"Centurion Zhao Zhigang, for the sake of your father, I will not reduce your position and military power today, but retain your position as centurion. However, you cannot go unpunished for doing such a thing!"
Afterwards, Lin Xiao ordered the soldiers who were holding Zhao Zhigang down: "Do it, forty punishments with the cane!"
"yes!"
These city defense soldiers immediately accepted the order, and then used thick and long wooden boards to beat Zhao Zhigang hard on the back.
Beating it again and again, making a dull sound.
Accompanied by Zhao Zhigang's screams like ghosts and wolves howling!
Zhao Youwei couldn't bear to look directly, but his wife Zhao Wanrong had tears in her eyes and quickly turned her face away, not daring to look any further.
This matter is over now.
After returning to the office, Lin Xiao sat down on the chair and took a long breath.
Yuan Zheng's expression was not very good.
After he came over, he asked: "Commander Lin, is this thing today too anticlimactic?"
Yuan Zheng said that it started with the beginning but ended with the tail, which means that the thunder is louder than the raindrops.
Lin Xiao took Zhou Guangzhong and Li Dong to capture the woman Zhao Zhigang was hiding in the military camp. Logically speaking, Zhao Zhigang should be expelled from the city defense army directly.
This kind of treatment is appropriate.
However, Lin Xiao only punished Zhao Zhigang in the end, instead of expelling him from the military camp, and even allowed him to continue to serve as a centurion.
This kind of treatment is really too light. To describe it as anticlimactic is not an exaggeration at all!
Therefore, Yuan Zheng was very angry.
He felt that Lin Xiao's treatment was unfair and inappropriate!
But as Lin Xiao's subordinate, although he was dissatisfied, Yuan Zheng did not confront him out of anger, but asked tactfully.
Lin Xiao looked up at Yuan Zheng, then at Zhou Guangzhong and Li Dong, and then said: "Indeed, Zhao Zhigang's actions should logically be expelled from the military camp, but you have also seen that those who belong to Zhao Youwei's faction
Some city defense soldiers sympathize with Zhao Youwei and Zhao Zhigang. If Zhao Zhigang is expelled from the military camp regardless of their feelings, the situation may get out of hand."
After hearing Lin Xiao's words, Yuan Zheng still felt dissatisfied.
But he didn't say much. He knew that Lin Xiao must have his own ideas.
Sure enough, Lin Xiao went on to say: "Managing a legion of three thousand people is not an easy task, and the most important thing is to appease the hearts of the soldiers. If the morale of the soldiers is shaken, then this legion will not be far away.
, so I had to take care of the feelings of that part of the warriors."
After a pause, Lin Xiao continued: "I have written down today's account for Zhao Zhigang and Zhao Youwei. Don't worry, if Zhao Youwei dares to commit another crime again, I will never show mercy next time!"
After hearing Lin Xiao's words, Yuan Zheng's dissatisfaction finally gradually subsided.
Lin Xiao, on the other hand, turned to look at Zhou Guangzhong and Li Dong.
"Now, you two should feel relieved, right?"
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Zhou Guangzhong and Li Dong changed dramatically.
They quickly knelt down on one knee and bowed their heads deeply.
It was only then that Yuan Zheng understood Lin Xiao's other motive for not expelling Zhao Zhigang from the military camp.
Bringing women into the military camp was not only done by Zhao Youwei, but also by Zhao Zhigang. Even Zhou Guangzhong and Li Dong also did this.
However, the two of them did not let the woman stay in the military camp, but sent her away after spending the night.
But no matter what, Zhou Guangzhong and Li Dong violated military discipline.
If Lin Xiao severely punished Zhao Youwei and Zhao Zhigang today, why should he let Zhou Guangzhong and Li Dong go?