"General Chen, what are you going to do?"

Not only those who were escorted over, but also the thousands of townspeople gathered here, oh no, it should be said that it was the Taiping Rebels now, and it was not clear what Chen Wu did to bring these people in. Some people secretly speculated that perhaps these shamans should be killed in public—that's what the storytellers in Yicheng said.

They guessed half right.

Chen Wu did want to kill more than a dozen people, but not for the sake of the shaman.

"Last night, some officers and soldiers fled, and another night attack burned the grain shed, which made the general extremely angry. It is understandable that the guards carelessly let the bound escape. But it is absolutely impossible for the other party to manage to get rockets and burn down the grain shed in a hurry. Unless, there are spies in our town who want to collude with the government and kill everyone! ”

Speaking of this, Chen Wu paused slightly, observing everyone's reactions.

Hearing the word "spy", the onlookers were shocked. Some people were abrupt, apparently feeling that the fire was burning a little strangely; Most people don't think about it that much, just plain anger. If no one secretly let go of the officers and soldiers, how could the more than 20,000 catties of grain in the grain shed be burned?

This is clearly going to kill everyone!

I don't know who shouted first, and the more than 3,000 volunteer soldiers all roared angrily, demanding that Chen Wu strictly investigate. There were even radical people who shouted out, demanding that they report back and report back, arrest the spy who released people without permission and provided rockets, and set fire to death in public!

Seeing the excitement of the rebels, Chen Wu was very satisfied.

He nodded, made a look of empathy, and released the desperate plan that really made these people die: "I also hate the spy who colluded with the government and burned everyone's food, but I prefer to believe that the brothers in our rebel army are all heroes." In order to find out this spy and prove their innocence, please step forward one by one, and each of you will give a knife to these dog officials who work for the government. But whoever does it is a brother of my Taiping Righteous Army. But if anyone refuses to do it......"

Chen Wu paused, sneered, and said murderously: "Then there is no doubt about it, it must be a traitor who let go of the official errand and burned down the grain shed, so don't blame Ben General for being polite." ”

He waved his hand at Dian Yong.

The latter nodded, took out his knife and held it in his hand, stood in front of the nine people to be beheaded, and said expressionlessly: "My Taiping Righteous Army was established today, and the provisional military regulations have eight prohibitions and three beheadings: one is forbidden to be slack in training, stealing and playing tricks, and violators will lead the army with ten; Second, it is forbidden for colleagues to kill each other, gather crowds to fight, and violators lead the army to lead ten; Three prohibitions...... There are three other beheadings: first, those who do not obey the general's command will be beheaded; second, those who are ineffective in combat and flee in fear of war will be beheaded; Third, those who collude with foreign thieves and leak military aircraft will be beheaded. ”

Every chop word came out of Dian Yong's mouth, making the rebel soldiers below feel cold. After all the eleven articles were reported, Dian Yong clasped his chest with his right fist, made a standard imperial salute to Chen Wu, and retreated.

"You have all heard the military regulations that the general of the earth lord has read bravely." Chen Wu looked at the rioting rebel soldiers, frowned, motioned to Sun Tian for them to suppress the movement, and then continued: "This verification, starting with General Ben and General Dian, everyone under him has to do it. Whoever refuses to be punished for the crime of 'colluding with foreign thieves and leaking military aircraft' will be punished with three beheadings, and will not be spared! ”

With that, he stepped down, randomly selected a person who was gagged, but whose face was already pale and struggling, drew his knife and thrust it fiercely.

Because there were still thousands of people waiting, Chen Wu deliberately chose a place that was not deadly. But Rao was like this, the soldier of the city defense battalion who was tied hand and foot and pressed to the ground was still convulsed in pain. Under the severe pain, the person who was seriously injured yesterday did not know where to get the strength, but he suddenly broke free, spit out the rags in his mouth, and scolded: "You thieves who should be beheaded all over the house, how dare you ...... Woo! ”

He only had time to shout a word before Chen Wu slapped him to the ground with a knife.

The Li family member who was in charge of pressing him turned a little pale, but in the face of Chen Wu's stern eyes, he was a little afraid and ashamed, and hurriedly used all his strength to suppress the soldiers of the city defense battalion again.

"I'll come."

Seeing Chen Wu put away the knife, Dian Yong also jumped down, chose the youngest son of the baron of the Qian family, and stabbed him in the arm.

Then Sun Tian, Gan Xing, Li Zishi and others followed.

After the 100th rebel army handed over the petition, more than a dozen people were already bleeding, and only two of them still had a breath left. This bloody scene made Chen Wu feel a little uncomfortable, but he forcibly suppressed the discomfort and looked at the remaining people of Changshan Town without changing his face.

Swept by Chen Wu's gaze, these people turned pale one by one. Some people who were lucky and didn't plan to rebel at all finally realized that they couldn't drag it on. Everyone knows that this knife is easy to cut out, and it is impossible to get off the ship of the thief army. After a while, I don't know who screamed first, and actually rushed out of the crowd to escape.

"How daring!"

Chen Wu sneered, I only want to run now, it's too late!

Dian Yong had already asked people to bring the green horse over, and when he saw this, he turned over and got on the horse, chased after the horse, and shot a bow and arrow a hundred steps away, all in one go. The man who fled slammed forward, staggered and shook twice, and died of exhaustion.

With this bloody example in front of them, no one else dared to say anything. Forced by Gan Xing and them, they walked up one by one, picked up a knife and poked a hole in the corpse. Some people break down after doing this, squatting on the ground and crying; There are also people who seem to have lost their souls, and turn back in a daze; Some of the women held the knife and made a few gestures, but they never dared to make a move.

Gan Xing, who was determined to do with Chen Wu, ignored it, stepped forward and grabbed their hands and pressed them on the corpse, and then pushed them away and called the others to come.

Anyway, it's just such a ceremony, as long as people come up and turn around like this, a qiē will be different. Not to mention that in the eyes of others, they have blood on their hands, let's just say that these rebels themselves have begun to gradually accept this new identity.

Seeing a person walking up and chopping the flesh and blood of the dozen or so corpses into a blur, Dian Yong, who was leading the horse and guarding the side, couldn't help but admire: "General Tiangong has a good means!" In this way, these people are afraid that they will rebel against you. ”

Chen Wu looked at it silently and didn't reply, but he couldn't help but feel a little complacent.

Yesterday's so-called uprising and rebellion were nothing but inciting blood, and the momentum will dissipate as soon as it passes. But after today's episode, the Taiping Righteous Army can be regarded as having a prototype. A lot of things that couldn't have been done yesterday can be done today. Seeing that the vast majority of the rebels had completed this petition, Chen Wu did not wait for the follow-ups to end, and issued a series of orders.

It's time to really put the framework of the rebels together.

"Gan Xing, you take the people you found last night, take my order, and work with Sun Zhong to forcibly requisition the remaining grain and livestock of each family, and collect them into the possession of the righteous army. From this day forward, all meals will be distributed equally by the rebels. If they resist, they will be directly beheaded on the charge of colluding with foreign thieves. ”

"Sun Tian, Li Niu, you take people, recruit 500 people in the rebel army, and set up the volunteer battalion of the Taiping Army. Among these 500 people, only 200 elites will be left in the end. If they can pass the final review, they will be able to eat three meals a day, and the ration will be increased. In the future, these people will have an additional reward for conquering the city. ”

"Count the horsemen and good marksmen, and set up horse teams and foot bow battalions. The treatment of these people is added by three percent with reference to the treatment of the infantry army. ”

"All the old and the weak and the women are unified into the women's battalion. If there are those who are willing to go to the battlefield, they can also be grouped separately, and the treatment is the same as that of the volunteer battalion. ”

"Collect pig iron and farm tools, and ask the blacksmith in the town to raise the furnace to strike iron and forge weapons!"

"General Dian, please go on a trip yourself and lead someone to recover the horses, sheep and weapons that were taken from the black turban thief before."

………

One order after another was issued in different categories and was quickly executed.

If it was before today, if you wanted these rebels to do what they were ordered, you didn't have to think about it, it would definitely provoke fierce resistance. But with today's deterrence, most people are not resisting, and Mu Ran chose to obey the order. Although the grain requisition on Ganxing's side did encounter some trouble, after Ganxing decisively killed one person, the grain and livestock were collected by Shun Lì and returned to the grain depot of the righteous army.

This matter has to be done by Gan Xing, a foreigner.

Otherwise, if Sun Tian and the others were allowed to come forward, in the face of the soft grinding and hard entanglement of thousands of villagers, he would have to back down. In that case, the requisition of grain will become an empty phrase.