(Today is the eighth day. As long as your support is still there, I can persist in updating three times a day! Everyone knows that writing articles such as "Struggle for Hegemony" is not a routine thing, so updating three times a day takes a long time and is sedentary. So much so that my cervical vertebra is in pain. I am not complaining, but I want to say that I will do whatever it takes for your support!) Chapter 379: Asking for a confession requires skills. Just outside the camp, there is a lot of stone at the foot of Suzaku Mountain. On the flat land, the corpses of soldiers who died in battle were buried here. The wooden monuments standing neatly looked like the soldiers looked like when they were alive, with their bodies upright. They looked like this when they lined up, so proud. This was the first batch of soldiers killed by the Black Flag Army after they set up camp on Zhuque Mountain. Fang Jie personally attended the funeral. In the attack on Lu Chuan, 462 people were killed in the battle, in the attack on Boyang, 215 people were killed in the battle, and in the exploration of Hukou Stream, 50 riders died. The name on the tombstone is solemn and solemn. Fang Jie looked at the neatly arranged wooden monuments and stood quietly for a while. He didn't leave until the sun set and returned to the meeting hall. Chen Xiaoru¡¯s stick injury has not healed yet, and he looks a little awkward when walking. However, this stubborn man has not been helped by anyone, and he grits his teeth and holds on. In the past few days, he personally led people to explore the Hukou Stream. After hiding outside for three days, he finally captured a few Hukou Stream scouts who came out of the Hukou Stream to step on the plates. Fang Jie looked at Chen Xiaoru, took out a bottle of wound medicine from his sleeve and threw it over: "The wound medicine that I brought yesterday and Sanjinhou is from foreigners. It is somewhat effective in treating red wounds." "Thank you, General!" Chen Xiaoru accepted. My nose is a little sore after taking painkillers. "Bring the people here." Fang Jie gave the order, and several Xiaoqi School escorted the captured Hukoujian scouts into the hall. Fang Jie looked at those people. They were all very strong men. It can be seen from the appearance and walking posture of these scouts that they are indeed well-trained people. These people looked around when they came in. Although their faces were not good-looking, they looked much calmer than the soldiers under Dou Tiande and Gao Beidou. After these scouts were escorted up, they stood in a row. From behind, the Xiao Riding School pressed their shoulders and kicked the crooks of their legs before they all knelt down. Fang Jiezi looked at it carefully and found that one of them looked at him with a twinkling look. He stood up and walked behind those people and ordered: "Open their palms." Because their arms were bound and their palms were behind their backs, the Xiaoqiu School went up and opened the hands of these people, and Fang Jie took a look at them one by one. Take a look. "A sword that has been held for more than five years will not have such a thick cocoon, so most of you are not locals of Huangyang Road. Huangyang Road has no soldiers to guard it, the county soldiers have been disbanded long ago, and you are not ordinary people." Fang Jie said calmly. Said: "You people are all well-trained veterans, so threats and even amputation of hands and feet may not make you speak. I am also a scout, so I know that the scouts are all men with strong skills and tough bones, so I really want to ask you questions calmly, and you can answer them calmly." Fang Jie walked around in front of them and looked at the person in the middle: "Do you know me? Seeing your eyes twinkling, could it be that you have seen me before?" This person was the one whose eyes flickered when he saw Fang Jie just now. When Fang Jie asked him, he turned his face away and refused to answer. Fang Jie didn't care. He walked back and sat down and said, "If it weren't for this troubled times, you veterans would still be serving in the military camp and receiving not too thin military pay every month. Your relatives at home would not have to pay because of you." Taxes don't mean you have enough food and clothing in the mountains, but now you have to take off your uniforms and go into the mountains to become bandits. Although most of the people you rob are wealthy and prominent families, no one has anything good to say about you. " "I. I know that real soldiers will not betray their comrades because of any threats. I don't want to say anything like risking the truth for life, but you can think about it, if you die, who will protect your family members? Once the situation in the stream is revealed, I will let you all leave and give you a sum of money, enough to support your family. Maybe your family has not been involved in the war yet, but since you are qualified scouts, you should watch. It turns out that no one can avoid the disaster of war! Just because we are safe now does not mean that we will be safe in the future." After saying this, Fang Jie stopped talking. He leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes to relax, as if he was thinking about something. No one spoke below. The few scouts from Hukoujian looked at each other and chose to shut up. "It would be nice if Mr. Zhuo was here." After a while, Houjie murmured, then pointed at the scout who looked at him strangely before and ordered: "Take him down first."If he refuses to say anything within an hour, he will be replaced with the next one. If everyone refuses to say anything, their integrity will be fulfilled. " After Fang Jie finished explaining, he stood up and left. He seemed to have lost patience with these people. Chen Xiaoru waved his hand, and the riding school came up and took those people into custody. The person designated by Fang Jie was dragged into an empty house and tied with a rope. Tied to a wooden stake. Not far from him was a stove, the iron inside was already burning red. There were whips and sticks and other torture instruments on the wall. It looked quite complete. Chen Xiaoru was a member of the Ouchi Guards Department. Born, he was no stranger to these instruments of torture. The door was left open, so after the scout was tied up, he saw several of his companions being dragged over and put into other rooms respectively. He was no stranger to this method. The most basic method is to interrogate the confessions separately and verify them together. Whether it is the people from the local county government, the Dali Temple of the Capital Punishment Department, or the Ouchi Guards Department, this scout also knows what he will face next. What kind of torture. Before he could prepare for it, he took a deep breath and screamed loudly from the next door. It seemed that the Knight Riding School in the next room was even more impatient, so he was escorted in and started to torture. The Hukoujian scout in the second room from the left had his shirt ripped apart by the whip in just a few moments, and his entire upper body was covered in bruises. He gritted his teeth and endured it, thinking involuntarily that he had captured the enemy before. When he was a scout, he was interrogated like this. It was not unfamiliar at all, but the roles were reversed. Soon, the severe pain made his consciousness a little blurry, and he could no longer make a sound, and his throat was hoarse. The standard is not to not scream after being beaten, that's all a lie. Screaming out due to sudden severe pain is not something you can do without biting your lip until you want to. Sometimes, he couldn't even control his voice. The knight opposite him might have been tired, so he handed the whip to another person and sat on the chair opposite him to rest. He said: "You are quite a man. Listen, the people on trial in the room next to you are shouting louder than you. I have worked in the Ouchi Guards for so many years, and I have not met many men like you. However, you should understand that the more you fight, the more addicted you become, right? "The scout knew that what the Riding School said was right. Executioners were more interested in the more stubborn prisoners because of human nature, and the more they beat them, the more addicted they became. But just because of the reminder from the Riding School, he suddenly discovered something Counting from the room he was in to the right, there were loud and small shouts coming from every room, but there was no sound from the room next to him. He suddenly thought of the general from before. Ask your companion in the next room: "Do you know me?" The way you looked at me just now flickered. Have you seen me before? "So he suddenly felt panic, followed closely by anger. There was no shouting, which only meant that the guy was not tortured. Why? Before he had time to think carefully, the whips fell like raindrops again, and his entire upper body was almost There was no intact part of him after being beaten, but the knight didn't seem to want to stop. After another quarter of an hour, he couldn't hold on and passed out. A bucket of cold water was poured on him, which made him recover again. The first knight who whipped him seemed to have regained his strength. He walked over and picked up the red-hot soldering iron. As the soldering iron got closer to him, he could also feel the temperature on the soldering iron. It became clearer and clearer. Just when the iron was almost touching the skin of his chest, and the corners of his mouth were twitching slightly from the burning pain, the General of the Knight Riding School walked in from the outside. He raised his head and glanced at the man with difficulty. , and found that there was a smile on the man's face. After Chen Xiaoru came in, he waved his hand and told the Xiaoqiu School to stop: "No more torture. The general ordered these people to be released, and to find clean clothes for them and apply them. Medicine for wounds, fifty taels of silver each, and sent them away. "The Hukoujian scout was stunned for a moment, and he understood what he meant in an instant. Not long ago, the general said that if one of their scouts confesses, the others can leave. Now he must be released. After leaving, is there any other possibility? The Xiao Riding School came over and untied him, then smeared the wound medicine on his body for a while, and threw a suit of clothes and a package at his feet: "Put on your own clothes. There is dry food and fifty taels of silver in the package. The general will be gracious and let you go. If??If you persist in your stubbornness and return to Hukou Stream, you will know what will happen to you. The reason why I let you go is because I am not afraid that you will tell the truth about what happened in the camp. In Huangyang Road, no one can lead troops to fight here. I believe you also know that this sentence is not a lie to you. "The knight who hit him before said coldly, then turned and left. The scout was silent for a while, but endured the pain and bent down to pick up his clothes and put them on. After putting on his clothes, he hesitated for a while, Finally, he picked up the package and walked out of the door. When he went out, he saw that the scouts who were being tortured in the other rooms also came out, with the same surprised and angry faces. Except for the first room, there was no one. came out, and the door was closed. The scouts came together and understood each other's thoughts from each other's eyes, because they all knew that someone from the Xiaoqiu School came over. He said coldly: "Follow me, and I will go back wherever I need to when I send you down the mountain. Don't know how to cherish your life. Even if you don't understand the situation in the tiger's mouth, can you still not conquer that tiny place?" "They followed the Knight Riding School out like a machine, and no one looked back. In the first room, the scout who had seen Fang Jie's eyes twinkling before was pressed against the window by the Riding School, and through the small hole dug specially Inside, he watched his companions pass by the window, and saw clearly the expressions on their faces. Fang Jie sat on a chair, pointed to the window and said calmly: "You should know by now, even if you don't do anything. Even if you don¡¯t say anything, I will let you go and go back with them immediately. Can you still survive? You should be glad that I chose you, because you don't have to be beaten to pieces. Of course, you can also choose not to say anything, and I will send someone to deliver you intact to the outside of Hukou Stream Valley. "