The afterglow of the sunset spread across the ground, and the entire Salt Transportation Office Hall was soaked in blood. Liu Mo sat high in the hall, his face full of fatigue.

"Can you be sure they are not bandits?" Huo Cheng, who was sitting below, asked softly.

A group of villagers knelt down on their knees, men, women, young and old, all dressed in tortured clothes, covered in blood, and their faces were filled with fear. The three guards who brought them in to testify stood behind.

"Bandit? How could it be a bandit?" A villager said anxiously.

"That's right, sir, bandits won't have such discipline!" A sad-eyed Dibao pointed to the villagers kneeling on the ground and said, "There are only these people left in Jietou Village, and the others are all dead like the residents of Dashe Village."

"Please get up," Liu Mo ordered the villagers. "You all get up."

The residents of Jietou Village struggled to get up after hearing this. An old man had to support him to stand up, while another girl in blood kept kneeling and stared at Liu Mo in a daze.

"You!" Dibao said to a bald man, "Tell me what happened to you."

The bald man kowtowed a few times, "Sir, I opened a tavern before. I was at Jietou, right next to the stone bridge. Everyone said that my daughter Hong is the best in Rongcheng. Please forgive me.

But now all of them are gone. They came in and drank enough to throw away the rest and set fire to the house. Originally, sir, they were planning to kill my life, but they didn't catch it."

"They set the torch and force us to leave," said a farmer next to him. "He came out in the middle of the night and burned all the fields and houses. Whoever dared to come forward to stop him would die.

But sir, they are not robbers, because they are not here to steal things."

"They also trampled my apprentice to death," said a squat man with blacksmith's muscles and bandaged on his head. "They ridden on horses and laughed, chasing him around, and poking him with a spear, as if they were playing games."

The girl kneeling on the ground stretched her neck and looked up at Liu Mo. "Sir, they even killed my mother. Then they... they... didn't let me go..." Her voice gradually weakened, as if she had forgotten what she was going to say, and she started crying on her own.

Dibao took the conversation, "They drove all the villagers of Dashe Village into their wooden houses, and then layed straws, trying to burn them to death inside.

Some people opened the door and rushed out of the fire and fled, and they shot and killed them with bows and arrows, not even the woman holding the baby."

"How could anyone be so cruel?" Zhao Da roared angrily.

Liu Mo leaned forward, "It is very likely that it was the Zhou Dynasty's army!"

"Even if it is not a robber, it will not be the Zhou army!" Huo Cheng retorted, "The border has not been lost!"

"Sir, they all rode horses and armor," Di Bao replied calmly, "with a spear in his hand, and a Pu sword for slaughtering the villagers." He pointed at one of the ragged survivors.

"You, yes, it's you, it doesn't matter if you say it. Tell Lord Liu everything you said to me."

The old man lowered his head. "About the horses they rode," he said, "they rode war horses!"

"How many of them are there?" Liu Mo asked.

"A few dozen!" Di Bao replied, "There are at least fifty! The man in the leader is very special. He doesn't look like a soldier, very handsome!"

"Very handsome!" Liu Mo was shocked, "It must be Yang Yizhi!"

Most of these evil men are lurking in Daxia like Yang Yizhi for a long time.

Whispers in the hall were rising and falling, and the uneasy voices reached Liu Mo's ears.

The Salt Transport Department has fifty officials, plus the county government office and the experts in the Salt Gang. It can form an "army of 200 people!"

But the problem is that if the news about the surviving villagers is correct, the other party is a regular army with many battles!

What's more, there is also Yang Yizhi who can kill Zhao Da instantly!

This is Yang Yizhi's trap, and Liu Mo certainly knows it.

You are so cruel. You slaughter the people of the villages around Rongcheng and want to force me out.

No wonder Su Xiaowan didn’t fall in love with you. You are not a human being at all when you become cruel!

Killing, setting fire, what is the next opportunity? What will be the ultimate goal?

Could it be a full-scale invasion? Liu Mo was frightened by his own speculation!

The possibility is extremely high! First, we set fires in Rongcheng to create panic. Rongcheng lacks military strength, so we must mobilize the army to quell the rebellion.

And there is also a god-given opportunity, that is, Gao Qi and his group of Hu troops were sanctioned!

Although Gao Qi was a butcher, his sword blade was on both sides. He could slaughter the members of the Salt Gang and shock the Zhou army!

Such a good opportunity, even if it were Liu Mo, he would not miss it.

The reason for the outbreak of the war is interests. Why did the Zhou Dynasty choose to rekindle the war? It’s very simple: New salt!

At present, all the new salt processing plants in the Daxia Dynasty are in Jianglin Prefecture. If they cannot develop new salt, they will fail to smuggle, so they will simply snatch them by force.

"Is there any news from General Zhu?" Liu Mo turned his head and asked Huo Cheng.

"not yet!"

At this moment, Liu Mo no longer knew that he wanted Zhu Min to come to Rongcheng or to go to the border to support him.

"Where is the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang?"

After conjecture of Yang Yizhi's purpose, Liu Mo immediately wrote a letter to the Sixth Prince eight hundred miles, making sure that he ordered the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to gather the troops of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Guards to prepare for war.

"Reasonably, the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang has received the order, but..." Huo Cheng replied.

Is it the Sixth Prince who doesn’t believe it? Or is the Governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang who doesn’t believe it? Do you have to take action if Jiang Lin’s Mansion falls?

"Dear Rongcheng people, people cannot be resurrected." Liu Mo said, "All I can do is to give you justice and avenge you! Before that, please stay in Rongcheng first, and I will arrange your accommodation!"

After his subordinates took away the surviving villagers, Liu Mo slowly stood up and planned to leave.

"Sir, don't send troops to wipe out?" Zhao Da said in surprise.

Extermination? It is said that you will die! Liu Mo thought to himself that one Yang Yizhi can deal with hundreds of people on our side!

"Wait a little longer, let General Zhu do it!"

"General Zhu has no news yet. Who knows when he will wait!" Zhao shouted, "I beg you to let me lead the troops, I swear I won't let you down!"

"You can't beat Yang Yizhi!" Liu Mo thought to himself, there is no need to show off his strength in one move!

"So far to this day, let's break up!"

After the lingering sound gradually fell, Zhao Da and Huo Chengdu asked in confusion: "Mr. Liu, what should we do!"

Liu Mo had to stop, "The people of the villages around Rongcheng are important, or are the people of the entire Rongcheng?" He explained, "If there is any mistake, the Zhou army will unscrupulously capture Rongcheng!"

What he wanted to emphasize was that Yang Yizhi wanted to trick us out of the city and weaken our garrison strength!

"Then let's watch the Zhou Dynasty massacre the people... without any hesitation?"

"Who said he would be indifferent!" A loud voice came from the west side of the hall, and a tall man walked forward with great strides. "Let me see how I killed all these miscellaneous people!"
Chapter completed!