The day of execution was a good day.
The sky is clear and cloudless.
The golden grass danced in the wind, seeming to be celebrating this event.
Tens of thousands of Yuezhi people formed a huge overlapping circle outside this grassland, and tens of thousands of pairs of eyes looked at the scene in the middle of the grassland with fear.
The two people who were cut in half were known to some Yuezhi nobles.
It was the Wushiluo father and son who were the largest merchants in the northwest of Qin State, doing business between Qin and Rong.
They were the great businessmen of the Qin State who were "more powerful than the feudal lord" and guests of the Yuezhi. They gave them a lot of information during this war, but their current outcome was not very good.
Two sturdy executioners strode forward.
The hands and feet of Wu Shiluo and his son were tied and placed on a wooden cutting board to fix them.
"I don't want to die, I don't want to be cut in half."
Wu Shifang shouted and kept twisting his body.
Wu Shiluo looked at his frightened son and cried out, "I want to ride a galloping horse with you again, lead a yellow dog, and go into Jitou Mountain to chase cunning rabbits. How can I do that?"
After speaking, the father and son cried bitterly, regretting that they had betrayed Qin for the sake of profit.
"Don't move. If you chop it crookedly and fail to cut it off, you have to use the ax again."
The executioner grinned at them, showing his yellowed teeth, and the heavy ax in his hand gleamed in the autumn sun.
Wu Shifang shivered even more.
At this time, Chen Ping, who was in charge of presiding over the matter, began to read out the charges against Wu Shiluo and his son.
The translator beside him translated it into Yuezhi language, held a small copper trumpet, and spoke loudly to the Yuezhi people around him.
"Wushi Luo and his son betrayed the emperor's trust. As great businessmen of the Qin State, they committed treason with the enemy. This is a serious crime and they should be cut in half!"
"Those who rebel against Qin will die!"
After receiving the order, the two executioners raised their heavy axes and shouted loudly. The axes fell heavily and struck hard at the Wu family and his son who were lying on the chopping board.
The bright red blood stirred up the golden weeds on the ground, and the shrill screams broke the beautiful autumn scenery.
Wu Shiluo was chopped into two pieces on the spot, his intestines spilled on the ground, howled a few times, and died.
But Wu Thifang didn't know that it was because he twisted the ax randomly when he dropped it, causing it to chop crookedly. Or because he was young and strong, the ax didn't completely cut him off, with a small part of his body still attached.
The screams were terrible.
The executioner's face was as black as charcoal. He picked up the ax and gave it one more blow before completely cutting Wu Thi Fang into two pieces.
Wu Thifang, who was broken into two halves, did not die immediately. He struggled and howled on the ground for a long time with the upper part of his body, and then gradually lost his voice.
The wind blew across the grassland.
Although it was autumn, it was like the twelfth lunar month of winter, making every Yuezhi person tremble when they saw this tragic scene.
"It's terrible, the Qin people are so cruel."
The voice of Guishuang Jihou trembled.
Not far away, Marquis Shuangmixi's legs were shaking and he almost knelt on the ground.
In the grasslands of this era, due to metal smelting problems, executions were rarely used as punishment.
Most executions on the grassland use flogging, cane punishment, and the like. The cruelest thing is to tie the prisoner with a rope behind the horse, let the horse gallop, and drag him to death. Or let a group of horses trample them to death.
The Yuezhi people thought that these were cruel, but they didn't know that the Qin people still had such terrible punishments.
The man was cut into two pieces at the waist. The prisoner who was broken into two halves was still alive and could still cry and struggle on the ground.
The piercing screams, the intestines scattered on the ground, and the severed corpses all stimulated the eyes of these Yuezhi people, making them fear, tremble, and feel cold all over their bodies.
Sugatha stood in the crowd and watched this scene calmly.
She knew that this was a demonstration and intimidation by the Qin people.
After the Qin army defeated the Guishang tribe in Helan, they did not massacre but treated them with kindness. They pardoned all those who surrendered and retained part of the herdsmen's property. This approach was much better than the victor's treatment of the loser on the grassland. Punishment is much more merciful.
In particular, Chen Ping also gathered among the Yuezhi people to form a cavalry, relying on the strength of the Yuezhi people to deal with the Huns.
At this time, many Yueshi people felt that they were able to do it again. They secretly believed that the reason why they were defeated by the Qin army was because their equipment was inferior, and the other was because they fell into the Qin army's cunning plan. They did not expect that the Qin people would surprise He. Lan was caught off guard. Otherwise, how could their tens of thousands of Yuezhi cavalry lose so quickly in a head-on battle.
Nowadays, the Qin army still needs to rely on them to deal with the Xiongnu. This is proof that the Qin people's cavalry is insufficient.
With this kind of thinking, some people became unsettled and felt that the Qin army was not that terrible.
One characteristic of the grassland people is that they are extremely afraid of the strong.
If you are strong, he will obey you.
And today's scene happens to be the Qin people showing their cruelty.
As expected, the Yuezhi people on the grassland were severely shocked.
"This is the consequence of betraying my great Qin!"
"Behead in waist, split chariot, and annihilate the Yi tribe!"
Chen Ping stood on a temporarily repaired earth platform and announced to the tens of thousands of Yuezhi people around him.
The translator roared loudly.
Perhaps the Yuezhi people were too immersed in watching the scene of Wu Shiluo and his son being chopped in half. A hundred meters away from them, a group of heavily armed Qin troops in black armor unexpectedly surrounded them.
A pair of merciless eyes stared at these Yuezhi people. The Qin soldiers held strung crossbow arrows in their hands, and the sharp arrows shone brightly in the sun.
There are even Qin soldiers holding halberds and swords standing with their heads raised, ready to attack at any time.
Farther away, there were cavalry of the Qin Army galloping.
This scene caused tens of thousands of Yuezhi people to explode immediately, and everyone screamed in fear.
They came unarmed, but were surrounded by the Qin army.
Could it be that the Qin people wanted to massacre them all here?
It was just when the Yuezhi people were most frightened.
Chen Ping, who was standing on the platform, had cold eyes and shouted at these people: "Is there anyone among you who is like the Wushi Luo and wants to betray our Qin country?"
Being pointed at by Qin Nu, pointed at by swords and halberds, on the ground in the middle were the father and son of Wushi Luo who had just been cut in half to death.
In this case, who dares to rebel against Qin?
A woman's voice immediately sounded.
"We surrender to the Qin Dynasty and will never dare to rebel for the rest of our lives!"
As Sujiasha took the lead, Guishuang Xihou and Shuangmi Xihou immediately followed, followed by tens of thousands of Yuezhi people, either using poor Qin language or Yuezhi language, shouting loudly.
"We will never dare to betray Great Qin!"
"If I betray Great Qin, I will be eaten by ten thousand eagles!"
"If I have any thoughts of betrayal, let me be tied up on the grassland and let the sun burn me to death!"
The tens of thousands of Yueshi people swore and swore, and each one screamed excitedly, expressing their loyalty to Qin.
"Very good. What I, the Emperor of Great Qin, hate most are betrayers. In the future, among all of you here, if there is a traitor, you will be like the Wushi Luo father and son, and the entire clan will be cut in half!"
Chen Ping scolded him sternly, and then announced a new policy.
"If someone accuses someone of betraying our country, Da Qin, upon verification, he will receive all the property of the traitor and will be rewarded with ten oxen and horses! If there is any false accusation, he will be punished instead!"
As the translator spread the word.
Tens of thousands of Yuezhi people immediately looked at their fellow tribesmen around them with caution. At the same time, many people shouted loudly, once again expressing their loyalty to Great Qin.
"Whoever dares to betray Great Qin, I will chop off his head first and present it to the general!"
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In the distant grassland, Zhao Tuo stood on the chariot, looking at the execution site in the distance, and could hear the sounds carried by the wind.
"Take the Wushi Luo father and son as an example to show the fate of those who betrayed them. Then they used strong bows and crossbows to threaten them, breaking the courage of tens of thousands of Yuezhi people. Then they used rewards for reporting as bait and betrayal of the Yi people as a deterrent to completely eliminate this group of people. The betrayal of the Yuezhi people."
"After today, none of the tens of thousands of Yuezhi people will dare to betray our country, Great Qin. If they do, I'm afraid they will be reported by their own tribe before they take action."
Li Shiqi chuckled: "General, I have nothing to worry about now."
Zhao Tuo nodded and said: "In this attack on the Xiongnu, the Guiyi Yuezhi will play a very important role. No problems are allowed to arise. Unstable factors must be eliminated."
As he spoke, Zhao Tuo raised his eyes and looked around, surrounded by a golden grassland.
The time is already September.
In two months, this grassland will enter a cold winter, which is not a suitable season for fighting.
And the longer time passes, the greater the chance that his plan to destroy the Huns will be exposed.
So Zhao Tuo must hurry up.
Now that he has completely conquered the hearts of this Yuezhi people, the war to defeat the Xiongnu will be put on the agenda immediately.
The Qin army will defeat the Xiongnu and regain the homeland of the Xia within two months!
(End of chapter)
