Chapter Seventy-Seven: Reversal
Yongping Mansion as the Jiangzhou Governor's Office, the number of standing troops stationed in Yongping Mansion is naturally much higher than that of other county governments, and the number of soldiers on the military register is as high as more than 9,000 people, but in fact, the real standing army soldiers of Yongping Mansion are basically less than 5,000 people, and the vacant more than 4,000 people undoubtedly make the soldiers and horses and other cadres conceal their empty salaries.
It can be seen from this that even the emperor himself was forced to turn a blind eye, because every person of insight knows very well that once the drastic rectification of the government is bound to trigger a strong backlash from the vested interests, and the slightest carelessness may lead to the risk of changing the dynasty.
It is nothing more than that His Majesty the Emperor has been vacillating, and the New Party advocates changing the law in the hope of reorganizing the rule of officials and eliminating maladministration in an attempt to save the precarious situation of the Great Departure, but the reform of the law has undoubtedly touched the interests of the conservatives, and the two parties have waged fierce debates and struggles for nine years over the matter of changing the law.
If the new party is given power to reform the law, one can imagine what kind of resistance they will encounter, and it is very likely that the reform will end in failure, or even cause large-scale social turmoil, but the change of law means that sooner or later the Great Departure Dynasty will continue to decline, and it is only a matter of time before it perishes.
It stands to reason that Tang Zhiyao, who advocated the reform of the law as the New Party, and the Jiangzhou Soldiers and Horses should be in a naturally hostile position, but the New Party did not know what promises they made in order to win over the neutral generals headed by the Privy Council, which eliminated their estrangement and secretly joined forces.
Yongpyeongfu Campus.
The officials and soldiers of Yongping Prefecture who had received the order early in the morning gathered here, and when they heard that the culprit who had killed many of their comrades that day had been ambushed, the soldiers and horses prepared to use the bodies of the culprit to pay tribute to the dead soldiers in public.
Under the scorching sun, the soldiers on the school field lined up and stood together densely, all their eyes were on the high platform built in the distance, the table on the high platform was placed with incense burners and three animal sacrifices, and the soldiers and horses made Xu Shaoxu wear armor, hold the waist knife, and stand in the center with an unusually cold expression looking at the black soldiers in front of him.
Knock Knock Knock β
With the sound of earth-shattering drums, two sturdy soldiers slowly walked up to the high platform with Chen An's corpse respectively, and finally stopped in the most conspicuous position of the high platform.
They pressed Chen An to his knees, and one of them dragged one arm to support his body, and at this time, the soldiers and horses made Xu Shao pull out his waist knife and raise it high, and explained the crimes committed by Chen An with a detailed data to the countless soldiers in the audience.
In the bloody battle of encirclement and suppression outside Yongping Mansion that day, 376 officers and soldiers were killed, 124 were disabled, and 75 were missing, and the lives and futures of nearly 600 soldiers were destroyed in the hands of those in front of them.
It is conceivable that the reaction of the soldiers in the audience after hearing this data, and suddenly the entire school field became angry, and all the soldiers raised their weapons in their hands and shouted to vent their anger for their comrades.
Xu Shao was very satisfied with the performance of the soldiers in the audience, you must know that many soldiers in the school field had witnessed Chen An's terrifying killing style that day, and the atmosphere of the army became a little panicked for a while, and the soldiers and horses made Xu Shao insist on killing Chen An on the one hand, there was a factor to stabilize the morale of the army.
Xu Shao glanced at Chen An, who had let the soldiers press in front of him, this was the second time he had seen the other party's true face.
Sometimes it is difficult for him to imagine that such a seemingly ordinary young man has the courage of ten thousand people, but unfortunately, he chose the wrong path of life, if he can join the army, he will inevitably become a rising star in the future, and countless people are competing for the object, but the reality is so cruel, once he makes a mistake, he will regret it for life.
Bye!
The long knife in Xu Shao's hand was aimed at Chen An's neck and raised it high, and after muttering a sentence in his heart, he slashed it mercilessly.
Suddenly.
Chen An, who should have died, slammed back, narrowly dodging the fatal decapitation, and at the same time grabbed the soldiers who were pressing him on both sides with both hands and threw him out directly.
Before Xu Shao could react, Chen An snatched the long knife in his hand with an arrow step, and at the same time put the long knife on his neck directly in front of everyone, and the whole process was completed between lightning and flint.
"It turns out that you are the Jiangzhou soldier and horse envoy who has always wanted to kill me. β
Chen An's voice sounded behind Xu Shao like a ghost.
"You...... You're not dead?"
Xu Shao said in disbelief after coming back to his senses.
"It's just fake death, otherwise you think I'll let you catch it so easily?" Chen An sneered.
"Impossible! impossible......" Xu Shaoyu said in disbelief. "It's impossible for the soldier who captured you to not find out that you were fake ......"
"I can only say that the soldiers who captured me were too careless, originally I just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to kill Yongping Mansion unprepared, but I didn't expect that the soldiers in charge of collecting the corpse didn't carefully check my death and transported it away, so I simply decided not to do it, and deliberately took the risk to meet you, a guy who is bent on killing me. Chen Andao.
Things are indeed as Chen An said, with a body as hard as steel to resist the inevitable rain of arrows, those seemingly terrifying arrows inserted in the body actually did not really penetrate into his body, at that time he planned to relax the other party's vigilance by faking his death to kill Yongping Mansion, but he didn't expect that the soldiers who collected the corpse didn't know whether they were too scared, and they were thrown on horses and transported to the school field without checking, so Chen An decided to push the boat down the river, and it was a big deal to be found and then killedγ
I don't know whether to surprise or surprise Chen An as a result.
The sudden change on the high platform undoubtedly caused an uproar in the school field, and I am afraid that no one thought that the dead Chen An deceived the corpse and resurrected the soul of their soldiers and horses.
"What do you want to do, kill me with a tooth for a tooth?" Xu Shao said calmly after calming down. "But if you kill me, you won't be able to escape this schoolyard. β
"You're wrong, as long as I want to leave, what's the fear of thousands of soldiers and horses?"
Chen An kicked Xu Shao to the ground, and then looked at the countless soldiers in front of him.
"Whoever steps forward, don't blame me for slaughtering your soldiers and horses with a sword. β
The long knife in his hand pointed at Xu Shao, who was groaning in pain underground, and said in an extremely cold voice.
His voice was not loud, but no one dared to ignore it.
In an instant, all the soldiers were pinned to the spot as if they had been immobilized by the spell.