Chapter 261: The Qiang flee
The five horses are divided into five horses, that is, the limbs and necks of the prisoners are covered with ox tendon ropes, which are attached to the five horses respectively, and they are divided into five directions. At the beginning, I won't pull too fast, but I will slowly pull and be tortured. The tortured person often suffers because the limbs and neck are pulled, the pain is so painful, there are no words, and finally the body is pulled into pieces. This is a relatively cruel punishment, specially dealing with criminals who have committed heinous crimes, like Han Sui, who betrayed his own nation, Liu Yu still felt that this was still a bit merciful.
In ancient times, there were many more cruel criminal laws, and beheading was relatively the most merciful death penalty.
Han Sui naturally knew how powerful the five horses were to divide their corpses, and struggled frantically. As a ruler, he also liked to punish his enemies or those he didn't like with with cruel punishments.
Of course, Liu Yu's soldiers would not let Han Sui continue to struggle, and dragged Han Sui down with a hard pull.
At this time, the battle situation also had a result, and the Han Sui army and the Qiang people, who had lost the core of the leadership, were unsurprisingly defeated, and almost all the troops were wiped out. Han Sui's confidants and favorite generals, Yang Qiu, Zhang Heng, and Cheng Yin all chose to surrender, while Liang Xing was stabbed by Ma Dai, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead. They knew that they hadn't committed much of a crime, and even if they did, they were under Han Sui's orders, and Liu Yu should have spared their lives. As for the Qiang troops, they were all slaughtered by Liu Yu's army.
The three were brought to Liu Yu and confessed. Liu Yu originally planned to kill them all, but Ma Teng interceded for them. Ma Teng said that Liang Xing and others did not have too many evil deeds.
Liu Yu saw Ma Teng's face and left their lives, but they had to do hard labor for ten years. As for Liang Xing, he actually has a breath. In the spirit of humanitarianism, Liu Yu arranged for Lang Zhong to treat him, and after he recovered, he would carry out the criminal law.
Cheng Yin and the others are grateful, and it is already extraordinarily generous to be able to survive.
Lu Bu and other generals all returned to Liu Yu to give orders to Liu Yu.
Liu Yu was very satisfied with their performance. Ma Chao learned that Ma Dai had captured Han Sui alive, and happily patted Ma Dai on the shoulder, this time Ma Dai really showed his face.
Liu Yu asked Ma Chao if he would like to serve under him. In fact, Liu Yu was a little hesitant about Ma Chao at first, after all, Ma Chao's ambition was very big, and in history, Ma Chao ignored Ma Teng in the hands of Cao Cao and rebelled, and finally Cao Cao became angry and killed Ma Teng. This person who can even be abandoned by his biological father, Liu Yu is a little afraid to use it.
Ma Chao also hesitated, and finally agreed. Ma Chao was originally very confident in his martial arts, but this time he was hit, not to mention Lu Bu, Liu Yujun still has people like Dian Wei who are on par with him, not to mention Huang Zhong who is guarding in Bingzhou. Ma Chao decided to stay under Liu Yu for a while, study hard, and improve himself.
Liu Yu didn't know if he could use Ma Chao well, and if he used it well, he could become a sharp weapon. If you don't use it well, you may hurt yourself. In the end, Liu Yu could only choose to stabilize Ma Teng's family.
After dealing with these, Liu Yu took everyone to watch the execution of Han Sui.
Han Sui has already been tied up and is waiting for the final execution. Han Sui also accepted his fate, no matter how he struggled, he would die in the end, so it was better to face it calmly.
With a wave of Liu Yu's hand, the five knights began to drive their sat horses to march in five different directions.
Han Sui, who was lying on the ground, was pulled by the horse and pulled up in the air.
The huge pulling force made Han Sui extremely painful. The five knights did not increase their speed, but let Han Sui continue to suffer. Han Sui's wails continued to increase, and he could clearly feel that his limbs were about to be torn off.
Liu Yu felt that it was almost over, and ordered the knight to speed up and end Han Sui's suffering. The knight received the order and whipped the war horse desperately, and the war horse suffered pain and ran forward desperately. Han Sui screamed in pain, and finally Han Sui's body cracked into several pieces under the action of the pulling force, and the internal organs spilled to the ground.
Although Liu Yu ordered Han Sui's five horses to be divided, he still felt disgusted when he saw this punishment for the first time. In the future, it is better to cut off the head directly, Liu Yu decided in his heart.
After killing Han Sui, Liu Yu still has to deal with a lot of things, there are still many Qiang people in Liangzhou who occupy many cities, and the Qiang people entrenched in Liangzhou must be dealt with as soon as possible.
At the same time, Liu Yu also has to properly settle Ma Teng's family. In order to stabilize Ma Teng, Liu Yu recommended Ma Teng as a scholar and gave a Luoyang mansion to realize the previous agreement with Ma Teng. As for Ma Chao, he was named a partial general, and he led Ma Teng's old troops with Ma Dai to pacify the Qiang people.
Ma Chao was a little too small for the official position Liu Yu gave him, and expressed his dissatisfaction on the spot. Liu Yu smiled and assured that as long as Ma Chao pacified the Qiang people, then high-ranking officials and Houlu were indispensable. Ma Chao was satisfied like this, Liu Yu wiped a cold sweat in his heart, this Ma Chao's utilitarianism is too strong.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Ma Teng went to Luoyang with Liu Yu's order, although Liu Yu was just recommending, but now who in the entire Luoyang court dares to oppose it? Ma Teng's book is a sure thing.
After sending Ma Teng away, Liu Yu divided all the troops into three parts, all the way to the old Liangzhou army where Ma Chao was located, all the way to Lu Bu and Zhang Liao as the core of the Bingzhou wolf cavalry, and finally Liu Yu led the main force of the Chinese army, and the three armies crossed and encircled, preparing to destroy the remaining Qiang people.
The Qiang people are also very clever, and they have long been concerned about the battle situation. Some of the more intelligent Qiang people had already returned to their hometowns before the war began. Now that Han Sui has been killed, the main force of the Qiang people has also been wiped out, and Liu Yu's army is coming in three ways, making it clear that they want to kill them.
After receiving such bad news, the Qiang people couldn't sit still anymore, and they packed up and fled to their hometowns for their lives.
Although they are very reluctant to get this city and comfortable living environment, these can't be exchanged for a life, and their lives are gone, what is the use of glory and wealth. Although the hometown is a little bitter, at least no one dies of hunger. The most critical point is that the elite of the Qiang people were all taken away by Han Sui, and they also went to hell with Han Sui, and the Qiang people no longer had enough strength to resist Liu Yu's attack. Some ruthless Qiang leaders also killed all the Han Chinese and burned the city.
In order to prevent being slaughtered by Liu Yu, the Qiang people were very clever enough to divide everyone into several ways to flee, and strive to follow a strategy of one by one.
The Qiang nursery fled to his hometown with his mouth, and such a thing could not be hidden from Liu Yu. In addition, there was an incident in which the Qiang people slaughtered the Han people and burned the city, Liu Yu was also ruthless and scolded: "All the soldiers speed up the king, and kill all the Qiang people, regardless of men, women, old and children!" Kill them all! ”
The commander was ruthless, and the officers and soldiers under him did not dare to slack off, and the speed of the march increased a lot.
After a rapid march, Liu Yu finally caught up with one of the fleeing Qiang people.
Liu Yu didn't say anything, and took the lead in rushing into the Qiang crowd with a snake sword, as long as the clothes were not Han, Liu Yu was killed.
Liu Yu's troops pounced on the Qiang like hungry wolves, and a bloody massacre began.