Chapter 117: [Uprooting]

"Confess and you will be treated leniently, Lu Shou. As long as you are willing to give out your accomplices, you can be treated lighter and spare your life." Ma Shao looked at Lu Shou.

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

Ma Shao: "Aren't you a traitor now? You betrayed the tribe."

Deer Hand's face flushed: "I didn't betray the tribe. It is precisely because I am loyal to the tribe that I want to drive you out of the tribe!"

He turned his head with difficulty to look at Ma Shao and the rainy day, and shouted breathlessly: "You are polluting the tribe. If we don't get rid of you, the tribe will be destroyed! This plague is a revelation. Even if you survive this time, you will perish sooner or later!"

"You said you were loyal to the tribe, so how do you explain your contact with the Comanches?" Ma Shao said slowly, "Owl and the others are not members of the tribe. Your way of being loyal to the tribe is to incite outsiders to create chaos for the tribe? Or do you think that the Comanches in the labor camp are actually the Apaches' honest friends?"

"I, I, this is just a necessary measure!" Lu Shou stuttered a few times, but still insisted.

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

"I will publicly try you in due course. Before that, I still need to interrogate Black Horn and your son...Take Deer Hand and lock him up."

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

Then Ma Shao walked over to the sleepy man, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "You have learned the technique well."

The Sleepy Man was able to subdue Deer Hand not because he was great strength. After all, in terms of strength alone, Deer Hand was not inferior to the Sleepy Man, and might even be better.

The real difference between the two is that the Sleepy Man received relatively scientific and systematic combat training in the army and mastered some combat techniques, while Deer Hand is just a reckless man who only knows how to use the Turtle Punch.

Sleepy Man is not a talkative person. After he joined Sleeping Bear and spent more time with Fengsheng, he became even more taciturn.

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

Ma Shao looked at the sleepy man and said, "After the epidemic is basically over, I plan to arrange for you and Feng Sheng to form a scout team."

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

"That's right." Ma Shao nodded slightly. "Scouts must be more elite than ordinary soldiers. They must not only be excellent fighters, but also be as knowledgeable as shamans."

The Sleeping Bear Army can be called an elite force. Its equipment, training, military discipline, tactics, and fighting will are all quite outstanding, at least top-notch in North America.

However, the structure of this army was still relatively simple, and the organization was still roughly divided into "ten" and "hundred". The troops were basically cavalry, but there was infantry training content during training.

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

He already had an idea of ​​the candidates for forming a scout team. Wind and Sleepy Man were both silent, sharp and meticulous people with outstanding abilities, making them perfect candidates for forming a scout team.

After the meeting, Ma Shao interrogated Heijiao and Luwei one after another.

Luwei is Lushou's son, and Heijiao is the translator who accompanied Lushou to meet Owl. And if Ma Shao remembers correctly, this guy seems to have some connection with the square-faced guy.

Compared with Lu Shou, these two men were obviously not as tough and confessed after being interrogated.

Especially Luwei, while confessing, he asked in fear: "I said, I have said it all, can you please not kill me... and my father?"

Ma Shao said slowly, "If you confess, you will be treated leniently; if you resist, you will be treated severely. Your attitude in admitting your guilt is very good, and you are not the mastermind, so of course you will not be punished severely. But it is hard to say about your father. He has always refused to admit his guilt, nor has he confessed his accomplices."

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

Luwei said quickly: "I can go and persuade him! Chief, let me go and persuade him. My father was just confused for a moment."

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

"Yes, I will make him confess."

After Luwei left, Xiayutian looked at Mashao and asked, "Are you planning to catch all of Lushou's accomplices?"

"That's right. Uproot them completely." Ma Shao said, "Deer Hand is just a representative of a certain group. It doesn't make much sense to just eliminate him. What's really important is to find out his accomplices and even his sympathizers, and punish or suppress them."

He thought this was a good opportunity.

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

If nothing unexpected happens, at least most of those old shamans who are just doing nothing are related to Deer Hand, so we should be able to clean up a bunch of them this time.

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

At first, only Ma Shao and Yu Tian were responsible for the interrogation. Later, several loyal and reliable shamans and warriors were found to assist.

During the interrogation process, the defendants constantly confessed their "accomplices" and the "crimes" they committed together in order to reduce the punishment they would face.

At first, it was just Shikaku, then it became Heijiao and Luwei, then four or five people, then a dozen people, then dozens of people...

Soon Ma Shao realized something was wrong.

Things have changed.

There is no doubt that as the review continues, many confessions have become distorted and off-track, and can even be said to be out of control.

For example, in several review reports received recently, Ma Shao even saw Shi Ya's name.

Several reports mentioned the Stone Crow, which at least shows that the Stone Crow must have appeared in the secret gatherings organized by the Deer Hand.

This made Ma Shao's mind a little confused.

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

"Let's stop here." Ma Shao finally stopped this chain reaction of censorship.

He recalled the negative history of political purges and was unsure how far the censorship would spread, or whether he could strike a balance in the process.

"It's raining. How many people related to the Deer Hand case have we counted so far?" Ma Shao rubbed his face. It was the first time that the energetic Ma Shao felt sleepy before midnight.

"One hundred and sixty-two," Rainy Day said, "More than seventy of them had direct contact with Deer Hand. What are you going to do with them?"

Ma Shao looked at the review reports scattered on the table, tapping his fingers lightly on the table, and was silent for a long time.

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