The Three Kingdoms Of The North Are Proud And Heroic

After rushing for nearly half an hour, I finally arrived at Fan'an Pavilion.

Fan'an Pavilion is a small pavilion after all, the population is not large, the houses are not dense, even if there are so many two streets, it is far from as wide and flat as Anyang Pavilion. Looking beyond the street, you can already see the fires everywhere on the street, and there are also the cries of people one after another. The sky was swept up by the smoke of gunpowder, and the thick wind and snow were kept out.

It's just that, apart from the crying, I didn't hear much of the shouting and killing.

Continue a little further onto the end of the street. Zu Zhao saw that there were many figures burning in front of him, coming and going, shuttling endlessly, like ghosts and ghosts. The houses on both sides of the street are still intact, all of them have closed doors and windows, and occasionally some frightened sounds can be heard, but they soon weaken and disappear without leaving a trace.

Zu Cheng clenched the halberd in his hand, his face was grim, and he said to Zu Zhao: "Eldest prince, this... Could it be..."

Zu Zhao raised his hand to stop Zu Cheng's words, and said unhurriedly: "It seems that it is not a big mess, Anyang Pavilion's team has already repelled the thieves.

Zu Cheng was a little surprised, and now he hasn't seen what happened clearly, but the eldest prince can draw such a conclusion, which really makes people feel a little hasty. He still asked, "How did the eldest prince know?"

Zu Zhao raised the halberd in his hand and pointed to both sides of the street, his voice remained unchanged, and said: "If the thieves had the upper hand, they would have plundered all the houses nearby, and now the doors and windows are closed but intact, so it can be seen that there is no misfortune."

Zu Cheng suddenly realized and exclaimed: "It's still the eldest prince's sharp eyes."

Zu Zhao said: "Let's go, come forward and ask." The

group continued along the street, and as they got closer to the fire, the street became more and more disorganized, with all kinds of abandoned iron tools, mostly some broken and old farm tools, and some ring-headed knives and simple knives. There was snow on both sides, and some blood flowers could be seen on the white snow blocks at regular intervals. It is conceivable that those hot blood droplets melt into the snow cubes, and they erode into the snow cubes like Buddha poison.

Soon I met some people, mostly ordinary people, who were helping their injured companions to the side of the road.

The people didn't panic much when they saw Zu Zhao and his party waiting, and after recognizing the meandering horse of Zujiazhuang, they felt more and more relieved, and a few brave people hurriedly came forward.

"You guys, but you're from Beiguo Pavilion?" An older man asked.

"Exactly, I am Zu Zhao. What is the current situation? Where are the thieves? Zu Zhao, who was the leader, straightened his attitude and asked rhetorically.

"It turned out to be the eldest son of Zu. The thieves have already asked Master Zhang and Master Han to lead people to repel them, and at this moment, Master Zhang and Master Han are chasing the fleeing thieves. The old man said with a bit of sobs.

"In what direction?" Zu Zhao asked again.

"To the southwest, to Pine Ridge." The elder pointed to the end of the street.

Zu Zhao glanced at it, then turned behind him, and instructed Zu Cheng: "Ah Cheng, you take a team of people to the southwest to assist them." The rest stayed in town with me to clean up the aftermath.

Zu Cheng answered, ordered more than thirty horses and continued to run forward.

Zu Zhao took the rest of the people to the center of the town, and after assigning a few horsemen to patrol the town, he told the rest of the people to rescue the wounded and extinguish the fire. He supervised the case for a while, and heard that the chief of Fan'an Pavilion was still on the side, so he made a special trip to find out the cause and effect of the thief's attack.

The chief of Fan'an Pavilion was injured a little, his unkempt hair was dirty, and the palpitations on his face were obvious. He trembled and told Zu Zhao that the incident was extremely sudden, and almost all the people in the town had fallen asleep and rested, and suddenly there was a shout of killing. At first, the thieves seemed to be stealing the granaries of the big families in the town, but because they were discovered, they were killed.

When Zu Zhao heard this, he interrupted the other party's words and interjected, "How many thieves are there?" The

pavilion chief said in a trance: "Many, many, there may be sixty or seventy people, and later after the master of Anyang Pavilion Zhang brought people over, the two sides were still fighting in the town." It's called... That's inseparable... Later, it seemed that someone from the Zhang family killed the thief chieftain, so the thieves dispersed in a hurry to stabilize the situation.

Zu Zhao pondered for a moment, and always felt that there were many unreasonable things in this matter. There are so many thieves, why do you have to be sneaky in the first place? If you want to be sneaky, why bring so many people? Thinking of this, he asked, "Do you know these thieves?" Where do they come from? Where is the body of the Thief Chieftain now?

The Pavilion Chief Fan'an couldn't understand what Zu Zhao meant for a while, he was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "Eldest Prince, look at what you said, how could we... How do you know these thieves? That, the corpse of the thief chief... Like, it's like it's just ahead.

Zu Zhao asked in a positive voice: "What I am asking is, do you know if these thieves are locals?"

Only then did the chief of Fan'an Pavilions react and sighed: "This, the black light is blinding, and I can't see it clearly for a while."

Zu Zhao didn't ask anything else, but said, "Take me to see the corpse of the thief chief."

Fan'an Pavilion promised again and again: "Yes, yes, the eldest prince is here, please."

Zu Zhao followed the chief of the Fan'an Pavilion and continued along the street until he came to the vicinity of the pavilion, which was still under fire.

Although the fire weakened, the people in the vicinity rushed back and forth, throwing water and snow at the fire site, but the entire pavilion had already been burned to the ground, and some houses next to the pavilion were also damaged. The sound of shouting, shouting, and splashing water came and went, making the fire even more chaotic.

The chief of the Fan'an Pavilion called a descendant and asked the descendant to lead him to the corpse of the thief chief.

Hou Sheng knew where the corpse was, and hurriedly beckoned Zu Zhao and the others to bypass the blazing pavilion and come to an alley in the back. There were already some people gathered at the mouth of the alley, including the officials of the pavilion and several members of the Han family. These people were surrounding a mangled corpse, all with solemn faces.

"This is the thief chieftain." Housheng pointed to the corpse and said.

"How can you be sure?" A disciple of the ancestral family who followed behind Zu Zhao asked.

"Everyone saw it, and it was this man who had been pointing fingers and shouting for thieves to set fires everywhere. When he was beheaded by the Zhang family, many of us witnessed it with our own eyes. After the thieves fled, we moved the body of the thief chieftain here. Hou Sheng said matter-of-factly, feeling very angry at the suspicion of the children of the ancestral family.

Zu Zhao ignored it, took a step forward, and carefully looked at the corpse lying on the ground by the light of the fire in the pavilion behind him. Although there were many dark marks on the corpse's face, he still had a very familiar and familiar feeling, and immediately crouched down to further identify it carefully.

"Isn't this Wang Zheng!" Soon, he immediately recognized the identity of this person and said coldly.

Among the several children who followed Zu Zhao, there were some who had seen Wang Zheng, even if some had not seen him, but in the past two months, just listening to the rumors on Zujiazhuang, he still knew such a person more or less.

"How could it be him?" One of the disciples asked puzzled.

Zu Zhao grabbed one of the corpse's arms, glanced at its palm, and found that the palm was missing a finger.

"That's right, it's Wang Zheng." He said it conclusively. The finger that the other party lacked was cut off by his own hands.

Since the last time Lingzhi County broke the thief, Zu Zhao sent Wang Zheng to the county government of Xu Wuxian County, and later heard that because Wang Zheng was from Lingzhi County, Chen Xianjun detained him for not long, and then escorted him to Lingzhi County. As for Wang Zheng's escort to Lingzhi County, what happened afterwards, he did not pay much attention, but according to his crimes of colluding with thieves, secretly befriending thieves, and attempting to commit crimes, even if he was not beheaded, he would not have been imprisoned for less than two months, and there are really many things that make no sense.

"This, how did Wang Zheng get released?" The children of the ancestral family on the side were also surprised.

"Eldest prince, do you know this person?" The chief of the Fan'an Pavilion asked cautiously.

"This person is one of the same party members who made the thieves in Zhixian County in the past, and he is also a Taoist disciple of Taiping Dao." Zu Zhao said briefly.

"Huh? Again, is it Taiping Road again? Fan'an Pavilion Chief said in surprise.

"Needless to say, we will discuss it after the people of the Zhang family come back." Zu Zhao stood up, his expression slightly solemn.

After waiting for nearly an hour, the Bei Thief Pavilion team that went to chase the fleeing thieves turned back one after another.

The team of the Han family of Fan'an Pavilion was the first to come back, followed by Zu Cheng and the others. Zu Cheng almost did not really participate in the ranks of chasing thieves, when he chased seven or eight miles to the southwest, he encountered some fallen thieves and people, and then wanted to chase forward, the team in front had begun to return.

It wasn't until the Han family, Ma and Zu Cheng and others completed the counting of the number of people in Fan'an Pavilion that the people of the Zhang family in Anyang Pavilion came back.

The old man of the Zhang family is nearly forty years old, and although his family is still alive, he retreated into the background early and handed over all the family affairs to his eldest son. The old man of the Zhang family, known as Zhang Fei, is the uncle of the two brothers Zhang Yuan and Zhang Pre. Although Zhang Daozong was born in literature, the people in the north knew some bow horses, so when he encountered a thief who violated the realm this time, he personally went into battle and led all the children of the clan to fight the thief together.

The reason why the Zhang family and horses returned a little late was not because they chased too far, but because they captured seven or eight thieves alive in the process of chasing the thieves, and escorted these thieves on foot to return, and the itinerary was naturally slower.

Zhang Yuan and Zhang Pre were in the same queue, both of them had varying degrees of injuries, especially Zhang Pre, who was pale and crumbling when he returned to Fan'an Pavilion, as if he was a symptom of excessive blood loss.

Zu Zhao greeted him, and after Zhang Yuan saw Zu Zhao, he first greeted him, and then led him to Zhang Fei. As early as the beginning of preparing for the thief, Zu Zhao had met Zhang Fei a few times, and he didn't talk much on weekdays, but Zhang Fei obviously listened to the introduction of Zhang Qi, Zhang Nan, Zhang Yuan and others, and his attitude towards this eldest son of the ancestral family was quite favorable.

Zu Zhao first asked Zhang Yuan and the others about the process of killing the thief, which was roughly the same as he guessed. However, the Han family and others in Fan'an Pavilion talked about some details at the beginning of the thief's rebellion, and took advantage of the night thieves to touch the town street, waiting for the opportunity to steal the granary of the Han family's mansion, which alarmed the Han family's night patrol, which caused a fire. At first, there were not many thieves, and there were only about a dozen people who stole the Han family's granary, but when the real knives and guns started, several other thieves poured out from nearby.

Judging from the clues we have so far, it seems that these thieves did not intend to take plundering methods at the beginning, but only had the mentality of stealing food. This is really puzzling, there are obviously so many people, and these people are all carrying blades, if they launch a surprise attack quietly, they are afraid that the Han family's mansion will fall into chaos on the spot, and it is impossible to react so quickly.

Then Zu Zhao went to torture those captured thieves, and he found that most of these thieves were poor and homeless, with tattered clothes, yellow and thin faces, trembling, obviously starving for a long time, and more importantly, there was not a trace of murder in the eyes of these people, which was filled with pity and fear.

The whole torture was almost not tortured, and when he asked, these people answered honestly, and they had no intention of resisting at all. This is the most typical peasant of all dynasties, if it is not really to a terrible desperate situation, these docile people will always be like little sheep, to be exploited and slaughtered.

After some questioning, these captured thieves truthfully confessed, they came from all over the state and county, most of them were homeless homeless, and later a person nicknamed "Northland Wolf" was called up, saying that they could give a way to eat together. There was a small half a month to gather the displaced people, and the "northern wolves" took care of the food during this small half a month. Until the day before yesterday, he said that he was going to a nearby town to "borrow" grain, or to "rob" grain, but after a whole day and a half of travel, he was not in a nearby town at all, but came to Xu Wu County.

Everyone followed a man named Wang Zheng and said that it would be done after dark. However, first, they were tired from the long journey, and secondly, everyone was timid and afraid, so they did not dare to go directly into the town according to Wang Zheng's wishes. Later, everyone thought that they tried to steal the granary first, but they were found halfway through, and as a last resort, there was Wang Zheng's shouting and pressing, and then the fight occurred.

"Northland wolves? Is this person with you? Zu Zhao waited for these homeless people to finish speaking, and immediately asked.

"I was there at noon yesterday, and then I don't know when, I don't know when, I won't be there." There is humanity.

"No, he didn't come with him at all, it was the man named Wang Zheng who took us all along." Another said.

"I, I don't know anything, I'm just... I know that I will follow them..."

Zu Zhao was silent, although these homeless people were incoherent, but at least he could conclude that this "Northland Wolf" Niu Hai was really related to those thieves and Taiping Dao, and since it was related to these people, it was also inseparable from the attack on the county government and the rebellion in Changcheng. It's a thief again, it's a Taiping Dao, and it's a bandit and a homeless person, and Youbeiping County is really messy.