Chapter 199: Bloody Revenge
Temporarily held awaiting execution, the prison was actually a small military camp, and the city guards sent two patrols to guard more than 300 guards. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
"According to you, the two sides are equal in numbers, why didn't the guards resist?"
Gao Yuan asked the five captains to be escorted, asked about the situation in the prison, and frowned after hearing this, the guards were far stronger than the defenders, even if they had no weapons, they would not have no power to resist, why were the city guards careless enough to send only two patrols, and the guards had no force to resist.
"Captain, the escort came with shackles and handcuffs, and he was half starved to death, but those brutes, if not for the opposition of the majority of the officers, I am afraid that everyone will be ruined. β
"Since you haven't forgotten the honor of being an officer, why don't you report the evil deeds to your superiors?"
The fifth captain was silent for a while before replying: "I can't see that I said a few more words, and the next day I was demoted from the patrol commander to the squad leader." The other inspector is also his cronies, who to report to report, leaving the camp without permission is regarded as a deserter, who dares to report it. β
"It's not wartime, how can the standard commander have the right to demote you? Oh, let me be quiet for a while, come on, take him away. β
In just a few days, five guards committed suicide in fear of crime? If they wanted to commit suicide, why did they wait until they went to prison and carried death row instruments, how did they commit suicide? To remove the inspector from his post, he had to be approved by the captain, and the order for demotion was issued in just one day.
A series of suspicions, Gao Yuan had some suspicions in his heart, but because there was no evidence, he put aside it for the time being, and ordered the Praetorian Guards to gather the city guard officers in the courtyard in front of the gate.
"I don't have time to ask one by one, give you a chance, who has trampled my soldiers, obediently stand up and turn himself in, I will let you die happily, if you wait until the end of the investigation, you will not escape the crime before you die, you will regret not committing suicide earlier!"
After Gao Yuan finished speaking, he turned around and left, and the Inspector of the Praetorian Guard gave an order, and tied up dozens of captains and sentinels, and under the threat of the bright saber, no one dared to resist, and his eyes all looked at the back not far away.
A quarter of an hour passed, and no one took the initiative to admit their guilt, and the Inspector of the Praetorian Guard snorted coldly: "Don't be lucky, there is a reward for reporting." Another quarter of an hour passed, and still no one came forward.
Gao Yuan turned around and walked back, looking at the fifth captain, he hesitated for a moment to stand up, pointed his finger at a few people, and the Praetorian Guard pulled it out and kicked it on his knees, and all of them knelt on the ground.
"Wronged-" Before a sentry commander finished speaking, Gao Yuan waved his hand, and the Inspector of the Praetorian Guard slashed his head and kicked his head, and the others did not dare to say a word again.
"I said that I didn't have time to ask, I pleaded guilty and pleaded not guilty. Takagaki walked up to a Praetorian Guard sergeant and smiled and stretched out his hand: "Brother, lend me the short knife." The sergeant took the short knife in both hands, and Takagaki pulled it out to try its edge, and it was very sharp, and he held it in his hand with satisfaction, and looked up at the sky without saying a word.
In the end, someone couldn't bear the depression and slowly moved out of the team, Gao Yuan smiled: "You are very smart, don't worry, my words count, I won't make you uncomfortable." Pull it down and record a confession!" Among the several people identified by the fifth captain, one captain wanted to move to the position of surrendering, but the short knife in Gao Yuan's hand flew out, and a series of screams sounded in the courtyard, and the captain rolled on the ground with his broken wrist.
"It's too late, let people confess their guilt after testifying, I don't need your confession. β
Gao Yuan bent down and picked up the short knife, the captain who wanted to turn himself in was unconscious, and the Inspector of the Praetorian Guard didn't know what to do, Gao Yuan opened his mouth: "Stop the bleeding for him, it's not so easy to die quickly." After saying that, he picked up the captain's severed foot, cut the leather boots with a few short knives, frowned and lifted a black foot to his chest.
"I was eight or nine years old hunting in the mountains and forests, and I have skinned rabbits, deerskins, snakes, wolves, and wild boars, but I have never skinned people. β
The broken foot rotated in his hand, the short knife was picked and peeled from time to time, the two guards lifted the table case, put it in front of Gao Yuan and hurriedly ran out, and the short knife in his hand raised the human skin, and the other hand threw the bloody broken foot on the table, and when he raised his head, three people knelt down in the open space where he surrendered, and Gao Yuan waved his hand, and the guards pulled it down to make a record.
"I haven't played for many years, and my craft is rusty, so I'll take a break after a while. β
Takagaki stood in front of the table and closed his eyes, a broken foot on the table was a human skin, and the face of the Praetorian Guard sergeant kept twitching, making the face of the city guard officer who tied his hands and feet colorless.
"Bring the man with the broken foot here!"
After pointing the acupoint, Gao Yuan threw the severed foot officer on the table with one hand, cut off a palm with a wave of the short knife, picked it up and peeled it and deboned it, and the city guard officer made a commotion, so that the Praetorian Guard's guns were beaten and calmed down, and there were occasionally a few suppressed cries in front of the gate, which was not as quiet as the world.
When Gao Lin and Mei Ruoxue were investigating, the guards tried hard to persuade them, but no one was willing to testify, and Gao Lin was so angry that he scolded all the way: "My brother took the risk to capture the chief guard, what good is it for him? A group of death row prisoners deserve to be punished, since they have not been wronged, then continue to enjoy it." Mei Ruoxue gritted her teeth and never spoke.
"Captain!"
Walking behind Gao Yuan and about to report the results of the investigation, as soon as he turned around, Mei Ruoxue exclaimed, the female guards were all disgraced, and Gao Lin was even more unbearable, bending over and vomiting in a mess.
"Go, bring all the guards here, and line up opposite these brutes!"
On the table, the captain of the city guard who had lost his hands and feet could no longer shout, and the break made Gao Yuan's point stop the bleeding, but there was a small opening on his neck, and the blood flowed through the table and dripped to the ground, and the white snow-red blood was dyed with a cruel pattern.
The female guard saw the tragic situation on the table, and her feet were in a mess, and many people fainted in fright, and then let the guards wake up, and finally stood in line amid the cheering order, and the torture equipment on her body was still there.
"Teleporter, more than 700 people died in a scuffle, you can survive, your martial arts are lucky, the royal extrajudicial mercy forgives capital crimes, from that moment on, it is not the guards of the Prince's Mansion, but the female soldiers who broke the barracks, the regular army of the empire!"
"Whoever has been wronged, I will call the shots for you if you say it, and if you don't say it, it doesn't matter, after all, the shame of the past cannot be erased. Five female soldiers died tragically in the broken barracks, as a broken military captain, today, I will avenge them, and by the way, teach you how to punish the enemy!"
Takagaki raised his hand and pushed down the captain who had broken his hands and feet on the table, just like killing a lone wolf in the mountains and forests.
"The chief guard is here. Get me a bow and arrows. Escort his family over. β
The sound of the command could not be heard in joy and anger, it was so plain that it seemed to be greeting strangers, a dozen old and weak women and children let a team of guards escort to the other side, the ropes on their bodies were strangled into cotton robes, the cries of children touched everyone's hearts, whether it was the officer who committed the evil deed, or the guard who was humiliated, everyone had an unbearable look on their faces, and the shouting of the chief guard was mixed with the cry of the child.
"The crime is not as good as the family, Gao Yuan, you dare to violate the imperial criminal law. β
"Criminal law? This will remind you of the imperial criminal law, why don't you mention it when you bully female soldiers! I promised other officers that I would never go back on my word, but you are not among them. β
The chief guard knelt and moved forward, letting the guards kick him over, and fell to the snow and begged for mercy, but Takagaki didn't even look at him, and the words in his mouth undoubtedly announced the end.
"Military law: insulting a prisoner to death, resisting military orders by force, and framing an officer for perjury, are all a beheading, you don't have three heads, so I will skin you alive. Criminal law: Forming a gang in the army is regarded as rebellion, and openly resisting the order is a rebellion, and you cannot escape the crime of extermination. His Majesty personally gave the sword, granted the right to cut first and then play, and killed you today, which is already royal leniency. β
The words fell and the bowstring rang out repeatedly, the crying stopped abruptly, the chief guard fainted in anger, the family fell to the snow with long arrows stuck in their eyebrows, their hands and feet were still trembling, Gao Yuan's speed was too fast, so fast that no one had time to intercede, the face of the Praetorian Guard was already blank, the task of raiding the family and exterminating the clan had been done before, and it had never been executed as fast as today.
"Leave him behind for now, and deal with it slowly later. Do you guys, do you want to do it yourself, or will I give you a ride? β
Several officers who turned themselves in couldn't speak, one picked up a knife and wiped his neck, and several committed suicide one after another, each of which didn't want Takagaki to do anything.
"For the sake of taking the initiative to admit guilt, come to someone, make up for a knife, carry the corpse down, and let the city guards send someone to bring their relatives to collect the corpse, the crime is not as good as the family, I will say it, you can go with peace of mind." β
Mei Ruoxue covered her mouth and made a gesture of chopping off her head, and the guards went over to cut off her head with a knife to prevent the suicide from fake death, and after cleaning up the venue, Gao Yuan picked up a short knife from the table and threw the chief guard on it without saying a word.
There were constantly people in the escort team who were unconscious, and soon the guards were woken up with snow splashing water, and they all lowered their heads and did not dare to look at the table.
"You only have two paths, and the end is the same. Either watch me skin alive, become a soldier in the future, and die on the battlefield for the Empire. Either let me die with an arrow and pay for the soul of the portal. Gao Yuan stopped and looked at the guards: "Keep an eye on it, someone lowers his head and pulls it out immediately, and those who dare to conceal it and don't report it will have a hundred military sticks, and they will be disabled if they don't die!"
On the table, a piece of human skin was peeled off, so that Gao Yuan spread it on the snow, and the person was not yet breathless, and sometimes struggled slightly on the ground, and when Gao Yuan finished peeling off the last human skin, more than a dozen people in the escort team were pulled out, and several people in the pro-guard team and the Praetorian Guard also fainted.
Mei Ruoxue's tears dripped down her cheeks, and she silently walked over when Gao Yuan wiped her knife, stabbed all the officers who were bloody and fleshy on the snow to death with a sword, waved her hand to let the guards cut off her head, and walked to the female guard who pulled out without saying a word, put away her sword and sheathed it and stood in front of the team, her head was about to hang down to her chest, and she used her actions to stop Gao Yuan from slaughtering again.
"You can't stop my arrows. Takagaki drew his longbow.
"Then even I will shoot to death. Mei Ruoxue didn't even raise her head.
"Captain!"
"Captainβ"
The guards stood in more than a dozen rows in front of Mei Ruoxue, each row of people held hands, no one showed their weapons, Gao Yuan held a longbow and arrows in his hand, moved from one fearless face after another, raised the bow and walked towards the guard team step by step.
"Captain, we're willing to die, they're not wrong. β
Soon the guards became chaotic, most of them knelt on the ground and pleaded, a few wanted to block in front of the guards, the Janissary Inspector drew his sword and ordered the sergeants to be on guard, there was the king's sword, even if Gao Yuan wanted to kill all the guards and city guards today, he could only obey orders as an imperial officer.
There were three sharp arrows with cold light on the bowstring, and they were raised inch after inch, and the bowstring broke through the air, piercing the anger of Gao Yuan into the distant sky.
"Mei Ruoxue, you have the right to disobey, but you have no right to evade responsibility, open their torture instruments, and hand over the female soldiers in the broken barracks to you for training temporarily, I want a fine soldier with strict military discipline, don't even dare to kill beautiful maids!"
"Mark and obey. β
Gao Lin came out of nowhere, with snow flakes on his chin, and forced a smile to clean up the situation.
"There are confessions and witnesses, the city guards bullied and killed the imperial soldiers, the iron case is like a mountain and cannot be refuted, let's go, let's go back and hand in the order, the Praetorian Guard, protect the witnesses well, no one is allowed to bully. β
Killing, who is killing, everyone knows the murderer, and everyone feels that it is wrong. Accustomed to evil bullying the good, he never expected that when justice came, the means of revenge would be even more cruel and ruthless, completely subverting the expected ending in everyone's hearts.
"You take care of the sergeant and guard the camp, and report the matter as soon as possible. β
Gao Yuan ordered a few words to the city guard officers, and after the Praetorian Guards returned their weapons, they led people out of the prison converted from the barracks, and Mei Ruoxue came over soon after going out.
"Captain, where are you placed?" Gao Yuan deliberately ignored her, and military affairs could not be taken as child's play, his head waved into the distance, and he was about to leave without saying a word, Mei Ruoxue followed closely, and his words were not polite: "It is the captain's duty to set up camp where, please clearly inform the location marked." β
"Go to the place arranged by the military department, remember to leave a mark on the way, and I will rush over after giving the order. β
"If the city guards deliberately make things difficult, how to deal with them?"
Gao Yuan gritted his teeth in anger, and there was nothing he could do with her, the city guards outside the camp were really likely to make things difficult, the guards were all injured, and they would suffer a big loss in the fight, and they couldn't hold the word without a military order, no wonder Mei Ruoxue would come to ask for instructions, and it really stumped Gao Yuan.
"You two are clever for half a lifetime, go to the Praetorian Guard to borrow some tents, find a random vacant space in the city, and set up camp for a long time. Gao Lin came over and smiled, and without waiting for Gao Yuan to refuse, he spoke again: "The army outside is not allowed to enter the city without a will, Gaga, we are escorting the prisoners into the city, and it will be decided if we enter the palace." β