When Heifu and his men came to the camp in the south of Waihuang City, they found that it had become a "melon field." Outside the originally empty camp gate, there were densely packed with countless round things, accompanied by a rich corpse.
Stinky and bloody smell...
Those things were human heads, as if they were scenes from a horror movie. As far as Heifu could see, they were all human heads, and there were hundreds of them!
At present, the Qin army is lining up to push them away in order to reward them based on their merits. As early as the time of Shang Yang, it was stipulated: "Those who are killed in battle will be punished for three days, and the general will be rewarded for his lack of suspicion."
This means that after the battle, the captured enemy heads should be displayed to the public for three days and allowed to be verified by military officials. After three days, if the general believes that they are correct, he will reward everyone with titles according to their merit. This process is called "head inspection"
”.
Now that it has entered March, the weather is gradually getting hotter, and when the sun shines, the smell, tsk tsk... It is conceivable that this procedure, let alone modern people, even in the eyes of people from the six countries, will bring them a strong
Discomfort.
Therefore, Lu Zhonglian, a Qi scholar who had seen a similar scene, said firmly to the people he knew after returning home: "That Qin country abandoned etiquette and righteousness and went to the first meritorious country!"
In fact, this is correct.
Even Heifu and the others had to hold their noses and approach. However, in such a harsh environment, there was still a group of people in it, giving advice and arguing in the middle of this "melon field". A military law official was sitting on the straw mat
, frowning, recording something on the wooden slip in his hand, while the two parties involved were tied aside by the soldiers and accepted strict cross-examination by several petty officials!
One of them is Hei Fu’s subordinate, Yan County Gong Ao!
"Principal!"
Heifu hurriedly walked over. He was not in a hurry to ask Gong Ao what he had committed. Instead, according to the procedure, he first raised his hands to the military law official and said: "Under the command of the five hundred masters (yi), Heifu, the commander of Xintun, and
The people of Xintun have beheaded four people in the city, please ask the legal officials to inspect the heads!"
The military magistrate was a middle-aged man with a Chinese character. He was forty years old. Judging from his attire, he should be a "Bu Gen". Hearing that Xin Tun had made another gain, he asked several of his food-fighting officials to go over and carry Li Xian away.
The senior leader took the head for inspection and ordered: "Check carefully to see if there are any heads of scholars or women mixed in."
While talking, he also sneered: "Just now, a villager came to offer his head and reported that the thief was killed at seventeen levels, but the head of a woman and child actually had five levels. According to military law, there is no reward for such people who kill good people and take merit.
Severe punishment! The commander of the camp is at least guilty of dishonesty! He will be deprived of his title and exiled to guard the border!"
When Heifu heard this, he glanced at Li Xian next to him, which made Li Xian feel a little uneasy, but he was thinking in his heart: "My intention at that time was to kill the gray-haired old man. There is no rule that the old man cannot do light things."
The knight went to the city to resist. When the law officials pressed him, it was enough for everyone to keep speaking the same tone. The commander of the village was still too upright..."
The level 4 beheadings of Heifu and the others were all real gains, so there was no problem. They were quickly put together with the level 12 beheadings from the previous siege in the west of the city. This "melon field" seemed messy, but in fact they were all in the order of the villages.
placed in order.
At this time, Heifu pointed to Gong Ao, who was being interrogated by a junior official ten steps away, and said: "Principal, this man is the head of Xintun. I wonder what he has committed and why he is bound here?"
"It turns out they are your subordinates." The military judge shook his head and told Hei Fu what happened.
It turned out that a moment ago, there was a village escorting Gong and Ao to the military magistrate, along with a head covered in dust. The commander of that village said that when he was ordered to go to the north of the city to search for the remnants of the enemy,
He found two soldiers fighting over their heads, so he captured them and brought them back.
"I'm not fighting for the top spot!"
Gong Ao, whose face was pressed to the ground, shouted with difficulty: "I am indeed the one who cut off this head!"
Another person who was confronting him, the thin Qin soldier, also hurriedly shouted: "The official is clear! I clearly cut off this head. I was about to hang the head on my waist. At this time, this person came over
But he didn't get any results himself. When he saw the head, he became jealous immediately. Seeing that I was thin, he had evil thoughts and drew his sword to fight for it. We started fighting like this!"
The two of them had different opinions, and the military judge was a little confused for a while.
He was used to things like fighting for the head, which happened in every battle. Sometimes there would be more than ten cases, and the Qin army would even kill each other, and cut off the heads of stragglers to offer sacrifices.
Because unlike the armies of other countries, the people of Qin are eager to go to these dead heads that are bloody and smelly and are avoided by ordinary people, and they even do not hesitate to fight. Because in the eyes of the people of Qin, human heads are no longer human heads, but can be
"Hard currency" used to exchange titles!
At this time, the military law officials will be like jailers in counties and counties, calling in witnesses and questioning them one by one.
But whether it was Bu Cheng who was acting together with Gong Ao, or Pao Ze who was vying for the top Qin soldier "Man", when they arrived, they only saw the two fighting each other with swords, but they did not see the cause of the incident.
The military law is strict, so of course Bu Cheng would not dare to lie, and the same goes for "Man" Pao Ze. So after asking around, the military law officials found nothing and could only continue to make judgments based on the confessions of the two people and the characteristics of the head.
At this time, a doctor who was responsible for treating the sick and wounded and helping to examine the head came over holding a certificate regarding the controversial head. The military judge took it and took a look, and saw that it read: "Examination of the head.
Xiaofa, there is a wound on the left corner of his forehead, five inches long, deep to the bone, similar to a sword mark, and the broken part of his neck is short and uneven..."
The Military Magistrate Li Ji asked people to examine the weapons of Gong Ao and Man, and found that they were all swords and stained with blood. For a while, it was impossible to determine who killed this man and cut off his head.
Heifu and the others were listening to the whole process. After Bu Cheng finished testifying, he whispered in his ear: "The commander of the village, when Gong Ao was incorporated into our village at the foot of Daliang City, he once said that he must perform more meritorious services to gain the title of nobility.
Not lower than the chief of the village, will he..."
Bu Chengzai was suspicious of Gong Ao. He had never had a good impression of this descendant of a declining clan who always had a proud face.
But Heifu shook his head and said softly: "Although I don't like Gong Ao, but with his temperament, he shouldn't do anything to fight for the top spot."
Yes, Gong Ao had the bad habits of a descendant of a declining aristocracy. He was not polite to others and was full of arrogance. But it was precisely this arrogance that made him disdain to compete for a head.
In fact, when attacking the city, Gong Ao was the second one to jump onto the city after Dongmen Leopard. With the cooperation of Dongmen Leopard, he also killed a light knight with his own hands. However, Heifu planned to kill him internally.
When the head was taken, Gong Ao proudly gave up the head to the injured Dongmen Leopard who was carried away.
Although he didn't say it, the meaning was obvious. He admired Dongmen Bao's bravery, and planned to give up the beheading that should belong to him, just to get three heads for Dongmen Bao, so that he could directly get it from the public.
To make a promotion hairpin, you already need two heads.
"I will not compete with a dying man for the first place." At that time, Gong Ao said these words with a proud face.
This reminded Heifu of a story.
There is a noble bird in the south, named Yuānhu. It prides itself on being noble. It will not stop unless it is a parasol tree, it will not eat anything but bamboo, and it will not drink unless it is a sweet spring. At this time, a carrion-eating bird named hi came to the rescue.
When the rotting rat happened to be passing by, the owl raised its head and shouted, fearing that the bird would compete with it...
Although Gong Ao certainly cannot be compared with the real "铓鵵", his arrogance is comparable to that of Quan鵵.
Just as Gong Ao said to himself with a blushing face: "If I had not cut off the head by my own skills, I would not care about making meritorious deeds based on it. How could I compete with others for this thing?"
Seeing that Gong Ao's bad mouth was starting to offend people, and even made the military judge a little unhappy, Heifu quickly stood up, cupped his hands and said: "Military judge, these two people hold different opinions, and it is impossible to tell from the heads and weapons who they are.
I have an idea about who should be beheaded..."
"you?"
A young food official next to the military judge looked at Hei Fu with some suspicion, thinking that he was trying to win for his subordinates, so he said: "Captain, let us leave this matter to our judges.
What are you messing with? Do you know how to solve cases?"
"Of course I understand." Doushi was rude, but Heifu didn't get angry but smiled instead.
Just kidding! Peeling away the cocoons, looking for evidence, and finding out the truth. This is what Hei Fu did when he was the Tengu of Great Qin!
Hei Fu was not angry. He ignored the food-fighting official and bowed directly to the military law officer: "I'm not talented. Before joining the army, I was the chief of a pavilion in Anlu County, Nan County. I cracked three cases that shocked the whole county.
It’s a big case. Thanks to the county jailer and Ling Shi’s advice, I still know a little bit about Ling Shi’s art and the method of solving cases! Why not try my method to see who is right and who is wrong, which one is true and which one is false?
