After the immortal disappeared

Chapter 270 General Hong and Bailu Town

Standing by the side, Dan Youjun said: "I heard that it took nearly a hundred years for the Mian Kingdom to be established. These royal families are incapable of doing anything else, and they give birth to many and fast offspring. After more than a hundred years of development, there are definitely more than 30,000 or 40,000 people."

"These are the royal relatives who died in and around the capital, as well as their relatives, slaves, etc."

Well, he forgot that powerful and wealthy people are usually more fertile than mice. "You have really long legs. Why don't you go to the battle of Bega Kingdom?"

"This is a task assigned by the Imperial Guard. It must be done." The prisoner lowered his head. "The battle like last night happened between you and the people of Xunzhou. I was only sent here as an envoy from the Bejia Kingdom to collect nightmares. Angry. However, the amount collected is pitifully small."

"Are you dissatisfied with the number of people who die?" Jiao Tai sneered, raised his hand and punched him in the belly, "What a bastard!"

The prisoner was beaten until he was retching, and Shan Youjun scolded his companions: "Nonsense, my boss is asking questions!"

He Lingchuan's focus was on the four words "pitifully few":

"Pitifully little, what do you mean?"

"At least nearly two hundred people died last night." The prisoner finally regained his breath. "Logically speaking, I should have collected at least a hundred red lights - you also saw them - but it was very few, at most ten. .Otherwise I wouldn’t have stayed here so long!”

"Less?" He Lingchuan rolled his eyes slightly, "Hasn't this happened before?"

The prisoner shook his head.

In other words, is there anything here that prevents the Dragon Punishment Staff from salvaging the "Nightmare Qi"?

At least from the outside, Xinhuang Town is an ordinary town.

He changed the subject: "Don't the people of Xunzhou know your purpose?"

The prisoner shook his head.

"But they asked you to follow them." Nian Zanli defected to the Bejia Kingdom, also known as the Northern Demon Kingdom, so there was obviously no reason to refuse the envoy sent by the latter. "So, do you know who the general was who attacked Bailu Town?"

"He was originally a general of the Bejia Kingdom. His name was Hong Chenglue. He had made countless military exploits. Some of the nightmare energy I collected came from the battles he launched." The prisoner's voice was hoarse and he reached for water again.

"give him."

After drinking water to moisten his throat, the prisoner continued: "Later, he avoided war and lived in seclusion. I haven't heard any rumors about him for a long time. I don't know what happened to him this time. He came out to lead the Xiazhou Rangers again. .”

"He made the sneak attack plan?"

"Yes. Xunzhou Mu ordered all the rangers here to obey his command."

"You know where the den they were lurking before is, right?"

"I've been there, but, I'm not familiar with Xiazhou. I can't go back after I leave." The prisoner muttered: "I knew they had a stronghold in the north of Bailu Town. It seemed to be a forest farm there. I was there too. That’s where I met Hong Chenglue.”

"Have they discussed what they will do if the sneak attack fails?" When planning any attack, a failure plan must be prepared in advance.

The prisoner shook his head repeatedly: "I don't know. They discussed the battle plan and didn't let me participate."

"Also, why did the puppet master Dong Rui act with the Xunzhou Rangers?" He Lingchuan was puzzled, "Isn't he a wanted criminal in the Bejia Kingdom?"

"Well, I heard that he can get amnesty as long as he participates in our operation."

He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows: "Oh? He has committed a serious crime, can he be pardoned?"

The prisoner said: "I don't know the details."

"Does Manager He know what you said?"

Before the prisoner could answer, Shan Youjun already said: "The only ones who have heard the confession are my boss and us."

He Lingchuan smiled slightly, knowing that Shan Youjun was showing his loyalty: "Okay."

Next, he went to find He Chunhua and recount his newfound love.

Hearing that the Bejia Kingdom sent people to collect "Nightmare Qi" and go back to transcendence, He Chunhua sneered: "You're lying to fools? You would do this if there is no profit?"

"I think so too." Sure enough, they are not a family, and they don't enter the same house. "But these people sent by Bega seem to believe it themselves."

"The most brilliant scam is to not even spare one's own people." He Chunhua ridiculed, "What's more, after five hundred years of cultivation, as long as the tradition is like this, no matter how stupid it is, the Bejia people themselves will not question it. .”

He held up the short stick handed over by He Lingchuan and observed it repeatedly, and rubbed it several times. When the eldest son started talking about "Hong Chenglue", he put the short staff into his arms and behaved very naturally.

He Lingchuan frowned secretly, but since his father wanted this short staff, he seemed to have no reason to object.

"Hong Chenglue? I've heard of this name before." He Chunhua looked thoughtful, "He is good at using his troops and comes and goes like the wind. It is not Xiazhou's blessing to have such an opponent. Well, it's best to be able to defeat him during this march. Lure him out and kill him, otherwise letting him cause trouble behind the northern front will always be a big disaster."

He looked at He Lingchuan and suddenly said: "Chuan'er, your men Mao Tao and Shan Youjun are both good at spying on information. Please go to Bailu Town for me. I need more information about Hong Chenglue."

Xiazhou Army will stay here until tomorrow morning, so there is plenty of time. He Lingchuan agreed immediately and ordered people when he left the tent.

Among these subordinates, Shan Youjun has become more prominent recently, and He Lingchuan takes him with him everywhere. The old man Maotao was dissatisfied. Hearing that his boss was going to Bailu Town, he said without waiting for the assignment: "Take me, take me! I have to come to deal with the country folk and sluts."

He Lingchuan smiled and added Jiao Tai to complete the three pillars. When going to a foreign land to inquire about information, it never hurts to bring more people.

Lingguang also jumped on the horse's butt, sitting more securely than a human being. As for a scary monster like the Rock Wolf, just leave it in the camp.

Everyone headed west.

Another stranger came to Bailu Town, and the townspeople looked at him with caution and unfamiliarity.

He Lingchuan and others came from the east, and they could find lying corpses along the way. Most of them were wearing Xiazhou military uniforms, and some had been eaten by coyotes and other wild beasts.

By the time they entered Bailu Town, the temporary camp set up by the Xiazhou Army had already been burned to charcoal, with corpses scattered everywhere.

Wu Shaoyi was driven away at that time and never came back. It was impossible for the Xunzhou soldiers to deal with the aftermath, so the bodies of the Xiazhou soldiers were still exposed in the open air. When He Lingchuan and others arrived, they scared away many crows and sneaky wild dogs in the forest.

Everyone inspected the battlefield, but no one was found alive. Some of the corpses had obviously been stabbed. It was obvious that Hong Chenglue's team had done their job very carefully and no one was missed.

The method he used here was similar to what Bai Liqing used in Xinhuang. He first blew up the leader and then beat up the mob. Wu Shaoyi lost half of the group before he could react.

As for the second half, given the current quality and level of the Xunzhou army, it is difficult to keep it.

According to the feedback given to He Lingchuan by Shan Youjun and others, more than half of the dead had fatal injuries on their backs. In other words, they were killed when they turned around and fled for their lives, and could not even organize a decent resistance.

Of course the food and grass were burned cleanly. However, Maotao still found fresh footprints next to the grain truck. These footprints were on the burned charcoal ash. They obviously appeared after the battle.

Moreover, they are the shoe prints of civilians.

This means that the people of Bailu Town have entered the battlefield, looked for something edible and useful, and left again.

Unable to find any more useful information on the battlefield, He Lingchuan entered the town.

Unexpectedly, except for five or six houses near the temporary camp that were affected, Bailu Town did not suffer much damage. The bun shop in the town opened in the morning, and the shopkeepers were making multigrain noodles, and the streetwalkers were still walking around.

When He Lingchuan and others arrived, the townspeople stayed away from them, their eyes extremely cold.

He cooed at Mao Tao, who understood and went to the bun shop.

The others walked around the town for half a circle, and Shan Youjun whispered: "I see that the doors and windows of the houses here are all complete, and they have not been robbed."

People in Xunzhou don’t rob civilians? What a weird thing.

These rangers go deep behind enemy lines and don't have much supplies themselves. They usually grab and eat wherever they go.

Whose to rob? Those who rob civilians and local wealthy households euphemistically call it fighting to support war.

But everything is fine in Bailu Town. Could it be that the Xunzhou people had enough by relying on the food and grass in Wu Shaoyi's camp yesterday?

Jiao Tai pointed to a door in the alley and said, "Who said that? Look at this house."

The two ebony doors of this house are quite impressive, and it should be a prestigious entrance in the local area. There was even a plaque on the lintel, but half of it had been smashed down. The door was open and there was no one around, so anyone could come in or out.

Jiao Tai went in and slipped out after a while:

"The place inside was in a mess and had been robbed. The worthless items were also beaten to pieces, and there were blood stains and hair on the ground."

He Lingchuan nodded and ordered his men to spread around to find out the news.

He himself also found people to ask, but the townspeople he met kept their distance from him. As soon as he got close to someone, he would run away, or he would shake his head and say, "I don't know, I really didn't see anything."

He touched his face. He was such a handsome guy. Could he look as ferocious as Rock Wolf Lu Xin?

Later, he saw a six-year-old boy with a big head and a small body graffiti in the alley. The "works" on the wall were all drawn with long charcoal strips.

Um? Charcoal strips?

He Lingchuan walked over and put on the friendly expression of Grandma Wolf: "Little friend, where did you pick up these charcoal sticks?"

The boy turned around when he heard the sound, looked at him warily, said nothing but didn't run away either.

"Do you want some candy?" He Lingchuan poked Ling Guang with his finger, and the latter reluctantly took out a paper-wrapped candy from his medicine pocket and handed it to the child.

The child snatched the candy, peeled it off with charcoal hands and stuffed it into his mouth. He pointed in the direction of the camp with his other hand and said, "I picked it up there."

"The robbers came last night. Did they enter the town to steal anything?"

The child shook his head.

He Lingchuan asked him again: "Do you recognize those robbers?"

The child was silent, his eyes were rolling, and he was obviously using his brain.

Lingguang didn't need his boss' reminder, so he took out another candy and dangled it in front of his eyes. The child reaches out to grab it, but where can he catch it?

It's not easy to be more flexible than a monkey.

"There are plenty of candies." Ling Guang is too stingy and should take out a handful, "As long as you tell the truth."

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