Chapter 169: The Eve of Heavy Forces
Pengdy's bloodshot eyes seemed to be about to protrude.
“Geehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
In his throat, there was a sound of bubbles like a chicken killing sound, and his muscles began to twitch.
Bai Niu tilted the corners of his mouth. As an old yamen runner, he could see at a glance that this person would definitely die!
These yamen runners are all veterans he carefully selected, not to mention eighty sticks...
Even if it is just one, it will be enough to kill someone!
This time, he was paying attention to the whole process. The 79 sticks in front could only seriously injure Pengdy, but not kill him.
This is also what the master asked, and Pengdy must be punished alive.
When the last moment, Bai Niu saw it clearly. The yamen runner Ding Ran used all his strength and knocked it diagonally three inches next to Pengdy's spine with the end of the Fenghuo stick.
Such a heavy hand is enough to pound Pendy's kidneys at once - he will definitely die!
Bai Niu stepped forward and gently explored Pengdy's breath, and found that he had only vented his breath and had no air intake.
"Master, the criminal Pendy can't stand it and dies."
The onlookers cheered when they saw that Pengdy was indeed beaten to death.
"good!"
"Bare this group of bitches to death!"
"That's right, traitors like them should be dragged out to feed the dogs!"
The people started to clamor, and the rotten vegetables and leaves and rotten eggs were thrown on Pengdy.
Wang Changxing said slowly: "My fellow villagers, they can be dogs and come up to bite us. We are humans, but we cannot lie down and bark like them. To deal with such evil dogs, we should be beaten to death and eat meat!"
Wang Changxing bowed to the people: "I can understand your feelings, but the court has its own laws, which is the benevolence of the emperor."
Everyone hurriedly clasped their fists and returned the salute. Since the magistrate said so, they could only give up: "What the master said is that if you let the dog eat it, you are insulting the dog!"
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Wang Changxing turned his head and said to Bai Niu:
"I paid the money for burial from the account, drag him down and dissolve it, and the bones were sprinkled in the mass grave."
The government cremated the criminal's body and asked the family to ask for cremation silver.
However, the Peng family was confiscated. Although most of them had fled to Xiangyang earlier, they would definitely not come back to pay the funeral expenses of this person.
The cremation fee of this person has to be paid by the local government.
...
According to the Ming Dynasty law, local governments are not just tax collection agencies.
The Ming Dynasty government is also responsible for adopting and relieving elderly and widowed children, burying without owners, monks and Taoists, etc., and even official brothels...
"Get orders!"
Bai Niu became excited. He called a few yamen runners and placed Peng Di's still twitching body on the cart. Then he said to the common people: "The master said that he would take such a thief to cremate!"
The people became eager and cheered: "It's good to burn well, it's so hateful that this thief should refine his corpse!"
Some people even whistled sharply...
In this era, people pay attention to a person who is buried in peace, cremation is not accepted by the secular world, and even the common people teach a gangster a lesson. This is the saying: "No matter how bad you are, no matter how bad you are, you will be taken to cremation and train it for you!"
When the people heard that the thief had suffered such retribution, the people cheered loudly...
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The first year of the Restoration of Han passed in a hurry.
Around the New Year, Zhu Cijiong was the busiest. On New Year's Eve and the dynasty, he visited two new recruit camps one after another, which was to celebrate the short period of the first year of the revival of Han Dynasty. The merits of the various tribes were even more celebrated for the new army in the two places.
After three months of training, two training bases in Daming trained a total of 8,000 soldiers!
He even held a welcome ceremony for the 1,000 soldiers under Chahar's troops. Seeing the Ming Dynasty resisting two waves of attacks in succession of Qing army, he gained a firm foothold. Burni finally sent 1,000 soldiers and 3,000 scalpers over.
On the third day of the first lunar month of the second year of the Restoration of Han Dynasty, an emergency message from the Rangdong Military Region caused Zhu Cijiong to cancel his plan to go to Nanzhao to inspect the 36th Battalion of Zhang Shiling's troops.
He rushed back from Fangcheng urgently.
A four-wheeled carriage equipped with steel leaf springs galloped on the loess official road, causing waves of loess smoke and dust, slowly rising like a giant dragon.
"Zhang Da, is the news true?"
Zhu Cijiong's eyes couldn't help but feel hot.
"Your Majesty, we have sent someone to check, and the news from Xiangyang has been confirmed to be true." Zhang Da said:
"Your Majesty also knows that since the autumn, the rain has been continuous in Xiaogan, and now it is even more sleet and the road is slippery and difficult to walk. The news from the spies is probably going to be later to be transmitted back."
Zhu Cijiong chuckled: "But it's just right!"
This is also Luo Keduo. He is so desperate that he dares to attack him at this time - does he think he is those thieves with no ambitions?
After taking several cities, you will get drunk when you encounter the Chinese New Year?
If Luo Keduo attacked the Ming Dynasty one month in advance, or attacked Zhu Butai, it would really make Zhu Cijiong fumbling. Even if he struggled to defeat the enemy, he would not have the opportunity to develop.
This thief launched this time, which only gave him the opportunity to weaken the Qing army...
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Nanyang Prefecture.
Zhu Da was already waiting anxiously.
When his Red Sword and Green Sword Division were in contact with Nanchang, he happened to walk the Jingzhou waterway, but he saw the Qing army drawing ships and trying to go north.
The Intelligence Department did not dare to neglect it and immediately sent the news back overnight.
This made Nanyang take a step forward and learn the news.
Sun Zhen still smiled: "Old Prince, don't be so panicked. I have discussed the enemy in the south with His Majesty several times, and even the situation is even worse than this situation, which has been deduced!"
It was just a Qing army in Huguang that came to attack, which was the best situation in their deduction!
Zhu Da was still worried when he heard Sun Zhenlan's persuasion.
He still walked back and forth: "General Sun, why don't you be in a hurry? This is an army of nearly 30,000!"
Although his nephew Zhu Cijiong had already defeated the 30,000 Qing army a month ago, Zhu Da had never seen it with his own eyes. He was afraid that Zhu Cijiong would deliberately exaggerate his military achievements in order to stabilize the hearts of the people.
More importantly, in the victory of Ye County, the Ming Dynasty had the advantage of geographical advantage. This time, the Qing army defended the majestic city of Xiangyang, intending to conquer Xinye, and then swept the newly born Ming Dynasty from the heart of the Nanyang Plain.
The Nanyang Plain is like a hand holding it with empty hands. There are mountains and steep mountains on all sides, but only in the direction of Xiangyang, it is a break.
Xinye, opposite Xiangyang, is a piece of land where the low-lying water has subsided!
There is no danger here!
The Qing army in Xiangyang has an absolute geographical advantage over them in Nanyang!
Chapter completed!