The sunset is like blood.

When the Tie Ce army in the field began to bury the pot and cook rice, the carriage where Qi Zhuji was located returned to the camp.

"It's done."

Qi Zhuji, who jumped out of the carriage, nodded to Wang Chaozong and others who were facing him and said.

"Where is that person?"

Wang Chaozong was stunned.

“In the back.”

Qi Zhuji looked back and said, "Most of their feet are injured. I asked the people in Tongshanguan to apply medicine to them and gave them new shoes. I guess they were a little bit swelling and walked slowly."

After he had enough time to answer the Emperor Chaozong, some ragged figures appeared on the road outside Menglong City.

"You actually use death row prisoners?"

A surprised voice rang out.

Luo Jilian looked at the figures moving towards the camp, and she quickly determined the identity of these people. These people looked a little difficult to walk because they usually wore shackles on their feet. After a long time, the flesh and blood on their feet would be worn out, and even the muscles were broken, and the bones inside would rot.

In the Southern Dynasty, only death row prisoners who committed heinous crimes would wear shackles for a long time.

These death row prisoners are usually obedient, but if they are violent and difficult to tame, the prisons in prisons will not be treated at all, and they will not even give some of the worst sores and rot, allowing these people's feet to ulcerate so that they can't walk.

His feet were ulcerated and he could not walk, but he still had to work like other prisoners on weekdays. In this way, he might not be dragged to death if he could not delay for much time.

The administration of the previous dynasty was originally chaotic, and there were not many people who were responsible for the life and death of prisoners who committed serious crimes. Although Xiao Yan rectified it after he ascended the throne, he eliminated the old party forces of the previous dynasty after he ascended the throne. In addition, he did not want to cause chaos among the people, so the measurement method was even more serious. There were only a large number of criminals in prison in various places, and the prisons were even more crowded.

From top to bottom, the more serious offenders are imprisoned, the higher the tolerance for the death of the criminal.

In the third year of Tianjian, the Jiankang Jingzijian was hot in summer, and several prison cells were not well ventilated, which killed more than 30 people. The officials were only demoted one level and were fined for one year.

This shows how the Southern Dynasty tolerated the mortality rate of prisoners in various places.

"This...why did she come?"

Qi Zhuji was stunned when he saw Luo Jilian at first sight.

Luo Jilian joined the army, and the affairs of her family and how much help she could bring to the Tie Ce Army, the Tie Ce Army is now well known. Seeing Qi Zhuji's dazed look, Wang Chaozong immediately said a few words softly and explained clearly.

"When I was marching to Meishan, I felt that her style and temperament were completely different from those of the Southern Dynasties women. At that time, I only thought of Dongliangzhou and Northern Wei bordering. I thought that her temperament was closer to Northern Wei women, but I didn't expect there was such a layer."

Qi Zhuji was just surprised that Luo Jilian was here before. He was not lacking in etiquette to his senior sister in the courtyard, especially now that he is a great help from Tie Ce Army. He looked at Luo Jilian from afar and bowed, saying, "Senior Sister Luo."

"No wonder you left Zhongli City and marched all the way here, but did not recruit troops or draw elite soldiers from the local army. They were actually doing this idea." Luo Jilian was not as restrained as other practitioners. She jumped and the two ups and downs had already reached Qi Zhuji's side.

"Different generals have different characteristics to lead the army. You Tie Ce Army, who came out of Zhongli City, all came out of the Shura Farm, which was strangled with more than 100,000 elite Northern Wei troops. These are death row prisoners proposed from the prison... Qi Zhuji, your Tie Ce Army seems to want to directly build a Shura Army, a deadly soldier army that is simply full of dead soldiers."

Luo Jilian was excited and looked at the prisoners, "I just don't know what your criteria for choosing these prisoners?"

"The Chivalrous."

Lin Yi's voice sounded.

Lin Yi also walked out of the camp and arrived beside them.

"At first, the fourteen people I chose from Kiriyama Prison were not the most brave outlaws, but most of them were imprisoned for their unfairness and justice. In my opinion, these people were truly brave, and they had to be respected by some dynasties in ancient times."

He looked at Luo Jilian who was excited, smiled slightly, and said, "Then I asked each of these people to choose five people. Those who can be like their will are naturally not bad."

"The combat power can be replenished after all. You are indeed a natural general star. What you want to find is a kind of person that is similar to you." Luo Jilian couldn't help but shake his head, "But Lin Yi, you are really bold. You dare to mention so many serious crimes directly. After you are a criminal, you suddenly gain power. If you raise people like this, you are not afraid that the emperor will think you have a private party."

"I am exiled to Dangxiang by myself, and I still care about his thoughts. No matter how dissatisfied he is, if I am with Dangxiang, can he still send someone to bring me back?" Lin Yi smiled.

"You, you had to recommend a letter of recommendation when you entered the Nantianyuan. In the eyes of the students of the Nantianyuan, you were already a dilapidated city in Jiankang City. Just like our Tianjian student for five years, you can just move out any family background to kill you. But you were so good. At that time, you were so thorny that you offended all the five years of Tianjian for five years." Luo Jilian smiled, and she spoke directly, "Now you are getting richer and you don't even take the emperor's ideas seriously."

"That depends on how everyone thinks."

Lin Yi smiled and said, "The true wise monarchs of all dynasties in history respect each other and do not respect the position, but only look at who is polite. No matter how many generals I am, if I do not cross the boundaries of the monarch and the ministers, why should I think in fear? "

"Although it is reasonable, how many people in the entire Southern Dynasty, dare to think like you and do this?" Luo Jilian smiled slightly mockingly, "The Nantianyuan is known as the best college in the Southern Dynasty. There are so many students, not to mention the generals who can truly lead the army, even if they are used to it and comfortable to see it, there are not many."

"There are some of them that are amazing."

Qi Zhuji glanced at her and retorted.

He didn't mean to argue, but when Luo Jilian said that, he naturally thought of Ni Yunshan and Wang Pingyang.

Luo Jilian smiled.

She wasn't angry at all.

Because she had already seen Li Moxiao just now, and she thought that Ni Yunshan had specially helped Lin Yi and asked Jiange to join the Tie Ce Army. At this time, Qi Zhuji said this, and she couldn't help but think that those really powerful characters in the South Heaven Academy seemed to naturally join Lin Yi's Tie Ce Army.

...

"See General Lin."

After a difficult journey, these prisoners from Tongshan Prison finally arrived at the camp of the Tiece Army. When some Tiece Army soldiers began to allocate the camp, a prisoner elected came not far in front of Lin Yi and bowed, "Thank you for General Lin's life-saving grace."

"May I have your name?"

Lin Yiwei bowed back and looked at the prisoners who looked very quiet at this time, saying, "It seems that there are three more people?"

"My name is Liu Huaiyao."

The prisoner replied quietly, "We heard from General Qi that you recruit us into the army to fight Dangxiang. You gave us the right to bring five people out. This is naturally a great reward for us. We dare not abuse this reward. We each selected the people we brought out, some of whom were absolutely good people, and were imprisoned due to unjustly, some were guilty and committed serious crimes, some were indeed useful for fighting Dangxiang, while others were imprisoned because they offended local powerful people and were unable to live in Tongshan Prison. We chose carefully, but in the end there were three more people and could not make a choice, so we informed General Qi of the difficulties, and General Qi was also correct."

"You are Liu Huaiyao. You were originally a private school teacher, but you showed your injustice and angrily killed three people. You are from Qingyang Town, Dingzhou?"

Lin Yi was a little surprised when he looked at this person.

The prisoner in front of him seemed to be about forty years old and had a haggard face, but according to the records in the case he had seen before, the man was only thirty-one years old.

Among the prisoners he selected in Tongshan Prison, Liu Huaiyao was one of the first people he selected.

According to the records of the Censor, this private school teacher was not a practitioner or had never practiced martial arts. However, when he saw a local wealthy family bullying a mountain man selling bamboo, he was angry and killed people. He did not use a sword, but just a sharpened green bamboo.

After killing three people in a row, he committed suicide by wielding bamboo to stab himself in the throat, but was rescued and imprisoned in Tongshan Prison.

Lin Yi's eyes fell on his throat, and he saw a hideous scar.

At this time, Liu Huaiyao lowered her head. The scar was not obvious in the night. However, Lin Yi could see that the prick was very hard at that time, but the part was wrong. If it deflected one inch further, the Adam's apple and esophagus were broken and it should not be alive. To the right, the main blood vessels were broken and it would be impossible to treat it directly.

"General Lin, do you know me?" Liu Huaiyao's body shook slightly, even more surprised.

"I have seen all of you people's Case Sect, otherwise I wouldn't have picked you out of so many people first." Lin Yi nodded and said, "I'm just a little confused. According to the Case Sect, the mountain man who sells bamboo is not related to you. Although the rich family bullied him, they seemed to want his life. Why did you suddenly kill those three people?"

"I do not know the mountain man, but I happened to hear the three of them."

Liu Huaiyao took a deep breath and said slowly: "The mountain man has an old mother and a wife in his family. The rich man did not know the mountain man before, but he had just met the mountain man and the mountain man's wife before. So when he saw this mountain man in the town, the rich man deliberately asked two followers to provoke bullying. If the mountain man dared to fight back, the two followers under his command would be intentionally injured, and then he would try to imprison the mountain man, and then he would naturally do something to bully the mountain man's wife. I happened to hear the discussion between the rich man and the two followers. The mountain man was also patient when he was bullied by them, but these three people

Duan became more and more despicable, and even forced the mountaineer to swallow the horse manure on the ground. I watched from the side and saw that the mountaineer was actually very strong in character. The mountaineer was humiliated in all kinds of humiliation, but if the mountaineer took action, his family would be destined to be destroyed. The fate of my mother and wife would probably be very desolate, but I was different. I was alone at that time, and my parents died early. I rely on teaching people to read and read to support myself. What I teach those children on weekdays is the principle of being a human being. After thinking about it, I couldn't help but snatch the bamboo of the mountaineer and stab the three people. The three people were not prepared for me and were stunned for a moment, and I was stabbed to the vital point of my life."

"I heard that you were rescued after you came from all the time. You were going to be executed, but countless people in the town asked for your order, so you were taken to Tongshan Prison." Lin Yi glanced at him and said, "It's just that the details of why you killed these three people are not recorded in the case sect."

"I originally thought I would die, so I was sentenced to death and was sentenced to death in prison. Although I was not executed later, I knew that it was impossible to forgive me according to the law, and the statement was useless, so I obeyed and worked hard in Tongshan prison with peace of mind."

Liu Huaiyao said peacefully: "Some prison officials know how I went to prison, but they took care of me. Therefore, although I am weak, I have not had any illness or disasters over the years."

Lin Yi didn't judge these old things either. He looked at Liu Huaiyao who was calm and said, "You are here on behalf of them, so naturally you want to ask me some questions?"

"General Qi's carriage is coming first, and I see there are no soldiers monitoring along the way. Are you afraid that after we leave Tongshan Prison, we will flee?" Liu Huaiyao did not answer his question first, but asked back.

"If you believe, you will use it, if you don't believe it, you won't use it."

Lin Yi said: "If it weren't for the person I wanted, it would be no pity to escape."

"Most of us are not from soldiers. Even if we are only willing to repay our kindness to the death, do you really think we can be used on the battlefield?" Liu Huaiyao raised her head, looked at Lin Yi, and said seriously: "Of course we are not afraid of death, but we may have misled the general."

"In the past dynasties, the most outstanding figures and the most dead soldiers around them were only a thousand. They were listed as the Marquis of Liuchun, who was under the founding emperor of the previous dynasty. There were 700 dead soldiers under his sect, but these 700 dead soldiers were more fearful than the 70,000 troops. The most terrifying thing about these dead soldiers was not absolute force, but the true determination to die."

Lin Yi smiled proudly, and he turned to look at the tents around him, looking at the soldiers who were like "miscellaneous troops". "You should know how the people in the Jiange fought in Zhongli City. The people in Jiange were real dead soldiers. Now, these people who came out of Zhongli City, the entire Tie Ce Army, are real dead soldiers."

"The true energy of the practitioner, the flying sword, and all kinds of powerful weapons are all external forces."

Lin Yi withdrew his gaze, looked at Liu Huaiyao, and said, "Ordinary people have strong weapons and good combat power. But even if they have such weapons, they can kill the enemy to death, which is unknown. But you are different. You killed three people with Jianzhu back then. If you gave you the most exquisite weapons, wouldn't you dare to fight against the Dangxiang people?"

"I can certainly kill people alone, but a group of terrible people kills enemies faster than a terrible person, and it is easier to make the enemy scared."

Lin Yi looked at Liu Huaiyao who was silent and said seriously: "I need soldiers like dead soldiers, but when I go to Dangxiang, I don't want you to die, but to get the victory you want as soon as possible."

...

The night became darker, and in addition to the aroma of food, the camp gradually filled with some cool medicinal fragrance.

Almost all the people in Tongshan Prison carry external injuries and are not difficult to heal.

Chen Baowan and Lin Yi walked side by side to the outside of the camp. On the side of a ditch near the official road, Chen Baowan stopped.

"You're leaving?"

Chen Baowan didn't say anything before, but Lin Yi looked at the expression on her face at this time and guessed a possibility.

"You may not care much about the emperor's thoughts now, but the Chen family must not ignore it."

Chen Baowan took a deep breath, and she turned her head to look at Lin Yi, her eyes brightened in the darkness, "The emperor will feel at ease when he recruits your father back to Jiankang. If I stay in Tiece Army for a long time, he will probably have many associations that are unfavorable to us. If I return to Jiankang, he will feel at ease when he returns to Jiankang. My father and my brother are both in the north, and I will feel at ease when I return to Jiankang City. There are many things I can watch for them and you."

Lin Yi was silent for a moment, "When will you leave?"

“It’s just tonight.”
To be continued...