The faces of the thieves who are still alive all changed, and the words 'in the scheme' involuntarily appeared in the minds of each thief, as Zhang Bin inferred, the army's heart has been chaotic, the will to fight has been lost, and a small number of thieves have even begun to think about how to escape, but they are located in the canyon and have nowhere to escape for a while.

The western thieves were attacked on both sides, and the generals who led the team saw the strength of the bows and arrows of the fifty Song soldiers dressed as civilian husbands, and ordered half of them to grit their teeth and continue to rush towards the chariot formation, while the other half hurriedly turned their horses' heads to meet the fifty elite horsemen led by Wang Sunchen.

Zhang Bin faced this kind of scene for the first time, it was impossible not to be nervous, but he was a man in two lives, but he looked calm and calm on his face, commanded fifty elite soldiers to continue to shoot arrows, and at the same time loudly scolded the people to muster up the courage to kill the enemy, and the fifty people saw that they had the upper hand, and they raised their bows and arrows to shoot.

In addition, there was a car formation to block, the western thieves couldn't rush for a while, most of the western thieves who rushed towards them were shot to death, and a few elite people were easily surrounded and killed by fifty elite soldiers even if they turned over the car formation.

And Wang Sunchen led 50 cavalry into two waves, giving full play to the cavalry's ability to maneuver, using the speed of rushing up, the first wave of cavalry with him as an arrow, assault interspersed, cutting and fighting, hurriedly turned around half of the thief's horse's head has not been completely turned around, it was directly chiseled through by Wang Sunchen with people, killing the thief on his back.

Immediately afterward, a second wave of cavalry strikes followed.

Before the western thief could come to his senses, Wang Sunchen had already gone around in a circle, and the second round of charging and killing began.

In this way, under several rushes and killings, coupled with Zhang Bin leading people to release cold arrows on the side, the western thief has become a minced meat filling, leaving most of the corpses behind, and began to escape.

In this way, it is easier to become the hunting target of the Song army, and there are not many directions in which the canyon can escape, and it will definitely not be able to run along the canyon, and it will be overtaken.

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There was no suspense about the outcome of this ambush and counter-ambush, and after half an hour, the battle was over, Wang Sunsin looked at the corpses of the 195 Western Thieves and the five prisoners who had been specially left behind, and his saliva flowed out, and he immediately ordered: "Hurry, quickly, cut off all the heads of the Western Thieves, hahaha...... In addition, bring the five thieves over and interrogate them myself. ”

Zhang Bin was a little apprehensive, just now the thief who led the team saw that he was the leader, and in the end organized a wave of people to carry out the "beheading", thanks to the tiger head desperately resisted, Wang Sunchen led people to arrive in time, and survived.

The previous Zhang Bin had been by the side of Chong Ge for the past two years, and he had already seen the battlefield fighting, but at this time, Zhang Bin watched the soldiers under Wang Sunchen's command skillfully and excitedly cutting the heads of the thieves, as if they were picking a ripe watermelon, which still made him a little uncomfortable.

Just to prevent Wang Sunchen from despising him, Zhang Bin endured the discomfort and walked over to see Wang Sunchen interrogate the prisoners.

Just now Zhang Bin saw Wang Sunchen's brave and proficient side of the battle array, but at this time he witnessed Wang Sunchen's ruthless side, as far as he walked over, two prisoners had been ordered to torture and kill because of their hard mouths, and the third prisoner was cut off by Wang Sunchen himself.

Of course, this is also because of the fact that they are facing the Western Thieves, and the military and civilians in the Northwest have already formed an enmity with the Western Thieves in recent years, and no one will be soft in the face of the Western Thieves, nor should they be soft.

It's just that these thieves knew that they would definitely die, and their bones were very hard, and Wang Sunchen was obviously not proficient in the method of extorting confessions, so he only threatened them by cutting off their hands and feet until they were killed, and they couldn't get any useful information from the captives after killing them in a row.

Seeing that the third person was still like this, Wang Sunchen was angry and cut off his head directly with a knife.

Seeing that this was not going to work, Zhang Bin also expected to ask from the captive how many people there were in the Heiluo Department, and hurriedly stopped: "Wang Dutou, I have seen a method of extorting confessions in the book, so it is better to try it." ”

Wang Sunchen was stunned for a moment, thinking that there was some way to extract a confession in the book, but since Zhang Bin had already spoken, he couldn't refuse, after all, Zhang Bin had the final say on this trip, and Zhang Bin's previous anti-ambush plan impressed him.

He wiped the blood on the knife on the fourth prisoner casually, and after returning it to the sheath, he grinned and arched his hand: "Senator Zhang is polite, anyway, this wounded soldier needs to be treated, and the head of the thief will have to be dealt with before it can be loaded, just try the senator's method of extorting confessions." ”

At this time, Zhang Bin thought of several horrific punishments that did not exist in the Northern Song Dynasty, such as the torture "grooming" invented in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was to pour boiling water on the prisoner's body, and then use a wire brush to keep brushing until the prisoner's flesh and blood were blurred and the bones were exposed.

There is also a punishment called "wearing linen and wearing filial piety", which is to beat the prisoner with a whip until his body is completely skinless, and then the numbness and tendons are dipped on the prisoner's body. After that, when the blood dries up, it is torn down one by one.

Most of these tortures are extremely cruel, the most important thing is that they require props, and they are very troublesome to operate, Zhang Bin decided to try some kind of physical torture that is very mild, but the mental torture can be called the ultimate torture - waterboarding.

Waterboarding is very special compared to other forms of torture in that it allows the victim to feel extreme pain without causing much damage to his or her body.

In this way, the perpetrators can inflict this torture endlessly, almost endlessly, and as far as Zhang Bin knows, in some dark areas of later generations, no one can withstand continuous waterboarding.

The props of waterboarding were very simple, and after Zhang Bin told Wang Sunsin, the latter was a little unimpressed, but he still ordered people to prepare things quickly.

Wang Sunsin watched as two soldiers, corrected by Zhang Bin, tied a captive to a vacant mule cart and fixed his limbs, body and head, and his heart was full of suspicion.

Especially when Zhang Bin covered the prisoner's face with a cloth and carried the kettle to pour water on it, Wang Sunchen was stunned and couldn't help but say: "Senator Zhang, isn't this method of extorting confessions too gentle and simple? ”

Zhang Bin looked unfathomable, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Wang Dutou, the simpler things often work better, and whether they are effective or not will soon be known." ”

As he spoke, he took it upon himself to find a stone and raise the captive's foot until it was higher than the captive's head.

"Well, now you can pour water on his face, without pausing until the thief begs for mercy and says everything."

Wang Sunsin was still skeptical, but he still ordered the sergeant to do as Zhang Bin instructed.

And as the waterboarding continued, the suspicion on Wang Sunchen's face turned into a look of surprise and even horror.

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