The strength of the army is the top secret of the state and the tribe, there is no one.

Batu was stunned for a moment, blinked his eyes, and said slyly: "I'm just an inconsequential commander, how can I know such an important military situation?" ”

He thought that there were enough people coming, and the Ming court didn't know the identities of these people, and they didn't have official uniforms like the officials of the Ming court, and the color and complement marked the official rank clearly, so he wanted to confuse the past on the grounds that he had not entered the core of the royal court and did not understand the situation.

Hong Xiaohedao: "Don't say that the execution will be carried out immediately. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, two jailers, who were shirtless and wearing only calf nose pants, exposed a fat body, Tibatu had one hand and put him on the torture bed.

Batu screamed and screamed, and his feet were cuffed.

A jailer lifted the steaming copper kettle from the charcoal stove by the wall, and a dagger in the hand of a jailer lifted up, and the cowhide waistcoat on Batu's upper body cracked through it, revealing his swarthy skin and a fat belly.

The cold chest crossed the stomach, and goosebumps rose on the skin.

The jailer put away his dagger, took the copper kettle from his companion, and poured the spout. The boiling water, which had just stopped, sprayed like an arrow of water on Batu's goosebumpy skin.

Where the water arrow passed, the skin blistered and festered.

Batu screamed.

The jailer stopped pouring boiling water, and said with a smile: "Trick or not?" ”

Batu only felt that the skin on his chest was hot and painful, and when he saw the copper kettle in the jailer's hand getting closer, he hurriedly said, "I said, I said it's not okay?" "Later, I cried. Ming was so treacherous that he came up with such a vicious method, and when he came in, he wondered why there was a small stove on the wall on a hot day, and the copper kettle on the stove kept steaming white, and he dared to cook him.

Hong Xiaohe waved his hand, and the jailer put the copper kettle back into the charcoal stove.

"There are more than 50,000 people under the Taishi's tent, all of them are warriors who can hold strong bows, and there are less than 5,000 people under the Great Khan's tent, all of whom are some waste that will freeze to death after a white plague. That's why the Great Khan was placed under house arrest by the Taishi. Batu gritted his teeth and said everything, the Han people said that heroes don't suffer immediate losses, and so do the heroes on the grassland.

More than 50,000 cavalry? Zhang Ning narrowed his eyes. In the previous life, there was a TV series that was very popular, telling the love story of a doctor girl and Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu brothers, Zhang Ning accompanied his girlfriend to watch it, and then read related posts on the Internet, among which the controversy about the Ming Dynasty and the first army was the largest, and even some people who claimed to be experts swore that there were only 20,000 cavalry.

Batu is hiding his strength, and he can only say less, and he will definitely not say it in the big picture. This data should be credible.

Hong Xiaohe threatened: "Nonsense, you obviously have 100,000 young and strong men. ”

Warat is a people who grow on horseback, herding cattle in peacetime, and gathering tribes into armies in wartime, and the warriors mentioned by Batu are young and strong men.

With his words, the jailer picked up the copper kettle again and walked over, making the gesture that at any moment he would pour boiling white water on Batu's dark skin.

Batu was anxious and said, "No." Absolutely nothing. Taishi only needs warriors, and no men over the age of twenty-five are allowed. ”

"How old are you?" Hong Xiaohe was curious. He couldn't help but be curious, Batu had a thick beard, thick and strong, dark and rough skin, both forehead lines and crow's feet, and looked like he was not forty years old but also in his thirties.

Batu hung his head and said, "I will be twenty-five years old next year, so it stands to reason that I can't follow the Taishi." This is the reason why the Taishi asked me to pay tribute to the Ming court as a positive envoy, which can be regarded as compensation for me, alas, ......"

Who knew that people were unlucky, they stuffed their teeth when they drank saliva, and they were just teasing and playing with a folk girl on the street, and they were sent to prison and sentenced. If Gessel had been tougher, where would I have ended up in this field? Batu remembered that he had fought with Gessel for a rabbit last time he was hunting, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it must be because the rabbit didn't give Gessel, this scum had a personal vendetta and didn't want him back from Zhang Ning's hands.

In the inner room, Zhang Ning was stunned for a moment, and muttered to himself silently: "It's only twenty-four? ”

Outside, Hong Xiaohe had lost his voice and said, "You are only twenty-four years old? "It's too old.

"I'm twenty-four years old." Batu sighed repeatedly.

Zhang Ning understood that the living conditions on the grassland were harsh, and the Warat people ate a lot of meat, if it weren't for the Ming Emperor's frequent reward of tea cakes during the tribute, they were only afraid of looking older and shorter.

Batu sighed and said hopefully, "Did Master Zhang say when to release me?" As long as you are twenty-five years old, you will be an old man, and your body will become weaker and weaker, and sometimes you will not survive a white plague. I know everything, can you let me stay in the capital? ”

This thing is actually starting to plan for the future. This is to think that there is merit in revealing information, can you make a request? Zhang Ning smiled.

How dare Hong Xiaohe promise him? With a blank face, he shouted: "You are a prisoner, you must be punished according to my law, and if you are sentenced to exile, you will have to travel a long way to the place of exile." ”

"To the penal colony? In other words, there is no need to go back to the grassland? Batu's eyes lit up, he had earned it, as long as he could stay in a rich and prosperous place like Daming, he would be better than the grassland wherever he went.

Hong Xiaohe asked a few more questions, and Batu was very cooperative, saying what he asked, and he said it in great detail.

When he had finished asking, the scribe took the confession and asked Batu to draw it.

Zhang Ning walked out of the inner room and said, "Give it to me." ”

This is top-secret material, and it can't be leaked until you are idle, so how can it be handled as an ordinary confession?

Seeing Zhang Ning coming, Batu shouted loudly: "Lord Zhang, I want to stay in the capital." ”

On the way to the prison, he asked Hong Xiaohe and knew Zhang Ning's identity, and when he saw the handsome young man in purple, he immediately shouted.

"Do you want to stay in the capital? Even if it's in jail? Zhang Ning asked.

Do time? Batu shuddered and said, "I don't want to go to jail here, exile is okay." I was exiled in the capital. ”

The capital is prosperous, and it is much better to stay here than to go to the grassland.

Zhang Ning said to Hong Xiaohe: "Tell him what exile is." Then he took matters into his own hands.

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In the Jinyiwei compound, Zhang Ning read the confession twice, and then compared it with the information sent to the grassland after a lot of hard work, and found that Batu's confession was more detailed, so it was determined that the confession was not false.

With this confession, the conquest of Warat was more certain.

According to Batu, he was also ambitious first, and he was bent on leading his troops south and herding horses in the flower world of the Ming Dynasty. This can be seen from the fact that he first conquered the east and the west, had unified Mongolia, and was preparing to conquer Korea in the east.

In that year, after Genghis Khan unified Mongolia, he led his troops south. And first this is to imitate him.

After packing the two materials separately, Zhang Ning entered the palace again.

After reading the information, Zhu Qizhen said arrogantly: "The sharpshooter battalion has a new formation and can deal with the cavalry, where are we afraid of him?" ”

"Their cavalry is good at archery and good at horsemanship. However, we can use special shields to fend off their arrows, and then be shot by the sharpshooter battalion. Zhang Ning said.

In terms of horsemanship and archery, the Warat cavalry is superior, but the musket cannons of the sharpshooter battalion are not ornaments.