Chapter 62: Taking Jiujiang lightly and dealing with the captives

got the letter stamped with the big seal, Li Jing didn't rush to send someone to send the letter out. He called out Bo, the lord of the Shuai Mansion, and said to him: "You have performed well today, I will try to save your life!" ”

"Oops! Thank you, General Lee! Saying that, the master of the handsome mansion was about to kneel.

"Don't! You hurry up. Li Jing said, "How about I give another chance to make meritorious contributions?" ”

"I, I listen to General Li's orders!" The lord of the handsome mansion said tremblingly.

"Usually, how do you send these letters?" Li Jing held up the letter in his hand and asked the marshal mansion lord Bo.

"This...."

"I'll ask someone else if you're ready." Li Jing stared at the master of the Shuai Mansion Bo and said.

"Good!" The lord of the Shuai Mansion said in a trembling voice, "Just send the guards of the Shuai Mansion in Jiujiang City to send them over." Outside, you have to hand it over to the army outside the Shuaifu, as long as you don't wear the armor of the Shuaifu guards and hold the token to go out of the city. ”

"Okay, thank you, Lord Bo! Come and send Lord Bo to rest. Li Jing said.

Li Jing was not at ease and asked the two officials of the Shuaifu again, so she arranged for someone to send the letter.

Jiujiang is the place where Zuo Liangyu focuses on guarding, there are tens of thousands of troops in the city, tens of thousands of people outside the city, and there are more than 100,000 troops guarding Jiujiang alone.

Although Li Jing said very lightly to Zuo Liangyu, she didn't dare to slack off, because she was now more than 30,000 troops to deal with 300,000, so she was very cautious.

Around Zuo Liangyu, the generals guarding inside and outside Jiujiang City are all Zuo Liangyu's cronies, and they are usually very proud. Especially after arriving in Jiujiang, after not fighting much and suffering hardships, one by one they ate with oil on their faces, and they came to Shuaifu sideways.

A few generals met in front of the Shuaifu, and said to each other: "Why is the general in such a hurry to let us come?" ”

"Is it that the kiln gang people in Jiangbei are going to fight! They have now cleaned up Zheng Zhilong from Fujian again. Otherwise, the general would not have been in such a hurry to let us come over! The other said.

Whether they entered the marshal's mansion alone or a few people entered the marshal's mansion, they didn't take a closer look at the soldiers standing guard, but when they entered the marshal's mansion, a guard would come up and say to them: "The general has an order!" Hand over your blades, and those who disobey the order will be killed! ”

"What?" None of the generals who came in were willing to hand over their blades. But they all knew that if Zuo Liangyu's order was not obeyed, he might be beheaded immediately.

When they have no choice but to hand over their blades, someone will come and tie them up. These people didn't expect that they would be tied up by the kiln gang people, so they didn't dare to struggle too much when they were tied. However, those who were tied up were lucky, and those who saw that something was wrong and struggled immediately died.

After counting, the generals inside and outside Jiujiang City had arrived, and Li Jing immediately sent a telegram to Li Zhi's action team of more than 30 people who lived in another place in Jiujiang City.

The action team, which had been waiting for a long time, immediately put on the clothes of Zuo Liangyu's army, and under the leadership of the action captain, marched towards the city gate facing Jiangbei. When they came to the city gates, the captain shouted, "Hey! Which of you is leading the team? ”

The little leader guarding the city gate, when he looked at the other party's armor, knew that the level of the person who came was not low, and hurriedly said: "General, today is the little one who leads the team in front of this gate!" Then he pointed to the city and said, "We are a thousand households up there." ”

"Do you know why the Shuai Mansion invited all the generals today?"

"I don't know, how can we know? We just saw a lot of generals entering the city today. "The little boss said in his heart, let's just stand guard and manage so much.

"Let me tell you, the general already knows that someone has been bribed by the Yaogang people and wants to dedicate Jiujiang City to the Yaogang people." The captain of the operation said, "How many of you are here, hurry up and line up." ”

"General, General. There were fifteen of us below. Let's line up right now! With that, he shouted at the soldiers guarding the door: "Hurry! Hurry up and get in line! ”

The soldiers, who were checking the comers, were stunned and immediately ran over to line up.

The captain shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Don't delay the people in and out of the city gates. You go past a line and check on passers-by. ”

The squad took over the city gates with ten men. The leader of the guards felt that something was wrong. Just as he was about to say something, the captain of the operation shouted at him, "What are you looking at? Take your men with me and go to the city to see you thousand households! ”

"This ,....," the little leader pointed to the city gate, not wanting to leave.

"What, I want to cut you right now? Are you also being bought? The captain of the operation said in a bad tone.

"No, no, general, you are angry, we will go with you immediately."

"What's the name of your thousand households?"

"Call, call Li**!"

The captain and the leader walked along the side road towards the city, followed by five members of the action team, followed by five soldiers guarding the city gate, and then five action teams. And so they were separated. The little leader was uncomfortable, but he didn't dare to speak.

The city gate building of Jiujiang is very high, the side road can not go directly to the city, there is a turn, in the place of this turn, the top can not be seen, and the bottom can only see the head through the battlement wall. When he walked here, the captain of the operation took out the pistol of the *** and fired a shot at the little boss next to him. The little leader looked at the captain of the operation unwillingly, and as soon as his body became weak, he collapsed, and he didn't understand what was going on until he died. The members of the action team in the back saw that the front was moving, and before they could figure out what was going on, the other fifteen soldiers were killed at the turn of this side road.

When the captain of the operation came to the city, the soldiers standing guard saw that they did not know the person who came, and shouted: "Stop, who is it?" ”

Not only did the captain of the action not stop, but he gave him a mouth with a "snap" and asked, "Where are you Qianhu Li **?" ”

The soldier was stunned, and before he could speak, a person ran next to him, "General, general, I am Li **, who are you?" ”

"Bold Li **, don't kneel yet?" The captain of the operation drew his sword and shouted.

"I, you are ....." Although Qianhu saw that the person who came was a general, but for no reason, he didn't figure out who the other party was, so he couldn't just kneel.

The captain of the action took out a Shuaifu token and shouted: "Bold Qianhu Li **, colluded with the Yaogang people to betray the Jiujiang City Gate." I came to arrest you on the orders of the general, and you still don't kneel? The captain's words were also addressed to the other soldiers who came up closely.

"I, I'm wronged." Li ** is resolutely not to kneel.

A member of the action team kicked Li ** on the crook of the leg in the past, and Li ** had to "plop" and kneel. In the past, the two action team members tied up the thousand households Li **. At this time, the soldiers of the city gave up and surrounded them with weapons.

The captain of the operation held the token in one hand and the sword in the other, and said loudly: "I have come to arrest the traitor by order of the general. Stand down, or be punished with complicity! ”

Some of the soldiers began to retreat, while others did not leave.

The captain of the operation said to Qianhu Li**: "Order your people to lay down their blades, or I will cut you right now!" ”

Qianhu Li ** thought to himself, I was wronged, and I will have a chance to explain in the future, if I am cut down now, it will be wronged, and I can see that this person can really kill him, so he shouted: "Brothers, all, put down their blades." I was wronged, and I will explain it well, and you all lay down your blades. ”

The soldiers in the city reluctantly lowered their blades. The members of the operation team brought Qianhu into a pavilion on the city gate building.

The captain of the operation shouted to the officers and soldiers at the city gate: "Now, assemble!" ”

The officers and soldiers saw that Qianhu had been arrested, so they had to listen to the captain of the action, and the more than 50 people who were slowly soaring were lined up crookedly.

The captain of the operation said to them: "You also know, early this morning, the general informed the generals to urgently come to the palace to discuss matters. It has been confirmed that Qianhu Li ** was bought by the Yaogang people in Jiangbei, and together with some generals, he was ready to sell Jiujiang City. I was ordered by the general to come in and arrest Li **, and there are many people who want to fight with me. It seems that there are still a lot of Li **'s accomplices among you? ”

The words of the action captain frightened these officers and soldiers one by one to stand up straight, they knew that they would die miserably if they were charged with this crime. Zuo Liangyu dealt with traitors either by digging his heart or burying him alive.

Seeing that his words had an effect, the captain of the operation shouted: "Put down all the blades and go ahead." ”

More than fifty people, putting their blades on the ground, walked forward, and left the blades. The operatives went over and put away their blades.

The captain of the operation said, "I know that only a few of you are accomplices with Li **. But now I have to ask you all to be wronged, we will interrogate Li ** as soon as possible, and after he confesses his accomplices, you will all be innocent. ”

After speaking, the captain of the operation waved his hand, and the action team members went over and tied up the more than fifty people one by one, and then drove them into a room on the city gate building.

After the action team easily took over the city gate building, they immediately sent a report to Li Jing. Li Jing immediately informed the Fifth Army on the other side of the Yangtze River. The assault team of more than 10,000 people of the First Division of the Fifth Army, carrying six steamboats and the steel-hulled ship, as well as some tugboats, docked at the Jiujiang Wharf and quickly rushed into Jiujiang City from the gate occupied by the action team. The troops who entered the city immediately changed into the clothes of Zuo Liangyu's army, ran to the other city gates, and took over the city gates before the other city gate defenders could react. At the same time, Jiujiang City is allowed to enter and not to leave.

After taking over the city gates, the Yaogang army began to take over the barracks in the same way, because the generals of the barracks were not there. The takeover of the barracks was quite smooth, and those who resisted were killed by the kiln soldiers without hesitation, and in the face of the black hole muzzle of the kiln gang soldiers, these officers and soldiers who had long heard how powerful the kiln gang rifle was, did not hit the muzzle hard. What to do when they encounter the kiln people, these soldiers have long been prepared. They knew that Li Zicheng's million-strong army was defeated by the Yaogang people, and now the Yaogang people easily defeated the overlord of the southeast sea. Zuo Liangyu's lower-level officers and soldiers were also thinking about when the Yaogang people would attack them. They knew in their hearts that as long as the kiln gang people attacked, they would not be able to confront the kiln gang people at all, and they were already mentally prepared to surrender. It's just that what they don't understand is why the Yaogang people didn't attack Jiujiang City, so they came directly to their camp. But the idea of not wanting to die still made it easy for them to surrender.

The gunfire rang out for a while, and it was not particularly intense, and the Yaogang army took over the military camp in Jiujiang City.

After the second batch of troops from Yaogang entered the city, Li Jing knew that the overall situation had been decided.

The officials and generals from all over Zuo Liangyu, although when they came to Jiujiang City, they had already found that something was wrong, but the flags floating on the city had not changed, and the soldiers standing guard in front of the city gate had not changed.

But after entering the city, they were all tied up and sent to Zuo Liangyu's mansion.

Li Jing made time to arrange for the soldiers to screen Zuo Liangyu's generals and officials, and after bringing them out one by one, he told them that Zuo Liangyu had been arrested by our Yaogang people, and that you were willing to surrender and submit. Those who are willing to surrender let them sign a voluntary surrender, and those who are unwilling are pulled out and cut directly.

After everything was dealt with, Li Jing came to Zuo Liangyu's room to recuperate from his injuries and told Zuo Liangyu about the current situation.

Zuo Liangyu lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and sighed: "Alas! I really didn't see you kiln gang people clearly! High, play really high! I was convinced from the bottom of my heart. ”

"This is also to kill fewer people, otherwise we will attack hard, and Jiujiang City will not be able to hold on for a day." Li Jing said.

"I've done everything I need to do, what else do you want me to do?" Zuo Liangyu asked.

"Declare complete surrender!" Li Jing said.

"Haha! If I don't surrender, do I have any other choice? Zuo Liangyu laughed and said, "I'm toasting and not eating, eating punishment wine!" ”

"Give your orders!" Li Jing didn't want to talk nonsense, "After the arrangement, we will send your family to Yaogang!" ”

"Alright! But my orders must be sent by my own soldiers with my arrows, and they won't be believed! "Zuo Liangyu's current idea is to quickly finish explaining the matter here and go to the kiln gang. Maybe where can I be like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Zheng Zhilong, and also cooperate with the Yaogang people.

According to Zuo Liangyu's request, some of Zuo Liangyu's personal soldiers were invited over, and Zuo Liangyu personally explained to them: "Now I have decided to return to the Yaogang people, and all local and military officers and soldiers are subject to the arrangements of the Yaogang people. Take my arrows and my letters to all the lands to make notices. ”

After all the five armies crossed the river, the Yaogang people, police, and officials also came. The officers and soldiers of Yaogang, the police, and the officials followed Zuo Liangyu's personal soldiers to various localities and barracks to take over. The local officials and police are very experienced and know where to take over first. Those who do not cooperate or even make trouble, the police sent by the kiln gang will also execute them without hesitation.

It is more cumbersome to take over the barracks. First of all, the blades should be collected, and then, in each camp, each team was isolated, and the soldiers were held separately and one by one, and the soldiers were mobilized to expose each other with threats and intimidation.

Finally, those who have killed more than two people in solitary confinement, and those who have killed one person in solitary confinement. He has never killed anyone, he has committed adultery with more than 10 women, and he has committed adultery with more than 10 women, and he has committed adultery with more than 1 woman.

After more than ten days of intense efforts, when the statistical results were sent to Li Jing, Li Jing's hands were trembling.

There are 100,000 people who have killed two or more people, and 50,000 people who have killed one person. There are more than 30,000 people who have never killed anyone, but who have committed adultery with 10 women, and more than 120,000 who have committed adultery with less than 10 women. In the end, there are almost no officers and soldiers in Zuo Liangyu's army who do not commit crimes, and only more than 20,000 recruits have not proved that they have committed adultery, murder and plunder.

Li Jing sent the situation back to Yaogang by telegram. Zhang Zhimu immediately asked Editor-in-Chief Fan to come over, and asked Editor-in-Chief Fan to immediately broadcast the news through the radio that the Yaogang people had captured Jiujiang and captured Zuo Liangyu alive, and at the same time broadcast the statistics on Zuo Liangyu's army crimes sent by Li Jing.

The martial arts and Go Grand Prix on the Yaogang side is going on at a critical time, and Li Zicheng also wants to watch it before leaving, as long as there is a martial arts competition, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Zheng Zhilong must be watched. It was a Go tournament that night, and they were fine, drinking together, when suddenly the news was broadcast on the radio. They all put down their chopsticks and listened to the important news.

Hearing the news that the Yaogang people had taken Jiujiang and captured Zuo Liangyu alive, Li Zicheng was shocked and said: "Oh, it's only been a few days, and General Li Jing had a meeting with you a few days ago." Take Jiujiang down now. ”

Zhang Xianzhong said: "Oops! King Chuang, you are really making a fuss, maybe the kiln gang people have already attacked Zuo Liangyu, he didn't listen to the persuasion, and the kiln gang people did it directly. It won't be studying him now. ”

Zheng Zhilong also said: "I have just been taught, and when the kiln gang people started, it was already the final stage. ”

But when they heard about the crimes of Zuo Liangyu's army, the three of them couldn't drink anymore. Even Zhang Xianzhong, who was not very good at military discipline, said: "This Zuo Liangyu is really damned!" There will be no good people in the whole army. ”

Zheng Zhilong said: "According to General Li Jing's temper, he must be killed!" ”

"It's better not to kill them all!" Li Zicheng said, "We need to build railways and reservoirs, and we need a large number of people. Let them open the mountain and shoot stones! ”

"I know, King Chuang, many of your troops were captured by the kiln gang people and participated in the construction of Qinzhi Road, and they all earned a lot of silver, and now they are all workers in Shaanxi and Hanzhong." Zhang Xianzhong said, "However, these brutes like Zuo Liangyu are different from your soldiers. ”

"My soldiers have done no evil, and their captives are ordinary captives. But Zuo Liangyu's these things, you don't need to give them any wages, and if you don't kill them and leave them alive, you will forgive them. Li Zicheng said.

Emperor Chongzhen has just received news that the people of Yaogang have taken action against Jiujiang!

Emperor Chongzhen's anger turned straight, he didn't know how to send a telegram to Zhang Zhimu to blame them, they had just beaten Zheng Zhilong and Zuo Liangyu, and they didn't take me, the emperor, in their eyes at all. In the evening, Emperor Chongzhen didn't eat much, so he was stuffy in the study. Suddenly, the Yaogang people inserted important news, broadcasting that the Yaogang People's Army had captured Jiujiang and captured Zuo Liangyu's butcher thief. Although Emperor Chongzhen knew that the military discipline of Zuo Liangyu's army was extremely poor and the people's grievances were extremely deep, the statistical results of the crimes committed by Zuo Liangyu's army broadcast below still surprised Emperor Chongzhen very much.

Not long after the news was broadcast, a telegram from the kiln gang people also came. The telegram from the Yaogang people informed Emperor Chongzhen that the Yaogang People's Army had captured Zuo Liangyu alive. At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen was informed that he would send Zuo Liangyu to Beijing and hand it over to the emperor for processing.

After reading the telegram, Emperor Chongzhen was furious, and shouted: "Someone! ”

After people came in, Emperor Chongzhen asked the prince to come over.

The prince came in and glanced up at Emperor Chongzhen, and saw that Emperor Chongzhen's face was blue, and he didn't dare to look up again.

Emperor Chongzhen glanced at him and said, "What do you say Zuo Liangyu should do?" ”

How dare the prince answer such a question, "Slaves listen to the emperor!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen didn't expect the prince to answer, "I'm going to split this guy's five horses!" This scoundrel is more hateful than those anti-thieves! ”

"Yes! Your Majesty, this guy never listens to the dispatch of the imperial court except for asking you for military salaries. In fact, he has already established himself as a king! Now the Yaogang people have killed him because they are for the emperor to eliminate harm. ”

"Come on! I know that you and the kiln gang people are out of the same nostrils, and when you talk about the kiln gang people, your tail is pouted. Emperor Chongzhen was even more angry when he heard the prince say this.

The prince was so frightened that he didn't dare to squeak.

Emperor Chongzhen said: "You want to find a way to bring Zuo Liangyu to Beijing." We grown-ups will deal with this kind of thing. You have to pay attention, don't have an accident on the road, lest the kiln people look at us again! "Emperor Chongzhen knows that those ministers in the court hate Zuo Liangyu no worse than himself, and they will find a way to deal with this bastard.

"Good! Your Majesty, the servants must escort Zuo Liangyu back to Beijing safely. Wang Gonggong said.

After Lu Chengxiang heard about Jiujiang, he hurriedly found Zhang Zhimu. Said earnestly: "Mr. Zhang, if you can kill fewer people on the Jiujiang side, let's kill less!" We employ people everywhere. Several mines are short of people. Needless to say, Li Dong from the smelting field and Baotou Baiyun Mine repeatedly sent letters to ask for people. A lot of people have been transferred to him from the reclamation area, but it is not enough. Lu Bingyi's side also employed people to build reservoirs on both sides of the Qinling Mountains. If the construction of the railway from Datong to Zhangjiakou is started, more people will be needed. ”

"Yes! Mr. Lu, I know what you said, and I don't agree with killing more people. But those heinous ones don't kill, sorry for the innocent souls who died at their hands! We must kill a group of these guys, show those who still want to do evil, and let them know that Skynet is restored and not leaked. Zhang Zhimu said.

At this time, Li Jing on the other side of Jiujiang was also doing the work of the officers and soldiers, the officials of the kiln gang, and the police. These officers, soldiers, officials, and policemen were on the spot listening to these brutes exposing their crimes to each other, and the bloody facts made the officers, soldiers, officials, and policemen of Yaogang eager to eat these brutes.

In the end, Li Jing balanced it and decided to behead all those who killed more than ten people and raped more than ten women. The rest of the people who killed one person and raped less than ten women were sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to various places to serve their sentences and labor.

This means that 130,000 people will be beheaded and 170,000 will be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Killing more than 130,000 people is a huge amount of work.

Li Jing set up an execution ground near a ravine in advance, and the executioners were all executed by the officers and soldiers who sentenced Zuo Liangyu to life imprisonment. Before the execution, Li Jing tied Zuo Liangyu and his family to the side of the execution ground to watch. Rows of wooden pillars were erected at the execution ground, and 1,000 death row inmates were brought out at a time, to be executed by life sentence inmates with knives. Those who refuse to carry out life sentences are directly shot. There were many stacks of timber piled up next to the execution ground, and every 1,000 death row prisoners were piled on top of the timber piles and cremated with kerosene. After the cremation, even the embers and ashes were pushed into the ravine with a bulldozer.

The killing also went on for several days, and in the end, Zuo Liangyu and his family never went to the execution ground again, and every day they were sent to the execution ground, they all died and screamed. A lot of people don't eat or drink for days. Zuo Liangyu also kept scolding the kiln people. Even the kiln soldiers who went to the execution site to perform their duties had to be changed every other day, otherwise the officers and soldiers would not be able to stand it.

The ashes of hundreds of thousands of people will fill that ravine.

Newspapers and radio stations in Yaogang also reported on the execution. Almost everyone in the world was talking about the execution. However, the newspapers and radio stations in Yaogang continue to guide public opinion. Let everyone feel that these evildoers should be punished, and it is also a warning to those who are still doing evil.

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Mt. Fuji erupted, Japan was earthquaked. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".