Chapter 19: The Killing of Prisoners

This battle can be said to be extremely smooth, even Zhang Shihua did not expect that the robbers who have been rampant in this land for several years will be so vulnerable, nearly a hundred river bandits, the archers of the inspection department killed less than thirty people last night, and the other river bandits all surrendered. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After disarming all the river pirate captives and controlling them, Zhang Shihua found a frightened river thief and asked about the warehouse of their village and the room of their leader.

After that, Zhang Shihua took Brother Donkey and a few archers to the river bandit leader's room, because the river bandit leader's room was a single courtyard, so it was not destroyed by fire.

When he arrived at the room of the river pirate leader, Zhang Shihua asked the archers to carefully search the room to see if there was any silver money stolen by the river pirates in the room.

And when the archers searched the room, they did find a secret door, and there was a lock hanging on the door.

Zhang Shihua asked the archers to split the lock with knives, opened the door and saw that the things inside really scared Zhang Shihua and them.

There were two chests in the inner room, one of which was full of silver, and the other contained copper coins and silk and other items, and the sum of these two boxes was estimated to be seven or eight hundred taels.

Zhang Shihua couldn't help but think in his heart: This time it's really not a loss, this group of river thieves has saved so much money, and now all this money is his own.

After that, Zhang Shihua asked Brother Donkey and them to count all the silver coins, and the total amount of silver coins was seven hundred and eighty-four taels.

Zhang Shihua asked Brother Donkey to take out thirty percent of the silver as a reward for everyone in the Inspection Division, among which the ordinary archers were divided into two and a half, and the five team leaders like Brother Donkey and Li and Erren who stayed in the Inspection Division were divided into half of them.

In fact, Zhang Shihua has been thinking about this idea of dividing silver for a long time, after all, in this era, only by being good to the opponent can you let others work for you, and Zhang Shihua's method of dividing the silver can not only strengthen the loyalty of the archers, but also make the archers more fearless of death when fighting with the enemy.

At the same time, to a certain extent, it can prevent the archers from secretly hiding the loot.

After the money was counted, Zhang Shihua asked the archers to collect all the weapons of the river thieves, and it was almost dawn after they were all busy.

After Zhang Shihua gathered the archers again, and ordered the execution of all the prisoners, when the archers heard Zhang Shihua's order were shocked, although they said that they had killed people, but killing prisoners was still a little difficult to accept for the simple archers.

In fact, not only the archers were shocked when they heard Zhang Shihua's order, but even Brother Donkey was shocked, and they didn't expect that the usually gentle inspector would give such an order.

Zhang Shihua naturally saw the shocked expressions on the faces of the archers, so Zhang Shihua shouted to the archers in a serious voice: You remember that these people are river thieves, not ordinary people, each of them has the blood of innocent people on their hands, and now we are merciful to them, which is cruel to the people in the future.

For these bandits who go around plundering and killing people, all we can give them is death and fear, and only by killing them will they not dare to violate our families, understand!

When the archers heard Zhang Shihua's words, although some of them still couldn't bear it, they still replied loudly: Understood, my lord.

Hearing the archers' answers, Zhang Shihua said indifferently: Very good, then let's do it!

And the conversation between Zhang Shihua and the archers naturally made the river bandit captives not far away hear, so these river thieves went crazy, and under the desire to survive, they all stood up from the ground to fight with the archers.

But not only did these people have no weapons, but their hands were tied with ropes by the archers, and how could they resist the spears of the archers.

When one after another river thieves were stabbed to death in a pool of blood by archers, the spirit of the river thieves completely collapsed, some of them shouted meaninglessly, some scolded Zhang Shihua and others, and some kept kneeling on their knees with tears and begging for mercy.

But no matter what these river pirates do, they will only be greeted by death.

When the last of the river pirates was killed by the archers, the only sounds in the village were the crackling of wood burning and the wheezing of the archers.

The archers were all holding spears and panting, without the curses and begs for mercy of the river bandits, as if the massacre had not happened, but the blood and corpses on the ground constantly reminded the archers that everything just now was true, and they did kill dozens of river bandits who had no power to fight back.

Zhang Shihua didn't speak, just stood quietly, looking at where the archers under him were in a daze.

Zhang Shihua didn't want to do this, but he had no choice, the troubled times were coming, and next year these archers would encounter something a hundred times more cruel than this, and it would be too late for the archers to accept that cruelty at that time.

It is better to be prepared to accept this cruelty now than to accept the cruelty in the future, plus this group of river thieves is indeed innocent, they are not innocent, and death is the best judgment for them.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Shihua spoke, and he said to the archers: Do you think that the river pirates are pitiful and think that they are cruel.

But I tell you, you are right, when these river thieves rob and kill, do they not ask for mercy?

But did these river thieves let go of the innocent people they plundered, no!

River pirates deserve this fate, you know? I don't want to say more, think about it for yourselves.

After speaking, Zhang Shihua took the donkey brother next to him and left here and went to rest by a fire.

After about a quarter of an hour, the archers spontaneously assembled, and they lined up to Zhang Shihua.

Zhang Shihua glanced up at them and said, "Okay, now that we've figured it out, we should leave with our things."

After that, the archers loaded all the weapons and seized silver coins used by the river pirates onto the boat, and also carried the bodies of dozens of river pirates onto the boat under Zhang Shihua's instructions as evidence that the inspection department had exterminated the river pirates, and then Zhang Shihua and they left in the boat.

About the next morning, Zhang Shihua and his family rushed to Linshui Town by boat, and the people of Linshui Town saw Zhang Shihua's shuttle boat at first, and thought that Zhang Shihua was a river thief, so they were so frightened that they hurried home and ran to the town with the old man on their backs.

Zhang Shihua didn't feel funny when he saw the people's performance, but felt a little distressed, after all, only these people are the most pitiful and innocent.

So Zhang Shihua asked the loud Erniu to shout to the people about the identities of these people, and after Erniu heard Zhang Shihua's order, he shouted to the people of Linshui Town with his throat: Folks, we are not river pirates, we are from the Yangshui Town Inspection Division, and last night the patrol master has taken us to exterminate the river pirates.

Now there are the corpses of river thieves behind us, if you don't believe me, you can come and see it, and the dark will never lie to you.

When the people of Linshui Town heard Li Erniu's words, they looked at the archers of the Inspection Division again, and suddenly a young man shouted: That's right, these people are really from the Inspection Department, and they came to our town two days ago.

When the other people heard the young man's words, they also looked carefully at Zhang Shihua and them on the boat, and found that they were really the archers of the Yangshui Town Inspection Division who came to the town two days ago, and the people were no longer so afraid.

After all, the archers of the Yangshui Town Inspection Division are also their fellow countrymen, and they will at least not hurt themselves.

When the people stopped fleeing, the people suddenly reacted, as if the man had just said that the river pirates had been exterminated.

So the people couldn't care about anything else, an old man asked his son to help him out of the crowd, and asked Zhang Shihua on the boat: My lord, what you said is true, the river pirates have really been exterminated?

When Zhang Shihua heard the old man's question, he did not answer immediately, but asked people to pull out the two boats full of the corpses of the river thieves from behind, and only after the townspeople saw the two boats, Zhang Shihua said loudly: Folks, last night the official led the archers under his command to exterminate the group of river bandits, and now their bodies are here, and the official promises you that there will be no river thieves to harass you from now on.

When the people saw the corpses of the river thieves, they did not laugh, but cried, some of them kept kowtowing to Zhang Shihua to thank Zhang Shihua and them, and some of them cried and shouted to the sky: The river thieves who killed you are finally dead, and the river thieves who killed you are finally dead.

And the old man also said with tears in his eyes: Old woman, your revenge has finally been avenged, you can rest in peace, you can rest in peace.

Zhang Shihua watched the people crying there, and his eyes were red, and the archers behind Zhang Shihua whispered over and over again: What we did was right, what we did was right!

After a quarter of an hour, the mood of the townspeople slowly calmed down, and the people who calmed down, under the leadership of the old man, all kowtowed heavily to Zhang Shihua's archers of the Inspection Department several times.

And after Zhang Shihua stood on the shore and received a salute from these people, he walked in front of the people and personally helped the old man up, and let the people behind the old man stand up, looking at the wrinkles on the old man's face and his lips trembling because of the revenge.

Zhang Shihua suddenly thought in his heart, maybe this is the reason why God let him come to this era of this world.

So Zhang Shihua couldn't help shouting to the people of Linshui Town: Folks, you can rest assured, as long as I, Zhang Shihua, am still on patrol in Yangshui Town for a day, I will definitely not let the robbers disturb your life. ====================================

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