The story of ancient heroine Mu Guiying: later roll-call discipline

This story is about an ancient Chinese heroine named ‘Mu Guiying’(穆桂英), who is a legendary heroine from ancient China's Northern Song Dynasty and a prominent figure in the Generals of the Yang Family legends. She is the wife of Yang Zongbao and mother of Yang Wenguang. Brave, resolute and loyal, Mu is the cultural symbol of a steadfast woman.

Pan Mei (潘美) was a military general and statesman in the early years of imperial China's Song Dynasty. In the 970s, he was the main commander in Song's conquest of Southern Han and also played pivotal roles in the conquest of Southern Tang and Northern Han. Afterwards he fought the Khitan-ruled Liao Dynasty on Song's northern border. One of his sons---Pan Hu was killed by the seventh son of Yang’s family in a martial competition. So the two families had feud and Pan Mei was always trying to take revenges whenever he could.

Our story started with the Khitan-ruled Liao’s army invading the boundary between Song and Liao. The emperor of Song was quite furious and assigned Pan Mei as the commander and Mu Guiying as the pioneer officer whose responsibility is to go in advance of all troops and build bridges if there is a river; fight a way if there are small groups of enemies. Yang’s family were quite worried about Mu Guiying and they warned Guiying to beware of Pan Mei’s tricks, but Mu Guiying didn’t care and she thought, “I wouldn’t be afraid of that old man!”

 

After a few days’ walking, all the troops camped in a plain site and Pan Mei invited Mu Guiying to a dinner in the main tent. During the dinner, he toasted quite lots of alcohol drinks to Mu Guiying and flattered her braveness. Guiying was not aware of the conspiracy and her approaching nightmare. After a few cups of wine, she got drunk and some of her bodyguards delivered her to her own tent.

 

The next morning, Guiying overslept and somebody told her the commander was doing the rollcall and Mu Guiying was missing. She was suddenly awakened and rode her red horse to the main tent. However, it was too late. All the soldiers were there waiting for her, on each side of the main chair there lined up four strong soldiers with wooden rods in their hands, which were an ominous premonition of her upcoming fate. She knelt down on the ground bowing to Pan Mei who was sitting up in the commander’s chair. Pan Mei was very crossed and he spoke out in a stern voice,

“Mu Guiying, do you know you’ve breached the military law? Which is intolerable?”

 

“Yes, Sir.” Guiying replied in a low voice, she felt something stirring in her stomach and the mind was straying; she had not fully recovered from last night’s drunk.

 

“How long has she been late?” Pan Mei turned to a discipline officer.

 

“3 sticks of incense burnt.” answered the discipline officer.

 

Ancient Chinese used a standard length of burning incense to standardize the time, after one stick of incense was exhausted, another one will be ignited instantly. One stick of burning incense will be appropriately 15 mins in modern days. Mu Guiying was about 45 mins late for roll-call. This was a very serious infringe of the army’s rule, which meant severe punishment. Guiying tried to reflect how things come to this point, although she had a gut feeling this is a conspiracy, she did breach the military law and had no excuse to be waived of discipline. Pan Mei’s sight became sharp and he asked the discipline officer,

 

“Tell her how the penalty will be!”

 

The discipline officer announced, ”For roll-call, one stick incense delay will be incur a spanking of 20 strokes, two stick incenses delay will be 40 strokes, and three stick incenses delay will be 100 strokes! In Mu Guiying’s case, she will be spanked 100 strokes on bare bottom!”

 

Mu Guiying almost fainted when she heard this, her face reddened which is a sign of her bare behind. The physical misery is one aspect, the mental humiliation is unbearable. Guiying couldn’t imagine the ordeal of lying on the ground with bare bottom spanked in the plain sight of so many male soldiers around, some of them were even her subordinates! All the male officers got so excited; the pure thought of Guiying’s spanking scene would make their blood boiling. Some ladies on the spot blushed and they could not help clenching their buttocks as if it was themselves being spanked in this way.

 

“Come on, beat Mu Guiying’s bare bottom with 100 strokes!” announced Pan Mei in an authoritative voice.

 

Even knowing this might be a deception, Guiying had no excuse to escape because the fact was she did breech the army’s law. Now she was not an intrepid solider, she was a submissive lady who had done something wrong.  She took off her armor and helmet in preparation for the punishment. Two strong soldiers came up to Guiying and stood on both sides, they pulled Guiying down with both her arms stretched forwards and grabbed her arms, another soldier held Guiying’s two ankles together and immobilized her. Now, a forth solider walked over to Guiying, squatted and lifted up Guiyin’s skirt and stripped off her pants and underwear. A full plump bottom unveiled itself before all the warriors in the tent, there was ferment and most males in the tent lingered their sight onto Guiying’s round, pale behind. It was their dreams to have a look at the corporal body of this brave and charming woman. For Guiying, she had never suffered such a humiliation and tears wobbled inside her beautiful eyes.

 

Two strong soldiers appeared on Guiying’s both sides with wooden rods in each of their hands, waiting for Pan Mei’s command to carry on.

 

“Commence with the execution!” Pan Mei said in a loud voice while throwing 3 bamboo sticks to the ground, which stood for 100 strokes. 

 

“Smack.” with one stroke on the right cheek, she felt a sting from behind, the pale flesh turned red instantly.

 

“One.” a solider standing by counted each smack on the bottom. “Ouch.” she had never suffered this and spontaneously clenched her buttocks and prepared for the next blow.

 

“Smack.” another one blew on the left cheek.

 

“Two.” the solider counted. There was a line of fire across her ass and she couldn’t help yelping.

 

“Smack, smack.” the two strong spankers beat the right and left cheeks alternatively, with each strike exploding on Guiying’s tender buttocks, there appeared a dimple in her hip flesh, the bottom turned from pale to red, then to pink, and got swollen with ripples. The sharp pain from behind was so miserable that she gasped and jerked, however, the grip was so firm that she could only wriggle her waist, which made a more erotic scene. This gave the spankers more stimulus and they enforced more effort to raise the rod and swung a full arm swing down, the rod landed with a loud CRACK! on Guiying's left cheek and Guiying let out a shriek. It was very quiet in the tent and everyone was holding their breath and enjoying their visual feast, the only sound was the explosion of the rod with Guiying’s bare bottom and the soldier’s counting voice, mingled with Guiying’s painful yelping!

 

“Smack,” “40.” with the counting of the solider, Guiying fainted.

 

“She is unconscious.” one of the soldiers reported.

 

“Pour the water.” commanded Pan Mei.

 

With a bucket of water throwing towards Guiying, she regained her sanity. The original creamy white ass had turned to fiery red, flesh swollen with ripples, sharp pain came from behind, and she tried to gather her breath during the break time. Four soldiers came over and grabbed her wrists and ankles again to immobilize her, the spank carried on.

 

“Smack, smack,” “41, 42.” she gripped her teeth, clenched her buttocks to suffer each swat of the heavy rod. Fire line across her bare behind over and over again, the hot sore perception had changed to numbness. The tender skin on her buttocks became more and more delicate after so many spanks that a single stroke would tear her skin open. Her ass was bruised and lacerated from rodding. Some portions were even bleeding. The harsh pain coming from behind was so insufferable that she began to wail and yelp unabashedly. Pai Mei was sitting on the commander’s chair high above and his intense gaze fixed on Guiying’s wriggling body. His blood began to boil hearing Guiying’s outcry. His emotion was filled with the mixture of revenge and spanking enthusiasm. He stood up and roared, “Be harder, spank harder!” The soldiers wiped off their sweat and exerted much more force to swing up and down the rods. Thus Guiying undergo a lot. She fainted several times during the torment, but regain conscious after being poured water.

 

“99, 100.” with these numbers counted, it ended the punishment.

 

Guiying lay on the ground and scrabbled her hand on the floor to get up but in vain. Her initial will collapsed due to the severe punishment, not to mention the embarrassment of her bare behind being witnessed by so many people. The original creamy white buttocks were now stripped with bruise ripples and there was blood trickling down from her sit spot. She could hardly slip on her underwear due to the swelling ass. She didn’t dare to knead the burning bottom for fear of extra punishment incurred.

 

She bowed to Pan Mei, “thanks for your discipline, Your Mightiness; I won’t be late for roll-call again.”

 

She was thinking she could leave now to treat her wound. However, Pan Mei won’t let her go so easily, he pretended to be still angry and ordered,

 

“Tie Mu Guiying up and hang her outside the tent to show up to all the warriors!”

 

Guiying was just straying in mind when two warriors twisted her arms behind and bound up forth and back with a rope, then dragged her outside of the tent. She was suspended to a trunk under a tall tree, her upper body almost hanging down to the ground, her feet swinging just above the earth and her swollen bare bottom sticking out. Many soldiers surrounded her and whispered each other! How she expected all these toils and humiliation would finish over!

 

She was suspended there for almost half a day and suffered physical tortures as well as mental humiliation. In the sunset, her bodyguards were allowed to set her free from the branch and sent to her tent for medical treatment.

 

The end.