"Okay, they're fine!"

Guo Yuanzhen agreed very simply,

"As long as I say a word, they will not say a word about going up and down the oil pot, and they will definitely not cause trouble because of impulse at this critical time!"

"That's good."

Li Xingzhou nodded,

"As for my question, General Guo doesn't have to worry."

"Wu Youyi's little conspiracy and Xiaoyang plot can't help me."

"If I hadn't prepared for one or two, I wouldn't have the courage to save those deserters."

"Since he used this as a lever to hit me, I'll give him a good push. In the end, it will be interesting to see who will die! ”

Guo Yuanzhen glanced at him several times, indicating that he was very confused,

"This ...... The marching commander Shi was in charge of all the laws and punishments in the army, and even Huan Yanfan was detained and imprisoned.

Shanhou, please forgive Guo for being presumptuous, how will you deal with this turmoil? ”

"Mountain people have their own tricks."

Li Xingzhou smiled

"It's not that I can't believe General Guo, it's just that there are some things that are not easy to say before they are revealed."

Please let me sell it once! ”

"Okay, then Guo won't ask more."

Guo Yuanzhen hugged a fist,

"In any case, this time the battle of Shuozhou is thanks to the help of the Marquis of Shan.

Guo Yuanzhen is to blame for the defeat of the war! Don't thank you, in the future, Shanhou will have a place to get my Guo Yuanzhen, just speak! ”

"General Guo, it's serious!"

Li Xingzhou smiled and returned the salute.

"You and I are both martial artists of the Tang Dynasty, and we already have the same hatred for each other. From now on, we will be in the same boat! ”

"Haha, Shanhou deserves to be a great talent in Luoyang, this is very pertinent, just what I want!"

Guo Yuanzhen clenched his fists and bowed again, "Then ...... In the same boat! ”

Later, Li Xingzhou and Guo Yuanzhen came to the place where the prisoners were being held, in the backyard of the marching governor's mansion.

In charge of guarding the four Turkic captives were Deputy Lieutenant Li and the soldiers of the assault team.

Li Xingzhou and Guo Yuanzhen arrived in the backyard, and heard Li Baishi and the female prisoner arguing from afar.

"What's the matter, General Ben changed back into the Datang daughter's outfit, do you dare to call me an ugly monster?"

Li Baishi's voice was full of pride.

"It's ugly! Ugly! ”

The female captives were disdainful.

"You don't look in the mirror and look at yourself first

It's ugly! Are your lips too scary, bloody? ”

"I slammed your mouth!"

"Come on, if you have the ability to let me go, I'll fight you!"

Li Xingzhou and Guo Yuanzhen laughed secretly when they heard this.

Sure enough, it is difficult for one mountain to accommodate two tigers, not to mention two tigresses from opposite mountains!

"Li Baishi, stop!"

Li Xingzhou walked in and stopped drinking.

Li Baishi angrily walked out of the room where the slave girl was held.

Hearing Li Xingzhou's reprimand, Li Baishi hurriedly covered his face with his hands and fled.

"I, I'm going to wash my face, I'm going to change my clothes!"

Guo Yuanzhen and the soldiers of the assault team next to him let out a dry cough, and they were about to hold back their internal injuries by holding back their laughter.

Li Xingzhou sighed with tears and laughter.

"This guy is getting more and more nonsense!"

"If you want me to say, Deputy Lieutenant Li is really a lovely and good girl, very upright and cheerful, more like a man than many men, just like the big men in our army!"

Li Xingzhou was speechless.

"General Guo, are you praising or scolding?"

"Praise, praise it!"

Guo Yuanzhen laughed.

"Among the tens of millions of women in the Tang Dynasty, there is only one Deputy Lieutenant Li who can have the same smell as us military martial artists, which is definitely a rare treasure!"

"I think it's a living treasure!"

The two of them laughed as they walked into the room where the middle-aged man in noble clothes was being held.

Li Xingzhou sent Abaoji and three other capable Khitan soldiers.

Keeping a close watch over him day and night.

For such an important role.

It's still more reliable for people like Abaoji who buy with gold.

The middle-aged male prisoner saw Li Xingzhou and Guo Yuanzhen coming in.

Indifferent just sat there, slow and unhurried.

"Have you been tried?"

Guo Yuanzhen glanced at him and asked.

"I've asked a few times along the way, but they haven't said anything."

Li Xingzhou said.

"But it doesn't matter, they don't say it themselves, someone else will tell us who they really are."

Guo Yuanzhen blinked.

"You mean, when General Blacktooth arrives, let General Blacktooth find a way to get them to speak?"

"Don't wait that long."

Li Xingzhou said with a smile,

"If these people are really important, the Turks will naturally send envoys to negotiate the terms of the exchange of prisoners.

If these people are not important at all, then it doesn't matter whether they are tried or not. ”

"It makes sense, the brain of a reader is the light!"

Guo Yuanzhen's eyes lit up.

"If these people weren't important, I don't think the Turks would have retreated so hastily."

Hearing this, the middle-aged male prisoner in the room, who had been pretending to be very calm, suddenly turned his head with a shocked face.

"The mastermind really retreated?!"

"Ho, so you're not dumb?"

Abaoji, who was in charge of guarding him, said with a smile.

"This Chinese language is quite smooth!"

Li Xingzhou and Guo Yuanzhen smiled heartily, this guy is definitely an important person in the Turkic tooth tent.

Otherwise, hearing about "militaristic events" will not make such an expression.

Guo Yuanzhen gave Li Xingzhou a look, and the two exited the room.

Guo Yuanzhen said.

"Ashina Gu Dulu also called himself Khan before joining forces with Ashina Funian.

After joining forces, Fu Nian became the Great Khan, and Ba Ximi was the Little Khan and the master of the army.

This guy blurted out in a hurry just now, calling Ashina Gu Dulu the 'mastermind'.

Instead of calling him 'Khan', as the vast majority of Turkic rebels do.

Then it proves that this guy's status may not be much lower than Ashina's Gu Dulu!.

..... It seems that you have gained a lot this time! ”

Li Xingzhou smiled indifferently and said.

"Actually, I've always felt that among these four people.

The one who has the least status is precisely this guy just now! ”

"What?"

Guo Yuanzhen was taken aback.

.

Li Xingzhou took Guo Yuanzhen aside and said.

"I was observing all the way back, and I found that the most conspicuous of the four captives was naturally the woman.

But no matter how special her identity is, she is not important to military affairs.

Judging from his appearance and clothing, the man in front of us just now looks like a big man.

Actually, no! ”

"How so?" Guo Yuanzhen asked.

"Looks!"

Li Xingzhou said.

"It's hard to hide the look in your eyes. This man often looks silent and indifferent, trying to pretend not to be angry and arrogant.

But I have seen fear and hesitation in his eyes more than once.

Just like just now, when he heard about the retreat of the Turks, he immediately panicked.

If he was really a big man, he should be more composed.

You shouldn't be so surprised by the retreat of your own men, because that's just a reasonable thing......

So I guess he may have some status, but he is definitely not a leader with major decision-making power in military affairs.

Because he couldn't think of this layer! ”

"Makes sense!"

Guo Yuanzhen nodded approvingly.

"What about the other two men who were caught by Deputy Lieutenant Li?"

"The young one who often regarded himself as a grassland nobleman, arrogant and unruly, and did not have much knowledge, like a gentleman, who may be the son of a big man."

Li Xingzhou said.

"As for the other man, he was the most taciturn and inconspicuous along the way.

In terms of attire, he also looks like a guard or a slave.

But I think...... He is definitely the most important of the four! ”

"Why?"

"Because he's so quiet."

Li Xingzhou said.

"The Turks are enemies of the Tang Dynasty, and our people have killed many of them in a surprise attack, and they are their enemies of life and death. When Li Baishi and the female prisoner were arguing fiercely and looked like they were going to beat people, the gentleman man stood up more than once to help and curse.

The Turkic people have always been savage and domineering, but the slave or guard, who is supposed to protect his master, is unusually quiet and has always remained silent.

How could he be if it weren't for the fact that important people were afraid of revealing their identities from their words and deeds?

......

For example, if my house slave was like a shrunken turtle when I was bullied by outsiders, I would not have spared him.

However, the handsome young man and the domineering female captive never complained to him, and the middle-aged man in fine clothes had been trying to play the role of their leader.

All three of them have been trying to get our attention in a variety of different ways, just to cover him! ”

"Clever!"

Guo Yuanzhen's eyes lit up.

"Shall we go see him?"

Li Xingzhou smiled and waved his hand.

"Don't look at it, just hang him like this, so that he thinks that we don't notice anything.

With the captives in hand, the initiative is in our hands, and it should be the Turks who are in a hurry.

No matter how cunning the fox is, it can't escape the hunter's hand.

Let's wait and see how they perform! ”

"Interesting!"

Guo Yuanzhen smiled,

"It's like a cat playing with a mouse!"

Li Xingzhou laughed.

At this moment, one of Guo Yuanzhen's lieutenants trotted over.

"Report, General! ...... The main force of the state reinforcements has arrived! ”

"Ho, Wu Youyi's little miscellaneous hair is here!"

There were no outsiders around, Guo Yuanzhen said with disdain.

"It's coming, it's coming, what's the shouting!"

Said the adjutant general.

"They asked the general to open the city and open the gates, and guide the army to the designated cantonment sites."

"Got it."

Guo Yuanzhen said indifferently.

"Let the 30,000 horses be stationed in the open space north of the city, next to the Great Wall.

They should have brought food and grass or something.

Sheep wine to the army, absolutely not.

Tell them that the only four-legged ones left in Shuozhou City are war horses and Hu beds! ”

The adjutant snorted,

"Yes!"

"You let Guo Dabao arrange these things, he and Wu Youyi used to be colleagues and knew each other well."

Guo Yuanzhen waved his hand, "I'm too lazy to see that little miscellaneous hair!" ”

"Yes!"

The adjutant general complied and trotted away.

Li Xingzhou said with a smile.

"General Guo, you are really jealous and hateful!"

"I want to cut that little stray hair with a knife, too!"

Li Baishi said indignantly.

"He actually wants to arrest Shanhou, it's really boring!"

"You are a girl, how can you scold foul language?" Li Xing glared on Monday.

"I was wrong!"

Li Baishi hurriedly stuck out his tongue and took two steps back.

"The battle in Shuozhou is really tragic. There are only 5,000 warriors left under General Guo's command, and it is not easy to survive.

The assault team also has a number of brothers who are with your men to heal their wounds. ”

Li Xingzhou said.

"Let's go visit the wounded together!"

"Just what I want!"

Guo Yuanzhen waved his hand.

"Let's go, I'll take you!"

Li Xingzhou called Yan Shun and Wang Rare.

The group went with Guo Yuanzhen to visit the wounded and sick.

Medical treatment in the Tang Dynasty was not developed, and people like Guo Yuanzhen were cut open and healed by an arrow, and he couldn't fully recover in less than half a year.

He was lucky, many people who were injured by sword sores had their limbs amputated, and if they were lucky, they might be able to survive.

In the military, the mortality rate of the wounded has always been high. “

Li Xingzhou thought to himself, it would be great if a group of surgeons could treat these wounded.

The logistical support measures of the Datang army need to be strengthened urgently!

Hundreds of wounded soldiers lived together, and there were only a dozen or so military doctors.

Due to the poor supply in the rear, various drugs were scarce.

The wounded were in pain, and wails could be heard from time to time.

On the battlefield, these people are warriors who are not afraid of death.

But once they lay on the sickbed, the torture of the disease was far more painful for them than the sword of the enemy.

The more heroic the warrior, the more unbearable this feeling of "powerlessness".

As a result, many people screamed miserably, and their tempers became very rough.

It's not that they're afraid of pain, they're afraid of death.

It's that I can't bear to turn into a ...... Rubbish!

Guo Yuanzhen and Li Xing appeared on Monday, and the wounded suddenly came to their senses.

Someone crawled close to them,

Someone cried loudly,

There were also people who roared hoarsely......

"I still have a leg, and I can still ride a horse!"

"Give me back the knife!"

"I'm going to fight! Send me up to the castle! ”

"Brothers......"

Guo Yuanzhen shouted, and the wounded were quiet.

Guo Yuanzhen's eyes were wet, and he helped a few people who climbed off the sickbed to lie back, his voice trembling a little, and said.

"You must recuperate with peace of mind, respect the military doctor, and listen to the military doctor as if you were obeying my orders! When your injuries are healed, it is a good man under Guo Yuanzhen's command again, let's go and cut off the heads of the Turks together! ”

"Good ......"

The wounded said yes loudly, sounding like an oath before the battle.

Li Baishi had already run to the sickbed of the soldiers of several assault squads.

Go and tidy up their wounds, carry tea and pour water, and comfort them softly.

Make them happy, just like a virtuous and capable housewife in a big family.

Li Xingzhou looked at all this in front of him and sighed softly.

No wonder it is said in the book of war, "Those who know soldiers are not warlike".

"Kill 1,000 enemies and lose 5,000 yourself."

At the end of a war, no matter whether you win or lose, many people will die, and many of these wounded will have to be added.

If you are slightly injured, you may be able to recover in the future and live like a normal person.

Many of the crippled can only retire in disgrace.

Back in the local area, it is difficult for such people to have any security, and even if they will not lack food and clothing, their lives will become bleak.

Once it will be successful, ten thousand bones will wither!