Chapter 896: Execution
On a temporary high platform in the middle of the execution ground, a table was set up, on which a bamboo tube was placed, and inside was a fire order.
There are also a few cannons not far away, which are soul chasing cannons used for soul chasing, and they are also old cannons commonly used for executions.
Outside the venue, some Chinese also placed incense tables, and some put sacrifices, they were relatives killed by the mob in the memorial riot.
The sun is on the third pole, the scene is very noisy, and everyone is still waiting.
This kind of thing is very particular about killing, especially this kind of lawful killing.
Decapitation is generally at three o'clock in the afternoon, according to superstitious thoughts, the yang energy at this point is the most vigorous, and the yin energy is weak and easy to dissipate.
Tens of thousands of people inside and outside the execution ground were waiting profusely in sweat.
No one is in a hurry to urge, in the hearts of most people, these mobs are extremely heinous and deserve to be punished, so be tired and never let them be reincarnated!
On the high platform, the eunuch Li Yu was chatting with a eunuch in a python robe.
This eunuch's name is Shen Mao, in his early twenties, he entered the palace in the first year of Tianwu, and after pouring feces and urine for Emperor Tianwu for a few years, he finally mixed his head and entered the Qianqing Palace as a eunuch on duty.
Because Shen Mao is low-key, has the eyesight to do things, speaks well, and has a distinctive name, Zhu Cihong left a deep impression, and last year he was promoted to the imperial eunuch, which made the eunuchs of all sizes in the Forbidden City particularly jealous.
Since the chief eunuch Wu Zhong went abroad, Shen Mao has become a close personal eunuch by the Son of Heaven, accompanying him.
This time, Shen Mao, on behalf of the royal family, came to supervise the beheading.
But Li Yu felt that it was not so simple, and he kept trying to trap him, but he never got out, and he was almost trapped by this eggless guy.
On the high platform, the prison officer Li Yu glanced at the pocket watch, and suddenly shouted: "Three o'clock in the afternoon has arrived, execution!" ”
He threw the fire stick, and threw it on the ground with a snap, and the soul chasing cannon rang out immediately.
After the cannon sounded, there was another burst of firecrackers at the scene, which startled the Ming troops who were defending around them, thinking that someone had come to rob the law field!
Li Yu, who was also a little nervous, breathed a sigh of relief, and in order to alleviate the embarrassment, he smiled: "The people celebrate, this is what people want!" ”
Eunuch Shen smiled and did not speak.
He is not big, but he pretends to be forced to win the true biography of Zhu Cihong.
A hundred-man squad came out of the Ming army, carrying a hundred captured Spanish muskets, and handed them to the Spanish soldiers in charge of the shooting mission, and each of them was given a medicine and marbles.
The Spanish soldier touched the old guy and reluctantly filled it with medicine.
A Ming officer shouted: "Raise your gun!" ”
A row of 100 Spanish soldiers raised their muskets in unison, aiming at the brains of the death row prisoners kneeling in front of them.
"Kill!"
"Smack! Syllable! Smack......"
A volley of firecrackers rang out, the white smoke cleared, and a hundred mobs in the first row blossomed, bleeding and fell to the ground.
"Shoot!"
During the order, the Spanish soldier, who had just been shot, returned the musket to the Ming soldier behind him, and stepped forward to drag the mob's body aside.
When they returned to their positions, the Ming soldiers handed them the muskets for execution, and each person was still a piece of medicine, and arranged for the second batch of death row prisoners to be shot next, and the whole process was quite exquisite.
"I don't want to die!"
Finally, a black and thick death row inmate couldn't stand it anymore and forcibly got up and escaped.
"Bang!"
Because his hands were tied, the death row prisoner was slow and cumbersome, and he didn't run a few steps before the defending Ming soldiers flew up, fell to the ground on the spot, and pestle a dog to eat.
Immediately afterward, he was rectified ahead of schedule and died a miserable death.
However, at this time, taking advantage of the noisy atmosphere around him, there was a death row prisoner who had been studying bone shrinking skills all year round, and somehow he used to break free from the ropes that bound him, and ran quickly in the direction of the crowd in a squatting starting posture that surpassed the times.
Because a crowded place can not only conceal the field of vision, the Ming army does not dare to shoot easily, and it is even more difficult to pursue in the chaos.
The death row inmate was not like the stupid fork before, and he shouted before he ran, for fear that others would not know that he was going to escape.
This skilled death row inmate bowed his head and fled frantically without saying a word, and he stabbed into the crowd with hope in his eyes, feeling that he had a great chance of escaping.
Because, the guarding Ming army had just finished dealing with a fugitive, and their attention was on the old and miserable death row prisoner, and in the face of the sudden situation here, they didn't react for a moment.
"Smack!"
A crisp gunshot rang out, and on the high platform, the sniper next to the supervisor Li Yu blew the green smoke from the muzzle of the gun, and returned with his gun, as if nothing had happened.
Obviously, the skilled death row inmate has already died, and he has been shot in the head.
The whole operation was completed overnight, and even the crowd of onlookers didn't react much.
The rest of the death row prisoners were all black-faced and white, and they had no idea of escaping, and they trembled and knelt on the ground with their eyes closed and waited for death, just begging the executioners not to go crazy and give themselves a good time!
"Raise your gun!"
"Kill!"
After another round of gunning, a second group of 100 indigenous mobs was executed, their arms tied behind their backs, lying limply in a pool of blood.
The execution was carried out in an orderly manner, and before long, the ground was covered with the corpses of death row inmates, piled higher and higher, like a hill.
The land was completely stained red, soaked soft, and slimy.
This kind of bloody killing gave a great impact to the people watching the execution, but the Chinese people around were very relieved, and some of them still knelt on the ground, and finally kept chattering.
"Madame, you can rest in peace, these beasts have gone to hell!"
"Girl...... The army of the Ming Dynasty has avenged you."
In addition to crying to mourn their relatives, there are also many people who beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers, which is the same as the New Year.
On that side of the dense forest, more inhumane mosquito punishment is going on.
Dozens of heinous leaders were stripped naked, and they were taken to the mosquito-dense woods, where they were tied to the trees alone, and chained several times, and finally welded the locks with molten iron.......
After doing this, the Ming army in charge of escorting them left, and no one stayed to accompany them.
If these leading brothers have the strength of Lu Zhishen to uproot the weeping willows, it means that their lives should not be extinguished.
If not, then you can only wait to die and enjoy it.
Their limbs were tied, and even their necks were strangled to a tree, so they could neither repel mosquitoes nor tickle them.
In the tropical rainforest, there are many insects and ants, and the degree of pain in the process of being bitten can be imagined, and they can only be tortured to death in the end.
If there was a choice of death, these death row prisoners would rather have their heads cut off by the Ming army than suffer this crime.
It is conceivable that after one night, these dozens of leading brothers in Manila were densely crawled with mosquitoes, and their blood was sucked dry, leaving only a few statues that seemed to be painted with black paint.
How horrible the scene must have been at that time, which is also the reason why mosquito punishment has been evaluated inhumanely.