It was the first time I enjoyed interrogating a prisoner. Although the prisoners in the hall are not the same as those in the ordinary sense, the feeling of sitting in the lobby is always very refreshing.

Of course, there will be unhappy ones, and now Shamoke, who is tied up like a dumpling under the hall, is very unhappy. Like a wounded beast, he roared angrily and feebly under the twine-thick rope of his thumb.

Shamoko became even angrier when he saw me laughing, and he yelled at me viciously, "What a laugh! Laugh again and I'll tear you to shreds! ”

He looked so vicious that I was a little scared even though I knew he had no power to break free. I think it's time for me to do something about him, after all, I'm on the winning side now, and where can he be so presumptuous as a defeated general.

I smiled and said to him, "It seems that you are burning a little high now, and you still don't understand your current situation, come on!" Bring me a bucket of cold water! I want the kind that is freshly dug out of the well! ”

A soldier in the hall responded to the call, and after a while, he brought a wooden bucket of cold water, and I said: "Quickly go to General Sha to remove the fire, from the top down, pour him directly!" ”

Shamoke instantly turned into a soup chicken, looking at his embarrassed appearance, but what did he call a tough guy: "Happy!" Joyfully! Give Lao Tzu another bucket! "In the summer, the well water is cold, and even though the temperature is quite high now, it is not so pleasant to be poured from head to toe all at once.

So my next words obviously made him less "excited", and I smiled and said to him: "How can I have a bucket?" Someone! Bring ten more buckets of water to General Sha! ”

Then ten more soldiers went down to the court, and when ten buckets of water were fetched, I told them to put the water behind Shamoko, who stopped shouting, but looked at me with puffed eyes.

Now Liu Bei wants to reject Cao Cao in the north on the one hand, and on the other hand, because of the occupation of Jingzhou and Sun Quan, I really don't want to provoke such a big enemy of the barbarians for him. However, last time I released Shana, the barbarians did not give up, although Shana wanted to fulfill her promise, but I dare not guarantee that this time I will release Shamoko, Shamoko is willing to stop the war and can also stop.

So I asked Shamoke: "If I let you go back this time, can you guarantee that your barbarians will never attack my Wuling County and live in peace with us?" ”

Although Shamoko is brave, it does not mean that he is a fool. As soon as he heard that I could let him go back, he immediately put away his extremely fierce appearance, and hurriedly nodded at me: "Okay, as long as you are willing to let me go back, I will go back and try my best to persuade my father to retreat!" ”

It's just that I'm not stupid and I'm even less stupid, although he agreed happily and said it nicely, but there are too many variables in the word "best effort". I'm sure that Shana's girl also counts, and she must have tried her best to convince the Barbarian King not to attack me, but what about the truth? The fact is that the barbarian prince led 100,000 barbarian soldiers straight to our county town, and I was so frightened that I "abandoned the city and fled", and I could only work hard from guerrilla warfare.

Originally, all my previous plans were to rely on one or two ambushes in the field to turn the situation around and repel the barbarians, but I didn't expect Zheng Liang's impatience to let me directly arrest the future leader of the Wuxi barbarians. I felt that Shamoko should have a heavier weight in the heart of the barbarian king than Shana, so I thought about ending the war as soon as possible.

However, I also know that this war will definitely not be avoided just by releasing Shamoko now, and I need a good messenger to negotiate with the barbarian king now, and I need to get the barbarian king's exact guarantee of withdrawal before I can release Shamoko.

But who is this man? I thought as I looked at Ma Yan. I looked at Ma Jian and thought about it, but I still shook my head, although Ma Jian is good as a staff officer in history, he has never shown his talent in diplomacy, plus he is now young and vigorous, if he goes to the barbarian king, he will be stiffened and cut down by the barbarian king, I will lose too much.

At this moment, a voice sounded on my right: "My lord, I don't think we can let him go back easily, in case he can't let the barbarian king withdraw after he returns, we will lose a great bargaining chip." ”

I looked to the right, and it was Xie Xian who made the sound. As soon as my heart moved, I took the opportunity to ask him: "Then what should I do with the opinion of the county order?" ”

Xie Xian replied: "According to the opinion of my subordinates, we should send someone to the barbarian king's camp and explain it to him, prompting the barbarian king to personally make a guarantee to withdraw his troops, and it is not too late to let him go." ”

Xie Xian's statement can be said to be exactly what I want, and I guessed that he might want to recommend himself as this messenger, but this errand is really dangerous, I don't understand why he is so active, he doesn't look like a greedy person, otherwise with the talent he showed when defending the city, he would not have become a county commander at this age.

I asked him hypocritically, "Which of you is better to be this messenger?" ”

Xie Xian replied: "According to the subordinates, the body of the adult's daughter can't go, and the only person who can do this in the city is old!" ”

I was secretly happy in my heart, although I didn't know if he would be able to move the barbarian king to withdraw if he went as an envoy, but at the moment he was indeed the best person I could think of. Just as I was about to say a few polite words to Xie Xian and say something like being more careful when going to danger, I heard "Hmph! Ma Tan actually stood up from the chair listening in the hall and walked up to me and said, "My lord, although I am not talented, I can also do this thing of retreating from the enemy camp in depth, I beg my lord to let me go!" After speaking, he glanced at Xie Xian with some dissatisfaction.

I didn't expect Xie Xian's sentence "Among the people in the city who can be qualified for this position, only the old decay!" "I actually stimulated Ma Tan, but I don't have a brain around me now, and Ma Jian can be regarded as one of my arms, whether the barbarian king retreats or not can't be met, and I can't lose him at this time. So I had to comfort him and said: "I will definitely be able to succeed if I go often, but there are still a lot of things that need you around me now, so I should trouble Xie County Order this time!" ”

Although Ma Tan is still a little stubborn, he can only step aside when I say this. In this way, the matter was settled, and Shamoko was put into a separate cell in the county jail, and in addition to the cell in charge of the jail, I sent a team of ten people under my command to guard it.

I waited in Hanshou City for two days, and Xie Xiancai brought back the good news of the barbarian king's retreat, and he came back and told me that the barbarian king had agreed to the conditions of our retreat, and now he had retreated a hundred miles from the county town, and as long as I put Shamoke on my side, they would return to their settlement. I was overjoyed to hear that it was great that such a crisis of this magnitude could be resolved in such a bloodless way.

Unexpectedly, Xie Xian, the old man, took advantage of my happiness and said to me a little cowardly, in addition to the above, he also privately agreed to a condition for the barbarian king for me. I was so happy that I thought the barbarian wanted me to pay some money to make amends, so I asked him to speak quickly. But after Xie Xian told me the conditions he had promised, I was stunned for a long time, and I became worried again.