After a seed grows into a towering tree, it is cut down, and its corpse is used to build houses and make furniture. In this way, the seed's life in the world will be worthy of its life.
This is an outrageous idea, and it is only Yun Zheng's own idea. This kind of idea cannot be written on paper, but can only be passed down orally. If it is made known to the world, he will definitely become the leader of thousands of people.
But there are many people who have this idea, and there are many people who have done this throughout the ages. Just like a farmer planting a seed in spring and then harvesting it in autumn, there is nothing to criticize. Boring emotions like love and hate,
If we take it to the military, it is the source of failure.
The army is a huge collective, in which individual will can only play a small role. Even if Yun Zheng is the highest military officer near Yanmen Pass, he can only integrate himself into this collective and be amplified by the collective before he can play a role.
To influence the world.
The environment determines a person's words and deeds, including his will. Yun Zheng did not want Qingyi to die as a ghost, but in the collective of the Song Dynasty army, Qingyi's death as a ghost is actually the best outcome.
As the leader of the giant of the Song Dynasty army, he must be responsible for the safety of this giant. Whether he likes it or not, it is inevitable that this giant will have some flaws when it sweeps the world.
Li Dongchu was now filled with pain. He stood outside the military tent and watched a group of his most trusted subordinates being beheaded by the executioner. The pain made him almost unable to stand, and he could barely hold on to the flagpole to continue watching this tragedy.
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Yun Zheng originally didn't plan to let him watch it, but he requested to watch it from beginning to end. Each executioner's knife seemed to cut into his heart...
Chen Lin's fleshy cheeks turned a little red because she had just ordered a murder, and her eyes were staring at the blood-spouting corpses without saying a word.
Yun Zheng looked at what was happening in front of him curiously. He did not expect that Chen Lin had just arrived at Yanmen Pass, and before she could get promoted, the first thing she would do was kill people.
Those killed were the generals of the White Horse Army under Li Dongchu.
The witnesses and physical evidence were all there, and there was no room for those people to quibble. The palace guards who followed Chen Lin from Tokyo captured all of them. Yun Zheng had just finished reading the file, and the heads of those people had fallen to the ground. From beginning to end, Chen Lin
Lin didn't give Yun Zheng any room to interrupt.
This was the first fire that he, the supervisor, burned after he came to Yanmen Pass. Yun Zheng had no need to intervene in any way. The authority of the supervisor must be guaranteed, not to mention that after Yun Zheng read the files, he himself
I want to take action.
Liu Fengcheng, the lieutenant of Sili School, was Li Dongchu's deputy general. Back then, he was praised by Zhao Zhen of Beishou because he defended Xixing Pass alone. He specially gave Liu Fengcheng the honorary title of Sili School Lieutenant, who had a high rank of two thousand shi in the Han Dynasty. He could serve as a general servant.
It was very rare in the Song Dynasty for the fifth-grade official position of a doctor to receive such an honor. When the emperor learned that Liu Fengcheng had been guarding Xixingguan alone for five years, he never fell no matter how hard the Liao attacked, and he firmly protected the people behind the pass.
, after learning that in order to defend the pass, even his wife died in battle, this honor was specially awarded.
Unexpectedly, after a few years, this man became greedy for profit. Not only did he covet the food and salary of the Mo soldiers, but he even lied about the military situation many times. In the name of Liao bandits and border guards, he asked the court to give him various military reinforcements at Xixingguan, which he then used to sell.
, and most of the people who received these military supplies were Liao and Xixia people.
Yun Zheng knew that a comfortable life could destroy a qualified general, but he never expected that a person could be destroyed to such an extent in just a few years.
Now that this person has been tied alone on the high platform, and he is waiting for the officer to order his head to fall to the ground. Yun Zheng raised his head and looked at the sun that had not yet reached the center, and whispered to Chen Lin: "I am the deputy general who killed the White Horse Army.
No objection, I just want you to inform me before you kill me, the deputy general of the Western Jingxi Army."
Chen Lin looked at Yun Zheng expressionlessly and said, "The doctor Jiang Zhe who is serving here is not at fault, why should I kill him?"
Yun Zheng nodded and said with a smile: "That's good, that's good. But, Old Chen, it makes me look ugly if you kill people like this. Can't you tell me in advance so that I can be mentally prepared?"
Wang Anshi, who came specially to watch the ceremony, said coldly: "Why should we give face to such a thief who kills the people? If nothing else, just the fact that he secretly divided the military rations is enough for the family to punish him."
Yun Zheng clicked his lips, and told Wang Anshi and Chen Lin that the favor was simply with the wrong person. One was aloof and aloof, the other was dark and gloomy, and under the premise that both of them were loyal to the Song Dynasty, Liu Fengcheng died.
Not unfair at all.
A hundred thousand troops stood in the school military field under the sun and no one made any noise. No one thought that the first thing Yun Zheng would do after arriving at Yanmen Pass was to kill people.
Liu Fengcheng knelt down on the high platform and looked at Li Dongchu in the distance and shouted: "General, please save me. I, Liu Fengcheng, have made great contributions to the Song Dynasty and the White Horse Army. I beg General to have mercy and help me!"
When Li Dongchu heard this, his body trembled and he closed his eyes in pain. Scenes of the deep brotherhood, life and death, and life and death in the past flowed before his eyes like a revolving lantern.
Ever since Li Dongchu abandoned literature and martial arts and took up the post of guard of the border city, Liu Fengcheng has been following him. Whether in Shenwu Pass or Xixing Pass, the two of them took care of each other and depended on each other during the days when they were short of food and clothing. This way they could keep the three passes intact.
lose.
He never expected that Liu Fengcheng would undergo such earth-shaking changes in the past few years. When he heard about his life in the wine pond and meat forest in Xixingguan, he thought these were just rumors. Even if someone mentioned it, he would laugh it off.
Just today, after welcoming the commander-in-chief into the customs and before reviewing the armed forces, Chen Lin ordered the arrest of Liu Fengcheng, who had come all the way from Xixingguan to greet the commander-in-chief. He was furious and accused Chen Lin on the spot of sacrificing human life. When Chen Lin handed over the witnesses and physical evidence
When everyone was moved in, Li Dongchu had no choice but to run away in face of the irrefutable evidence.
Hearing Liu Fengcheng's pleading now made him feel extremely heartbroken!
Yun Zheng looked at the sky. It seemed that the damn sun was unwilling to move westward, so it stayed firmly there, insisting that everyone in the army see Liu Fengcheng's ugly appearance.
Yun Zheng didn't care whether Liu Fengcheng died or not. Chen Lin's humiliation of Li Dongchu was a bit excessive. This was no longer humiliation. It was more appropriate to call it torture.
Li Dongchu is still of great use in the battles after the war. I'm afraid it will be difficult to dispatch them in the future after such a defeat, because they have become the direct descendants of the emperor inexplicably. Over the years, the White Horse Army has developed into a huge army with more than 50,000 soldiers.
To be honest, Yun Zheng had never received such trust from the emperor.
Yun Zheng knew that Li Dongchu was not his direct lineage. In order to alienate the relationship between him and Li Dongchu, the emperor specially favored this person. The reason why Yanmen Pass was handed over to Li Dongchu's hands instead of Jiang Zhe's was the emperor's consideration.
That's where it comes from.
"Kill him. Stop torturing people. Li Dongchu is loved by His Majesty. It's not appropriate to be too harsh to him." Yun Zheng picked up an order arrow from the table and dropped it. Immediately, the executioner picked up the order arrow and walked up.
The high platform opposite shouted: "The time has come for execution!"
The executioner raised his ghost-headed knife, rounded it, and struck it on the neck of Liu Fengcheng, who could not move but was still pleading. The head fell to the dust, and the pleading stopped suddenly. Li Dongchu wailed three times and staggered to the front of the platform.
He held Liu Fengcheng's head and burst into tears.
Yun Zheng frowned, left his seat, walked behind Li Dongchu who was crying, and said impatiently: "Okay, just cry twice. You can't say that this person was killed, and you still have the nerve to cry at this time.
If you had beaten him twice more, he would not have reached this stage today. The border army is the country's great defense and the most important weapon of the military. It is not the troops in the pass who can just let the generals fish and eat.
After winning two battles, he thought that the whole world owed him. He wanted to live a good life, but his own subordinates were nothing. Look, among the three thousand soldiers he brought from Xixingguan, there was one who vindicated him.
Really? My own soldiers don’t like him. If he doesn’t die, who will die?”
Li Dongchu said: "Fengcheng made great contributions to the Song Dynasty. Even if it is wrong, why is it so bad?"
Yun Zheng chuckled and said: "Don't say meritorious deeds in front of me. Wasn't I also imprisoned in the sky prison for more than three months in Tokyo? Who is he? He is an arrogant and extravagant person who is not allowed to supervise the army to clean up the house?"
Li Dongchu held the head in his hands and bowed to Yun Zheng: "Please allow me to send you to Fengcheng in this humble position."
After saying this, he ordered his soldiers to remove Liu Fengcheng's headless body and left sadly.
Today's army commander is Jiang Zhe. Yun Zheng waved his hand and the military parade was over. On a day like today, he really had nothing to say. The supervisor wanted to improve military discipline, and he, the commander-in-chief, had no reason to stop him.
The army slowly withdrew from the school military field one by one and stationed in batches outside Yanmen Pass. The only ones who could station inside the pass were the 50,000 elite soldiers brought by Yunzheng from Jingxi Thirteenth Road. They took over Baima immediately.
From now on, Yanmen Pass will be the base of Yunzheng's base. It is not a wise move for the White Horse Army to continue stationed here.
Yun Zheng looked at Li Dongchu who was leaving with the army. He sighed and said to Chen Lin who was following him: "Beheading your own general before you kill the enemy is not a good idea. Chen Lin, you want to declare that you are in the Western Beijing Army."
I don’t object to the existence of it, but don’t disrupt my arrangements in the future. Today is the last time, and I don’t want to say it a second time.”
Chen Lin said expressionlessly: "Shouldn't the thieves who bring harm to the country be killed?"
Yun Zheng said angrily: "It is my duty as a general to kill soldiers. You have exceeded your authority. I don't want it to happen again. This is a sign of distrust in me. I don't like it very much."
Wang Anshi smiled and said: "I don't agree with the general's statement. If we still remain silent in the face of a thief like Liu Fengcheng who is causing harm to the country, I'm afraid we will lose this battle before we even fight it." (To be continued)