"Yang Zhen, you can't kill me!"

"Yang Zhen, if you kill me, you will cut off your own future!"

"If you kill me, the Qing soldiers will massacre Zhenjiang Fort to avenge me!"

…

When the conversation between Yang Zhen and Fan Wencheng ended, Li Lu happened to have arranged an execution place in an open area on the city and came to receive the execution.

Yang Zhen didn't want to talk nonsense to Fan Wencheng anymore, so he immediately waved his hand and asked Li Lu to take someone to escort Fan Wencheng to the execution ground.

Along the way, Fan Wencheng screamed at the top of his lungs until Li Lu ordered him to gag.

Of course Fan Wencheng was unwilling to do so. Ever since he joined the Jin Kingdom, his ambitions had been very lofty. He hoped to assist the Ming Lord, get involved in the world, and accomplish a great cause of governing the country and bringing peace to the world.

However, he did not expect that the big business he had dreamed of would collapse in this small Zhenjiang Fort. How could he be embarrassed?

However, regarding this matter, Yang Zhen felt extremely comfortable.

Regardless of whether it is Shang Kexi or Fan Wencheng, in the process of the Qi Qing entering the Pass and heading south, they committed countless crimes against the Han people in the Pass, and they were definitely heaps of blood debt.

Yang Zhen naturally had no psychological burden at all when he killed them. For him, the more miserable the enemy's fate, the happier he would be.

It was past noon, and the cold wind was biting on the city. In an open area of ​​the ruins of the city gate tower, the execution team selected by Li Lu had hung Fan Wencheng on an execution rack built with several logs.

The carefully selected executioners not only stripped off all of Fan Wencheng's clothes, but also wrapped him in a worn-out fishing net found from nowhere, and began to cut into his flesh with a knife, while exclamations and cheers could be heard from time to time.

The various generals who had gathered at the head of Ximen City had now been driven back to their respective defense areas by Yang Zhen, and each had gone to defend his own city wall.

Only a few generals who were ordered to garrison Xicheng still gathered around Yang Zhen, waiting to carry out Yang Zhen's latest order.

Shang Kexi is dead, and Fan Wencheng will certainly not survive, but the matter of the Qing captives coming to the city will not end with this.

Since Shang Kexi and his party entered the city, the Qing captives outside the city have been watching and wandering in the long fort a few miles away. The reason why they haven't attacked yet is because they still don't know what happened after Shang Kexi and his party entered the city.

what happened.

The shouts and slogans that sounded from time to time on the top of the city, although they spread far away and made the Qinglu horse team wandering and watching outside the city suspicious, they were still far away and could not hear clearly what Yang Zhen said on the top of the city.

Therefore, they behaved very restrainedly and did not launch an attack.

However, if they knew that the Ming army in the city had killed their King Zhishun and everyone who entered the city, the situation would take a turn for the worse.

Zhang Chen looked at the execution ground where exclamations of surprise could be heard from time to time, and then looked at the Qinglu cavalry standing and watching on the snowy fields west of the city in the cold wind. He sighed secretly, came to Yang Zhen, and pointed at the half-dead Ban Zhi on the ground.

Fu said:

"Captain, what should we do with this Ban Zhifu? Kill him all together, or make some arrangements? If the Qing Dynasty cavalry is lingering outside the city, they must be waiting for the Qing envoys to leave the city. We should also have a way to deal with it.

?”

On how to deal with Shang Kexi and Fan Wencheng, some of Zhang Chen's ideas are not exactly the same as Yang Zhen's.

In Zhang Chen's opinion, there was no need to execute these two people on the spot. Although it was refreshing to execute them in public, it was not in the best interests of his own army.

The best thing to do is to detain Shang Kexi and his party, and then make long-term plans.

On the one hand, it is gratifying that both Fan Wencheng and Fan Wencheng have important identities. If they can be used by one's side, then one might not be able to keep their lives and ask them to serve Jinhaizhen.

On the other hand, even if they are unwilling to be used by their own side or serve Jinhaizhen, it will definitely be more useful to treat them as the result of this battle and escort them alive to the capital to ask for credit than to die.

Furthermore, even if Yang Zhen really wanted to kill them, there was no need to rush. He could just hand these two people over to him and interrogate them first to try to pry some useful information out of their mouths.

However, Zhang Chen never found the right opportunity to express these thoughts to Yang Zhen.

From the moment he opened the city gate and let Shang Kexi and his party enter the barbican city, the rhythm of the whole thing was firmly in Yang Zhen's hands.

Yang Zhen was on the city, and he himself was below the city. In front of so many people, he couldn't express his disagreement with Yang Zhen.

After he finally managed to capture Shang Kexi and others and sent them to the top of the city, Yang Zhen directly handed them over to Jin Yukui for questioning and handling.

As a result, Jin Yukui stabbed him to death before he could even ask a few words. Shang Kexi was happy.

Later, Yang Zhen did not ask for anyone's opinion, and directly ordered Li Lu to find someone to cut Fan Wencheng alive.

The fierce and violent spirit Yang Zhen showed at that time frightened Zhang Chen, causing him to swallow back the words of advice he was about to say.

Today's Yang Zhen makes Zhang Chen increasingly confused.

The person is still the same person, but his temperament is completely different. Could it be that after a person has been in a high position for a long time, he will become like this?

"Have you dealt with all the prisoners alive under the Wengcheng?"

After hearing the question raised by Zhang Chen, Yang Zhen did not answer for a while, but asked him a question in return.

"Yes, they have all been beheaded. Of the Qing prisoners who entered the city, Ban Zhifu is the only one left."

Zhang Chen saw Yang Zhen asking a question and quickly answered truthfully.

The Qing prison guards who were not killed in the chaos below the barbican city had already been beheaded by the musketeers inside the barbican city.

Now those heads with money rat tails have become the latest gains of Li Shouzhong's musketeers.

"Well, in that case, let's keep him alive. Wake him up!"

When Zhang Chen heard Yang Zhen say that he wanted to keep someone alive, he immediately felt relieved, thinking that Yang Zhen had finally realized that he wanted to keep someone alive for interrogation.

So, he immediately stepped forward and kicked Ban Zhifu right where he was shot in the abdomen.

Ban Zhifu, who had been unconscious for a while, suddenly felt pain and groaned. He woke up and turned around, looking at the people standing around him with blurred eyes.

Yang Zhen was not in a hurry, he just kicked Shang Kexi's head, which he had chopped off with his own hands, in front of Ban Zhifu.

Ban Zhifu, whose eyes were originally blurred, was startled when he saw Shang Kexi's head. He struggled to sit up, but his hands and feet were tied and he fell to the ground, like a sack, unable to move at all.

"Yang Zhen, you guys, you dare to kill Prince Zhishun——"

Although Ban Zhifu could not move, other than his hoarse voice, which made him appear extremely tired and weak, he had no problem speaking.

"Haha, Ban Zhifu, I not only killed your bullshit King Zhishun, Shang Kexi, but also killed Fan Wencheng, the academician of the Secretariat of the Internal Affairs and Secretariat who your pseudo-emperor relied on most."

Seeing that Ban Zhifu had completely woken up, Yang Zhen squatted down two steps away from him, faced his eyes full of hatred, stared at him, smiled, and said:

"There are other Qing prisoners who entered the city with you. I didn't let any of them go. But you are lucky. I need someone alive to bring a reply letter to Huang Taiji. Today, for the sake of General Jin Shen, this alive person

I'll leave the errands to you."

Jin Yukui, who had been following Yang Zhen, heard this and quickly bowed to Yang Zhen to express his gratitude.

Although Jin Yukui and Ban Zhifu already belong to different camps, they have known each other for many years, and they don't want to watch Ban Zhifu die in front of him.

So when he saw that Yang Zhen was not going to kill Ban Zhifu in person, he was actually relieved.

But when Ban Zhifu heard these words, he was shocked and angry, roaring, struggling, and wanted to attack Yang Zhen.

Unfortunately, he couldn't move at all.

Especially the fatal pain coming from his abdomen made him almost faint again. Although he wanted to say something, he couldn't say anything in the end and could only lie on the ground moaning and twisting.

"Captain, in this condition, can he still deliver the letter?"

When Zhang Chen heard what Yang Zhen said to Ban Zhifu just now, he knew that Yang Zhen had other plans, but when he saw that Ban Zhifu didn't have a few breaths left, he was a little worried.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you have a good tone."

After Yang Zhen finished speaking, he reached into his arms, took out a letter that had been prepared in advance from under his mink fur cloak, rolled it into a roll, stood up, walked forward, and stuffed it into Ban Zhifu's collar.

Inside, he looked at Ban Zhifu and said:

"This is a letter personally written by the governor to Huang Taiji, the puppet emperor of the Qing Dynasty. You can take it back. It can also be regarded as a reply from the governor.

"Speaking of it this way, your entry into the city today is not in vain. At least the governor has put forward the conditions for continued negotiations in the future! Hahahaha..."

After saying these words, Yang Zhen remembered what he had written in the letter and couldn't help laughing.

If killing Shang Kexi and Fan Wencheng were not enough to motivate Huang Taiji to storm Zhenjiang Castle and kill people at all costs, then Yang Zhen believed that the letter he wrote to Huang Taiji was likely to crush Huang Taiji's reason.

The last straw.

"reply?"

"Captain, if you reply to this letter, wouldn't you fall into the trap of recruiting and alienating Qing captives?"

"Yes, Governor, if there is a reply, why not ask Ban Zhifu to go back with a message?"

As soon as Yang Zhen laughed, what he said to Ban Zhifu immediately aroused questions from Zhang Chen, Yang Shen, and Jin Yukui.

In the eyes of Zhang Chen and others, it seemed like they had killed Shang Kexi, King Zhishun of the Qing Dynasty who came to the city to persuade the Qing Dynasty to surrender, and cleared Yang Zhen's suspicion of negotiating surrender with the Qing Dynasty puppet emperor.

Now if you let a Qing prisoner go back and ask him to send a letter to the Qing prisoner puppet emperor Huang Taiji, wouldn't the newly cleared suspicion of surrender immediately hang over the heads of the Zhenjiang Fort defenders again?

Of course, in this case, they did not dare to say it directly in front of Yang Zhen, but expressed roughly the same meaning as euphemistically as possible.

"Haha, you can rest assured. I can guarantee that Huang Taiji, the puppet emperor of the Qing Dynasty, will never use this letter as physical evidence and ask someone to bring it to the capital of the Ming Dynasty. And even if he does, the emperor will never be punished for it.

Question this governor!"

Yang Zhenxin's words made Zhang Chen, Yang Shen, Jin Yukui, Zhang Guogan and others look at each other in shock.

At this time, Zhang Guogan, who had always been bold and a bit impetuous, couldn't suppress his curiosity and asked everyone the questions in their minds.

"Here, what conditions did the governor mention in the letter?"

Yang Zhen saw Zhang Guogan asking questions, and saw that several other generals were also full of curiosity. After thinking about it, he felt that there was no need to hide anything, so he smiled and said lightly:
Chapter completed!