Soon, more than 1,000 puppet soldiers from the Huayong battalion were tied with their hands and escorted to the capital. And these soldiers do not yet know what fate they will face. And these soldiers of the Huayong Battalion have no idea what their fate will be. When they were sent to the capital, they were immediately put on trial. And this public trial, it seems to take a very simple form, that is, a judge shouts at them and asks them to answer yes or no.

"Did you join the British army?" The judge shouted with a loudspeaker.

"Yes! Please spare your life! The soldiers of the Huayong battalion replied loudly.

"Did you offer to help the British attack our positions?" The judge shouted.

"Yes! Please spare your life, we have surrendered! ”

And the judge immediately said bluntly and unceremoniously: "According to our latest law, any citizen of his nationality who joins a foreigner's army, attacks his country, or facilitates the invasion of a foreign army is guilty of treason." Therefore, the death penalty is imposed. Unless you can take the initiative to repent when our army is at a disadvantage, and then fight back, you can reduce your sentence. However, you surrendered when our army was in a strong position, and it is not considered that you have repented and surrendered. Therefore, you are sentenced to death according to the law. Pull it down and behead them all! ”

"What?" "We've already surrendered, how can you still kill us?" "Yes! We have already surrendered, how can you kill us? "We've surrendered, you can't kill us!" ……

When these soldiers of the Huayong battalion heard this, they immediately panicked. They did not expect that the Taiwanese army would actually kill them after they surrendered, which obviously made them speechless. In their minds, they are the grass on the wall, and when the British are strong, they take refuge in the British. Because the British never withheld their salaries and insulted their soldiers. So they feel that it's not bad to work for the British, anyway, they don't have any national thinking, they just think that whoever gives them money and treats them well will follow whomever they want. And this time they fought for the British, and that was also in the idea that the British paid them, and then they worked for the British. And once a disadvantage is encountered. They also hope that they can pass through all Chinese, and then take the initiative to surrender to avoid death.

But what surprised them was that these Taiwanese people continued to kill them, and they were going to kill so many people at a time, which made them feel terrified. More than 1,000 people surrendered voluntarily, but they were still killed. They surrender and will be killed, this does not conform to the thinking of ordinary people! When they surrendered, they hoped to survive, but now that they surrendered, they still had to be killed, so it was better to fight hard at that time?

"Stay. Get ready for a decapitation show! The judge shouted.

When more than a thousand of those captives of the Huayong Battalion were escorted to the vegetable market entrance of the capital, then these simply shocked the surrounding people. Because this time it was going to kill more than 1,000 people at a time, and it had never been so ruthless since ancient times. Even in the Manchu era, there were almost no killings of thousands of people at a time! Except for the founding of the Manchu Dynasty, there was a great literary prison and killed countless people. Later, after Daoguang, he couldn't afford to raise the literary prison for decades. Those Manchu emperors also knew that it was impossible to continue to make literary prisons, and if they did, they would commit suicide themselves.

But. Even if it was a literal prison, it wouldn't kill so many people at once. The literal prison is also decapitated in batches, and it will not behead more than 1,000 people at once. So this time more than 1,000 people were beheaded at once, which was unprecedented. Where else can you kill so many people at once, except on the battlefield? And this is the court of law, where thousands of people are executed at a time. It's really scary. Almost the entire capital also came out one after another, and then hoped to come to see this unprecedented head-killing scene. This killing will inevitably be recorded in the history books, so everyone doesn't want to miss this situation!

"My lord, noon has arrived. Prepare ......," the warden said.

"Wait a minute!" A man's voice shouted.

And when the warden saw this man, he immediately said, "Lord Wang, you are ......."

This person was none other than Wang Guorui, and the beheading was suspended.

And the prison officer also hurriedly frowned, because according to Wang Guorui's consistent rules, he would not easily interfere with judicial trials. And this time, Wang Guorui sent these Huayong battalions of more than 1,000 people over to let the court conduct a trial. And the courts have also tried according to the letter of the law, because this kind of traitor must be killed. In Taiwan's enactment of laws, there is only one way to kill traitors. Only those who can take the initiative to repent and surrender when China is at a disadvantage can their sentences be slightly reduced. However, if China surrenders only when it is in a strong situation, it will definitely kill and cannot reduce the sentence. Therefore, these traitors must be put to death. However, this time, Wang Guorui actually took the initiative to stop the execution, which made them all mutter. This supervisor is a person in the judicial system, and generally does not directly accept Wang Guorui's orders, and Wang Guorui rarely gives direct orders to officials in the judicial system.

When the soldiers of the Huayong battalion heard this, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief, they thought that Wang Guorui had changed his mind and was going to spare them.

"Thank you, Lord Wang, for not killing!" "Thank you, Lord Wang, for your grace not to kill!" ……

But Wang Guorui said a sentence that made people feel desperate: "Wait until three o'clock in the afternoon before executing!" ”

“……”

There was a sudden silence at the scene, and even the people who were talking stopped talking, because this three o'clock in the afternoon was not ordinary.

According to ancient customs, even the execution of the death penalty was carried out. In later generations, many TV dramas said that the death penalty was carried out at three o'clock in the afternoon, but in fact this is not the case. The vast majority of executions begin at noon, at 11 a.m. And this time is the time when the yang energy gradually rises, and the ancients believed that killing people is a "yin thing", if you kill people at other times, then there is no so-called "yang energy" to deter ghosts, ghosts will come to those prison officials and executioners and the like, so it is necessary to behead at noon to avoid the entanglement of ghosts.

However, the so-called beheading, in fact, there is a difference between severity and severity, and the average death row prisoner is beheaded at noon, when the yang energy has just risen, so that these death row prisoners can be ghosts. And for those who are particularly serious felons, such as those involved in rebellion or other heinous acts, that is, they will be beheaded at three o'clock in the afternoon, that is, at 11:45 p.m., when the sun is the most fierce and is considered to be the most yang, so that these death row prisoners do not even do ghosts.

Therefore, in later film and television dramas, it is said that beheading at three o'clock in the afternoon is only for the most important death row prisoners, and ordinary death row prisoners will not be like this. And those condemned prisoners who are not involved in rebellion, or who do not have too many heinous acts, are beheaded at noon, so that they can still be reincarnated as ghosts, which can be regarded as giving them a "way to live" in feudal superstition.

Because Taiwan has also incorporated the "executioners" in the capital, it still follows the past custom in carrying out the death penalty, which is generally carried out at noon, except for a small part of the hanging, which is not counted as time, and other punishments such as beheading are also carried out at noon, so that they can be regarded as being able to do it according to the habits of the past.

However, now Wang Guorui actually ordered it to be executed at three o'clock in the afternoon, so that these people in the Huayong Battalion couldn't even be ghosts at all, and they couldn't be reincarnated. This is ruthless enough, so in traditional feudal superstition, it is one of the heaviest punishments, second only to those cruel death penalty methods such as Ling Chi and five horses dividing the corpses. Even, to a certain extent, in the feudal ideological system, it is harsher than those cruel death penalty methods that are executed at noon, so that they cannot be ghosts, and they are even more unable to reincarnate.

"Why kill us? It's ominous to kill! "Lord Wang, don't kill us, those who kill have no good end since ancient times!" "Lord Wang, there is no good end to killing, don't kill us!" ……

Those Huayong battalions hope to seize the last chance to avoid death.

However, Wang Guorui sat on the chair lightly and said indifferently: "It's not that I want to kill you, it's the law that wants to kill you!" Therefore, when the time comes, the so-called ominous will not be found in me. ”

Hearing this, those people in the Huayong Battalion also felt a burst of despair, Wang Guorui was determined to kill them, and even the so-called ancient iron law that the killing and surrendering was ominous, and the killer had no good end did not abide by it, and chose to kill these prisoners of the Huayong Battalion.

Forty-five minutes passed quickly, and three o'clock in the afternoon had arrived.

"It's three o'clock in the afternoon, let's go!"

Soon, the soldiers of the Huayong battalion were also pulled up and beheaded one by one. In particular, those Chinese officers in the Huayong Battalion were the first to be beheaded. And those Chinese officers in the Huayong Battalion regretted why they became this traitor, worked hard to be this officer, and received a higher military salary, but now they died the fastest in the end.

"Slash!" The warden immediately shouted.

As several ghost-headed knives fell, the three Chinese battalion commanders of the Huayong battalion were beheaded on the spot for public display.

"Good, good, good!"

The people in the capital who were watching also began to applaud loudly, obviously very happy about the execution of this traitor. (To be continued.) )