Final Volume Chapter 91
Final Volume Chapter 91
Yinli and Li Shu had serious disagreements over whether to severely punish the generals who disobeyed military orders. In the end, Yinli made a concession. He could not kill the generals, but there was one thing. The mastermind must We must severely punish those who do not lend money. [138 views.]
Yinli believed that it was no accident that all the generals disobeyed military orders this time. One of them must be the mastermind. He could let go of the accomplices, but the mastermind must be dealt with under military law. This was the biggest concession he could make.
He had already shown the bottom line, and Li Shu couldn't say anything more. He acquiesced to Yinli's decision, and the dispute between the two came to an end.
Then Yinli walked up to the crowd and said in a loud voice: "This time all the generals have disobeyed my commander's military orders, there must be a mastermind among them. Who among you is the mastermind? Come forward now!"
The generals looked at each other with confusion on their faces. What mastermind? What nonsense is Yinli talking about?
There is really no mastermind among them. None of the generals take Yinli seriously, and no one takes his orders to heart. This collective resistance to the order is completely spontaneous and spontaneous. No one instigated it.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Yinli looked gloomy, snorted coldly, and said decisively: "Now that the general is here to intercede for you and others, I can exempt you and others from the death penalty, but the mastermind must be sentenced to death to serve as a warning to others. Now if you take the initiative to stand up, you will be the only one who will die. If you refuse to stand up, don't blame me for being unkind. Today, you and others will be executed."
After hearing his words, the expressions of the generals all changed. This time there was indeed no mastermind, so how could they admit it?
"Yin...General Yin, we are not provoked by some people, but...but..." A Zhen general said hesitantly.
"Death is imminent, and you are still covering up the mastermind. Even if I want to spare your life, I can't help you." Yinli looked helpless, shook his head, turned around and cupped his hands to Li Shu and said: "General, mastermind The generals refused to admit it, and the generals refused to reveal who was the mastermind. The last general had no choice but to kill them all!" Before Li Shu could reply, Yinli shouted to the executioners: "Get ready!"
The executioners all grinned secretly, but they did not dare to disobey the commander's orders. They bit the bullet and slowly raised the ghost-headed swords in their hands high.
Seeing this, Li Shu broke out in sweat and scratched his head and ears anxiously, but there was nothing he could do. Looking at the ghost-headed knives that were parked in the air and flashing cold light, the generals couldn't help but secretly thought it was over. Now they all saw that Yinli was a bastard who was determined to kill them. Unexpectedly, he could not die in front of the two armies, but would die cowardly under his own sword. It was really a shame and humiliation.
Yinli looked around at everyone, raised his hand, and was about to wave his hand to order the execution, when a Zhen general yelled: "Wait a minute!"
Hearing the shout, everyone's eyes fell on the general. This man was in his thirties but not yet forty years old. He was tall and powerful. His appearance was already ferocious. His face was full of flesh and there was a diagonal scar on his face, which made him even more ferocious.
This is none other than the general of the rebels, Chen Kui. He was a bandit and one of the first group of old men to follow Li Shu. He was Li Shu's confidant and had made great contributions to the rebels.
Yinli looked at him puzzled and asked: "General Chen, what else do you have to say before you are sentenced?"
Chen Kui glared at Yinli and said through gritted teeth: "Yinli, aren't you looking for the mastermind? I am the mastermind! If you want to kill, just kill me. It has nothing to do with the other brothers!"
"Ah!" Yinli nodded and said calmly: "If General Chen had stood up earlier, everything would have been fine. Why would it cause other generals to be worried?"
As he spoke, he turned around again, raised his hands to Li Shu and said, "General, the mastermind Chen Kui has admitted his crime and should be punished according to law. Please give the order to execute it, General!"
Li Shu looked at Chen Kui helplessly, his lips trembling, and he didn't speak for a long time.
Chen Kui also looked at Li Shu, with red eyes and tears in his eyes, and said loudly: "I can no longer fight with the general in the future. I only hope that the general can restore my Dazhen, and the general can smile again." !”
Listening to his words, Li Shu's tears immediately flowed down.
Yinli frowned and reminded again: "General, please give the order and execute it!" Li Shu seemed not to hear what he said and walked towards Chen Kui. Seeing this, Yinli did not wait for his order, and turned to the executioner and shouted: "Execute!"
When he spoke, the light emanating from his eyes made the executioner tremble with fear. He dared not hesitate and chopped down the ghost-headed knife raised in the air with all his strength. The sword flashed, blood spattered, and with a click, Chen Kui's head fell.
"Chen Kui!" Li Shu saw it so clearly that he couldn't help shouting. His vision turned black and he almost fainted on the spot. He was shaking back and forth. If the guards around him hadn't helped him quickly, he might have collapsed to the ground on the spot.
It took him a while to regain his breath, and then he threw himself on Chen Kui's body regardless and cried loudly.
Li Shuzhi cried so sadly that all the generals around him also shed tears. Many generals cried and said: "General, General Chen died unjustly..." He sacrificed his own life to save everyone's life. life.
Looking at Li Shu and the generals crying together, Yin Li had no expression on his face. He waved to the guards around him and said, "The mastermind who instigated the generals to disobey the military order has been brought to justice, but the generals can be spared the death penalty, but the living crime cannot be forgiven. Each of them will be severely punished with 50 military sticks and executed immediately!"
The turmoil that Yin Li started as a new official ended with the death of Chen Kui.
It seems that this is just a trivial storm, and the only one who died was Chen Kui, who was not very powerful, but this incident had a far-reaching impact. It played a great role in killing one to warn the hundred and shaking the mountain to scare the tiger.
From then on, no one dared to ignore Yin Li, and no one in the Zhen army dared to disobey Yin Li's military orders. Yin Li sat firmly on the throne of the commander-in-chief of the three armies with an iron-blooded hand.
Through the killing of Chen Kui, Yin Li successfully won prestige, and Li Shu consolidated the hearts of the people. The two of them got what they needed and performed a half-true and half-false self-torture.
It must be pointed out that Li Shu and Yin Li had not discussed it beforehand. They had reached a tacit understanding temporarily. But Li Shu's sadness about Chen Kui's death was not fake. He felt that Chen Kui's death was meaningful.
Trust people when you employ them, and don't employ people you doubt. Since he decided to reuse Yin Li, Li Shu had the responsibility to establish his prestige in the army. It was worth sacrificing Chen Kui to achieve this. Moreover, Li Shu himself knew very well that the Zhen army had indeed reached the point where it would perish if it was not governed. He had not governed the Zhen army well before. The military discipline was loose, and the generals were not generals and the soldiers were not soldiers. It was not that he did not want to govern the army well, but that he really had no choice. Most of the generals in the army were his old brothers. They had followed him through life and death with their heads raised to get to where they are today. No matter who he blamed, he was not easy to open his mouth. Now that Yin Li was in charge of military affairs, he could also withdraw from the matter and no longer worry about the difficulties of governing the army.
Li Shu and Yin Li, the master and servant, are a perfect match. One plays the good cop and the other plays the bad cop. They made the most difficult-to-discipline Zhen Army soldiers obedient. Of course, these are all later stories.
Since Yin Li became the commander of the Zhen Army, the Zhen Army has changed a lot. They train morning and night, and the appearance of the soldiers in the army is also brand new.
While focusing on training, Yin Li also secretly dispatched troops to the western border in batches. However, the Zhen Army’s camp did not change. It was still the original scale, creating the illusion that the Zhen Army’s troops had not decreased.
Shortly after Yin Li became the commander of the rebels, the throne dispute in the Chuan Kingdom court finally came to an end. Xiao Xiang became the first female monarch in the history of Chuan Kingdom with an absolute advantage.
When Xiao Xiang ascended the throne, the main local army had been disarmed by her, and there was no threat to her. Xiao Xiang, who had no worries, began to point the spearhead at the rebels in Zhenxi.
Soon, Zhang Situ sent a letter to Chen Lihua stationed in Zhenxi, telling him that the fifth princess had successfully inherited the throne, and now it was time for them to wipe out the rebels. He asked him to gather troops immediately and give the last blow to the lingering rebels. In addition, he also mentioned that the king had sent Lu You to lead the Tenth Legion to Zhenxi to reinforce him.
Chen Lihua was very excited to learn that Xiao Xiang inherited the throne, and he was even more excited to hear that Lu You personally led the army to reinforce him, but he did not wait for Lu You's reinforcements to arrive.
It was too far from Zhaoyang to Zhendi, and the journey was more than a thousand miles. At the speed of the legion's march, it would take at least two or three months. He could not wait that long, and he was now eager to send a gift for Xiao Xiang's succession to the throne. In his opinion, no gift could be more appropriate than the gift of wiping out the rebels.
He assembled all the Sichuan troops, and formed an army of 250,000 people from the remnants of the 9th, 11th, 16th and 17th corps, and marched towards Bainan County where the rebels were located.
To make a long story short, ten days later, the Sichuan troops arrived at the border between Bainan County and Fantiao County. Looking at the simple Zhen Army camp opposite, most of the Sichuan soldiers sneered, but Chen Lihua did not dare to be careless.
The combat effectiveness of the Zhen Army cannot be judged by common sense. Even if the Zhen Army soldiers were holding wooden sticks, their combat effectiveness was still amazing. Chen Lihua ordered the entire army to rest for a day and take the opportunity to find out the situation of the Zhen Camp.
However, most of the spies sent by the Sichuan Army went there without returning. It can be seen that the defense of the Zhen Camp is still very strict, and the surrounding area is full of Zhen Army sentries.