i became the villain

Chapter 97 Scapegoat

A general of the defending army at the head of the city, seeing that the Northern Yuan Tartars were on the verge of collapse, knew that this was a rare opportunity for war.

then.

He seized this opportunity decisively and rushed out with some troops.

Like the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The garrison's kill.

In an instant, the Northern Yuan Tartars who were besieging the city collapsed.

Since it is crashing.

Naturally, there were no rules to speak of. Some Tartars dropped their weapons and surrendered on their knees.Some Northern Yuan Tartars, however, grabbed the weapons in their hands and turned into headless flies, scurrying around.There are also some northern Yuan Tartars who never repented. Seeing the defenders abandoning the city and fighting out, they even thought of taking the opportunity to rush into Xiangyang City. However, due to the small number of Northern Yuan Tartars, even though they attacked bravely without fear of death, they still failed to avoid the danger of annihilation of the entire army.

in this way.

It also solved the danger of Xiangyang City.

After the battle, the general who led the defenders to take the initiative to kill, rode towards Dong Tiancheng's direction, and when he arrived, he clasped his fists and said a few polite words to Dong Tiancheng.

Dong Tiancheng also replied a few polite words, and then directly revealed his identity, saying that he is the guard in front of the palace, and he was ordered by the current officials to deliver food to the defenders of Xiangyang City.

It stands to reason that Dong Tiancheng sent the food that the defenders urgently needed, and cooperated with the defenders in time to wipe out the Northern Yuan Tartars under the city and avoid the fall of Xiangyang City. He has made great contributions.

actually not.

Besides Dong Tiancheng not getting any great credit, he was also inexplicably threatened with his life.

This threat came from the food that Dong Tiancheng escorted.

For some reason, half of the tens of thousands of dans of grain that Dong Tiancheng escorted turned into sand.It didn't turn into sand, but it was sand at all. After the grain came out of the household department's grain depot, it hadn't been replaced, and the wax seal on it was still intact.

This can only explain one thing, that is, these grains have been unscrupulously dropped in the grain depot of the household department.

This is also due to Dong Tiancheng's inexperience. If Dong Tiancheng had experience, checking the bags one by one in the grain depot of the household department, maybe this incident would not have happened.

pity.

In the world, there is no medicine for regret.

According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, those who escorted the wrong amount of war rations would be sentenced to death.The capital punishment here refers to beheading, beheading by military law.

If it weren't for the soldiers under Dong Tiancheng who helped Dong Tiancheng to testify together, proving that the grain had never left their sight after it came out of the household department's grain depot, and the wax on the grain was intact, maybe Dong Tiancheng The junior official of the seventh rank who had just served as Zhongwei Lang was about to be decapitated.

Death penalty can be circumvented.

There is no escape from living.

Dong Tiancheng, who was finally protected by a large group of people, was punished with two hundred army sticks.With two hundred army sticks down, even Iron Man will be useless, so Dong Tiancheng does not intend to accept the punishment of two hundred army sticks.

By now, Dong Tiancheng was convinced that he had been tricked by the Xiao family.

First of all, the Xiao family helped to ask the emperor for his official position as the guard in front of the palace, and the Xiao family arranged for him to escort the food.

Secondly, the grain that was escorted was brought out by Dong Tiancheng himself from the grain depot of the household department.Along the way, none of the food left Dong Tiancheng's sight, so there is no saying that the food was dropped on the way.Therefore, Dong Tiancheng deduced that these grains had been subcontracted without anyone noticing in the grain depot of the household department.

Furthermore, when the grain and grass are delivered, the delivered party will check the wax on the seal, and under the precondition that the wax is intact, the delivered party will selectively check one or two times.

But this time, the quartermaster who was following the general of the defending army went against his usual behavior and ordered people to open all the food bags and inspect them one by one under the premise that the wax was intact.

This abnormality must be because the quartermaster has received some wind, otherwise it would not be the case, this is one of them.The next second is this quartermaster who does not play cards according to the routine, surnamed Xiao, who is from the Xiao family in Lin'an.

In view of these three points, Dong Tiancheng concluded that he became the Xiao family's scapegoat.It seemed that the Xiao family was worried about him, and those who wanted to borrow a knife to kill someone let themselves die in Xiangyang City.

But the Xiao family obviously made a mistake in their calculations. They are not the kind of people who let others bully them.

If you want me to die, I, Dong Tiancheng, will kill you first.

With such thoughts in his heart, Dong Tiancheng set his sights on the quartermaster surnamed Xiao who was going to beat Dong Tiancheng with two hundred army sticks.

This quartermaster surnamed Xiao, relying on himself as a member of the wealthy Xiao family, is domineering in the barracks, but he doesn't pay attention to the soldiers. He usually beats, scolds, or detains the soldiers. Pay and merit.

The fact that the quartermaster surnamed Xiao was so vile, was tantamount to taking advantage of Dong Tiancheng.

If this quartermaster surnamed Xiao treats the soldiers well, and Dong Tiancheng kills this dog thief, the soldiers will definitely not let Dong Tiancheng go.But if this quartermaster surnamed Xiao had an extremely bad relationship with the soldiers, even if Dong Tiancheng killed the thief, the soldiers would not say anything, on the contrary they would be grateful to Dong Tiancheng.

What's more, Dong Tiancheng already had a reason in his heart to kill the quartermaster surnamed Xiao.

This reason is so lofty that others can't find any flaws at all.

"Hehehe...hehehe...." Dong Tiancheng, who laughed a few times, looked at the domineering quartermaster surnamed Xiao who didn't take him seriously, and pointed out the subject directly, "If I If you didn't guess wrong, you must have received a message from your Xiao family when you did this, right?"

Done.

Without waiting for the quartermaster surnamed Xiao to answer, Dong Tiancheng said on his own, "The Xiao family is really unethical in doing things. I have done so many things for the Xiao family, but in the end, I have been punished by the Xiao family." The end of getting rid of? If I am not wrong, the Xiao family will kill me for the crime of losing war rations. But because of the testimony of my soldiers and the guarantee of General Liu, you must not He didn't give up the idea of ​​beheading me, and then punished me with two hundred army sticks. If the two hundred army sticks go down, I, Dong Tiancheng, will definitely be beaten to death. Therefore, I, Dong Tiancheng, tell you clearly, these two hundred army sticks, I I will not accept it. As for what will happen to me, Dong Tiancheng, you, a quartermaster surnamed Xiao, will definitely not be able to see it, because you are already dead today. Resisting, the idea of ​​opening the city gate and surrendering to the Northern Yuan Tartars came up, and then he was beheaded on the spot. What? You think this reason is not good, then I will change another one. The Northern Yuan Tartars crossed the river to sneak attack, and you died there In the hands of the Northern Yuan Tartars who surrendered."

(End of this chapter)