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Chapter 172 Wu Sanniang

After a chase to the north, the dust settled and many people were killed and captured. After interrogating Lawang Dorji, it was discovered that most of the camp was composed of green soldiers led by Xu Ji. They wore flag-soldier armor and pretended to be elites in order to delay time and capture Wang Lun in the city.

Zhao Zhen asked: "Why are you obsessed with capturing Wang Lun?" What Lawang Dorji said opened Zhao Zhen's eyes.

Lawang Dorji hesitated for a while, looked at Guang Hui's chanting of human bones and beads, and said: "This righteous man, this Wang Lun successively occupied Shouzhang, fell into Yang Valley, occupied Tangyi, and again in Liulin Da Defeat Xu Ji, the governor of Shandong. It doesn't matter. It's just that someone reported the Qingshui Sect's prophecy to the current emperor and said, "Wang's surname is added in white," and he declared to the outside world that "the leader of the Yuan Dynasty is the true purple star." Therefore, as long as Wang Lun is captured and killed, no matter how many people die, it will be a meritorious service."

Just as he was talking, the shouts of killing in the city became more and more fierce. Looking from a distance, a fire broke out in Wang's mansion. Before Zhao Zhen and others could speak, Lawang Dorji laughed loudly and said to Zhao Zhen: "Righteous soldier, now that Wang Lun is dead, you can't wait for rescue, so you should surrender..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Zhen signaled Guang Hui to take action. Guang Hui raised a knife and chopped off Lawang Dorji's head, and it fell to the ground with a look of astonishment on his face.

As the fire burned, voices everywhere in the city shouted: "Kill the dog and avenge the leader."

Zhao Zhen looked at Wu Yong, who nodded. Zhao Zhen shouted loudly: "Everyone, advance towards the fire in the city and pay attention to protecting yourself from stray arrows."

Zhu Gui led the green battalion soldiers with muskets as the lead, followed by Chao Gai and Guang Hui with the Pu Dao team. Everyone used the door panels as shields and selected eight people from the green battalion, wearing double layers of cotton armor and holding long bamboo poles. Carrying the heads of Lawang Dorji, Chunning, Xu Kun, Batu Bao, Wan Chaoxing, Marqing'a, Xianhelin, and Yinjitu, they went ahead and shouted along the way: "The rebels killed so-and-so and defeated everyone." Road reinforcements.”

Bao Xu was left to lead [Chongfengdu] to guard the city gate, while Zhao Zhen and others rode horses to follow Luan Tingyu and others as the rear team.

Zhao Zhen saw that the fire was a little smaller, so he asked people to find long sticks and knock down the building. Then everyone poured water together, and after two or three rounds, the fire was finally put out.

Eyewitnesses said that the leader set himself on fire, his clothes, beard and hair were burnt, but he was still sitting upright, so the person sitting cross-legged was Wang Lun.

Zhao Zhen called a parishioner and asked, "Where did Qing Gou go?"

As Wang Lun's last resting place, Zhao Zhen did not dare to be careless and had the burnt corpses brought out of the building for the parishioners to identify one by one.

There was also a jade seal that Wang Lun carried with him as evidence, and then Wang Lun's body was confirmed. Zhao Zhen took the jade seal and saw that the seal was carved from white jade made of mutton fat. It was moist and beautiful, and the jade was hard and dense, pure and flawless. The button is a high-relief sculpture of a creeping tiger looking back, with a ferocious image, and is engraved with the words "Shouyuan Cult Leader, True Purple Micro Star".

The man pointed to the north and said mournfully: "When the Qing dogs saw that the leader of the church burned himself to death, they all went north towards the new city."

Zhao Zhe turned to Luan Tingyu and Deng Fei and nodded, and they led the troops in pursuit.

Seeing this situation, Wu Yong said: "Master of the village, we can ask Luan Tingyu and Deng Fei to lead the pursuit, so that the Qing army cannot retreat calmly."

There was no Qing army blocking the route. It seemed that the Qing army had acquiesced that the operation had failed and only wanted to get rid of Wang Lun. By the time everyone arrived at Wang's mansion, hundreds of church members had gathered around, each holding buckets and wooden basins and pouring water to put out the fire. It's just that the fire was so fierce that it couldn't be extinguished by the wind. If it burned for such a long time, the people inside would definitely be dead.

As the leader shouted, from time to time in the abandoned houses along the way, religious people with their heads wrapped in white scarves and holding broadswords and spears joined Zhao Zhen's army. Zhao Zhen was afraid of disturbing the military formation, so he asked them to lead the way in front of the Green Camp Army.

Although it is only of the first level, it is actually the same as the Tianzheng Seal. It is also an imitation of the Emperor's Seal, gathering treasures of luck.

After some rummaging, three more county seals were found among the ashes. They were all cast in bronze and were the seals of Shouzhang, Yanggu and Tangyi counties. Most of the several weapons were in shape. Only a second-order [wrong silver wild goose wing sword] remained intact. This was the sword used by Wang Lun's nephew Zhang Bailu. The rest of the items were burned.

Zhao Zhen saw that the faces of these religious people were sad, so he asked someone if there were any key leaders of the religion among them. After asking around, he found that these were ordinary members of the church. The backbone of heroes, brave men, and skilled in qigong and boxing sticks were all there. He suffered many casualties in the battle with the Qing army. Several religious people came forward and said: "This leader, there is a compound not far from here, where Qinggou Shuhede's commander's tent is located. Perhaps, all the captured key members of the religion are here."

Zhao Zhen heard this and asked Chao Gai to preside over it, count the people and search for useful things.

Zhao Zhen asked these people to lead the way, and together with Guang Hui, Wu Yong, Ji Minghan and Ji Minglian, they went to Shu Hede's garrison under the escort of fifty people with Pu Dao soldiers.

Pushing open the house, I saw that there were indeed many traces of the soldiers staying in this house. After searching for it, I found the skeleton corpses of the rebels in the east courtyard. Except for Li San, Yan Liu, Li Wang, and Wang Wang, the backbone of the rebel army who were later captured were all killed here.

After identification, Military Advisor Fan Wei, Marshal Meng Can, Brave Pioneer Wang Jinglong, Black Tiger Hand Wang Weiquan, Sword God Yang Wu, Pu Dao Marshal Yan Cihu, Liu Tao, Wu Qinglin, Wang Pu, Wang Jun, Wang Zhu, Wang Youheng, Wang Youcheng , Wang Youde and others were all killed.

After questioning, the cultivator said: "Chief, there is another backbone of the cult, called Flying Sword Immortal Wu Sanniang, and his deputy are not here."

Zhao Zhen asked: "Has anyone seen it?"

Seeing everyone shaking their heads, Wu Yong said: "Master, this matter is not urgent. There are no Qing troops in the old city now. We can clean up quickly and stabilize it first."

After hearing this, Zhao Zhen nodded and ordered everyone to collect the corpses in the Dongkua courtyard and make it clear to the parishioners that they were afraid that the Qing army would dig up the graves and kill the corpses, and burn them all together with Wang Lun's corpse, and throw the bones into the canal.

Seeing that none of the parishioners objected, Zhao Zhen ordered everyone to tear down a lot of wood, pile it up and light it, and burned it together with the corpses of the parishioners.

As for the corpses of the Qing soldiers, they were stripped naked and thrown into the canal.

Zhao Zhen had just burned the corpses here when Luan Tingyu and Deng Fei returned from chasing the Qing army. The cavalry not only drove back twenty or thirty carts, but also brought back a cavalry team of more than ten people.

As soon as the team showed up, the quiet parishioners cheered: "Wu Sanniang is still alive."

Luan Tingyu introduced these people to Zhao Zhen, and the four Wu Sanniangs led by them knelt down and worshiped: "Thank you so much for saving me, the righteous man. We are homeless now, and I hope the righteous man will take you in."

Zhao Zhen stepped forward to help the four people up and said: "If you don't dislike me, anyone who is willing to follow me will either join the army or work in agriculture. I will not make you suffer from hunger."

The surrounding parishioners also cheered after hearing this.

Seeing that all the people of Qingshui Sect had surrendered, Zhao Zhen had time to take stock of this female cavalry. Wu Sanniang is as beautiful as the Qing army said.

There are three people behind Wu Sanniang, they are similar in age, short and strong, and can also wield a sword and ride a horse. She is the leader of the women's army recruited by Wu Sanniang. As Wu Sanniang's deputy, she is also good at horse fighting, charging into battles and defeating enemies.

This women's cavalry team participated in the Shouzhang, Tangyi, Yanggu, Liulin, Linqing and other battles. They were brave and skillful in fighting and often served as the vanguard. The average level is higher than Luan Tingyu's newly formed cavalry.

After seeing Wu Sanniang's team, Zhao Zhen said: "Sanniang, we attacked the Qing army's camp outside the city and rescued four people, Li San, Yan Liu, Li Wang, and Wang Wang. Ms. Wang was seriously injured, but she is still awake even though she has been treated with good medicine. Can Sanniang go and see her? "

(End of this chapter)