I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 285 Contest
Zhu Houzhao enjoyed the way his soldiers looked at him.

"Order the officers above the rank of centurion in the army to come!" Zhu Houzhao ordered again.

Soon all the officers above the rank of centurion arrived...

The officers looked at the situation on the field and were somewhat at a loss...

"These two people stole and sold military supplies. I spent money to buy each of you an arrow-proof silk coat to protect your lives. However, these two people stole and sold it for their own selfish desires." Zhu Houzhao shouted loudly while waving his arms.

The soldiers were suddenly in an uproar and began to discuss, but their long training allowed them to maintain their formation.
Zhu Houzhao stretched out his hand and made a downward pressing motion, and the voices of the soldiers' discussions suddenly disappeared. Zhu Houzhao's prestige in the army was too high now, and the soldiers were happy to obey his orders.
Zhu Houzhao was very satisfied with this. He continued, "I also know that they usually withhold your food and cloth. This is simply a heinous crime. What do you think we should do with these two people?"

"Kill them!" a loud shout came from the square.

Several voices followed suit, and then more and more voices followed suit, until they finally merged into a unified cry: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Zhao Zhikun and Xin Baoyi were frightened to the point of paleness as they heard the shouts of their soldiers. Their legs were shaking as they began to realize that something was wrong.
Zhu Houzhao pressed his hand down again and said, "Okay!"

Then he looked at Zhao Zhikun and Xin Baoyi and said, "Untie them!"

Zhao Zhikun and Xin Baoyi were confused by Zhu Houzhao's words and didn't understand what Zhu Houzhao was going to do...

"All the teams that have never seen blood, step out!" Zhu Houzhao shouted to the soldiers.

Although these 2000 soldiers did not understand what Zhu Houzhao wanted to do, they still faithfully carried out his orders.

A squad consists of ten people, and there are sixty or seventy squads out there...

"That's a bit too many!" Zhu Houzhao said. He walked down the stage and randomly picked out ten teams, then ordered everyone else to retreat to the edge of the parade ground.

The parade ground was suddenly empty, with only a square formation of a hundred men left on the huge parade ground!
"Bang!" Two pieces of plate armor, two helmets, two spears and two knives were thrown in front of Zhao Zhikun and Xin Baoyi.

"Put it on!" Zhu Houzhao ordered.

At this point, even the dumbest person would understand what Zhu Houzhao wanted to do... "I won't wear it! I won't wear it! Your Majesty, please forgive me this time..." Zhao Zhikun burst into tears.

"Your Majesty, I really know I was wrong, please spare my life..." Xin Baoyi also burst into tears.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the ugly appearance of these two people with even more contempt in his heart, and ordered his attendants: "Help them to look decent..."

Someone immediately forced plate armor on them, and forced swords and spears into their hands. Finally, the two men who were lying limp on the ground were dragged to the center of the parade ground.

At this time, Jiang Bin couldn't help himself. He still wanted to maintain his authority in the army, so he persuaded: "Even if you want to execute these two people, don't use this method. This method is a violation of the superiors and will disrupt the discipline of the army..."

As he was speaking, Zhu Houzhao suddenly turned around and glared at him, and he could no longer speak...

After Jiang Bin retreated, he realized belatedly that this suggestion was made by Zhu Houxun, and he could not help but glare at Zhu Houxun fiercely...

Zhu Houxuan also noticed Jiang Bin's gaze and gave him a gentle smile in return.

Jiang Bin snorted coldly and turned away. In his opinion, Zhu Houxuan was just a smiling tiger...

At this time, Zhu Houzhao began his speech again: "The New Army is my favorite. I have spent countless efforts on the New Army. I am afraid that someone in the New Army will be corrupt and let the soldiers suffer. So I specially gave the officers an extra subsidy. This subsidy is several times the normal salary. I thought that this would prevent the officers from being greedy. But I still underestimated the evil of human nature. Some people's greed is endless..."

The officers all looked silently at the two people crying in the field, their eyes were very complicated...

"I have discovered that simply distributing generous salaries is of limited use. We must also have a strict monitoring system. Only by walking on two legs can we walk steadily. But you can all rest assured that I will continue to issue subsidies. I want to make sure that honest officials do not have to be corrupt, and corrupt officials dare not be corrupt!"

As soon as Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, warm applause broke out from the soldiers in the parade ground.

After the applause died down, Zhu Houzhao looked at the two men on the field and said, "As for you two, I will give you a chance to survive. There are 100 of your old subordinates on the field. You will have a good fight with them today. You are only allowed to use close combat weapons. Only one of you can survive today. If similar incidents are found in the new army in the future, they will also be dealt with in the same way."

The soldiers on the parade ground burst into cheers immediately after hearing this. They looked enthusiastically at Zhu Houzhao on the stage.
The officers at the scene all looked unmoved, some of them were not clean, and Zhu Houzhao's actions obviously frightened them.
Zhu Houxuan watched Zhu Houzhao with great interest from the audience, and he kept sighing in his heart that Zhu Houzhao had made rapid progress and knew how to make the most of something. Moreover, he had already developed a way to win over the hearts of the lower-level soldiers.
"Let's get started! I'm getting impatient!" Zhu Houzhao began to urge
The drums of war were beaten on the field, and the rumbling sound stimulated everyone's nerves.
The hundred-man squad on the training ground were all fully armored. They formed a military formation and slowly approached the two men.
Zhao Zhikun and Xin Baoyi were submissive when facing Zhu Houzhao, but they changed their attitude when facing the soldiers under their command.
"Everyone retreat! I am your commander! Everyone retreat!" Zhao Zhikun and Xin Baoyi, one holding a spear and the other holding a knife, kept shouting, trying to drive the soldiers back.

But what greeted them were the soldiers' angry eyes and fierce stabbings.
The two men were so frightened that they retreated continuously until they reached the edge of the parade ground. The soldiers at the edge of the parade ground also formed a long spear formation and forced the two men into the field.
The drumbeats became more urgent.
More and more soldiers began to stab the two men. Facing the stabs of a hundred men, the two men were completely unable to resist. Soon they were shot in the legs, and then more and more spears stabbed them.
At such a close distance, the plate armor could not withstand the piercing of the spear. Every piercing sent a chill through their hearts. They were soon stabbed into bloody bodies, with many large holes on their bodies.
The blood stained the ground of the training ground red, and the smell of blood also aroused the ferocity of the soldiers. Even though the two men had fallen to the ground and were dead, some people continued to stab them.
The whole field was filled with the dull sound of their blows.
Zhao Zhikun and Xin Baoyi are already dead.
In this round of competition, 100 new soldiers won!
(End of this chapter)