March 26,

On the third day of the Manchu court's "Western Hunt", the vanguard cavalry of the Ming army finally arrived in Xi'an.

As he rode into Xi'an, Wang Huaizhi was stunned by the chaos and brutality in front of him, even though the city didn't seem to have changed much.

"Those thieves!"

Despite the prior warning of the scouts, when seeing corpses strewn across the streets, and occasionally visible burned houses, especially those who survived the catastrophe. Wang Huaizhi's eyes were still red, and he let out a low roar.

"Tell the brethren that they will not survive those who take advantage of the fire to rob, and let them identify each other if they are caught, and then kill!"

Although she knew that it was a violation of military law to do so, she did not know any other way to comfort her compatriots who had died.

Countering violence with violence may not be what the law promotes, but in many cases, it is often the only option that can heal the wounds.

"Kill! Leave no one to chance! ”

The surrounding brothers were all shouting loudly with righteous indignation, and no one thought that it would be the ruffians in the city who were worse than Jiannu.

Last night, a citizen broke into their camp, that person was the military commander who was lurking in Xi'an, and as soon as he entered the camp, he asked the army to enter the city to maintain order, and punish the thugs who took advantage of the fire to rob with military law!

The army enters the city to maintain order!

This is also the responsibility of the wartime army, in the face of the chaos in Xi'an, Wang Huaizhi was already mentally prepared, but the tragic situation in front of him was still beyond his expectations. He couldn't even accept that he made this choice even though he knew that doing so would cost him dearly.

"Kill them all!"

Without any hesitation, thousands of cavalry poured into the city of Xi'an, for these soldiers, who had been taught to love the people, maintain military discipline, and maintain the glory of the military flag from the first day they entered the army, they may have been accustomed to the tyranny of the Manchus, but they could not adapt to the cruelty of their own people, let alone accept the lawlessness of those thugs. I can't accept that my own people are so cruel to my own people.

Almost everyone entered the city with a lot of anger, and when they saw the robbery thugs, they did not hesitate at all, and immediately rushed over, directly raised their sabers like slashing the enemy, and cut the thugs to the ground, and when the mob fled, they would take out their long guns and shoot them. At this time, they treated those thugs as if they were enemies.

For a time, the sky over the whole city was full of gunfire, and in the sound of gun, mixed with bursts of screams, those thugs who had been laughing wildly a few hours ago, when facing the cavalry that had rushed to kill, they were all left to beg for mercy, they knelt on the ground and cried, and kept kowtowing to try to get their lives back, but what was waiting for them was often just a shot, or a knife in the head.

Not only the thugs who were caught red-handed, but also those who hid in their homes were pulled out of their homes in the bite they prayed for.

When he saw the soldiers breaking into his home, the face of the man who was eating immediately turned pale, and he knelt on the ground with his legs weak, and then kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Military master, military master, spare your life, spare your life, the small, the small, just take a piece of cloth...... Just ......"

Looking at the man kneeling on the ground, as well as the frightened woman and child, the soldier's face turned pale.

"Small, the villain has an eighty-year-old mother on it, and there is a ...... below"

"No one else has a father or a mother! Now you have it, get out of here! ”

In annoyance, one of them whipped the man with his horsewhip, and the man immediately let out a scream of pain.

"Get out!"

In the end, the begging man was pulled out of the house, and his wife and daughter did not dare to stop the murderous military masters. Even the old lady in her seventies cried and cried "son, my son......" and followed behind, crying and crying there, and took out a silver bracelet and silver two to atone for her son's sins.

But none of them accepted their bribes.

The man was dragged out into the street, where dozens of ruffians were already tied up, and when several of them saw the man, they immediately laughed.

"We Lai San, what are you crying about, why are you crying worse than the big girl who slept the night before, when you slept at that time, you were not as unproductive as you are now. The scar on the head is the size of a bowl, which is nothing more than a death, and eighteen years later, he will be a good man again! ”

"That is, eighteen years later, he is a good man again! In the past few years, we have slept with several big girls, and it's worth the fuck when they die......"

Their shouts were exchanged for the bitter scolding of the people around them, and the more excited people rushed up and smashed their fists at their bodies, crying and screaming as they smashed, as if they wanted to shout out the hatred in their hearts. For a while, the bricks and things kept smashing at those people, and some people rushed up and bit them with hatred.

"Kneel down, kneel down!"

Chen Mingxin, who was holding a short hammer in his hand, roared loudly, and when he knelt down alone, he was still begging there.

"Master Jun, spare your life......"

Before he finished speaking, Chen Mingxin pulled the trigger, and after a bang, the man's head was shattered, and this sound was exchanged for the applause of the people next to him, and the cry of a woman.

Then there was another clang, and after the bullet was empty, he stared at the ruffian, and then roared.

"Kneel down!"

As he spoke, he drew his saber again and shouted menacingly.

"Kneel down ......"

"Spare your life, spare your life......"

Although he kept begging for mercy, he still knelt there in resignation, and even stretched out his head, just when he was crying and begging for mercy, Chen Mingxin raised the saber in his hand and aimed it at the man's neck and slashed it hard.

Hand up and knife down.

The head was not cut off, only half of it was cut off, and the man cried out in pain in a pool of blood, because his spine was cut off, so he couldn't move, and the half-cut head was connected to the body, but because the trachea was not cut off, it could still make a terrifying cry.

This terrifying scene frightened everyone, and the people who were watching were all frightened and took a few steps back, and even the comrades on the side couldn't stand it, so they picked up the fire gun and put a gun on the head in the pool of blood, and then admonished.

"Be quick!"

To be sure, the saber is not suitable for decapitation. However, it was too cumbersome to reload with firearms, but this also did not bother them, and soon a soldier brought a guillotine knife from nowhere, like chopping vegetables, and smashed the heads of dozens of bandits.

On this day, the originally chaotic city of Xi'an once again regained its tranquility, and the ruffians and hooligans who once upon a time were rampant on the streets disappeared, completely disappeared.

How many thugs did the 13th Cavalry Battalion kill in Xi'an? Is it a thousand? Or two thousand? Or more, no one knows the exact number. Anyway, since then, the city has never heard of a ruffian hooligan, even if the child is disobedient, the adults will say, "If you are disobedient, be careful that the military master will give you a head". Everyone knows that the same thing cannot happen again, but on this day, all this is deeply remembered by everyone, even if it is a few decades later, they will not forget.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the army of the other army that arrived stopped all this, and "rescued" the remaining hundreds of thugs from the brothers of the thirteenth battalion of cavalry. Many people kept kowtowing their heads, begging bitterly, even if their heads were broken, they still continued to kowtow hard, lest these ghost-like military masters regret it again.

"How can this be!"

In the yamen, Zhao Lei stared at Wang Huaizhi and shouted loudly.

"Don't you know military law? After killing so many people, when the time comes, you will definitely lose your head! And you ......."

Turning his face to point at Li Mingkui, he roared angrily.

"You are a military official, and he Wang Huaizhi doesn't know military law, don't you know? Entering the city to maintain order, is this how it is maintained? ”

The reason why Zhao Lei was so angry was because he was also scared...... Frightened by the actions of the thirteenth battalion, the army entered the city to maintain order, and could kill people when necessary, and could kill the thugs who took advantage of the fire to rob on the spot, but only on the spot, as for dragging the thugs who had taken advantage of the fire to rob before, from their homes to the street and beheading, this was a violation of military law.

"Murder...... What you kill is pleasure, where do you put the army and the court, we are soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, not Manchu Tartars! ”

"Why can't you kill it!"

Li Mingkui's eyes widened and reddened, and he roared angrily.

"If those thugs are allowed to kill the people, we are not allowed to avenge the people? Go and see, how many people they have harmed, how many people have been killed by them, and the people have begged them not to harm their daughters with silver in their hands, have they ever relented, these scum, all of them should be killed! ”

After saying this, Li Mingkui roared angrily.

"I don't regret killing them all, it's a big deal, it's just a dead word! As long as I can give the people breath, I will knock on the head, and I will admit it! I admit it! ”

Looking at Li Mingkui, who was angry, Zhao Lei was taken aback, he didn't expect the other party to be so excited.

"I don't know if I'm dead or not, but I can't keep your military uniform! After all, there is military law! ”

Hearing him say this, Li Mingkui, who had a bullish temper, tore off the collar badge on his military uniform, and then said.

"If you can't keep it, you won't keep it!"

"What are you talking about?"

At this moment, Wang Huaizhi, who had been silent, stood up, he looked at Zhao Lei and said.

"I gave the order, I am the chief officer, I will carry this responsibility!"

As the commander in chief of the troops, he does need to be responsible.

"Can you afford it?"

Zhao Lei asked rhetorically.

"Someone has to carry it, and someone has to vent his anger to the plagued people in the city, and this breath must be released."

"There is a ...... for sentencing"

"It's useless!"

Wang Huaizhi shook his head, then glanced outside.

"There are too many rioters, and the law does not blame the public, at most a few heads will be cut off here, that is, those who are caught red-handed will have their heads cut off. As for the others. What about the vast majority of thugs? After they have burned and looted, they have gone home to be their good citizens, and those who take advantage of the fire are often the most hateful, and if they do not leave them a lesson, and do not let them remember it in their bones, they may do something in the future, at least ...... now."

His eyes drooped slightly, Wang Huaizhi smiled, and then said.

"At the very least, the plagued people of this city have spoken out of their evil breath, and let them know what method should be used against the wicked......

"But, you must know that military law is like a mountain! They...... After all, it's not a captive, and you kill ...... without trial."

Listening to Zhao Lei's words, Wang Huaizhi put on a military hat, then straightened his clothes, and then said.

"Let's go, this matter definitely needs an explanation, just take my head to make an explanation, they are all obeying military orders, military orders are like mountains!"

After saying this, Wang Huaizhi looked back at Li Mingkui and smiled at him.

"Li Junzheng, actually, you and I are derelict in our duties today, but ......"

Then he didn't speak, but walked out silently, and finally he glanced at the sky,

"Look at this day, how can the blue sky and the white sun allow them to run rampant......"

With that, he sighed again, and then said.

"I won't make it difficult for the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies......"

When the words fell, he had already drawn his short hammer and pressed it against his chest.

"Don't ......"

Before the voices of the surrounding people fell, a bang from there startled the birds in the trees in the courtyard......

"Why is he so stupid?"

After receiving a report from his subordinates, Li Dingguo's eyes became red, and he didn't expect that Wang Huaizhi would choose to commit suicide so neatly.

"Although the state has national law, and the army has military law, the law is nothing more than human feelings, and those miscellaneous pieces should be killed."

Kill!

Not to mention Wang Huaizhi, even Li Dingguo also thinks those people should be killed. Originally, for him, he could come up with 100 reasons and excuses to keep Wang Huaizhi.

But what does he mean now, and how can he protect him?

"He said that he didn't want to cause trouble to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and he would not make it difficult for the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies......"

"Confused!"

Li Dingguo said indignantly.

"Why is he so confused? Didn't he know that his life was much more precious than that of the thugs? He didn't know that my Ming officials and soldiers were just to protect the people, and since it was to protect the people, what could not be done? Besides, when they entered the city, the thugs were still killing and looting. What's the harm in killing them? ”

Of course, at this time, Li Dingguo did not say how they pulled out the thugs who fled to their homes and executed them without interrogation, and he didn't even care about the details. He only cares about one thing...... own subordinates.

"Go down and tell everybody. After a moment of silence, he continued.

"Wang Huaizhi was killed in battle, if anyone makes irresponsible remarks, let him come to me!"

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