this, Lieutenant Zhong shuddered.

Qi Haoran's heart trembled as well, but he was never a person who avoided difficulties. On the contrary, the more difficult the situation was, the stronger and calmer he was.

No matter how much thought and calculation he had before, when facing the invasion of foreign enemies, any bandit suppression, military control, or even rebellion, all have to temporarily step aside.

If he is left alone, what is the difference between him and the Tartars, and the royal family of the Great Zhou that he despises? At this time, nothing is more important than resisting foreign humiliation.

Qi Haoran raised his eyes to look at everyone, and seeing the timidity in their eyes, he knew that they were afraid of fighting against the barbarians, and they still had illusions about this matter, so he said: "The cost of Xixia knives is not low, if it is not Xixia people, then what is there in this village?" It's worth it for them to do this? Besides, why did they pretend to be Xixia people? Isn't it best to blame the bandits at this time? There are so many bandits on Jinghu South Road, even if the Yamen has doubts, can they check them one by one, or Is it because the investigation failed with all their strength? Therefore, the incident happened suddenly, and the other party obviously had no time to think about it, and they couldn't even stop it. What is shown now is the most real. They dare not burn the corpses and destroy the evidence because they are afraid of attracting people from nearby villages. And they can't guarantee that they can clear all the traces, and they are in a hurry, they just want to leave the scene as soon as possible..."

Qi Haoran met everyone's eyes, and said word by word: "This is what the Xixia people did."

"In order to suppress the bandits, the Holy Lord dispatched troops from all walks of life to support them. The troops dispatched from Jingnan South Road may not only be the garrisons on the southwest and northwest main roads, but also the garrisons guarding the border. I don't know if the Xixia soldiers bypassed the garrison's sight. Or go straight ahead. Anyway, now a Xixia army has arrived at our place. People in this village may have discovered them, or it may be that the existence of this village blocked their way, so they were massacred. Now we have five days I can't get the latest news from the court..."

Qi Haoran couldn't go on talking about this, and sighed: "I'm all to blame for this matter. In order to avoid the pursuit of bandits, I took everyone to hide in Tibet. I can only go to ordinary people for information. After all, the information they know is limited. Now I don't know what the situation at the border is like..."

"General, I can't blame you for this matter. We only have such a small number of people. Most of Jingnan Road is occupied by bandits. If you didn't lead us, we would have been torn apart by those bandits." Dao, and another one followed closely: "General, if you have any ideas, just say it, we all listen to you, anyway, we knew it before we became soldiers, and it would be difficult to go back alive, and we had already picked up it before." One life, this life is yours, if you can fight a barbarian before you die, it is not in vain to come to this world."

"Yes, aren't they the barbarians? We did it with them." A camp manager slapped the table and shouted.

Three of the five battalion commanders expressed their views, and the other two looked at Lieutenant Zhong hesitantly, opened their mouths, but still lowered their heads and said nothing.

Qi Haoran looked at Vice General Zhong, who took a deep breath, bitter in his heart, but said firmly on his face: "As long as there is definite evidence to prove that this matter was done by Xi Xia, the last general will also be dispatched by the general, and Xi Xia will not die. endlessly!"

Qi Haoran nodded and said: "I have surveyed the traces in the village, and there should be no less than 500 of them. With so many people walking all the way from the border to here, it is impossible not to show any traces, so we just need to look carefully. , traces will definitely be found."

"My subordinates have also surveyed the entrance and exit, and they can barely see some traces, but they can't be seen at all farther away. Either the various traces overlap, or they have disappeared. This place is still like this, let alone time. It's been a while longer."

Qi Haoran took out the map and said: "Based on the situation of this village as a reference, they should follow the big roads and the small roads, and avoid places with a lot of population. Avenue, this village is only two days away from Tongren, Tongren is very small, and the terrain is dangerous in some places, and there are only two small roads extending from this village, send people along these two roads to see if they can Find any traces."

Qi Haoran looked at Deputy General Zhong, and said: "If the investigation finds out that this matter is really a vendetta killing as you said, or killing people for other interests or conflicts, and only targeting people in this village, I will feel sorry for the people in the village , but will still be happy, because we have avoided a disaster in Dazhou."

Deputy General Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, but fortunately Qi Haoran was not stubborn.

Early the next morning, Qi Haoran sent two teams to investigate along the two selected trails. In order to prevent someone from intentionally fabricating or concealing evidence, Qi Haoran mixed up those who were loyal to him and those who were partial to Vice Admiral Zhong. Together, let them supervise each other.

After they left, Qi Haoran asked people to dig more than 60 large pits not far from the village, planning to bury all the corpses. The weather was hot at this time, and the corpses decomposed quickly, although they had only died for two days , but the smell of carrion was already in the air.

Qi Haoran originally wanted to burn it clean, but seeing the family lined up together, Qi Haoran felt that burying the family together might be the only comfort for them after death.

So Qi Haoran ordered to dig more than 60 big holes, one for each family.

The people who were left alone before were identified after they found the genealogy and household registration of each family. When they buried all the people, the deputy general Zhong who stayed behind in the village also took the whole village and scraped it. Everything that can be eaten and used is concentrated in Daping.

Seeing that Qi Haoran's expression was not very good, Deputy General Zhong immediately explained: "These things will rot if kept, why not support the soldiers, besides, don't we want to find revenge for their murderers? The whole thing is considered as a reward. "

Qi Haoran snorted coldly, and said: "Did you say no to it? But you gather your things here, what if it rains? It's because we don't like the moldy rice we ate these days, so we plan to make another batch." ?”

Deputy General Zhong immediately asked someone to move the food to a larger room, and put other supplies in each room separately.

Qi Haoran stood at the window and watched for a while, then turned around and sat on the chair, looking down at the small token in his hand.

Fei Bai was puzzled and said: "Master, why don't you take this thing out? If you take it out, who would suspect that it wasn't done by Xixia? We still need to go to great lengths to find evidence and traces."