Chapter 437: The choice you will always face

When Lu Fenghou and Chen Yishan came back, the two of them walked arm in arm. Talking and laughing as he walked, it was as if two people had changed. The two of them were originally on the wrong path, and they were talking to raise the bar, but now they look like a pair of old friends who have known each other for many years.

It's just that no matter how you look at it, these two people are too hideous.

The armor and clothes on the two of them had long been soaked with blood, and blood flowed down the clothes as they walked. Where you walk, you leave a trail of bloody footprints.

The two men were followed by their own soldiers, at least one of whom carried six human heads in his hands.

It's hard to imagine a hundred people chasing two thousand people around the top of a mountain.

These pro-soldiers of Fang Xie completely frightened Liu Lezi's mountain bandits, and they had never seen a team that killed people faster than cutting vegetables. These pro-soldiers have personally trained for several months, and what they are best at is this kind of special operations of small force raids. The teams led by the two people counted them, and a total of more than 780 heads were beheaded.

On average, one person kills more than seven people.

There is only one way up the mountain, and there is only one way down the mountain. After Chen Yishan and Lu Fenghou led people up, those bandits didn't even have a way to retreat. In fact, it is true that these mountain bandits dare to kill people, but there are not many who can kill people, and the difference between stabbing with a knife and killing them with a knife is too great. Among them, there are not even a tenth of the truly bloodthirsty bandits.

The corner of the mountain road was their natural fortress, and it was because of the terrain that they had to stop the rebels from going up the mountain. But this time they were facing a group of fighting machines, Fang Jie's personal soldier team was originally a selected elite, plus Fang Xie himself, it has matured rapidly in the past few days. When it comes to killing, they don't have a liking or disliking. They see killing as a part of their lives, and it doesn't matter if they're afraid or not.

In their opinion, killing someone is as simple as eating and drinking.

Later, the rebels who dared to resist were killed by the team of 100 people, and the others, who still had the courage to hold their weapons, all knelt down and begged for mercy. The people with murder weapons in their hands are still too far behind the killing machines. Chen Yishan and Lu Fenghou each brought fifty people, and the two sharp arrows were unstoppable.

They didn't stop them at the corner of the mountain road, let alone after they went up.

In fact, speaking of the 10,000 rebels who didn't fight down the cliff and the 100 people of Fang Xie were defeated, it was not that Fang Jie's people were a hundred times stronger than the rebel soldiers. It's about training and individual martial arts, plus teamwork. The rebels were also taken captive, and their hearts trembled when they died. And they will only rush forward in one go, where can they compare to the seamless cooperation between the soldiers above.

"General, I've lost!"

Lu Fenghou came over and said, but there was no disbelief in his tone.

Chen Yishan cut off Liu Lezi's head with his own hands, and killed four more people than him, Lu Fenghou is a frank man, and he will not continue to be hypocritical.

"Scour it and see how much of it has available to this gang of bandits."

Fang Xie commanded.

Chen Yishan threw Liu Lezi's head to the ground, smiled and said: "I thought that this true son of heaven had a lot of ability, but it turned out that he was just a ruthless person, and his martial arts were ordinary, so he was just a villain." After Liu Lezi's death, no one dared to resist the other bandits, and there were about 16,700 people kneeling there. ”

Fang Xie snorted, glanced back at Sun Kaidao and asked, "Lord Sun, how do you think my subordinates are better than Yin Poshan's rebels?" ”

Sun Kaidao looked at Liu Lezi's head, swallowed hard and spat hard: "The difference between cloud and mud...... Xiaguan ...... Xia Guan has opened his eyes and gained insight today. ”

"Then I'll ask you."

Fang Xie said as he walked: "What to do with the more than 1,000 captives? ”

Sun Kaidao was silent for a while and said, "Morally, if the general doesn't plan to keep these prisoners, they can be let go." But these people have already drunk human blood, so it is difficult to change from beasts back to ordinary people. The general mercifully let them go, and for a day or two, they were honest. After a month or two, they will become bandits. If you work hard to farm and don't have food and clothing for a year, can you be a thief? Grab it once, enough to eat and wear for a while, and then grab it after eating, which is much easier than farming. ”

Fang Xie looked at him: "You can see it thoroughly." ”

Sun Kaidao nodded: "Xia Guan has seen a lot in the past two years, so he is thorough." If a person does not do bad things in his life and does not know what it is like to do bad things, he will not change anything. But as soon as you do something bad once and go unpunished, you will become addicted and get worse. ”

Fang Xie asked, "You mean, kill all these people?" ”

"Although it is not once and for all, at least it can ensure peace for a while."

Sun Kaidao hugged his fists and said: "The general is not a woman's benevolence, you should know that what the lower official said is right." These people are no longer the people of the Great Sui, even if the general lets them go, after the general's men and horses leave, they will immediately gather together again to cause trouble. Wang Baichuan, the county commander of Quxian County, next to Wan County, is a benevolent man, although he had to surrender the rebels, but he still fulfilled his duties, he organized the people to resist the bandits, and he was quite loved by the people because he was the first soldier. ”

"But this person is kind-hearted, he breaks a bandit, kills the leader, and the rest of the people are released, and sometimes if the leader of the bandits begs to admit his mistake, he will also let go. This Liu Lezi had been captured by Wang Baichuan at the beginning, Liu Lezi knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and wept bitterly, Wang Baichuan read that he repented, let him and a group of bandits go, and let him promise not to make trouble again. But that night, while Minyong was disbanded and went home, Liu Lezi broke into Wang Baichuan's house with dozens of people and killed all the 20 members of the Wang family. ”

Chen Yishan and Lu Fenghou's faces changed at the same time when they heard this, and Lu Fenghou said angrily: "This kind of beast scum, killing 10,000 times is not wronged!" ”

Zhuo Buyi sighed, originally wanted to persuade Fang Xie not to kill too many people, but he couldn't find a reason. The northwest is too chaotic, and it has become so chaotic that there is no moral mercy to survive. This place is full of sin and ugliness, and people's hearts have become demonic beasts in just two years.

"Can you take the teaching?"

Mu Xiaoxiao is a woman after all, and she can't bear to see so many people killed.

"You can't bring it."

Chen Xiaoru said: "We can't bring the burden now. ”

Mu Xiaowaist was stunned and had nothing to say. He knew that Chen Xiaoru was right, it was impossible for the team to lead a group of rabble through the territory of the rebels, and it was possible that these people would kill the team of 5,000 people.

Everyone looked at Fang Xie and waited for his decision.

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This will never be the first time Fang Xie has faced this situation, how to open this head, how to go in the future, Fang Xie knows this very well. If they are not killed, most of these people are not locals, and it is impractical to let them go home. But once they are released, the front foot of the team will pull out and their back foot will be regrouped, because if they don't loot or kill, they won't survive.

Liu Lezi is dead, but a ruthless character will soon emerge among these people to replace Liu Lezi's position and continue to make trouble with more than 1,000 people.

If they are all killed, it will still be difficult to cross the threshold in Fang Jie's heart. After all, it was more than a thousand lives, and they were all the people of the Great Sui.

Fang Xie looked at the prisoner kneeling in the open space in front of him, his face solemn. His subordinates are waiting for him to make a decision, and there are those who support killing and those who support not killing. Although Shen Tianfan and Wanyan Yunshu did not speak, the two of them must have the same mind as Mu Xiaoxiao. Although Shen Tianfan has a cold temperament and doesn't care about killing, after all, this is 16,700 lives.

Among his subordinates, although Chen Yishan was angry, he did not advocate killing them all, Zhuo Buyi was not a hard-hearted person, so naturally he could not see such a thing as killing prisoners.

Others, mostly in favor of killing.

Those who advocate not killing on the grounds that although these bandits have done many evils, it is the troubled times, the rebels, not themselves, who have driven them to this point. They used to be the people of the Great Sui, and if there was no rebellion by Li Yuanshan, they would not have picked up a hoe to kill their former villagers.

There is only one reason for those who advocate killing.

Whether they were ordinary people or evildoers, they deserve to die. Because they are the one who is the party to the disaster, I don't know how many people have been killed by them, their wives and daughters have been raped and adulterous, and the old and weak have been slaughtered. Liu Lezi likes to skin people, often after breaking a village, he will gather the villagers, choose beautiful women to enjoy for himself, if there are disobedient, he will let his cronies in front of the whole village to rape the woman, and then skin the people alive.

The reason for this is that no matter how good you were in the past, you should be punished for doing evil.

Fang Xie slowly walked up to a mountain bandit who looked to be about thirty years old, and this mountain bandit lowered his head and didn't dare to raise it. Fang Xie stood in front of him and stared at him, as if he wanted to see through his body and his soul. But this is impossible, Fang Xie is not a god, and he can't do this.

"Have you ever killed someone?"

Fang Xie asked him.

The man hurriedly shook his head: "No, no!" The grass people were coerced to come, and they did not do evil. Grass people are just ...... It's just that he is greedy for life and afraid of death to become a thief, but he has never done anything that hurts nature and reason! ”

Fang Xie snorted, and suddenly reached out and grabbed the clothes behind this person's back and tore them violently.

This man has several deep scars on his back. You can see that it is a scratch from a fingernail. Because it's too deep, it won't disappear from his back for the rest of his life.

The man looked at Fang Xie in horror and dazedness, as if he had forgotten the deep scratch on his back.

Yes, he forgot.

Fang Xie didn't speak again and continued to walk forward. He saw a boy who looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, kneeling on the ground, his body still shaking.

"Are you afraid of death?"

Fang Xie asked him.

The young man raised his head and looked at Fang Xie in fear: "I'm afraid...... General, please spare the lives of the grass people, the grass people swear that they will never dare to do evil again, and after the grass people go back, they will honestly farm and never follow others out to do evil again! The grass people knew they were wrong...... The general spared his life......"

"You're begging for mercy?"

Fang asked.

"Grass People...... The grass people don't want to die, so the general will spare me. ”

Fang Xie shook his head: "When you killed someone, did the person you killed beg for mercy?" Have you ever spared them because they begged for mercy? ”

The young man's expression froze, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes. He opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

Fang Xie didn't ask again, nor did he go any further.

He glanced at the bandits kneeling on the ground, and his face gradually calmed down. He had never thought he would face such a choice. When he was in Fan Gu, he didn't want to kill, even in the face of those horse thieves who killed people like evil, he only shot arrows and wounded them without killing people with his own hands. Later, after he left Fan Gu, more and more lives were accumulated in his hands, but those people were killed by him because they wanted to kill him.

Now, he's facing a different group of people.

It is also a group of people who must face in the future to lead the troops into battle.

They were not captives in the ordinary sense of the word, but a bunch of bandits. The two armies were at war, and no one wanted to take prisoners easily. But the situation is different now, so Fang Xie has to make his own decision.

In the future, he may continue to face this choice.

He wouldn't have thought of these things until he led the troops.

"General"

The big dog glanced at Fang Xie and said seriously: "You may not have thought that you would face such a choice before, but when I was the prince, the prince once asked me how to choose in such a situation, and my original answer was not to kill." Taifu said that I was a benevolent person, and he smiled very happily. ”

Fang Xie didn't wait for the big dog to finish speaking, and waved his hand: "Kill"

The big dog opened his mouth and didn't continue. He recalled that Taifu did smile happily when he heard his answer, saying that he was a benevolent person. But the disappointment in Taifu's eyes was so ......

Kill!

One word, floating in the valley.