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The First Champion Chapter 264

So when he heard that Yang Lin's guard of honor had come to the Hehuang area, Gao Bing immediately led people out to greet him, directly from Xiazhou to Hezhou.

Feeling apprehensive, Gao Shan purposely tried out the dirty words, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Yang Lin was still able to make such jokes with him.

The two were chatting, when Lu Qian came out of the small town, he said with an ugly face: "Master, something is wrong, this town is empty, there is no one there."

Gao Bing didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "The peasants in the northwest countryside, who have never seen the world, feel the heroic spirit of the young master, and are afraid that they will hide at home and dare not go out."

"Stop the fucking nonsense, go in and have a look." Yang Lin waved his hand, and the elite soldiers of the Long Live Battalion entered the city. One of them closed his nose and said, "Sir, the smell of blood is so strong."

"It's broken, there's really no one there," Gao Shan said with a frown.

There are not many people in the small town, but the streets are still clean and tidy. The doors of every house are wide open, but there is no one there. There is no sound of chickens and dogs, which is indescribably weird.

In this deathly silence, not only Yang Lin and the others, but even the mounts under the crotch of the Long Live Camp were all twitching uneasily.

Lu Qian said in a deep voice, "Sir, why don't we go to the Hezhou Mansion in front first, and then send people to investigate."

He was thinking about Yang Lin's safety, but Yang Lin didn't believe this evil, raised his eyebrows and said: "What are you afraid of, my men are strong and strong, and their energy is as strong as the sun, who dares to make a mistake, search for me!"

Everyone in the Wansui camp immediately rushed into each house and searched carefully, while Yang Lin led Lu Qian, Lu Wang, Gao Gang and his party to the largest courtyard in the town.

This family should be a gentry in a small town, or at least a wealthy family. The fence is much larger than the yard surrounded by other fences. It has three entrances and three exits in the northwest. Even though it was clean and tidy, there was an oil lamp on the table in the inner courtyard. The cups and plates on the table were messed up, and the food left on the plate was rotten.

Gao Shan stepped forward to take a look, and scolded: "Thief, bird, why is there a strangeness everywhere, which makes him panicked in the heart of the third master. Don't kill me, or we'd better go."

Yang Lin stepped in with a cold face, and suddenly a small wooden horse attracted his attention.

A small wooden horse made of hewn wood, covered with a dusty mat, had obviously been made for the children of the family.

"Blood" Yang Lin spit out a word coldly.

Everyone gathered around, only to find that the left face of the Trojan horse was covered with blackened blood, obviously it had been there for many days.

The originally cute horse's face, because of the blood stains, looked very strange and frightening from the side.

Gao Shan's whole body wanted to be attached to Lu Qian's body, causing the latter to feel helpless.

"Young master, come and take a look here." Lu Wang's voice came from outside, Yang Lin stepped out of the inner hall, and saw a group of guards from the Long Live Camp standing silently in the bedroom in the inner courtyard.

What is it that makes these men lick blood like this?

Yang Lin pushed aside the crowd and came in to take a look, his scalp felt numb.

The corpses of dozens of men, old and young, were hung on the big locust tree by the wall in the courtyard.Their wrists and ankles were all tied up, and they were hung from a big locust tree. The rotten flesh on their wrists smelled bad.

And the yard was full of women's corpses with disheveled clothes or no clothes. Obviously, a group of villains raped all the women in front of the male owners of the house, and then killed them to silence them.

After a while, other people also rushed over. This was the case in almost every house. The houses were ransacked and all the belongings were looted.

"Send someone to summon the civil and military officials of Hezhou to meet me in this small town. You should bury this family." Yang Lin stepped forward and emphasized, "Bury deeper."

Everyone said yes.

The guards of the Long Live Camp wrapped their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs, dug a big pit in the yard, and buried all the corpses in it.

Looking at the newly erected tomb, Yang Lin felt very blocked but didn't know what to say. He saw Gao Shan move the bloody Trojan horse to the side of the tomb.

Sighing, Yang Lin took people to the outside of the town, where the plague is very prone to occur now, so it is not a place to stay for a long time.

The house was empty, and on the mound in the backyard, there was only a bloody Trojan horse swaying back and forth in the wind.

Chapter 2 Bloody Trojan Horse

Hezhou officials came one after another, and they were shocked when they saw Yang Lin.

"Young Zai came from a long way, why didn't you notify me in advance so that you can meet him?" Guo Chaoyong, the prefect of Hezhou, raised his official robe and began to shout from afar.

Yang Lin was sitting under a big tree, seeing people almost arrived, his face turned cold, and cursed: "The imperial court sent you to guard one side, why? Is it to welcome the official?

Under your rule, a town was slaughtered. As local parents and officials, don't you even know it? "

Everyone was stunned. The Northwest is different from the Central Plains. This place is sparsely populated, and many small towns rarely communicate with the outside world.

Those on the main roads are better off, as for this small town, few people patronize.

If it weren't for Yang Lin's unfamiliarity with the Long Live Camp, and believing in the half-assed words of Gao Gang, and taking a shortcut they imagined, the tragic image here would not have been discovered.

"Small slaughter, this"

Guo Chaoyong winked, and someone from the inspection department was about to enter the town to check on business.

Yang Lin glared at him and cursed: "All of you go in and take a good look at how you protect one side."

No less than a hundred officials, big and small, from Hezhou entered the town together.

When he came out again, his eyes were already clouded, and Guo Chaoyong even knelt down on his knees facing the town.

"Yang Shaozai, the next official is guilty."

Yang Lin rolled his eyelids and said, "Do you know who did it?"

Hezhou General Judge Fang Jinyun stood up with a livid face and said, "Sir, this is a common method used by Uighur thieves."

"Uyghur thief?" Gao Bing hurriedly said, "What kind of bird thief is so devoid of conscience."

Kneeling on the ground, Guo Chaoyong, the magistrate, said in a deep voice: "During Renzong's time, the Hexi Uighurs were destroyed by Xia Ni Li Yuanhao, and the Uyghur Khan Yeluoge was killed, and a large number of Uighurs fled to Hehuang. At that time, this place was still owned by the Tubo people. They set up many rules in order to turn these Uyghurs into their slaves.

Later, these Uighurs could not bear the humiliation, so they elected a leader to resist the oppression of Tubo.

These people were defeated by the Tubo people and became a group of bandits who roamed in Hehuang. They lived by robbing passing caravans and abusing the local people.

Their whereabouts are secretive, they come and go, they are cruel and bloodthirsty, and we have been encircling and suppressing them several times, but we can't find them. "

It turns out that there is still this history, Yang Lin knows very little about it, the last time Xixia was destroyed, Yang Lin patronized to divide the Qiang people.But at that time, the Hexi Uyghurs were already very submissive, because they were overwhelmed by party members all year round. In fact, Song Dynasty helped them by destroying Xixia.

The rulers of Xixia, the party aristocrats, treated other tribes in Xixia at that time very cruelly.Even their own clansman, Hengshan Qiqiang, were managed by them as livestock.

Yang Lin sneered, and said, "The Hexi Uighurs have all surrendered to our Great Song Dynasty now, so don't their clansmen care?"

Gao Gang coughed lightly, leaned closer and said, "Young Zai, when you were in the Northwest, didn't you plan them into various states? The Uyghurs no longer have their own army and patriarch."

Yang Lin spat and scolded: "Then the Karakhan Dynasty further west should be responsible. The people of our Great Song Dynasty were massacred for no reason. We must not just pursue a Uighur thief and let things go like this."

Hezhou officials have not come out of the grief and anger, they are all dumbfounded

What does the rebellion of the Uyghurs have to do with their fellow clansmen of the Karakhan Dynasty? You must know that the complete Uyghur Khan account had perished at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

The Uyghur thieves who are making trouble now are part of the Hexi Uyghur, strictly speaking, they are the people of the Song Dynasty.