"What is the king going to do?" The Deputy General looked at Tang Yin with a puzzled expression.
"Your sword." Tang Yin said expressionlessly.
Why did the King want a sword? Deputy General was startled, then shivered and said anxiously: "Great King, our brothers have just passed through the difficult siege, they are nervous and need to relax." Please have mercy, my lord. Just spare them! "
Tang Yin said coldly: "Hand over your sword, could it be that you want to disobey the order?"
Hearing that, Deputy General was so scared that she almost kneeled down to the ground. How could he dare to say anymore nonsense? She hastily took out the sword at her waist and held it with both hands, respectfully handing it over to Tang Yin.
Tang Yin took the sword and increased his horse's speed, rushing to the front of the group of Feng Soldier who were raping the Ning Country young lady, and lowered his head to look. At this moment, all the soldiers' attention was focused on the girl below. How could they realize that their King was behind them?
Secretly shaking his head, Tang Yin suddenly waved his hand, releasing the sword. The sword in his hand drew a cold light in the air, and directly shot into the crowd. This cold light was extremely precise and did not harm any of the Feng Soldier s. It just happened to pass through the gaps in the crowd and pierced fiercely into the chest of the young girl in the middle of the crowd.
"Puchi!"
The young girl who was being insulted by the Feng Army did not even manage to utter a word. Her chest was pierced by the sword and she died on the spot. One of the Feng Army who was lying on the girl's body started screaming in fear, as if someone had stepped on its tail. It jumped up high, turned its head, and cursed: "Who the hell is it …"
When he saw the soldier again, his face turned green. He looked at Tang Yin who was riding on a big horse outside the group of people with his mouth agape, his legs which had been stripped of his military pants started to tremble uncontrollably. Seeing him in such a state, the surrounding Feng Soldier s all turned their heads to look. They were met with Tang Yin's ice-cold gaze.
Time seemed to have stopped. The entire arena was deathly silent. After an unknown amount of time, the soldiers finally reacted. Everyone kneeled down to the ground at the same time, their heads touching the ground. Their voices trembled violently as they stammered, "Little … This lowly one pays his respects to the King! "
"All of you, get up!" Tang Yin looked at the crowd for a long time, before he slowly spoke. Then, he turned to Feng Soldier who did not hold his pants up and said: "And you, put your pants on!"
The soldier's face was pale. Trembling, he pulled up his pants. He had been rude to Tang Yin just now, if he were to blame this, not only would he be done for, his entire family's young and old would also be killed. How could he not be afraid?
However, Tang Yin did not look at him anymore. He pointed to the naked corpse of the young lady on the ground and said: "You all need to remember, you all are magnificent Feng Army, not bandits and robbers, killing people, robbing property, and abusing women. If word of this gets out, how will the people of the world view our Feng Army? Who would think that we are the righteous masters of vengeance? You have completely disgraced my Feng Army! "
Tang Yin actually wanted to kill all of these soldiers, but he couldn't bear to do so. He could only take a step back and stab the girl, who was being trampled on by the soldiers, to death.
The soldiers who had just stood up once again kneeled to the ground, and said with a sobbing tone: "Great King, we know our wrongs, please show mercy, Great King, please forgive this lowly person!"
Tang Yin squinted his eyes, looked around at the crowd, and finally sighed, and said coldly: "This is the only time, if you commit another offense, I will make you wait for your brains!"
Hearing this, everyone couldn't believe their own ears. They kowtowed and shouted, "Thank you, your majesty! Thank you, your majesty! Thank you, your majesty!"
Tang Yin did not speak further, he urged his horse on and walked past the group. It could be seen that what they did wasn't an individual phenomenon. If they wanted to punish someone, they couldn't exactly punish the wrong soldiers, right? If he were to resolve this issue, he would have to find Liang Qi and have him think of a way to restrain his subordinates.
Reaching the General's Mansion, Tang Yin leaped into the air, but didn't see Liang Qi, only Bai Yong. Seeing that Tang Yin had suddenly come to the Feng City, Bai Yong was very surprised and immediately knelt down to pay his respects. Tang Yin called Bai Yong up, and asked: Where is Liang Qi? Isn't he at the General's Mansion? "
This General's Mansion was originally Yan Ze's official residence, but Yan Ze committed suicide. He took it for himself when he entered the city, and used it as the temporary command post for his Sanshui Army. Bai Yong nodded and replied: "Reporting to the King, General Liang was originally in the Palace, it's just that … He just went out. "
"He went out? "What is it?" Tang Yin casually asked.
Bai Yong looked troubled and did not reply immediately. Seeing this, Tang Yin urged him: "Tell me!"
Bai Yong's body trembled, he anxiously said: "Great King, our army is often attacked by the people inside the city, the soldiers below have spontaneously went to annihilate the people, but the situation is out of control, General Liang has personally gone to take care of this matter."
At least Liang Qi has some brains! Tang Yin secretly nodded his head, and then said with a cold face: "I am not blind, when I entered the city, I already noticed that the soldiers below were not encircling and annihilating the mob, but slaughtering the city, frantically stealing the treasures! Do you know, once this matter is spread out, how difficult it will be for our army to attack other cities in the Ning Country in the future? At that time, we will not only be facing the Ning Army, but also the entire city's People of Ning Country who hates us to the bones! "
"Yes, yes, yes!" The King's teachings are correct! " Bai Yong nodded his head repeatedly, and replied: "General Liang also said the same thing, that's why you personally went out to stabilize the situation."
"Yes!" Tang Yin did not speak further on this matter. He changed the topic and asked: "How are the casualties in this battle?"
"Reporting to the King, the number of our brothers that died in battle is close to 30,000. The number of our brothers that were severely injured is more than 10,000. Adding them together, we have close to 40,000!" The serious injury Bai Yong was referring to was a soldier who was unable to continue fighting and needed to be sent back to his own country.
Although he did not personally participate in the battle, just by hearing the number of casualties, Tang Yin could sense the intensity of the battle. He said faintly, "As expected, the Ning Army to the west of the Tong Gate is fighting valiantly." After pausing for a moment, he looked at Bai Yong and asked: "Is it gone?"
"Oh …" "In the siege, the army's boulders and crossbow bolts have all been used up. In addition, the army has also lost some of their military equipment …"
Without waiting for Bai Yong to finish speaking, Tang Yin waved his hand and interrupted: "Why are you severely injured without increasing your strength?"
Hearing Tang Yin mention Shangguan Yuanyang, Bai Yong grinned secretly. He understood Tang Yin's fondness towards Shangguan Yuan, the latter was severely injured in Sanshui Army, it was hard for Liang Qi and him to avoid responsibility.
Seeing Bai Yong with his head lowered, stuttering and unable to speak, his face was drenched in perspiration, Tang Yin did not make things difficult for him, and asked: "Where is Master Yuanyu now? Take me to see him! "
"Yes!" "Great King!"
Bai Yong did not even dare breathe heavily. He responded and quickly went forward to help lead the way. Shangguan Yuan was a dignified Chief General, so naturally, he would not be together with the ordinary wounded soldiers. Liang Qi specially found a comfortable room in the General's Mansion for Shangguan Yuan to recuperate in.
Entering Shangguan Yuanyang's room, smelling the whole room's medicinal smell, then seeing Shangguan Yuanyang lying unconscious on the bed, breathing heavily, pale white, with bandages all over his body, Tang Yin's nose stung, and his tears almost fell.
In Tang Yin's impression, when Yuan Que fought with others, regardless of how powerful or terrifying the enemy was, he had only won and never lost. Now that he was injured like this just by attacking a tiny Feng City, Tang Yin couldn't figure out how Liang Qi commanded it, or what intent he had.
Seeing that, the expression on Tang Yin's face suddenly changed, one moment showing sorrow, the next moment anger. Bai Yong's heart quivered, thinking that this was bad, the King had most likely gotten angry at Liang Qi because of Shangguan Yuan, of course, she would not be able to avoid that either.
He took a deep breath and swallowed saliva, then walked into Tang Yin and said in a low voice: "Great King, General Yuan ordered two thousand brothers to charge into the Feng City, and fought fiercely against ten thousand of the enemy troops and countless of the mob for more than eight hours. After that, the Main Force of Ning Army retreated into the city and not only did the General Yuan not fear anything, he even started a massacre against the enemy army of eighty to ninety thousand people. It can be said that the victory of our army was entirely due to General Yuan. It was General Yuan who used his own strength to push down the Feng City! "
Bai Yong was an old subordinate of Tang Yin, he understood Tang Yin's personality very well. At the moment, his words were very skillful, and when Shangguan Yuan gave in to him, he did not mention a single word about his fault, nor did he explain himself away from responsibility.
Sure enough, after hearing his words, Tang Yin was emotionally moved. The anger on his face had lessened by a lot, and what replaced it was gratification and pride. He walked in front of the bed, grabbed Shangguan Yuanyu's hand and said faintly: "Yuanzhong is indeed my number one general! Among the one hundred thousand enemy troops, only one person can forcefully open the city gate. I wonder who else in the world can do this? "
"Yes!" Bai Yong struck while the iron was hot, and replied repeatedly: "Not only did General Yuan manage to accomplish it, he even managed to keep his life.
After being praised like this by Bai Yong, a lot of Tang Yin's anger subsided. He asked: "Why did you let Yuanyu lead two thousand brothers to slaughter his way into the Feng City? Don't you know that this battle is dangerous? "
Bai Yong quickly explained: "Your Majesty has misunderstood, the matter is as such …." At this time, Bai Yong narrated everything that had happened from the very beginning. Finally, he kneeled on the ground with a thump, shook his head, and said, "The reason why General Yuan suffered such heavy injuries, is that this general was unable to escape his responsibility. If General Yuan had reminded him to control the city gates after killing his way into the Feng City and isolate the Main Force of Ning Army outside the city …
On the surface, he seemed to be saying that he was not, but in reality, he was hinting at Shangguan Yuan's mistakes.