"General Zhang? Who? Zhang An? ”

Seeing that Su Chengyu recognized Zhang An, the officer nodded proudly and said, "Yes, the lower official boy style is the hundred generals under General Zhang." ”

Su Chengyu snorted coldly and instructed Shi Lin, "Leave this person to take back to confront him." Others who meet the requirements will be killed! ”

"Yes!"

Seeing that the king of Chenzhou was actually going to move seriously, more than ten soldiers and bandits looked at the bloody blade in their hands, and howled and pounced on them desperately.

"Attention the first, second, and third rows." Seeing this, Shi Lin calmly commanded, "Aim!" ”

"Aim!"

"Put!"

There was a bang, and the men were more than ten paces away from each other before they were shot into a blur of flesh and blood by the lead bullet. At such a close distance, it was naturally impossible for the extremely strict pro-soldier company to miss.

"The first, second, and third rows drew their swords. The others dismounted. Shi Lin ordered in a loud voice, "Those who dare to resist will be killed on the spot!" ”

"Yes!"

The four platoons of their own soldiers quickly dismounted, formed a two-row line formation on either side of the cavalry, and put bayonets on the muzzles. In such small villages, the cavalry could not run, but the infantry array was more suitable for combat.

The three platoons that had just fired the guns threw down their flintlock guns, drew their swords and pointed forward, and waited for the battle.

The soldiers and bandits who were in a mess saw such a purge momentum, and no one dared to step forward.

As for the leader, when he saw Su Chengyu ordering him to stay and take him back, he thought that he was afraid of Zhang An's face, so he shrank aside and stopped squeaking.

Soon another soldier drove in the group of soldiers guarding the entrance of the village, together with the soldiers and bandits in the village, a total of eighty or ninety people.

At first, these people were still grinding and trying to cheat, but as the soldiers roared neatly, "Kill!" And they were all honest at once.

Shi Lin asked them to kneel on the ground in several rows with bayonets, and he personally led people to inspect them one by one, but all those with blood on their bodies and knives, or their clothes were disheveled, they were all tied with their arms tied and pushed under the broken wall on the side.

It didn't take long for fifty or sixty people to be crowded next to the broken wall, and most of the boy-like subordinates were involved in the killing or rape of the villagers, along with the dozen or so who had just been killed.

Su Chengyu squinted at these soldiers and bandits, and said with great disgust: "Cut too slowly one by one, let's kill them." ”

"Yes!"

Shi Lin saluted, turned back and said, "Turn horizontally, face due south!" ”

The pro-soldier line moved swiftly to face the broken wall, and then heard "Aim! Dozens of flintlock guns immediately pointed neatly at those ruffians, and the bayonets at the mouth of the guns were cold.

"Put!"

An earth-shattering sound resounded throughout the village, and the dense lead bullets mercilessly shot the group of thugs who had killed the villagers into a hornet's nest, and sent their blood-stained souls into an endless purgatory, black blood and limb fragments covered the walls, and then sticky trickled down.

Although the soldiers and bandits on the side who were not picked out by Shi Lin had seen many scenes of beheading and execution, they had never seen such a chaotic killing, and their eyes were full of red and white broken walls, and they were so frightened that their faces were like earth, and they were paralyzed to the ground.

But they did not escape, and when the execution was over, they were tied to a dead tree, picked up their whips, and whipped them vigorously.

"One, two, three, four......"

As the sound of several whips continued, the door of the broken house on the side was pushed open, and a pair of trembling old men paced out the door, knelt on the ground in unison, and kowtowed hard to Su Chengyu.

Soon, more people came out of the haystacks and dry wells, and they all knelt down to Su Chengyu and kowtowed.

"Folks, please get up!" Su Chengyu said movingly, "Although there are still many good people under this Qiankun, there are disasters everywhere, and the same is true for Daming." He pointed to the soldiers and bandits, "But please believe that the court will protect you, and will not let these scourges remain in the world!" ”

"Your Highness Xie......" A few simple words mixed with the screams of the beaten villains, resounding throughout the village.

Su Chengyu knew that his words could not dispel the concerns of these people, and only if the entire Ming Dynasty could strictly enforce military discipline could people regain their trust in the imperial court.

If the people's hearts are broken, even if there are a thousand dragon guards, it will be useless. He was bent on saving the Ming Dynasty, and worked hard to build a mission to unite the people, but it was not enough for these people to loot and destroy it quickly several times!

This must not be allowed to continue! He made up his mind.

"Commander, it's too late. The infantry battalion then arrived. ”

Su Chengyu was thinking about it, and saw that the Zhu family brother came with a cavalry battalion.

"I'm fine here." He instructed the Zhu family brothers, "Send hussars to inspect every nearby village, and immediately rectify the law if they encounter those who intrude on the people!" By the way, go and inform the magistrate again and ask him to send someone to appease these villagers. ”

"Yes!"

Su Chengyu glanced at the childish style shrunk in the corner again, and said to Shi Lin: "Tie him up, take him away." ”

"Yes!"

On the side of the Gan River, about three or four miles away from the camp of the Ming army, a building boat painted a boat with colorful lanterns on it, and the posture on the boat was graceful, singing and dancing.

There is an elegant wooden pavilion on the riverbank, and you can see the singing and dancing on the painting boat from a distance.

Yang Tinglin and the others heard that His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou had arrived and was busy welcoming out of the wooden pavilion, and knelt down in the middle of the road to pick them up.

Su Chengyu turned over and dismounted, first let the officials who greeted him get up, threw the horse whip to the soldiers, turned to the crowd and said, "Zhang Anke?" ”

Zhang An was puzzled that King Chenzhou was looking for him as soon as he came up, and was about to step forward, when he saw a henchman come over and whisper a few words to him.

"What?!" Zhang An's eyes suddenly widened, he pushed aside Liu Guangjiu, the governor of Jiangxi who was standing in front of him, hugged Su Chengyu casually, and said in a deep voice, "Why did Your Highness kill the sergeant in my camp?" ”

"Oh? So you know what your people are doing? Su Chengyu stared at him coldly, determined that if he said the word "yes", he would immediately ask Shang Fang's sword to cut this person.

"I ...... I don't know. Zhang An was stunned for a moment, and immediately stiffened his neck and said, "I only know that His Highness killed more than 70 of my men!" ”

Su Chengyu waved his hand behind him, and Shi Lin immediately threw the childish style in front of Zhang An, and shouted, "Say!" ”

"General, General save me." Tong Shi rubbed at Zhang An's feet, "Do you remember when I blocked an arrow for the general in Ji'an?" ”

"Why were you caught by His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou?" Zhang An asked with a calm face.

"No, nothing, I just grabbed some food in Xialing Village...... Killed a couple of untouchables by mistake. With Shi Lin staring behind him, he didn't dare to talk nonsense.

"Grab food?" Su Chengyu snorted lightly, "He plundered Xialing Village, humiliated the women, killed eighty-three villagers, and cut off the heads to prepare for war exploits. ”

He looked at Zhang An, "Lord Zhang, I was ordered by the Prime Minister of Jiangbei Military Affairs, but should I kill this group of rebels?" ”