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Chapter 21 Killing prisoners

A Later Jin soldier who rushed out of the house happened to appear behind the Ming army. The guy held a bow and arrow in his hand and tapped the arrow, and found the most ferocious Man Gui. The Later Jin soldier pulled his bow and aimed at the back of Man Gui's neck. He was about to shoot an arrow, but he felt a sharp pain in his back heart. He screamed, and all the strength in his hands disappeared. When he fell back, the bow and arrow pointed to the sky, let go of his fingers, and a heavy arrow flew into the sky, flew for a distance, and fell down, just piercing the chest of a Later Jin soldier in front of Gui.

Gao Shixin rushed out from behind and shot arrows, shooting eight arrows in one breath, each of which took away the life of an Later Jin soldier.

From the moment he entered Li Yongfang's yard, Gao Shixin has shot more than 60 arrows in a row. He only felt his arms were a little sore, but he could still draw his bow and shoot arrows again.

When I first arrived in the Ming Dynasty, I didn’t pay attention to adding more power according to the settings in the game, and only added a little power. The rest were all used for agility and archery skills. As a result, in the Battle of Sarhu, my arms were sore and swollen that I could not shoot more arrows. It was strange for this period of time. He felt that his strength had increased a lot, which was more powerful than when he first arrived in the Ming Dynasty.

Perhaps this is the improvement of the skills given by the system. Gao Shixin is now one level higher than when he first came to the Ming Dynasty. However, when he asked in his mind, the system did not appear again. He remembered what the system said last time that the system only sent him here, and he would not upgrade again and add some points.

But it seems that your skills and strength can gradually improve. Since you can improve it, that is a good thing. Maybe you can become a more powerful person than Xiang Yu in the future.

Seeing another Ming army fall with his own eyes, Gao Shi said in confidence: You can't fight like this anymore. If you continue to fight like this, your brother may not be able to lose enough! So he came up with a plan and raised Li Yongfang's head and shouted: "The evil Li Yongfang has been awarded the title! The surrendered ones are exempted from death!"

Most of the Later Jin soldiers in Huifa City were the Yuan Ming army who surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty with Li Yongfang. There was no Han army flag at that time, and most of the surrendered Ming army belonged to Baoyi, and senior officials like Li Yongfang were directly incorporated into the Eight Banners.

The Han people and Jin soldiers naturally understood Chinese. When they heard Gao Shixin shouting, they saw him holding Li Yongfang's head, and they suddenly lost their fighting spirit and kneeled down to surrender. Although the Jurchens could not understand Chinese, they saw that Li Yongfang had been killed, and the Ming army that attacked them was extremely fierce, and their morale quickly fell to a low point. As a result, they were either killed or surrendered on their knees.

More than 340 Later Jin soldiers from Niulu in Huifa City were killed, and more than 260 surrendered were left.

Gao Shixin asked Man Gui and others to tie the prisoners and then concentrate them on the open ground. After investigation, among the remaining more than 260 prisoners, including 227 Han people and only 35 Jurchens.

"Kill all these traitors!" Gao Shixin told Man Gui.

Although Man Gui didn't understand what Gao Shixin meant, these two words didn't sound nice, and he could guess what it meant. He knew that he must be referring to those Han soldiers who participated in the Later Jin army.

"Brother, it's unknown to kill prisoners! You deceived them into surrendering and killed them all. Isn't this unethical?" Man Gui was shocked.

Gao Shixin said seriously: "These guys shaved their hair and wore braids, and forgot their ancestors. After they died, will their ancestors recognize this group of descendants with rat-tail braids with money? As Han people, they made accomplices for Jiannu and cut them all!"

"Cut it!" Mangui turned his head and shouted.

Seventy-seven Ming soldiers raised their swords and walked towards the captives who were tied up.

"Give me your life! You're lucky! We were also forced to surrender to Jiannu!"

"Sir, please spare me! Sir, please spare me! It was all the thief Li Yongfang who surrendered. We were his subordinates, so we had to follow Li Yongfang who surrendered to Jiannu."

More than 200 prisoners kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Cut it! We can't take so many prisoners away!" Gao Shixin gave the order ruthlessly. The traitor he hated most in his life was traitors. If there were no traitors, even if Jiannu entered the pass, he would have to go to the Northern and Southern Dynasties at most. Dorgon would not dare to force the shaving hair and change clothes. Sooner or later, the Qing Dynasty would become the Northern Wei. Maybe before the invasion of the Western powers, there would be another Sui and Tang dynasties, which would allow China to catch the last train of the Industrial Revolution, and would not have the subsequent century of humiliation.

The Ming soldiers raised their swords and fell from their heads.

"Put all the heads into sacks and go back to ask for merit." Man Gui said. Although these people's heads are fake slaves, they have been shaving their hair for a long time. If they are taken to the Ministry of War for inspection, they will not be said to be a good move to kill good people and take credit for merit.

The evil deeds of killing good people and taking credit for merit were very common in the Ming army back then. Some Ming soldiers killed ordinary people, pretended to be the enemy's heads, and sent them to the Ministry of War to seek credit. In fact, if you meet experienced officials of the Ministry of War, you can find the problem. It's just that some officials of the Ministry of War turned a blind eye and indulged in this kind of evil deed.

More than 200 fake Jiannu were beheaded, and the remaining thirty-five Jurchen soldiers were trembling with fear.

Man Gui brought his sword and was about to cut off all these Jurchen prisoners, but Gao Shixin stopped him: "Brother, wait! Are there anyone among our brothers who knows the Jurchen language? If so, ask first. Find out. If it is a real Jiannu, it will be cut off! It is not a real Jiannu, but a Jurchen who was beaten by a wild boar skin and forced to surrender to Jiannu. We can make them surrender to us."

Gao Shixin considered that he would develop several Jin geniuses. In fact, there were many Jurchens in Mao Wenlong's army. When they killed the Jurchens, they were no worse than the Ming army. The national consciousness of that era had not yet awakened and there was not much national identity. Especially in Huifa City, there were many Jurchens who were not Jianzhou Jurchens, but other Jurchens, who were just conquered by wild boar skins.

"Yes!" Man Gui replied.

A soldier named Fan Xin stood up and said, "I understand Jurchen, let me ask questions."

"You ask them, those are from Jianzhou and those are conquered Jurchens. After asking, they were separated." Gao Shixin explained.

After Fan Xin interrogated, among the thirty-five Jurchens, only eleven Jurchens led by Niu Luezhen Shuordai were Jianzhou Jurchens, and the rest were either the original Jurchens of Huifa or the Hada Jurchens, who were all Jurchens of the Four Haixi tribes.

Gao Shixin said to Fan Xin: "You ask them if they are willing to surrender to us, and go and kill Jiannu together."

"No!" Fan Xin responded, turned around and asked the Haixi Jurchen people in Jurchen language: "Would you like to follow us to kill Jiannu and avenge your two Belles, Menggebulu and your tribe members?"

The Haixi Jurchens knelt down and shouted: "We are willing to surrender! We are willing to surrender!"

A Jurchen man shouted: "My father was killed by the Jianzhou Jurchens! How many of our tribe members died at the hands of Jiannu, we have no choice but to surrender! If we can take revenge, I will help you cut off the old slave's head first!"

After Fan Xin translated the Jurchen words to Gao Shixin, Gao Shixin said to Fan Xin: "Tell them that if you want to surrender to us, first make a letter of surrender, and let them cut down all the Scholdai and the eleven Jiannu!"

"No!" Fan Xin responded, turned his head and said to the Haixi Jurchens in Jurchens: "Okay, if you really surrender to us, then cut down all the eleven Jiannus first! We can accept your Jurchens surrender, but we will never accept Jiannu!"

The Jianzhou Jurchens of Shuerdai were also stubborn. None of them kowtowed and begged for mercy, and they were still cursing. Although Gao Shixin could not understand the Jurchen language, it could be heard from their tone that what they said was definitely not good things.

"Cut it! Only the dead Jiannu is a good Jiannu!" Gao Shixin shouted in his voice.

The Haixi Jurchens were loosened by the Ming army. They immediately picked up the knife from the ground and chopped the heads of Shuerdai and the eleven Jianzhou Jurchen prisoners. The techniques of these Haixi Jurchens were neat and swung them sharply along the sword. The sword light flashed, and Shuerdai's huge head rolled to the ground.

In a blink of an eye, all the heads of eleven Jianzhou Jurchens fell to the ground. Some Haixi Jurchens who failed to steal the heads did not forget to poke the body of Jianzhou Jurchens with a knife.
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