Chapter 51: Back Way (Central)

"Random." Dong Tuanxiao's face turned blue with anger. He slapped the table hard and shouted loudly, "As a military officer, you don't argue the truth of the rumors, you spread them freely. What crime should you do? If someone comes, please drag me down, and you will weigh twenty military sticks."

"Yes." Dong Ze, a personal soldier, agreed, and rushed into the central army's tent with four or five burly men, raised Cheng Mingzhong and dragged it outside.

When other civil servants and military generals saw it, they shivered in their hearts, lowered their heads, and did not dare to say another word. With Cheng Mingzhong's thin body, after the twenty-stop army was beaten, most of his life would have been lost. This is probably due to his years of serving in front of the saddle and horseback. If it were someone else, Dong Shaved would definitely behead him and show him directly.

However, Cheng Mingzhong refused to remember Dong Tuanxiao's grace of not killing. He dragged his legs on the ground, struggling, while shouting, "Sir, you are wronged, wronged, humble, humble, humble, humble, humble, humble, humble, humble, humble, humble, has just received a warning from Jiaxing."

"When you push it out, use horse manure to block your mouth, hit it hard." The more you heard Dong Tuanxiao, his face became more blue, and the scabbard hit the handsome desk, making a sound.

The personal soldiers did not dare to delay, so they lifted Cheng Mingzhong's hands and feet and walked out. After a while, the sound of the wooden sticks and the body coming from outside the military tent came, "Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang", and then the sounds stimulated the scalp to numb.

The civilian staff and military generals in the central army tent all felt cold on their backs, looking at their noses and their noses. No one dared to plead for Cheng Mingzhong. The mouth was blocked, Cheng Mingzhong could still whimper at first, and after only five or six sticks, the whimper sound turned into a **, and after two more sticks, he simply disappeared. After two eyes, he completely fainted.

After all, he was a third-rank co-prime officer. Dong Ze, a hundred-family family, dared not really beat him to death. He quickly ordered people to put away his military sticks, and he trotted inward to report to Dong Tuanxiao, "Sir, Cheng, Cheng, was fainted, died."

"How much is still missing?" Dong Tuanxiao felt no sympathy at all. He looked up and glanced at the personal soldiers and asked coldly.

"It's still ten, ten sticks." The personal soldiers and households made a cold war and responded with their fingers.

"Let's record it for now." Dong Tuanxiao waved his hand and ordered without any satisfaction, "Carry him to the back tent and apply medicine, and wait three days later, and then make up for the remaining punishment in front of all the brothers in the camp."

This is not much different from beheading. Cheng Mingzhong is a scholar who wants to be respected. He was stripped naked in front of tens of thousands of brothers in the camp. Even if he didn't feel pain, he would be embarrassed. The aides and generals felt more and more frightened. He secretly swears in his heart that he would never touch Dong's bad luck no matter what, and would ask about withdrawing troops to rescue Zhejiang East.

Dong Tuanxiao saw everyone's performance, sneered and curled his lips, and said loudly again, "You are kind to the Netherlands, but when you hear rumors, you will be defeated. Are you not afraid of laughing at the world? Today, Dong swore here that he will not destroy Yangzhou and will never be in charge. Anyone who dares to talk nonsense and disturb the morale of the army will come and see you."

After saying that, without waiting for everyone to respond, he shook his sleeves, cut his arms back, and strode towards the back tent.

The civilian staff and military generals looked at each other and waited carefully in the tent for a while before they dispersed. After returning to their respective barracks, they quickly used their own methods to prohibit rumors from spreading, so as not to be caught by Dong's head, and to deal with them hard like Cheng Mingzhong.

Except for a limited number of smart people, most of the Zhejiang military civil and military officials took the initiative to draw a line with rumors. However, they did not expect that just as they left, Dong Tuanxiao rushed to Cheng Mingzhong's stretcher in the back tent, and repeatedly wiped his head with a cold towel, shouting loudly: "Mingzhong, wake up, wake up quickly, where is the person who sent you a letter, and where is the emergency document in Jiaxing."

"Well,." After wiping for a while, Cheng Mingzhong woke up from his coma, let out a long breath, and cursed weakly, "Dong Sham, you, you are so cruel."

"Ci doesn't control the troops." Dong Tuanxiao wiped his face twice with a cold towel and continued to ask loudly, "Where is the messenger? Apart from you, who else knows the news of the fall of Yixing? Tell me quickly, don't delay your efforts, you know what the outcome of the Battle of Hai is."

The last sentence was very obscure, but Cheng Mingzhong, who was a Jinshi, was shocked and sweated. At that time, the King of Chu had 80,000 soldiers in his hand, so he could retreat calmly. However, Han Xin relied on spreading the news that Chu was captured by the Han army, which caused the morale of the Chu army to collapse. The 80,000 troops were wiped out. Xiang Yu himself committed suicide by failing to break through.

The situation facing the Zhejiang Army is very similar to that of the Chu Army back then. If news spreads that their hometown is in danger, those Maohulu soldiers, mainly tenants and Zhuang Ding, will definitely lose their morale. The width of the Yangtze River is several times that of the Wujiang River. Even with Fang Guozhen's strong help, the Zhejiang Army will not be able to withdraw to the south bank overnight. What's more, Fang Guozhen is a typical fence-bearer. When he finds something wrong, no one can guarantee whether he will turn against the battlefield.

After thinking through the causes and consequences, Cheng Mingzhong could no longer hate Dong Tuanxiao for killing him. Even if anyone was the head coach, when encountering the same situation, the first thing he needed to do was to kill someone to silence him, instead of making a big fuss as he had before. "The letter is here, it's in my close pocket, then, that messenger, I, I have already ordered my personal soldier Wang San to take him down to have a meal, and it should be near Wang San's tent at this moment."

"Come." Dong Tuanxiao immediately whispered.

"The last general is here." Dong Ze, a personal soldier, immediately stepped in after hearing this.

"Go to Cheng Tongzhi and lock me up the messenger from Jiaxing and all the people who have been in contact with the messenger, regardless of the level. Remember, don't make too much noise. Whoever dares to make a noise will kill you."

"Yes." Dong Ze, a personal soldier, agreed loudly, and then left.

Before his footsteps could go away, Dong Tuanxiao turned his gaze to Cheng Mingzhong again, "Zheng Tongzhi, Dong really can't treat you today. Dong apologizes here. Please don't hate me."

After saying that, he hugged his hands in front of his chest and bowed to Cheng Mingzhong seriously.

"Sir, where is this?" Cheng Mingzhong immediately moved his eyes red when he saw this. "It was because the official was not considerate and disrupted the morale of the army. If someone else had changed to the commander, he would have cut off his head with one knife. How dare he be resentful to the adults?"

"Oh, it's a pity for you after all." Dong Tuanxiao sighed, leaned down slowly, and took out the emergency document from the place Cheng Mingzhong signaled, but did not watch it immediately, but sighed again and whispered, "I have received the warning message. Don't worry, Rong Yin behind you, it's up to Dong to plan for you to the court."

"What." Cheng Mingzhong was stunned for a moment, unable to believe his ears at all, "You, you, what do you mean? I, I, I, I have been beaten, it's so difficult, isn't it enough?"

"Ming Zhong, forgive me for being helpless." Dong Tuanxiao did not explain at all. He held Cheng Mingzhong's neck with one hand and slowly exerted force. "It's really helpless. I don't control the soldiers. You should know that you don't hate me. If you change your position with me, the result will be the same."
Chapter completed!