Under the scorching sun in the afternoon, more than 100 blood-stained prisoners in Lishui City were tied with ropes and then made a string, and under the scorching sun, they moved to a wharf on the southeast side of the county government of the Mingshi River with difficulty.

These captives were all soldiers of the Nanya Forbidden Army who were stationed in Lishui with Xu Bin but were abandoned by Xu Bin.

As the elite of the forbidden army, even if they were captured, their faces were a little smuggling, but the cavalry guards of the county king's mansion who attacked the city yesterday were too strong, and they lost their armor and couldn't parry, and they couldn't escape from the city after the rout, so they could only choose to surrender.

They didn't know what fate awaited them, only that the place they were heading to was the most open place in Lishui City.

The stubborn cavalry stood on both sides of the streets, so that the captives did not dare to struggle in the slightest.

Even if there was a fight last night and the city changed hands, there has never been a shortage of people in the land of Jianghuai who love to watch the excitement, and they come forward in twos and threes; Even if some people are timid, they can't help but poke their heads out of the courtyards and look at everything in front of them.

"I heard that it was Li Yu, the king of Zhedong County, who led his troops back, even if Xu Jiang, who was as proud as a red-crowned rooster a few days ago, he couldn't hold it out for half an hour, so he was killed and fled in embarrassment. Do you know what kind of character Prince Li is? You little children, you are still young, and the bird feathers have not grown, how do you know that when the first emperor hit Shengzhou and Yue Wang Dong Chang, the neighbors heard the reputation of Li Wangye, and they could stop their hooves in the middle of the night. That's the real master with blood on his hands, Wen Duqiao, Niu Gengru, Zhang Pan, Du Chongtao, Yang Zhitang, Yang Tai, all of them are extremely famous people, but they don't even dare to breathe in front of Wang Ye Li......"

"Prince Li also supports the three princes?"

"Isn't it? The Marquis of Xinchang, who supports the three princes the most, is the younger brother of Prince Li, who does Prince Li support the three princes if he does not follow his younger brother to support the three princes? The general who led the troops into the city last night was the son of Prince Li's own son-in-law - I heard that the county master Chengwei, as soon as he heard about the reputation of Prince Li, he peed his crotch and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy. ”

At this time, dozens of people were seen walking out of the gate of the county government from a distance.

Lishui City is not big, there are only a few people at the head, and the sharp-eyed people immediately recognized the county guard:

"Isn't that the head of the Wei family, Master Wei? They were following behind the hundreds of tied up prisoners, where were they going out? ”

"You don't know yet, huh? Master Wei begged for mercy, naturally he wanted to serve the third prince, didn't he have to show his loyalty? They picked out the dog-footed soldiers of Anning Palace stationed in Lishui City and escorted them to the South Street Wharf to be beheaded, as a sign of breaking off with Anning Palace! ”

"These generals of the Nanya Forbidden Army helped to abuse them, and they didn't know how to repent, so they couldn't complain about Li's ruthlessness. However, this also gives Lord Wei an opportunity to pledge allegiance to His Highness. Surrounded by several guards, Li Pu could faintly hear the people on the left and right discussing something but ignored it, and he said with a smile on his face and Wei Zhen, the head of the Wei family who was pale and had just had a bloody cut on his cheek.

Wei Zhen wrinkled his old face like a withered vine, and his smile at Xinchang Hou Li Pu was more ugly than crying, he was proud of his Confucian elegance, and he was somewhat repulsed by killing prisoners, not to mention that the prisoners who were taken to the temporary court at this time were guarding Lishui with his Wei family children before last night!

However, first, the cruel reality is in front of him, Wei Zhen and more than 200 invaders in the Wei clan and hundreds of clansmen who entered Lishui City to avoid disaster became prisoners at this time, and secondly, Li Yu, the king of Zhedong County, returned to seclusion for ten years, but his prestige did not fall, and the Li family was strong last night

If he broke the bamboo to capture Lishui, he also saw it with his own eyes, and his heart was still chilling at this moment.

As the head of the Wei family, would rather be a prisoner under the order, or join Yue Yang and reinvigorate the clan under the command of the Three Emperors, does Wei Zhen really have a choice?

Of course, Wei Zhen and the others expressed their willingness to serve, but Li Pu needed them to hand over their names before believing them.

The so-called petition for nomination, in addition to jointly condemning the crimes of the thief Xu's fornication, chaos in the palace, usurpation, and unscrupulousness, is also to be beheaded by Wei and other descendants of the Zhujia family, in front of the people of Lishui City, hundreds of prisoners of the Nanya Forbidden Army who surrendered and were captured last night on the Linfa field on the bank of the Mingshi River.

"Wei Zhen, you dog thief! I think you begged your grandfathers to defend the city, what kind of face you wanted, and you couldn't wait to come over and lick your grandfather's big bird. If you are willing to be this butcher today, aren't you afraid that your children and grandchildren of the Wei family will be rotten in their hearts and stomachs when they are born? One of the captives heard the onlookers talking, and then saw that the county guard Zhen really walked out of the county office with Xinchang Hou Li Pu, and immediately scolded.

Wei Zhen's old face twitched, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he looked to the side with a face, and let the prisoner insult.

Behind Wei Zhen, more than 20 children of the family who were elected to act were even more bleak, most of them were still relatively young, although they all practiced fists, feet, knives and bows since childhood, and thought they were brave, but in the end they had not experienced the bloody battles in the early years of the founding of the Great Chu, and Chengping had only recently experienced how cruel the battlefield was after the Jinling Incident, and had not yet learned to betray and betray.

At this moment, if they want to execute and behead the prisoners who were still in the same camp last night, how many people can transform and adapt?

Li Qi followed silently with a team of guards, who dared to struggle after the children of the families who had seen Li Qi's great martial arts?

Today will be the most important and brutal lesson in most of their lives.

"Smack!" A war horse galloped over diagonally, and the knight on horseback fiercely whipped a whip on his head and face, and knocked the prisoner who was screaming and scolding to the ground, and with a large number of prisoners in front and behind, he almost fell down, and dozens of cavalry surrounded him, urging these prisoners to go to the court.

Under the scorching sun, hundreds of heads fell to the ground, and blood spurted from their necks, dyeing the stone shop pier red, and soon seeped into the rippling Mingshi River from the stone ditch brick gap.

Some people sigh gloomily, some people are addicted, some people are terrified, and some people are triumphant.

Ignoring Li Pu's invitation to watch the execution, Gao Shao stood on the east city gate tower and watched all this.

Gao Shao was originally a sentry scout in the army of Dong Chang, the king of Yue, Dong Chang was defeated by Emperor Tianyou, he was wounded and captured, and then fled back to the countryside, his wife was infected with the epidemic, driven by the villagers, and then reduced to a homeless and hungry people.

Even if he couldn't stop Li Pu from killing the prisoners, he wouldn't join in the fun, thinking that outsiders said that Han Qian treated people harshly and harshly, but he had never done anything to kill prisoners, and it was strictly forbidden to kill prisoners, seize Xuzhou, and recruit a large number of Zhai slaves and soldiers from all surnames, all of whom were directly moved to Linjiang County to be granted cultivated fields and given civilian status.

In this regard, I don't know how much more clever than Li Pu.

Of course, Gao Shao is also more aware of the hidden dangers faced by the Chishan Army than anyone else, and he is also very aware of the jealousy and hatred of Xinchang Hou Li Pu for Han Qian.

Gao Shao sent someone to Donglushan to report the news in the early morning, noon

Han Qian had already sent someone back to ask him to confirm that there was no threat from the Nanya Forbidden Army in the north for the time being, so he led two battalions of soldiers and horses to withdraw to Donglu Mountain.

In addition, Han Qian didn't say anything in the letter, nor did he ask anyone to bring any message, and he didn't seem to feel the slightest surprise at the performance of the cavalry guards of the County King's Mansion, Li Qi's bravery, and what Li Pu was going to do in Lishui.

Gao Shao couldn't help but think, the adults had guessed in advance that Li Pu would recruit the soldiers of the family in Lishui City and sing against the Chishan Army?

Gao Shao hesitated whether to send someone to Donglushan to ask for instructions, thinking that he really wanted to lead two battalions of soldiers and horses to occupy the East City Gate Tower of Lishui City, and believed that Li Pu would have no way to take him.

The East City Gate Tower is built on a slightly raised mountain ridge, which is the highest point of Lishui City, and Gao Shao can see the situation in the city when he stands on the East City Gate Tower.

After beheading hundreds of captives of the forbidden army of the Southern Ya, Li Pu retreated to the county government with Wei Zhen and others, and soon he saw that those prisoners belonging to the Wei family and other families gathered in a compound on the north side of the county government, and there were also strong slaves and maids gathered from the courtyards of each family in the city.

The compound was originally requisitioned by the Nanya Forbidden Army to serve as a barracks, and there was a garden of three or four acres in the courtyard, with fake stones demolished, fish ponds filled in, and made into a school field, which was crowded with people in the afternoon, and it looked like there were almost 800 people.

This is also another important action of the Wei family and other families, that is, the families sent their children to select the strong from the slaves and maids and integrate them into the army.

Unlike Han Qian, who recruited slaves and maids into the army and stripped them directly from the hands of the family lords, Li Pu asked the elite slaves and maids selected by the families to be directly led by the descendants assigned by the families as the private soldiers of the families, and then incorporated into the army to accept the command of moderation - this is also the military system practiced by Emperor Tianyou who rose to the Jianghuai in the early years and ruled the heroes.

Like Wei Zhen's son Wei Huang, Liu Zishu, a son of the Liu family who fled from Shangjiabao to Lishui City for only two days, although the soldiers directly commanded by his command ranged from dozens to more than 100 people, they were all awarded the rank of battalion commander, and led the troops of the subordinate to accept Chen Mingsheng's control and command.

Li Pu used this method to complete the reconciliation with the Lishui family, in exchange for their allegiance to himself and to Yueyang, although there were hidden dangers that could not be dropped, but it also had an immediate effect.

However, this time, the soldiers and horses gathered under Li Pu's command and the Chishan Army were essentially sharply opposed.

Gao Shao looked at all this with great concern, and at this time he saw Zhang Ping coming over on a horse from a distance, he poked his head out from the battlement and greeted: "Lord Zhang, the soldiers and horses of Anning Palace in Jiangcheng and Pingling have not moved, I will lead my troops to withdraw to Donglu Mountain tomorrow, and completely hand over Lishui City to Marquis Li to deal with, do you want to go to Donglu Mountain with me?" ”

Zhang Ping was nominally the military envoy sent by Yue Yang to Han Qian's side, but the secret of the Shenling Division was no longer a secret in the eyes of a senior general of Gao Shao's level.

"Okay, I'll go back with you." Zhang Ping raised his head and said.

Zhang Ping persuaded Li Pu to ask Wei Zhen and other families to surrender their names, they had other means, the prisoners were also the people of Dachu, there was no way to kill and wound them in the battlefield battle, and it was really unnecessary to kill the prisoners, but Li Pu did not listen to his advice.

Zhang Ping could also guess that Li Pu was too jealous of Han Qian in his heart, so he was so eager for the Wei family and other Lishui families to stand with him as soon as possible, and he couldn't persuade him, what was he doing here?

(End of chapter)