Chapter 34: Capture the Thief and Capture the King
It can be seen that in order to capture Hanzhong City, the vast majority of barbarians have left the valley.
Along the way, they did not encounter a patrol or a sentry, until they sneaked to the largest tent in the center of the camp, when they finally saw six brute guards standing outside the tent.
Liu Xiu and the three of them hid next to a nearby camp tent, squatted down, and looked at it for a moment, Liu Xiu picked up a stone and made a backward gesture to the two county army men. The two of them understood and nodded together.
They slowly retreated, hiding behind the tent, and Liu Xiu shot out the stone bullet in his hand. Syllable! The stone fell to the ground with a soft thud.
The six barbarian guards standing guard outside the tent of the Chinese army all heard the movement, they looked at each other, separated the two, and walked towards the camp where Liu Xiu and they were hiding.
The two guards went to the side of the tent, looked around, and found nothing unusual, and when they were about to go around to the back of the tent to take a look, a man jumped out from the back of the tent, and the two barbarian guards did not even see who was coming, but the man had come to them, and struck like lightning, and grabbed them by the throats.
The two wanted to shout, but they couldn't make a sound from their tightly choked throats.
The two of them subconsciously wanted to draw their knives, but it was too late, and then the two county army men who rushed out, one of them stabbed a knife, piercing the hearts of the two guards.
Liu Xiu bent down and slowly lowered the two corpses hanging from his hands to the ground. Then he gestured a few times to the two county army men, and slowly stepped back.
The two companions went to check on the situation, but they were gone, and the remaining four guards looked at each other, separated into two, and walked towards the tent on the other side.
As soon as the two of them left with their front feet, Liu Xiu seemed to be a ghost, walked out from behind the Chinese military tent, and quietly came behind a guard, covering his mouth with one hand, and strangling the other party's neck with the other arm.
The guard next to him heard the movement, and subconsciously looked back, he first saw his companion who fell to the ground, his face changed suddenly, he opened his mouth wide and was about to shout, how high he jumped, Liu Xiu, who fell from the sky, smashed his elbow on the top of his head.
Now Liu Xiu's own strength is already extremely strong, coupled with the inertia of the body falling, the strength of this elbow can be imagined.
Click! The guard's Heavenly Spirit Cover was shattered by Liu Xiu's elbow and fell to the ground.
The two guards who were walking towards the camp next to them heard that the movement behind them was wrong, and hurriedly turned around to look back, and the two saw their companions lying on the ground, and also saw Liu Xiu, who was standing there in black.
They subconsciously drew their scimitars and shouted, "You...... (Barbarian)"
The two of them only spit out one word, and the two county army men silently touched them from behind, one of them slashed, and slashed the throats of the two of them cleanly.
It's too late, it's too fast, and it's just a matter of blink of an eye for Liu Xiu and the three of them to get rid of these six guards.
After cleaning up the guards outside the tent of the Chinese army, Liu Xiu and the others secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Liu Xiu asked two county army men to drag the guard's body to the shadows, while he himself walked to the curtain of the Chinese military tent, slowly opened a gap, squinted his eyes, and looked inside.
The Chinese military tent is divided into two layers, the outer layer is used for discussing military affairs, and the inner layer is used to live in people.
The outer layer was pitch black, there was no one, but the inner layer was faintly bright, and Liu Xiu could faintly hear a woman's sobbing.
He frowned slightly, his figure shook, and he flashed into the tent of the Chinese army. He casually pulled out the scimitar pinned to his waist, raised his legs high, landed lightly, and walked straight to the curtain that entered the inner layer, and pulled the curtain a little.
The inner layer of the Chinese military tent is lit with candles, which is quite bright, and the space here is relatively small compared to the outer layer, with a few blankets made of animal skins in the center, which is considered a bed, and a circle of wooden fences around it.
What made Liu Xiu angry was that the people locked up in the wooden fence were all women, all of them with their hair scattered, and they were not hung at all, and it was estimated that there were five or six people.
On the bed, there was a fat middle-aged brute, and on either side of him, on each kneeling sat a naked woman, with a rope tied around her neck, and the other end of the rope was grasped by the middle-aged brute's hand, like a leashed dog.
At this time, the middle-aged brute was closing his eyes, enjoying the service of the two women beside him. Liu Xiu looked at it, opened the curtain with a bang, and strode into the Chinese military tent.
The women present didn't seem to expect someone to suddenly break in, and the appearance of the person who came was too scary, the clothes on their bodies were black, their hands were black, and even their faces were black.
They screamed in fright and curled up in a ball. The two women kneeling beside the middle-aged barbarian screamed and retreated.
The middle-aged brute who was enjoying was woken up, he opened his eyes, his face was angry, and when he saw Liu Xiu who was coming straight to him, he subconsciously asked, "Who are you?" (Barbarian)"
Liu Xiu couldn't understand the barbarian language, and even if he did, he wouldn't answer his questions. He walked up to the middle-aged brute, who was about to sit up from the animal skin blanket when Liu Xiu kicked him in the chest.
This kick kicked the middle-aged brute back to lie down on the animal skin blanket, and the latter covered his chest with both hands, his face turned red, and after a while, he opened his mouth wide and let out a scream like killing a pig.
Liu Xiu didn't have any extra nonsense, cut the rope in his hand with a knife, turned his head to look at the two women with shocked faces, and said, "Go find a piece of clothing to wear." ”
After speaking, his gaze fell back to the middle-aged brute. I saw that the middle-aged barbarian stopped howling, turned over, and crawled on the animal skin blanket with his hands and feet, and after crawling out of a distance, he stood up with difficulty, looked at Liu Xiu in surprise and horror, and asked in half-baked Chinese: "You...... Who are you? ”
Liu Xiu looked around and saw a roll of rope thrown on the ground against the wall, he walked up to the middle-aged barbarian and kicked him on the outside of his knee, the middle-aged barbarian snorted, his body hit horizontally in the air, and fell heavily to the ground.
Without waiting for him to scream, Liu Xiu stepped on his back, then put the rope on the neck of the middle-aged barbarian, and then strangled it a little harder, and the middle-aged barbarian almost lost his breath on the spot. He grabbed the rope around his neck with both hands and pulled it outward.
Liu Xiu ignored him, pulled the rope, and dragged the middle-aged barbarian up from the ground. The middle-aged barbarian's hands scratched blood marks on his neck, his eyes bulged outward, and the green tendons on the side of his face jumped high.
Seeing that the middle-aged barbarian was about to be strangled to death by himself, Liu Xiu let go of his hand a little, and let the rope that strangled the middle-aged man's neck loosen a little.
As the rope was released, the middle-aged brute opened his mouth wide and inhaled heavily.
Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Liu Xiu raised his hand and patted his cheek a few times, and when the middle-aged barbarian's gaze met his gaze, Liu Xiu opened his mouth and asked, "Your name is Xiesang?" ”
The middle-aged barbarian was stunned for a moment, subconsciously shook his head and said, "I don't ......"
As soon as he said two words, the women in the wooden fence shouted, "He's Shesan!" He is the patriarch of the Shetsan! ”
When Liu Xiu heard this, he looked at the middle-aged barbarian again, and the cold light in his eyes became more and more prosperous. The middle-aged barbarian only looked at Liu Xiu for a moment, then he shivered and stammered, "I...... I'm Shesan...... Other...... Don't kill me, I'll give you whatever you want......"
Before he finished speaking, Liu Xiu suddenly pulled out one of his ears, and the scimitar in his hand was picked up from the bottom up, and he heard a scream, and Xiesang's right ear was cut off by a knife.
Shetsang clutched the side of his head, wailing desperately. At this time, the sound of fighting was already heard outside, and the shouts of Xiesan must have attracted the barbarians in the valley, and the two county soldiers had already exchanged hands.
Liu Xiu held the rope, dragged Xiesan, walked out of the Chinese military tent, and went outside, sure enough, the two county army men had been surrounded by many barbarians. Liu Xiu shouted: "Stop!" As he spoke, he placed the knife in his hand on Shessan's short, stubby neck.
People were startled by his sudden voice, and when they turned their heads, they saw that the old patriarch was actually being held hostage.
People's first instinct was to rush to the rescue. However, they only ran two steps, and Liu Xiu's scimitar had already cut the skin of Xie Sang's neck, and blood flowed down the wound.
Shesang was horrified, his face turned pale, and shouted at the people who ran: "Don't come here! Don't come here! (Barbarian)"
The barbarians stopped one after another and looked at him and Liu Xiu blankly.
Seeing that Liu Xiu had successfully restrained Xiesan, the two men of the county army, who were already desperate, immediately came to their senses, and the two of them ran out of the crowd and arrived at Liu Xiu's side, they couldn't hide the excitement in their hearts, they were overjoyed, nodded at Liu Xiu again and again, and praised in a low voice: "Brother, it's good!" ”
Liu Xiu nodded to the two of them and said to Shesang, "Let your people release all the captured Han Chinese!" ”
Shetsan's face changed, his head bowed, and he didn't speak. Liu Xiu pressed the scimitar on his neck again, and this time, more blood flowed out of his neck. Xie Sang no longer dared to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and shouted at his people: "Release people!" Let the captives go! (Barbarian)"
Although Shetsang is old and is not in charge of affairs now, and the affairs of the clan are basically handled by Shetu, but Shesan is still the patriarch after all, and no one dares to disobey his orders.
A few people hurriedly turned around and ran to the back.
Liu Xiu squinted his eyes and watched the group of barbarians run away, and he said to Xiesang: "Don't play tricks with me, otherwise, you will be the first to die!" ”
As the patriarch of Xiesan, he is respected and offered by people on weekdays, when was he so badly threatened? But now that he has fallen into the hands of others, he is under the low eaves and has to bow his head.
After a quarter of an hour or so, a large group of people dressed in the uniforms of the county army were escorted by dozens of barbarians.
The county soldiers had their hands tied behind their backs, some with their heads drooping, others with sad and angry faces.
When they were brought to the Chinese military tent by the barbarians, and when they saw the situation at the scene, people couldn't help but be stunned, and they couldn't figure out what was going on.
Liu Xiu glanced at the captured county soldiers and asked the two county soldiers, "Are they all?" ”