Beiyang new warlord

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Under the disbelieving eyes of the whole army, Mao Jue put his finger on his chest.

"I!"

"I, Mao Jue, received a beauty from the Jiangnan gentry yesterday! I, Mao Jue, violated the military law!"

With a plop, the military judge on duty knelt down on the ground with weak legs and feet. He kowtowed desperately. Even if he was as serious as a military judge, he had to bow his head to the imperial power. What he said just now should be beheaded did not mean that he wanted to murder the regent. king?

"Kings!"

Suddenly he came back to his senses, dozens of generals were about to rush towards the stage, but before they got there, Mao Jue turned around abruptly and waved at them, stopping their footsteps, and then looked around with a stern expression To the stunned soldiers of the whole army.

"Everyone, how did my Dongjiang army stand out from the white mountains and black waters outside the customs and defeat the mighty Jiannu? How did my Liaozhen army turn the tide and defeat the rogue army that had been unresolved for more than ten years? Anyone? Even a Ming army does not have the fighting power and will to fight like you! This king has always been able to award you every penny of the military salary as promised, and not a single piece of reward silver, why?"

"It's because my Liao Town is clean and efficient, and everyone works hard for the whole Liao Town! No one is selfish and the law is abolished! But this time, the king is guilty, not only loosening the restraint on the military law, but also breaking the law with his own body!"

"Mark Guilty!"

"The end will be guilty!"

Amidst the clattering sound, the generals behind and the soldiers in front of them knelt on the ground one after another, kowtowing their heads heavily. , There are too many broken military regulations. Although Mao Jue's words are a self-confession, they are also aimed at everyone.

But what shocked them was still to come. There was no kneeling and bowing from the ministers and subordinates at the regular meeting. Mao Jue was pulled up by the military judge who was kneeling on the ground fiercely, roaring dully.

"Although the crimes of this king are serious, the world is still undecided, and this king cannot die! But this death penalty is inevitable, and the crime of living is inevitable! According to the principle of diminishing merit in military law, this king should be in the army for one hundred battles. Military judge, this king orders you Immediate execution!"

"Your Majesty! The last general dare not!"

It is estimated that this was the most frightening day in Liu Hong's life. His legs were so weak that he couldn't stand up at all. He fell to his knees again and kowtowed and kowtowed.

But Mao Jue's attitude was extremely hard, full of anger, and his saber was pointed at Liu Hong's head.

"A military judge who favors a patron for selfishness will be charged with a higher crime. This king ordered you to execute immediately, otherwise you should be executed!"

Shivering with excitement, seeing that the murderous intent in Mao Jue's pupils was not a fake, Liu Hong kowtowed and went down with great difficulty, seeing that the murderous intent in Mao Jue's pupils was not fake. The army gendarme also went up to the general's platform with weak legs.

Turning around suddenly, with his saber on the ground, Mao Jue exposed his back to the whole army.

Bang~

The first difficult round landed lightly on Mao Jue's back, so that the whole army's heart beat heavily following this move, but Mao Jue was still not satisfied, and roared loudly .

"Didn't my Daliao elite soldiers eat? This doesn't count, it's a lot of force!"

Trembling violently, they exchanged glances, and the second executioner finally gritted his teeth and rimmed the army stick.

Bang~

A stream of bloodstains evidently emerged from Mao Jue's back, which made him shiver uncontrollably, but in his mouth, he burst out laughing heartily.

"Hit hard!"

Bang~

"Hit hard!"

Every time, Mao Jue roared heavily, but then again, his inner line was to greet the eighteen generations of the two executioners' ancestors. The two big brothers are really real!

Mao Jue is not a masochist, it's not bad to say that he is a bit of a maniac, this scene is really a bitter trick that can't be helped!If he didn't pay attention for a few days, the tentacles of the salt merchants and the Jiangnan clans spread and invaded his troops so quickly. He said that he was responsible for collecting things, standing guard and patrolling the camp. He didn't know how many people had received the salt merchants. Things, as for the generals, only Zhao Cheng, who was born in a rich family in Liaodong, confiscated his things, and even Song Datou took a set of brocade robes tailored for him that could make him look taller. The whole army was wiped out.

It is true that the law does not blame the public, what should Mao Jue do, pull Kong Youde and Shen Rong out and chop them all up?Who will work for him?

But this evil wind must be stopped. Unlike Chongzhen's philosophy, Mao Jue believes that those in high positions should be blamed! If he doesn't take the responsibility, who will take the blame?As the saying goes, if I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell!

So after hesitating last night, Mao Jue was still cruel, and took the gift from Gu Hengbo, and blamed himself for it! He took the blame for everyone!

People can not escape from doing wrong?Even his regent Mao Jue will make mistakes, but mistakes are not terrible! A real man needs to have the courage to pay for his mistakes and correct his mistakes! Today, the stick that hit Mao Jue on the back also hit everyone In my heart, I believe that after this execution, the bureaucratic army under the entire Liaodong system will be shaken for a long time.

The regent was beaten, and whoever dares to embezzle and accept bribes deserves death!

However, one hundred military sticks is really not something that ordinary people can carry. After more than 40 blows, Mao Jue's forehead and clothes were completely wet with sweat, and his voice even became hoarse. Sure enough, pretending to be aggressive has never been so easy Fortunately, the animals still had a little conscience. Just when Mao Jue couldn't stand it anymore, Kong Youde cried loudly and stepped on the bed, blocking Mao Jue's back, yelling in shame.

"The last general is guilty, the last general is greedy and selfish, accepting bribes, Regent, you behead the last general! Stop carrying it!"

"It's the last general's fault!"

"The end will be guilty!"

At the end of the shouting, dozens of people blocked Mao Jue, as if it had been wrapped into a huge human ball, and the executioner's stick outside could only hit the outermost general, covered in blood, Mao Jue was still there Pretentiously roaring: "You all get out of the way, this is my fault, I will bear it!"

Then, amidst the yelling, he was forcibly carried back by a group of subordinates. The only one left outside was Liu Chong who took a step forward. He dragged his armor heavily and pointed at his back to face the execution. The hands yelled loudly.

"Liu is a soldier of the regent prince. He has been promoted by the regent these years and has a wealth of wealth. However, he did such a shameless thing and made the master suffer. Liu will never be redeemed! Brothers, this hundred army sticks Let Liu have the audacity to accept it for the Regent! And Liu swears to this today, if he commits the crime again, Liu will cut off his own head!"

"beat!"

In Liu Chong's furious roar, the army stick fell down again fiercely.

Back then, Cao Cao's cutting off his hair and acting as the leader really made the whole army more disciplined. Now that Mao Jue has become so ruthless that he fights himself, it has indeed tightened the strings of the Liaozhen army that had already fallen into slack. Shangdu was severely interrogated, and those small favors were no longer effective. The Liao Town infantry who had been smiling at Yinzi suddenly made a 180-degree turn. A few slaps in the face, and some were even arrested. All of a sudden, the three tricks of the salt merchants were not working well.

Not a single officer said goodbye to insignificant foreigners this time.

The whole of Yangzhou was instantly terrified by this strange scene in Liao Town.

But they were nervous, and it was not wrong for them to be nervous. Mao Jue, who was wrapped like a mummy in his backpack, had just finished healing, and had already reappeared in the tent of the Chinese army. Also in the army, there were also most of the main generals of Liao Town. Officers, all of them had wolf-like ferocity in their eyes.

Mao Jue didn't dare to procrastinate anymore. There is a famous saying in later generations on the Internet, never quarrel with idiots, because arguing with them will lower your IQ, and then he will beat you in the field of idiots he is best at. He and the salt merchants have been prosperous for 300 years, and they are also the best at corrupting people to look like them, falling together, dreaming and dying together, and then running farther and farther on the road of no return together.

Just like a pot of ink, before freezing himself into a block of ice, Dong Jiang was not ready to be thrown into this big dye vat, so Mao Jue decided that the war must be ended quickly.

The corners of his mouth twitched because of the pain, Mao Jue's words were full of murderous intent, and he ordered viciously.

"Give the afternoon to Shi Kefa! Tomorrow the army will attack the city!"

Chapter 623. The city of Yangzhou is broken

The Battle of Yangzhou, which had been delayed for several days, finally rekindled the flames of war. In the early morning of this day, the routine morning exercises were replaced by the sound of roaring horns. Amidst the sound of dense and orderly steps, all of them wore dark cotton jackets , The infantry phalanx, which was so heavy that it was unstoppable, came out of the camp like iron blocks, and gathered at the north gate of Yangzhou City, under the moss-covered stone gate.

It's just that compared to half a month ago, the morale of Yangzhou has plummeted now!At that time, the Yangzhou gentry still had a little resistance to Mao Jue, who was born as a warlord in the north. After all, no one knew what he would do to the big families in the city after he broke the city. Famous, everyone is afraid of being looted by rebels.

But they lived in peace for more than ten days, and even Mao Jue peacefully allowed them to open the river and sell salt.Mao Jue's ruling style was gradually accepted by the gentry. At this time, Mao Jue suddenly went to war. The first impression of these big salt merchants was not how to defend the city, but who did not serve well and offended the regent?

Under such circumstances, one can imagine the morale of the Yangzhou defenders supported by the salt merchants.

Their faces were full of panic. These defenders in uniforms, bows and swords hid under the battlements tremblingly from the very beginning, not even daring to show their heads. The only one in the whole city gate who dared to stand up straight Standing, it seems that only Shi Kefa, the governor of Yangzhou and the scholar of Dongge University, is left.

But even beside him, there was a large group of bent over and trembling salt merchants.

"Scholar, surrender! The regent is the enlightened emperor sent by the emperor, resisting the heavenly army is a heinous crime!"