Chapter 065: The Butcher
"Really?" Bo Jiao didn't believe Hong Tao's words a little, and his uncle, who had always been warm to the Great Song Dynasty, suddenly wanted to open it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Whoever tells lies is your son! Come, these two guns belong to you, the bullets and my guards want it, if you can't kill it, let my guards kill, they are not afraid of killing. When I come back after the killing, I will stay here and continue digging the river, I guess I won't be able to go anywhere before the evening, and I have a lot of time. But there is one thing, I want to live the leaders of those wealthy clans in the city, and I don't need too much, just leave me fifty or sixty people, and you can take care of the rest. In order to prove that he was not talking and playing, Hong Tao untied the two revolvers on his belt and slapped them on the table.
"Cheng, leave it to me! It's not like I haven't been to Jawa Island, and today's Daimyo Mansion is Java Island! Come on, blow the assembly whistle, bring a day's dry food, march quickly, and I will take you to slaughter the city! Bo Jiao felt that Hong Tao was deliberately stirring up the fire, as if he didn't dare to kill someone.
"Your Majesty, you can't let him go, he really dares to do it!" Kong Pei watched Bo Jiao grab the short gun on the table and run away, grabbing Hong Tao's arm, his face full of worry.
"You've slaughtered the city?" Hong Tao moved the spoon in his right hand to his left hand, and then ate breakfast.
"No......" Kong Pei shook his head.
"He slaughtered?" Hong Tao then asked while eating.
“…… It doesn't seem to be ......," Kong Pei shook his head again.
"It's over, you think one person can slaughter the city? I'll put it here, except for my guards, you called all the officers of the Jinhe Empire, and none of them even the navy and the army could survive half an hour. Anyone can blow them up with a cannon, and face-to-face killing, including you and me, are all mouth dealers, and they are not as powerful as them. Hong Tao drank the last mouthful of porridge and pointed to the reserve camp that was digging in the river with a spoon.
Kong Pei didn't dare to believe Hong Tao's prophecy, and he didn't dare to disbelieve it, so he waited by the river all afternoon, asking the lookout on the mast every once in a while if there was smoke rising in the direction of the daimyo's mansion. Hong Tao ignored him, but continued to fool the little captain wholeheartedly, and made sure to brainwash and wash it clean. When the sun was setting in the west and the earth was shrouded in a golden color, Bojiao's troops returned.
"If you don't show up tonight, Lao Kong will probably have to become a wangfu stone, why didn't I find out that there was such a deep relationship between the two of you before?" As soon as he saw Bo Jiao's virtue, Hong Tao was relieved, he didn't have any evil spirit on his body, but he looked very lonely.
"What do I think he's doing? I am worried about those people in the Daimyo Mansion, they are the same as when His Majesty arrested me, they don't want to deliberately oppose the Great Song Dynasty, they just obey orders, and the crime will not lead to death......" Kong Pei didn't understand the sarcasm in Hong Tao's words, and the culture of backing mountains was not so common in the Great Song Dynasty.
"The crime is not punishable by death, whether they say it or not, it should be judged by the battlefield commander!" As soon as he heard Kong Pei's words, Bo Jiao's spiritual head came again.
"You're so ruthless! Come on, report and report, how many people did General Bo Jiao kill on this trip? Have you slaughtered the city? "Hong Tao can be regarded as seeing through, Bo Jiao is also in the category of ordinary people, even if he shouts loudly and throws more cruel words, he has not lost his humanity.
"I arrested all the eleven houses in the city, and those who dared to resist were killed on the spot, and the pavement of several streets was red!" Bo Jiao was not convinced, and wanted to add some murderous names to himself.
"Oh, you're so cruel, so cruel! Lieutenant, tell me what the Marines are doing. Hong Tao made a look of surprise, but the latter sentence made Bo Jiao a little overwhelmed.
"Three hundred and forty-one people were executed, and their bodies were burned with divine fire. There were also two hundred and six captives, all of whom were in charge of each family, and they were brought back. "The commander of the Marine Corps was not an Indian, but a black, and when he bared his teeth, the color difference between his white teeth and pink gums was very large, and the origin of the word "big mouth" is probably what the ancient Chinese thought of when they first saw a black man.
"Then I have to criticize you, I said when I left, my nephew is your commander, did he give permission to do all this?" Hong Tao looked very dissatisfied.
"The chief said let's take care of the ...... ourselves" The black lieutenant didn't hesitate for a second, and directly sold Bojiao.
"And what is he doing?" Hong Tao still thought that Bo Jiao was too comfortable, and continued to ask.
"The Imperial Army has 300 people to assist us in capturing the enemy in the city, led by a second lieutenant surnamed Liu, the commander led other troops to maintain law and order in the city, and also posted a lot of notices, but it was with the money of the Great Song Dynasty, I specially brought back one." The black lieutenant was not polite either, and sold the Bojiao cleanly.
"Lao Kong, look at it, this is the butcher you were worried about just now, he has killed the whole city with words. If you don't think he's clean enough, I'll wait for you one more day, and then you can choose someone to go back and kill again." Hong Tao roughly looked at the big-character poster written with a brush, handed it to Kong Pei on the side, then stood up, patted his ass and went to the excavation site to continue to supervise the work.
“…… Bo Jiao, didn't you say that you would wash the whole city with blood? The cost-effective people were all killed by His Majesty's guards, and you walked around the city? At this time, Kong Pei felt that Bo Jiao was too unconqueror, and he couldn't kill more, but he couldn't kill it, and if he didn't kill a few chickens, why should the monkeys be afraid.
"it! My uncle's soldiers were not human at all, from the eighty-year-old lady to the infant child, they were all killed. Every time a wealthy family was found, they would kill them from the front door to the back door, and those who could use knives would never use guns, and they would still have smiles on their faces when they cut people, and some people even cut off the ears of dead people and put them on their shoulders. And that's not all, when they piled up the corpses and burned them, they danced in a circle, and they were happier than the festival! I couldn't help but look at one of them, where did Your Majesty get these soldiers, that bastard of Swann is too bad, and the trained soldiers are not human than his father's Mamluk cavalry. I'll tell you quietly, in the future, if the empire wants to fight with the Great Song Dynasty, once you can't fight it, surrender as soon as possible, don't just raise your hands, you must kowtow to the sun, just say that you are a believer in the sun god, they won't kill you, this is what the second lieutenant of the army who followed them to hunt secretly told me. As soon as Hong Tao left, Bo Jiao, who was wilting and drooping his head, immediately came to life, told Kong Pei everything he saw and heard, and pointed out a clear path to Kong Pei.
"You better go back to the cabin and sleep for a while, I haven't closed your eyes for a day and a night, I see your brain is a little confused." Kong Pei didn't see what Bo Jiao said at the scene, some things are completely different feelings when he listens to and watches, and he can't understand Bo Jiao's mood.
But at noon the next day, Kong Pei partially experienced Bo Jiao's feelings. When the canal was dug and the fleet was ready to set sail again, there was another wail on the riverbank. Hong Tao's guards interrogated more than 200 meters of captives overnight, singled out more than 50 of them, and nailed them to two horizontal and vertical logs with nails more than a foot long, and then erected these crosses on the sides of each ship, and a white cloth was hung on each shelf, with the names of people written on them. The remaining 100 men, men and women, were forced to stab to death with short knives by the men of the reserve camp, dug pits and burned them.
"Your Majesty is angry, if there is such a thing happening in front of you, maybe it is really time to slaughter the city. May we be lucky not to catch up with such human tragedy. Either you should write a letter to the Imperial Government, and I will write to the Ministry of Defense, asking them to send more men. His Majesty will go crazy when he senses danger, and having more troops will make his temper better. This time, Kong Pei didn't think that Bo Jiao's mind was confused, and he also knew why Hong Tao did this, and it was obviously useless to persuade Hong Tao, the only way was to let the old emperor not be anxious every day.
"I wrote the letter last night, you are from the Ministry of Defense, I can't tell you what to do, since you think so too, then write it quickly, I asked people to return to Kaifeng with half of the transport ships to pick up the new supplies from the south, and by the way, let them bring the letter back. The Imperial Government will soon be sending troops to the Indian Peninsula, and according to the current situation in the Great Song Dynasty, I have proposed in my letter to the Imperial Government that more troops be transferred to the Great Song Dynasty, especially in the north, where there are few people and it is useless. "Bo Jiao thinks longer than Kong Pei, and he is one step faster.
"Okay, I'll write it to the Ministry of Defense, and the meaning is similar, you can't transfer all the troops to the Indian Peninsula, and you can't just stay in the south of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the army, you have to leave tens of thousands here. I think our old majesty seems to be very fond of the north, otherwise he would not have deliberately come up from the land to take a circle, this kind of thing has never happened before, he is an emperor who rarely leaves the deck. "Although Kong Pei and Bo Jiao came together and are old acquaintances, they can represent different departments and cannot interfere with each other's judgments. But on this matter, the two of them basically agreed.
Hong Tao didn't expect that his brutal repression methods could still play such a role, and the reason why he wanted to make it so bloody was mainly to deter the northern wealthy clans in front of him. Persuasion and education are useless for these people, they have been the grass on the wall for so many years, they don't believe in any about national righteousness for a long time, and it is useless to draw a big pie for them, if they want them not to provoke themselves, they can only use the most primitive method, kill! You can't muster the courage to fight, and when you kill you, your back chills at the mention of my name, and when you arrive at Zhigu Village, close to the port and the sea, it's too late for them to think anything.
(To be continued.) )