Volume 1 of the Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry Guanxi Newcomer 0704 Recovering Jiankang’s spring March should have been a beautiful scene of all things growing and thriving, but an extremely cruel and bloody scene was staged in Jiankang City.
There is a torture instrument shaped like a guillotine in the square in Taicheng. The guillotine is uneven on the side and the blade has many gaps like a canine. If the torture is used in this way, the person being punished will suffer twice the pain.
At this time, there was a person who was being tortured. The man was tied to the wooden board behind him. The executioner stretched his body and the wooden board into the guillotine inch by inch from his feet to his head. The guillotine was mercilessly chopped down, cutting off the man’s skin, flesh, muscles and bones inch by inch.
The huge pain tortured the man into an inhuman form, and a shrill scream was heard from his mouth. Occasionally, he fainted because he couldn’t bear the pain. The person who executed the punishment should temporarily stop the torture and use some methods to wake the person up, so that he must bear the greatest pain and torture.
“Give up your life, spare your life… Please remember the feelings of Shouyang’s guidance back then…”
The person who was punished was named Liu Shenmao. In the past year, Hou Jing was defeated by Murong Shaozong in Woyang and led him to Shouyang. After Hou Jing was uprising in Shouyang, he also treated Liu Shenmao as his confidant. After fleeing to Jiankang last year, Hou Jing also appointed Liu Shenmao as a high position in Sikong.
But Liu Shenmao conspired to rebel because of Hou Jing’s failure in the Western Expedition and was worried that his power was poor. In addition, Liu Shenmao joined forces to occupy Dongyang to respond to Jiangling and betray Hou Jing.
However, due to his underestimation of the enemy and the betrayal of his generals, Liu Shenmao was recently attacked by generals such as Xie Daren sent by Hou Jing, and the person was also sent to Jiankang.
Now that Hou Jing, who has become emperor, is sitting on the chariot with a gloomy expression. After hearing Liu Shenmao’s cry and begging, he was even more angry. He walked up and waved his fist and smashed it on Liu Shenmao’s face. At the same time, he cursed: “Dog thief dare to talk about the past! Am I not good to treat you? If I hadn’t done anything, how could a thief be in the position of the third prince! I’m ungrateful and not good to die!”
After beating Liu Shenmao several times, Hou Jing looked at several soldiers who were executing the execution and said viciously: “You should be careful of the torture. If the thief is not killed, you will die. You will all be subject to this torture!”
After hearing this, several executioners became flustered and did not dare to exert too much force on their movements. Liu Shenmao’s cut-out muscles were directly exposed to the air, jumping and squirming in a ball of plasma, making him feel more painful and roaring.
Hou Jing had a cruel smile on his lips, and he kept admiring it until the implementation was completed.
Before this, his general Hou Zijian led his troops to fight with the Jiangling siege army and was defeated. Since then, the Jiangling army has approached Jiankang without any obstacles. Although the situation was so critical, Hou Jing still put down his military affairs and took a few hours to watch Liu Shenmao being cut off inch, which shows his concern.How deeply did Liu Shenmao hate him?
Since Baling was defeated and fled back to Jiankang, there have been endless people who resisted and betrayed Hou Jing. Hou Jing naturally hates and is extremely afraid of this. Among them, what shocked him the most was Liu Shenmao’s betrayal.
After returning to Jiankang, in order to re-establish his majesty, Hou Jing followed the advice of the plotter Wang Wei to depose and kill his father-in-law and emperor Xiao Gang, and immediately established Xiao Dong, the king of Zhaoming’s crown prince Xiao Tong, as the emperor.
In this case, Hou Jing still did not forget to grant Liu Shenmao, who was the host platform at the time, to Sikong, hoping that Liu Shenmao would be grateful for his kindness and maintain the situation in the hinterland of the Three Wus. As a result, Liu Shenmao took advantage of the situation and betrayed Hou Jing, which made Hou Jing’s situation even worse.
In addition to the actual damage brought to the situation, Liu Shenmao’s betrayal also caused Hou Jing to fall into a madness of being betrayed by everyone. Although he was not Hou Jing’s old subordinate in Henan, he was the first person to lead Hou Jing to Shouyang. It can be said that it was Liu Shenmao who opened up a series of mysterious experiences and changes in the aftermath of the defeat in Woyang for Hou Jing.
But it was such a person who actually chose to betray Hou Jing, which made Hou Jing feel a sense of destiny and despair. He felt as if the whole world had abandoned him and could only gain the pleasure of holding power by cruel torture on the betrayer.
The cruel killing of Liu Shenmao is naturally not helpful to reverse the current situation. Now, Wang Sengbian, Chen Baxian and other Jiangling people have already crossed the Qinhuai River and built a series of fortresses west of Shitou City, forming a siege of Jiankang City.
Today, the city of Jiankang is already panicked, and the depressed attitude of the scholars is no different from the time when Hou Jing led his army to Jiankang in the past year.
Although he had already shown his strength to be poor, Hou Jing was still unwilling to wait for death, and he thought that he could still turn the tide against the wind at this last moment. Therefore, after executing the traitor, he led more than 10,000 troops gathered in the city to leave Taicheng and set up battle formations on the west side of Xizhou City to fight the siege.
At this time, Wang Sengbian had already led the army to the outside of Zhaoti Temple in the west of the city. Looking at the slightly messy army, Wang Sengbian could not help but feel the old story of his forcing to open the camp gate and surrender to Hou Jing in the past year. Then all kinds of feelings came to his heart, and finally they turned into a full of pride. He pointed to the flag of Hou Jing opposite and said loudly: “Ensure the country and set chaos here, fight here! Support the country’s family, famous works, history, and other men should be brave!”
Just when Wang Sengbian was ready to order the army to attack Hou Jing’s chaos army, Chen Baxian suggested: “Now the enemy is fewer than us. If we destroy it with a large army, the thieves will have the will to fight to the death, even if they win, they will suffer a lot. It is better to distribute the various places, and each wins according to their strength, and then calmly annihilate them!”
After a period of time, Wang Sengbian’s talent for Chen Baxian was alsoHe was quite convinced and knew that although he did not speak lightly, he would make things happen. After a little thought, he agreed with Chen Baxian’s proposal and ordered the generals to lead their troops to occupy one side, so that the rioters could not gather elite troops and invite them to fight to the death. At the same time, Chen Baxian personally led his troops to advance as a pioneer.
Seeing the enemy formation change so much, Hou Jing immediately led his troops to rush towards the slightly scattered enemy formation. Seeing that it was about to break the formation, a team of thousands of people rushed out of the back road and shot the crossbow. For a moment, the arrows collapsed, causing Hou Jing’s back formation to collapse and had to lead the army to retreat.
“Start with the elite cavalry!”
After sending crossbowmen to intercept the disruptive army and seeing the results, Chen Baxian immediately ordered the drums and horns to sing together, and all the elite cavalry of the army to rush straight towards the rioters.
“Don’t be shocked, get closer to me!”
As the enemy cavalry entered the formation, Hou Jing’s army became more chaotic, and several attempts to restrain him were fruitless. So he led hundreds of elite cavalry around him to rush forward to Chen Baxian, intending to destroy the enemy’s command center and reverse the defeat.
Chen Baxian was also holding a sword in his hand and facing the enemy several times. In order to give the troops time to attack the bandit formation, he fought to the death under Hou Jing’s fierce offensive. Under his loud call, the army formation was as stable as a rock.
Hou Jing rushed forward several times but his army was defeated by various elite cavalry. Seeing that the defeat had settled, Hou Jing had to sigh and immediately led his personal troops to flee back to the city.