"Oh, my mother, it's murderous!" Everyone was frightened.

Zhao Ziliang didn't look at the other people's expressions, and said to Wei Meng, who was kneeling under the stage: "Under the experience of the previous two battalions, there are still people in the first battalion who dare to escape, Wei Meng, as the captain of the first battalion, is guilty of escaping, and he should be beheaded immediately, but thinking that you have been in office for less than half a month, and the control of the first battalion is insufficient, you will be dealt with lightly." Someone came, dragged Wei Meng down and beat him with sixty military sticks, and recorded a major demerit, and if there was another escape incident in the first battalion next time, he would have beheaded Wei Meng first, and then beheaded the escaper."

Wang Can waved his hand, and several servants ran over and pressed Wei Meng on the bench for execution, and the sixty military sticks beat Wei Meng, a strong man, half-dead and dying.

After Wei Meng was carried away, Zhao Ziliang ordered: "Deputy Lieutenant Liang Qi led the soldiers of the first battalion to run six laps around the city, if one person is found to be cheating and slippery, he will behead you first, and then behead the lazy!" ”

Liang Qi had relatives in his heart and immediately agreed: "No! ”

After Liang Qi ran away with the soldiers of the first battalion, only the fourth battalion was left in the audience, the fourth battalion was the baggage battalion, and the captain was Zheng San, he took over the baggage battalion the latest, and the number of people in the baggage battalion was not much, only more than 100 people. Since it was not the main combat force, it was somewhat inferior in equipment and training than the previous three battalions.

Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Zheng San, the captain of the fourth battalion! ”

Zheng San immediately ran to the front of the fourth battalion and saluted: "The subordinates are here!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "There is only your fourth battalion left, order, all four battalions march forward in unison-."

"No!"

Zheng San agreed, he was smarter than Li Siye, Wei Meng, Lei Wu and others, before ordering the team to advance, he sent a few henchmen from the team out to form a law enforcement team in the back and on both sides, to maintain order, and loudly announced that if someone escaped, he himself would inevitably be beheaded, but he first beheaded the fleeing people before being beheaded, so as to suppress those cowardly.

"Brothers, the general's military order has been issued, there is a dead end ahead, but disobeying the general's military order is also a dead end, Lao Tzu would rather be drowned and frozen to death, and the family still has a pension money to take, but being beheaded on the charge of desertion, the family will not get any pension, and will be infamy, it doesn't matter if you die, but also let your relatives be disgraced, you choose for yourself, how to choose?

I know that as long as you're not stupid, you know what to choose! All right, everyone obey the order and walk in unison-".

After being told by Zheng San, although the soldiers of the fourth battalion were scared to death, they thought that if they escaped, they would still be killed, and even their families would not be able to receive compensation, and they would be humiliated and pointed at behind their backs. But if you advance into the river, even if you drown or freeze to death, you will be treated as a war death, and your family will be compensated, and the thought of this will bring back everyone's courage.

Under the gaze of Zhao Ziliang and others, the soldiers of the fourth battalion stepped into the river under the leadership of Zheng San, and the river flooded their calves, and soon their knees and thighs, reaching their waists.

Zhao Ziliang also did not have any intention of ordering to stop advancing, and the other officials and generals on the stage did not know what medicine Zhao Ziliang was selling in his gourd, and he didn't need to use such extreme means to achieve his goal if he wanted to strictly enforce military discipline, right? Many officials and generals think that Zhao Ziliang is only afraid that he is crazy, and the soldiers know that there is a dead end ahead, where can they still have the courage to carry out the order to the end? At the time of life and death, even the most daring person is afraid that he will disobey the military order and turn around and run away, right?

As the soldiers of the fourth battalion continued to advance, the river became deeper and deeper, and after submerging the waist, it gradually reached the chest, and at this time Zhao Ziliang still did not order the fourth battalion to stop advancing.

Seeing that the river had flooded the necks of everyone in the fourth battalion, Li Wentong stepped forward and said anxiously: "General, order to stop advancing, if it continues like this, the fourth battalion will be completely finished!" ”

Other officials and generals all dissuaded one after another, and some even cried out in a hurry: "General, you can't do this, quickly order the fourth battalion to stop advancing and return, such senseless casualties are meaningless!" ”

Zhao Ziliang's face turned pale, and he said angrily: "Shut up, what do you know?" What doesn't make sense? General Ben says it makes sense, and it makes sense! Whoever dares to dissuade and intercede, just try the general's knife is not fast! Still not quitting? ”

Seeing this, all the officials and generals retreated to the side in fright, and no one dared to speak again.

Seeing that the river was about to flood his mouth, Zheng San knew that he would definitely die, but he didn't want to die in fear and nest, so he shouted: "Brothers, the general took down the traitors Ma Han and Hao Jialin for us, paid us back our military salaries, asked for justice for us, and rebuilt us with kindness, even if the general let us die, can't we be for the general?" Anyway, if you want to be drowned, let's die, everyone hurry up, die early and reincarnate! ”

Someone listened to Zheng San's words, as if they were encouraged, and echoed loudly: "Yes, let's die, eighteen years later, I will still be a good man!" ”

At this time, the entire fourth battalion team has reached the middle of the river, the river just flooded most of the people's mouths, but did not flood the nostrils, after walking for a distance, Zheng San found that the river was getting shallower and shallower, turned his head to see, at this time the team had crossed the center of the river, he cried with joy: "Brothers, we have already crossed the center of the river, and if we go further, the water level will only get shallower and shallower, we will not be drowned, hahaha, we will not be drowned, brothers, work hard, the left and right sides are holding hands, let's speed up the pace to the other side!" ”

When the soldiers of the fourth battalion heard Zheng San's words, they all cried loudly, crying and crying.

On the platform, all the officials and generals looked at each other, it turned out that the river was not deep, as long as you kept your head up and chest up, you could go to the other side, and you couldn't drown people at all!

Before the fourth battalion went ashore, dozens of Zhao Ziliang's servants appeared on the opposite bank, and they set up a number of tents at a very fast speed, these tents were in a circle, and a large amount of dry wood was piled up in the middle, and the dry wood was quickly ignited, burning a raging fire, and someone brought more than a dozen large barrels, which were filled with steaming ginger soup, and as soon as the soldiers of the fourth battalion went ashore, Zhao Ziliang ordered the fourth battalion to stop advancing, and disbanded the fire on the spot to drink ginger soup.

Afterwards, Zhao Ziliang ordered everyone to assemble in the school field, he walked up to the general platform and looked at the more than 1,000 people in the audience and said: "Your performance today has made General Ben very disappointed, although the fourth battalion has crossed the river safely, but if there is no example of the first three battalions in front, I am afraid that there will be people in the fourth battalion who will escape!" However, General Ben can responsibly state here that from now on, no matter when and where, once the General's military order is issued, if anyone dares not to carry out or disobey the military order, or if he flees or retreats without the order, there will be no more good things like beating the military stick or running in circles, but will be immediately beheaded for public display! Through today's exercise, General Ben wants to tell you that military orders are like a mountain, even if you know that there is a dead end in front of you, you have to move forward, you may die if you advance, but you have half a chance to live, but those who retreat or flee will definitely die! Do you understand? ”

"Understood!"

"Understood!"

"Understood!" Everyone yelled with all their strength.