Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 418 Yisha Village

Fuzhou is more than [-] miles away from the capital.

The Onmyoji Division was destroyed by Zhewei Xingjun, and the Qianmo Building was gone. Tao Huayuan, Han Chen, Tong Qingqiu and other Onmyoji masters alternately used magic circles along the way, and brought Xu Zhiqiong and thirty lantern-hands to Luohuai County, Fuzhou. .

This time the Xianyi River broke its embankment, Luohuai County was the most damaged. Xu Zhiqiong knew that the situation here was very bad, but he didn't expect it to be this bad.

Unexpectedly, the worst thing was not the flood!

Xu Zhiqiong beheaded three officials, and the remaining one was hooked by the jaw.

It was only at this time that the horn sounded, and more officials were soon attracted.

Xu Zhiqiong hung the official on a tree with an iron hook, and ordered the lamp bearer to hold the lamp.

Zhu Fuxing, the green lantern man, tapped the light box, and twenty-four red lights circled in the air, illuminating the country road at the entrance of the village.

Zheng Qi, the county magistrate, led more than a hundred officials and rushed over with weapons in hand.

This county magistrate Zheng has never been to the capital, nor has he seen Lantern Lantern, and he doesn't know what these red lights are for.

He only saw Xu Zhiqiong and others in casual clothes, so he regarded them as a group of mobs.

Zheng Xiancheng has a brave temperament, seeing that Xu Zhiqiong has not many people, he directly asked the officials to come forward to surround him, and took out Luohuai County's unique formation method, called the "strangling formation".

It is said that this formation is the most effective against troublemakers and mobs. It has killed countless mobs with corpses strewn all over the ground, blood flowing like rivers.

The essence of the formation is: the one with the saber walks in front, slashes head-on, defeats the enemy directly, and prevents counterattack.

Those with long spears surrounded the two wings, forming a net to prevent escape.

Nine-rank and above officials are in the rear, commanding and supervising the battle to prevent injuries.

Meng Shizhen saw that the opponent still had the formation, pulled out his saber, and showed a ferocious smile: "Damn it, it's been a long time since I returned to the capital, let's exercise my muscles and bones today!"

Li Pu'an said: "Old Zhu, don't interfere, let me kill two more!"

Zhu Fuxing was in charge of controlling the red light, he turned his head and glanced at Xu Zhiqiong, Xu Zhiqiong didn't make a sound, it was a tacit approval.

In the first round of battle, no lanterns from the sky were used, and the thirty lantern bearers did not line up. After a short battle, more than forty officials were hacked and killed.

More than [-] officials, more than [-]% died, and the officials immediately fled.

It's so easy to escape, Xu Zhiqiong took Lantern Lang and chased after him in the blink of an eye.

Seeing the urgency of the situation, Zheng Qi, the county magistrate, quickly adjusted the formation, changing the "strangling formation" to the "avoiding formation".

This formation is mainly used when the mob is extremely brave, the purpose is to avoid their edge, Xu Tu gradually approached.

The essence of the formation is: the one with the spear rushes forward to prevent someone from blocking the way of escape.

At the rear of the palace with the saber, the pursuers are approaching, and they can turn around at any time to block.

Officials of the ninth rank and above are in the middle, with protection on the front and back to prevent injuries.

But the officials at the back of the palace couldn't help beating, and were killed by Meng Shizhen until they cried like ghosts and wolves.

The long spear team in front couldn't run fast enough, and Xu Zhiqiong led people to rush to the front and blocked the way.

At a critical juncture, Zheng Qi, the county magistrate, changed to a new formation.

This formation is called the "benevolence formation", which mainly shows the tolerance and tolerance of the family of officials and people.

The essence of the formation is: officials of rank nine and above are at the forefront, with a sincere attitude and a clear stand to prevent injuries.

The remaining soldiers, regardless of their spears or knives, immediately threw them on the ground, and their movements were uniform to prevent misunderstandings and injuries to officials.

There are also three key points in the formation: one is to touch the ground with the knees, the other is to stick the hands to the ground, and the third is to touch the forehead to the ground. While touching the ground, shout loudly to deter the enemy.

"Grandpa, spare your life!"

"Grandpa, spare your life!"

This county magistrate was indeed fierce, with a particularly loud voice, which made Xu Zhiqiong's eardrum hurt from shouting.

"Grandpa, please forgive me, Grandpa..."

Xu Zhiqiong kicked the county magistrate in the face, covered his mouth with the sole of his shoe, and asked, "Are you the county magistrate?"

Zheng Qi straightened his chest, and said righteously: "I am not the county magistrate, I am the magistrate, and I always obey the magistrate's orders!"

Xu Zhiqiong grabbed the county magistrate, questioned him alone, turned around and told Lantern Lang: "Take good care of the colleagues who are ninth grade and above, hang them up with iron hooks, put them under the chin, and hang them on the tree."

The iron hook pierced the chin, which was one of the most painful places. All officials, big and small, wailed and begged for mercy: "Grandpa, please, please spare our lives!"

Meng Shizhen touched the iron hook and said, "When you were guarding this intersection, why didn't you say to spare the lives of those common people?"

"We all listen to the magistrate's orders, let us do whatever we want!"

Meng Shizhen grabbed a ninth-rank master book named Fan, and touched his chin: "It hurts to be hooked here. If I lift the hook up an inch, I will make a mark on your face, and I will put it on again." If you tie it up, it won't hurt so much, and it doesn't count as a violation of our Qianhu's order."

"Grandpa, you are a good person, I beg you to raise your head one inch, you are my great benefactor, I kowtow to you!" Master Fan kowtowed bang bang.

Meng Shizhen laughed loudly: "If the common people are in front of you, and you can raise the edge of your knife an inch, I will spare you!"

"I lifted an inch, more than an inch, and I let go of many people. This is true!"

"Really?" Meng Shizhen grabbed Master Fan's hair, walked through the fence, and entered the village, "Thief prisoner, don't lie, I will ask later to see if there are any people who can testify for you."

Meng Shizhen walked more than a hundred steps into the village and saw a dead body.

Starting from this corpse, Meng Shizhen could see the corpse every ten steps.

After walking for more than three hundred steps, Meng Shizhen finally saw a living person.

The man was lying next to a collapsed house, with no blood on his face, and he looked no different from a corpse.

But the moment he saw Mr. Fan, the man immediately jumped up and ran away, shouting: "Fan Zhaigua, Fan Zhaigua!"

Meng Shizhen grabbed the official and said, "What does he mean by Fan picking melons?"

Master Fan shook his head again and again and said, "I, I, I don't know, there are so many troublesome people here, who knows what he said..."

Meng Shizhen stepped forward to catch the fleeing villager, and asked, "What did you say, Fan Caigua?"

The villager cried out: "He, he is Fan Caigua under the county magistrate. He cut off his head when he saw anyone running for his life. Beheading was faster than picking melons. I was about to starve to death. I didn't want to run for my life. How could I?" I didn't go either, I just lay down under that house, Grandpa, please spare my life!"

Meng Shizhen grabbed Master Fan and said, "Fan Caigua, you lied to me just now."

Master Fan cried, "Grandpa, I'm not that kind of person, I always listen to the magistrate..."

Meng Shizhen hooked Fan Caigua's chin with an iron hook and hung him on a tree: "I'll let you down when your melon is fully ripe."

Master Fan wailed repeatedly.

Meng Shizhen ignored it, and took a look into the distance with the lantern.

He saw a lot of dead bodies.

He saw that under the broken bricks, there were some people who were about to turn into corpses.

He saw the crows eating the corpses, and some crows couldn't wait any longer, and directly slammed their mouths at the people who were not dead.

There are also some people who have a little strength, and they are like crows, slamming their mouths at the dead and those who are still alive.

"Damn it, damn it..." Meng Shizhen scolded a few words. For him, this scene only felt uncomfortable, not shocking. He had seen too much on the battlefield.

But he felt really uncomfortable, this is not a battlefield, this is Daxuan, these people are Xuan people living in the land of Daxuan!

Meng Shizhen was about to go back the same way with a lantern in his hand, but he ran into Xu Zhiqiong just two steps away.

Xu Zhiqiong grabbed the county magistrate and glanced at the miserable scene in the village. Guan Xicheng said from the side: "Yisha Village is considered good. The Helong Village in front is low-lying. People are soaked in mud and standing on high places. Look at it, you can't tell whether it is a person or mud, some people are just buried in the mud, and slowly turn into mud."

"Look at it from a high place?" Xu Zhiqiong said, "Is there still a high place?"

"Yes! There is a barren hill next to Helong Village. Gao Shengchang, the prefect of Fuzhou, led the state officials and stood on the hillside, watching the people of Helong Village soaking in the mud with their own eyes.

I begged him to release the people, he said that there will be epidemics after the disaster, and the release will spread the epidemics.

I said that at least I should put him on the hillside and take care of him, so I can't just soak in it like this. He said let me know the severity and the general situation,

What can I say that can weigh more than human life?What can be greater than human life?

He scolded me for half an hour, and I still haven't understood what he basically said. "

Xu Zhiqiong remained silent.

Meng Shizhen remembered what Xu Zhiqiong said when he killed Liang Yuming: "This is basically a group of shameless people who have done shameless things and then used shameless means to cover them up!"

Guan Xicheng seemed to have realized something.

Xu Zhiqiong said to Han Chen: "See how many people are still saved?"

Han Chen led a few onmyojis from the beginning of the village to the end of the village, there were about forty more people.

Walking to the other side of the village, where there were also guards, Xu Zhiqiong and Meng Shizhen hacked and killed all the guards, leaving only one alive, and asked: "There are so many of you, why are you guarding this village?"

The officer lowered his head and said, "This is the order of the county magistrate, and we don't know."

Xu Zhiqiong cut off one of the official's ears: "I didn't hear clearly, can you say it again?"

The officer wailed: "We are not only guarding this one village, there are five villages connected at the intersection over there, and we will stay at the intersection. The county magistrate said that the lives of these five villages are hard, and they will not die of hunger for so many days. Let us hold on to it and not let anyone live!"

Xu Zhiqiong looked at the magistrate and said, "Is what he said true?"

The county magistrate nodded and said, "It's the magistrate's order."

Xu Zhiqiong said again: "Why don't you kill everyone? Isn't it all silence anyway?"

The county magistrate said: "The magistrate has ordered that this is a natural disaster. We can't do anything to the people. We are the parents and officials..."

Xu Zhiqiong kicked him on the mouth.

The county magistrate wiped the blood and mud from the corner of his mouth, straightened his chest, and knelt in front of Xu Zhiqiong.

Xu Zhiqiong asked again: "Do you county magistrates usually live in the county government office?"

"The county government also lives there, but there are also other places."

"Another place, what is it?"

Zheng Xiancheng smiled proudly: "It's hard to say, I was cultivated by the county magistrate..."

Xu Zhiqiong patched his mouth again.

"The magistrate is kind to me! Don't force me too much!" The county magistrate looked at Xu Zhiqiong with red eyes, and tears were about to flow out. "Unless you let me live, the magistrate's family will be old." Where is Xiaohe's gold and silver treasure, I will not tell you!"

Xu Zhiqiong stepped on the county magistrate's face: "You know where he hides food, right?"

The county magistrate nodded with difficulty.

After cleaning up all the officials in the village, Xu Zhiqiong ordered someone to hook the county magistrate with an iron hook. He didn't hook his mouth, for fear of affecting his speech, he hooked his shoulder first and let him lead the way.

The rest of the officials were all hung on the tree, and there were still dozens of officials still alive. Xu Zhiqiong decided to find a few who had less than two inches of criminal karma to be coolies first, and kill the rest.

After the inspection, the rest of the officials were all killed. They didn't have one under two inches, not even three inches!
Xu Zhiqiong assigned his staff, leaving two onmyojis and two lantern masters to treat survivors in Yisha Village.

The rest were handed over to Han Chen and Meng Shizhen, who cleaned up the officials in the surrounding villages and tried their best to treat the villagers.

Tao Huayuan told Xu Zhiqiong that four of the five members of the family were rescued just now.

The child was saved, and so were the child's parents.

The old woman is still alive, but the old man cannot be saved.

Before he left, the old man took a mouthful of pancakes, but he couldn't swallow them, so he left...

Xu Zhiqiong and Tao Huayuan are going to the county magistrate's house to borrow some food, money, and manpower from him. By the way, let him translate what is natural disaster and what is general knowledge.

(End of this chapter)