The day of the execution was a good day.

The sky is clear and cloudless.

The golden grass danced in the wind, and it seemed to celebrate the event.

Tens of thousands of Yue's people outside this meadow formed a huge overlapping circle of people, and tens of thousands of pairs of eyes looked at the scene in the middle of the meadow with fear.

The two people who were beheaded in half knew some of the nobles of the Yue Clan.

It is the largest merchant in the northwest of Qin, the Wu clan father and son who are doing transfer business between Qin and Rongdi.

They are the big merchants of the Qin State, and they are also the guests of the Yue Clan, and they have sent a lot of information to their Yue people in this war, but the end is not very good.

Two stout executioners strode forward.

The father and son were tied hand and foot and placed on a wooden cutting board.

"I don't want to die, I don't want to be cut in half."

Wu Shifang shouted in his mouth and kept twisting his body.

Wu Shilu looked at his son with a frightened face, and said in a lamented voice: "I want to ride the galloping horse with you again, lead the yellow dog, and go into the chicken head mountain to chase the cunning rabbit, how can I get it?" ”

After speaking, the father and son wept bitterly, and both regretted that they were obsessed with wealth for a while, and they betrayed the Qin State for the sake of profit.

"Don't move, if you don't cut it crookedly, you have to have another axe."

The executioner grinned at them, revealing a mouthful of yellowed teeth, and the heavy axe in his hand gleamed in the autumn sun.

Wu Shifang trembled even more.

At this time, Chen Ping, who was in charge of presiding over the matter, began to read out the indictment of Wu's father and son.

The translator beside him translated it into Yueshi, held a small brass trumpet, and spoke it aloud to the Yueshi people around him.

"The father and son of the Wu clan have betrayed the trust of the emperor, and as the great merchants of the Qin State, they have committed treason against the enemy, which is a big crime, and they should be punished!"

"Traitor, die!"

When the two executioners received the order, they raised the heavy giant axe in their hands and opened their mouths to shout, and the axe fell heavily and slashed at the Wu Shi and his son who were lying on the cutting board.

The red blood brought the golden weeds on the ground to the top, and the terrible screams broke the beauty of this autumn day.

Wu Shi was cut in two on the spot, his stomach and intestines were spilled to the ground, and after howling a few times, he died of anger.

But Wu Shifang didn't know that it was because he twisted indiscriminately when he dropped the axe, which caused the chopping to be crooked. Or because he was young and strong, this axe didn't completely cut him off, and there was still a small half of his body sticking.

The screams were terrible.

The executioner's face was as black as charcoal, and he picked up the axe again, and then he completely cut Wu Shifang in two.

Wu Shifang, who was broken in half, had not immediately lost his breath, and leaned on the upper half of his body and struggled and howled on the ground for a long time before he gradually lost his breath.

There was a wind blowing in the steppe.

Although it is autumn, it is like a cold winter wax moon, which makes everyone who sees this tragic scene of the Yue clan feel trembling.

"It's terrible, the Qin people are too cruel."

Guishuang Xihou's voice trembled.

The Marquis of Shuangmi, who was not far away, also trembled with his legs and almost knelt on the ground.

In the grasslands of this era, because of the problem of metal smelting, the punishment of beheading was rarely used.

Most of the grassland executions were carried out with whipping and canes. The cruelty was also to tie the prisoners to the back of the horses with ropes, gallop the horses, and drag them to death. Or let the horses trample on, trample to death, and so on.

The people of the Yue clan thought that these were very cruel, how did they know that the Qin people would have such a terrible punishment.

The prisoner who cut the person in half has not yet lost his breath, and can still wail and struggle on the ground.

The terrible screams, the intestines that spilled all over the ground, and the severed corpses, all stimulated the eyes of these Yueshi people, making them fearful, trembling, and feeling cold all over their bodies.

Sugartha stood in the crowd, calmly watching the scene.

She knew that this was a demonstration and intimidation by the Qin people.

After the Qin army destroyed the Kushan tribe in Helan, they did not kill on a large scale, but were gentle, pardoned all those who surrendered, and kept a part of the herdsmen's property, which was much more merciful than the punishment of the victors on the grassland to the losers.

In particular, Chen Ping also gathered a cavalry among the Yueshi people, and wanted to use the strength of the Yueshi people to deal with the Xiongnu.

At this time, there were many Yueshi people who felt that they were doing it again, and secretly thought that the reason why they were defeated by the Qin army was because of their inferior equipment, and the other was because they fell into the tricks of the Qin army, but they didn't expect the Qin people to raid Helan, so they were caught off guard. Otherwise, they tens of thousands of Yue's cavalry, fighting head-on, how could they lose so quickly.

Now that the Qin army is dealing with the Xiongnu, it still needs to rely on them, which is the proof of the insufficient cavalry strength of the Qin people.

Under such thoughts, some people became unstable, thinking that Qin Jun was actually not so terrible.

One of the characteristics of the people of the steppe is that they are extremely afraid of the strong.

If you are strong, he will obey you.

And today's scene happens to be the Qin people showing their cruelty.

Sure enough, it was the Yueshi people on the grassland who were severely shocked.

"This is the fate of betraying my Great Qin!"

"Cut in half, split the car, and exterminate the Yi race!"

Chen Ping stood on a temporarily repaired earthen platform and announced to the tens of thousands of Yue clan people around him.

The translator roared loudly.

Perhaps the Yue's people were too involved in watching the scene of Wu's father and son being beheaded, and a hundred meters outside them, I don't know when a group of heavily armed Qin troops dressed in black armor surrounded them.

A pair of ruthless eyes stared at these Yue people, Qin Pawn held a well-wound crossbow arrow in his hand, and the sharp arrow glittered in the sun.

There are even more Qin soldiers with halberds and swords, standing with their heads held high, ready to attack at any time.

In the distance, there were also cavalry gallops of the Qin army.

This scene made tens of thousands of Yue's people immediately explode, screaming and fearing one by one.

They came unarmed, but they were surrounded by the Qin army.

Could it be that the Qin people want to slaughter them all here.

It was when the Yueshi people were most frightened.

Chen Ping's eyes on the earthen platform were cold, and he shouted at these people and asked, "Among you, are there people like Wu Shi who want to betray my Qin State?" ”

was pointed at by Qin's crossbow, pointed at by the sword halberd, and on the ground in the middle, there was the Wu clan father and son who had just been beheaded to death.

In this case, who would dare to rebel against the Qin State.

A woman's voice rang out immediately.

"We surrender to Great Qin, and we will never dare to rebel for the rest of our lives!"

As Su Jiasha took the lead, the Marquis of Guishan and the Marquis of Shuangmi immediately followed, followed by the tens of thousands of Yue's people, either in the clumsy Qin language, or in the Yue's language, shouting loudly.

"We will never dare to betray Great Qin!"

"If I betray Great Qin, let 10,000 eagles peck at me!"

"If I have any thoughts of betrayal, let me be tied to the grassland and let the sun burn alive!"

These tens of thousands of Yue clan people swore an oath, and one by one they shouted excitedly, expressing their loyalty to the Qin State.

"Very good, the most hated thing by the emperor of my Great Qin is the betrayer, all of you present in the future, if there is a betrayer, you should be like this Wu clan father and son, and the whole clan will be punished with half beheading!"

Chen Ping scolded sharply, and then announced a new policy.

"If someone denounces the betrayer of my Great Qin, once it is verified, you can get all the property of the betrayer, and reward ten cattle and horses! If there is a false accuser, he will be guilty! ”

As the translator spread the word.

Tens of thousands of people from the Yue Clan immediately looked at their fellow clans around them vigilantly, and at the same time, many people shouted loudly, once again expressing their loyalty to Great Qin.

"Whoever dares to betray Daqin, I will cut off his head first and present it to the general!"

……

In the distant grassland, Zhao Tuo stood on the chariot, looking at the execution scene in the distance, and could hear the sound coming with the wind.

"Take the example of Wu Shi and his son, to show the fate of the betrayer. Then use a strong bow and crossbow to intimidate and break the courage of these tens of thousands of Yue clansmen, and then use the reward for denunciation as a bait to betray the Yi clan as a deterrent, completely eliminating the betrayal of this group of Yue clans. ”

"After today, these tens of thousands of Yue clan people will no longer dare to betray my Great Qin, if there is, I am afraid that before they can do it, they will be denounced by their own clansmen."

Li Shiqi smiled: "The general is carefree this time. ”

Zhao Tuo nodded and said: "This time to break the Huns, this Guiyi Yue clan will play a great role, and problems must not be allowed, and unstable factors must be eliminated." ”

As he spoke, Zhao Tuo raised his eyes and looked around, surrounded by a golden grassland.

It's September.

In two months, this grassland will enter a cold winter, which is not the season suitable for combat.

And the longer it drags on, the more likely it is that his plot to destroy the Huns will be revealed.

So Zhao Tuo must hurry up.

Now that he has completely subdued the hearts of this Yueshi people, the war to break the Xiongnu will be immediately put on the agenda.

The Qin army wants to break through the Xiongnu and recover the homeland of Zhuxia within two months!

(End of chapter)