Chapter 305: Killing Kills and Trains Courage
(Maopu Chinese) Why did the Hangzhou water army lose many battles with the sea bandits? It will collapse at the touch of a button, and Lord Le is looking for this answer.
In addition to the border army in the northwest, almost all the forbidden armies in the Central Plains and Jiangnan have lost their combat effectiveness, not to mention these van troops, and the soldiers have become farmers, craftsmen, and artists under the generals, and have become their tools to make money. This is also why in the future, the iron hooves of the Jin people can wantonly trample on the land of the Great Song Dynasty, and the soldiers and civilians will be slaughtered like pigs and dogs.
When an army has morale, any enemy is just a herd of cattle and sheep to be slaughtered in their eyes.
Lord Le did not go to the navy or the county office, but only hid in his room to check the case files he got from the Criminal Division.
According to the ancient people's view, spring and summer are the seasons when all things grow, and autumn and winter are the seasons when trees wither, symbolizing slaughter. Human behavior, including political activities, must conform to the time of heaven, otherwise they will be punished by the gods. The emperor claimed to be the son of heaven, called the son of heaven, and he had to obey the will of heaven and act according to the time of heaven. The same is true for the execution of prisoners.
Lord Le hid in the room to read the file, naturally with his own purpose, because Lord Le wanted to train the courage of those rabble Hangzhou sailors, so that this group of lambs would grow bloody.
What surprised the more than 1,000 sailors even more was that among the generals and soldiers of the navy in the school field, there were 18 big men with sturdy figures, ugly faces and fierce faces, all of whom were naked with their upper bodies, and each held a heavy, long, and wide devil-headed knife in his hand.
These eighteen big men with sturdy bodies and ugly faces were the executioners transferred by Lord Le from the nine counties of Hangzhou, and the No. 60 and 70 prisoners on the ground were all death row prisoners who wanted to be beheaded after the autumn. And what these executioners have to do is to show their decapitation skills in front of these more than 1,000 soldiers.
Beheading, there were in antiquity. Beheading requires skill, and it is the master who leads the apprentice. Although the status of the executioner in ancient times was not high, it was equivalent to the three classes of officials, although they belonged to the grass-roots officials, according to the current words, the low level was the treatment of civil servants, and the yamen rated the work and food silver, about six yuan per year.
When the words fell, the thousands of soldiers in the Hangzhou Navy Camp were all startled, and they couldn't take their eyes off the dozens of death row prisoners on the ground.
In ancient times, beheading was carried out in different hours, that is, the beheading was severe. Generally, the beheading is at noon, so that there are ghosts to do it; Repeat offenders or heinous offenders must be operated on at three o'clock in the afternoon, and they will not be allowed to do ghosts. In addition, it is said that the Yang Qi of the Imperial City is also the most prosperous at the Noon Gate, regardless of the time, so the emperor ordered the offender to be pushed out of the Noon Gate to behead, that is, the official could not even be a ghost.
But when the actual execution is carried out, sometimes because of the person's nervous reaction, the head of the person who flies out and bites a spectator also happens.
The head flew to the ground, and the body of the death row prisoner twitched violently on the ground a few times, and then there was no sound, only the foul blood gurgled out at the broken neck and stained the ground red. As the blood flowers bloomed, the pungent fishy smell spread in the air, and with the breeze blowing, it drifted in every corner of the water military camp.
Huang Kanjian and Tong Juan on the side were also pale, the two of them were only responsible for investigating intelligence in the Imperial City Division, although they had also seen the scene of beheading, but they had never seen a scene of cutting sixty or seventy people at one time, but fortunately, the two of them did not vomit. The face of the ruler who was waiting behind Master Le was also pale, only Wu Song and Tu Si were as usual, Wu Song was a promoter, and Tu Si was a helper, so I had seen a lot of beheading scenes.
"Wow......"
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"Bear bag with no eggs!" The deputy commander shouted to stop the execution, walked down, kicked the soldiers who vomited in the dark and collapsed on the ground a few times, and said with a curse in his mouth: "Help up all those who have collapsed to the ground, and finish the execution, as for those who dare not look at it, Lao Tzu let him sleep with these corpses who have been executed at night today......
"Report to the appeasement of the lord, the execution is complete!"
"The corpses will be distributed and returned to the family members in a few days, stop here first, as for these heads, ......" Lord Le nodded and said, paused for a moment, and then said: "These heads are hung at the entrance of the camp gate, let the brothers in the camp take turns to keep vigil for them, and it can be regarded as opening their eyes!" ”
The soldiers who vomited looked at this young and almost unspeakable magistrate who was both a county magistrate and a military manager, and had a dual identity, was he really just reading people......
There is no other choice when we meet the enemy, if you don't kill him, he will kill you, either he dies or you die, since they are all death, it is better to let the opponent die. No matter how hard the enemy's body is, is it harder than a sword or a gun? Like us, they are all raised by their fathers and mothers, they also eat whole grains, and they also carry a head on two shoulders, and they are also more than 100 pounds, so there is nothing to be afraid of at all! ”
Master Le's thinking was very jumpy, and he suddenly turned his eyes to Huang Kanjian and said, "Huang An! ”
Lord Le commanded awe-inspiringly: "Eighteen executioners and the brothers of the Imperial City Division form a team of overseers, and when they clash with the bandits, but there are those who escape from the battle in a cowardly manner, there will be no forgiveness!" Those who do not kill will sit together with their sins! ”
Lord Le's words, along with the smell of blood, floated in the sky above the camp, which shocked the hearts of the Hangzhou Navy soldiers again, where is this Lord Zhenfu What kind of civil official, it is clearly a butcher.
Fear rises from the heart......
The bandits and robbers also talk about the rules of the rivers and lakes.
Lord Le wanted to take the initiative, but the traces of the pirates were really difficult to find, so in the end he had to fight the idea of waiting for the rabbit.
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