Chapter 219: Lighting the Sky Lantern

After several days of chaos in the city of Nanchang, when the men were finally able to walk around the streets and the women dared to go out of the house not far from the house to buy some vegetables to eat, they heard several cannon shots in front of the Overseer's Mansion, which shocked many people, many people turned around and ran home, but many people flocked to the Overseer's Mansion.

I saw a group of high-spirited soldiers of the Jiujiang Army escorting the captured high-ranking members of the Jiangxi branch of the Reform Party to the outside of the Overseer's Mansion, and then knelt on the ground in a row. After three or two days of hard work, there was no time to prepare the clothes of the military envoy, Chang Zhenbang had to wear a military overseer uniform of Marquis Li, accompanied by Wang Xifeng, came to these people with a smile, and kicked these people with his feet: "You reform and chaotic parties are really going to make trouble, look at what a good Nanchang city has been ruined by you, it is estimated that it is difficult for women in Nanchang to marry well." ”

"There is a way to be a heroic concubine rather than a cowardly wife, and it is a great honor for them to become women who are innovative comrades!" A reformist party with a strong taste of southern Gan said.

Chang Zhenbang said with a smile: "Presumably, the female relatives of your clan are more willing to be the concubines of our good men in Jiujiang!" Come on, investigate this person's family background, and hand over all the school-age female dependents in this person's family to Mr. Zhao for handling. Then after castrating this person, he broke his limbs and sent it to Mr. Zhao's guard home! ”

When the man heard this, he immediately foamed at the mouth and fainted in fright. Soon the two horses pulled the reformer out.

Those people who had been harmed by the reformers and the chaotic people shouted and cursed and took out eggs, vegetables and other things from the vegetable basket and threw them at this person, and even some people rushed over and punched and kicked them, if it were not for the soldiers of the Jiujiang Army to stop them, these reformers would have been beaten to death by the angry people.

"What do you ignorant people know? Lao Tzu helped them free themselves from the shackles of old feudal morality, which is a good thing! You shouldn't do this to me! ”

Wang Xifeng kicked this person in the stomach, so painful that this person fell to the ground, wow wow screamed, like an insect on the ground for a long time, Chang Zhenbang said: "This person reversed right and wrong, broke his limbs, and threw him into the toilet manure pit, so that people can see their new morality!" ”

"You can't ......," the man struggled on the ground.

Chang Zhenbang said: "This official is capable, because this official is the defender of the old morality, this official is the parent official of the common people, and this official has the integrity of this official, so this official has the right to punish you pigs and dogs in a very pleasant way to appease the injured hearts of the people." Although the officials do not know what the common people are in the eyes of you reformers, everything is good, but in the eyes of the officials, the common people are the heaven that is high above and the land where the five grains are abundant. With a wave of his hand, he let the two horses pull the maggot-like reformist out.

After Chang Zhenbang said these words with righteousness and awe, the surrounding crowd immediately erupted in thunderous applause, and there were many rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves smashed over like raindrops.

Wang Xifeng said: "These reformers are really shameless, and it is really not a pity to die, but I don't know why when dealing with these scum, the adults won the hearts of the people, and what the lowly people got was the duty of the people." It's really unwilling! ”

Chang Zhenbang suddenly flew up and kicked out the nearby reformers who seemed to be scared silly, and this person flew out three or four meters with a bang, and the Jiujiang Army soldiers on both sides of the defense did not stop at once, and they were caught by the nearby Nanchang citizens, surrounded by a group, and beat to death, and when the soldiers passed, the reformers were already covered with fists and teeth marks, like chewed buns that had been spit out. Chang Zhenbang waved his hand and asked the soldiers to cut off the mutilated heads, and then threw them aside.

After dealing with the previous few chaotic parties, seeing that it was about to be the turn of the head of the Gannan Branch, he who was full of innovative fighting spirit in the past wilted all of a sudden, and kept touching the ground with his head, making a clangling sound, and begged at the same time: "My lord spare my life, the villain is just a scholar in Gannan, and he has only done these last resort things by being held hostage by these thugs. ”

"Shut up!" When several reformers around him heard this, they couldn't help but be furious, and they moved over from the ground one after another, opened their mouths and bit the body of the head of the Gannan Branch, but the Jiujiang troops on both sides couldn't hold them, and when more soldiers rushed over, they let Chang Zhenbang wave his hand and push it aside.

The miserable wails and dripping blood staged a dog-eat-dog show, and when Chang Zhenbang felt that it was almost over, he asked the soldiers to separate these guys who looked like mad dogs.

At this time, the head of the Gannan branch has been bitten all over the body, but it is no big deal, it is all some flesh wounds, the only serious part of the injury is the ear that was bitten off the earlobe, the pain came, but he didn't mind, in his opinion, these crazy chaotic parties were separated by the soldiers, which meant that the other party accepted his surrender, he desperately squeezed out a little cheerful smile from his face and flattered Chang Zhenbang, Chang Zhenbang smiled at him, he suddenly felt that the world in front of him lit up, didn't notice that Chang Zhenbang had already asked someone to take out a small bowl of salt from the kitchen, and carefully shook it into the wound on his body.

That stinging feeling suddenly made the head of the Gannan branch jump, he glared at Chang Zhenbang viciously, I don't know why this person didn't accept his surrender, didn't he know that he was the supreme leader of the reform party in Gannan? As long as he accepts himself, those reformers in Gannan will definitely be swept away by Chang Zhenbang, and no one in Gannan will make trouble with him in the future.

The soldiers of the Jiujiang Army on both sides saw him jump up, and pressed him to the ground without saying anything, but unfortunately the salt stimulated the nerves under the wound and stimulated all the potential of the head of the Gannan Branch, which was not something that these two people could suppress at all, and even took the opportunity to knock the two soldiers to the ground and rushed out towards the crowd.

Chang Zhenbang sighed, stretched out his hand and shot him, and the head of the Gannan branch fell in response, and the Jiujiang army immediately rushed over and dragged him back like a dead dog. But the head of the Gannan branch did not die, the bullet only pierced his thigh leg bone and did not kill him.

"Why don't you break the doglegs of these rebels in a hurry, what are you waiting for! If you surprise an adult, then you have to go. Wang Xifeng scolded loudly. Those Jiujiang soldiers looked at Chang Zhenbang, Chang Zhenbang nodded, which was considered acquiescence, and the Jiujiang soldiers went up one after another, holding machetes to cut off the legs of these reformers.

Chang Zhenbang walked over silently, asked for a machete from the hand of a Jiujiang army, and gently slashed towards the body of the head of the Gannan Branch, the wound was not serious, but there was a lot of blood, and the branch minister's wail of fear was even louder, especially when Chang Zhenbang sprinkled salt on his wound, it was even more earth-shattering to change the tone. The reformers on the side felt the same way, many tough guys who looked like they peed their pants alive, and one of them was a young man who foamed at the mouth and died of fright, but it was lucky, at least he didn't suffer much when he died.

As there were more and more wounds on the head of the Gannan Branch, after he was covered with a thin layer of salt all over his body, his wailing gradually became much smaller, his mouth was dry and cracked, and then he went into dehydration shock, and immediately the spiritual Jiujiang Party came over and threw a bucket of water on him, and the Gannan Branch Minister immediately wailed and screamed, and when he woke up, he immediately went to a Jiujiang soldier to wipe his whole body dry, and tried to guide the water into his wounds, and the hoarse wail came intermittently, not only the reformists on the side but also those Nancheng citizens were also stunned, The fear of Chang Zhenbang also followed, making these people fall into a nightmare for life, no matter whether Chang Zhenbang was good or bad, they would not dare to resist Chang Zhenbang for life.

After doing this repeatedly, the head of the Gannan branch finally died in his own wailing, accompanied by the wailing voice of the head of the Gannan branch, the reformers no longer had the courage to say something, and Chang Zhenbang's ghost-like means and image made them just want to die quickly.

Chang Zhenbang glanced at these wilted reformers, slowly walked in front of the Yuzhang sub-minister, and said, "You are the Yuzhang sub-minister of the reforming and chaotic party!" ”

The head of Yuzhang glanced at him and said, "If you want to kill or chop, listen to it!" If you want me to be a dog, but you can't! ”

This kind of hard words really shouldn't be said as softly as him, but in his opinion, whether he resists or submits to Chang Zhenbang, he will not let them go after all, it is better to die hard, at least when future generations say it, they will not be like the cowardice of the Gannan Branch.

Chang Zhenbang said: "Okay, I respect you as a man, if there are more reformers like you, can I stand here or not." ”

Minister Yu Zhang said: "It is just a matter of success and defeat, and I hope that the failure of the recovery of Nanchang can illuminate the way forward for the reform party." Then I will die a well-deserved death. ”

"Since you have such a desire, then I will fulfill you!"

Chang Zhenbang waved his hand and asked people to erect a pole in front of the Overseer's Mansion, and asked them to wrap Yuzhang's clothes and car mats in linen, and then put them in the oil cylinder to soak for half an hour, and then tied his head and feet to a wooden pole, and let Wang Xifeng use fire to light his feet. This is a traditional Chinese penal art, called lighting a sky lantern.

The wailing voice, the strange light is really eye-opening, but half an hour can't be lit for too long, after the fire is extinguished, Chang Zhenbang makes people pour oil and ignite again, after repeating three or four times, finally fulfilled his dream, and the rest of the reformers are all scared.

Chang Zhenbang took out a pocket watch from his arms, looked at the time, sighed and said: "Time is running out, so let's do it, the reformists will all light the sky lanterns at the ministerial level, and all the rest will be sprinkled with scratches and salt, and these dogs will be killed to death." Only in this way can we relieve the suffering in the hearts of the people of Nanchang. When these reformers died, they were immediately put on display, and their bodies were handed over to the people! ”

The blood of death was once again sprinkled on the streets in front of the Overseer's Palace, only this time it was no longer sorrow and sorrow that accompanied the death, but the shouts of joy among the people, those who hid in their homes also came from all directions like ants after hearing the news, although they could not see the inspiring sentencing, this regret was made up by Chang Chang Zhenbang with beheading instead of shooting, those reformers who were convicted and asked by Chang Zhenbang like slaughtering cattle and sheep, as long as the head was thrown out, the people immediately surrounded it, These rebels were beaten and bitten like sandbags, and some people took the opportunity to cut these entities into pieces with knives like beef and mutton, selling and devouring them like sashimi, among which there were seventy or eighty-year-old old ladies who stuffed the bought human flesh strips into their mouths, although their teeth had not gone out much, but they still kept chewing in their mouths, while chewing hard, while muttering with tears: "Xiao Honghong, today grandma avenged you, revenge." Wang Xifeng burst into tears when he saw it.

Chang Zhenbang gently patted him on the shoulder and said, "You asked me a question just now, now you should know the answer!" The people of Nanchang have been plagued by the reform and chaos for too long, and if you don't release all the resentment in their hearts, they will have no future. ”

Wang Xifeng finally lowered his head in shame, and said apologetically: "The humble position is wrong, the humble position does not dare to vent the anger in his heart, but he does not take into account the sadness in the hearts of the people, the humble position should be condemned, and he is willing to be punished by Director Liu!" ”

Chang Zhenbang said: "I realized my mistake, as long as I changed it, I will still be my good brother Chang Zhenbang!" I have already told Director Liu about your affairs, and after beating the baton, you will separate from Director Liu and form a mixed brigade with the men and horses of the headquarters to garrison Fuzhou. ”

Wang Xifeng was overjoyed and said: "Thank you for the support of the Protector Envoy, and I will definitely repay the grace of the Lord with all my loyalty!" ”

Chang Zhenbang said: "I don't want your repayment, as long as you can defend the land and the people, exterminate the chaotic party, and let the people live a stable life, this is the greatest reward to the official." Our brothers from Jiujiang to Nanchang, all the way to the hard work can not be compared to Li Houye, our strength is much weaker, only with the support of the people, we can stand firm in Nanchang, in Jiangxi to create a world of our own. ”

This is a heartfelt remark, Wang Xifeng felt a little sad when he heard it, and said: "My lord, now the three town guards of Gannan, Gandong, and Ganxi have not yet returned to the adult, so let's stay in Nanchang to help the adult!" ”

Chang Zhenbang said: "You go to Fuzhou, take the opportunity to exercise yourself, and you can also help me deter those guys in southern Gansu." ”

Wang Xifeng said with a heavy face: "Since this is what the adults mean, I have no choice but to take the order to go south." I just hope that the adults can pay more attention to the situation of the town guards in northern and eastern Jiangxi, and the affairs of Nanchang can be humiliated Congratulations to the adults for controlling the whole of Jiangxi, if not, please retreat to Jiujiang, as long as Jiujiang City is still in the hands of adults, even the army of Marquis Li cannot underestimate the adults. ”

Now the situation in Nanchang City has been calmed down, Qi Yang is in charge of internal affairs, and Jiangxi Sidao Yin is still buying, but Wu Jinbiao, the town guard of northern Jiangxi, and Yue Zhaolin, the town guard of Gandong, not only did not buy Chang Zhenbang's counterinsurgency action, but also were ready to move, and there were even rumors that the two town guards had reached an agreement, one to take Jiujiang and the other to take Nanchang, and then the two would divide Jiangxi equally. At this time, Chang Zhenbang sent himself to Fuzhou, and the strength of Nanchang and Jiujiang was full of the strength of one division, how to deal with the strength of the two divisions in northern and eastern Jiangxi? Thinking of this, his face couldn't help but become a little heavy.

Chang Zhenbang patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said: "Don't worry about me, if the town guard of northern Ganbei is Ma Jizeng, he has the sixth division of Beiyang in hand, I am afraid of him for three points, now Ma Jizeng has led the sixth division to fight for Emperor Yuan at the junction of Guizhou and Hunan provinces, and now there is only a new brigade in the hands of Wu Jinbiao, who can't help me at all, and this person is usually good friends with me, so I am not afraid of northern Ganbei, but Yue Zhaolin has a headache in the town guard of Gandong, However, the men and horses under his control are only the strength of the Third Mixed Brigade and the Second Regiment of Gandong, and even if Wu Jinbiao survives to death, it will be a division, if these two people work together, it will be five or five, but unfortunately Wu Jinbiao is now only seeking self-preservation, and a single Yue Zhaolin, this weight is still lighter. If he really doesn't know what to do, Zhang Youhua and Hua Zhongtian's two brigades can completely kill Yue Zhaolin, but God has the virtue of a good life, Nanchang has been destroyed by military disasters and wars, and this official really does not want the civil war in Jiangxi Province to start again. ”

"Your Excellency is really a bodhisattva's heart! The Gods, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will definitely bless you! Wang Xifeng said.

Chang Zhenbang said lightly: "If the gods and Buddhas have spirits, this official hopes that the gods and Buddhas can calm down the chaotic party, make Jiangxi stable, and make the world peaceful." ”

The people outside gradually scattered, only a few old ladies remained, the old man ate with the blood stains on the ground with his nest head, the number of reformers and rebellious parties was quite large, but it could not meet the needs of the people of Nanchang for revenge, only less than an hour of effort, those reformers who were corrected by the law were gone, and many people who did not have time to take revenge stared at Mr. Zhao's where, and soon, it was reported that the reformers who took care of Mr. Zhao's home were eaten alive by life. Even the guy who was thrown into the dung pit disappeared without a trace, but I heard that the day before the disappearance, many Nanchang citizens secretly passed, and it was those city gates, and the heads used to show the public on the telephone poles were also quietly gone.

Chang Zhenbang got into the car driven by Wang Dewang and said to Wang Xifeng under the car: "Get in the car and accompany me to meet someone, maybe the whole person will be of great benefit to you in the future!" ”

After Wang Xifeng got into the car, the Buick went straight to Li Tingyu's house.

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