When Lu Fenghou and Chen Qianshan came back, they walked arm in arm. Talking and laughing while walking, it seems that two people have changed. The two of them were not on the right track at first, and their words were just arguing, but now they looked like a pair of old friends who had known each other for many years.
It's just that no matter how you look at it, these two people are too hideous.
The armor and clothes on the two of them had long been soaked in blood, and blood flowed down the clothes when they walked. Wherever he walked, he left a string of bloody footprints.
Behind the two were the soldiers they brought, at least one of them was holding six heads.
It's hard to imagine the scene where one hundred people chased two thousand people running around on the top of the mountain.
Fang Jie's soldiers completely frightened Liu Manzi's bandits. They had never seen a team that could kill people faster than chop vegetables. These pro-soldiers have personally trained for several months, and what they are best at is this special operation of small unit raids. According to the statistics of the teams led by the two, a total of more than 780 heads were beheaded.
On average, one person killed more than seven people.
There is only one way up the mountain, and naturally there is only one way down the mountain. After Chen Qianshan and Lu Fenghou led their men up, the bandits had no way out. In fact, it is true that these bandits dare to kill, but not many of them can kill. There is a big difference between stabbing with a knife and killing with a knife. Among them, there are not even one tenth of the truly bloodthirsty bandits.
The corner of the mountain road is their natural fortress, and they just rely on the terrain to prevent the rebels from going up the mountain. But this time they were facing a group of fighting machines. Fang Jie's personal soldiers were originally selected elites, and Fang Jie personally trained them. These days, they have matured rapidly. For killing, they have no preference or dislike. They regard killing as a part of life, whether they are afraid or not.
In their view, killing is as simple as eating and drinking.
In the end, the rebels who dared to resist were killed by the team of one hundred people. The others, who had the courage to hold weapons, all knelt down and begged for mercy. Compared with the killing machines, the common people with murder weapons are still too big. Chen Qianshan and Lu Fenghou each led fifty people, and the two frontal arrows were unstoppable.
They were not stopped at the corner of the mountain road, let alone after going up.
In fact, it is said that Fang Xie's 100 people did beat down the cliff where 10,000 rebels failed to take down. It is not that Fang Xie's soldiers are a hundred times stronger than the rebel soldiers. It's about training and personal martial arts, plus the cooperation between teams. The rebels were also people who had been taken captive, and their hearts were already trembling after they died. Moreover, they will only rush forward in one go, which is no match for the seamless cooperation between the Jieqian soldiers above.
"General, I lost!"
Lu Fenghou came over and said, but the dissatisfaction was gone in his tone.
Chen Qianshan cut off Liu Laizi's head with his own hands, and killed four more people than him. Lu Fenghou is a magnanimous man, and he will not continue to be hypocritical.
"Search around and see how many usable things these bandits have."
Fang Jie gave an order.
Chen Qianshan threw Liu Laizi's head to the ground, smiled and said: "I thought the man who was destined to be so powerful, but it turned out that he was just a ruthless guy with ordinary martial arts, just a villain. Others After the death of Liu Laizi, no one dared to resist the bandits, and there were about 1,600 or 700 people kneeling there."
Fang Jie hummed, looked back at Sun Kaidao and asked, "Master Sun, what do you think of my rebels who are better than Yin Poshan?"
Sun Kaidao looked at Liu Laizi's head, and swallowed hard: "The difference between cloud and mud... Xiaguan... Xiaguan has opened his eyes and gained insight today."
"Then let me ask you."
Fang Jie said as he walked, "How to deal with the more than 1,000 captives?"
Sun Kaidao was silent for a while and said: "In moral terms, if the general does not intend to keep these captives, they can be released. But these people have already drank human blood, so it is difficult to change from beasts back to ordinary people. The general mercifully released them. They, one day or two days, they are honest. After one month or two months, they will become gangsters. They work hard to farm and have no food and clothing for a year, but how can they be thieves? One robbery is enough to eat and wear for a period of time. It’s much simpler and easier to grab after eating than farming.”
Fang Jie looked at him: "You can see clearly."
Sun Kaidao nodded: "Xiaguan has read a lot in the past two years, so he has a thorough understanding. If a person does not do bad things all his life and does not know what it is like to do bad things, he will not change anything. But as long as he does it once Bad things and go unpunished, it becomes an addiction and it gets worse."
Fang Jie asked, "You mean, kill all these people?"
"Although it's not once and for all, at least it can keep you safe for a while."
Sun Kaidao clasped his fists and said: "The general is not a benevolent woman. You should know that the subordinate is right. These people are no longer the people of the Sui Dynasty. Even if the general lets them go, after the general's troops drive away, they will immediately go to the hospital. Then they will gather again to cause disaster. Wang Baichuan, the magistrate of Quxian County next to Wanxian County, is a benevolent man. Although he had to surrender the rebels, he still fulfilled his duties. Love."
"But this man has a kind heart. If he breaks a bandit, he kills the leader and releases the rest. Sometimes, if the leader of the bandit begs to admit his mistake, he will also let him go. This Liu Laizi was captured by Wang Baichuan back then. However, Liu Laizi knelt down and begged for mercy and wept bitterly. Wang Baichuan wanted him to repent and let him and the gangsters go away, making him promise not to make trouble again. Dozens of people broke into Wang Baichuan's house and killed all twenty members of the Wang family."
Chen Qianshan and Lu Fenghou's expressions changed at the same time, and Lu Fenghou said angrily: "This kind of beast and scum, killing it ten thousand times will not be wronged!"
Zhuo Buyi let out a long sigh, originally wanted to persuade Fang Jie not to kill too many people but couldn't find any reason. The Northwest is so chaotic, it has become so chaotic that no morality and kindness can survive. This place is full of evil and ugliness, and people's hearts have turned into demon hearts and beast hearts in just two years.
"Can you accept the teaching?"
After all, Mu Xiaoyao was a woman, so she couldn't bear to see so many people killed.
"Can't bring it."
Chen Xiaoru said: "We can't carry burdens now."
Mu Xiaoyao was stunned and had nothing to say. He knew that what Chen Xiaoru said was right, it was impossible for the team to bring a group of mobs through the territory of the rebels, it was possible that the team of 5,000 people would be dragged to death by these people.
Everyone looked at Fang Jie, waiting for his decision.
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This will never be the first time that Fang Xie has faced this kind of situation. How to open this head will determine the way to go in the future. Fang Xie knows this very well. If they are not killed, most of these people are not locals, and it is impractical to let them go home. But once they are released, the front feet of the team will regroup when they move forward, because if they don't plunder or kill them, they will have no way to survive.
Liu Laizi is dead, but soon a sinister character will emerge among these people to replace Liu Laizi and lead these thousand people to continue the chaos.
If they were all killed, it would be difficult for Fang Jie to pass the barrier in his heart. After all, it was more than a thousand lives, and they were all the people of the Sui Dynasty.
Fang Jie looked at the black and kneeling captives in the open space in front of him, with a serious expression on his face. His subordinates are all waiting for him to make a decision, there are those who support killing and those who support not killing. Although Shen Qingfan and Wanyan Yunshu didn't speak, they must have the same thoughts as Mu Xiaoyao. Although Shen Qingfan has a cold temper and doesn't care about killing people, after all, this is 1,600 to 700 lives.
Among his subordinates, although Chen Qianshan was angry, he did not advocate killing them all. Zhuo Buyi is not a hard-hearted man, so naturally he would not see such a thing as killing prisoners.
Others, mostly in favor of killing.
Those who advocated not to kill them reasoned that although these bandits did many evils, it was the troubled times and the rebels, not themselves, who drove them to this point. They were also the people of the Sui Dynasty. If Li Yuanshan hadn't rebelled, they would not have picked up hoes to kill their former folks.
Those who advocate killing have only one reason.
Regardless of whether they were ordinary people or villains in the past, they deserve to die. Because they were a disaster, I don’t know how many people were killed by them, their wives and daughters were raped, and the old and weak were slaughtered. Liu Laizi likes to skin people, often after destroying a village, he will gather the villagers together and choose beautiful women for his own enjoyment. Skinned alive.
The reason is that no matter how good you were before, you should be punished if you do evil.
Fang Jie walked slowly in front of a bandit who looked about thirty years old. The bandit lowered his head and dared not lift it up. Fang Jie stood in front of him and stared at him, as if he wanted to see his soul through his body. But this is impossible, Fang Jie is not a god, so he cannot do this.
"Have you ever killed someone?"
Fang Jie asked him.
The man quickly shook his head: "No, no! The grassroots came here under coercion, and they have never done evil things. The grassroots just... just became thieves because they were greedy for life and fear of death, but they have never done anything harmful!"
Fang Jie hummed, then suddenly reached out and grabbed the clothes on the back of the man and tore them violently.
There were several deep scars on the man's back. It can be seen that it is a scratch from a fingernail. Because it is too deep, it will not disappear from his back in this life.
The man looked at Fang Jie in horror and bewilderment, as if he had forgotten the deep scratches on his back.
Yes, he forgot.
Fang Jie didn't speak any more, and continued to walk forward. He saw a boy who looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, kneeling on the ground, still shaking.
"Are you afraid of death?"
Fang Jie asked him.
The young man raised his head and looked at Fang Jie fearfully: "I'm afraid... General, please spare Cao Min's life, Cao Min vowed never to do evil again, after Cao Min returns home, he will farm honestly, and will never come out with others to do evil again! Cao Min knew it was wrong... General, please forgive me..."
"Are you begging for mercy?"
Fang asked.
"Caomin... Caomin doesn't want to die, the general will spare me."
Fang Jie shook his head: "When you killed people, did the people you killed beg for mercy? Did you ever let them go because they begged for mercy?"
The boy's expression froze, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes. He opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
Fang Jie didn't ask any more questions, nor did he go any further.
He glanced at the thugs kneeling on the ground, and his face gradually calmed down. He never thought before that he would face such a choice. When he was in Fan Gu, he didn't want to kill people. Even in the face of those horse thieves who were murderous and evil, he just shot arrows and wounded instead of killing people with his own hands. Later, after he left Fan Gu, more and more lives were accumulated in his hands, but those people were all killed by him because they wanted to kill him.
Now, he faced another group of people.
It is also a group of people that must be faced when leading the army in the future.
They are not prisoners in the ordinary sense, but a group of rioters. When the two armies are at war, no one is willing to kill prisoners easily. But the situation is different now, so Fang Xie has to make his own decision.
In the future, he may continue to face this choice.
Before leading the army, he would not have thought of these things.
"General."
Big Dog glanced at Fang Jie and said seriously: "You may not have thought that you would face such a choice before, but when I was the prince, the Taifu once asked me how to choose in such a situation. My original answer was Don’t kill me. The Taifu said I was a benevolent person, and he smiled happily.”
Fang Jie didn't wait for Da Quan to finish, and waved his hand: "Kill."
The big dog opened his mouth and didn't continue talking. He recalled that Taifu really laughed happily when he heard his answer, saying that he is a benevolent person. But the disappointment in Tai Tu's eyes is so intense...
kill!
One word, floating in the valley.