Daming kill

Chapter 152 The Barbarian Age
While everyone was looking at each other, a sound of horseshoes suddenly came from far and near.

It was a vigorous knight trotting with a man on his back, accompanied by two cavalrymen.

Under everyone's surprised eyes, the strong knight threw the dead body in front of everyone.

"Find someone to identify him, this should be the enemy general." After the knight finished speaking, he also hurriedly got off his horse.

Several prisoners were immediately grabbed by Malan, and this time there was no accident.

The dead body carried by the knight was indeed an enemy general.

"What's your name? I don't seem to have seen you before?" Li Ping asked, his expression finally relaxed.

He can call the soldiers of the reconnaissance company by name, but people will always recognize them, but this knight is very strange.

"General Qi, my name is Zhang Qing."

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In the early morning, when the sun began to shine on the earth, only the victors were left to check and clean the battlefield from house to house.

Li Ping took two signal soldiers to walk through the entire villa in person, and he had simple exchanges with all company commanders, some platoon leaders, squad leaders and even individual soldiers.

He needs to understand every bit of what happened on the battlefield, and he needs to grasp the most intuitive impression.

This is not just a habit that Li Ping developed in his work.

More importantly, this is the first annihilation operation and attack operation organized in his life, which is of great significance.

He has too many things to learn and summarize.

In the end, Li Pingcai returned to a large courtyard, because he heard that Song Baolai ran over on a fast horse, unwilling to be lonely.

This kid should have left before the battle even started.

At this time, several female nurses were covering the naked female corpses in the courtyard.Tears had already washed away their light makeup, and a fresh and strong smell of vomiting even surpassed the bloody smell that had begun to fade.

This courtyard is the compound where the exterminated officers and soldiers collectively went crazy yesterday.

At this time, nearly a hundred corpses were piled up in a corner of the yard, most of them were young women, some were even only ten years old.The heads that had been impaled on wooden sticks had also been removed and placed next to their bodies, which were still largely intact.

When Li Ping entered the yard, he was blocking Song Baolai who was about to run out.

Song Baolai's face was very pale at this time, and his expression was also very frightened, with some white and yellow things remaining at the corners of his mouth.

He almost grabbed Li Ping and asked, "How did this happen? They are government troops!"

Seeing this, Li Ping hurriedly helped Song Baolai who was shaking a bit.

It seems that this guy is not lightly stimulated.

Rao has seen so much suffering and cruelty in the past six months, and heard countless unimaginable cruelties, but seeing this large-scale massacre and tyranny for the first time with his own eyes still gave Song Baolai a huge shock.

It was hard for him to believe the sight in front of him, and it made him vomit like the female nurse in the health team.In particular, he was seriously dizzy with blood, so it was lucky that he didn't faint in the yard.

"This is the end of the Ming Dynasty, an era that most people don't know much about. The entry of the Qing Dynasty and the magnificent peasant uprising made many people ignore the chaos and the collapse of the moral order in the entire society at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Even the Huangchao rebellion in the late Tang Dynasty who shed blood for three thousand miles was inferior to the massacres, brutality, and looting that occurred in the late Ming Dynasty. It is estimated that only the large-scale cannibalism during the chaos of the Five Dynasties can compete with it.

The folk customs of this era are treacherous, vicious, cunning, hypocritical, vicious, and omnipresent. Massacre and tyranny are the themes of this era.Do you believe?As long as I dare to nod and acquiesce, even our current subordinates will be able to do things as cruel as these scumbags, and maybe even worse. "

Li Ping's tone was deep and serious.

It is impossible for modern people in the peaceful environment of later generations not to have been greatly touched by the tragedy here. Even Li Ping, who had read some history and was mentally prepared, was shocked by such a massacre. After all, this was his first time. Witnessing a brutal scene of this scale once.

He is not only sighing, but also reminding himself.

However, Li Ping's words obviously frightened Song Baolai, his eyes became wider and wider, and the female nurses all stopped and looked at Li Ping stupidly and with fear on their faces.

Those female nurses may not understand what Li Ping said earlier, or even doubt what Li Ping said earlier, but they will never fail to understand what Li Ping said later.

"Don't be alarmist, it's too intrusive." Song Baolai murmured while holding Li Ping tightly without confidence.

Li Ping became more serious, and said: "This is not alarmist talk. Look at the eyes of our soldiers. Envy, greed, and longing far outweigh sympathy and intolerance. Without strict discipline, they would have been in chaos. Don't be too careless. Not to mention the morality of our era to measure the bottom line of thinking and behavior of people in this era.”

While talking, there was a voice of someone asking at the gate of the courtyard.

There should be soldiers waiting outside the gate, and the signal soldiers know what's going on in the courtyard?
I only heard a messenger casually say: "The general is inside, there are a lot of naked female corpses in the yard."

The inquiring voice immediately let out a strange "Oh?"

Song Baolai subconsciously looked at the gate of the courtyard, just in time to see a young soldier poking his head inside, his curious gaze made several female nurses who were also looking at the gate shiver violently.

"Go, go, you dare to be curious about anything. The general is really inside!" The young signal soldier almost cursed with a smile and pushed the young soldier out.

The few female soldiers in the courtyard were completely stunned, and the scene became very quiet. The expressions of panic and panic began to change on their faces.

Li Ping and Song Baolai looked at each other and didn't say anything, they both needed to be quiet.

After a while, Ma Yong's voice came from the gate of the courtyard again. He was asking if Li Ping was inside?

After getting an affirmative answer, Ma Yong, Duan Qiang and Hu Zhongshan came in together.

After only one glance at the dead body that had been arranged neatly and covered the body above the ground, Ma Yong met Li Ping's gaze, and then reported to Li Ping.

He's been here before.

According to preliminary statistics, a total of 281 enemy soldiers were killed in this battle, 142 were captured, 12 riding horses, 20 rough horses, 31 mules, 10 donkeys, 21 mule carts (excluding mules and horses), grain More than 100 stones, more than 200 taels of silver, and other properties are still being counted.

Our army killed 3 people and injured 17 people, including 5 seriously injured.

In another village, the CCP counted the dead bodies of 331 civilians, including 12 infants and more than 50 children, and only 7 civilians were rescued.

There are still 198 young adults who were arrested along the way are being screened.

According to the preliminary interrogation of the captives, these dead civilians mainly came from the nearby villages and the women captured two days ago. Among the young men to be screened, there were no people from this village or nearby villages. They were more cautious. .

The enemy army originally planned to leave this morning, and they had to speed up their march to catch up with the brigade.

In order to ensure safety at night, speed up the march and get rid of burdens, they slaughtered the captured women last night after having fun, and those who were not killed were originally planned to be killed this morning.

It is said that the enemy general issued a strict order not to allow women to continue to follow, saying that there will be more in the future, and they will be arrested again.

Also, there used to be dogs in this village, but this group of officers and soldiers killed all the dogs after they entered the village. It is said that the enemy general was bitten by the dogs of the people they slaughtered before.

This is also the reason why it is rare for Zhuangzi to see dogs when he is captured.

After listening to Ma Yong's brief report, Li Ping bowed his head and thought for a while, and then decisively issued an order:

"Arrange two companies to move the corpses of all the civilians to this yard and gather them together, and then come to visit one by one, and the commanders of each company will personally introduce the brutality of the enemy to the officers and soldiers. Director Duan is in charge of this matter.

Chief of Staff Ma, you should arrange two companies to search the villa and its surroundings now to prevent any fish from slipping through the net.After the visit of each company is completed, you transfer the two companies back to the support battalion station, and the protection support battalion continues to march forward normally.

Director Hu, ask Ma Yong to transfer people for you, and gather all the necessary ones for unified escort.The seven living people left enough food and money for each of them, and they were locked in a room first, and we set them free after we left.Remember, don't let them contact our other officers and soldiers again, and don't reveal our identities. If they want to ask, they should say that they are righteous men, not officers and soldiers.

Those prisoners, Chief of Staff, you send someone to find a place to watch them dig a few big pits, and throw all the dead enemies into them to bury them.In the end, a hole was left for the officers and soldiers to slaughter the prisoners together, and then threw them in and buried them.

Tell the officers and soldiers that it is necessary to kill the prisoners, because these enemies are too cruel, and not dying is not enough to pay homage to the people who died. It is also an education for our officers and soldiers so that they know what not to do. "

"Kill all the prisoners?"

Ma Yong asked instinctively, and everyone in the courtyard looked at Li Ping in astonishment.

"Kill them all and leave no one behind. Their hearts have been blackened, and it's useless to wash them off. Keeping them will only infect others." Li Ping said firmly.

"understand!"

Ma Yong answered very simply, Duan Qiang and Hu Zhongshan also nodded their heads and answered "Yes".Song Baolai hesitated to say something, and finally just shook his head with a sigh.

Seeing that everyone has no doubts, Li Ping went on to say: "speed up, the troops have some dry food for themselves, we will not cook here, and we will leave immediately after killing the prisoners. I hope we can leave in an hour. , Eat hot food after meeting with the security camp at night.

Also, this battle will be named the Battle of Gaojiazhuang in the future, so you all have an idea in mind.Post-war summary Looking at opportunity organization on the road, I hope this summary will be more comprehensive and detailed. "

"The Battle of Gaojiazhuang? Sir, the owner of this village is Huang, am I not mistaken? Chief of Staff!" Duan Qiang asked suspiciously, looking at Ma Yong for confirmation.

"I know my surname is Huang, and I call it Gaojiazhuang to avoid trouble. I just said that with the army, and you must clearly order everyone who knows it to call it that way in the future. About this address, I don't think there are many people who can remember it after we leave. , and don’t record it in detail. We have to be careful now, we can’t let outsiders know what we did, and it’s not okay to speculate.”

Li Ping gave the answer very happily, and didn't let everyone guess his thoughts.

As soon as Li Ping finished explaining, Ma Yong and others suddenly realized.

"Sir, are the bodies of these common people also buried?" Hu Zhongshan finally asked.

"Oh! By the way, I really forgot about that. Just lay out their bodies here, so they don't need to be buried. After we leave, the government and the surrounding people will be able to identify them when they come to collect the bodies." Li Ping added without hesitation. road.

He had obviously considered this issue, but Ma Yong blushed.

After Ma Yong and the others left, Li Ping gently said to the female nurses, "Leave this place to the army! We must learn to face it, and everyone must learn to face it too."

Special Note:

Thanks to reader Sima Xiaojie for pointing out the mistakes in my book about the use of "bu".

What he said made sense, and I was speechless.It is indeed ignoring the national attributes and particularities of the "Ministry" in the Ming Dynasty, which is different from the fact that the "Ministry" can be used indiscriminately in later generations.The protagonist's premature use of "ministry" to indicate his subordinate organization should be called his heart.

For this reason, the headquarters, the political department, and the logistics department were all temporarily changed into the staff office, teaching office, and logistics office.

Regarding the word "place", I didn't think about it.I hesitated for a long time between "office" and "hall". If there is a better name, please leave a message.

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