After the military discussion was over, Zheng San stood up and hugged his fists and said: "General, there are more than 20,000 Sogdian prisoners, these people can be used to siege the city, and it is not a waste of food to raise them, but in addition to the more than 20,000 Sogdian soldiers, there are more than 20,000 prisoners of the food army, if you want to raise such a large number of prisoners, it is a huge burden in terms of food and grass!" ”

Zhao Chongyu on the side of the Anxi army also stood up and hugged his fists at this time: "General, these nearly 20,000 captives not only consume a lot of grain and grass, but also are very dangerous, and it is necessary to arrange special arrangements for the army to guard them, if the guards are not strict, it is very likely that something will happen!" We can't fight with such a large number of captives, but it doesn't seem safe to send people to guard them here." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

These two people explained the consequences of raising such a large group of captives from two aspects, the first is to consume a lot of food and grass, and the second is that it is too dangerous to guard such a group of captives, after all, the values, beliefs, and cultural backgrounds of the two sides are completely different, and it is easy to conflict.

Zhao Ziliang stood up, his eyes flashed with coldness, and he looked at the generals and officials in the tent and said in a deep voice: "Since this is the case, then all of them will be killed!" ”

The big tent instantly became silent, although many people thought that it was not safe to keep such a large number of prisoners, but they did not think of killing such a large group of prisoners, nearly 20,000 people, this is not a small number.

At this time, a shrill voice sounded in the big tent: "No, Zhao Ziliang, you are killing indiscriminately, killing such a large number of prisoners, this will bring a brutal notoriety to our dynasty, and it will discredit the court and the emperor!" ”

Everyone didn't have to follow the sound to look over, they knew that the person who spoke, Bian Lingcheng, was the prison guard. Zhao Ziliang looked at Bian Lingcheng and said with a cold face: "Bian Gelding, the general has already said that the affairs of my Beiting Army are not yet your turn to interfere with the Anxi Supervision Army, which onion are you?" If you meddle in the affairs of our army here again, you will fuck me out, Lao Tzu is not welcome here! ”

Zhao Ziliang's words can be said to be almost unreasonable, and there are scolding words in every sentence, Bian Ling Cheng's face turned pale with anger, and his trembling fingers pointed at Zhao Ziliang: "You."

Cao Lingzhong saw that the two were about to fall out again, and hurriedly stood up to put out the fire: "Oh, general, Lord Bian, if you have something to say, you look at you, you are in a hurry as soon as you speak, what is this for, now we are all people in the same boat, and it is not good for anyone if the boat capsizes, right?" ”

Bian Lingcheng said angrily: "General Cao, you also saw it, the miscellaneous family didn't provoke him, what if the miscellaneous family said their opinion?" It was he who insulted the miscellaneous family indiscriminately and deliberately stirred up trouble! ”

There was a conflict between Zhao Ziliang and Bian Lingcheng, and only Cao Lingzhong was qualified to mediate in the entire army, if Cao Lingzhong didn't care, I was afraid that things would be worse, and it was not good for him to help anyone now, after all, the two had their own reasons.

Cao Lingzhong said to Zhao Ziliang: "General Zhao, in fact, Lord Bian has no other meaning, and the general should indeed consider the impact of killing so many prisoners, this is not a trivial matter!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was silent for a while, looked at Bian Lingcheng and said: "Okay, since you think you can't kill these prisoners, then you can guard this batch of prisoners, I will give you 5,000 Anxi soldiers and horses, and all the food and grass needed by this batch of prisoners will be solved by yourself, if something happens, you will also bear it, and the general will not be responsible!" ”

When Bian Lingcheng heard this, he jumped up and pointed at Zhao Ziliang and scolded: "The surname is Zhao, what do you mean?" You only give 5,000 soldiers, but you don't give food and grass, do you want to let the miscellaneous family guard the prisoners, or do you want to kill the miscellaneous family? The cannibals have captured tens of thousands of our captives, and I haven't seen them kill them, why are you so cruel and unkind? ”

Zhao Ziliang couldn't suppress his anger anymore, and roared: "They don't kill the prisoners because they can grab enough grain and grass to maintain, can my Tang army rob it here?" Lao Tzu is cruel and unkind? Do you think Lao Tzu was born with a penchant for killing? This group of captives is not 200, nor 2,000, but more than 20,000 people, and they have to consume 20,000 catties of grain a day! Where did Lao Tzu conjure up so much grain and grass to feed them? You have the ability, you can command the army, the Beiting army will withdraw to Tingzhou tomorrow, Lao Tzu doesn't care! ”

After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, he snorted coldly, flicked his cloak and walked out of the tent, Cao Lingzhong was anxious when he saw it, how could this work? If the Beiting army withdrew, it was difficult to say whether the Anxi army, which was now demoralized, could subdue those Sogdian servants, and if he wanted to drive the big cannibals out of the land of Sogdia, he asked himself if he did not have the confidence and ability.

Cao Lingzhong hurriedly grabbed Zhao Ziliang and persuaded him bitterly: "Oh, my general, don't be angry, okay?" The battle has come to this point, you don't do it with a word, what can you do with me? What should tens of thousands of Anxi Army soldiers do? If you have something to say, let's discuss and discuss, why bother to pick a son and leave if you don't agree? Besides, your General Zhao's personality, I Cao still don't know, it's not your style to give up halfway! ”

Zhao Ziliang spread his hands: "General Cao, it's not that Zhao wants to give up halfway, it's that this prison army of yours always wants to interfere with my actions, since I can't do it anymore, then why am I staying here?" Anyway, I can't feed this army of nearly 70,000 people, so that they can eat enough to fight, and at the same time raise more than 20,000 big food troops that may be attacked at any time, since he wants to raise them, then he can only let him take care of them! ”

Cao Lingzhong asked pitifully, "General Zhao, is there no other way to compromise a little?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "More than 20,000 people always have to eat, if you don't give them food, they make a fuss, if we want to suppress it, we must also kill them, unless we are willing to be killed by them." If there is enough food and grass, of course General Ben does not want to kill, do you think General Ben is willing to bear such notoriety? ”

Cao Lingzhong had no choice, he could only look at Bian Lingcheng and said: "Lord Bian, you also heard General Zhao's words, if it weren't for the lack of food and grass, we wouldn't want to kill indiscriminately, and no one would want to bear the charge of indiscriminate killing, right?" Back then, General Bai Qi, the general of the Qin State, killed 400,000 Zhao troops, didn't he have no choice but to do this? ”

Everyone looked at Bian Lingcheng, Bian Lingcheng's face was blue and white for a while, and finally stomped his feet and shouted: "Okay, kill it, kill it, the miscellaneous family doesn't care, the miscellaneous family should not know about it!" ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhao Ziliang asked, "Generals, who is going to do this?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, but no one took the initiative to stand up and take on this task, after all, slaughtering so many prisoners at one time, this notoriety is not easy to wash away for a lifetime!

Zhao Ziliang saw that no one took the initiative to stand up, so he had to sigh: "Forget it, it's difficult for you to let you do this, Zhao ordered the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Khitan and Xi people in Mobei back then, and killing another 20,000 today is just a fraction of the difference."

Before Zhao Ziliang could speak, the servant Gu Huaien stood up and hugged his fists and said: "General, since this matter has been decided, no matter who will carry it out, people will only count this matter on your head, or will it be executed in the future, and the last general will not be afraid of notoriety!" ”

As soon as he reached the door of the big tent, he heard a voice from behind: "Wait! ”

The servant Gu Huaien stopped and turned around, and everyone heard the voice, only to see Dugu Jun, the judge of the Beiting Army, stand up and hug his fist at Zhao Ziliang and said: "General, the lower officials have a way to deal with this batch of prisoners, and the general does not have to bear the charge of slaughtering prisoners of war!" ”

Zhao Ziliang hurriedly said: "Sir, say it quickly!" ”

Dugu Jun pointed in the direction of the guide and said: "General, we still have two Sogdian armies in our hands, don't the lords of those Sogdian countries keep saying that they don't share the hatred of the great cannibals?" Now that there is such a ready-made batch of big cannibals for them to vent their hatred, why wouldn't we? ”

Everyone was overjoyed, and then they remembered how they had forgotten the more than 20,000 Sogdian troops. Whether it is the Beiting Army or the Anxi Army, in the end, people will count this account on Zhao Ziliang's head, but if the Sogdian army does it, the situation is different, after all, the Sogdians are vassals, and they will kill this group of prisoners of war, so the blood debt will be counted on their own heads and not on the heads of the Tang Army.

Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered: "Come here, go and find the lords of the Sogdian countries!" ”

"No!" Someone outside the tent agreed.

It didn't take long for the lords of the Sogdian countries to rush over and meet Zhao Ziliang together: "I've seen the general!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Excuse me, lords, didn't you say that the big cannibals burned, killed, captured and plundered in your land, and did all kinds of evil, do you have a common enmity with the big cannibals?" Now there is a chance for you to take revenge, I wonder if you are willing? ”

The lords of the country looked at each other, and the lord of Kang Guo saluted: "Dare to ask the general, I don't know what it is?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "I think you also know in the past two days, along with your Sogdians, there are more than 24,000 people in the main force of the Great Food Army, this general will give you a chance to take revenge now, take all your horses and horses to escort this group of Great Food prisoners, let them dig a big enough pit, and then you order your men and horses to bury them all alive!" ”

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Zhao Ziliang got up with a gloomy face and walked up to the lords of the country and snorted coldly: "Hmph! Do you dare or don't want to? You keep saying that you don't share the sky with the big cannibals, but are you all deceiving General Ben? Do you know who General Ben hates the most? Either Ben will order you all to be killed, or you will go and kill those prisoners of the Great Food, you will choose for yourself! ”

The Sogdian lords had no choice at all, they had no choice but to agree.

In the afternoon of the same day, more than 20,000 Sogdian troops who had been distributed weapons and armor came to the camp where the prisoners of the Great Food Army were held, drove the two large prisoners of the Food Army to a piece of sand five miles outside the camp, and threw down a batch of digging tools for them to dig a large pit more than three meters deep.

When the pit was almost dug up, all the prisoners of the Great Food Army were in the pit, and the Sogdian armies stood around the pit and began to fill in the pit, and the captives of the Great Food Army were terrified and climbed up desperately, and the pit more than three meters deep was so easy to climb up, even if someone stepped on someone else's shoulder and climbed up, he would immediately poke the Sogdian soldiers above with weapons.

The frightened cries rang out in the pit, and the captives desperately tried to climb out of the grave they had dug for themselves, while the Sogdian army above kept filling the pit with earth, and the whole pit was surrounded by smoke and dust, and screams and angry scolding and coughing continued to be heard, until it was dark, and these sounds gradually disappeared, and the pit disappeared, and the ground was as smooth as usual, and no one who knew it would have thought that more than 20,000 people were buried alive in the ground.

After Zhao Ziliang and others got the news, they finally got into trouble, and through this incident, the Sogdian countries could no longer take refuge in the Great Cannibals, after all, once this matter spread, with the cruel character of the Great Cannibals, they were bound to retaliate on a large scale, and the hatred between the two of them would only deepen, even if someone wanted to alleviate it, it was impossible. (To be continued.) )