Chapter 109: massacre
Chapter 109 Massacre
Under the Great Wall.
The sound of Youzhou Army soldiers' drills shook the world!
In the northwest of Baiyangjun Town, a new side city was opened. Because it was a small gate opened by Qin Lang on the Great Wall, the gate was as small as a mouth, and it was opened by Qin Lang. Therefore, although the official name was Longguan, the soldiers called it Longguan. For Qinkou, Qinjiakou.
After choosing this place to open the Great Wall to build a city, Qin Lang moved the army and horses, and at the same time blocked all the nearby openings leading to the outside of the pass.
At this time, an earthen city was built along Qinkou, and there were Youzhou sergeants, patrols, and anti-smuggling teams stationed inside. Outside is the market surrounded by wooden fences, and inside are warehouses, shops, stalls, etc. under construction in rows, as well as inns, restaurants, bathhouses, etc.
Niu Jinda was ordered to sit in Beiyan Prefecture and personally guard Longguan here. He will show no mercy to those who dare to continue to smuggle across the border.
At this time, both sides of the road are covered with cages, which are full of smugglers who dare to ignore Qin Lang's notice and continue to take risks. At this time, the summer is scorching, and these guys who are caught are all put into the cages. This kind of cages The front is tall and the back is short, and the height is not enough. People can't stand up straight when they enter, and they can only bend their legs to barely support it. However, the prisoner's neck needs to be shackled at the mouth of the cage. This kind of standing cage with the neck stuck on the top and unable to stand upright at the bottom is absolutely extremely Terrible.
Right now it's scorching sun again, the shackles are on the side of the road under the scorching sun, and there is no water to drink. These people begged their grandpa to tell their grandma, and the sound of crying was endless, but none of the soldiers from Youzhou dared to approach them, let alone accept them. Bribes put bricks under their feet or give them water to drink.
Niu Jinda runs the army strictly and enforces the law.
The cages on the side of the road were full of captured smugglers, and before the door was closed, there were still rows of wooden pillars, and there were rows of Youzhou soldiers hanging there, all because of accepting smugglers. Those who follow private interests with money and goods will all be punished with whips after being found out, and they will be exposed to the sun here after being whipped.
Longguanbian City has no merchants coming to enter the market yet, but there are many inbound smugglers caught every day, and the number of cages is increasing every day. Some unlucky guys have even died because they couldn't survive the punishment.
"I beg any kind military master, give me some saliva!"
"I am from the Taiyuan Wang family..."
Some people are begging for mercy, while others are still stubborn.
Under the heat waves, a group of knights appeared in the distance.
The leading knight is wearing fine scale armor, holding a gold-plated phoenix wing in his hand, iron bones hanging on the saddle, an extended ring-headed horizontal knife on his back, and a crossbow hanging on his waist.
This man is tall and burly, with a short beard and short beard, and with a fair face, he has the blood of the Xianbei Hu people at first glance.
Behind him, followed by nine knights.
This is one fire and ten rides.
"Head, how much reward do you think we can get this time?" A slender knight asked with a smile.
The burly knight looked back at the smugglers they had captured. There were fifty of them, and the camel caravan had more than a hundred camels.
This is the biggest arrest result since the compilation.
"Didn't the above rewards be issued long ago? If you catch a smuggler, you will be rewarded with a thousand dollars, if you catch a camel horse, you will be rewarded with a thousand dollars. In addition, there will be additional rewards depending on the confiscated goods. People and camels can be exchanged for about two hundred dollars." Alright, let’s post it this time.”
"Head, but the people we arrested this time are not simple. These are not ordinary smugglers, and what they smuggle is not ordinary things."
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In the military conference hall of Yacheng, Niu Jinda heard that another anti-smuggler had caught a smuggler, and when it was a big harvest, he came out in person.
"Dugu Yanyun, the low-ranking Longguan private fire chief Dugu Yanyun, pays homage to Niu Inspector."
Niu Jinda looked at the group of guys behind him who were **** with cowhide ropes, as well as the hundreds of camels and the full cargo, and couldn't help appreciating, "Good job."
Dugu Yanyun got off his horse and stepped forward, "Niu Inspector, preliminary interrogation by a humble officer, these people's identities are not simple, they are soldiers from the Tiancheng Army in Yunzhou in the west, a whole team of people is involved in smuggling, the smuggled goods are even more amazing, all are horizontal knives Bows and arrows and other military supplies."
When Niu Jinda heard this, his eyes widened suddenly.
"The frontier army smuggled, and also smuggled ordnance?"
This is not an ordinary smuggling act, it is an act of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country.
Niu Jinda immediately interrogated these frontier soldiers himself, checked their identities one by one, and at the same time checked the seized materials. The more they checked, the more frightened they became.
There are more than a hundred camels’ ordnance supplies, ranging from horizontal knives worth a few hundred dollars to armor worth thousands of dollars, in addition to bows, crossbows, feathers and arrows.
"Did these people evacuate all the warehouses of the Tiancheng Army?" Niu Jinda was furious.
The identities of the smuggling soldiers were quickly confirmed. These guys were very stubborn at first, but Niu Jinda directly ordered the torturers to wait on them. up.
Sure enough, they were soldiers from the Tiancheng Army in Yunzhou, which is adjacent to the west. All fifty soldiers were from the Tiancheng Army.
Leading the team was a sixth-rank infantry lieutenant.
Each one is a frontier soldier, and they are all soldiers of Tiancheng's military envoys.
"Audacity!"
Although Niu Jinda also knew that on the border, the soldiers guarding the border would often take advantage of the convenience to secretly engage in smuggling, but generally they were limited to reselling some civilian supplies, but the guards of the Tiancheng Army were too bold today to dare to sell ordnance .
However, Niu Jinda was a little surprised. Why did the Tiancheng Army smuggling team come here? Don't they know that the border has been sealed off here?
Tiancheng Army is stationed on the border between Yunzhou and North Yanzhou, on the banks of the Yang River and under the Great Wall, and they can also leave the customs in the north.
As a result, the team that was beaten to death said bluntly that before the smuggling out of the country, they all came along the Yanghe River, and then left the Great Wall at Longguan.
Although the Tiancheng army can go out of the fortress, but there are mountains and mountains, and the road is difficult. On the contrary, Longguan has been an ancient road out of the fortress since before the Qin Dynasty, with easy roads and convenient transportation. Coming from the Tiancheng army, it is just along the Yanghe tunnel, easy to walk, easy to transport goods, and convenient to supply along the way.
Before the border ban in Youzhou, this was a very mature business route out of the border, and it could not even be called smuggling, because the imperial court did not prohibit merchants from going out of the border, but only prohibited some heavy-duty materials from leaving the country.
So there are many warehouses, restaurants, mules and horses on both sides of the mature trade roads, which are convenient for supplies.
"Don't you know that my side has been sealed and I am not allowed to leave the country without permission?"
"I heard, but our general said don't bother."
Niu Jinda laughed.
"How dare you! What's the matter with these ordnance?"
"I'm just in charge of delivering the goods. I don't know what the specific goods are. Our captain asked me to send them outside the Great Wall. Someone will naturally come to pick up the goods when we talk about it."
Asked again, he said he didn't know.
"Show all these people to the public, and the goods will be confiscated!"
The team leader was shocked, "I am a sergeant from Hedong, you should hand me over to the governor of Daizhou!"
"Give it to the governor of Daizhou? Then let you go? Don't think about it!" Niu Jinda snorted coldly and waved his hand directly. Dugu Yanyun brought his brothers up and dragged these guys out one by one.
A military officer persuaded Niu Jinda, "General, these people belong to Lin Mo, the governor of Daizhou. It is inappropriate for us to kill them like this?"
"What time is it now? During the war of preparations for war against sudden outbreaks, these people smuggle ordnance to foreign countries. Naturally, according to military law, they can be killed directly." Doesn't Niu Jinda know that these people are under the supervision of Lin Mo, the governor of Daizhou, but if they If it is handed over to Daizhou, then these people will surely be able to escape from disposal. With such a start, Longguanbian City will not even try to stand up.
"Should I ask the governor of Qin for instructions first?"
"That's fine." Niu Jinda thought for a while, and felt that Qin Lang was the governor of Youzhou after all.
One day later.
After hearing about this, Qin Lang arrived on horseback himself.
"I didn't expect such a thing to happen in the face of the enemy? Since you are collaborating with the enemy, you should kill him directly. If there is such a thing in the future, you can deal with it directly. Don't ask me." Qin Lang came and read the testimony of the interrogation. The evidence in the warehouse, and after personally interrogating the frontier soldiers, he issued a beheading order with a gloomy face.
"Dudu, Dudu Lin sent someone here, saying he wants to see the Dudu."
Someone came to ask for an interview, and presented a letter from Lin Mo, the governor of Daizhou. Qin Lang read it, and the governor Lin said that he had heard that his frontier army returned the deal privately, and was detained in Youzhou, so he sent a letter requesting that he be handed back to him. He disposes.
In this letter, Lin Mo's tone was quite loud, and he said the matter was not worth mentioning. It seemed that those people just did some trivial things, and there was a bit of suspicion that Qin Lang was doing things on purpose.
Qin Lang threw the letter aside, and said to Niu Jinda and Wei Zheng, "I don't know this Lin Dudu very well, who among us knows?"
Wei Zhengdao, "In the previous dynasty, Lin Mo was originally the general of Hedong Yingyang Lang, who had an old relationship with the emperor, and then followed the emperor in Taiyuan to raise troops. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he was awarded the silver Qing Guanglu doctor, served as the prince's left guard, and later served as Haozhou The general manager was worshiped as the governor of Daizhou last year, controlling the five states of Dai, Wei, Xin, Shuo, and Yun."
"Oh, it turns out that he is the one who abolished the prince, so he dares to be so arrogant with me?"
Wei Zheng corrected, "To be precise, Lin Mo belongs to Emperor Wude."
"Then he has nothing to be arrogant about. Doesn't he know that he is the emperor and the courtier?" Qin Lang doesn't like this kind of old guy. You say you are Li Yuan's confidant, but don't you know Li Yuan's current situation? Even if you are acting as the governor of the state, at this juncture, shouldn't you be a man with your tail between your legs?
Actually dared to smuggle with Turks in secret, and was caught in smuggling, and dared to ask someone so straightforwardly.
"Wei Sima, please draft a bullet for me immediately. I want to impeach this Lin Mo. He was entrusted with an important task by the imperial court and served as the governor of the Daizhou. Thief, unforgivable crime!"
Wei Zheng reminded Qin Lang, "We only captured a group of Daizhou frontier soldiers, and there is no evidence to prove that these people were ordered by Lin Mo."
Qin Lang didn't take it seriously and said, "Those are enough, as for the rest, it's the job of Yushitai and Dali Temple."
"Kill all those fifty people, and then preach to the states and counties. I want everyone to know that even if the soldiers of Daizhou Governor Lin Mo dare to come to my place to smuggle across the border, I will kill them all without mercy!"
"Also, for those smugglers captured, don't just let them stand here in a cage to bask in the sun, that would be too cheap for them. After the interrogation, all of them will be thrown away to serve in the army, build villages and dig trenches, and make ordnance. There is a shortage of manpower. It cannot be wasted."
"Captain, many people have come to intercede recently and want to redeem these people."
"Redemption? Does Ben Dudu look like a bandit who kidnaps and extorts? Or is Ben Dudu just as greedy for money? Tell them, I don't care whose family I belong to, but since I break my rules and fall into my hands, there is no mercy for me." , They don't give me Qin Lang face, and I, Qin Lang, don't have to give them face either."
"If they are willing to come to the border market to trade, I welcome them with a raised hand, but if anyone dares to continue smuggling in disregard of the ban, then if they meet one, they will catch one, and if they meet two, they will catch one pair, and they will never want to go back. This time, I will Let’s go to the end, don’t investigate further, but the next time I catch a smuggler, I will not only arrest the person to receive the goods, but also pursue the owner behind me, and I will never let you go lightly.”
(end of this chapter)