The two of them left the inn and found that many people had already rushed to the city, including peasants carrying firewood, coachmen pulling carts, hawkers carrying burdens, and some people from the rivers and lakes.

Xiao Ling'er and Qu Bingru followed behind everyone, crossed a street, and arrived at the entrance of the vegetable market in a short time.

This is a T-shaped intersection, there is a square, there are already many people at this time, there is a high platform in the square, there is a table and a chair on it, on each side of the high platform stand five soldiers with spears, and in front of the high platform there is a platform more than a foot high, which should be the execution platform.

At this time, it was not yet the time of Shen, so the prisoners and prisoners had not yet been seen.

The people who came early began to talk about it, Xiao Ling'er and Qu Bingru stood aside, and they could only hear the crowd of onlookers: "This is too hasty, it's too hasty, just caught in the morning, and beheaded in the afternoon." ”

Another said: "You don't know this, I heard that the person caught was a bandit, and in order to cover his companions, he killed more than a dozen officers and soldiers by himself before he was caught." ”

Qu Bingru snorted coldly on the side: "What kind of thief, I think the person who was killed is a thief, a thief who buys the country." ”

The person who spoke looked at Qu Bingru: "Little girl, don't talk nonsense, if the people above hear it, you will be killed." ”

Another person said: "My uncle's nephew was on an errand in the state government, and he said that the person he caught was not the assassin who assassinated, but the person who was caught with the bag, and this person just said that this person should be killed, and he was arrested because he was very happy to die." ”

"It turns out that this is the case, alas, there is no distinction between right and wrong in office. ”

Qu Bingru heard others say that Li He was a mountain king before, and later joined the anti-Jin team, and later joined the Yuejia army and became a general, but why did he appear in Huizhou and was arrested, and he wanted to ask why Li He was arrested.

I heard a gong, someone shouted, the prisoner was coming, and all the onlookers flashed to the side of the road.

As the gong got closer and closer, two groups of soldiers with spears appeared on the street, behind them was a general on horseback, followed by a sedan chair carrying eight people, followed by a squad of 40 infantry, in the middle of the square there was a prisoner cart with a man with loose hair, and behind the infantry there were four generals on horseback with guns and axes, and behind the four people, there were hundreds of soldiers. Looking at this situation, the person in the prisoner car looked like a felon.

The prisoner cart passed in front of Xiao Ling'er, and saw that the people in the prisoner cart were chained with iron chains and covered with blood, and it seemed that they had been tortured, but his eyes were resolute, and his long hair could not hide the resolute expression on his face, his lips were closed, and his eyes swept the surrounding crowd from time to time.

Someone next to him whispered, "How can such a heroic person be an assassin?"

Another voice said: "Be careful to speak, don't let them hear, even if you take it together, it will be regarded as a co-ordination." ”

The prisoner's car soon came to the square, and a man in a blue official uniform got out of the sedan chair, only to see him get out of the sedan chair, stretch his hand to hold the official hat on his head, raise his eyes to look at the crowd, say something to an officer next to him, and then walk to the high platform.

With a wave of their hands, several officers on horseback quickly dispersed, separating the crowd from the square, and surrounding the execution ground on three floors.

Someone in the crowd said: "I heard that this is a prison official sent by Lord Qin in the middle of the court, named Gao Yang, right"

"For such an important prisoner, someone must be sent from above, but why don't there be any people from the state yamen?"

"I heard that all the people in the state yamen have been imprisoned, saying that they are not doing things well. “

"I see, it seems that this man is going to die today. ”

Gao Yang walked to the high platform, and a person next to him handed him a booklet, Gao Yang opened the booklet and read aloud: "Repeat offender Li He, there is no king's law, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, indiscriminately kill innocents...... According to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, the prisoner was beheaded and shown to the public as an example. ”

An officer in the audience shouted, "Take the prisoner." ”

The two soldiers opened the prisoner cart and wanted to pull Li He out, Li He raised his head and glanced at the two soldiers who were pulling him, the two soldiers suddenly did not dare to move, Li He walked to the execution table by himself, and the iron chain under his feet was dragged on the ground and jingled.

On the execution platform, Li He walked to the middle of the platform, faced the crowd of onlookers and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen of the Great Song Dynasty, now that foreign enemies are invading, how can I let people slaughter the mountains and rivers of the Great Song Dynasty." He turned around and pointed at the people on the high platform with his handcuffed fingers, and said angrily: "But these people wearing official skins don't worry about the country and the people, resist foreign troubles, and think about the people, but they kill innocents indiscriminately. After Li He finished speaking, he looked up to the sky and sighed.

At this time, the crowd of onlookers was several times larger than at the beginning, and when Li He said this, someone in the crowd shouted: "What a man, what a hero." “

Xiao Ling'er suddenly found that there were more people wearing straw hats and holding flat poles in the crowd, these people seemed to be bearers, squeezing towards the front in the crowd, and the big man he saw in the inn was also there, and he swept around with his eyes while squeezing.

Li He, who was standing on the execution platform, continued: "I, Li He, as a Song person, died for the Song Dynasty, and my death was not enough to rest, but these dog officials betrayed their masters to seek glory, and gave the great mountains and rivers to the Jin people, Jingkang's shame, the world was indignant, and there were several people in the government and the opposition who tried their best to support the resistance to the enemy, but they were dismissed from military power and beheaded, Qin Hui and others tried their best to curry favor with the Jin people, it was really a shame, a shame......

Someone in the crowd of onlookers shouted: "There is too much deception, there is no distinction between loyalty and treachery, how to convince people." At one time, many people echoed in unison: how to convince people.

Gao Yang on the high platform saw that Li He was more and more excited, and the crowd of onlookers became more and more, his face changed abruptly, and he said something to an officer beside him. The officer shouted: "The hour has come, and the execution can be carried out." “

An executioner with a ghost head knife walked up to the execution platform, two soldiers wanted to pull Li He to kneel, it took a lot of effort, Li He stood still, and two soldiers came up, and the four still didn't pull Li He to kneel, a soldier pulled out a knife and slashed Li He's right leg with the back of the knife, Li He's right leg was painful, knelt down, his eyes glared at the soldier who cut him, the soldier was seen to take a step back, and the three soldiers worked hard to press Li He to kneel on the platform.

The executioner walked over and raised the ghost-headed knife.

Li He closed his eyes and shouted, "Unwilling." ”

"Who dares to hurt my brother? With a loud shout, an iron spear flew out of the crowd and flew towards the executioner who was holding the knife.

This sound came suddenly, the soldiers and several officers at the scene did not react, the executioner was pierced through a bullet, knelt forward and fell on the stage, and then rushed out of the crowd 3 people, holding long swords, flew over the heads of the soldiers and landed on the execution table, brushing a few swords to stab down several soldiers who pressed Li He.

An officer reacted quickly and shouted, "Someone has robbed the law field, fence me and don't let them escape." ”

Hundreds of soldiers surrounded the execution platform with a roar.

Li He looked at the three people in front of him in surprise: "Gan Qing, Pan Da, General Huang Lei, didn't I tell you to leave, why do you want to come back?"

The three of them knelt down together and said, "How can we let the general be killed by traitors." ”

Gan Qingdao: "The general was born and died for the country on the front line, and when he came to Hangzhou this time, he was wrongfully accused of being an assassin and arrested, and he was beheaded, how can we ignore you." ”

Panda said: "Don't say it general, when I slaughter this bird official, we will kill it together." ”

Seeing that this was the case, Li He had no choice but to nod: "Okay, let's kill it together." ”

Gan Qing swung his knife to cut the chains on Li He's hands and feet, pulled out the iron spear inserted in the executioner's body, and handed it to Li He.

The four people stood up with weapons in their hands, and the officers in the audience shouted: "Take down these thieves for me." A group of soldiers rushed up with their spears in hand.

Panda swung his sword and slashed off one of the soldiers' arms, kicked him away, and then swiped a few more swords to force the men in front of him back, and leaped over their heads to the prison behead.

Gao Yang, the supervisor on the stage, found that someone had robbed the law field, and he was already trembling with fright, and at this time he saw a person flying up with a long sword in his hand, and his face was as white as earth, and he was just about to get under the table, and three officers rushed up and blocked Panda.

These three officers had good martial arts, and Panda couldn't advance or retreat for a while.

Li He was injured when a spear touched, and died next to him, Gan Qing and Huang Lei's martial arts were also very strong, the soldiers could not rush to the stage for a while, but because Li He's body was tortured, his movement was restricted, and there were too many soldiers around, Huang Lei was careless, he was stabbed in the leg and fell on the platform, Gan Qing flew over to rescue, only to see a flash of sword light, a soldier who rushed up was stabbed in the throat, turned over and fell backwards, another soldier who rushed up stabbed from the side, Gan Qing took a step back, let go of the gun, grasped the gun with his left hand, and the sword in his right hand slid down the gun shaft, the soldier had to let go of the gun with both hands, and Gan Qing's body rotated to the left, The spear in his left hand turned around by inertia, the tip of the spear flew to the soldier's chest, poof, through the chest, Gan Qing's wrist twisted, pulled out the spear, the soldier's body flew up, spurted a stream of blood in the air, and turned off the stage.

When the rest of the soldiers saw Gan Qing's bravery, they shouted, stepped back from the stage, and rushed up again under the drive of an officer.

The three of them leaned back to each other Li He said: "It seems that I can't rush out today, and I can fight side by side with a few people, and I will die without regrets." ”

Gan Qingdao: "We failed to save the general, because we were incompetent, and we were able to die with the general, and we were satisfied, but we failed to die on the battlefield, and died in the hands of these villains, unwillingly." ”

Huang Rai gasped and said, "I'll stay, and you guys will kill it together." ”

Li He said: "What nonsense, remember what the slogan was when we were in the Yuejia army: live and die together, advance and retreat together, we will not leave a brother." ”

Gan Qing shouted: "I'll fight with them." As he spoke, he stabbed a soldier with a shot in his left hand, and cut off the head of a soldier's spear with a sword in his right hand. After speaking, he was about to rush up, probably because he had discovered Gan Qing's intentions, and these soldiers blocked Gan Qing to the death, preventing him from rushing up.

Gao Yang stood on the stage and shouted loudly: "Don't let go of any of them, catch them and reward them." ”

Hearing the reward, these soldiers fought even harder, and after a while, Panda was slashed, and Huang Rai was shot in the shoulder again.

At this time of crisis, more than a dozen people rushed out of the chaotic crowd, led by the big man Xiao Ling'er saw in the inn, only to see him wielding a board axe, shouting in his mouth: "How can this be reasonable, it is too much to deceive people, General Li is not panicking, Xu Shiguang is also here." ”