King Xiao Yan looked at the more than a hundred captives, and smacked his mouth, "One out of ten, kill, let them draw lots to determine life and death by themselves!" ”

The patrolmen laughed.

Xu Xiucai stood there and felt a little collapsed.

None of Grandpa Xu and the people of the caravan stood up to speak.

"Xiao Teamzheng, why don't you take them all back and deal with them according to the law?" Xu Xiucai asked.

Zhang Shigui said on the side, "These Shatuo mercenaries plundered the Silk Road trade routes and killed my people of Great Qin, and they can be killed according to the law." ”

"But now that the battle is over, they are prisoners."

"What about prisoners, although my Great Qin has regulations and military laws that treat prisoners preferentially, it also depends on people, and these people are not qualified for preferential treatment. Ten draws and one kill, it can already be regarded as the mercy of Team Xiao. ”

One merchant sighed, "It can't be said to be merciful, after all, these Turkic mercenaries are all strong, and they are still quite valuable to bring back and sell them as slaves." ”

"But why do you want to kill one out of ten?" Xu Xiucai asked.

"If you don't kill, how can you stop evil if you don't kill? This is a punishment, it is necessary, and one out of ten kills is considered a lesser kill. ”

The seriously injured have been directly killed just now, and it is too troublesome for these people to stay, so they will kill and cut off their heads for meritorious service. Raw prisoners can also be exchanged for meritorious service, but wounded soldiers are too troublesome after all, and they have to kill some people to do it.

Those killed on the battlefield were killed first after the battle, and now there are more than a hundred Shatuo prisoners left.

Zhang Laosan and the others cut some red willow branches, ten handfuls, one of which was stained with blood at one end and turned black and purple after being dried up.

"Come on, life and death are fate, wealth is in the sky, it doesn't matter if you are a servant or a thief, anyway, you have already robbed the Silk Road caravan, this is a capital crime. Now I give you a lenient chance, those who draw blood lots, die, and the other nine can live. ”

The captives were divided in groups of ten.

Then the third child held ten red willow branches for them to smoke.

"Smoke it!"

A shatuo's hand trembled, and he didn't dare to smoke it.

"One, two, three, I count to ten, if I don't draw it, I'll think it's you."

The man closed his eyes and quickly smoked one, but when he opened his eyes, there was no blood, and he smiled.

"Next."

The second one was also drawn.

The third guy pulled it out and looked at it, and his face changed drastically. "No!"

He drew a blood lot.

The third child smiled at the man, chewing the betel nut in his mouth, "Master, you are not very lucky, you nine, liberated, now, take this knife, one knife per person, cut off this guy's limbs and head, give me the head, and throw the rest over there, waiting to feed the wolf." ”

"No, I still have a wife and children waiting for me to go back."

The third child sneered, "Who doesn't have a wife and children at home, when you robbed and killed the caravan, didn't you think that they also had wives and children waiting for them to go back?" ”

"Still stunned what to do, do it!"

The unlucky guy looked at the other nine people pleadingly, but they finally pushed him aside, and after a knife slash, the man's screams disappeared, and a bloody head was sent to Zhang Laosan.

The third child smiled, "Xu Jialang, please come over and help us register the name of this unlucky ghost, and you can tell this Xu Dalang his identity carefully." ”

1 out of 10 kills.

More than a dozen unlucky ghosts drew blood lots, were killed by their accomplices, and more than a dozen heads were placed there, Xu Xiucai endured the churning in his stomach, wrote simple identity information such as names on these guys, wrote them on a wooden card, and then put them on the side of the heads.

"Take lime, deal with these heads, and you have to repay the merit when you go back, if it is so rotten that it doesn't look like it, then you can't say clearly."

Xu Xiucai stood aside, looked at those Turks, and felt that they were actually very pitiful.

"What's going to happen to these people next?"

"What else, first send to the military fort, and then escort to Gaochang City, Anxi, where there will be a trial, and then these people will eventually be sold into slavery, and half of the money will be rewarded to Xiao Team Zheng, and the remaining half will be handed over to the state treasury, and half will be put into the Anxi Mansion."

These Shatuo Turks may be sent to a mine in the Central Plains to mine, or to a workshop to work, or they may go to Lingnan to make sugarcane and go to Andong to open up wasteland, but they will never return to their home in Shatuo.

"What should I do now, I can't imagine that the mastermind is actually Prince Qiuzi."

Zhang Shigui is wiping the armor off his body, and is ready to hand it over to Xiao Teamzheng and them, although this armor is obtained by him by killing the Turks, but according to the rules, it is a felony to possess armor privately, and ordinary people are not allowed to privately possess armor, even if it is a felony, it should be hanged.

The people of the caravan had already rearranged the goods, and at this time they came to thank the Xiao team for being them.

"Zhang Tou, thank you, the eight brothers who died in the battle, our caravan is willing to give 20,000 yuan each, and the original reward will be doubled to their families."

Originally, six guards died, but later in the camp the guards also joined the battle after they got out of trouble, and everyone sacrificed their lives to kill the thieves with the patrol, and two guards were killed.

Twenty-one had died in the caravan, and seven more in the camp.

This trip, from Chang'an to Qiuziba to change cities, in fact, only half of the way, but twenty-eight merchants and eight guards have already died.

"We plan to continue to Kangju, I don't know if Zhang Tou and the other brothers are willing to continue to escort, if they are willing, we will double the original payment, if not, we will also give the promised payment, just send us to Bachang City, so that we can hire the guards again."

After this battle, the caravan also suffered heavy losses, but everyone did not flinch, and the dead merchants, they will be handed over to the patrol to help temporarily place them in the fort, and see if they can bring them back when they return in the future. And their goods, they will help to take them to Kangju to help sell them, and the proceeds will be brought back to the merchant's home.

Zhang Shigui sighed, there were twenty-five brothers when he came, eight died, and now there are seventeen, and there are heavy casualties.

"Since we have taken over this job, we will complete this mission, and when we get to Bachang City, I will recruit a few more people to escort us."

"Then thank you for your righteousness."

Suo Zijia was returned to Team Xiao, and King Xiao Yan asked him to accept it, "Brother Zhang, this time to destroy the thieves, thanks to you for leading the way, in addition, you have killed so many bandits, I will also ask my superiors for your credit, and then there will be a reward for you." You alone killed thirteen Shatuo thieves, which is a great achievement. ”

Zhang Shigui smiled, "I also rely on my riding and archery skills, strong bows and arrows, and your protection from Team Xiao." But if you really want to talk about it, it's still the Xiao team and the patrol team that are powerful, fifty horsemen, and they forcibly destroyed three hundred Shatuo mercenaries. ”

"What's the next plan for Team Xiao?"

"You mean the prince of the turtles?" Team Xiao asked.

"Well, you can't just leave it at that, right?"

"How is it possible, dare to rob and kill the Silk Road caravan in my territory, kill my people, this is not to give me face to King Xiao Yan, I am a good person. No matter where I, someone will always bring me paper, and now this prince wants to and pee on my head, so I have to meet him. King Xiao Yan said, even if the other party is Prince Qiuzi, he is just talking about an ordinary horse thief.

Zhang Shigui was extremely excited when he heard this, "Count me alone, I have eight brothers who died, they were all brought by me from Dunhuang, but now I can't bring them back, I must seek justice for them!" ”

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