Chapter 69: Iron Will
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"Quick...... All the Montenegrin people gathered in the village square, and those who did not go were immediately executed! A boy of about ten years old and his mother were pushed out of their house by the soldiers of the Phoenix Army and walked towards the village square.
The ten-year-old boy asked, "Mother, did the patriarch really leave us and escape?" ”
The child's mother replied: "Be quiet, now we don't have a patriarch, Heichai sold us to the Fire Dance Clan for his own life!" ”
The sounds of quarrels, screams, and shouts converged on the square outside the large brick courtyard where the patriarch of the Montenegrin clan lived.
A soldier of the Phoenix Army ran to the bottom of the steps, saluted Liu Zhibang, and said, "Report to the commander, all the Montenegrin people have arrived, please instruct!" ”
Liu Zhibang waved his hand, the soldier saluted and retreated, Liu Zhibang looked at the large number of Montenegrin people in front of him, and said loudly: "Fathers and fellow villagers of the Montenegrin clan, I am Liu Zhibang, the patriarch of the Fire Dance Clan, today the Fire Dance Clan defeated the Montenegrin Clan, and the Montenegrin Patriarch Heichai surrendered to me, and announced that he had relieved the responsibility of the Montenegrin Patriarch and handed over all the clansmen to me. I hereby declare that from now on there will be no Montenegrin in this world, and all the original Montenegrin people will be merged into the Fire Dance Clan. But I can give you a chance, those who are willing to join the Fire Dance Clan stand on my left hand, and those who are not willing to join the Fire Dance Clan stand on my right hand, I have dozens of sounds, and those who stand still will be cleared! One ......"
The sidelines and rooftops were full of heavily armed Phoenix Army soldiers, and when they heard Liu Zhibang's report, everyone bent their bows and arrows and aimed at the dense Black Mountain people in the field.
"Daddy, what should I do? Which side to choose? ”
"Alas! Black guess ran away, what else can I do, join the Fire Dance Clan, as long as you live, isn't it the same who is the patriarch? A middle-aged man sighed and hugged his family tightly in his arms.
"You kid come back to me, you don't want to live anymore, come with me to the left side of Patriarch Liu......" an old man yelled at a young man.
The young man glared back at the old man and said, "I'd rather die than join the Fire Dance Clan, I'm the guard of the Black Chai Patriarch, and I won't betray him if I die......"
"Heichai abandoned us all for his own life, and you are still loyal to him, you want to be angry with me......" The old man slammed his cane on the ground vigorously, and his face turned purple with anxiety.
"Eight, nine...... Ten ......"
Liu Zhibang counted ten times, looked at the two groups of people in front of him, frowned slightly, standing on his left hand side, there were five sixths of the people who were willing to join the Fire Dance Clan, and one sixth of the people who were unwilling to join the Fire Dance Clan, there were about three hundred people, and almost all of them were strong men.
Liu Zhibang looked at the more than 300 sturdy Black Mountain men, and the more than 300 people also looked at him defiantly, their chests fell together, and they looked very unconvinced.
The corners of Liu Zhibang's mouth raised, he retracted his gaze at those people, turned his head and said aloud to the crowd who chose to join the Fire Dance Clan: "Thank you very much for giving me Liu Zhibang's trust and choosing to join the Fire Dance Clan, but I am not very familiar with you, in order to facilitate everyone to get along better in the future, I plan to set up ten leaders positions." You can choose the ten people with the highest support rate to come to me, but these ten people cannot have immediate relatives in it, which means that no two people in the family can be elected, only one. I'm still dozens of voices, and after ten sounds, I haven't selected enough ten people, so I'll kill the people over there......" After Liu Zhibang finished speaking, he pointed to the more than 300 people on the other side who did not choose to join the Fire Dance Clan.
"One ......"
"Two ......"
"Uncle Leopard, go ahead!"
A sturdy middle-aged man of the Black Mountain tribe asked with some uncertainty, "Can I do it?" ”
The young Montenegrin who encouraged him said again: "Uncle Leopard, who can you do it, don't forget, your son A Luo is still in that group, do you want him to be killed?" ”
A young man of the Montenegrin tribe said to an old man: "Grandpa, go ahead!" ”
The old man looked at the situation on the field and said in a deep voice: "Okay, I'll go!" ”
"Nine ......"
"Ten ......"
Liu Zhibang finished counting and looked at the ten people standing at the foot of the steps with satisfaction, the oldest of these ten people was over sixty years old, and the youngest was twenty-eight or nineteen years old. Most of them were middle-aged people, all of them were calm and calm, and they all looked at Liu Zhibang with complicated eyes.
Liu Zhibang looked at everyone's faces carefully, and then said: "The family members of these ten people have walked behind them, otherwise, whoever has no family behind him, I will kill him......"
"Brother, the commander said that he wanted to kill someone, but he didn't kill anyone, what did he want to do?" Long Qi and the leaders stood behind Liu Zhibang, and she couldn't help but ask Long Jie in a whisper out of curiosity.
Long Jie turned his head to look at his sister and said, "The commander is a master of the world, what does he want to do, who knows?" But I have a hunch that these people are going to be unlucky! ”
Soon, dozens of people walked behind the ten leaders, Liu Zhibang nodded with satisfaction, turned his gaze to the side of the other three hundred people, and said: "You group of people also have to elect three leaders, I will kill ten of you after ten sounds, one ......."
"Two ......"
"Three ......"
"Four ......"
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"Ten ......"
"Eleventh ......"
Still not a single one has come forward.
Liu Zhibang frowned, thinking that these people are quite tough, if they don't give some color, I'm afraid they won't be obedient.
"Hong Tai!"
Hong Tai took a step forward and said, "The subordinates are here!" ”
Liu Zhibang pointed to the group of stubborn Montenegrin people: "You go and pick ten people to come out and kill!" ”
"Yes!"
Hong Tai immediately rushed over with someone.
"Don't......" The cry of the Black Mountain crowd who were willing to surrender rang out.
"Let go of me!"
"Ah......h
"Ah......h
The crowd of more than 300 people was excited, but when they saw countless sharp arrows pointed at them around them, a circle of shield soldiers around them, and pikemen behind them, they could only watch as the ten men were executed.
"Twelve......" Liu Zhibang continued to count.
"Stop...... I'm the captain! ”
A strong man in his thirties stood up, Liu Zhibang smiled at him, and said, "Okay, you come out and stand outside the circle, Hong Tai, you go and kill ten more people......"
"No ......"
"I'm the captain ......"
"I'm going to be the captain too......"
Seeing Hong Tai walking towards them again, the group was frightened and rushed to be the captain. Liu Zhibang pointed to two people, and the two walked out of the crowd and came to the side of the strong man who came out first.
Liu Zhibang then said: "The rest of the people give you a choice, you can choose a leader at will and stand behind him, of course, you can also stand in front of these three people and choose no one, Hong Tai, I will say dozens of times, or stand still and kill me!" ”
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