Chapter 118: A Slight Punishment for Erlang
With Li Yanzhao's shout, several soldiers next to him dismounted by themselves, and then stepped forward with a lasso, intending to capture the man.
Seeing this, the woman and the child, both in astonishment, stepped forward to protect the man and prevent the soldiers from approaching him. The soldiers were also in difficulty, and they did not know what to do, and they turned their heads to look at their hundred generals, as if they were expecting him to come up with an idea so that they could convey new orders to themselves.
Li Yanzhao saw that his soldiers hesitated and did not move, so in desperation, he stepped forward on his own and went to the side of a family of three who were surrounded by a group. When the woman and the child saw this, they all looked at him with fear.
Li Yanzhao didn't talk nonsense, he went up and carried the man out of his wife's support like a chicken, and then just as he was dragging him towards his soldiers, he felt that the belt of armor around his waist was firmly grasped, making it difficult for him to move an inch.
Li Yanzhao turned around, but saw the woman with tears in her eyes and struggling to grab her belt with both hands, and then cried and begged: "General, slave family...... Slave beg, my family is such a man. If you kill him, we are orphans and widows...... How will you live in the future...... General, the slave begs you......"
Li Yanzhao couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this, but he ignored the woman's plea for the time being, but threw the man to his subordinates, and said, "Tie it up!" Escort into the woods! Then the men took the lasso and did as they were told, and bound the man strongly.
"Nope! Jiroβ" The woman cried out in tears when she saw her husband being tied up by the soldiers and taken into the woods. The children on the side didn't care about staggering, and they also cried "Father!" He chased in the direction of his father.
"General! Checkmate! Please be merciful and let go of my family's Erlang, slave family...... The slave family is to be a cow and a horse for you, as long as you can exchange Erlang's life, I ...... And I admit it! β
Li Yanzhao turned around, and the woman saw that she was dragging Li Yanzhao, but she still couldn't prevent her husband from being dragged away by the soldiers, so she also let go of Li Yanzhao's belt, from squatting before, to kneeling now, her tears dripped out of her eyes, smashed into the loess in front of her, broke into pieces, and then gradually disappeared into the dust.
Li Yanzhao hurriedly stepped forward, and while helping her up, he said gently: "Don't be afraid, little lady, I won't kill him, but I will only punish these people who abandon their wives and children, so that they will never dare to do this in the future!" β
"General...... Don't blame the general. He was supposed to stay to protect our mother and son, but the slave family was unable to move, so he was afraid of dragging him down, so he was forced to leave quickly...... I hope the general will forgive his sins! As she spoke, tears rolled down her cheeks from the corners of her eyes like beads of broken thread, then shattered on the ground, and faded away.
The children who had gone to chase the direction of Father's departure were also stopped and hugged back by the soldiers under Li Yanzhao at this time. At this time, the child was already crying and his face was red, and he said while crying: "Mother, we can't see Father anymore...... I can't see my father anymore...... Father was dragged away...... Father is going to be killed...... Just like those uncles before us...... Woowoo...... Father......"
The woman had heard the general in front of her promise that he would not kill her husband, but at this time, when she saw the child crying sadly, her tears were still rolling down, and she could only hold the child and repeat: "The dolphin does not cry...... Dolphins don't cry...... Father will not die, father will not die......"
After crying for a long time, the child suddenly turned around, then broke free from the woman's embrace, walked up to Li Yanzhao angrily, and then raised his chubby little hand and hit Li Yanzhao on the leg. After the fight, he seemed to be still angry, so he still hit Li Yanzhao's leg with all his might. Because the child can only reach his legs.
Li Yanzhao couldn't stop crying and laughing, and heard that the child was crying and beating, and despite the fact that his little hands were red, he still cried and said, "You return my father!" You return my father...... Woohoo......"
When the woman saw her child come forward to beat the general, her face turned pale with fright, and she did not care about crying, but hurried forward and took her child back.
Li Yanzhao saw that the woman and the child were no longer entangled, so he walked into the woods by himself, and wanted to teach the man who abandoned his wife and children and ran away alone.
The man was tied to a tree, trembling all over his body, deeply worried about his unknown fate.
It wasn't long before the commander who had reprimanded him strode in and looked at him so striding that his face was full of shame, and he longed for a crack in the ground for him to get into.
"Do you know why I invited you here?" After a short and awkward silence, Li Yanzhao finally took the lead in speaking.
"I ...... I shouldn't have abandoned my wife and run away alone. The man whom the woman called Erlang was also very acquainted, and at this time he honestly admitted his mistake and did not make any more quibbles.
Li Yanzhao was deeply satisfied with his cooperative attitude, so he said in a deep voice: "As a man, I want to be the pillar of the family!" But it's good that you abandon your wife and children at a critical juncture and run away alone, if we are evildoers, what will happen to your wife and children? Have you ever wondered? β
The man lowered his head and said in a faint voice that made Li Yanzhao almost inaudible: "It's just that I can't bear to see the misfortune of their mother and son, Yu ...... Yu Cai ran for his life alone......"
Hearing this, Li Yanzhao suddenly admired this person's strange brain circuit. If you can't bear to see the persecution of your wives, can you abandon them and run away?
"As a man, don't you know how to buy a little time for the two of them to escape? Don't you know how to pick up what you can use around you, shovels, pickaxes, sticks, stones, and resist? Haven't you thought of using your own blood to fight for their survival? Do you deserve to be called a gentleman too? The more Li Yanzhao spoke, the more angry he felt in his heart, and with a whip in his hand, it was already drawn on the face of Erlang, and in an instant, a red blood mark appeared on his face.
The man was ashamed when he heard this, and after thinking for a long time, he finally lowered his head and said, "General, what you have taught is to remember it in the future." In the future, if there is a crisis, I should pick up everything around me to protect their mother and son from escaping. β
Regarding his confessional words, Li Yanzhao did not believe it in his heart. People's martial arts and so on may be cultivated by nurture, but these things should be innate.
For the cowardly soft egg in front of him, Li Yanzhao has no expectations. However, he could not be slashed with a single sword, so that the mother and son would lose their husband and father.
"You've got it in mind." Li Yanzhao shook the horsewhip in his hand and said to him: "You should remember this matter, in order to deepen your impression, a slight punishment will be imposed, and you can bear with it!" With that, he raised his right hand, and a whip was thrown out, straight to the man's chest, and the man was caught off guard and suddenly felt a hot pain in his chest, and he exhaled in pain.
"Bear with me!" Li Yanzhao didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, just whip after whip towards the man.
However, after more than ten breaths of effort, ten whips have been drawn, Li Yanzhao breathed a sigh of relief as if he had completed a great deed, and then called a soldier not far away, and while untying his dry food bag, he told the soldier: "Give him a day's dry food, and then loosen the tie and let him go." Without looking at the man, he turned and left.
The soldier looked at Li Yanzhao's back and nodded, then took out a day's worth from his dry food bag, and called his companions to come and untie the man, and handed him the day's dry food. The man ignored the pain on his body and thanked him repeatedly. Then he departed.
"A hundred people will be like this, but why." One of the soldiers sighed. Then he quietly looked in the direction of the man's departure and sighed.
After punishing the man, Li Yanzhao went to gather a group of subordinates, and then ordered Shao Lei to select a few soldiers with better temperament to escort these homeless people to the county seat.
After everything was arranged, Li Yanzhao led the rest of the cavalry and continued to embark on the road of the sentry cavalry.
At this time, it was June, the days were long and the nights were short, around the time of the day, when the sky was just getting dark, Li Yanzhaofang received a report from the sentinel in front, and he probably marched to a place only about ten miles away from Di Dao.
After releasing the guard sentry horse, Li Yanzhao ordered all the horsemen to dismount and rest for a while. However, before he had rested for half an hour, Shao Lei, the leader of the team, had already walked to the vicinity of Li Yanzhao's left with a tall and thin horseman, panting.
"Hundreds of people, our detectives have found that the Hun Hugh Tu King Shiwu Department stationed in Di Dao and Sangcheng, about 4,000 horsemen, is assembling and setting off, it seems that the goal is to go to the east!"
Liu Zhao gave Shi Wu the title of King of Jiuquan, but the land of Jiuquan belonged to Liangzhou, so in the mouths of these Liangzhou generals, no one would recognize Liu Zhao's title of coping with errands. The soldiers will still be called Shiwu's old name, King Hutu.
"East?!" Li Yanzhao instantly bounced up from the trunk of the tree where he was resting, and looked at the talking knight with a solemn face.