The whip struck so hard that the clothes on Shang Yu's shoulders immediately tore apart. You can imagine the force of Pei Yue's attack.

"Do you know where you went wrong?" Pei Yue asked in a deep voice without continuing to beat Shang Yu.

Shang Yu knelt on one knee without moving, clasped his fists and lowered his head, saying, "I am humble enough to know my mistake!"

Pei Yue suddenly raised his voice and said, "Say!"

Shang Yu replied loudly: "As the leading sentry officer, I failed to deal with this emergency in time, so that my lordship was required to deal with it personally. This is my humble incompetence. I am willing to lead the military to deal with it!"

The scholars and common people were detained in the open space next to them, and were guarded by the third team of soldiers, while the others lined up in front of Pei Yue and stood in awe.

Before Pei Yue arrived, the third team, under the restraint of Shang Yu, silently dealt with the besieging scholars and people. Now their momentum was completely different, the weapons in their hands glowed with cold light, and their eyes were sharp and fierce.

After hearing Shang Yu's answer, Pei Yue shook his head and said slightly disappointed: "You have no idea where you went wrong."

Shang Yu was a little confused, and his eyes became more and more ashamed.

Pei Yue glanced at the hundreds of veterans standing neatly in front of him, and said in a complicated tone: "Shang Yu is a veteran of Nanying. He served as Marshal Gu's personal soldier. He was a sentry officer in the third year of Kaiping. He has a bright future. Hengduan

During the mountain suppression of bandits, he moved forward bravely without fear of life or death, and finally followed me to pursue the bandit leader. His merits were enough to be promoted to guerrilla, which is where I am now."

"Most of you, like him, had the opportunity to climb up, but in the end you just maintained the status quo. After the Zangfeng Guard was established, you were selected. Not only were you not promoted, but many of you were reduced to the most ordinary soldiers.

This is indeed unfair to you. There may be various reasons, such as Lord Gu’s instructions to you that Zangfengwei will have better development in the future or you have a little trust in me, but no matter

There are so many reasons why this is unfair."

"This way from south to north and from east to west, you followed me through mountains and rivers. I know you are observing me, and at the same time I am also observing you. I have to say that you are very outstanding, and there is no need to say anything about your abilities, even if you are not as good as the border troops.

It is not inferior in comparison. At least for now, I have wronged you because you have a brighter future and can go to the border to fight with the enemy's army instead of doing this with a young man like me.

Breaking things."

Pei Yue's voice spread with the wind, and the soldiers couldn't help but look moved.

In this era, what is important is the dignity of the superiors. Being able to eat and live together is a rare example of being close to the people. There has never been a general who lectured his soldiers like this.

Even this is no longer a lecture, but a heart-to-heart communication.

Shang Yu gradually understood. He put away the shameful look on his face and said in a deep voice: "Sir, I am willing to follow you, and I believe others are the same!"

"I would like to follow the lord through life and death!"

Others roared in response.

Pei Yue nodded slightly and continued: "You are not new recruits to the army. Many of you have even gone to the border to kill people and see blood, so you think a lot and far. Take today's matter as an example, Shang Yu

, I know what you are worried about. I am Wu Xun, so naturally I cannot urinate in the same pot as those civil servants in the court.

If you give the order to forcibly break out of the siege of these scholars and people, it is inevitable that someone will be injured and bleed. At that time, someone will definitely use this to impeach me. Maybe Your Majesty will remove me from the post of imperial envoy and let someone else take my place.

You don’t want to see me give up halfway, and you’re afraid that it will affect my future, right?”

Shang Yu was silent, not knowing how to answer.

He was not a hot-headed soldier. When he was a soldier beside Gu Liang, he had seen some fights in the court. So after discovering the strangeness of this incident, he chose to deal with it silently and did not lead the crowd to break away from the siege in time.

Pei Yue shook his head and said, "Why should I beat you? Because you are wrong, and it is so wrong."

He turned his eyes to the puzzled soldiers in front of him and said loudly: "Today I will teach you how to be a good soldier under my command."

He raised his riding whip, pointed at the scholars and common people who were under guard in the distance, and said coldly: "Those people dare to surround you, you have to beat them back on the spot. If necessary, kill a few of the leaders who are causing trouble."

Idiots are trying to establish authority. Remember, I am the imperial envoy, and you are the imperial envoys’ guards. What I represent outside is His Majesty’s authority. No one will be allowed to trample on the authority of the Emperor!”

Shang Yu suddenly came to his senses, sweating on his back.

Today's incident may seem funny, but if Pei Yue hadn't arrived in time and dealt with those people with vigorous and resolute means, what would have happened if it was reported back to Kyoto afterwards?

In a sense, the Imperial Guard is also part of the emperor's personal army, not to mention that the Zangfeng Guard was created by Emperor Kaiping himself. With such an identity, he was inexplicably besieged by a group of common people and did not dare to move without permission. Whose face was this slap in the face?

Thinking of this, Shang Yu blamed himself more and more, lowered his head and said: "This is all a humble fault. Please punish me severely!"

Pei Yue glanced at him and said expressionlessly: "What should we do according to military law?"

Shang Yu straightened his back and said: "I will take forty military sticks!"

Pei Yue nodded and said: "Just remember for now, you can accept it after this matter is over."

"Yes!" Shang Yu replied excitedly and ashamedly.

Pei Yue's eyes were like daggers, he looked at the people in front of him, and said slowly: "You are my soldiers now, so you just need to remember one thing, don't be lenient when trying to reason, anyone who dares to stop you will be chopped into pieces! No!

I need you to think about me. I will bear all the gains and losses I deserve. If you can't even understand this, go back to where you came from. My soldiers must be able to kill and dare to kill. Those plots and intrigues have nothing to do with you.

Do you understand?"

If his previous heart-to-heart communication only moved these veterans, then his seemingly harsh words at this moment made these people excited and their hearts agitated.

A general who does not drink the blood of his soldiers is already rare, and now he tells them in the most understandable terms that soldiers must have pure wildness and blood. Even if a hole is dug in the sky, he, the general, Pei Yue, will hold it up.

Whether Pei Yue is worth following is a question that everyone has a different answer to.

Gu Liang is not a god, and it is impossible for more than 400 people to have the same ideas. Most of the time, it is because of his identity and status that these low-level soldiers dare not disobey. What's more, in this team of 500 people,

There are also fifty generals and disciples who came out of those declining noble mansions, and their ideas are even more difficult to change.

But at this moment, these people looked at Pei Yue's calm face and felt the blood burning in their bodies.

For example, Cui Meng, the son of Bo Cuihu of Xining, followed Li Zijun to make trouble in Luliu Village and was stabbed in the arm with a dagger by Pei Yue. Later, his father helped Pei Rong at the court meeting. It was really a very delicate relationship. Entering the Zangfeng Guard

Before, Cui Meng was thinking

He was very worried, fearing that Pei Yue would take the opportunity to deal with him. On the contrary, his father, who seemed to be very careless and jumped between various forces in Kyoto, told him that this young Zhongshanzi had extremely high vision and would never do that kind of thing.

Don't worry about it, let him follow with peace of mind.

After entering the Tibetan Front Guard, Cui Meng was assigned to the third team and was also a member of today's silent team.

He originally wanted to kick away the noisy soldiers in front of him, and then ride his horse to trample to death a few civilians who were talking nonsense and cursing, but Shang Yu was the sentry officer of the third team, and he had prestige in the hearts of the veterans in Nanying.

Extremely high, it is not his turn as a descendant of a fallen noble to speak.

At this time, listening to Pei Yue's lecture, Cui Meng's face glowed red and he howled, wishing he could kill a few horse bandits right away.

Pei Yue looked at Shang Yu, who was still kneeling next to him, and said calmly: "Shang Yu, return to the team."

"Follow the order!"

Pei Yue turned his horse's head and walked slowly toward the people. He said to Deng Zai, who had been following him: "Give me the order to escort these people to Linqing County."

He had actually been waiting for someone from the Yan family to show up.

Now it seems that the Yan family doesn't want to show up, perhaps because they are shocked by his thunderous methods.

In this case, he went to talk to Mr. Yan.
Chapter completed!