In 1127 AD, the Northern Song Dynasty fell. Immediately, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amidst widespread anticipation, inheriting the Song imperial line and r...
Seeing that everyone was silent, Wu Jie turned around, picked up the sword he had thrown on the ground, and came behind Yao Ding without saying a word. Before the other party could react, two guards stepped forward to hold him down, and one guard pulled off the man's helmet. The general took action himself, and with just one stroke, he thrust the blade into the back of the man's neck, and then pierced it out from the front with blood.
Then, the surrounding guards ignored the soldiers' pleas for mercy and took action. They quickly and efficiently killed more than a dozen archers who had escaped from the position where Wu Jie was sitting today.
After killing all the people, Wu Jie turned around with his bloodstained sword still shining in the sunset, and continued to speak coldly to the generals and soldiers in the military camp who had already been silent:
"You are all soldiers from Shaanxi, and we are all familiar with each other... During the battle today, I asked my guards to keep an eye on you. In addition to these dozen or so archers, there are seventy or eighty more who have escaped my station, and one of them is a commander. Do you want to stand up on your own, or do you want me to pick them off one by one?"
The sun sets and no one says a word.
Seeing this, Wu Jie did not pretend and simply waved his hand. More than a hundred personal soldiers swarmed over and dragged out the deserters in batches according to the organizational sequence. Then, without any discounts, they killed them one by one in front of the military camp.
As for the commander Ma Xizhong who was dragged out last, he was not allowed to plead for mercy for a moment and was beheaded by Wu Jie himself.
Fortunately, there was a quick battle in the afternoon, and few Song soldiers were killed. Instead, there were more than a hundred corpses of Jin soldiers. However, Wu Jie simply killed more than a hundred deserters afterwards, which was almost one-tenth of the more than a thousand people in the military camp!
It can only be said that fortunately these soldiers were all Wu Jie's own soldiers, and this man was always kind and strict, and rewarded and punished appropriately. Otherwise, if it were someone else, there would have been a mutiny long ago... In fact, even so, Wu Jinqing had made preparations. In addition to his own personal guards, he also asked Wang Xi to bring hundreds of young men from his hometown De Shun Army from the city to the camp early, and set a reward before killing people.
Back to the present, after killing Ma Xizhong, Wu Jie looked around the camp and suddenly called out a name: "Wang Xi!"
Wang Xi was shocked when he heard this. His legs went weak and he immediately knelt down. He then hastily explained: "Jinglüe, I have been guarding the city today... There is no way I can retreat from in front of you to behind you!"
"I'm not going to kill you." Wu Jie threw the knife in front of him again, and then said coldly, "The Jin army has just arrived and doesn't know the geography. After sunset, you will lead 500 people to attack Huagou at night! Attack for a while, and then set fire! In this battle, no one in the army can escape!"
Wang Xiru was as if pardoned, and immediately stepped forward to pick up his own general's sword.