Chapter 279: Pyongyang Public Trial
The Ming army and the Korean Minzhuang, who captured Seoul, first stabilized the defense of Seoul and then swept across the Korean Peninsula. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoIn just three months, the remaining Qing troops, the Korean Eight Banners, and the Korean Green Battalion on the Korean Peninsula all surrendered.
After experiencing the massacre in Seoul, Li Zhuo also changed his strategy, and did not indiscriminately kill all the surrendered Korean Eight Banners and Korean Green Battalions, but selected all the officers from among the prisoners, or a group of people with greater public anger, and sentenced them to death after trial.
Outside the city of Pyongyang, the Ming army and the Korean people gathered outside the city.
"Kill!" The shouts of killing shook the sky, and groups of North Korean auxiliaries shouted and poured into the city of Pyongyang.
This is the second largest city in North Korea and the capital of Pyongan Province, where there are more than 2,000 people stationed in the Eight Banners of North Korea, more than 5,000 people in the North Korean Green Battalion, 300 Qing troops in the Green Battalion, and more than 10,000 Korean Minzhuang. When the Ming army arrived at the city of Pyongyang, they only fired a few rounds of artillery shells into the city, and then rushed with Korean auxiliaries, and the defenders of the city opened the city and surrendered.
The Korean auxiliaries have long issued notices that as long as the officers of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion are captured, the officials of the Eight Banners will be rewarded with cash, and the higher the rank of the officials captured, the more silver the North Koreans will receive. Ordinary Eight Banner soldiers or Green Battalion soldiers, as long as they can catch an officer, can not only get a silver reward, but also be exempted from the punishment of hard labor.
Although Li Zhuo no longer slaughtered prisoners casually, ordinary soldiers could still live if they were captured, but the death penalty could not be avoided, and the fate of the captives awaited them was to be slaves and sent to the Nanyang plantations to serve hard labor with those dark Malays.
Now that they had the opportunity to be exempted from hard labor, these surrendered Korean Eight Banners and Korean Green Battalion soldiers decisively took the Ming army and Korean auxiliaries and killed them at their former governor's residence. It didn't take long for the rest of the North Korean officers and magistrates, as well as some of the eight banners of North Korea, who were extremely angry, to be arrested.
"Kill, kill all these traitorous guys!" Seeing the guys kneeling on the ground with money rat tails, Li Yan was so angry that he couldn't wait to pick up the sword himself and cut them all.
Wang Yu snorted coldly and said: "Little prince, these guys who betrayed their ancestors, betrayed the country for glory, and did all the bad things should be killed!" But is it too cheap to cut them with a knife like this? We should hold a public trial and let the common people who have suffered from their scourge pronounce their death sentences. ā
"The Public Trial? Let the common people pronounce the death penalty on them? Isn't that a slash in the end? Li Yan asked puzzled.
"That's hard to say!" Wang Yu had a smug smile on his face, "Handed over to the common people to judge, the common people who hate these guys to the bone are eager to eat their flesh raw and drink their blood!" Maybe the prisoners will be beaten to death by the common people, or even bitten to death, and there will be light sky lanterns, trampled into meat paste, broken bones and ashes, in short, the people will not think of a lesser way! Handing them over to the common people also relieved the hatred in the hearts of the common people. ā
"Good!" Li Yan nodded, "Then do it according to the meaning of the big handsome!" ā
Three days later, on the open ground by the Taedong River outside Pyongyang, a group of North Korean soldiers wearing iron armor, armed with spears or muskets, and swords hanging from their waists, escorted the captured officers of the North Korean Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, the officials of the North Korean Eight Banners, and some banner men who were extremely angry with the people walked out of the Daedong Gate.
Those who usually served the Manchus as lackeys, but rode arrogantly on the heads of the Korean people to make a fortune, oppress the people, and do all the bad things are now bowing their heads in frustration, some of their faces have turned the color of pig liver, some of them are pale, and some of them are simply paralyzed on the ground, unable to even walk, and are dragged out by two North Korean soldiers.
When these Koreans were escorted out, the Korean people who had already gathered in the open space by the river shot hateful glances at them. It is these people who used to be lackeys for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, bullying men and women on weekdays, robbing and robbing, plundering the wealth of the people with the dragon money of the Qing Dynasty, and even killing people and setting fires, raping women, and doing all kinds of bad things. Every single one of the common people here has suffered from the scourge of these people.
Originally, some ordinary people were still a little scared when they saw these fierce and vicious guys on weekdays. But seeing the pus-filled appearance of those people, the common people no longer felt afraid of them, but instead burned with vengeful anger in their hearts.
"Kill them!"
"Kill them!"
On the open ground by the Datong River, the common people let out a roar that shook the sky.
Li Zhuo, who was wearing a python robe, walked up to the high platform, and all the North Korean people knelt down one after another and shouted in unison: "Your Highness Chitose!" ā
"Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, you have suffered! Lonely, I'm sorry for you! Li Zhuo looked at the Korean people kneeling on the ground, only to feel that his eyes were red, and tears were dripping down, "Today, Gu got the help of the Great Tomorrow Army, defeated the Tartars, and captured these fake Tartars who are powerful and good on weekdays!" Today, these false tartars will be handed over to you for judgment! If you have a grudge or a grievance, you can come up and accuse them of their crimes! ā
After Li Yan finished speaking, Wang Yu, dressed in military uniform, walked out.
"Nanwang Chitose Chitose Chitose!" The guards in the flying fish suits and the wingless black gauze hats took the lead in shouting.
The Ming soldiers and Korean auxiliaries knelt on the ground and shouted in unison. The North Korean people also knelt down and shouted Chitose from the mountain.
"The Great Tomorrow Army is mighty!" A North Korean officer took the lead, raising his arms and shouting.
"The Great Tomorrow Army is mighty!" When the North Korean people heard the officers shouting, they also raised their arms and shouted.
Next, the public trial meeting began, and one after another North Korean ordinary people came up, pointing to the North Korean Eight Banner officers, North Korean flag officials, North Korean Green Battalion officers, and some flag men who had committed many crimes on weekdays, and accused them of their crimes with tears in their eyes.
The officials of the North Korean Eight Banners and the North Korean Green Battalion, who are usually high and domineering, now bow their heads and hang their heads. The angry people became more and more excited, if it weren't for the soldiers who stopped the emotional people, I'm afraid these Chaojian would have been torn to pieces by the angry people a long time ago.
After a full day of public trial, the people's bloody and tearful accusations are far from over, Wang Yu announced that the public trial meeting will be temporarily suspended and the trial will continue early tomorrow morning.
After three days of trial, the officials of the North Korean Eight Banners and the North Korean Green Battalion, as well as some North Koreans who committed crimes on a daily basis, were all sentenced to death. Wang Yu and Li Zhuo did not let the executioners kill these people, but tied them up and handed them over directly to the angry Korean people.
"Kill! Kill them all! "As soon as the fence was opened, the agitated North Koreans swarmed around their long-standing enemies, punching and kicking them, pinching them with their teeth and nails, spitting on them, pulling their braids, and smashing them with sticks and bricks. In less than half a day, all of these Chaojian were torn to pieces by the people.