After entering the barracks, Li Xiancheng, Zheng Peng and his entourage quickly broke away from the team, and after a while, everyone changed into the clothes of Hui warriors, but there was an extra set of special soft armor made of cowhide in their clothes.

Pretending to be a Hui is carefully considered, first, the minority is poorly equipped, insufficient training, relatively loose military discipline, low combat effectiveness, easy to become the target of attack, conducive to the creation of fighters, if it is replaced by the elite troops of the Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that the enemy will flee when he hears the wind; The second is that the object of the pretense must have a sufficient population base, there are so many ethnic minorities in the Western Regions, and some of them are only one or two hundred people with the strength of the whole clan, and the Hui people are also a big family in the Western Regions.

"What did you come from, it's awkwardly dressed." Li Xiancheng put on the costume of a Hui warrior with the help of the guards, and the whole person became awkward.

On weekdays, I am used to wearing sturdy armor, which is full of metal and looks majestic, but after wearing leather-based leather armor, I feel uncomfortable left and right.

Henchman Hong Ming explained: "Thousands of horsemen, this is different from the Forbidden Garden, the scope of the Forbidden Garden is not large, the horsepower is enough to deal with, the Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, often run for most of the day, wearing heavy armor horses can't bear it, besides, isn't this a secret operation, in fact, these leather armor is still quite light, and you will get used to it after wearing it for a few more days." ”

As soon as he got dressed, Zheng Peng Shi Shiran walked over: "Li Qianqi, the clothes have changed, what are you going to do now?" ”

"When I first arrived, I went to visit the town guard first, and I had to help him in the next action."

"Okay."

The two were just about to go to find Tang Kuan, who had come back earlier, when a herald hurriedly ran over and whispered: "Report, General Tang has arrived at the town guard of Khotan." ”

As soon as Cao Cao is said, Cao Cao will arrive.

Zheng Peng and Tang Kuan glanced at each other, and then walked towards the direction of the camp gate with a tacit understanding.

"I've seen General Tang."

"There are not so many rules in the army, the two thousand cavalry envoys hurry up, no need to be polite."

Li Xiancheng said a little embarrassedly: "When we first arrived, we should have visited General Tang." ”

Tang Kuan waved his hand and said, "I'm ashamed, as a town guard, I can't keep one side safe, and I have to bother the two of you to travel thousands of miles to this bitter cold place." ”

"The food of the king, the worry of the king, are all their own people, General Tang must not be polite." Li Xiancheng said with a straight face.

During his tenure as the town guard of Khotan, he fought no less than 100 bloody battles with Tibet, was wounded dozens of times, and passed by death many times, known as the hardest bone in Khotan Town.

For this kind of hero in the army, Li Xiancheng respects it from the bottom of his heart.

"Two thousand horsemen" Tang Kuan said a little embarrassedly: "You have just arrived in Khotan Town, as the host, you should do your best to be a landlord and wash the dust for the two of you, but unfortunately the sky does not fulfill people's wishes, and that gang of bandits has come to scourge again, so I specially invite the two of you to inspect together to see what clues there are." ”

Li Xiancheng's face was solemn, and he said with a calm face: "General Tang, I don't like to drink the wind wine, and if you want to drink it, you can also drink the celebration wine." ”

"We're here to slaughter that group of scum, General Tang, lead the way." Zheng Peng also expressed his position on the spot.

A few months ago, I heard that this gang of bandits, they dared to attack the wolf's tooth fort, just happened to meet Cui Xiyi to supervise the construction, fierce battle for a night, there is no danger to pass, Zheng Peng heard this, the first reaction was that Tubo went to the forward post of the Tang Dynasty in the name of the bandits, thinking that it was just an emergency.

Unexpectedly, a few months later, this bandit is still there, not only survived the encirclement and interception of the Datang border army, but also repeatedly committed bloody crimes in the Datang Dynasty, and finally even the Yulin Army was dispatched.

I was also confused and dragged here by Li Xiancheng.

Tang Kuan is also a very neat person, shouted to go, and took the lead in the front.

Zheng Peng and Li Xiancheng each led a team of people to follow closely.

On the way, Tang Kuan gave a general introduction to the basic situation of the attack.

The place where the attack was attacked is called Wo'er Village, which is a village built in the valley, with a population of about 230, and is a place where the three ethnic groups of Han, Weitou and Hui live together, and in the sparsely populated Western Regions, Wo'er Village is a big village.

The group was galloping, and it took more than an hour to arrive at Wo'er Village.

"It smells of blood." Before entering the village, Guo Ziyi twitched her nose and said with some surprise.

Zhou Quan nodded and said, "I smell it too, these hateful thieves." ”

Zheng Peng looked at the heavily guarded village entrance at the entrance of the village, and said with a calm face: "Go!" ”

After speaking, he jumped off the horse and walked in first, Ah Jun didn't dare to slack off, and immediately followed closely, Zhou Quan and Cao Feng followed left and right very tacitly, intentionally or unintentionally protecting Zheng Peng in the middle.

The smell of blood is so strong, and I don't know if there are enemies in ambush in the shadows, so protecting the Lord's safety must be the first priority.

Before entering the village gate, Zheng Peng couldn't help but feel a tightness in his heart: two men dressed as villagers were nailed to death by sharp spears on two trees next to the village entrance, both of them were frightened, obviously nailed to death here.

It's noon, the sun is still hanging in the sky, for some reason, seeing the blood all over the ground, the sharp spears, the dried corpses and the two pairs of frightened eyes, Zheng Peng felt an inexplicable chill.

It's a bit of a.

Li Xiancheng was bold and bold, and asked Tang Kuan, who was sinking like water, "General Tang, when you found out, was it like this?" ”

"That's right" Tang Kuan nodded a little heavily: "In order to find clues, Ben will order, there is no need, don't destroy the scene, and protect the clues as much as possible." ”

After speaking, Tang Kuan stretched out his hand and gently helped the two villagers who were nailed to the entrance of the village to close their eyes, and then walked inside with a heavy face.

Inside, Zheng Peng's face became worse and worse, and his eyes became more and more red, a bit like the eyes of a hungry wolf.

It's about to get out of anger.

The village of Wo'er was in shambles, all the houses were set on fire, and there were corpses everywhere:

An old man was thrown into the fire, burning like charcoal above his knees, leaving only a pair of calves in cloth shoes outside the fire, terrifying and eerie;

The corpse of a child of about three or four years old hung from the treetops, and the surrounding leaves were red with blood, and the child's head was on the ground.

There were several strong men by the wall, all of them with different heads, and their headless bodies were strung together by a spear;

In the grass, the naked bodies of several women were particularly annoying, and what was terrible was that all the women were scarred, and some of them had wooden bars stuck in their lower bodies, apparently subjected to great humiliation and abuse before their deaths;

An old man dressed in a good manner, lying flat on the square in the middle of the village, with ropes tied to his head and limbs, apparently dismembered by five horses;

Next to the corpse of the old clan, he also used his hands and feet to form a big word "death".

......

"This group of scum" Zheng Peng gritted his teeth and said: "If I am caught, they must not survive, and they must not die." ”

The bloody and cruel scene in front of him has exceeded Zheng Peng's cognition, and Zheng Peng is already out of anger at this moment.

The dead have seen a lot, the city has been fighting, the blood is flowing like a river, the corpses are all over the field, many outstanding soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are shrouded in horse leather, Zheng Peng sees it is heartache, but there is no anger, it is the responsibility of the soldiers to shed blood on the battlefield, and the shroud in horse leather is the fate of the soldiers, but it is a soldier, a well-trained soldier.

Here, there are all unarmed people, as well as old and young women and children who have no power to resist, those bandits not only loot, but also torture and kill the people, they are no longer people, but animals.

No, not as good as animals.

Li Xiancheng's hand holding the horizontal knife was trembling: "But angry, these scum are so boundless, if they don't kill this group of bandits, they will not be human." ”

Knowing that bandits are harassing people at the border is doing all kinds of evil, but knowing, hearing and witnessing it are completely different.

Li Xiancheng, who has always regarded himself as calm, felt that he was about to go violent.

Tang Kuan was silent for a while, and quickly said: "The two of you know the reason why Ben Jiang traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an for help, it's not that Ben Jiang didn't have the confidence to exterminate them, but he wanted to correct them as soon as possible, so that the people would suffer less crimes." ”

When there was an accident in the jurisdiction, Tang Kuan also thought about covering it up, stabbing it out would damage his prestige, and he would not be able to protect his official position, but as the situation became more and more serious, especially the increasing number of victims, he was reproached by his conscience, so he was forced to ask for help from other military towns first, and finally put his future aside and went to Chang'an in person for help.

Zheng Peng knew that it was not easy for Tang Kuan to be a border officer, so he comforted him softly: "General Tang, you are tired. ”

"I'm not afraid to be a little tired, I'm afraid that I haven't corrected the real murderer earlier." Tang Kuan's old face was a little hideous.

Li Xiancheng had the heart to divert the topic, looked left and right, and asked, "General Tang, is there still a living mouth in Wo'er Village?" ”

"I haven't found a live job for the time being, and the people in the house have been notified to check."

"How do you know there's an attack here?"

"The patrolling soldiers found that there was smoke rising here, and drove their horses to check it, only to know that Wo'er Village had been attacked, and the whole village was killed... Slaughter. ”

Zheng Peng then asked, "Seeing the smoke rising, did the patrol try to track or search for the enemy?" ”

When they see the smoke rising, they will rush to the enemy, and the enemy must have brought the looted goods, so it is difficult to move, and if they catch up in time, they should find clues.

Tang Kuan shook his head and said: "As soon as the patrol team found an abnormality, in addition to sending people to check it, they also used the sound of arrows to notify the surrounding patrol teams as soon as possible to surround and search this area, but unfortunately they found nothing. ”

Speaking of this, Tang Kuan gave a few orders to the guards beside him, and soon, the guards took back a handful of burnt incense stalks.

Tang Kuan took the incense stalk, and said helplessly: "Look, this is the incense stalk, if you guess correctly, they didn't set fire to the house when they left, but lit these long incense sticks, and when the incense burns to the end, they will ignite the firewood that has been placed in advance, so as to achieve the purpose of burning here. ”