Chapter 172: Hostage-taking

If someone else came to mention this name to Yuan Yin, Yuan Yin would definitely refuse. It's not why, just because Yuan Yin knows Xu Chu's status and taboo in Zhang Xiu's heart.

It can be said that even if Yuan Lian, the Taishou of Jiujiang who is very heavy in the Zhang Xiu Group, or Zhang Liao, the head of the four generals, asked to see Xu Chu, Yuan Yin had enough confidence and reason to refuse.

But there are exceptions. If it was Guanglu Doctor Jia Xu who wanted to see Xu Chu, it would be completely different.

Just talking about Jia Xu's status in Zhang Xiu's heart and his special status in Zhang Xiu's group, Yuan Yin can completely let Jia Xu come to visit Xu Chu, the No. 1 felon, at will. It's completely okay to even take him out of the "Heavenly Prison" temporarily, after all, everyone knows that Xu Chu was captured by Jia Xu himself!

Although the deeds of Jia Xu's capture of Xu Chu at that time were passed down by people, they have evolved into many versions. For example, Jia Xu was originally a wizard who practiced the poison art of the Western Regions, and it took supreme cultivation to subdue the tiger idiot Xu Chu. Another example is that at that time, Jia Xu brought thousands of elite soldiers and horses to surround Xu Chu, and fought until the end, and only a dozen people were left to capture the exhausted Xu Chu and other versions. But a person like Yuan Yin, who has a certain status and identity, knows the truth and the beginning and end of the time.

Since Xu Chu was caught by others, there is naturally no need to worry about the possibility that Jia Xu will let Xu Chu go. To put it another way, even if Jia Xu let Xu Chu go, no one would have anything to say, who dared to say a word without saying a word, Zhang Xiu would turn his face and be ruthless, and Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and other generals of the Xiliang system would never allow anyone to have the slightest disrespect for the poisoners.

So just thinking about it for a while, Yuan Yin immediately waved his hand: "Since it is ordered by Dr. Jia, then the palace order should be obeyed, Jia Ji room will wait for a while, and the palace order will immediately send someone to mention Xu Chu, and another batch of two guards will accompany the guard." ”

"Thank you Yuan Gongling." Guo Jia did not have the slightest mood swing of joy and anger on his face, and arched his hand towards Yuan Yin to thank him. Slightly lazy, he took out a bamboo slip from his arms and handed it to Yuan Yin.

"This is written by Dr. Guanglu himself, which is convenient for Yuan Gong's order."

Yuan Yin respectfully took the bamboo slip, turned over and spread it out on the desk to check it. From Guo Jia's point of view, he can only see the back of Yuan Yin concentrating on reviewing the text.

But if you look at Yuan Yin's eyes head-on at this moment, you will find that our Yuan Gongling carefully glances at the other bamboo slip on the desk from time to time.

It didn't take long for Yuan Yin to finish reading Guo Jia's writing and roll it up and put it on the side of the desk, and then took out two arrows from a cylinder on the desk, turned around and handed one of them to Guo Jia, and said with a smile: "Xu Chu Xu Zhongkang is a repeat offender in Zhendong, and Yuan himself has to take the prison order arrow to pick it up." Jia Ji can take this troop transfer order to the Praetorian Guard Battalion to transfer two Shijia soldiers. ”

The so-called Praetorian Guard Battalion is just the name of the 5,000 soldiers and horses of Zhang Xiujun's army stationed near Shouchun Palace. In fact, it is not an elite division, and the composition and combat power of the troops are extremely ordinary. It was only named the Praetorian Guard Battalion because it was in charge of the vigilance of Shouchun Palace.

The Praetorian Guard battalion is divided into five guards, but Yuan Yin, who is the commander of the Shouchun Palace, can only command two thousand guards in the front and rear, and the two guards on the left and right are stationed in the arsenal and granary respectively, and the generals are Zhang Xiu's descendant Zhang Xian Lei Xu, and the last one thousand guards are directly under the orders of Yuan Lian, the guard of Jiujiang County.

Although its combat effectiveness is only equivalent to the level of a county soldier, because it is also responsible for the security tasks in Shouchun City, the status of the Praetorian Guard Battalion is also relatively special. Therefore, Zhang Xiu had a clear order, even if it was the direct commander of the Praetorian Guard Battalion, without the military talisman of the Zhendong General's Mansion, the transfer of soldiers and horses could not exceed three shi, that is, the transfer of more than 30 people needed to be jointly approved by Zhang Xiu himself or Jiujiang Taishou Mansion and Shouchun Palace.

And sending two Shijia soldiers to protect Xu Chu was the limit of Yuan Yin's authority. After all, Yuan Yin himself had to leave a Shijia soldier on standby to deal with possible emergencies.

Take this transfer order to go to the avant-garde garrison of the Praetorian Guard Battalion, Yuan Yao, the captain of Shouchun Palace, who is in charge, is not in the barracks, and it is the avant-garde commander who is in charge. This tooth general has seen Guo Jia, and knows that this young man in untidy white clothes is the record office of Doctor Guanglu's mansion. Not only did he directly let Guo Jia choose two warriors, but he also took the initiative to borrow Guo Jia's two war horses to travel.

Returning to the outside of Shouchun Palace with two Shijia soldiers, Yuan Yin had already taken the jailer to escort Xu Chu, who was tied with a thick rope, to the palace gate. The two of them didn't have much to say, Guo Jia escorted Xu Chu and went straight to Jia Xu's mansion.

Xu Chu was escorted out by Yuan Yin and Wuhua until Guo Jia took him away after the handover, but Xu Chu's eyes were always dull, and he let the soldiers around him push him around, completely unresponsive like an unconscious wooden person.

Guo Jia hummed a little song all the way, until Jia Xu's mansion was far away, Guo Jia put away his brisk tone and glanced at Xu Chu.

Coincidentally, Xu Chu also turned his head slightly to look at Guo Jia at this time. The two looked at each other for no more than two seconds, and immediately looked away in unison.

Guo Jia stopped singing a small song, but cleared his throat and said to the twenty soldiers under the horse: "I've been tired of you all the way, and a big meal has been prepared in the house for you." ”

The two leading chiefs bowed respectfully to Guo Jia, with a coveted and surprised expression in their eyes: "Thank you Jia Ji for your generosity, I have heard that Dr. Jia does not feast guests, and we can have a meal in Dr. Jia's mansion, even if it is just a steamed bun, it is enough for our brother to go back and brag for a year and a half!" ”

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Seeing Guo Jia riding a tall horse, with twenty heavily armed armor soldiers, and a prisoner with his whole body tied tightly except for his legs, the little doorman who was playing at the gate of Jiafu rolled his eyes twice, and immediately ran into the mansion.

"Didn't this Tong Mo inform Dr. Jia that he went?" Seeing this, a chief hurriedly faced Guo Jia and said, "It is already a great honor for my brother to do things for Dr. Jia, how can I beg for another meal." It's just the brothers' nonsense, please go to Jia Ji's room, help our brother thank Dr. Jia, we bring our own food, just borrow some firewood and water. ”

Guo Jia suddenly pointed to the gate of Jiafu with his arm and shouted, "Look, Doctor Jia has come out to greet him in person!" ”

Twenty armor soldiers looked at the gate of Jiafu together, and at this moment, Guo Jia suddenly jumped off his horse, took out a quaint dagger from his arms, and slashed directly at Xu Chu.

Swish!

Guo Jia himself has not much strength, and he has almost never wielded a blade before, but for today's knife, Guo Jia has worked in vain in the firewood room and kitchen of Jiafu in the past few months.

If you just use an ordinary blade to split a thumb-thick hemp rope, it will take at least one or two knives to break it. Fortunately, the antique dagger in Guo Jia's hand is now one of the sharpest divine weapons in the world, so under the knife, the rope coefficient on Xu Chu's body was broken in response!

The torso of the body is unrestrained, and the shackles around the neck are equivalent to a void for the tiger idiot. Just a low roar, Xu Chu broke free of the solid wood flail, because the copper shackles in his hand and the two pieces of wooden flail were connected together by iron chains, so Xu Chu directly used the wooden flail as a weapon, grabbed the iron chain and picked up the real flail.

The five or six armor soldiers around were caught off guard, and the flesh and blood that were smashed by the solid wooden flail died in a blur.

The battle was imminent, but it didn't make much sense. More than a dozen ordinary soldiers fled after being stoned to death by Xu Chu with a pair of wooden flails.

Guo Jia led Xu Chu to rush to Jiafu, but the door of Jiafu's house happened to be closed at this time. However, this is not a problem for the tiger idiot who is already suffocating and crazy, and a savage charge directly crashes into the gate of Jiafu before the servants of Jiafu can top the top door bar.

The subordinates of Jiafu who held the top door bar as a weapon were not enough for Xu Chu to stuff his teeth, but fortunately, at this time, Guo Jia kept shouting that Xu Chu's first task was to catch Jia Xu, and the tiger idiot did not let Jiafu's blood splash Xiao Wall.

didn't wait for Xu Chu to rush into the middle hall, but Jia Xu himself had already come out, still looking like he was not shocked and half-closed.

"One of me is enough to ensure that the two of you get out of Huainan safely." Slowly spit out this sentence, Jia Xu walked straight to Guo Jia and Xu Chu.

Xu Chuhu stared at Jia Xu's old face, and the anger in his eyes was enough to swallow Jia Xu's life, but for some reason, Xu Chu's hands and feet were stiff at this moment and he didn't dare to move.

In contrast, Guo Jia's eyes were scanning every part of the courtyard, and the quaint dagger had been held tightly in his hand three inches away from his chest.

In the end, Guo Jia stepped forward quickly, put the dagger against Jia Xu's chest with one hand, and groped Jia Xu with the other.

At this time, Xu Chu finally reacted and stepped forward to protect Guo Jia with his tiger body.

It was only at this time that more than a dozen former Wuwei battalion guards rushed out of the back hall, and when they saw Doctor Jia under someone else's knife, they all stopped and did not dare to step forward.

Jia Xu said to himself to his personal guard: "Don't work for everyone, Jia is really unlucky today, and he can be held hostage when he comes to the front hall to pick up a piece of things." It is good for you to take care of your home, and you are not responsible for the crime. ”

A group of guards of the Wuwei Battalion stared at Guo Jia and Xu Chu with anger, but all they could do was scold. If Jia Xu has three longs and two shorts, not to mention how Zhang Xiu disposes of them, even they themselves will not spare themselves.

Jia Xu said to himself to his personal guard: "Don't work for everyone, Jia is really unlucky today, and he can be held hostage when he comes to the front hall to pick up a piece of things." It is good for you to take care of your home, and you are not responsible for the crime. ”

A group of guards of the Wuwei Battalion stared at Guo Jia and Xu Chu with anger, but all they could do was scold. If Jia Xu has three longs and two shorts, not to mention how Zhang Xiu disposes of them, even they themselves will not spare themselves.