Chapter Ninety-One: The Trial of the Traitor
Wang Jinzhong came in and reported: "There are still fifteen Eight Banner soldiers among the captives, including nine from the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia, and six from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. β
Wang Xinyu ordered: "The six people of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are beheaded!" Manmeng Eight Banners sent to Luzon Island to serve hard labor! β
"Then how should Yang Ji deal with it?" Li Rui asked.
"Beheaded!" Wang Xinyu spit out two words without hesitation.
Gao Jinku, who was tied up like a rice dumpling, shouted hard: "It's not fair! We are also Han Chinese, why are you more ruthless to us Han than to Manchu? β
"Han Chinese?" Wang Xinyu sneered, "You traitors are also worthy of being Han? It is true that the Manchus are enemies, but they are aliens, and we and them are the two sides of the war. Now that they have laid down their arms and surrendered, it is ominous to kill the prisoners, and we will not kill the prisoners, but we can let them live and let them compensate for their crimes with hard labor. β
Gao Jinku asked unwillingly: "You said that you don't kill prisoners, aren't we prisoners?" β
Wang Xinyu roared angrily: "Captive? You are not captives! You are criminals! It is a betrayal of the country and the nation, a heinous criminal! You traitors who have forgotten your ancestors, calling you dogs, are insulting dogs! Dogs are not poor, but you have betrayed your ancestors and your compatriots! Without you traitors, can a mere 200,000 Manchurians fight all the way from the north to the south? All traitors and ministers, as long as they fall into the hands of my Wang Yu, they will be punished by the most severe means! I'll make him worse than dead! I will make him regret coming into this world! And you, big traitor, I won't let you die so easily! β
Gao Jinku's face was already as pale as earth, and his whole body was shaking like a sieve, and he didn't know how Wang Xinyu would deal with him.
Wang Xinyu called Li Rui over and gave the order: "Go and prepare, build a judgment table!" β
After the captured Qing soldiers were screened, Gao Jinku's personal soldiers, as well as some Qing army officers who owed blood debts, were selected, and all of them were sentenced to death. In addition, some crime-ridden officials, officials, and petty officials in the state yamen, as well as some bullies who do evil on weekdays, were all sentenced to death.
A judgment seat was erected outside the city, and a stake was erected on top of the judgment seat one and a half people high. Gao Jinku, Yang Ji and other death row prisoners who were about to be executed were escorted out of the city and brought to the trial seat.
The captured Qing soldiers were also escorted to the judgment seat. Although they have just been screened, some Qing soldiers with blood debts in their hands cannot be let go, and they need the common people to accuse them.
After the condemned prisoner was brought to the trial seat, Gao Jinku was given special care: his hands were tied behind his back, and he was hung high on a wooden stake behind him, and in order to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide, he was stuffed with thick socks that had been taken off his own feet in his mouth. The pigtail of the money in the high warehouse was tied and tied to a small wooden stake on the ground. Because the rope was shrunk very short, Gao Jinku, whose hands were tied high and behind his back, could only bend over, his head pressed very low, and maintain a very strange posture. If he tried to stand up straight, the rope would pull at the pigtail on his head, causing him excruciating pain.
Bending over, with his head down, his hands hanging high by the reverse scissors, standing there, not to mention how uncomfortable that posture is,
In front of the judgment seat, it was already full of people.
The people of Han, Miao and Li gathered around the judgment seat, looking at these guys who were usually high up and oppressed the people, but now they were like ashes, bowed their heads, and let others poke and poke and pounce, and the people all applauded.
Wang Xinyu stood on a high platform and declared with righteous indignation: "Anyone who betrays the country, defects to the invaders, collaborates with the enemy and treason, and acts for the tiger when the foreign invades is a traitor!" For traitors and ministers, there is only one word: kill! Resolutely kill them all, without mercy! A traitor is more hateful than an aggressor! If everyone is not afraid of death when a foreign enemy invades, how can a foreign enemy who is not good at water warfare and mountain warfare occupy an area with a river network and complex terrain? Without traitors, it would not have been possible for the Tartars to come here! β
Wang Xinyu also announced that he would not only kill all the traitors, but also set up a pillar of shame, and engrave the names of all traitors and ministers on the pillar of shame, so that future generations will spit on them, and the notoriety of traitors will never be turned over!
"Since Gao Jinku descended to Duoduo in the first year of Hongguang, he followed the traitor Shang Kexi Department and attacked Yangzhou, and this thief was stained with the blood of Yangzhou soldiers and civilians; Later, it invaded Jiangxi, killing countless innocent people along the way; Later, the second thief stubbornly blocked Ganzhou and blocked the contact between Li Chengdong and Jin Shenghuan anyway, resulting in the slaughter of Nanchang. After Jin Shenghuan was killed, the thief went south to Guangzhou with Shang Kexi, and slaughtered the city after capturing Guangzhou. Guangzhou slaughtered the city, and there is also a copy of the high warehouse! This thief was injured and stained with the blood of the soldiers and civilians of Guangzhou! β
Gao Jinku and a group of other condemned prisoners have also done a lot of bad things on Qiongzhou Island on weekdays, and the people here have long hated this person. Since Gao Jinku led the army to capture Qiongzhou Island, he regarded Qiongzhou as his own territory and became the emperor of Qiongzhou in Qiongzhou. The soldiers who entered the warehouse were arrogant and indulgent, killing innocents indiscriminately, rampaging through the countryside and harming the people. Gao Jinku suppressed the anti-Qing righteous people many times, suppressed the uprisings of Sun Xian, Zhang Tengfeng and others who secretly contacted Zheng Chenggong, suppressed the Miao Li rebel army, and killed the secret envoy sent by Zheng Chenggong to Qiongzhou.
After Wang Xinyu finished speaking, the people in the audience roared angrily: "Kill him!" β
"General Wang, the military discipline of the dog thieves in Gao Jinku is corrupt, and we are bullied by Qinggou on weekdays too badly!"
"My lord, the high entry into the library dog thieves and robbers, more hateful than bandits!"
"General, that year, the king of Yanping sent someone to contact the Li people to revolt, Gao Jinku dog thieves suppressed the rebels, the villain's father was framed by this dog thief for the crime of Tonghai, and was innocently killed, I hope the adult can let the villain kill this dog thief with his own hands!"
"My lord, this dog thief used the excuse of suppressing bandits and killing innocents indiscriminately, and many people were killed by him in our village!"
"General, my sister was snatched by this dog thief! That's his soldier! Kill him! β
Gao Jin, who was hanging with his hands on the back, looked like dead ashes. This position is very uncomfortable, and I don't know what kind of punishment I will endure next. But one thing he knew, he would definitely not be as simple as being beheaded.
Cai Dezhong stepped forward and bowed his hand to Wang Xinyu and said: "General, the lowly family, all died at the hands of the thief Gao Jinku!" Please let the lowly man personally send this dog thief on his way! β
"How do you let this dog thief die?" Wang Xinyu asked.
"Cut off his dog's head! Dig out his heart and liver! Chop him up and let everyone eat his flesh raw! Cai Dezhong gritted his teeth and said word by word.
Wang Xinyu said coldly: "That's it? That's too cheap for him, too! No way! This big traitor, we can't let him die so easily! A thousand cuts are light! I'm going to prepare a standing cage for him to burn to death!" When he dies, he will be chopped up again! Will you eat his flesh raw? No! His flesh is too dirty to eat! The meat of this traitor is only worthy of being fed to dogs! β
Then, Wang Xinyu asked the common people to accuse the Qing soldiers with blood debts. More than 100 Qing soldiers were identified and included in the list of condemned prisoners. In addition, more than 200 Qing soldiers who committed crimes, but whose crimes were not too serious, were also identified by the common people, and these Qing soldiers would be beaten with 20 to 50 canes according to the crimes they had committed, and then sent to the prisoner camps after the beatings were completed.
After an hour-long trial meeting, Yang Ji and other cadres who were sentenced to death were escorted down the trial platform by the Ming army, and the execution was carried out on the spot below.
A Qing army officer brought by Gao Jinku from Jiangxi was the first to be executed, and Cai Dezhong personally wielded a knife.
When this Qing army officer was in Jiangxi, he already owed a lot of blood debts, and he had dozens of lives on his hands, and he had a share of this guy in the village where Cai Dezhong's house was attacked. At this time, this veteran of the Qing army had long lost his past ferocity, standing on the execution ground, his face turned the color of pig liver, his legs kept shaking, and beads of sweat dripping from his head.
Thinking of his fiancΓ©e who died tragically, thinking of his parents and brothers who died unexpectedly, Cai Dezhong kicked the crook of the Qing officer's leg with grief and anger, and the guy knelt down. Cai Dezhong waved the Yanling knife, and with a flash of cold light, the head of a money rat tail flew into the sky, blood splattered several meters away, and the headless body slowly fell.
The second Qing army officer from Jiangxi was escorted up, and Cai Dezhong stabbed again and cut off the head of the money rat tail.
"Lady! Daddy, mother! Eldest brother! Brother! Cai Dezhong has avenged you! Cai Dezhong dropped the knife, knelt on the ground, faced the north, looked up at the sky, and shouted with tears in his eyes, "Daddy! Lady, big brother, little brother, have you seen it? I, Cai, have avenged you! β
More than 300 condemned prisoners were taken to the execution ground and executed in six batches. Recruits who had just enlisted in the army and had not yet had blood on their hands were appointed as executioners and executed.
The first batch of more than fifty condemned prisoners to be executed, kneeling in a row, and the executing recruits stood behind with knives.
The recruit Zhang Wei came on the field, he was holding a heavy ghost-headed knife in his hand, and Yang Ji in front of him was trembling, but the recruit Zhang Wei was also trembling. Just now, Cai Dezhong cut off two heads in a row, blood sprayed all over his body, and the headless corpse fell in a pool of blood, which made him feel very scared.
"Ready, executed!" Gong Xiaoda, the supervisor of the beheader, shouted.
Zhang Wei trembled and raised the big knife, and when he heard the word "execution", he swung the big knife vigorously with his trembling arms and slashed at the back of Yang Ji's neck.
I only heard a tooth-aching sound of the big knife and the bone colliding, the big knife was embedded in the back of Yang Ji's neck, but the cut was not deep, the knife was caught by the bone, Zhang Wei couldn't pull out the knife, and he couldn't cut down, Yang Ji didn't die for a while, the big knife tossed back and forth in the back of his neck, and the pain made him let out a ghost crying wolf howl.
"Ahh Zhang Wei screamed in fright, let go of the knife with both hands, turned around and squatted on the ground, his face was like ashes, covering his mouth, trying not to spit it out.
"Stand up!" Gong Xiaoda kicked Zhang Wei's ass, "Until his head is cut off!" β
Zhang Wei stood up, endured his nausea, walked to Yang Ji, who was lying on the ground and convulsed, and wanted to pull out the knife, but he couldn't pull it out because he was too nervous. He was about to turn his head, but an old soldier behind him whipped him on the back, only to hear the old soldier yell: "Hurry up! β
"Ahh Zhang Wei screamed in pain.
The veteran glared at Zhang Wei fiercely, and Zhang Wei only needed to grab the big knife with both hands and pull it back and forth on Yang Ji's neck, pulling it like a saw. Yang Ji, who was not dead, let out a scream like killing a pig.
I don't know how long it took to toss, Zhang Wei finally sawed Yang Ji's head off.
The moment the blood spurted out of the corpse, Zhang Wei finally couldn't bear the strong feeling of nausea, turned his head, squatted on the ground, and vomited heavily.
He was not the only recruit, many of them squatted on the ground and vomited.
"Get out of the way!" A veteran soldier raised a whip in his hand, whipped on the ground so loudly that it "snapped", and shouted loudly, "All go down, and another batch will come up for execution!" β
The second group of condemned prisoners was brought up, tossed for a while, and another group of heads fell to the ground.
About half an hour later, six groups of death row prisoners were executed, leaving only one death row inmate who received special care in Gao Jinku.
Next, the more than 200 Qing soldiers who had committed relatively minor crimes were brought up and beaten until they were drenched in blood, and then they were dragged down and thrown into the prisoner of war camp.
Li Rui walked up to Gao Jinku, smiled and said to him: "Mr. Gao, the station cage specially tailored for you will be ready soon!" You can enjoy it for a few days! β
Gao Jinku twitched all over, and his mouth made a whining sound, but his mouth was blocked and he couldn't shout. He didn't know what the standing cage was, but it certainly wouldn't be more comfortable than his current position.
Soon after, the station cage was sent over.
Wang Xinyu's self-designed station cage is different from the real station cage in history: this station cage is not stuck with shackles, but the whole person is placed in the station cage, there is a person as tall, the wooden fence of the station cage is full of sharp iron thorns, if you can't stand steadily, you want to lean on the wooden fence, you will be stabbed all over with blood. The cage was so narrow that it couldn't sit down at all.
Gao Jinku was stripped of his shirt and thrown into the station cage, hanging high and exposed to the scorching sun.
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