Daming kill

Chapter 159 What's Wrong

After coming out of the temporary medical center, Li Ping was in a bad mood.

He realized that the smooth development and relatively smooth combat experience of his troops after the reorganization masked too many training and personnel problems.

There are still too many shortcomings in his consideration of many issues at the beginning.

For example, his command organization is more like his megaphone than a first-level command organization, his troops still seriously lack relevant training in attacking solid defense facilities, and related service departments such as the medical team do not have the ability to deal with a large number of wounded, etc.

Most importantly, many key positions have not been filled with suitable people.

It all started to explode with an uphill battle.

Li Ping's heart was disturbed and irritable.

Suddenly, he wanted to see what kind of people this group of bandits were. He wanted to know why this group of bandits resisted so tenaciously.

A brave army is not uncommon, but a group of bandits who are mostly not afraid of death is not common, even very rare.

Li Ping needs to get to know this group of enemies well, he wants to know why.

But as soon as he got close to another compound where prisoners were temporarily detained and interrogated, Li Ping was first attracted by the chaos not far from the door.

About a dozen poorly dressed men were insulting or even beating around the twenty or thirty decently dressed women kneeling on the ground, while the soldiers guarding the yard did not interfere, and seemed to be watching the fun.

To Li Ping's astonishment, Yang Ming, the newly recruited officer of the teaching office, emerged from the chaos and trotted all the way to meet him.

After being obviously stunned, the group of men in simple clothes stopped paying attention to the woman kneeling on the ground, and followed Yang Ming and stumbled towards Li Ping.

This group of poorly dressed men seemed to have suffered a lot.

But who are those kneeling women?If they were the family members of the bandits, shouldn't they all be imprisoned!
After paying a nondescript military salute, Yang Ming stammered and reported to Li Ping that these people were all good citizens captured by bandits and had just completed the screening.

"Why did you screen so many people so quickly? This..." Li Ping had just begun to ask questions, but had to stop.

An old man in a rough kudzu cloth sneaked up to Yang Ming without hesitation, and said tremblingly while bowing to Li Ping: "General Li, this old man is very polite, you are my great benefactor! Please pay respects to me!" .”

Li Ping had no choice but to bow his hands in return and replied: "You are welcome, old man!"

"Benefactor, please be respected by Xiaosheng."

"General Li, please accept my worship too."

Those men who were in a bad state who came over later also began to salute Li Ping messily, and some of them knelt down with a plop.

Li Ping had no choice but to continue to bow and return the salute.

"Today I saw Master Wang descending from the sky. I was filled with joy and sorrow. I didn't expect to have a way out in this life...Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...General, you are my great benefactor!"

At this time, the old man in coarse cloth and kudzu clothes burst into tears.

"Old man, killing thieves is my duty. I came late and made the old man suffer!"

Although Li Ping's heart has already hardened, he still has great sympathy for the suffering people, and he will not be stingy with words of comfort.

However, there was a trace of strangeness in his eyes.

I have taken several nests of bandits, and this is the first time that the rescued people have expressed their gratitude to them so quickly, and it is also the first time that they have taken them as their own so quickly, and it is also the first time that they have not had much fear of Li Ping. Heart.

In the past, those people who were rescued often had to remain numb for some time, and they often had to continue to carefully observe them, the officers and soldiers, for some time. Build trust in them.

But this time, this group of people adjusted too quickly!

Moreover, their words seem to be a bit elegant!And most people just bow to him instead of kneeling, which is a bit weird.

The difference is really a bit big.

The old man in rough kudzu clothes didn't notice the suspicious eyes of Li Ping whose face was covered with blood. He probably just felt respect and politeness.

He suddenly grabbed Li Ping's hand and cried, "General, please be the master for us. We are in such a miserable state...have pity on my son!"

Li Ping was very surprised by the old man's actions, and his body froze for a moment.

Yang Ming on the side was also taken aback. He had been paying attention to observing the big boss, and he even caught Li Ping's obvious unnaturalness.

After a moment's hesitation, Yang Ming interrupted loudly, "Mr. Huo, our guerrilla family has always distinguished good from evil. If we save you, we will naturally make decisions for you. The thieves will be severely punished! You are so sorry for losing your beloved son!" Vengeance must also be avenged."

"Mr. Huo?"

A question mark flashed in Li Ping's heart.

Glancing at the nervous Yang Ming, Li Ping took the old man's hand and continued politely: "Don't worry, old man, I won't spare these thieves."

Li Ping can understand the pain of these people. Every family taken captive to a den of thieves must have a history of blood and tears that cannot be told, especially this old man is a wealthy family.

But the old man did not let go of Li Ping's hand, but continued to cry: "General, it's not that the old are relying on the old to sell the old. In fact, these thieves are all heinous people. If they don't light their sky lanterns or peel their skins, that's all wrong." Spare them lightly. General please avenge this old man!"

"Yes, you must not be soft."

"Light up their sky lanterns, soak their pig cages."

"Skin them and pull their bones."

All kinds of vicious voices began to sound chaotically in an instant, and the men behind the old man were all excited.

These men of different ages did not surround Li Ping innumerably, but all stopped behind the old man in coarse cloth and kezuki clothes, as if they meant that the old man was the leader.

"I won't spare them lightly, and my soldiers can't die in vain." Li Ping also gritted his teeth following everyone's emotions, but did not further express his attitude.

"I want to cut the thief into pieces to relieve my hatred, please allow me, the general." A young man shouted loudly from the crowd.

"Yes!"

"Correct!"

"Give us the thief."

Li Ping's politeness and common hatred seemed to give these people more confidence and courage, and they all shouted loudly.

"Brother, the thieves will not end well, so don't worry. Don't quarrel, everyone! My general has fought a bloody battle. Up to now, his armor has not been removed, his face has not been washed, and there are still many military affairs that need to be dealt with. It's inconvenient to linger with you for too long, and I, Yang, have more to say."

Yang Ming almost shouted at the top of his voice.

The young man who led the lead just now was stunned for a moment, and finally reacted after taking a look at Li Ping's expressionless face, and hurriedly said loudly: "Brother Yukun said, I'll wait for Meng Lang! It's important to let the general go to the military affairs first. "

"Yes! Yes! General Li has to be busy with military affairs first..."

The men in simple clothes reluctantly moved out of the way, and there was more respect in their eyes.They should have realized that Li Ping is not just a guerrilla of the officers and soldiers, but also a killer.

Li Ping glanced at Yang Ming in surprise.

This kid is indeed a bit discerning, and his mouth responds quickly. He is worthy of being a scholar.

Moreover, this kid should be well aware that Li Ping is not interested in those excessively bloody punishments, and it is impossible to agree to anything, so the siege was quickly and firmly resolved.

However, why did this kid become brothers and sisters with these common people?

"Why did they insult and beat those women? Is there any deep hatred? Why didn't you stop it." After leaving the crowd, Li Ping asked Yang Ming who was still following.

He didn't forget the weird scene just now, especially when he noticed that the women had been kneeling quietly on the ground with their heads lowered for a long time.

Li Ping was a little displeased and even more puzzled.

"These women...these women are their family members. They have wives and concubines, sons-in-law, and relatives. They are considered... considered to have lost their dignity, and I... I don't want to interfere!" Yang Ming said in Li Ping's unkind words. He stammered in his voice.

"Their own family members? Lost their reputation?" Li Ping frowned.

"These women are slaves to the thieves here. General, you know, how could they still be innocent! It's like the son of Huo Yuanwai was roasted, but the daughter-in-law became the servants of a bunch of mud legs. For a bustard." Yang Ming said in an unnaturally weak voice.

"Do they think the women are willing!" Li Ping immediately retorted.

Yang Ming was obviously stunned.

After a long time, he said under Li Ping's stare: "It is said that some of these women...some always flatter the thieves to please them, just like their relatives. The rest are shameless, yes The thieves are obedient to any request, without the slightest demeanor of a strong woman. The men of each family have lost face, and they really can't swallow this breath."

"Men from various families? Are they all in good families!" Li Ping's face became even more unkind.

Yang Ming immediately realized that he had missed some key information, so he said urgently: "Most of them come from big gentry families, and their families are also very strict. It’s better for me to be a member of the fifth rank. The younger ones are more careful and don’t dare to be disrespectful.”

"Oh?"

This time it was Li Ping who was stunned, really surprised.

He also immediately understood why these people were screened so quickly.

Such a family background is almost the natural enemy of bandits.

But after a moment of silence, Li Ping just pursed his lips and said: "I see, you go!"

Then, without looking back, he walked towards the gate of the compound where the prisoners were held.

There were about 300 prisoners crowded in the compound, women, children, and the elderly and weak accounted for most of them, and there were very few strong men.But even so, almost all the captives were tied together in strings.

However, the lack of middle-aged male prisoners is not because all the male bandits bravely chose to die in battle, but because most of the soldiers who are jealous of killing can only reluctantly show mercy to women, old and weak.

So not surprisingly, Li Ping, who was called the general by the guarded soldiers, received countless angry looks, and the prisoners even had some rather violent commotions.

This group of bandits is indeed not simple.

Half an hour later, Li Ping, who was sitting in a room, wiped his face with both hands, rubbed his head and cursed casually: "What kind of joke is this!"

A thin, disheveled man who was kneeling on the ground trembled immediately, then kept slamming his blood-stained forehead to the ground and crying, "General, criminals have absolutely no lie, no lie! If there is a sentence False words, willing to suffer a thousand cuts..."

Li Ping looked at the frightened captive on the ground in a daze, and it took him a long time to realize that what he said just now made this timid man ambiguous.

He waved his hand with a wry smile, and immediately two soldiers took the crying prisoner out.

This was already the seventh prisoner Li Ping personally interrogated, and he did not call the next one.This captive, who was recruited even to peek at his sister-in-law taking a bath, had already given him enough information.

The room finally returned to silence.

Shi Lei, who was always by the side, looked at the thoughtful Li Ping. After hesitating for a while, he said in the calmest tone possible: "It is not a pity for them to die. Just these few prisoners have confessed that those killed by them Some rich and powerful households are not really evil, and some even have good reputations. As long as there is no distinction between good and evil, no amount of grievance can escape the death penalty."

Li Ping looked at Shi Lei, who had a calm face, and did not speak, but then lit a cigarette that had just been brought over, and continued to fall into deep thought.

This group of bandits was very different from the bandits they had fought before.

This is a group of bandits, mostly ordinary civilians and servants. They basically gathered here because they couldn't bear the exploitation and bullying of the government and landlords. Everyone even had a tragic past before coming here.

When they go out to plunder, they mostly only target the big and wealthy households.

It may be out of strong revenge and twisted psychology. They like to humiliate the upper class or the original master's house as their own slaves. This is the case with those people outside the courtyard just now.

This is also the reason why this group of bandits, men, women and children, went into battle together and most of them fought to the death. They knew very well that if they were torn down by the army, they would probably die.

They don't lack courage, what they lack is organization and discipline.

But what Li Ping felt melancholy was not that he defeated the armed forces of such a group of poor people. He was shocked by the dire straits of the people at the bottom not only in war zones and disaster areas, but also by the serious antagonism and hatred between the classes he saw. , in shock at this tyrannical culture that does not divide groups.

There seems to be no line between good and evil, good and bad at all.

Li Ping didn't know whether this phenomenon was only a local phenomenon or a common phenomenon in the entire Ming society. He was afraid of knowing the answer.

To make matters worse, he didn't know what to do with the captives.

Almost every one of these captives has dual identities of victim and perpetrator, and most of them are women, children, old and weak.

But these crimes involving women, children, the elderly and the weak are not much different from those of the dead backbone bandits. Almost no one has clean hands, and almost no one is coerced into committing crimes.

Then Li Ping also killed their father, son, husband, and even sisters, and the hatred of killing relatives was almost difficult to eliminate.

But disposing of them all indiscriminately is very inconsistent with Li Ping's values.

Shi Lei couldn't guess what Li Ping was thinking, although he knew that Li Ping was not lacking in ruthlessness, but as he had interrogated more prisoners, he felt it was necessary to provide more information to Li Ping.

"They did not rob the rich and give to the poor. According to the current interrogation, they did not take the initiative to help other poor people. They even killed many ordinary people who refused to cooperate with them.

Even those who temporarily kept their lives and were taken captive to be slaves often still had to die after getting tired of the humiliation.I heard that in the past two years, there must have been hundreds of people who have been kidnapped here to tease and humiliate them!But the general also saw it, but we only rescued those dozens. "

Li Ping understood what Shi Lei meant, but Shi Lei didn't understand and couldn't understand his worry.

He could only say lightly to Shi Lei: "I see. Go and do your work! I want to smoke for a while..."

(End of this chapter)