1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 118 [Uprooted]

"Be honest and be lenient, Lushou. As long as you are willing to confess your accomplices, you can be dealt with lightly and avoid death." Ma Whistle looked at Lushou.

"I will never be a traitor!" Lu Shou said without hesitation.

Horse sentry: "Aren't you a traitor now, you who betrayed the tribe."

Lu Shou's face turned red: "I did not betray the tribe, it is because I am loyal to the tribe that I drive you out of the tribe!"

He turned his head to look at the horse whistle and the rainy day with difficulty, and shouted out of breath: "You are polluting the tribe, if you don't get rid of you, the tribe will be destroyed! This plague is a revelation, even if you survive this time, sooner or later perish!"

"You say you are loyal to the tribe, how do you explain contacting the Comanche?" Ma Whistle said unhurriedly, "The owls are not members of the tribe yet, the way you are loyal to the tribe is to encourage outsiders to create chaos for the tribe? Do you think the Comanches in the camps were really friends with the Apaches?"

"I, I, this is just a necessary means!" Lu Shou stammered a few times, but insisted.

"Every traitor can say that." Ma Shao said slowly, "Whether you are a traitor or not is up to you."

"After a while, I will publicly judge you. Before that, I need to interrogate Black Horn and your son... Take the deer hand and lock it up."

"Yes." The soldiers tied the deer's hands and led them out of the chief's hall.

Then Horse Whistle walked up to the sleepy man, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "You learned the technique well."

The sleepy man was able to subdue the deer hand not because of his strength. After all, in terms of strength alone, the deer hand was not inferior to the sleepy man, and even surpassed it.

The real difference between the two is that the sleepy man has received more scientific and systematic fighting training in the army and has mastered some fighting techniques, while the deer hand is a reckless man who only knows how to punch.

Sleepy Man is not a talkative person. After he joined Sleeping Bear, he got along with the wind a lot and became more taciturn.

So when he heard the compliment, he just smiled shyly.

The horse whistle looked at the sleepy man: "After the epidemic is basically over, I plan to arrange you and Fengsheng to form a scout."

"Scout?" The sleepy man listened to the term, "Soldiers who specialize in reconnaissance?"

"That's right." Horse Whistle nodded slightly, "Scouts are more elite than ordinary soldiers. They are not only outstanding fighters, but also knowledgeable like shamans."

The Sleeping Bear Army can also be called an elite division, with excellent equipment, training, military discipline, tactics, and fighting will, at least in North America.

However, the structure of this army is still relatively simple. The organization is still roughly divided into "shi" and "bai", and the arms are basically cavalry, but the training content of infantry is included in the training.

Ma Shao felt that it was time to further improve the army, such as forming a group of professional scouts.

He had already had an idea for the candidates to form the scouts. Feng Sheng and Sleepy Man, both of them have silent, keen and meticulous personalities, and their abilities are also outstanding, so they are suitable for forming scouts.

After the meeting was over, Horse Whistle interrogated Black Horn and Deer Tail successively.

Deertail is the son of Deerhand, and Black Horn is the interpreter who accompanied Deerhand to meet the owl, and if the horse whistle is not mistaken, this guy seems to have some connection with the original square face.

Compared with Lu Shou, these two people are obviously not so stubborn, and they confessed after interrogation.

Especially Luwei, while making a confession, he asked anxiously: "I said it, I already said it, can you guys stop killing me...and my father?"

Ma Shao said slowly: "It is lenient for confession, and strict for resistance. Your plea is very good, and you are not the mastermind. Of course, you will not be punished severely. But your father is hard to say. He has always refused to plead guilty or confess. accomplice."

After a pause, he continued: "If your father always has this attitude, I can only suggest that you make preparations early. I mean... the funeral."

Luwei hurriedly said: "I can persuade him! Chief, let me persuade him, my father was just confused for a while."

"Yes." Ma Shao nodded, "You'd better get your father to say something, such as who he has secretly contacted."

"Yes, I will make him confess."

After Luwei left, Yutian looked at the horse whistle: "Are you planning to catch all Lushou's followers?"

"That's right, uprooting." Horse Whistle said, "Deer Hand is just a representative of a certain group, and it doesn't make much sense to just eliminate him. What is really important is to find out his accomplices and even sympathizers." , be punished or suppressed.”

He thinks this is a good opportunity.

With the help of this incident and the background of the epidemic, he can find out some opponents lurking in the dark, and charge them with crimes and uproot them.

If there is no accident, at least those old shamans who eat vegetarian meals with corpses are mostly related to Lushou, and a batch of them should be cleaned up this time.

In the next few days, after Black Horn and Deer Tail, the interrogation continued.

In the beginning, only horse posts and rainy days were responsible for the interrogation. Later, a few loyal and reliable shamans and warriors were recruited as assistants.

During the interrogation process, the interrogated kept confessing their "accomplices" and the "crimes" they had committed together, in order to reduce the punishment they would face.

At first it was Lushou alone, then it became two people with Black Horn and Luwei, then four or five people, then a dozen people, dozens of people...

Soon the horse sentry noticed that something was wrong.

Things have changed.

There is no doubt that as the censorship continues, many confessions have been distorted and deviated, and it can even be said to have gotten out of control.

For example, in several review reports received recently, the horse whistle even saw the name of the stone crow.

Stone crows have been mentioned in several reports, at least to show that stone crows must have appeared in secret gatherings organized by the deer hands.

This made Ma Shao's thoughts a little confused.

Shi Ya is his teacher, elder, and someone he trusts. Although due to his age, his thinking is a bit old-fashioned, he never expected that Shi Ya would also have a connection with Lu Shou.

"Let's stop here." Horse Whistle finally stopped the chain reaction-like review.

Reflecting on his negative history of political purges, he's not sure how far the censorship will spread, let alone whether he will be able to handle it in the process.

"On a rainy day, how many people are related to the Lushou case have we counted so far?" Ma Whistle rubbed his face, feeling sleepy for the first time before midnight when he was full of energy.

"Two of 160." Yu Tian said, "There are more than [-] people who have had direct contact with Lushou. How do you plan to deal with them?"

Ma Shuo looked at the review reports scattered on the table, tapped his fingers on the table, and fell silent for a long time.

(End of this chapter)