Chapter 493: Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival (24)
The people on the opposite side gradually parted, revealing a few passages. A group of angry people carried dozens of stretchers covered in white cloth to Chen Ning and the others and put the stretchers down. He was followed by many wounded people.
The eyelids of these generals outside the gate of the camp all jumped, and a bad feeling suddenly surged in their hearts. Just by looking at it, you can see that the stretchers covered with white cloth are lying on dead people!
Li Ye, who was originally going to be silent, immediately changed color. It was true that he asked his subordinates to raise food, but he didn't say that he could kill people!
Besides, even if there is any conflict, it is just a few lives that have been accidentally injured. But how to explain the stretchers with hundreds of bodies in front of you? How many lives can you lose again?
"It's a big trouble this time." Chen Ning's face was like the bottom of a pot at the moment, and it was pitch black. His lips trembled slightly, and he was already speechless.
This is not a frontier battlefield! This is the heartland of the Emperor and Song Dynasty! These people are all the army of the Emperor and Song, and the people in front of them are the people of the Emperor and Song! This is not the border where you can hit the grass valley!
"Ladies and gentlemen, this official is polite!" A middle-aged official with a few flowing beards, wearing the official uniform of the Song Kingdom, with a white face and bright eyes, but an extremely ugly face, stepped forward and arched his hand to the generals in front of him, and said coldly.
"My lord, I don't know what happened here? The barracks are heavy," Chen Ning's scene was interrupted by this official with a heavy cold snort before he could finish speaking.
"Ladies and gentlemen, what good things have you done yourself, do you want this official to say more?!" Looking at the official robe on his body, this official should be the county magistrate of the county. Although Chen Ning and others were much higher than him in terms of grade, the Song Dynasty was noble and martial, and the civil officials had a natural sense of superiority over the generals. Therefore, what the prefectural magistrate said was also unceremoniously.
Chen Ning and the others frowned slightly, but they knew that they were at a loss, so they had to persuade each other.
"This official is Zhao Gan, the county commander of this county. You and the others connived at the soldiers under your command to loot the people's property and kill and injure people's lives, but there is still a royal law in their eyes! Zhao Gan was full of anger and stretched out his finger to the nose of Chen Ning and the others, and shouted and scolded.
"Lord Zhao, there must be some misunderstanding in this matter." Chen Ning tried to squeeze out a smile and said. He is the nominal commander of this army, and at this time, he can only come forward to fight against the black cauldron.
"Misunderstanding?" Zhao Gan snorted coldly, and the expression on his face instantly became extremely ugly. With a sharp shake of his hand, he strode to the full stretcher lined up on the ground, walked to the side of a stretcher on the very edge, and lifted the white cloth.
Stretched out his hand and pointed to the man on the stretcher, his eyes widened. There was dark red blood hanging from the corners of her mouth, her whole body was red, and her body was covered with scars. A roar full of grief and indignation, "Is this a misunderstanding?!" Even if your people steal things, you have to rape women! When you are stopped, you have to kill the whole family! This is not enough, it is necessary to slaughter the village in the village! The gold thief is not as hateful as you!! ”
"Wow~~~~" The women in the crowd immediately began to cry. It gives this scene a bleak feeling of grief and sadness.
Zhao Gan frantically lifted the white cloth like crazy, and exposed all the corpses in front of Chen Ning and the others.
"This, this" Chen Ning looked at the corpses in front of him, and his originally dark face showed a strange white color. The corners of his mouth were already trembling slightly with anger, and his eyes were almost wide open. Trembling hands pointed to Li Ye on the side. I was so angry that I was almost speechless.
People in the barracks don't see women all year round when they don't have families, and it's not uncommon for this to happen when they're out fighting.
It's just that this is the land of the Emperor and Song Dynasty, and these are the people of the Emperor and Song Dynasty! Most importantly. Someone has come to the door at this moment! It's a big deal!
Chen Ning felt dizzy for a while, and finally eased up, pointed at Li Ye, who was also pale on the side, and roared angrily, "Who did it?" Why don't you catch it!! ”
Outside the camp there was a lot of weeping. Thousands of people gathered there. Of course, the sergeants in the camp could see it. At this moment, countless sergeants gathered around the fence and watched, their eyes glazed. Looks sluggish. Many people put down their chopsticks.
After all, they are still the army of the Great Song Dynasty, and they are still people! Seeing this kind of scene at this moment, I know how the food in my mouth came from, but if I still have some conscience in my heart, how can I still eat it!
Li Ye didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, he swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and turned back with a little trembling back to find the general who led the team to raise grain.
There was wailing outside the camp, and it was no less pleasant inside the camp. They are all the people of the Emperor and Song Dynasty, and when this kind of thing happens, the sergeants are also very guilty. There were hundreds of corpses lying on the ground outside, and more than ten of them were tortured to death!
Looking at the tragic scene in front of them, and listening to the terrible wail in their ears, the sergeants could no longer eat!
"Hey !!" A sergeant of the Jinning Army suddenly roared, reached out and took out the chocolate that was originally going to be collected and taken home for the children to eat, and fell to the ground hard!
Chen Ning raised his head and closed his eyes. He didn't expect that he was just going to raise some grain, how could he come up with such a thing? Once the matter is made big, such things as looting places and killing and injuring people are stabbed to the imperial court. Then he, the titular general, will have to bear the heavy responsibility!
Cry outside the camp, look inside the camp.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone on this ancient land, and everyone was pulled out by the blood-like remnant sun in the distance. With an indescribable aura.
After a while, Li Ye, who hurried back to the gate of the camp, came to Chen Ning's side with a pale face. Suddenly, everyone's eyes were on him.
"Who did that!?" Chen Ning suppressed his anger, looked at him sideways, gritted his teeth and roared in a low voice.
Li Ye's expression was flustered, his eyes were evasive, and he lowered his head slightly, as if there was something unspeakable.
"Huh?" Chen Ning's heart tightened, looking at Li Ye like this, it seems that the matter is not as simple as handing over the murderer!
"What the hell is going on? You have something to say! Chen Ning was already getting anxious. So many people are watching!
"Huh~~~" Li Ye gritted his teeth, raised his head to look at Chen Ning, exhaled heavy turbidity, and said in a deep voice, "It's Li Cheng." ”
"Hiss~~~" When Chen Ning heard this, he immediately had a feeling of covering his head.
Li Cheng, Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, is a person from Yongxing Military Road, and the deputy capital of the Fengxiang Army and the Horse Army. None of that matters. The important thing is that he, Li Cheng, is the current commander of the Fengxiang Army, that is, the younger brother of Li Ye in front of him!
Li Ye had two younger brothers before, but they both died young. Li Cheng is his father's youngest son when he was in his fifties, and the baby is tight.
Before his death, Li Ye's father instructed Li Ye to take good care of his younger brother and not let him be wronged.
How to take care of a brother who is 20 years younger than himself? As a general, Li Ye is busy with military affairs and is away from home all year round on weekdays.
And Li Cheng's generation is so big that no one can control him at home. When he was young, he was rampant and domineering in Chang'an City. Sleeping flowers and willows, he has done a lot of things like robbing people's daughters. When he was young, he was a famous bully in Chang'an City.
When Li Ye heard about these things after returning home, he felt that it was not okay to go on like this, so he took this younger brother to the army and became a partial colonel, leaving him by his side to take care of it. Originally, it was a family of military generals, and this kind of thing was nothing.
After entering the army, Li Cheng's temperament really improved a lot. After starting a family, he rarely did the dirty things he used to do. This also made Li Ye feel that his younger brother was still a material that could be made.
Wait until the prince of the small race is defeated and killed on the Bear Ridge. As the commander of the left-behind department of the Fengxiang Army, Li Ye naturally became the commander of the Fengxiang Army. And his younger brother naturally rose to the top and became the deputy capital Yuhou.
Today, the military horses that went out to raise grain during the day were led by Li Cheng himself. When he ransacked a village, he found a village girl who was quite attractive. After fighting abroad for a long time, he couldn't vent, and the huge pressure that had been wandering between life and death made Li Cheng immediately germinate in a solid state.
Li Cheng wants to be strong. Explode that village girl. But the village girl didn't want to obey, resisted to the death, and scratched his face.
The long-term war has made Li Cheng somewhat indifferent to the shackles of the world. Coupled with the fact that his nature is not a good person, the evil thoughts in his heart immediately exploded.
In abuse. After killing the village girl, the village girl's family immediately turned red eyes, and they were about to fight him with a hoe. How could an ordinary peasant be an opponent of a heavily armed military man? Since Li Cheng, who was caught on his face and was still bleeding, had opened the killing ring, he naturally wouldn't mind killing a few more.
Li Cheng, who had not been released from the evil thoughts in his heart, soon led his men to wreak havoc in the village. plundering people's property and raping women. Kill all those who dare to resist!
The main generals have taken the lead, where will the sergeants who followed Li Cheng be polite? In the blink of an eye, this small village, which was originally quiet and peaceful, has become a purgatory on earth!
It's not just this village. Many surrounding villages have been openly looted, and at the very least, they don't even bother to give IOUs, and they just start looting. Those who dare to resist will either be beaten or killed!
Where did the people who happily brought food home from the victorious army have thought that such a thing would happen? Food, money, all kinds of daily necessities, and even the chocolate candy distributed to the children by the Chang Shengjun were robbed!
All of a sudden, there was a lot of mourning all over the vicinity within a radius of dozens of miles. The malice unleashed by people in an environment where there is no control is very terrifying. wantonly take the lives of others and plunder people's property. What are the things that these Fengxiang Army do are different from those beast-like Jurchens?!
Wait until the marauding sergeants have left satisfied. The grief-stricken and inexplicable people carried the corpses to the local government.
This is the scene that Chen Ning, Li Ye and others saw outside the gate of Daying. (To be continued......)