Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 205 The Punishment
Soldiers fighting? Li Muxin said this shouldn't happen.

He was strict in his military discipline. Anyone who disobeyed orders, engaged in internal fighting, or disturbed the people would be punished with thirty military sticks at the very least, and half-death punishment at the worst, and be made to clean the toilets in the sentry barracks for a month.

The soldiers of the Black Flag Battalion received sufficient pay, and the families of soldiers who had made many contributions were also allocated land. Literacy classes were held every now and then to teach the soldiers.

How could they fight each other privately?

As for the players, it is even more impossible. They are bound by the "green, yellow and red" rule symbols and generally will not easily provoke trouble. Moreover, if an incident really breaks out, the players will definitely make their opponents bleed, and that will not be a fight between soldiers.

It can't be that some nobleman's servant was so arrogant and domineering that he angered the player, right?
Li Mu led a hundred soldiers and rushed to the scene quickly. As soon as he reached the corner of the street, he heard a commotion. The crowd was noisy and boiling. More and more soldiers gathered together. Some shouted to cheer, and some advised them to stop.

More than a hundred people were fighting in a group, shouting, cursing, and the dull thud of fists hitting muscles...

Soldiers from various parties fought back and forth. Some fell down in each other's arms, rolled over and fought each other, and some were knocked unconscious by a punch, knocking down vendors' stalls along the street, and fresh vegetables were scattered all over the ground.

Looking at the undisciplined chaos in front of me is like a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder seeing a neatly arranged storage rack of figures being messed up by a naughty kid.

Li Mu felt his blood pressure rising rapidly, and he had a strong desire to correct all the mistakes!
"Stop it all!"

Zhan Bing, familiar with General Li's voice, immediately stopped, but stopping meant exposing himself. The drunken soldier seized the opportunity and punched Zhan Bing in the face, sending stars through his eyes.

After the drunk soldier succeeded, he still boasted, "Is this all you can do?"

The soldiers beside Li Mu immediately rushed forward and kicked the drunkard hard in the chest. "Open your eyes and see who's coming!"

Dozens of drunks raised their dazed eyes and took a look. Suddenly, they felt their drunkenness had mostly sobered up, and their knees suddenly gave way and they knelt down, "General Li, General Li!"

"Why are you fighting?" Li Mu looked around, his solemn eyes emitting a cold light that made people's hair stand on end.

All the soldiers who feared the Marshal knelt on one knee, except for a few who knelt on both legs. It was obvious that they were not his direct troops.

There were three groups of people fighting: the soldiers of the Black Flag Camp, the soldiers who surrendered from Xinyang, and the personal soldiers of the rear army lieutenant general Wu Zhong.

There were also players who arrived late, but they were all civilian cadres with the identity of "surrendered soldiers from Xinyang".

Civilian players usually attach the most importance to the rules of the game. When encountering violent incidents, they mainly use dissuasion, unlike combat players who choose to use force at the first moment.

What's more, there is the head coach, the guide, in the city. If we ask him to come over and take care of it, we might even get some assist rewards.

The cause of the internal strife was not complicated. General Wu's personal soldiers went to the inn to get drunk to celebrate a great victory, and they happened to meet a father and daughter who were singing for money.

The drunk guard was tempted by the girl's beauty and wanted to pull her to have a few drinks with him to liven up the atmosphere.

The father thought that since he was selling his art but not his body, there was no reason for a girl to accompany drinking.

The drunken guard was so embarrassed by the insult that he tried to pry open the girl's mouth and pour the wine into her, which scared the girl so much that she burst into tears.

The father tried to stop them, but the drunks mistook it for a "provocation," so they swung their fists and hit the father in the face.

Seeing that something was wrong, the shop owner hurried to find the familiar Xinyang garrison and constables. Even though Xinyang had changed its flag and the government, the garrison stationed in the old place remained unchanged.

However, these guards were ordinary people. They knew that they had just surrendered to the Black Flag Camp, and when they saw the soldiers of the Black Flag Camp molesting the civilians, they had to give priority to dissuading these drunkards.

Unexpectedly, when the drunk saw that it was a surrendered soldier, he immediately perked up and kept saying that we are also the Black Flag Army and it is useless to attack you.

So the two sides started fighting, and the soldiers of the Black Flag Camp also joined the fight when they heard about the incident. Later, the personal soldiers of Brigadier General Wu also called for their own helpers, and it eventually turned into a large-scale brawl.

"They're harassing civilians! This is against military regulations!"

The Black Flag soldiers were very emotional. Seeing Li Mu was like seeing a stern patriarch and they were the first to complain.

Their battle robes were torn in several places, and countless cloth shoes were trampled and lost during the fight.

At this moment, Wu Zhong, who had been watching from the sidelines, came out, glanced at the drunk who had caused the incident, and said to Li Mu, "They really did cause trouble. They drank a few pounds of horse urine and have forgotten their own names. Damn it, why don't you apologize to General Li!"

As soon as Lieutenant General Wu finished speaking, the drunkards quickly took advantage of the situation and backed off, crying and howling, begging General Li for mercy. Some even deliberately hit their foreheads and bleed all over the floor.

Brigadier General Wu could not see the change in General Li's expression, and thought that the other party's crying and begging for mercy were not enough, and he immediately felt displeased.

"Luckily, the father and daughter only tore their clothes. We can just compensate them with a few taels of silver and buy them new clothes... But we're all soldiers of the Black Flag Battalion. Even though we haven't worked together for long, we shouldn't turn our backs on them and help the surrendered soldiers fight against our own people..."

Wu Zhong's words were sarcastic, hinting that although the nearly 1,000 personal soldiers of the rear army and the right army were airborne, they crossed hundreds of miles and swept across the four cities of Huainan. Even if they had no merit, they had at least made some hard work, right?
Is this how you, General Li, treat people who have made contributions?
Your military laws are so strict, who among your subordinates would be willing to follow you if they saw this?

Let’s not talk about the two civilians. These newly recruited surrendered soldiers are not even as good as ants. They are just bandits. They can be beaten or scolded at will.

Even if they accidentally killed a few of them, what would it matter? At most, they could give the drunkards who caused the trouble a symbolic 20 military sticks, and the matter would be over.

If General Li insisted on punishing the surrendered soldiers who participated in the fight, they would also be beaten with military sticks.

After all, the Black Flag soldiers saw injustice and were clearing their own house, but what right did these surrendered soldiers have to take action? To put it bluntly, these surrendered soldiers attacking the Black Flag Army was tantamount to rebellion, and not exterminating them all was considered the utmost justice. Li Mu snorted coldly and did not respond. Instead, he looked around and shouted to all the Black Flag soldiers, "Do you think these beasts who fought should be punished?"

"It should be punished! It should be punished! It should be punished!"

The surrendered soldiers did not dare to speak, but the black flag soldiers were all filled with righteous indignation, raising their arms and shouting. The roars of hundreds of people could be heard in the streets.

The echoing roars frightened Wu Zhong, and even Fang Guoxing, who had been watching from the sidelines, was shocked.

The saying "turning the elbow outward" did not resonate with these soldiers. In their hearts, the idea of ​​speaking for the people was actually more important than the friendship between colleagues!
Li Mu nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that he had played a certain role in the material and spiritual construction of the army over the past year. At least these soldiers knew where to sit when they encountered such bullying of the people.

Li Mu felt relieved and ordered in a deep voice, "Catch all the troublemakers!"

The soldiers surrounding Li Mu immediately surrounded them and captured the drunken and troublemaking generals and their personal guards, as well as the surrendered soldiers who participated in the fight.

Ugh?
When the surrendered soldiers were held down by their shoulders, their hearts suddenly sank to the bottom of the ice, icy cold. Is it possible that in this damn world, only officials protect each other?
"Wait! What are you doing?"

Li Mu shouted to stop them. The surrounding black flag soldiers stood there at a loss, thinking, didn’t the commander-in-chief say that he would arrest the troublemakers?
These people are all involved in the fight.

"I've repeatedly warned against molesting decent women, assaulting civilians, or destroying merchants' property. These arrogant soldiers from the rear army not only refused to obey, but also dared to defy the law! Take them away and give them a hundred lashes with the military stick! Behead the culprits who caused this trouble!"

Li Mu's order was like a thunderclap exploding above his head, and Wu Zhong's mind went blank.

"Yes!" The soldiers then realized that the commander wanted to capture Brigadier General Wu's personal soldiers.

Under the guidance of the combatants and surrendered soldiers who participated in the fight, the soldiers rushed forward one by one to arrest people. Although some people wanted to struggle and resist, they were quickly suppressed by the combatants with superior numbers.

When the culprit was pinned down by several people and forced to kneel on the ground, he cried out in his heart that something bad was going to happen. He quickly looked at Lieutenant General Wu standing beside him and said, "General, save me!"

The other guards also called on the general to plead for mercy. Wu Zhong was annoyed by the shouting of the guards, and thought to himself that he had just interrupted when the bandits were being dealt with.

Is it true that General Li is still holding a grudge and using his subordinates as an example to warn others?

Wu Zhong never believed in "serving the people." No matter what the law was, it was always meant to punish the common people! The powerful could exchange interests with just a few words.

But he usually sent "filial tributes" to General Li, but he never accepted them. Can you blame him for being unworldly?

Moreover, General Li distributed all the military pay and rations to each soldier. He did not even have the opportunity to share the profits, nor could he maintain the high salaries of hundreds of his personal soldiers. He could not command the other more than a thousand soldiers in the same camp at all.

What's wrong with him?

"Li Mu! If I have offended you, come at me, don't attack my personal soldiers!"

Wu Zhong pretended to push away the black flag soldiers and was about to untie his personal guards.

"If you fail to discipline your subordinates and allow soldiers to harass civilians, you will be punished according to military regulations!" Li Mu's voice was like the rumbling sound of a bronze bell, reaching the ears of everyone present.

At this time, a civilian player shouted, "Fight fifty!"

"Do it!"

As soon as Li Mu finished speaking, some civilian players could not help but join in, grabbing Lieutenant General Wu and pressing him to the ground.

Wu Zhong fell suddenly to the ground, his face pressed against the ground, and waves of cold air came from the hard and cold ground.

He suddenly realized a terrible fact: Li Mu was just waiting for this opportunity of "revenge" and waiting for him to get in.

He knew that the officialdom was treacherous and that he would be tripped up by his superiors if he was not careful. However, he did not expect that Li Mu, despite his young age, had such deep scheming. On the surface, he slapped him in the face and let the matter go, but in fact he was waiting for a big one that would make him pay the price.

damn it!
"Li Mu, you're so cruel! I wonder what tricks you have in the future. Feel free to use them! I'm the lieutenant general of the Shangcheng, appointed by the imperial court. What else can you do to me?"

"Hmph..." Li Mu snorted coldly, and the long wooden stick used for execution was deliberately replaced with a metal baseball bat.

Two players hold baseball bats, one on the left and one on the right.

"Please spare my life, I won't dare to do it again next time, please, Marshal, spare my life..." As the culprit of the trouble was beheaded with a single knife, the cries for mercy stopped abruptly, and the other rear army soldiers who caused trouble were beaten one by one.

Two baseball bats hit Wu Zhong's lower back swiftly, once, twice, three times... Wu Zhong screamed in pain, his breath gradually weakened, and he eventually died.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Wu could not bear the torture and died."

"Collect his body and bury him with proper ceremony."

Li Mu's words were cold, and he immediately turned his gaze to the Gushi Lieutenant General Fang Guoxing, who had been observing from the sidelines. "Lieutenant General Fang, do you have any objection to my decision?"

Fang Guoxing felt like the mouse was being locked by the cat, and his whole body shuddered.

(End of this chapter)