A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 24 Unify Yishui

When other people fight, the more they fight, the more tired they become. But Li Gui, who gets luck from killing people, and luck strengthens his body, and the more he fights, the more excited he becomes.

When the killing spree began, Li Gui led his own soldiers and chased the fleeing thieves all the way to Lotus Mountain.

Among the several strongholds, all the young and strong men who could fight were taken away, leaving only the old, weak, sick, women and children. Li Gui was too lazy to kill any more, so he simply sat near the gate of the stronghold and let his soldiers go back. Call the soldiers to gather here.

At this time, the spearmen's team had also been killed and their formations were disordered. They were fighting on their own again. However, the thieves' courage was already cold at this time. Few people dared to stop and resist, and the damage was actually not much.

After half an hour, the soldiers gathered together and lined up on the Lotus Mountain again.

After checking again, three more were dead and more than ten were seriously injured.

This was the first time he faced off against the thieves head-on. Li Gui could accept such casualties.

It’s just that even bandits like this are bound to suffer casualties. If they really encounter the regular army, the combat power gap is huge, and they don’t know how long they can last.

After Li Laoqi led the team to raid Lianhua Mountain, Li Guicai ordered the team to withdraw and return in triumph.

There were many enemies this time, and everyone's guns were basically stained with blood. Li Gui simply gave everyone a first-class credit.

This group of killers no longer paid attention to any merits. Instead, they looked at the women brought out from Lotus Mountain with suspicion and began to look for their future wives.

Of course Li Gui knew what they were thinking. After returning to the village, he counted the number of women. After finding that there were enough women for one man, he did not wait for the celebration banquet, but directly gathered in the square and distributed all the women. .

Suddenly the whole village felt like it was Chinese New Year, everyone was smiling and laughing.

Those who had been groomsmen the day before yesterday, now with the presence of the old god, acted calmly, pointed and laughed at the group of anxious men.

"Haha, I've never seen a girl's chick..."

I completely forgot how miserable their performance was the night before.

After this battle, the energy and spirit of the surrounding cottages were defeated. Next, Li Gui did not need to take action personally. He only needed to send his generals, each with a small team, to easily defeat the cottages.

Within a few days, all the cottages in Yishui County were wiped out by Li Gui, and all the gold, silver, soft goods, grain, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, women, etc. were all taken over by Yushan.

In addition to the original iron spearmen of one unit, two additional reserve units were trained. They trained with bamboo spears every day. As long as they got new spears, they could become regular soldiers directly.

Li Gui's wanton annexation here has been known to the county for a long time. Magistrate Ding is not only glad that he got it right and got Li Gui's matter settled, but he is also distressed that Li Gui actually fell under his rule, and it seems that there is really something going on. mean.

He had discussed with Master Song many times, but they had no solution.

The original intention was to throw the blame for the thieves' rebellion on the generals, but if the leader of the rebel thieves was Li Gui, then this big pot would not be thrown out.

Because Li Gui was originally a rebel who killed officials and rebelled, he could only be blamed on the previous magistrate. No matter how those Qiu Ba harmed the people, they had nothing to do with Li Gui.

As a local official, although he does not need to take responsibility for Li Gui's killing of officials, he must not escape responsibility for things like rebels under his rule.

"Oh, if I had known this, I shouldn't have come to Yishui County in the first place!"

The magistrate of Ding county sat in the courtyard, sighing and pouring bitter wine into his stomach one cup at a time.

Master Song across the table was also a little drunk and sighed in a low voice:

"I tried to persuade Dong Weng at the beginning, but so many people refused to come, so I knew it was dangerous. Dong Weng insisted on taking advantage of this, so what's the use of complaining now?"

"Changping, is it really impossible to think about it?"

"It's difficult!" Mr. Song also had a big head. "In the past few days, several people have come to the Yamen to report that Li Gui has captured Yushan and is attacking from all directions." "They say they are ordinary people, but I I asked Li Dutou privately that these people are the leaders of the surrounding cottages, and they came out in anger because their cottages were destroyed by Li Gui."

"I learned from those people that Li Gui now has hundreds of soldiers, and they are well-trained. Even the thousands of young men from all the mountains are no match for him."

"Don Weng, think about it, if Li Gui wasn't for rebellion, how could he have such deliberate intentions?"

"What's even more worrying, where did his weapons and armor come from?"

"Is there any aristocratic family secretly supporting this?"

"In the capital, bandits are like a comb, and soldiers are like a grate. With each comb and grate, how many refugees will be produced, and how much land will be annexed?"

"I don't dare to think about it, I don't dare to think about it!"

Master Song shook his head and sighed, then poured another glass of wine and drank it.

Ding Zhixian's body was like chaff, obviously he was frightened by Master Song's words just now.

"Chang Ping, don't you dare say such nonsense!"

"Don't worry, Dong Weng. It's just you and me here. These words came out of my mouth and into your ears. I will never tell anyone else again."

Ding Zhixian shivered for a while, then suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, leaned over and asked in a low voice:
"Chang Ping, if it is true as you say, doesn't it mean that there is a master behind Li Gui?"

"If we can find out the master behind him and make peace with him, wouldn't it be possible to temporarily appease him?"

"As long as Li Gui doesn't rebel during my term, no matter what he does, I can secretly facilitate him."

"As long as I finish my term as county magistrate, everything from now on will have nothing to do with me."

After Master Song heard this, he was stunned by his elder's words. After being speechless for a long time, he muttered:
"Dong Weng, I'm just making a random guess. I can't be sure. Maybe it doesn't exist and I don't know!"

"It's better to believe that this kind of thing exists than to believe that it doesn't happen!" Ding Zhixian's eyes flickered, and he was already convinced.

"Besides, Li Gui is just a rogue. How dare he do such a big thing? How can he not rely on the power of others and have someone take care of him?"

When he thought of a way to keep his official title, Ding Zhixian's brain immediately overclocked, even faster than during the imperial examination.

"The master who secretly controls Li Gui must be from this county!"

"According to the investigation, Li Gui has never left this county. In the past, he only ran errands for some nobles. He was taken by some nobleman and led to do this kind of thing."

"Those weapons and armor must have been given by the nobles behind Li Gui. Otherwise, how could he, a talented assassin, get such good equipment?"

The more Ding Zhixian thought about it, the more it made sense.

"If Li Gui breaks out, the county will be the first to suffer, and many gentry will surely suffer greatly.

"If I were the person behind it, I would have found an excuse to leave the county with my family when the uprising was about to start. After the imperial court put down the rebellion, I would have come back to start a new round of land annexation."

"I only need to find out which gentry the previous county magistrate had a bad relationship with, and whether any gentry has quietly left the county recently, then I will know who is behind the scenes."

Magistrate Ding was analyzing happily, when suddenly the boy outside the door came to report.

"Master, a guest came to see me. He claimed to be a patrol inspector from the state. His name is Liang Wanshen."

(End of this chapter)