While everyone was looking at each other, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from far and near.

It was a vigorous knight trotting over with a man on his back, accompanied by two cavalrymen.

In everyone's surprised eyes, the sturdy knight threw the dead body he was carrying in front of everyone.

"Look for someone to identify you. This should be the enemy general." After the knight finished speaking, he also hurriedly got off his horse.

Several prisoners were immediately grabbed by Malan, and there were no accidents this time.

The corpse carried by the knight was indeed an enemy general.

"What's your name? I don't think I've seen you before?" Li Ping asked, his expression finally relaxed.

He could call the soldiers of the reconnaissance company by name without even mentioning them, but people would always recognize them, but this knight was very strange.

"General Qi, my name is Zhang Qing."

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In the early morning, when the sun began to shine on the earth, only the victors were left on the once glorious battlefield, repeatedly inspecting and cleaning the battlefield from room to room.

Li Ping took two signal soldiers and walked through the entire villa in detail. He had brief exchanges with all company commanders, some platoon leaders, squad leaders and even individual soldiers.

He needs to understand every bit of what happened on the battlefield, and he needs to grasp the most intuitive impression.

This is not just a habit that Li Ping developed during his previous work.

More importantly, this was the first annihilation and attack operation he organized in his life, which was of great significance.

He has too much to learn and summarize.

Finally, Li Ping returned to a large courtyard because he heard that Song Baolai ran over on horseback unwilling to be left alone.

This guy probably set out before the battle even started.

At this time, there were several female nurses covering the naked female corpses in the yard. Tears had already washed away their light makeup, and a fresh and strong smell of vomit even surpassed the ones that had begun to fade away.

The smell of blood.

This courtyard is the compound where the annihilated officers and soldiers went crazy together yesterday.

At this time, nearly a hundred corpses were piled up in a corner of the yard. Most of them were young women, some even in their teens. The heads that were stuck on wooden sticks had also been removed and placed on the

They can also roughly find Quan's body.

When Li Ping entered the yard, he blocked Song Baolai who was about to run out.

At this time, Song Baolai's face was very pale, his expression was very frightened, and there was still some white and yellow substance left at the corner of his mouth.

He almost grabbed Li Ping and asked: "How could this happen? They are government troops!"

Seeing this, Li Ping hurriedly helped steady Song Baolai, who was swaying a little.

It seemed like this guy was quite stimulated.

Even though he had seen so much suffering and cruelty in the past six months and heard about countless unbelievable cruelties, seeing this kind of large-scale collective massacre and cruelty for the first time still gave Song Baolai a huge shock.

He couldn't believe the sight before him, and it made him vomit like the female nurse on the health team. Especially since he suffered from severe bleeding, he was lucky not to faint in the yard.

"This is the end of the Ming Dynasty, an era that most people don't know much about. The entry of the Manchus and the magnificent peasant uprising made many people ignore the chaos and the collapse of the moral order of the entire society in the late Ming Dynasty.

The horrors of killing, brutality and looting that occurred in the late Ming Dynasty were inferior to even the Huangchao Rebellion in the late Tang Dynasty that shed blood for three thousand miles. It is estimated that only the large-scale cannibalism during the Five Husties in China could compete with it.

The folk customs of this era are cunning, vicious, cunning, hypocritical, vicious and all-encompassing. Massacre and violence are the themes of this era. Do you believe it? As long as I dare to nod and acquiesce, even our current subordinates will be able to do harm immediately

They are as cruel as these scumbags, maybe even worse."

Li Ping's tone was deep and serious.

The tragic situation here cannot but have a huge impact on modern people in a peaceful environment in later generations. Such a massacre is shocking even to people like Li Ping who have read some history and are mentally prepared. After all, this is his first time.

It was the first time I witnessed a scene of violence on such a scale.

He was not only sighing, but also reminding himself.

However, Li Ping's words obviously frightened Song Baolai. His eyes became wider and wider, and all the female nurses stopped and looked at Li Ping stupidly, with fear on their faces.

Those female nurses may not understand very well, and may even be confused about what Li Ping said before, but they will never fail to understand what Li Ping said next.

"Don't be alarmist, it's too persuasive." Song Baolai muttered, holding on to Li Ping tightly without confidence.

Li Ping became more serious and said: "This is not alarmist. Look at the eyes of our soldiers. Envy, greed and desire far outweigh sympathy and intolerance. Without strict discipline, they would have been in chaos. Don't be too careless.

Let alone use the morality of our time to measure the bottom line of people’s thoughts and behaviors in this era.”

As he was talking, someone asked questions from the door of the courtyard.

There should be soldiers waiting outside the door to inform the signal soldiers about what is going on inside the hospital?

I heard a signal soldier say casually: "The general is inside, and there are a lot of naked female corpses in the yard."

The questioning voice immediately made a strange "Oh?"

Song Baolai subconsciously looked towards the entrance of the hospital, and happened to see a young soldier peeking inside. His curious eyes made several female nurses who were also looking at the door tremble violently.

"Go, go, you dare to be curious about everything. The general is really in there!" The young signal soldier almost laughed and cursed, pushing the young soldier out.

Several female soldiers in the yard were completely stunned. The scene suddenly became very quiet, and the expressions of fear and panic began to alternate on their faces.

Li Ping and Song Baolai looked at each other and said nothing. They both needed to be quiet.

After a while, Ma Yong's voice came from the courtyard door again. He was asking if Li Ping was inside?

After receiving a positive reply, Ma Yong, Duan Qiang and Hu Zhongshan came in together.

Ma Yong only glanced at the partially arranged and covered body on the ground, then his eyes met the way Li Ping looked at him, and then he reported to Li Ping.

He has been here before.

According to preliminary statistics, a total of 281 enemy soldiers were killed in this battle, 142 were captured, and 12 riding horses, 20 rogue horses, 31 mules, 10 donkeys, and 21 mule and carriages were seized (excluding mules).

horses), more than 100 shi of grain, more than 2,200 taels of silver, and other property is still being counted.

Our army lost 3 people and injured 17, including 5 seriously injured.

In addition, the CCP counted the corpses of 331 civilians in the villa, including the corpses of 12 infants and more than 50 children, and rescued only 7 civilians.

There are still 198 young men captured along the way who are being screened.

According to the preliminary interrogation of the prisoners, it was learned that these dead civilians mainly came from several nearby villages and the women kidnapped in the past two days. Among the young people to be screened, there were no people from this village or nearby, so they were more cautious.

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The enemy originally planned to leave early this morning and wanted to speed up their march to catch up with the brigade.

In order to ensure safety at night, speed up the march and get rid of encumbrances, they massacred the captured women last night after having fun with them. Some of the women who were not killed planned to kill them this morning.

It is said that the enemy general issued a strict order not to allow women to continue following him, saying that if there were more in the future, he would just arrest them.

Also, there were dogs in Zhuangzi originally, but this group of officers and soldiers killed all the dogs after entering Zhuangzi. It is said that the enemy generals were bitten by the dogs of the common people they massacred before.

This is also the reason why dogs were rarely seen throughout Zhuangzi's occupation.

After listening to Ma Yong's brief report, Li Ping lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then decisively issued the order:

"Arrange two companies to move all the civilian corpses to this courtyard and gather them together. Then each company will come to visit. The company commanders of each company will personally introduce the enemy's brutality to the officers and soldiers. Director Duan, you will be responsible for this matter.

Chief of Staff Ma, you will now arrange for two companies to conduct a comprehensive search of the villa and its surroundings to prevent any fish from slipping through the net. After the visits to each company are completed, you will transfer the two companies back to the support battalion station to protect the support battalion and continue its normal march.

go ahead.

Director Hu, you ask Ma Yong to watch over and arrange people for you, and gather all the needed people for unified escort. For the seven living people, each of them has enough food and money, and they will be locked up first.

In a room, let them be free after we leave. Remember, do not let them come into contact with our other officers and soldiers, and do not reveal our identities. If they ask, just say that we are doers of justice, and never say that we are officers and soldiers.

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Those prisoners, Chief of Staff, you send people to find a place to watch over them, dig a few big pits, throw all the dead enemies in and bury them. Leave a pit at the end, let the officers and soldiers kill all the prisoners together, and then throw them away too.

Go in and bury it.

Telling our officers and soldiers that we have to kill prisoners is because these enemies are too cruel and killing them is not enough to pay homage to the dead people. It also gives our officers and soldiers an education to let them know what not to do."

"Kill all the prisoners?"

Ma Yong asked instinctively, and everyone in the courtyard looked at Li Ping in astonishment.

"Kill them all. No one will be spared. Their hearts are already darkened. No matter how you clean them, it will be useless. Keeping them will only infect others." Li Ping said firmly.

"clear!"

Ma Yong answered simply, and Duan Qiang and Hu Zhongshan both nodded and answered "Yeah." Song Baolai hesitated to say something, and finally just sighed and shook his head.

Seeing that no one had any doubts, Li Ping continued: "Speed ​​up, the troops will eat some dry food by themselves, we won't light a fire to cook here, and we will leave immediately after killing the prisoners. I hope we can set off in an hour."

, eat hot food after meeting with the support camp in the evening.

Also, this battle will be named the Battle of Gaojiazhuang from now on, so you have an idea in mind. The post-war summary will be based on opportunities and organizations on the road. I hope this summary can be more comprehensive and detailed."

"The battle of Gaojiazhuang? Sir, the owner of this Zhuangzi is named Huang. I remember correctly, right? Chief of Staff!" Duan Qiang asked doubtfully, looking at Ma Yong for confirmation.

"I know that my surname is Huang, and I call it Gaojiazhuang to avoid trouble. I told the troops so, and you must also make it clear that everyone who knows it will be called that in the future. Regarding this address, I guess not many will be able to remember it after we leave.

, and don’t record it in detail. We have to be careful now. What we did cannot be known to outsiders, nor can it be speculated."
To be continued...