The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 16
By daybreak, the fighting in Baling Village had subsided, and there were no bandits rushing out of Ximen.

Liu Chan knew that all the enemies in the cottage should have been wiped out.On his side, he also captured nearly 800 people, which is not a small gain.If this is the battlefield of Cao Wei, today's harvest is enough for anyone to be promoted to a higher level.

Liu Chan collected the captives and escorted them by the five hundred soldiers, and then happily entered Baling Village together.

As soon as he entered the city, Liu Chan saw a mess inside.Many items were burning, and dead bodies lay everywhere.Some people died in terrible conditions, and some corpses were even scorched by the fire, emitting a stench!

Liu Chan covered his mouth and nose, and asked the soldiers to take the captives to the inner village for centralized surveillance and custody. He wanted to go to Zhang Fei himself to see if Fuyun Futianyuan had been caught.

At this time, Liu Chan saw some Jingzhou soldiers rummaging around in the pile of dead people, thinking they were trying to restrain the corpses.However, later he felt that something was wrong. Those people just touched the corpse, and then walked away.Then, for no apparent reason, two of those men started arguing.

Since he didn't pay much attention to it before, and those people had some local accents, Liu Chan didn't hear clearly how the quarrel started, but just stood and watched.

As the quarrel between the two became more and more intense, the crowd began to gather and eventually divided into two parties, each with about 30 to [-] people, and the two sides quarreled like this.

Liu Chan was curious, so he asked Zhao Feng why the soldiers were quarreling all of a sudden when they were fine just now.Is it because one side provoked the other side's fellow villagers?Zhao Feng nodded, and whispered in Liu Chan's ear that these soldiers were rummaging through the corpses of those thieves just now, and then they had a quarrel.

"Oh, why didn't you say it earlier?" Liu Chan said a little depressed.

Collecting belongings from dead bodies is not only a common thing on the battlefield, but it can also be regarded as a beautiful job.This reminded Liu Chan of World War II.Whether it is the Allies or the Germans, when cleaning the battlefield, they will not even let go of the gold teeth in the mouths of dead bodies.As for the Auschwitz concentration camp, gold teeth and the like were often picked out from the ashes after the bodies were burned.

But Liu Chan also knows that most people in the Three Kingdoms era were very superstitious.Although everyone is doing this kind of thing, people with status generally don't do it, and some people even forbid their soldiers to do it.

At this moment.The quarrel between the two sides has become more intense.

"You fucking haven't paid me back!"

"Repay what, I didn't take your gold!"

"I saw him take it away just now, I can testify!"

"If you don't take it out again, I will prevent you from seeing the sun today!"

Arguing and arguing, the two sides changed from the war of words just now to suddenly fighting with weapons, and they took out their weapons to confront each other, and the two sides were on the verge of breaking out.

Liu Chan originally felt a little disgusted by their behavior, but now he was annoyed by their lack of discipline.Just for a little loot, they want to fight and kill, so if they attack the enemy's city in the future, wouldn't they want to kill and steal, or mutiny occurred because of the scramble for property?

Liu Chan feels that it is impossible to let these soldiers go on like this, such bad signs must be killed in the bud in time!He immediately decided to teach these lawless guys a profound lesson!

Liu Chan pointed at those people, and asked Zhao Feng to lead someone to arrest them immediately, and they can't let them go on messing around like this!
With a wave of his right hand, Zhao Feng led fifty of his subordinates to surround those people.The intervention of Zhao Feng and his party left the two groups of quarreling guys stunned.Although there were more than 50 of them, they could tell from the clothes of Zhao Feng and others that they were definitely not ordinary soldiers, and they couldn't afford to provoke them.For a while, you looked at me, I and I looked at you, not knowing what to do, and the dispute stopped.

Zhao Feng saw that these people were honest, so he shouted loudly: "We are the silver-armored guards of the Jingzhou Guard Battalion. You all listen to me, the young master has an order, and arrest you all immediately!"

Of course those people knew how powerful the Silver Armored Guards were, and they all knew how difficult they were to mess with, a commotion ensued in the crowd.Seeing this, the silver-armored guards immediately put on strict guard.

Then a tall guy, who seemed to be the leader of one of the sides, stood up and asked boldly: "Who is the young master? What crime did we commit? Why did he arrest us all?" "

Zhao Feng sneered and said, "Master Liu is the lord of Jingzhou, the son of Liu Shijun, Liu Chan and Mr. Liu!"

As soon as the crowd heard Liu Shijun's name, they all fell to the ground...all the weapons in their hands fell to the ground, and they obediently grabbed them.It seems that these people also know who their master is.

Seeing them throwing away their weapons, Liu Chan felt a little relieved.He just walked over and said to the man: "The reason why I want to arrest you is not because you collected property privately while cleaning the battlefield."

Another asked in a low voice, "Why on earth is that?"

He looks a bit dark, but he looks very shrewd, he should be the leader on the other side.And he was actually surprised.Seeing that this young man is not very old, and his body is a bit thin, how could he come to the battlefield?

Liu Chan said: "There are two main crimes: first, you have no discipline, do not observe military discipline, and fight privately; second, you form gangs in the army."

"But we are all fellow villagers..."

Before the big man finished speaking, he was immediately interrupted by Liu Chan, and said angrily, "I can tell from your accent that you are fellow villagers. But using your fellow villagers to form cliques and engage in cliqueism is a violation of military discipline. Go on, if the order of your school officer is not in your interest in the future, there is no guarantee that you will kill him and rebel!"

When the people on the two sides heard what Liu Chan said, many of them turned pale.Because according to Liu Chan's words, he could be sentenced to beheaded.

"My lord, spare my life, my lord, spare my life..."

I don't know who knelt down to beg for mercy first, and then almost everyone knelt down.But the two guys who took the lead in the quarrel were very strong, neither begging for mercy nor kneeling.Liu Chan secretly sighed that these two people were quite courageous, but they also had the potential to rebel.

Zhao Feng immediately stepped forward, slapped each of them, and shouted: "Everyone else is kneeling, why don't you two kneel!"

The big man touched his face that was hurt by the beating, straightened his black chest, and said forcefully: "Although we violated military discipline, we are not guilty of death, so why beg for mercy!"

Another big black man also said: "Yes, the young master said that we will kill officials and rebel, but in fact it is just speculation, there is no evidence at all!"

Liu Chan was immediately annoyed by it. Anyone who knows a little bit of history, or has heard of romance novels, probably knows that such things abound in history.But now there is no evidence for such a thing.

At this time, there was movement at the west gate, and Ma Liang and Ma Jichang also escorted the prisoners back. Looking at the situation, he captured more prisoners than Liu Chan.

When Ma Liang saw the silver-armored guards dispatched, he came over to ask what happened.Ma Liang is a man of profound knowledge. After listening to Liu Chan's narration, he came to a conclusion after a little thought, and immediately ordered the two leaders to be taken out and beheaded.

Of course the two were not convinced, and they wanted to argue with Ma Liang, but how could reckless men like them compare their eloquence with celebrities?
Ma Liang said indifferently: "You two fought privately, and each of you was punished with twenty lashes according to the law. As for the fact that you have no evidence to accuse you of rebellion, it is a fact. But he is a son, and he will be your master in the future. You offend the master , is a death penalty!"

Facing Ma Liang's sophistry, the two of them froze all of a sudden, fell to the ground and couldn't speak anymore.

In fact, Ma Liang's words also frightened Liu Chan.He just wanted to scare the people of the two sides, so that they would not dare to act recklessly in the future, so why did he have any plans to kill people?

But when Liu Chan saw the somewhat unpredictable expression on Ma Liang's face, he suddenly understood: Ma Liang is helping him to build his prestige!Moreover, Ma Liang is quite cunning, and seems to want to test his character.

Liu Chan knew that in this chaotic Three Kingdoms era, not only was it necessary for warlords to be qualified to examine the abilities of counselors, but even counselors would also examine whether the objects of allegiance were in line with their own tastes.Once they don't meet, they often choose to leave immediately.The best example is the relationship between Chen Gong and Cao Cao.Therefore, these two people are actually unkillable.What Liu Chan needs to learn at this moment is Liu Bei's trick of buying people's hearts with hypocrisy.

Liu Chan immediately stopped the soldiers who were going forward to arrest them, and then asked where the two leaders' hometowns were.Among them, the tall man's answer surprised Liu Chan. They were actually Xinye people, and they were one of the common people who followed Liu Bei back then.Another group of people are native Jiangling people.Moreover, almost all of these two groups are veterans who participated in the Battle of Chibi.

After knowing the origins of these people, Liu Chan didn't want to punish them even more, but he deliberately sighed and asked, "Have you committed the crime of death?"

The two were silent at first, and finally nodded with difficulty.

"Well, the so-called 'knowing mistakes can be corrected, there is nothing good about it', you are veterans, my father Liu Shijun is a benevolent and righteous man, and he is also a person who misses the past. As his son, I, Liu Chan, cannot casually kill people because of my own personal grievances. However, you can be spared the crime of death, but you can't escape the crime of living. Each of you will receive another ten lashes, are you convinced?"

"My lord is benevolent and righteous! I am convinced!" The big man kneeled down to Liu Chan solemnly, so excited that tears rolled in his eyes.

"The villain also knows his mistake!" Another leader followed and knelt down for Liu Chan.

Only then did Liu Chan turn his head and ask Ma Liang if it was okay for him to do this.Ma Liang was quite satisfied with Liu Chan's performance, and he praised with joy on his face: "Young Master is benevolent! You must be a master of benevolence in the future!"

Liu Chan laughed. He felt a little embarrassed to be praised by Ma Liang, so he asked the soldiers to take them down and whip them ten times, and the others were released.

After finishing the treatment, Liu Chan obediently walked over to hold Ma Liang's hand, but Ma Liang didn't see him either, and the two went to find Zhang Fei together.

Liu Chan is actually quite proud in his heart, because from this point of view, he will have another strong supporter in the future.After going back this time, Ma Liang should say a few good words for himself in front of Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang.

And to Liu Chan's surprise, his reputation of benevolence and righteousness quickly spread among the army, making his popularity in the Jingzhou army soar like a rocket!

(End of this chapter)