Chapter 362: Who Shouted for Them
Groups of scouts entered the villages that had been infested overnight, announced to the villagers that the army had broken the thief army, and invited the villagers to go to the barracks to watch the killing of the thief army. Most of the villagers hesitated to go out of fear, and there were only a few brave people in each village, and they also struggled almost all night and after a fierce ideological struggle, they decided to go to see if the king of Luoyang would really behead those thieves for the sake of them ordinary people.
However, there are also exceptions to the village that came to the military camp and waited for the king of Luoyang to kill the thief army, and that was the small village where Liu Wei defeated Gongsun Fan.
Although the villagers in the village were coerced to hide in their homes during the war, the shouts of killing outside were endless, and after the battle, some officers and soldiers of the Luoyang Army entered the village to inform them that the thief army had been broken and pacified them.
Witnessing the defeat of the Luoyang army and seeing the dead corpses everywhere, the villagers would not have the slightest suspicion of Liu Wei, and the whole village carried each other early in the morning and came to the outside of the barracks.
Due to the fact that the villages are not far from each other, and many villagers even have in-laws with each other, one village is convinced of Liu Wei, and those villagers who came here with a skeptical attitude have also let go of their worries after talking to each other. In addition, the heads of people raised high with bamboo poles outside the barracks made the people gathered outside the barracks almost completely dissipate.
Many villagers recognized it at a glance, and the human head that was raised high with a bamboo pole and hung outside the tooth gate was the general who led the thieves into the village that day. Even the head of the thief general has been hung outside the barracks, which shows that the king of Luoyang is not fooling the people this time, but really wants to take out this evil breath for them.
In this small village where the army was stationed, the villagers did not dare to go out of the village for several days, and some of the more daring ones heard the noise of people outside the village as if many people had come, and under careful snooping, they found that many villagers from nearby villages had come.
After seeing the situation outside the village, the villagers returned to the village and told the people in the same village, and the villagers living in the village cautiously left their homes and came to the outside of the barracks, and waited quietly for the king of Luoyang to punish the rebellious army with the villagers of several other villages.
The sun rose higher and higher, and the people outside the barracks gathered more and more.
Standing outside the tent, Liu Wei looked up at the sky, and seeing that it was not early, he instructed a soldier behind him: "Send the order to all the rebellious soldiers who participated in the attack on the village outside the barracks and prepare for execution!" ”
"No!" The soldiers clenched their fists in response, turned around and ran to convey Liu Wei's order to the officers and soldiers escorting the rebels.
Outside the barracks, the villagers, men, women, and children, who had put aside their worries, straightened their necks and looked inside the tooth gate, waiting to watch the execution.
"It's coming! Here it comes! As the crowd straightened their necks and looked into the tooth gate, a shout came from the crowd, and a sharp-eyed man raised his hand and pointed to the group of centaurs who had just appeared inside the tooth gate, and shouted to the villagers: "The people have been escorted out!" ”
Before the man's shout fell, the villagers saw a group of brightly armored Luoyang soldiers walking out of the Yamen.
There were about 100 Luoyang troops in this group, and they did not ride horses, but lined up in two neat teams, and walked out of the tooth gate with uniform steps.
"Line up!" Out of the tooth gate, the officer of the Luoyang Army who walked in the front shouted and gave the order to line up.
With the officer's order, more than 100 Luoyang soldiers turned around, stepped on neat steps, and walked five steps on each side, leaving a road about ten steps wide between the two teams.
As soon as the group of soldiers stood in formation, another group appeared in the barracks.
The new group of people was much more sluggish than the soldiers who had left the camp before. All of them were in tattered armor, and almost every one of them had their upper bodies tightly bound with hemp ropes, and only a few who were seriously wounded were not bound by hemp ropes, but were carried out of the tooth gate by the same embarrassed soldiers as they were.
Walking on both sides of this group of people, there were only twenty or thirty Luoyang soldiers with shields in one hand and Pu Dao in the other.
Whenever this group of people walked a little slower and wanted to delay and delay, the Luoyang army who escorted them would curse and roar a few times in their mouths, and stepped forward and kicked hard at the person who dared to delay.
Knowing that they would die, although they were beaten and scolded by the Luoyang Army, this team of people still grinded one by one, unwilling to go too fast, and walked for a long time before they rubbed out of the tooth gate.
Out of the tooth gate, the soldiers who carried the seriously wounded returned to the barracks under the escort of several Luoyang troops. They did not participate in the looting of the village, nor were they among the beheadings, and they came out with them, but only to assist the Luoyang army and carry the prisoners who were seriously wounded.
"Get on your knees!" The group was escorted out, and under the push of the Luoyang army, they lined up in two rows, and a Luoyang army officer pressed the hilt of his sword, walked quickly behind a thief, shouted angrily, raised his foot and kicked the thief's leg hard.
The leg was kicked in the crook, and the thief bent his legs, and knelt on the ground with a "poof" sound, bowing his head, and kneeling without a word.
Immediately afterwards, the Luoyang army who escorted them out of the pair was kicked with a leather whip, and with a burst of whipping and scolding, the thieves who were escorted out knelt down one by one.
A thief straightened his body, his leg had been kicked five or six times by the Luoyang army, and every time he just kicked him down, he would stand up again, which was quite a bit of a heroic man's generosity to death.
"Damn, kneel down for Lao Tzu!" Seeing that the thief soldier knelt down three times and then stood up again, a Luoyang soldier cursed, picked up his leather whip, and whipped him five or six times in a row.
The whip is made of cow tendon, and when it is whipped on a person's body, it will stick tightly to the skin, and each time it is drawn, it will leave a whip mark on the person's body soaked with blood.
After receiving several lashes in a row, the man stood upright, with a proud face, and did not want to kneel down at all.
"Poof!" With the sound of a long sword unsheathed, a Luoyang Army officer walked quickly behind him, and with a wave of the long sword in his hand, it slashed towards his leg.
Blood splattered, and the man who straightened up and didn't want to kneel down snorted, his legs weakened, and he knelt down with a "poof". The blood that flowed from the crook of the leg dripped onto the ground, instantly turning the ground red.
"You're a mother!" A sword slashed the man's legs, and the officer raised his foot and stepped on the shoulder of the kneeling man from behind, spat it, and scolded and said: "Bullying the common people, still being a strong man in front of Lao Tzu, let you be beaten with iron, Lao Tzu will also knead you into mud!" ”
The onlookers looked at the rough beating and abuse in front of them, although they were very happy in their hearts, but listening to the crisp sound of the leather whip on the flesh of the human skin and the howl of the thieves who were escorted, there were still some timid people, and they turned their faces to the side and did not dare to take a second look.
"The King of Luoyang is here!" Nearly a hundred captives who were about to be killed had already knelt down, and some of the onlookers shouted again.
Everyone hurriedly looked away from the thieves who were kneeling on the ground and looked inside the tooth gate.
Liu Wei, who was dressed in a people's deep robe, accompanied by Guan Qing, walked out of the barracks with Liu Nu and a team of soldiers.
Behind the group led by Liu Wei, there was also a young man wearing a common person's costume who was pushed out by two soldiers with his arms twisted.
The young man hung his head down, his legs were already weak, perhaps he was too afraid of death, he was already frightened and incontinent, and under the soldier's half-dragged half-drag, he left a trail of water behind him with every step he made.
"King Luoyang, I don't accept it!" Liu Biancai walked out of the tooth gate, and as soon as he was slashed by a sword of the Luoyang Army officer, the man who was kneeling on the ground shouted loudly.
Hearing someone shouting disconvinced, Liu Wei turned his head to look at the group of thieves kneeling on the ground, and strode towards them.
When he arrived in front of the man who was shouting loudly, Liu Wei pressed the hilt of his sword, looked down at the man, and asked coldly, "Why are you not convinced?" ”
"We are all doing what we are told!" The man kneeling on the ground raised his face, looked at Liu Wei, and replied loudly: "Your Highness wants to kill, only kill Gongsun Fan and Zhu Yong, why don't you even let us go?" Wouldn't such indiscriminate killing chill the hearts of people all over the world? ”
"What a pair of sharp teeth!" As soon as the man's words fell, a mocking smile appeared on the corner of Liu Wen's mouth, raised his hand and pointed to the head hanging outside the tooth door, and said to the man: "Zhu Yong has already been ambushed, and when this king breaks through the Bohai Sea, Gongsun Fan will definitely fall to the ground, and even that Gongsun Chan will not be pleased!" ”
"If you are born as a soldier of the Bohai Sea and pretend to be a soldier of my Luoyang Army, you have already committed a capital crime!" Lowering his head and frowning, Liu Wei said coldly to the man: "Enter the village, **** women, loot wealth, if someone is dissatisfied, you will be killed on the spot, this king killed you today, is to seek justice for those souls who died at the hands of you!" When you see you being killed, you still dare to shout out that you are wronged, those innocent villagers who died at the hands of you and others, to whom do they shout that they are wronged? ”
was questioned a few times by Liu Wei, the man raised his face, opened his mouth wide, and had the heart to argue a few more words, but he didn't know where to start.
"Folks!" Liu Wei no longer paid attention to the man, turned to look at the onlookers, pointed to the group of thieves kneeling on the ground, and shouted: "Although they are wearing the clothes and armor of our Luoyang army, they are not the soldiers under the command of this king, but they have come thousands of miles to the Bohai Navy where Hongnong killed the villagers. Pretending to be my Luoyang army, provoking the feelings of the army and the people, and harming the people of Hongnong, the villagers said, should these people be killed? ”
The onlookers only thought that Liu Wei was going to clean up the door and kill the evil army that killed the people, but they didn't know that these people were not Luoyang Army, but other people pretending to be, and after hearing Liu Bian's words, everyone was stunned.
It took a long time before the villagers came to their senses and shouted, "Kill them!" ”
Someone raised their heads, and the villagers who had come back to their senses suddenly let out a cry and shouted "kill them".
He pressed his hand twice to the villagers who were excited, and when the villagers stopped shouting, Liu Wei pointed to the man who had just shouted wronged, and said to the villagers: "There is one thing he said is right, they are just acting on orders!" The culprit of this incident is still living a free life in Jizhou! ”
Looking around at the onlookers, Liu Wei drew out his long sword, raised it high, and shouted loudly: "This king swears to the sky today that he will raise a large army to break through Jizhou, and pay tribute to the dead Hongnong people with the head of Gongsun Zhan, and seek justice for the villagers who have been bullied by the Bohai Navy!" ”