When Heifu and his men came down to the camp in the south of Waihuang City, they found that it had become a "melon field"—outside the originally empty gate, there were countless round things, accompanied by a strong smell of corpses and blood......

Those things are human heads, as if they are scenes from a horror blockbuster, and as far as Heifu can see, they are all human heads, there are hundreds!

As early as the Shang Dynasty, it was stipulated: "With the cause of war, the first three are violent, and the school is three days, and the general will not doubt the scholar Lao Jue." ”

This means that after the battle, the head of the enemy is to be displayed to the public for three days and verified by the military judges. After three days, the general thought that it was correct, and rewarded everyone with titles according to their merits. This process is called "head inspection".

Now that it's March, the weather is getting hotter, and the sun is shining, and the smell is tsk...... It is conceivable that this procedure, not to mention modern people, even in the eyes of people in the Six Kingdoms, will bring them a strong sense of discomfort.

Therefore, Qi Rulu Zhonglian, who had seen a similar scene, said firmly to the people he knew after he went back: "Those who are Qin, abandon etiquette and righteousness and go to the country of the first merit!" ”

Actually, that's right.

Even the black man and the others had to pinch their noses to get closer. However, in such a harsh environment, there is still a group of people in the middle of it, pointing and arguing in the center of this "melon field". A military judge sat on a straw mat, frowning, and recorded something on the wooden slip in his hand, while the two parties were pressed aside by the soldiers and subjected to strict interrogation by several small officials!

One of them is Heifu's subordinates, Yan County Gongao!

"Priest!"

Heifu hurriedly walked over, he didn't rush to ask what Gong Ao had committed, but according to the procedure, he first bowed his hand to the military lawyer and said: "Under the command of the five hundred lords (yǐ), Heifu, the chief of Xintuntun, and the people of Xintun have won the fourth rank in the city, please check the head of the lawyer!" ”

The military judge is a middle-aged man with a national face, forty years old, looking at his outfit, he should be a "no change". Hearing that Xintun had another harvest, he asked several of his fighters to go over and take the head carried by Lixian to inspect it, and also instructed: "Check it well to see if there are any Confucian children and women's heads mixed in the middle." ”

As he spoke, he also sneered: "There is only one Tun who came to offer his head, and he reported the seventeenth level of the thief, but the head of the woman and the child actually has the fifth level." According to military law, there is no reward for such a person who kills good people and makes meritorious deeds, and there is a heavy punishment! Its tun chief, at least is an unstraight crime! Take the knighthood and exile to the border! ”

When Heifu heard this, he glanced at Lixian next to him, which made Lixian a little uneasy, but he thought in his heart: "What I meant at that time was to kill the gray-haired old man, and no one stipulated that the old man could not be a light man and go to the city to resist." When the priest asked, everyone just kept the same tone, and the tun chief was still too upright......"

Heifu's fourth-level beheadings were all real killings, so there was no problem, and they were soon put together with the 12th level of the previous siege in the west of the city - this "melon field" seems to be messy, but in fact, it is all placed in order of each tun.

At this time, Heifu pointed to Gong Ao, who was interrogated by the junior official ten steps away, and said: "Lawyer, this person is the chief of Xintun, I don't know what he has done, and he is bound here?" ”

"It turned out to be your subordinate." The barissian shook his head and told Hafu what had happened.

It turned out that a moment ago, there was a tun escorting the two of them to the military judge, along with a head covered with dust. The tun chief said that when he was ordered to go to the north of the city to search for the remnants of the enemy, he found two soldiers who were fighting and fighting for the first rank, so he captured them and brought them back.

"I'm not competing for the top!"

Gong Ao, whose face was pressed to the ground, shouted with difficulty: "This head is indeed cut off by me!" ”

The other person who confronted him on the side, the thin Qin pawn, also hurriedly shouted: "Judge Mingjian! I had cut off the head, and I was about to hang my head around my waist. At this time, this person came, he didn't kill himself, he saw the head, his eyes immediately red, and when he saw that I was thin, he had evil thoughts, and drew his sword to fight, and I fought with him like this! ”

The two of them insisted on their own words, and the military judge was a little difficult to judge for a while.

He is used to things like fighting for the head, and every battle happens. Sometimes there will be more than a dozen, and there will even be cases where the Qin army will kill each other and cut off the head of the team's robes to sacrifice.

Because unlike the armies of other countries, the Qin people flocked to these bloody, stinking and coaxing, dead heads that ordinary people could not avoid, and even did not hesitate to fight. Because in the eyes of the Qin people, the human head is no longer a human head, but a "hard currency" that can be exchanged for a knighthood!

At this time, the military judge has to summon eyewitnesses and ask them one by one, just like a prison judge in a county.

But whether it was Bu Cheng, who was acting with Gongao, or the other "full" robe who was fighting for the leader of Qin, when they arrived, they only saw the two of them drawing their swords against each other, but they didn't see the cause of the incident.

Military law is strict, and of course Bu Cheng does not dare to lie, and the same is true of the "full" robe. So after questioning around, the military judge found nothing, and could only continue to make judgments based on the confessions of the two and the characteristics of the head.

At this time, a doctor who was in charge of treating the wounded and sick, and at the same time helped to examine the skull, came over with a book about the disputed head, and the military judge took it and looked at it, but saw that it was written: "The head of the examination, small hair, there is a wound in the left forehead, five inches long, deep to the bone, sword-like marks, and the broken part of his neck is short and uneven......"

The military magistrate's book of etiquette asked people to examine the weapons of Gongao and Man, and found that they were all swords, and they were all stained with blood, and it was impossible to tell for a moment who had killed this person and cut off his head.

After Bu Cheng finished testifying, he leaned into his ear and said: "Tun Chief, when Gong Ao was incorporated into our Tun under Daliang City, he once said that he must make more meritorious contributions, so that the title is not lower than that of Tun Chang, will he ......?"

Bu Cheng was suspicious of Gongao, and he had never had a good impression of this child of the declining clan who had always put on a proud face.

Heifu shook his head and said softly: "Although I don't like Gongao either, with his temperament, he shouldn't do anything to fight for the top." ”

That's right, Gong Ao is all the stinky problems of the children of the declining aristocracy, he is not polite enough to treat people, and he is full of arrogance, but it is this arrogance that makes him disdain to compete for a head.

In fact, when attacking the city, Gongao was the second to jump onto the city after the Dongmen Leopard. also with the cooperation of Dongmen Leopard, he killed a light man with his own hands. But when Heifu was planning to part the head, Gong Ao proudly gave up the head to the injured Dongmen leopard who was carried away.

Although he didn't say it, the meaning was obvious, he admired the bravery of the Dongmen Leopard, and planned to give up the beheading that should have belonged to him, just in order to fill the three heads for the Dongmen Leopard, so that he could directly ascend the hairpin from the Gongshi - the Shangjian Ascending Hairpin already needed two heads.

"I'm not going to fight with a dying man." At that time, Gong Ao said these words with a face full of arrogance.

This reminded Haif of a story.

There is a noble bird in the south, called 鹓鶵 (yuān chú), it prides itself on being noble, not only the sycamore, not the bamboo does not eat, and the sweet spring does not drink. At this time, a scavenging bird named 鸱 (chī) got a rotting rat, and when the scavenger passed by, the scavenger raised its head and shouted, for fear that the scavenger would rob it of the ......

Although Gong Ao can't be compared with the real "Bird", his arrogance is the same as that of the Bird.

As Gong Ao blushed and proved himself: "If it weren't for the head cut off by my own skills, I would not be rare to rely on his meritorious service, how would I compete with others for this thing?" ”

Seeing that Gong Ao's stinky mouth began to offend people, and even made the military judge a little unhappy, Heifu hurriedly stood up and arched his hand: "Military lawyer, these two people have their own opinions, and they can't tell whose beheading is from the head and weapon, I have an idea......

"You?"

A small fighting official next to the military judge looked at Heifu with some suspicion, thinking that he was going to fight for his subordinates, so he said: "This tun chief, this matter is left to our lawyers, what are you fooling around?" Could it be that you also know how to solve cases? ”

"Of course I do." The fight was rude, but Heifu was not angry but laughed.

Joke! Peel back the cocoon, find evidence, and find out the truth, this is Heifu's old job when he was the Great Qin Tiangu!

Heifu was not angry, he ignored the fighting food official, and directly said to the military lawyer: "The subordinate is not talented, before enlisting in the army, he was the chief of a pavilion in Anlu County, Nan County, and he had cracked three major cases that shocked the whole county. Thanks to the county prison and the guidance and guidance of the history, I still know a little bit about the art of history and the method of judging cases! It's better to try it with my method, who is right and wrong, which is true and which is false, just try it! ”