Chapter 125: Blood Sacrifice

When Liu Hongjian and his entourage rushed to Linxian, the city wall of Linxian had been basically repaired, and I heard that the old party had mobilized all the strong labor in the county for this purpose.

"Lao Fang did a good job!" Liu Hong gradually got off the horse first, and then helped Yang Xue down.

"Where, where! It's all the work of the uncle. Fang County Ling hurriedly said modestly.

The people of Linxian County also worked very hard when they heard that Liu Hong was gradually defending the city, and they restored the broken city wall of Linxian County within a few days.

When the hundreds of soldiers left behind heard that Liu Hong was coming, they also rushed out of the city with a hula, and many of them were still wrapped in white cloths to bandage their wounds.

"Everyone's worked hard!"

Rows of teenagers looked at Liu Hongji, their eyes were full of joy of reunion, Liu Hongjian only said a word, and many teenagers' eyes were overflowing with tears.

This time I went to Taiyuan and Datong, and more than 20 soldiers were killed in the battle, and during this period of uncontrolled use of AKM, there were already six guns whose muzzles could not withstand high-intensity fire and were damaged.

These were all hard wounds, and Liu Hongjian had to take out six brand new AKMs to replenish them, and there were only thirteen spare firearms left in the ring.

It is not enough to rely on this firearm in large-scale operations, and the casualties in close-range cold weapons combat are too large, and it seems that the establishment of military factories is imperative, Liu Hong gradually said.

"Old Yan, go and take out the corpses of your brothers, cremate them outside the city, and when you return to Beijing, Benbo will bring them all back to the capital."

Thinking of those teenagers, Liu Hong gradually felt heavy.

Outside the city, the firewood was piled high, and on top of the firewood and grass were neatly stacked of soldiers killed in battle by thousands of households, a full one hundred and eighty people, divided into ten square formations.

It was already dusk, and the sun was setting, and all the officers and soldiers of the Thousand Households Outside the city, 2,048 people, were standing neatly beside the corpses.

Niu Zhuang and dozens of seriously injured soldiers were carried over, and after a few days of recuperation, Niu Zhuang's wounds had scabbed, and his face and back were wrapped in thick gauze.

Niu Zhuang had a wound on his back and trouble dressing, so he simply went out of the city shirtless, even if he was lying on the ground, they had to watch his brother go.

"Bring Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi here!" Liu Hong said in a deep voice.

Chang Yu immediately brought over the two people who were tied up and sturdy, and the two people with rags stuffed in their mouths, Yuan Zong's first word was not high but very stocky, Liu Zongmin was tall but one-armed, and the two of them had become haggard after a few days of prison life.

The soldiers tied the two of them to a cross stake planted next to the soldiers who had died in battle, and Liu Honggradually ordered the soldiers to take down the rags from their mouths, and he wanted to hear what the two wicked men had to say.

Yuan Zongdi's legs trembled, obviously admitting it.

"Dog officer! Is it comfortable to be a dog for the dog emperor of the Ming Dynasty? Hahahaha! Only the one-armed Liu Zongmin scolded.

Liu Hong gradually turned around and pulled out a war knife from the waist of a young man behind him.

"Da Ming's qi is exhausted, and when my Da Shunguo raises his arms, he will inevitably break your dog official into pieces...... Ahh

Before Liu Zongmin finished speaking, Liu Hong gradually stabbed Yuan Zongdi's left arm, and Liu Zongmin immediately shouted in pain.

"Go on, Ben listen!" Liu Hongjian whispered next to Liu Zongmin's ear.

"Have you heard...... Ahh

"The cunning rabbit is dead, the lackeys are cooking, the birds are gone, and the good bow is hidden...... Ah-" Liu Zongmin was stabbed in his left leg and right leg again.

"You're the lackey of the Ming Dynasty, wait! With the faint prince and the minister, you will not be able to ...... Yes...... Good...... Die. ”

Liu Hongjian stabbed Liu Zongmin directly in the abdomen, the pain in his arms and legs was bearable, but a knife in the stomach directly made him lose his strength.

"You remember, not to mention that the Ming Emperor is not a stupid and incompetent person, and Lao Tzu is not a person who is tied up, how can he be as good as he wants, but please be worthy of his heart!

Also, Hades is already waiting for you below, and when you get down, my brothers will take care of you too, goodbye! ”

Liu Hong gradually put the war knife on Liu Zongmin's neck, and said softly in a voice that only Liu Zongmin could hear, and after speaking, with a force of his right hand, he cut Liu Zongmin's neck artery at once.

The blood on Liu Zongmin's neck gushed out, he opened his mouth to speak, wanted to breathe, but he couldn't make any sound, with a little force, the blood on his neck immediately burst out a large stream, and he died miserably in just one breath.

During the whole process, all the officers and soldiers of the Thousand Households did not say a word, and they just stared at Liu Zongmin until his blood was exhausted.

Yuan Zongdi also watched Liu Zongmin's death, he was so frightened that he couldn't speak, and when he saw Liu Hong gradually walking towards him with a bloody war knife, he trembled even more.

"No...... No, don't...... To be ...... Kill" Yuan Zongdi was frightened, and his words were not good, but his eyes were getting wider and wider, and he fainted in fright.

But how could the soldiers of Qianhu let him die so easily, a basin of cold well water poured down from his head and instantly woke up Yuan Zongdi.

"My lord, let me come." A hundred households with a leg injury limped over, their eyes full of determination.

In the first battle of Linxian, his own brother was shot in the head by a cannon and died in Lincheng, and the corpse was not collected, as a brother, there is nothing more angry than seeing his brother die in front of his eyes.

Therefore, he wanted to avenge his brother with his own hands and kill the murderer in front of him who killed one hundred and eighty people in a thousand households.

Liu Hongjian naturally knew who the person in front of him was, he and the young man who was killed by the cannonball were the only pair of brothers in the Thousand Households of Banzai Mountain, Liu Hong gradually handed the war knife into the hands of the Baihu officials, and patted him on the shoulder to show comfort.

"Xiao Yong, my brother has avenged you!" With tears in his eyes, the Baihu official raised the war knife in his hand and slashed it on Yuan Zongdi's shoulder.

Before Yuan Zongdi could shout, the hundred household officials opened their bows left and right and slashed wildly at Yuan Zongdi.

In three breaths, the hundred household officials slashed dozens of knives in a row, even if Yuan Zongdi was already angry, the hundred household officials still did not stop the movements in their hands, and finally Yuan Zongdi's body was chopped to pieces.

"Brother, it's okay, the dead can't be resurrected, with adults here, it will be fine in the future!" Chang Yu stepped forward to persuade Baihu to stop.

Liu Hong gradually turned his back to the execution place, tears welled up in his eyes, and he saw the hundred household officials retreat into the queue, and then returned to the queue of the thousand households.

"Ignition!"

Several sergeants held torches and lit the firewood and grass under the corpses, and only for a moment the fire burned, and the sky grew dark, and the fire reflected the faces of the soldiers, and the soldiers had tears in their eyes.

Da Da Da - 100 AKMs fired into the sky, and the sound of gunfire was heard in the air.

"Salute!" Liu Honggradually clasped his chest with his right hand and bowed to the dead soldiers.

This is the unique military salute of Liu Hongji's thousand households, most of the soldiers are dressed in armor, and thousands of people perform chest salutes together, and the momentum is huge.

When the fireworks burned out, Liu Hong gradually ordered people to take a few small jars, and took out a handful of ashes from each ash and put them into the altar.

Liu Hong, who knew that Chongzhen wanted to build a martyr's monument next to the Taimiao, had learned as early as Shanhaiguan, but he felt that it was solemn to build the monument next to the Taimiao, but it was in the imperial city, which was inconsistent with his original intention.

Since it is a monument, it is natural to be commemorated by all the people, not within the high wall, so he specially wrote a recital to suggest that the martyr's monument be built outside the Chengtian Gate, on the side of Chang'an Street, for the people to pay tribute to.

The ashes of the soldiers killed in the battle of Qianhu will inevitably be brought back to the capital, and they should be sacrificed by all the people.

A large pit had already been dug on the side, and the remaining ashes were moved into the pit by the soldiers and buried with earth, while the bodies of Yuan Zongdi and Liu Zongmin were nailed to the cross.

Without a monument, the corpses of these two men would not be allowed to enter the earth, exposed to the wilderness, and allowed to be eaten by wild dogs.

"My lord, the sentry horse came to report that Tang Feng, the general of Shanhaiguan, is less than eighty miles away from Linxian, and it is expected that he will be able to arrive in Linxian tonight!" Chen Mingyu came over from the rear and whispered.

Five days after the end of the war, the reinforcements from Shanhaiguan finally arrived!

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