Qi Haoran waved his hand to let the soldiers enter the village in a defensive position. The village is not big, with only more than 60 households, but none of them survived.

Up to seventy-year-olds, down to two-year-old babies, and even pregnant women have not escaped the evil hands.

The incident should have happened at night, because most of the people died in their own houses or beds, and very few dead people were found on the road in the village.

The time of death was about two days ago. If it was during the day, the people in the village would not be able to stay together like this at home. There must be people going to the ground or going out.

And if all the people in the village were not killed, it would be unreasonable to have no one to deal with it after two days, so the biggest possibility is that the entire village, young and old, was not spared, and all of them were killed. , to be more precise, it should have been late at night.

The other party may be worried about being discovered, so he did not use fire to clean up the scene, but brought back a few corpses that fell not far from the village entrance and threw them into the house, and none of the others were moved.

The soldiers gathered all the corpses at the entrance of the village in silence, and lined up one after the other. It was obvious that they belonged to the family. They fell on the road in the village. The unidentified family was put aside first, until the When the lights were turned on at night, everyone searched the entire village. They even searched for the cellar, and indeed there was not a single survivor.

A soldier took a three or four-year-old child out of the cellar and couldn't help crying. The child was stabbed to death by a knife in the abdomen. The soldier found several baskets of fallen vegetables on his left. It was his family who hid him in the cellar, but he was still checked out...

The child's grandparents, parents and three uncles collapsed at the gate and in the hall. The door leading to the cellar was clean without a trace of blood. Obviously, his family did not run to the backyard, just to keep the murderer from noticing. The cellar in the backyard, but the child who was protected by the whole family still did not survive.

Everyone lit the torches and stood silently on the big flat at the entrance of the village.

Even Vice Admiral Zhong, who was used to bullying the common people, couldn't help but red-eyed and scolded: "These **** are simply inhumane, no wonder the court sent a large army to suppress them."

After hearing this, everyone had some hatred in their eyes, "Lieutenant General Zhong, let's go back and kill the bandits and avenge the common people."

Qi Haoran squatted on the ground to examine the body. Hearing this, he glared at him fiercely, then turned to Vice Admiral Zhong and said, "Who said this was done by bandits?"

"Who else is it not bandits? Could it be the army of our court?" Vice-General Zhong shouted in dissatisfaction when he saw Qi Haoran's questioning.

"There are more than 200 people in the village. There must be a lot of people on the other side for such a large-scale slaughter. I have rarely seen such a crazy murder case. It is impossible for a few or dozens of people to do such a big case. Apart from the army of the imperial court, there are only bandits, and this kind of crazy thing is not done by bandits, is it really possible that our colleagues did it?" A battalion chief shouted.

The soldiers were also filled with righteous indignation when they heard the words, and some even shouted: "General, take us back to fight the bandits. We will definitely be able to wipe out these gangsters and restore the people to a bright future."

Qi Haoran sneered, "If you want to return the people to a bright future, you have to fight not only bandits, but also foreign enemies."

Qi Haoran ripped open the chest of a corpse on the ground, revealing the hideous stab wound, and said, "Do you really think this person was killed by bandits? Don't forget, the villages we passed through before were all good, and the distance from there is far away. The bandit den is much closer."

"What do you mean by general?" Deputy General Zhong looked down at the wound, thinking of what Qi Haoran had just said, his face changed, and said, "This, is this what Hu people did?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed, and they watched the stab wound on the chest of the corpse on the ground with alertness, as if there were floods and beasts there.

Qi Haoran sighed and said: "It is hateful for bandits to rob their homes, but it is undeniable that they were all my Dazhou people before. Will slaughter the village, even the young and old?"

Qi Haoran saw everyone bowing their heads in deep thought, and said, "Among you, some of you who were soldiers in Hengzhou a few years ago should be no strangers to the local bandits. You can see that they are so cruel and mad?"

"Those bandits robbed passing merchants, robbed officials, and even stormed government offices, but they rarely robbed ordinary people, let alone murdered them."

"Yes, even Qi Shanzhai, which is hated by the worst people, will go down the mountain to grab the food and poultry raised by the common people. Every time they loot, they will not take away all the food. The more they go out, the more ruthless the bandits are, and they even directly slaughter the village. already."

"So, it's really not the bandits, but the Hu people?" A soldier said with a pale face: "Yes, but aren't we on Jinghu South Road? Why are there Hu people here? The pass is not only here, we Jinghu is the middle of the Great Zhou, right?"

The soldiers looked at Qi Haoran uncertainly, wanting to get his support, because these were what he told them. In the past, they didn't even know how many government offices there were on Jingnan Road, but Qi can teach them to recognize maps in the future. , but also to recognize the map of the Great Zhou Dynasty, these little guys who have just joined the army know that the Jingnan Road where they are located is the middle of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which is very prosperous.

Could it be that Qi Haoran actually taught the wrong thing, their Jingnan Road is actually not as far from the border as they thought, and the Hu people can slaughter their village as soon as they come in?

Qi Haoran sank into the water, of course he knew how far it was from the border gate, and it was because of this that his face became more and more ugly.

Vice Admiral Zhong also grabbed the arm of a battalion general with trembling hands and feet, and leaned half of his body on him, so he did not fall to the ground.

What happened next is not something that ordinary soldiers can listen to. Qi Haoran once again clearly told everyone that Jinghu Lake Road is in the middle of Dazhou and is not close to the border. As for why the Hu people can come to Jinghu to slaughter the village, and The reason for the massacre of the village remains to be investigated, but I have a vast land and abundant resources, and there are countless roads and small roads. Maybe those Hu people came from the small roads, so Qi Haoran asked everyone to take a break tonight and think about whether there are outsiders in their hometowns. Unknown paths lead to traffic arteries or something.

assigned tasks to everyone, and after diverting everyone's attention, Qi Haoran led a group of middle and upper-level leaders of the army into a house.

Feibai asked people to stay outside, went to the kitchen to bring a pot of water and went back to add boiled water for everyone, Qi Haoran was saying: "... This matter must be notified to the court and the various troops as soon as possible, so that everyone is careful to guard against the barbarians, and there are also border gates. We're going to send more staff."

Vice-General Zhong poured himself a large sip of water and asked, "General, are you sure this is what the Hu people did? Maybe it was a vendetta or something, you must know that this place is so far from the border, and the imperial court has a 200,000-strong army in Jinghu Lake. road...."