In the end, Su Yan still figured out what to do with the captives on his own.

In this battle, he captured a total of more than 6,800 Qing soldiers, of which more than 2,000 were Chaozhou soldiers brought by Hao Shangjiu, and these Chaozhou soldiers Su Yan handed over to Zhu Chenggong and asked him to absorb them by himself, in exchange for Su Yan's command of Zheng's naval division in the next period of time.

The remaining more than 4,000 troops were all old troops brought by Shang Kexi from Liaodong, although their combat effectiveness was relatively high, but their military discipline was corrupt, and each of them carried more or less the lives of a few innocent people.

Therefore, Su Yan pulled out all of them, and killed them in public to deter this gang of **, and then disorganized them and put them into the newly formed punishment camp, each of whom was only distributed a coat and a spear.

Su Yan told them that they had turned their backs on their Han identity, fought for the tigers, and slaughtered their compatriots for the Manchus, and their sins were unforgivable, but God had the virtue of a good life, and Su Yan was unwilling to put the butcher's knife on their heads, so he put them into a punishment camp and let them wash away their sins with blood and flames.

He also stipulated that if a soldier of the correctional battalion killed two enemies, he could be promoted to the rank of officer in charge of other criminal soldiers, and after killing twenty enemies, he could apply to leave the correctional battalion and choose to join the soldiers or receive a sum of money to become a farmer.

Killing twenty enemies is still possible in the environment of World War I and World War II, but in the current era of alternating hot and cold weapons, there is only one spear, which is a bit outrageous, and the probability of completing it is simply higher than ascending to the sky.

Therefore, they all know very well that the punishment camp they are in is completely a cannon fodder battalion, and their fate is to become cannon fodder under the drive of the Ming army, and die humiliating under the swords and guns of their former comrades.

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After the Battle of Zhangzhou, Su Yan sent a messenger to inform Su Dingyuan, who had moved troops to Longyan, that he did not have to go south according to the original plan, but left a battalion of soldiers and horses to garrison Tingzhou, and went to Fuzhou to join him.

With him to the north of Fuzhou also Zheng Shi's sailors, Su Yan with two thousand Chaozhou troops in exchange for the command of the sailors for the next period of time, he is ready to take advantage of the Qing army is still kowtowing in front of the water pass to break the blood, venture from the waterway to land in Wenzhou, block the retreat of the Qing army, and make dumplings for Li Shutai, the Qing army.

Although this is a bit risky, Su Yan's confidence is still quite large.

On February 14, Su Yan finally led the army back to Fuzhou City, because he deliberately ordered to block the news of Zhangzhou's victory when he was in Zhangzhou, so after he returned to Fuzhou City, the people in the city finally knew the good news that the Qing army was completely annihilated, and the whole city immediately fell into a sea of cheers, and every household put up lights to celebrate the imminent fall of another traitor.

On the second day, February 15, Su Yan ordered Shang Kexi to be pushed out of Nanmen Street and executed, and almost all the people in the city heard the news and watched, and they stood along the street leading from Zicheng to Nanmen Street, and they all stretched their necks to look at the prisoner car holding Shang Kexi.

Just after the hour, Shang Kexi sat in the prisoner car, escorted by the line infantry to the temporary execution ground, the former majestic king of the Qing Dynasty Pingnan was naked, with a piece of red yarn tied around his waist, his hands tied behind his back, and he sat in the car without saying a word.

The surrounding people looked at the executioner with their necks stretched out and their hands stained with the blood of the Han Chinese, and from time to time someone threw rotten vegetables and porridge and other objects at the cart, and the escorted infantry did not stop them, allowing the people to throw things at the prisoner cart.

After arriving at the execution ground, Shang Kexi looked at the execution ground that was already crowded, sighed, and got out of the prisoner car, he subconsciously wanted to tidy up his clothes, but except for a red gauze around his waist, there was no clothing to cover his body, so he could only walk to the execution ground under the indifferent gaze of the soldier, and let the soldier tie him up with a cow tendon rope.

Afterwards, the two executioners took out knives, saws, hooks, etc., from their baskets and showed them to the crowd.

Su Yan, who was sitting on the prison beheading platform, looked at the display of the two executioners with an expressionless face, tilted his head slightly to press the envoy An Daoyuan, and asked, "Where did these two executioners come from?" Looks like a good stance. ”

"Master Hui, both of them fled from the north, and one of them used to be the executioner of the Chongzhen Dynasty and has a lot of experience." An Daoyuan replied.

Su Yan nodded, and not long after, when he saw that the hour was approaching, he motioned for An Daoyuan to step forward, and the latter immediately stepped forward with the charge and made several of Shang Kexi's crimes public, so that the people of the whole city knew that this person was a heinous person. ”

Then, only three cannon shots were heard, and the execution began.

One of the older executioners first explained some of the process to Shang Kexi, but this time Shi Kexi could no longer maintain the previous calm and light, and the fear before death made him constantly struggle, shaking his head, and not listening at all.

The executioner didn't pay attention to him, and after explaining, he ripped off the red veil around his waist, so that Shang Kexi no longer had a trace of clothes around him, Shang Kexi was worthy of being a military general, although he was already a prince, but he was not fat, the muscles on his body were very strong, and his complexion was slightly dark.

The executioner shouted, first cut a knife on his thigh, cut off a piece of flesh obliquely, and then circled around the execution ground and threw it upward, which is "sacrificial meat".

The huge pain made Shang Kexi grit his teeth, his whole body trembled, and another executioner took out a small jar, dipped it in the jar with a brush, and brushed it on the wound to stop the blood flowing out, which is a special oil, although it can stop the bleeding, but it can't stop the pain.

Next, the executioner made a horizontal cut on his forehead, pulled it down, and the piece of skin drooped down, just covering Shang Kexi's eyes, and then the two executioners stood left and right, and began to move the knife in Shang Kexi's chest, and the cut pieces of meat were the size of fingernails, and every ten pieces were supported by their hands, and they shook from side to side.

After the display of these pieces of meat, they are thrown on the stage with great force, and then someone will pick them up and throw them into the basket, and after the execution, the meat will be sold to the people, who will buy them in a hurry, and it is said that they can be dried with tiles and used as scabies medicine.

On the beheading platform, Su Yan looked at this cruel scene, and he was faintly disgusted, although he was used to killing people and dead people, but such a cruel punishment was naked in front of his eyes, which still made him a little unacceptable.

However, this does not mean that he will stop halfway, this is the end that Shang Kexi deserves.

At the same time, Su Yan also remembered the death of Yuan Chonghuan, a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty, and he seemed to have the same fate as this Shang Kexi, after being executed, the flesh and blood of this famous general was divided and eaten by the people of Beijing, so that some people in later generations thought that the people of Beijing were eager to eat his flesh and drink his blood.

This kind of perception is not correct, and the ignorant people of all dynasties and dynasties have the erroneous idea that the flesh and blood of the condemned prisoners can cure all diseases, which is the root of it, and the scene in front of us can also prove it.

The execution lasted until the end of the afternoon, when the executioner was already sweating profusely, and the last knife was carried out by the executioner, who was also a young and physically fit, and he used the knife to cut off a piece of meat on Shang Kexi's weakly beating heart, which was also called "heart meat", also known as the soul snatcher, with a total of more than 1,000 knives before and after.

Subsequently, the executioner then used a big axe to cut off the head, and hung it with a rope to show the public, and the drive was also cut into eight sections, commonly known as the big unloading eight pieces.

At this point, the punishment was over, and the surrounding people immediately surrounded the meat sellers, looting the pieces of meat cut from Shang Kexi's body, and some people ordered two balls from the prisoner's crotch at a high price, which were said to cure blindness.

Su Yan didn't finish reading the whole process, he had already returned to the governor's ministry in advance, preparing the plan for the next northern expedition to Zhejiang.