Chapter 122 The Book of Allegiance
Liu Ji announced that he would recruit the Wuheng prisoners and join the cavalry under his command. The Wuheng prisoners were all relieved. As long as they did not chop off their heads, it would have no effect on them. They could find opportunities in the future and return to the tribe on the grassland.
Even the war slaves among the Wuheng captives still had the idea of returning to the Wuheng tribe. After all, in the consciousness of the people of all ethnic groups on the grassland, they were different from the Jin people. The Jin people have been synonymous with cowardice on the grassland for hundreds of years. They can be war slaves of other ethnic tribes on the grassland, but they cannot surrender to the Jin people, and they cannot accept emotionally.
However, Liu Ji's so-called procedures immediately shocked all the prisoners of Wuheng and became noisy. Especially the officers and nobles among the prisoners of Wuheng, they cursed without caring about their own situation.
It turned out that Liu Ji asked all the Wuheng prisoners who were willing to defect to him to write their own name and handprint on a letter of loyalty, and also read the loyalty book loudly in front of all the Wuheng prisoners.
As for the main content in the book of loyalty, it is a passage cursing the great khans and sect kings of the nomadic peoples on the grassland, which specifically marks the names of the Wuheng clan and the Khans of several powerful nomadic peoples. The Khans and sect kings of the remaining nomadic peoples are just a general term. This passage was compiled by Liu Ji, and the scolding is definitely cruel and vicious.
The letter of loyalty also requires Wu Heng to swear to be loyal to Liu Ji in the name of his family from now on, and never betray him. If he betrays Liu Ji, his whole family will die.
If you press the handprint on this book of loyalty and read it in public, then these Wuheng prisoners will have no way out. Once they return to the tribe on the grassland, the matter of the book of loyalty will be exposed. The tribe's patriarch will not consider whether you are coerced or not, and you will definitely not die a bad death. After all, signing the book of loyalty is equivalent to cursing the rulers of the entire grassland. No tribe is willing to leave such a big trouble. In order to show loyalty, the tribe's patriarch will deal with you with cruelty!
Unfortunately, the Wuheng prisoners would not even be exposed and had no chance to bet on the letter of loyalty. Liu Ji told them clearly that this letter of loyalty would soon spread throughout the grassland. All prisoners who joined Liu Ji's cavalry troops would become enemies of all ethnic groups on the grassland after signing the letter of loyalty, and would have no way back.
Seeing the chaotic Wu Heng captive, Liu Ji showed a sneer, then nodded to Le Yi and then made a gesture to Liu Pi.
When Liu Pi received Le Yi's gesture, he ordered the infantry to pull out the dozen officers and nobles who were cursing among the Wuheng prisoners, and then pressed them to kneel on the ground, and cut off their heads simply. Suddenly, the noise of the Wuheng prisoners disappeared.
Liu Ji snorted coldly and said, "I am not a general who can scold anyone. Whoever dares to make noise will end up with these people! The loyal general has written for you. Those who can write their own names will write their own names and then press the handprint. From now on, I will be my Liu Ji's soldier! Those who can't write their own names will have someone to write for you. Just press the handprint, don't be smart, and make a fake name. The consequences are definitely not something you are willing to bear."
Next, Gong Du took a thick stack of loyalty books and walked to the captured ordinary cavalry and infantrymen of Wuheng, and casually pointed out a prisoner.
At this time, many infantrymen brought tables and placed a row beside Gong Du, with brushes, ink tables and red ink paste on them.
The captive was pulled out of the crowd by two infantrymen, and then Gong Du asked in a deep voice: "Are you willing to join our cavalry unit of Great Jin and be loyal to General Liu Ji?"
The Wuheng captain was silent for a long time and did not say anything. He did not say anything and did not say no. So Gong Du sneered and said, "It seems that you are ignorant of the times. You are taken to the side and chopped them down!"
"No - no - I sign, I put my handprint!" When the captive Wu Heng heard that he was about to chop his head, he immediately panicked and shouted in stiff Jin dialect.
After that, the captive Wu Heng was untied his hands. He came to the front of a table, tremblingly picked up a brush and dipped it in the ink inside the ink table. Then, on a book of loyalty that Gong Du put down, he wrote down his name in Wu Heng's words, and pressed a red handprint.
Gong Du picked up the letter of loyalty and asked the soldiers around him who knew Wuheng's words. Then he asked the Wuheng captain with expressionless expression: "Who can prove that you are calling this name? If no one proves it, then you can only deal with it as you are deceiving us. You should know what the processing means."
"Yes! It can prove that there are many people in our tribe here, and they all know what I call me!" The captive of Wuheng said urgently.
It turned out that the prisoner of Wuheng did not make up a name, which was indeed his real name. Gong Du asked the prisoner of Wuheng to read the loyalty book in Wuheng in public, and then he completed the entire process.
Among the captive ordinary cavalry and war slaves, not everyone was willing to sign this letter of loyalty without a way out. Of course, Liu Ji and the others would not be polite. As long as the captives of Wu Heng who did not sign the letter of loyalty were all cut off, they also had some Wu Heng prisoners who used fake names, hoping to escape, and were found to be punished with the death penalty, killing one to warn a hundred!
The Wuheng prisoners were plagiarizing and taking oaths throughout the afternoon. In the end, 1,286 Wuheng prisoners pressed their handprints on the letter of loyalty, and only more than forty stubborn people were chopped off their heads.
These ordinary Wuheng cavalry and war slaves are relatively lucky, after all, they still have the right to choose.
The remaining dozens of thrilling officers and nobles of Wuheng did not even have the right to choose to be loyal to Liu Ji, and Liu Ji did not intend to recruit them into his cavalry unit.
Among the 1,286 Wuheng prisoners who chose to sign the letter of loyalty, more than 460 were ordinary cavalrymen of the tribe. They were different from the remaining more than 800 tribal war slaves. Their families still lived in tribes on the grassland.
After the Wuheng prisoners signed the letter of loyalty, Liu Ji smiled and said, "I dare not be interested in these nobles and cavalry officers of your tribe before. Now their life and death are in your hands. If you are willing to let them return to the grassland tribe and promote your betrayal of the grassland, then loosen them and let them go. If you don't want your family to be persecuted, you understand what you should do!"
At this time, an ordinary cavalry from the Wuheng tribe asked in Jin dialect: "Dear General, didn't you say you wanted to spread the loyalty letter we signed across the grassland? Then even if we don't let the adults of the tribe return to the grassland now, it will be meaningless!"
Liu Ji shook his head and said, "This general will only let all ethnic groups in the grassland know that the warriors of all ethnic groups in the grassland under my command have completely broken up with the grassland, but your tribes know who all have loyal to me and who your family are!"
After Liu Ji finished these words, more than 800 war slaves from the Wuheng tribe did not react much. After all, there were only a very small number of war slaves and their families.
However, the ordinary cavalry of the Wuheng tribe with more than 460 people looked at the remaining dozens of Wuheng cavalry officers and nobles with murderous eyes.
However, these Wuheng cavalry officers and nobles kept begging for mercy, hoping that Liu Ji would let them live and that they would be willing to sign a letter of loyalty.
Liu Ji looked at dozens of Wuheng cavalry officers and nobles who were begging for mercy, curled his lips, turned around and took the generals around him to the north gate of Chengyin City.
Before he could go far, a scream came from behind Liu Ji. Hundreds of Wuheng cavalry who had just been loyal to Liu Ji rushed to the side of these tribes in the past, and beat dozens of Wuheng cavalry officers and nobles to death with bare hands and fists, and their death was extremely miserable. There was no stop to Le Yi's infantry.
Zhou Kai, who was beside Liu Ji, looked back when he heard the scream, swallowed his saliva, and quickly followed Liu Ji.
Chapter completed!