His purpose was to intimidate these few people, to avoid future disobedience and complications.
As for capital punishment, it certainly wasn't yet warranted.
Watching them walk away, Sha Wenlong remained seated for a long time, his left hand propped against the ground, swirled with Gang Qi, twisting into a depression in the yellow clay, his teeth nearly shattered from clenching.
"This is too much! I, Sha Wenlong, am after all a Second-rank senior official, a regional military officer. How dare he... how dare he humiliate me like this!"
"What can we do when he holds the Commander's token in his hand?"
Cui Congyi felt the same humiliation.
They had spent half their lives in military service and yet had to defer to a mere youth, "Just endure it for now. Twenty days will pass quickly. Once his term of military command ends, we can watch his head roll!"
"You're right."
Sha Wenlong said in a deep voice, "I want to see how he is going to make Deng Feng surrender the city gates!"
