Under the clear blue sky, there are herds of cattle and sheep, goshawks passing by from time to time in the white clouds, grazing Tibetan herdsmen singing pastoral songs, and the heaven and earth seem quiet and peaceful. "Isn't it incredible?" Looking at the Great Qin generals and staff officers beside him, Li Ang said to them, "You have just killed their father, husband, son, brother, and friend, but they have surrendered to us as if nothing had happened, and they are so tame. ”

"That's true, Marshal." Xiahou Ying, who arrived with the tiger and leopard cavalry and the infantry army, said in a deep voice behind Li Ang, who was half a month slower than Li Ang, they were on the way to the same as the sheep and the two Yalong tribes, and took over many of the Tubo tribes that were broken by Murong Ke.

"In your eyes, the scenery must be beautiful!" Li Ang looked at the quiet grassland in the distance, and the warm autumn breeze was blowing in his face, which made people feel very comfortable. Everyone in the ground behind them nodded in unison, and it was true that the feeling of being close to the sky on the Qinghai Plateau made them feel beautiful, but they didn't understand how this topic had anything to do with what Li Ang had said earlier.

"So what do you think of settling here?" Leon turned to look at the crowd who were a little overwhelmed by the question. Negative Karate. "Actually, you just think that this place is very beautiful for a while, compared to Daqin, this place is too barren, for those Tubo people, no, to be precise, for the people living on this land, living is all they have. Compared to those who have lived in Great Qin since childhood, they don't know what morality is, and in a sense they are closer to beasts, so they will submit to the strong and take it for granted. ”

"The law of the jungle is the morality of this land." Leon's voice was calm, and he glanced at the people in front of him, "I know that there are many people who think that I have violated the morality and sense of honor of a soldier, and that I am not fit to be the commander of the army after ordering the massacre of prisoners of war. I don't want to defend anything, but I will only say one thing, and that is before the complete destruction of Tibet and the driving of the Kushan people from the plateau. I will stand up and carry out my justice. All those who try to stand in my way, I will deal with them without mercy. ”

looked at the coach who suddenly became cold. Everyone standing involuntarily shuddered, and Leon's strength made them feel terrified. This commoner-born commander had the courage of a noble-born general, and if he went against him, he would die a miserable death, and in an instant, almost everyone had such a thought in their hearts, and they were silent for a while.

"Be wise." Li Ang looked at Li Cunzhi who was following behind him. "Yes, father-in-law." After Li Cunzhi, who was dressed in a black uniform, saluted Li Ang, took out the book that had been holding the ground, looked at everyone, and after unfolding it, he read the name of the place on it expressionlessly.

In the end, a total of seventeen generals and staff officers were named, and the rest looked at these named colleagues with puzzled expressions. "You were all selected for this expedition based on your past achievements in your respective units." Leon looked at the seventeen people and said in a tone of regret, "Why did you choose to go against me!" ”

"We don't mean to go against you, Marshal, it's just that we don't agree with your approach, is it wrong to say this?" Among the seventeen people, an officer about twenty-seven or eighteen years old replied in the face of Li Angsen's cold gaze.

"Oh, is that all?" Li Ang looked at the seventeen officers and staff officers, suddenly laughed, stretched out his hand, and Li Cunxiao, who was behind him, handed a secret letter to him, "Then what is this secret letter submitted to the military hall asking for my dismissal?" Is this what you don't agree with? Leon's voice was sarcastic, and he threw the secret letter at the feet of the officer who had opened his mouth to defend himself.

Seeing this scene of sudden birth, all the people were stunned, they didn't expect that Li Ang had summoned them for such a thing. But the seventeen were indeed to blame, and their actions amounted to a real provocation to the marshal's power.

"Marshal, we just truthfully reported to the military hall what happened here, and there is no other behavior that tarnishes the name of the soldiers." The young officer among the seventeen did not look at the secret letter that was thrown at his feet, but only said coldly to Li Ang, "On the contrary, how did you get this secret letter, Marshal, it really makes me doubt that your actions are nothing."

It violates our right to report upwards as officers. ”

"Bold." Seeing the officer talking to Li Ang like this, Li Cunzhi and Li Cunxiao shouted at the same time, and pressed their hands on the hilt of the knife at their waists, as long as Li Ang gave an order, they would take down the arrogant man who had committed the crime.

Among the officers and staff officers behind the seventeen people, many people shook their heads, those seventeen people were all tigers and leopards from civilian backgrounds, and they had a strong sense of morality, but although they admired their character, but in the current position of this matter, they were on the side of the marshal, for them who were alone in the enemy's territory, those prisoners were the biggest threat, although morally speaking, the massacre was wrong, but for the 50,000 soldiers, the marshal's approach was not wrong.

Li Ang stopped Li Cunzhi and Li Cunxiao, he just looked at the tiger and leopard cavalry officer who was staring at him, "Are you really reporting to the top truth?" Li Ang's gaze fell on the secret letter at his feet, "The order to massacre those Tibetan prisoners of war is undoubtedly an order given by me, but what happened to General Murong's massacre of Tibetan civilians, can you explain it to me?" ”

Hearing Li Ang suddenly mention Murong Ke's matter, everyone was stunned, in fact, it was not a secret in the army that Murong Ke drove the Tubo civilians to attack the Tubo tribe in the sweeping war, but it was also a taboo topic, and even the seventeen officers of the tiger and leopard cavalry did not expect Li Ang to say it directly. "General Murong slaughtered prisoners of war after the war, but it was done according to my orders, but I don't know that General Murong has massacre civilians, please explain this matter." Leon's gaze became sharp and cold, and the officer who was staring at him lowered his head.

"General Murong drove those Tibetan civilians to the battlefield, resulting in a large number of civilian casualties." Forced by Leon's gaze, the voice of the answering tiger and leopard cavalry officer was no longer as loud as before.

"Oh, what do you think?" Li Ang laughed sarcastically, then he looked at the seventeen officers of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and said, "Then please tell me, if you were in the position of General Murong at that time, when the Tubo people were about to attack, what were you going to do with those civilian prisoners, throw them behind you, or send men from the already scarce army to take care of them." ”

"Could it be that in the face of an enemy attack, you give priority to the civilians of the enemy country over your own clothes?" Li Ang didn't give the seventeen officers a chance to defend themselves, and said sharply, "Could it be that it is your morality to put your robe in danger, and it is your so-called military glory to let your robe die in battle?" ”

"You're just a bunch of hypocrites immersed in your own sense of morality." Leon pointed to the seventeen officers, "It's a misfortune and a disaster for a soldier to have a commander like you. ”

"No, we're not." Seventeen officers shouted loudly at the accusation of Leon like this, their faces flushed, but their justifications were very weak for those who already agreed with Leon's words.

"What punishment should be imposed for fabricating facts and slandering colleagues?" Li Ang looked at Huang Yuan, who was serving as a law enforcement officer in the army, his voice was cold, he hated those fools who had not experienced the cruelty of the battlefield, but regarded their sense of morality as justice, these people should not have come to be soldiers at all, the place where they are suitable is the academy, to be a moral gentleman.

"Removal from military positions, serious cases can be sentenced to death." Huang Yuan replied expressionlessly, he had spent time in the Chang'an Metropolitan Protectorate and the Military Department, and had seen too many such young officers who thought they were righteous, "Peace is the grave of soldiers, it is not wrong at all, these officers who grew up in peace do not know what war is at all, they hold a murderous sword in their hands, not anything else; What a bunch of hopeless fools! Thinking like this, Huang Yuan asked the soldiers of the Judge Advocate General's Office under his command to come forward and tie up these seventeen officers.

"Resisting the enforcement of military law will be punished by one degree." Looking at the seventeen officers who resisted, Huang Yuan said coldly, and then he personally took action, in front of nearly a hundred soldiers of the Judge Advocate General's Office, the seventeen officers were finally taken down, but they were arguing loudly from beginning to end, they were full of grief and indignation, but everything was in vain, and they were removed from their posts.

"This matter is over, I don't want anything like this to happen again, of course, after the victory, even if you all jointly submit a letter to Your Majesty, I don't care, but before that, if anyone wants to provoke me, I promise that I will not be punished by just being removed from my position." Leon said so, and left.

None of the many generals and staff officers standing there said a word, and at the moment just now, they felt the majesty of Li Ang as the commander-in-chief, even if many of them were dissatisfied, but they no longer had the courage to provoke Li Ang.