Park Hyuk-chul's arm was twisted behind his back for a long time, and the horse's back was unusually bumpy, both arms were dislocated, and after the rope was untied, the arm could not come back.

Park Hyuk-chul knelt down for Li Mao without saying a word, and muttered a bunch of words in his mouth, but Li Mao couldn't understand a word, looking back at the translation of Ma Hedong, Ma Hedong was also dumbfounded, and he couldn't understand what Park Hyuk-chul said.

Shi Xiong was alert and asked Ma Hedong: "Is there a lot of Silla dialect, this old general was born in Jeonju, is the local accent very strong?" ”

Ma Hedong guarded Pyongyang for many years, often dealt with the Silla people, not only learned their language, but also knew the geography and customs of Silla well, known as Silla Tong, how do you know that people say something casually, he can't understand it, suddenly feel embarrassed, and snorted: "Although Silla has dozens of counties in Kyushu, but the place is not big, no matter how heavy the accent is, there is no reason why I can't understand a word." ”

Shi Xiong touched his chin and said, "Could it be that I took the wrong person, isn't this Park Hyuk-chul?" ”

He looked at the veteran again, and took out the portrait provided by the right chamber: "Over eighty years old, with a hard body, bright hair, a sarcoma in the center of his eyebrows, less than six feet tall, and a cut off the little finger of his left hand." It's him, no doubt. Otherwise, I'll go find a captive and confess it. ”

Chang Heqing said with a smile: "General Shi don't be impatient, the old general is frightened, drink some hot soup, and rest for a while." At this time, Li Mao had already helped Park Hyuk-chul up, sat him down, and gave him a bowl of hot tea.

His arms were sore and numb, and he didn't obey the call, and Park Hyuk-chul fed most of the bowl of tea to his armor.

After a while, he knelt down to Li Mao again, and Chang Heqing and Cai Wencai helped him up.

Park Hyuk-chul said: "Silla is a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, and it should be the gift of the subject country, pay tribute on time, and enter the festival on New Year's Day, Kim sojong steals the country as the king, arrogant and arrogant, and instigates the ignorant crowd to fight against the kingdom. Therefore, he put aside the guards and deliberately fell into battle, just to ask to see the captain and personally declare his heart of submission. The old man is willing to be driven by the Taiwei, take the golden city directly, capture the demon king alive and sacrifice it to Chang'an, and save my country from the doom of overturning. ”

Ma Hedong is a second knife in the end, the translated sentences are very blunt, and there are some small errors in many places, but the general meaning Li Mao understands. Park Hyuk-chul said that he deliberately set aside the guards and let Shi Xiong be captured, in order to see himself and personally express his desire to return to the Tang Dynasty. And he was also willing to be Li Mao's guide, guide the Tang army all the way to Jincheng, capture Jin Xiuzong alive and sacrifice it to Chang'an, and save Silla from the overthrow.

Lao Er said these words to save his life and was born to improvise, or he had this plan a long time ago, Li Mao couldn't see through it for a while. But to say that he deliberately trapped the battle and brought it to Shi Xiong is obviously very nonsense, before the two armies are arrayed, how do you know that Shi Xiong captured him alive, not the result of a knife, and brought someone else's head to see him? That is, Shi Daring and other arrogant people, Fei took him across the river with all these twists and turns, and replaced it with Shi Xianzhong, who was killed with an arrow earlier and cut off other people's heads to see him.

It doesn't hurt to tell a small lie and save a little face, there is no need to worry too much about this kind of thing, but there are other things that the veteran said that made Li Mao feel surprised and unspeakable.

He said that Jin Xiuzong was lost in the hearts of the people in the country, and even he, a person who was half buried in the soil, couldn't look past it, and was ready to capture him alive and dedicate him to His Majesty the Emperor of Chang'an. But without beating a stick, he turned around and helped outsiders calculate his own king, what is going on?

Park Hyuk-chul said these words with a shy face, and his heart hurt like a pinprick, but he had his considerations:

The overall situation of the battle of Hanju has been decided, the rout of Silla is inevitable, Li Mao does not need to cross the river and fight hard, as long as he continues to consume, Silla itself will collapse. If this battle is won, it is only a matter of time before he goes south to capture Jincheng, either this winter or next spring, and it will not drag on until summer at the latest.

Sooner or later, Jincheng will not be able to be saved, the difference is that it was stormed by the Tang army, or Jin Xiuzong surrendered the city himself, according to his own understanding of Jin Xiuzong's personality, he most likely has to fight for a jade stone, this person has changed since he became the king, no longer the old reason and calculation, full of strange vain thoughts.

In fact, either way, it was a disaster for Silla.

If the Tang army had occupied Jincheng by force, killed the king, and even slaughtered the city, would this country still exist? Li Mao was furious, what should he do if he turned Silla into a state and county of the Tang Dynasty?

In the first battle of Hanju, Silla lost most of the country's youth and strength, Jincheng went down again, and the elite of the country was destroyed.

Even if there are unyielding people hiding in the mountains to continue to resist, and what can be done in the general trend, the youth and the elite of Silla and the country have been wiped out, how easy is it to restore the country, as fast as three or five years, slow as more than ten years, and the seventy-two counties of Kyushu here have not all returned to the Tang Dynasty?

In order to avoid the danger of destroying the country and extinction, Park Hyuk-chul could only go out and cooperate with Li Mao, acting as a leading messenger, and even cobbling together one of his troops to take the lead for Li Mao and act as a pioneer.

The enemy is too strong, and it is not an opponent to meet head-on, so get close to him, be vain and wronged, serve carefully, and do your best to protect the country and race, although you will be stinking for thousands of years, but you can still keep the population.

I am an octogenarian man, and I still need some face, and I will let it go.

Li Mao also quickly understood the intention of the veteran, he reiterated that Silla was a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, and specifically emphasized that the people and generals of Silla also thought the same, no one wanted to be disrespectful to the kingdom, and today's tragedy was because there was an unsympathetic king in Silla who instigated a group of ignorant scoundrels to make the situation more deadlocked.

Out of such a king, it is the misfortune of Silla, the Tang Dynasty raised troops to crusade, reasonable, extremely correct, the people and generals of Silla are eating pot pulp, ready to welcome the arrival of the king, after all, the Tang Dynasty sent troops to help the people of Silla!

The Silla people are not confused, but also know how to be grateful.

He Park Hyuk-chul volunteered to act as a guide, guiding the soldiers of the kingdom to take Jincheng directly, and take the unobtrusive king away, this is to save the entire Silla and avoid the danger of extinction of the country, as long as the operation is good, at least he can enjoy honor during his lifetime, as for whether he will be overturned by future generations and infamous through the ages, that is later, and now he can only take one step at a time.

The veteran did not know how to fight, but came closely, dwarfed himself, stabilized himself, and coaxed himself into the idea of destroying Silla, and deceived himself to be the liberator of Silla, rather than the invader who killed the king and destroyed the country.

He was willing to take the risk to help him replace a king he didn't like, but he would not allow the Tang Dynasty to destroy Silla and turn Silla into a state and county of the Tang Dynasty.

Whether this plan can succeed remains to be seen in the future, but it is really better than the frontal hard top effect.

Li Mao still had to consider this matter, so he didn't answer him face-to-face. He left Park Hyuk-chul in the camp to recuperate and block the news to the outside world, believing that the news would also be tightly sealed on the other side of the Han River.

Judging from the information provided by the right chamber, Park Hyuk-chul still has considerable influence in Silla, and he is even more famous in the Silla army, if he is willing to break with Kim so-jong, the impact on the war situation will be fundamental, after Hanju, Silla will not be able to organize any decent resistance, and the army will go south as if it were no one.

But although the veteran is old, he is not confused at all, and he is definitely a responsible person, once he cooperates with him, he will incite public opinion to bind himself, so that he can capture his king but not destroy his country.

Is this deal a good deal, Li Mao needs to think about it seriously.

In the early morning of the 2nd, Shi Xianzhong crossed the river and came back, his left arm was injured, and he was put on his neck with a bandage. Li Mao scolded: "As a general of the unified army, you can't bear the itch of skills to fight with the opponent's guards, and you can't win without force, and it's ridiculous to lose." If I am captured by Silla like Park Hyuk-chul again, how can I have the face of the Tang Dynasty? ”

Shi Xianzhong apologized and said: "I originally wanted to try their steel fire, but I didn't want to poke the hornet's nest, so I had to put on the battle in person, but fortunately I won in the end." ”

Li Mao frowned and said, "The combat effectiveness of the Silla cavalry is so strong? ”

Shi Xianzhong said: "Otherwise, they are all palace cavalry guards, the elite of the elite, in terms of combat effectiveness, there is little difference between them and the Hebei elite cavalry, but the soldiers are too few, less than a thousand." ”

Li Mao nodded and said: "This time to cross the river, Shi Xiong is the first meritorious, and you also have merit after you break it, but you personally took risks and set a bad example. ”

Shi Xianzhong said: "There is no objection, there are a total of 200 palace guards guarding Park Hyuk-chul, and these people are not only Park Hyuk-chul's guards, but also the eyes and ears of the King of Silla to monitor the former army commander. A total of sixty-eight people were chased to the river, sixty-five people were killed, and three were captured. ”

Li Mao smiled: "There is still a living mouth, it is very good, let everyone go." You can recuperate with peace of mind, and there will be a big battle to fight in the coming days. ”