The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 83
"General Zhang? Who? Zhang An?"

Seeing that Zhu Linmi recognized Zhang An, the officer nodded proudly and said: "Yes, the subordinate Tong Shi is General Zhang's General Qian."

Zhu Linmi snorted coldly, and ordered Shi Lin, "Leave this person and bring him back to confront him. Anyone else who meets the requirements will be killed!"

"Yes!"

More than a dozen soldiers and bandits saw that the king of Chenzhou was going to fight for real, looked at the bloody weapon in his hand, howled and rushed forward to fight desperately.

"Pay attention to rows one, two, and three." Seeing this, Shi Lin commanded calmly, "Aim!"

"aim!"

"put!"

Then there was a burst of gunshots, and those people were more than ten steps away from each other before they were shot bloody by lead bullets.At such a close distance, it is naturally impossible for the extremely strictly trained personal soldiers to miss.

"The first, second, and third row drew their swords. The others got off their horses and joined forces." Shi Lin ordered loudly, "Those who dare to resist will be killed on the spot!"

"Yes!"

The four platoons of personal soldiers dismounted quickly, formed a two-row line formation on both sides of the cavalry, and put bayonets on the muzzles.In such a small village, the cavalry cannot run, but the infantry array is more suitable for combat.

And the three platoons that had fired the guns just now dropped the flintlocks, drew their swords and pointed forward, ready to fight.

Those soldiers and bandits who were in a mess saw such a clean-cut momentum, no one dared to step forward.

As for the leader, seeing Zhu Linming ordering him to stay and take him back, he thought he was intimidated by Zhang An's face, so he shrank aside and said nothing.

Soon the team of soldiers guarding the entrance of the village was also driven in by the guards. Together with the soldiers and bandits in the village, there were a total of 90 people.

These people were dawdling at first and wanted to play tricks, but after the guards roared "Kill!" in unison, they all became honest immediately.

Shi Lin had them lined up and knelt on the ground with bayonets against them. He personally took people to check one by one. Anyone with blood on their bodies or on the knife or messy clothes would be pushed aside with their arms tied. Down.

It didn't take long for five or sixty people to crowd around the broken wall. Together with the dozen or so who were killed just now, most of Tong Shi's subordinates participated in the killing or rape of the villagers.

Zhu Linmei squinted at these soldiers and bandits, and said with extreme disgust: "It's too slow to chop each of them, let's kill them in a row."

"Yes!"

Shi Lin paid a military salute, turned around and said in a loud voice, "Turn across and face south!"

The line of guards quickly turned to face the broken wall, and then heard the command "Aim!", dozens of flintlock guns immediately pointed at the guns neatly, and the bayonets on the muzzles were cold.

"put!"

A blast of gunshots resounded through the entire village, and the dense lead bullets mercilessly shot the villains who killed the villagers into a hornet's nest, and sent their blood-stained souls into endless purgatory. Fragments smeared all over the wall, and then trickled down again stickily.

Although those soldiers who were not picked out by Shi Lin had seen many scenes of beheading and execution, they had never seen such random gunshots. Their eyes were full of the red and white broken wall, and their faces turned pale with fright. Limp on the ground.

But they also failed to escape. After the execution here, someone tied them to a dead tree and whipped them vigorously with a horsewhip.

"one two three four……"

As the sound of counting whips continued, the door of the dilapidated house on the side was pushed open, and a pair of trembling old men walked out the door, knelt down on the ground together, and kowtowed vigorously to Zhu Linming.

Soon, more people came out of the haystacks and dry wells, and they all knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Lin.

"Folks, please hurry up!" Zhu Linming said with emotion, "Although there are still many good people in this universe, there are evils everywhere, and Daming is the same." He pointed to those soldiers and bandits and said, "But please believe that, The imperial court will protect you, and will not let these scourges remain in the world!"

"Thank you, Your Highness..." A few simple words mixed with the screams of the beaten villains, resounding throughout the village.

Zhu Linming knew that her few words could not easily dispel the concerns of these common people. Only when the entire Ming Dynasty strictly enforced military discipline could people regain their trust in the imperial court.

If the hearts of the people collapse, even a thousand dragon guards will be useless.He was determined to save Daming, and worked hard to build a mission office to gather the hearts of the people, but it was not enough for these people to plunder and destroy it quickly!
This must not be allowed to continue!He made up his mind.

"Commander, the subordinates are late. The infantry battalion will arrive later."

Zhu Linmei was thinking about it when she saw Zhu's younger brother coming with a cavalry battalion.

"I'm fine here." He told Zhu's younger brother, "Send hussars to inspect every nearby village, and if they encounter people who harass the people, they will be punished immediately! By the way, go to the magistrate and ask him to send someone to appease these villagers."

"Yes!"

Zhu Linmi glanced at Tong Shi who was huddled in the corner again, and said to Shi Lin, "Tie him up and take him away."

"Yes!"

On the banks of the Ganjiang River, about three or four miles away from the Ming army camp, there is a large boat with colorful lights on it. The boat is full of graceful figures, singing and dancing.

An elegant wooden pavilion on the river bank, sitting in it, you can see the singing and dancing on the boat from a distance.

When Yang Tinglin and others heard that His Royal Highness King Chenzhou had arrived, they rushed out of the wooden pavilion and knelt down in the middle of the road to meet him.

Zhu Linmei got off her horse, let the officials who greeted her get up first, threw the whip to the soldiers, turned to the crowd and said, "Is Zhang An here?"

Zhang An wondered that King Chenzhou would look for him as soon as he came up, and was about to step forward when he saw a confidant cat waist leaning over and whispering something to him.

"What?!" Zhang An's eyes widened suddenly, he pushed aside Liu Guangjiu, the governor of Jiangxi who was standing in front of him, and gave Zhu Linmi a casual fist, and said in a deep voice, "Why did your Highness kill the sergeant in my battalion?"

"Oh? So you know what your man is doing?" Zhu Linmei stared at him coldly, determined that if he said "yes", she would immediately call out Shang Fang's sword to kill this man.

"I...I don't know." Zhang An was stunned for a moment, then straightened his neck and said, "I only know that His Highness killed more than seventy of my subordinates!"

Zhu Linmi waved her hand behind her, Shi Lin immediately threw Tong Shi in front of Zhang An, and said in a low voice, "Say!"

"General, general, save me." Tong Shi rubbed against Zhang An's feet, "Do you still remember that I blocked an arrow for the general in Ji'an?"

"Why did you get caught by His Royal Highness King Chen Zhou?" Zhang An asked with a serious face.

"No, it's nothing, I just robbed some food in Xialing Village... and killed a few untouchables by mistake." With Shi Lin watching over him, he didn't dare to talk nonsense.

"Grabbing food?" Zhu Linmi snorted softly, "He plundered Xialing Village with his troops, abused the women, killed 83 villagers, and cut off their heads for military exploits."

He looked at Zhang An, "Master Zhang, I am ordered to be the Prime Minister of Military Affairs in Northern Jiangxi, should I kill this group of rebels?"

(End of this chapter)