Pulling him up, Zhao Guohua said: "The volunteers don't kowtow, they just need to salute the army." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Salute? How to respect? Zuo Xiaoyong asked curiously.

"That's all!" Zhao Guohua said, straightened his chest, raised his right hand, and saluted a military salute.

Zuo Xiaoyong hesitated, and then saluted Zhao Guohua in the same way.

"Yes, that's all." Zhao Guohua said with a smile.

Li Xian asked puzzledly: "Brother Zhao, why doesn't your team kowtow and perform this strange military salute?" ”

Glancing at him, Zhao Guohua said: "Soldiers must have blood, and kneeling and kowtowing is easy to make soldiers lose their blood and produce servility, a strong army must be a bloody army, which is why my team is not happy to kowtow." ”

After listening to his explanation, Li Xian glanced at him and stopped talking.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, now let's discuss how to interrogate Tartar, Zuo Xiaoyong, do you have any good way to make Tartar speak?" Zhao Guohua asked. He wanted to see Zuo Xiaoyong's performance.

Zuo Xiaoyong bowed down and said: "Two adults, let the Tartars open their mouths to confide information, this depends on torture, but the torture of ordinary Tartar soldiers is useless, you must find out the officers among them, and you must find more than two, which is convenient for comparing confessions." ”

"You're right, but the captured Tartars have been stripped of their armor, so how do you say you can find the officers of the Tartars?" Zhao Guohua asked.

After thinking for a while, Zuo Xiaoyong said: "I also stayed on the Tartar side for a while, and learned some about the Tartar, although the Tartar's armor has been stripped off, but the underwear and underwear are still there, from the texture of the Tartar's underwear and underwear, his external temperament and skin and other factors, you can also find out the Tartar's officers." ”

Zhao Guohua smiled and said, "Okay, I'll leave the matter of finding out the Tartar officers among the captured Tatars." ”。

"Subordinates obey." Zuo Xiaoyong said, and was about to kneel, but Zhao Guohua grabbed him and said with a smile: "You have forgotten the rules of our army." ”

"Oh? Didn't forget! Didn't forget! Zuo Xiaoyong stood up as he spoke, raised his chest and raised his hands in salute.

Zhao Guohua raised his hand and returned a military salute.

After saluting, Zhao Guohua and Li Xian walked into the Zhuozhou military camp, Zuo Xiaoyong and Fang Defu followed in, and Lu Qing hurriedly followed in with a few garrison members.

After seeing these Qing army prisoners, Zhao Guohua said to Zuo Xiaoyong: "Let's start." ”

"All of you, the officers stand on the right, and the soldiers on the left." Zuo Xiaoyong said in Manchu.

Hearing his words, the Qing soldiers glanced at each other and did not say anything.

Seeing this, Zuo Xiaoyong said: "Outside the city, your leader sent someone to bring a letter, and he is willing to ransom the official back with silver, and give an officer three hundred taels of silver, and the soldier doesn't care, and we will deal with it, so all the officers stand up." The rest are the soldiers, and the way we deal with the soldiers is to kill them in batches."

As soon as the words fell, eight people with thick waists and fat bodies and oily faces hurriedly walked to the right. The Tartar soldier standing on the left scolded agitatedly.

"As a captive, they still don't know the rules so much, teach them with sticks." Zhao Guohua said angrily.

More than 100 soldiers of the Ming army, with short sticks in their hands, rushed in, and beat the captured Tartar soldiers with their heads and faces, and after a while, these dozens of Tartars were beaten with blue noses and swollen faces, bleeding from their mouths and noses, and they looked very miserable.

"Alright, I'll fight tomorrow. If there is any disobedience, they will be killed immediately. Zhao Guohua said viciously, glancing coldly at the Tartar captive.

The beating made the Tartar captives fearful, and when they saw his fierce gaze, they hurriedly lowered their heads, for fear of annoying him and being the first to be killed.

Seeing that these Tartar captives were suppressed, Zhao Guohua said to Zuo Xiaoyong: "You continue." ”

"Tell me the names and positions of each of you." Zuo Xiaoyong said in Manchu to the seven or eight Tartar officers standing on the right.

After a moment's hesitation, a stout Tartar officer in his forties walked out and said arrogantly: "Zhenglan Qiniulu Zhangjing Ana Huzhan." ”

Hearing that he was Niu Lu Zhangjing, Zhao Guohua couldn't help but take a closer look at him.

"Zhenglanqi Niu Lu Zhangjing Anahu Zhan's command has been assigned to Bashiku Alin." A Tartar officer in his thirties continued.

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"Zhenghongqi Niu Lu Melebo Duo Hengao" ......

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After registering, after the recognition of the Tartar soldiers and Zuo Xiaoyong's verification, there were a total of three Niu Lu Zhangjing, two Niu Lu Mele, and three Bashiku.

Considering that Niu Lu Zhang Jing was a middle-level officer of the Qing army and should know a lot of secrets in the army, Zhao Guohua asked people to first take the blue flag Niu Lu Zhang Jing Bo Xile, the Zheng Blue Flag Niu Lu Zhang Jing Anhu Zhan, and the white flag Niu Lu Zhang Jingba Yan Wo Xihui to another place in the military camp to be held separately.

Walking out of the house, Zhao Guohua said, "Brother Li, do you have any way to pry open the mouths of those three Tartar officers?" ”

"Beat them up." Li Xian said.

Shaking his head, Zhao Guohua said: "It's useless, the Tartars have rough skin and thick meat, I'm not afraid of you fighting, besides, almost all the Tartars who can be an official at the level of Niu Lu Zhangjing are diehards, and it's useless to fight." ”

"That's what Lord Zhao said." Zuo Xiaoyong said approvingly.

Looking at Zhao Guohua, Li Xian said, "Then what can you do?" ”

Zhao Guohua didn't speak, thought about it carefully, and Zuo Xiaoyong said, "Do you have any way?" ”

"I haven't figured out anything else to do other than fight." Zuo Xiaoyong said.

"Since this is the case, let's beat it first, the Tartars do a lot of evil, each Tartar whips a hundred lashes, and everyone takes turns to beat them to relieve their hatred. Be careful not to kill it. The Tartar officers were interrogated while fighting. Zhao Guohua said.

Soon, the screams of Qing prisoners, the laughter of Ming soldiers, and the sound of "popping" leather whips came from the two rooms. Zhao Guohua stood outside and listened expressionlessly.

After fighting for a while, listening to the screams of the Qing army prisoners gradually getting smaller, it is estimated that everyone is also tired, so Zhao Guohua and Li Xian walked in.

As soon as he entered, he was startled, only to see that all the Qing army prisoners had been whipped with leather whips, and their bodies were covered with blood troughs, and the skin and flesh were turned outward, and a few of them were even dying.

Zhao Guohua pointed to the few dying Qing army prisoners who had been smoked and said, "Send these to be treated." Then he walked out of the room.

"Everyone hates Tartars, and please Brother Zhao don't blame the brothers." Li Xian said.

Zhao Guohua said: "Brother Li, don't worry, I won't blame the brothers, these Tartars, everyone has the blood of the Ming people on their hands, and they should be killed." ”

"That's fine, let's go, let's go see how the Tartar officers are cleaned up." Li Xian said with a smile.

So, the two of them walked into the room where the three Qing army officers were being held.

The three officers were also whipped with a whip, and Zuo Xiaoyong and more than 20 Ming soldiers fought with leather whips in their hands, probably tired.

"Ask them what the number of Qing troops outside the city is, who is the commander-in-chief, where the artillery positions are, the number of artillery, and who the commander of the artillery is." Zhao Guohua said to Zuo Xiaoyong.

After listening to Zhao Guohua's words, Zuo Xiaoyong asked these questions in Manchu to the three captured Qing army officers.

Zhenglanqi Niu Lu Zhang Jing Anahu Zhan heard this, and shouted and cursed loudly.

"What did he say?" Zhao Guohua asked.

Zuo Xiaoyong said: "He is scolding us. ”

"What are you scolding," Zhao Guohua asked again.

After hesitating for a moment, Fang Defu said: "He scolded us for being despicable and lowly Ming dogs, and he said that he would not say it if he died." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Guohua stared at Anahuzhan carefully for a while before saying; "Want to die? It's not so cheap, Lao Tzu wants you to survive, you can't die. After speaking, he instructed a few Ming soldiers: "You guys, go find a big vat and get some carbon." ”

"Yes." A few Ming soldiers agreed to go out.

After a while, several people from Zhuozhou came with two wheelbarrows, one with a large tank with a height of one person, and the other with a cart of charcoal.

After Zhao Guohua paid the money, the soldiers brought in the vat and charcoal.

Li Xian, Zuo Xiaoyong and the others didn't know what Zhao Guohua wanted the vat and charcoal for, and the three Qing army officers were also looking at it with wide eyes.

"The captain is going to invite you into the urn?" Lu Qing said in surprise.

He read a lot of books, and when he saw this situation, he remembered an allusion from the Wu Zetian period of the Tang Dynasty. After Wu Zetian became emperor, he adopted an extremely cruel policy of repression in order to maintain his ruling authority.

Once, someone told that Zhou Xing had been plotted against him, and Wu Zetian asked Lai Junchen to try the case. Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing have always had a good personal relationship, but he didn't dare to disobey Wu Zhi's order, so he thought hard and finally came up with a solution.

Lai Junchen invited Zhou Xing to come to his palace to talk and ask him how to innovate new torture tools to try prisoners. Zhou Xing didn't know the details, so he told Lai Junchen very proudly: "I have invented a new method, as long as you prepare a big urn, burn the red urn with charcoal fire, and put the prisoner in it, no matter how stubborn he is, he will not be able to hold it and honestly confess the crime." ”

Hearing this, Lai Junchen nodded and said wonderfully. So he asked his subordinates to bring a big urn, and according to the method Zhou Xing said just now, the big urn was burned red with charcoal fire. So, he stood up, lowered his face to Zhou Xing and said, "Someone sues you for rebellion, if you don't confess honestly, I have no choice but to invite you into this big urn!" Zhou Xing was shocked when he heard this, so he had to bow his head and confess, which shows the cruelty of this punishment.