Anti Qing

Chapter 21 Military Law
"Okay, that's your concern."

The rain was pouring down, and the fog was gradually rising.

Li Zijing narrowed his eyes slightly and looked around at the crowd.

More than 100 people stood together, so Li Zijing raised the volume, trying to let everyone hear what he said clearly.

Some ex-battalion soldiers who watched the beheading of Geng Zhongming ran back to the camp to avoid the rain, still discussing what they saw and felt just now.

After all, the capture and beheading of King Huaishun is really exciting.

The Dashun Army retreated from Shanhaiguan all the way back to Tongguan, and had never achieved such a great result.

Seeing more than 100 people standing between the two camps in the middle, they all cast their surprised eyes over despite the wind and rain.

"It's only natural to be a soldier and get paid!"

"I, Li Zijing, am not unreasonable!"

Li Zijing paced on the stage, the rain slapped on the hat, washing away the bloodstains brought back from the battlefield during the day, and mixed it into the soil below the stage.

"look up!"

Li Zijing stared at it for a while, then let out a loud shout, and pointed to the top of his head.

Everyone was shocked, and looked up along Li Zijing's hand, only to see the big black banner of the front battalion swaying left and right in the air, drumming soundly due to the strong wind.

"This big flag means that you are no longer bandits!"

"What are you?"

"It is the army of the Dashun Dynasty, and it is the master of the new dynasty that the people of the world are eagerly looking forward to, to overthrow the corrupt court, to do justice for the heavens, and to give hope to the people!"

"But are you acting like a rebel army?"

Li Zijing paced back and forth, sneering.

"I don't think you are rebels, you are heinous bandits!"

When the voice fell to the ground, a thousand layers of waves suddenly aroused around.

When more than a hundred veterans heard the harsh word "rogue", their complexions changed drastically, and voices of dissatisfaction gradually spread.

Li Zijing stood still, seeing the indignation of the veteran soldiers below, he suddenly felt amused.

"Not satisfied?"

"To say that you are rogues, have you been wronged?"

Li Zijing's tone gradually became heavier and he asked sharply.

"Looting the common people, coercing women, claiming to act on behalf of the heavens, but what they did is no better than those officials and dignitaries!"

"Just now, a woman who was kidnapped by you from the capital was bullied to death!"

"Whose wife is she, and the mother of which children?"

"Bandits pass like a comb, soldiers pass like a grate!"

"Fighting for nearly 20 years, calling yourself a rebel army, I think you are still those rogues who are reviled like rats crossing the street!!"

Li Zijing's eyes glowed coldly, he put his hand on the Yanling knife again, looked around everyone, and said lifeless words.

"Did I said wrong thing?"

"Nowadays, many people would rather live under the iron heels of the Qing captives than be robbed by you!"

The solidified blood on the Yanling knife was washed away with the downpour of the rain, and the cold light on the knife reflected the full moon, making people feel chills all over.

"Minister!"

"You said that our plundering is an act of rogues, don't you want to rob again in the future?"

"That's right! No looting, what shall we eat and drink?"

"If you don't coerce a woman back to your hometown, who will marry us desperadoes who risk their lives with knives?"

There was a buzz of discussion, which caused the rest of the former soldiers of the Shun Army who returned to the camp to stick their heads out one by one, looking at all this with doubts on their faces.

Li Zijing looked at the old soldier who spoke first, raised his eyes and asked.

"Who among you still has family members alive in the camp, raise your hand and let me see."

Li Zijing didn't urge him any more, he just stood quietly on the stage, waiting for their movements.

Not long after, Li Zijing nodded slightly and said loudly when he saw more than 80 people raised their hands among more than a hundred veterans.

"Then let me ask you, if I want to take your wives and daughters to that camp to do mediocre things right now, would you be willing?"

"If you want, you can go back to the old camp now, and bring your wives and daughters to my camp, and take your wives and daughters as you like in the future, and you don't have to follow this military order."

The old soldiers who raised their hands looked at each other in blank dismay. Over the years, they only thought about looting riches and clothes and returning home so that their wives, daughters and parents could live a better life.

But they never thought about what they would do if their wife and daughter were also spotted by others.

Li Zijing glanced over the embarrassed faces of the old soldiers who raised their hands, and gradually narrowed their eyes.

"When it comes to your own family, do you think it's too much?"

Li Zijing jumped off the stage, came to a Dashun elder who raised his hand, and pushed him out of the line.

"The old camp is not far from here, bring your wife and daughter here!"

"Why don't you go?"

The soil was wet and slippery. Ben was pushed to the ground in embarrassment and struggled to get up, but he didn't dare to show any anger. He just stood with his fists clenched and his eyes fixed on his feet.

"Why don't you go, dumb?"

Li Zijing sneered and walked through the crowd.

Every time they pass by, the old soldiers there spontaneously give way.

"Mizhi was captured by the Qing captives, and the old and the young did not survive."

"If your wives and daughters lived in Mizhi and were taken captive by the Qing army to do such a meager thing, what would you do?"

"Should we sacrifice our wives and daughters and be the lackeys of the Qing captives to keep them safe, or should we fight hard to protect their safety even if we die?"

Li Zijing clenched the handle of the knife slightly, and the downpour gradually weakened, but this did not shake his serious expression.

"I will fight these Qing captives with my life!"

"Qinglu dare to touch my daughter, I will fight them!"

Beside him, excited and indignant voices came and went, and Li Zijing pointed to a veteran soldier who spoke.

"well said!"

"My family members from the old camp in Dashun joined the army in order to protect our wives and daughters from disasters, but the local people are different, and they can only rely on you."

"The Great Ming Dynasty is dead, remember, there is only the Great Shun Dynasty in the world now!"

"In the past, you and others rebelled and robbed Gein in order to find a way to survive. I can let the past go."

"I don't care about other people, but the new military law of this department starts today!"

When Li Zijing said this, he suddenly pulled out the Yanling Saber that had been tightly held by his waist for a long time, and the expressions of all the old soldiers of Dashun present were shocked.

"This knife, I, Li Zijing, cut off the defect of the rebel army, and it was I, Li Zijing, who cut off the word "rogue" that was placed on the heads of the brothers!"

When the words fell to the ground, Li Zijing suddenly turned around and rushed forward step by step with a knife.

Thunder and lightning flashed, and sharp knives swung.

Ben Dashun, who was bound and kneeling, had his head chopped off with a look of shock before he had time to react.

Blood spurted from his neck and splashed onto Li Zijing's face.

The armor is undulating, and the moonlight is cold.

Li Zijing held the Yanling Saber upside down, his eyes swept over everyone present.

The blood on the knife was washed to the ground by the rain, and mixed with the yellow soil, forming a reddish-brown stream under the feet.

"I hope you brothers, don't put the word "rogue" that I chopped off today back on your own head."

"Since the military law has been issued, we must start by ourselves. No matter the veterans or ordinary soldiers in the headquarters, they need to abide by it in the future."

"I will be in charge of the payment. From now on, the headquarters will provide payment on a monthly basis. After the war, the military merit will be calculated by the amount of killing the enemy."

Li Zijing lowered the saber to his body, stuck it hard into the soil, and stood under the fluttering black banner.

"I, Li Zijing, can't promise anything else, only one thing."

"Whoever dares to violate the military law dies!"

　Sorry to be back late, the second is even later!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)