The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 448 Public Trial
"I have repeatedly reiterated the rules, don't do this yellow sand and clean water trickle, alas, no one listens!"

With a cold face and folded his elbows, Jiang Cheng said grimly.

Jiang Lanxuan, who was sitting beside him, turned his gaze away from the solemnity of the streets and the panic of the people: "You are already the governors, are you still at a loss as to what to do about this matter?"

Jiang Cheng replied seriously: "No matter what others say, my brothers in the Ji army are all from the people, and we don't do things that disturb the people."

His father couldn't help but shake his head and laugh when he heard this: "I don't know who you learned this from."

While the father and son were talking, the convoy was picked up by the cavalry, whizzing through the main street of Jiutai, and soon stopped in front of Ding Chunxi's house.

Li Shitou and others who had been waiting at the door came running quickly, but the one who moved the fastest was Captain Ding. He stepped forward and opened the car door for Jiang Cheng like a flatterer: "Master Jiang, I've been waiting for you to come!"

Jiang Cheng didn't rush to get out of the car, but sat in the back seat without saying a word.

The soldiers of the escort brigade lined up in an instant, their boots knocking against the ground.

No one gave the order, but this well-trained troop fell silent in the blink of an eye - even though the temperature in Jilin was quite high on a summer morning, the atmosphere at the scene froze the Jiutai soldiers, including Ding Chunxi.

"Jiang... Master Jiang!"

Out of the corner of his eye he saw him holding the bicycle handle extremely nervously. Jiang Cheng smiled lazily and slowly picked up the military cap from the seat beside him and put it on.

"Thank you for your hard work, Captain Ding."

Jiang Cheng calmly exchanged glances with his father, then shook his military uniform sleeves and got out of the car.

Snapped!
The entire escort brigade saluted in unison, their sleeves fluttering in the wind, looking very energetic, which made Ding Chunxi unconsciously feel even more frightened.

"Master Jiang, please... come this way!"

Ding Chunxi raised one hand and gestured towards the gate of his house.

Waving silently at him, Jiang Cheng turned his gaze coldly to the other side:
At this moment, in the open space in front of the house, many of Ding Chunxi's soldiers were collecting the blood and broken bodies on the ground.

"Master Jiang, you..."

Probably noticing something strange on his face, Ding Chunxi tried to divert his attention again, but Jiang Cheng walked coldly towards the corpses in front of everyone.

After checking with Jiang Dengxuan and others, the highest commander of Jilin turned around and asked, "Where is Li Shouyi?"

Ding Chunxi exchanged glances with his adjutant, who immediately saluted and trotted towards the pile of corpses covered with white cloth.

"To answer your question, Master Jiang, the person is here."

The adjutant gestured to a humanoid figure under a drape.

"Do you still want me to do it myself?"

Jiang Cheng spoke each word with emphasis.

They quickly lifted the covering, and then a corpse with a blasted head was exposed to everyone.

"Tsk."

Jiang Cheng smacked his lips, but still smiled, "Okay - let's go to Old Ding and ask for a cup of tea."

Ding Chunxi heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly bowed and led the group into the courtyard. Tea, snacks and other things had been prepared long ago, and even the tables and chairs were covered with brand new brocade mats, which showed how serious the event was.

"It's very impressive, Captain Ding."

Jiang Cheng looked around at the generals, and his deep voice suddenly turned cold and stern, "Ding Chunxi, you dare to lie to me!"

"Tell me, who gave you the courage to team up with outsiders to plot against me? "

Unexpectedly, the charges were brought against them. Ding Chunxi and his adjutant knelt on the ground, kowtowed repeatedly to Jiang Cheng and the others with a look of grievance on their faces: "Master Jiang! Master Jiang, you must not listen to the nonsense of a villain and frame your loyal subordinates!"

"I, my humble servant, am loyal to you and the 29th Division. Heaven can tell you how loyal I am... If I dare to do such a thing, I will be struck by lightning, eaten by turtles, pecked by eagles, and I will die a miserable death!"

At this point, he suddenly turned his attention to Xu Houcheng, who had followed Li Shitou and other staff members into the room, and pointed at him in anger, "Sir, you must have listened to this villain's false accusation, right?"

"Master, I have told you everything - it was he who instigated the relationship between me and the two officers Zhang Zhuqing and Yang Hongyi, which forced me to move out of Jilin Prefecture in the name of suppressing bandits!"

"Now he actually came to you and falsely accused me. He is really a traitor..."

Before the old bastard could finish, Xu Houcheng was so angry that his voice changed: "Bullshit! It's all because of you, you bastard... How many times have you told me that this is filial piety to you, that is giving you face, and forced me to give you money -"

"I, I have never exploited the people, nor have I withheld the military pay of my brothers. I, where would I get the money to honor you?"

Seeing that the two of them were actually confronting each other, Jiang Cheng leaned back slightly, took out a cigarette and lit it.

But he didn't want to listen to the quarrel between the two. He turned his dark eyes to the side and winked at Jiang Dengxuan.

The latter responded with a minimal change in facial expression, and immediately coughed heavily, "Captain Ding, I want to ask you... You said that Li Shouyi and his men were captured by you, right?"

This guy had met Jiang Dengxuan twice at the General Staff Headquarters in Fengtian. Now he vaguely remembered it and quickly responded "yes".

Jiang Dengxuan immediately pressed the issue: “Then let me ask you, if they were caught, why were they all so defenseless when they died?”

Ding Chunxi didn't expect that Jiang Cheng and others were looking at the corpses to catch details. But after all, he was an old hand in the Fengtian Army, so he immediately replied: "The people were all captured alive. I asked Li Shouyi a few questions and then ordered them all to be killed!"

Jiang Dengxuan pretended to be suddenly enlightened and said "Oh", but immediately asked: "Li Shouyi was shot in the middle of his eyebrow, but he didn't have any external injuries on his body - how do you explain it!?"

Ding Chunxi was stunned.

But what he didn't expect was that Jiang Cheng also stood up with a cigarette between his legs: "You shot him with your gun lowered to his head, and you shot him when he was completely defenseless, right?"

"The skin between his eyebrows is burned. Besides, even if you caught him and shot him in the head, anyone with even the slightest bit of defense would move and struggle."

"But if you look carefully, does Li Shouyi's body seem to have moved around?"

At this point, the man kneeling on the ground was already sweating profusely: "I, I..."

Jiang Cheng half turned his head to look at his father, then glanced at the increasingly angry generals, and finally pulled out Browning and pointed it at him: "You're still not telling the truth, are you?"

Facing the cold muzzle of the gun, Ding Chunxi was completely overwhelmed: "Master! Master! Please spare my life, please spare my life——"

Jiang Cheng sneered, cocked the gun and aimed at him again: "Tell me, or I will drag your family out and bury them alive!"

Ding Chunxi gritted his teeth and trembled, but what no one expected was that at this extremely serious public trial, a girl's voice suddenly rang out: "Master Jiang, please don't let this beast go!"

(End of this chapter)