Bai Su sat atop her warhorse.
She cast a cold glance at the bandits who had been captured.
Her meager imagination couldn't come up with anything that would make them "wish they were dead," at least not right away. But the known methods of torture didn't seem severe enough to vent her fury and establish her authority. So she turned to her lord with a questioning look, and Xu Quan looked over too.
Xu Quan guessed, "Drag them behind horses?"
Then he added, "Hang them from the city gates to dry?"
Bai Su offered, "A slow slicing execution with three thousand six hundred cuts?"
Xu Quan immediately thought that was impossible. He curled his lip and objected, "There are so many bandits. You'd have to slice every last one of them, piece by piece, and give each three thousand six hundred cuts? Where would we find the time to waste on that?"
Simply put, the slow slicing execution took too long and cost too much in manpower. These bandits didn't deserve such treatment.
Bai Su furrowed her brow and asked, "Then what do you suggest?"
Xu Quan pondered, searching for a new idea. "First gut them, scoop out their fat, and light them like lanterns. Then skin the rest and stuff their hides with straw?"
That method wasn't even all that cruel.
The previous Longwu Commandery governor, after all, had also been captured when he lost control of the city during its defense. They had hacked his body open, torn out his innards, and then beheaded him. They hung his head and body separately from the city gates to bake in the sun, and fed his remaining organs to the jackals.
For a merciless force like the Ten Crows...
Only methods more ruthless and bloody could intimidate them. As for