Chapter 468: Healing Civilian Grievances
At noon the next day, at the entrance of the vegetable market in Suzhou City, 20 Japanese leaders were tied up and knelt on the Xingxing platform. Li Hao sat on the main seat and closed his eyes to recuperate, and the audience was full of Suzhou people, scolding angrily at the leaders of the Japanese bandits.
In the past few months, the people of Su County have lived in dire straits, and they have been harmed by the Japanese pirates, and now the enemy is kneeling on the ground and waiting for death, everyone is happy, and some of the people whose family members were slaughtered by the Japanese are even more excited and crying on the spot.
As soon as noon arrived, Li Hao suddenly opened his eyes, picked up a wooden sign with the word "order" and threw it on the ground, and shouted: "The time has come, kill and decide!" ”
Twenty executioners immediately drew their broadswords and sprayed them with a sip of liquor.
The faces of the leaders of the pirates turned pale, and they knew that they would not escape death.
This is, a white-faced scholar who looks like a widow suddenly shouted: "Wait! ”
"What else?" Li Hao didn't care and responded indifferently.
The white-faced widow reluctantly stood up: "The prince of Tang Zhen'an is resourceful and overpowering, and if you lose in your hands, we have nothing to say." But death is a sacred thing for us Dongying warriors, and I beg the prince again to let us judge ourselves! ”
Disembowelment was the most common method of death after the defeat of the Toei samurai. Legend has it that this method of death washes away the shame of a samurai's defeat and allows their souls to return to their homeland after death.
"You're going to die, and you're still picking, why should this king do what you want?"
The scholar Wei Kou frowned slightly: "Lord Wang, we are all captives who put down their weapons on the battlefield, a powerful monarch, should treat the captives well." We are willing to die, just asking the prince to give us a decent way to die, not to die at the hands of these rough people. ”
"You want a decent death, don't you?" Li Hao sneered and jumped onto Xingtai.
He walked quickly to the scholar and Wakou, grabbed his collar and stared at him like ice: "Zao, don't forget your identity, you are now a prisoner of the stairs!" Giving you a good time is already the greatest mercy of this king, what qualifications do you have to bargain with me! ”
"Lord, we are captives!"
"Captive? Don't put gold on your face, you burned, killed and plundered on my Tang land, killing so many compatriots and brothers of this king, why did you tell me that you were a prisoner? You beasts who live by plundering have only one identity in the eyes of this king, and that is the enemy! ”
As he spoke, Li Hao threw the scholar to the ground. Then he pulled out the waning moon sword at his waist. 、
"You want to have a decent death, don't you? This king will not give you this opportunity! ”
As soon as the words fell, a burst of sword light flashed out, and with a bang, the waning moon sank into the chest of the scholar and the wolf.
The pain was severe, and the scholar fell to the ground with a scream.
Li Hao's knife stabbing is very level, not too deep nor too shallow.
The scholar will not be stabbed to death, and the wound will not heal on its own, as long as he is left alone, he will eventually bleed all over his body and die.
The scholar rolled on the ground in pain, angry in his heart, waiting for Li Hao to shout loudly: "Soldiers can be killed, not humiliated, you treat a prisoner like this, it is against morality!" Is this the behavior of the so-called ceremonial state? ”
"Smack!" Li Hao didn't let him finish, and directly stepped on his neck. This foot was as heavy as thunder, and the scholar who stepped on it couldn't breathe, and couldn't say a word.
"Miscellaneous, I let you say so many words, which is already a full demonstration of my generosity in the state of etiquette. Are you talking to me about whether a soldier can be killed or not? For so many years, when you gang of would-be robbers attacked and harassed the coastal counties of the Tang Dynasty, burning and looting everywhere, have you ever thought about not being humiliated? When you stabbed the people of the Tang Dynasty to death with swords, did you think about not being humiliated? When you brutalized my Tang women and young daughters, did you think about not being humiliated? Beasts are not as good as things, and there is a face to teach this king with the words of a saint, you Dongying dog thief's face is born so thick? ”
Li Hao's angry scolding aroused the resentment of the people present, and also aroused the anger of the surrounding Japanese leaders, who struggled desperately, wanting to stand up and fight with Li Hao, but they were helplessly tied up by Wuhua and couldn't struggle at all.
Li Hao pointed his sword at the neck of the white-faced wolf, and shouted word by word: "Pay attention to my next words, I will cut off your heads one by one later, and then hang half of the corpses of you people in the woods outside the city, let the crows peck, and half of the corpses hang on the seashore, warn you to the east and let them know that those who offend my majesty in China will be punished even if they are far away!" Your souls will not find rest, and your corpses will not find a moment of peace! Want to die a dignified death? Stop dreaming! ”
The surrounding widows lying on the execution table were furious when they saw their compatriots being insulted by Li Hao like this.
"King Zhen'an! What does it mean that you hurt us with my sword! There's a kind of let go of me, and I'll fight you to the death! ”
Li Hao frowned, turned around and made another one, immediately leaving a deep wound on the face of the person who spoke.
"Excalibur is just a weapon. If this king wants to kill you, does he have to pick a weapon? You planes look up to themselves, right? ”
"What are you looking at? Chop! ”
At the sound of an order, the surrounding executioners raised their butcher knives in unison.
The next moment blood splattered, and the heads of the nineteen pirate leaders were cut off and rolled into a ball on the ground.
These vicious bandits have finally paid the price for their atrocities at this moment.
Li Hao lifted the white-faced wolf up with his hand and removed his jaw with a click.
"Hang him up and let him watch his blood drain."
"Yes!"
The Falcon Warriors swarmed up and lifted the white-faced pirates up.
Blood gushed down his wounds, quickly staining the ground red.
Seeing the fate of the Japanese invaders, the people were both frightened and happy.
The horror lies in the fact that the legendary Zhen'an King Li Hao is gentle and elegant, although he has won successive battles on the battlefield, he usually behaves in a peaceful manner. It's a bit shocking to see his iron-blooded methods with my own eyes today.
Happily, Li Hao, the king of Zhen'an, breathed a sigh of relief for them and killed all these criminals.
"Lord Wang, what about the rest of the widows?"
A gray-haired old man suddenly stepped forward and asked the question on their minds on behalf of all the onlookers.
Today's execution was only the leader of twenty Japanese robbers, but Li Hao captured 7,000 Japanese robbers, and what to do with the rest of the people is a doubt in everyone's hearts.
Li Hao smiled slightly, and his tone softened.
"Old people, fellow citizens, death is a destination for the people of Dongying. These brutes have committed a lot of crimes in Suzhou, and they died so easily, isn't it cheaper for them? I've heard that many of your hometowns have been damaged by these pirates, right? In that case, why kill them? Why don't they use their sinful bodies to help everyone restore their homes and then deal with them? ”
"That's right! Wouldn't it be cheaper to kill them! These brutes have burned down our homes, and it's up to them to rebuild them! ”
When the people were told like this, they immediately reacted and praised Li Hao's idea for being very good.
Li Hao continued: "The Tang Heavenly Army will return to the dynasty in a few days, and then these Japanese will be escorted by the army, don't be afraid of their rebellion, please go back to your respective homes first, and then the king will send them everywhere." ”