After coming out of Luoyang Prison and seeing the oncoming sunshine, Zhou Bian suddenly felt that there was nothing bad about the scorching sun. Zhou Bian had never seen such a gloomy place www.biquge.info a few feet underground, it was like under the Yellow Spring, the smell of rancidity, blood, all kinds of torture instruments, all kinds of cruelty, inhumanity, and the contempt for human rights in the slave society were all reflected in this underground cell of less than 1,000 square meters.

After taking a deep breath of fresh air, Zhou Bian turned his head to Taishi and said, "Taishi, there should be more than one Han soldier in the city. We should follow the vine and find out the other Koreans. ”

Taishi nodded, "It is true that there should be more than one Han soldier." The king said that it was good, image. But how do we follow this vine to touch the melon? ”

"Hehe, of course the word is vivid. The king thought that it was certainly not the idea of this Han soldier to paint the catapult on the cloth and send it out of the city through bricks and stones, and that this tall man was just an executor. ”

"How did the king know?" The Taishi was puzzled again.

"This man is very rough and brave, and he is by no means a scheming person, so there must be others behind him."

"The king is wise, he has seen so deeply in such a short period of time, which really makes the old man admire." The Taishi arched his hand.

"Haha!" Zhou Bian looked up to the sky and smiled, "Actually, what I dared to conclude was not these, but according to Du Qi, the man had a piece of cake hidden on his body at that time." You must know that my royal family is full of people, so he must hide it and bring it back to his accomplices to eat. Tell Zhao Biao that he must ask where he lives, quickly, otherwise if he can't ask before dark today, his accomplices will definitely be suspicious and flee. ”

"No!" After giving his hand, the Taishi turned around and threw himself into the dungeon again.

I didn't think that this question was a day, this Korean man was really tough, with an old injury and a new injury, he gritted his teeth and refused to say anything, and fainted many times during the period, but finally stayed up until dark.

Sure enough, luck can't take care of the royal family all the time, it was already dark when he learned the news, Zhou Bian sighed, and still ordered a few words, Haosheng took care of this man, although he was an enemy, but this unyielding spirit was still worthy of admiration.

Before dawn on the second day, the Korean army outside the city began a large-scale siege again, although this time there was no imitation catapult, but the Korean soldiers were as desperate as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and rushed to the Dingding Gate and the city walls on both sides one after another, which brought great pressure to the royal family. But fortunately, today's royal army is no longer the new recruits when the Korean army first came, under the tempering of many major wars, more than 30,000 people today, almost all of them are veterans, resolutely gave the Korean army a counterattack, and once again blocked the Korean army from the city wall, so that it had to ring the golden sound of retreat at noon.

The tense battle in the morning made Zhou Bian completely forget about the Han soldiers in prison, and it was not until after the afternoon nap that Zhou Bian thought about it again, and invited Zhao Biao to ask, and sure enough, he still didn't ask anything valuable, and he was really a tough guy.

After thinking about it, he ordered Zhao Biao not to torture him anymore, but to find someone to inquire about the people who had been close to this man since he acted as a people's husband, and see if he could ask anything from his usual whereabouts.

But an hour later, this ploy also failed, this Han soldier was usually silent, hardly dealing with people, coming early and leaving late, no one knew where he would rest at night.

However, there was still good news at dinner, but it was the statistical result of today's battle, the royal family lost 2,000 soldiers, and the Korean army exceeded 8,000, and the casualty ratio reached a new high, exceeding 1 to 4, which has to be said to be good news.

There was nothing to say for one night, but the next day it was calm, and the Han army did not come to attack the city, which also allowed Zhou Bian to have enough time to think about how to find out the accomplices of the Han soldiers. Two days have passed, even if you find Han Bing's resting place again, it is useless, as long as he is a shrewd person, he will definitely not stay where he is.

Hey, what should I do, it's not a way not to find out, thinking that there is a shrewd Han soldier or Han general hiding in the city, it makes people like a man. Zhou Bian sighed, reached out and rubbed his eyes.

Or use the method last time, press the Korean soldiers to march, see if anyone recognizes, so that they can touch the residence, but looking at the careful appearance of the Korean soldiers every day, I am afraid that this method is useless, not to mention that after the dead Korean spies were dragged out of the street last time, the remaining Korean spies were not caught at that time.

But after thinking about it, there is really no better way, so take a gamble and bet on the friendship between Han Bing. That's right, just do it, drag this dying Han soldier to parade through the streets, and loudly declare that he was beaten like this because he didn't confess his accomplices. If that person is a man, most of them will still stand up, after all, the royal family claims to be benevolent and righteous, and it is still possible not to kill the captives.

Just do it, Zhou Bian quickly summoned Ning Yue and Zhao Biao and ordered them to go down. Although the two did not agree very much, they still resolutely carried it out.

Soon it was noon, and after lunch, Zhou Bian took a nap. When I woke up, it was already an hour later, and I was in a daze, and I suddenly heard Ning Yue asking to see him.

"The king, I really caught it."

Looking at Ning Yue's excited look, Zhou Bian didn't react for a while, "What did you catch?" ”

"Oh, not caught, he came on his own."

"What the hell is that?" Zhou Bian was still a little confused.

"King, it's Su Rui, Su Rui."

"Su Rui, the general of the Korean army?" Zhou Bian was even more confused.

"King, it was Su Rui who was caught by us, oh, no, it wasn't that he was caught, but he came by himself, just outside the palace."

"Hey, the Han army has all been beaten outside the palace?" Zhou Bian was shocked.

"No, the king, didn't we catch a Han soldier who pretended to be a civilian man, the king designed to arouse his accomplices, but I didn't expect it to really attract it, it turned out to be the Korean general, Su Rui."

It was only at this time that Zhou Bian fully reacted, and the confusion that he had just woken up from a nap was gone, and he was overjoyed, not thinking that it was Su Rui, and he really caught a big fish. Su Rui, Zhou Bian has long heard of the name of this person, is a native of Yiyang, born in a large civilian family, since the army, has repeatedly established miraculous feats, known as the head of the new generation of generals of the Korean army, highly valued by the Korean office, and also in the battle of Luoyang, it brought some trouble to the royal family, it seems that the use of stone-throwing to transmit the news must be his idea, which is explained in time and logic.

I really didn't expect that it was him who touched the melon along the vine, and it was him, he earned, he made a big profit, and his ancestors blessed him.

"Where is he? The king will go and see him himself. ”

Zhou Bian jumped up from the low couch all of a sudden, and Ning Yue hurriedly stepped forward to support him, "Be careful, the king, Su Rui is just outside the palace gate, and he has been watched by the soldiers of the Royal Forest Army."

The two hurried to the south, as soon as they walked through the palace gate, they saw a noisy outside the palace gate, the nearest palace gate was dozens of palace guards, and outside were dozens of royal forest soldiers in armor, who seemed to surround one person, and then there were a large number of countless ordinary soldiers, scolding loudly, and the crowd was agitated, but fortunately there was discipline, and no one moved.

Seeing that the king was coming, I don't know who shouted, the scene suddenly quieted down, and immediately fell to his knees in an uproar, long live the mountain.

After waving his hand to stop everyone, Zhou Bian walked towards the center surrounded by the armor of the Royal Forest Army, and the soldiers got out of the way one after another, making the king go straight to the center.

There was a person kneeling in the middle, with a primary color of linen, long hair tied back at will, with his head down, not knowing what he was thinking, and when he heard someone approaching, he suddenly looked up and turned around, and it was General Su Rui, who used to show off his might outside the Dingding Gate.

Frightened, Fan Yu behind the king drew his sword and blocked it in front of the king.

Zhou Bian waved his hand around Fan Yu and stepped forward, and did not stop until Su Rui took three steps away, and said with a smile, "Isn't this General Su, who has been fine lately?" ”

Su Rui knelt up straight, turned around with his two knees, raised his head and said, "Thanks to the Great King Hongfu, Rui has been fine recently." It's just that my brother is miserable, and now that Su Rui is here, I hope the king will let my brother go. ”

"It's enough to have General Su here. Come on, tell that Zhao Xiao, find a doctor to show that person, take a good look. The latter sentence was shouted to the guards around him, and someone immediately led the order to retreat.

Seeing the royal guards running away, Su Rui knelt on the ground, "Thank you, King!" ”

"Your brother is fine, so what is General Su going to do when he arrives here? But it's a coincidence, you came to save your brother, but your brother claimed to be surnamed Zhou, could it be that his ancestors were from my Zhou? ”

"Please also ask the king not to make fun of him, although Rui is a Korean, he also knows that this is all over the world, but after all the nobles, if it is not after the Zhou family, it is after the king's ministers. However, my brother is not surnamed Zhou, but surnamed Su, Su Pheasant, and the people of Rui's family joined the army with Su Rui. Today, Rui accidentally fell into the hands of the king, if the king is merciful, do not offend the ministers, let the ministers return to China, although Rui is grateful, but still have to take the king's life first. If the king wants to establish his authority, the enemy will be sacrificed before the Taimiao, how to execute, there is no other word. ”

"Is there no third possibility?" Zhou Bian smiled.

Su Rui shook his head, "Not yet." ”

"Just take him into the palace and lock him up, so that he can take care of him." Zhou Bian casually ordered to go down, then turned around and walked forward.

Immediately afterward, the warriors of the royal guards helped Su Rui up, tied his hands with ropes, and pushed him to the palace gate. At this time, the outermost ordinary soldiers began to coax again, shouting and scolding.

As soon as he entered the palace, Su Rui, who was escorted by the warriors, found that King Zhou was waiting in front of him.

I only heard the young king smile and said, "General Su knows why everyone in my army hates generals?" ”

"Whenever an enemy falls into my hands, it will be so."

"But it's even more so about the general." Zhou Bian snatched the words.

Su Rui shook his head, "Rui doesn't know, I'd like to hear about it." ”

"The general still remembers that more than 20 days ago, the general ordered his subordinates to pick the corpses of our warriors outside the Dingding Gate, and the humiliation was nothing more than the humiliation of the corpses, does the general know?"

Su Rui smiled, "I know that humiliation is nothing more than humiliating corpses, so I want to provoke the Luoyang army with this, as the so-called two armies are fighting, do everything." It's just that I didn't think that the Luoyang soldiers were so cowardly, and they didn't dare to go out of the city to fight. ”

"Oh? That's strange, our army has never gone out of the city to fight, why is the general here? Didn't the general go the wrong way and strayed into Luoyang City? Zhou Bian chuckled, and the meaning of ridicule was self-evident.

Su Rui's face turned red when he heard this, but then he returned to normal. "A lone army is deep, and the backup is weak, so I took one door first and then lost it, which is not a certain fault."

"It turns out that the lord who attacked Luoyang and entered the city at night that night was General Su, what a pity for you to have five thousand good sons under your command. However, losers tend to shift the blame to others, which is the behavior of the weak. Zhou Bian still smiled faintly.

But Su Rui was taken aback, and closed his mouth and stopped talking.

But after catching Su Rui today, Zhou Bian was in a good mood, so he didn't say any more, and after smiling at Su Rui, he strode towards the palace. Whether Su Rui is killed, or to blackmail the Han army, or to surrender, I really have to gather the ministers to think about it, but I have to make good use of it.

I didn't think about taking just two steps, but I heard Su Rui shouting behind me, "King, something is unclear, and I hope the king will explain your doubts." ”

Zhou Bian was in a rare good mood, so he stopped his steps, turned around and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"The catapult, is it made by the king's subordinates, or is it the Mo family helping the king?"

Zhou Bian shook his head, "Neither." ”

But at this time, listening to Su Ruiyi, Zhou Bian suddenly remembered those Mo family children, who had been locked up for more than a month, and said that they were interested, but they never went to see it, so they had to take the time to take a look, after all, the Mo family is everyone, in the words of later generations of rivers and lakes, it is the gate faction, it is better not to offend or try not to offend, after all, the Mo family is also a good hand at assassination, and it is often easy to go to extremes, such people are the most difficult to prevent.

But Su Rui was puzzled, "The king doesn't want to scold me, if it weren't for the king's subordinates, then it could only be the Mo family, otherwise who else would there be?" ”

"Why can't it be the king himself?" Zhou Bian slowly approached.

Looking at the young man who was slowly approaching, although his body was not tall, he was far more mature than his peers, as well as the confidence in maturity, and a trace of cunning, but Su Rui couldn't help but take two steps back, and he didn't stabilize his body until he was held up behind him. Yes, it was the young man who was less than his chest that gave him great pressure.

"Impossible, the king is not yet an adult, how can he create such a delicate thing." Su Rui stabilized his body and shook his head resolutely.

"Is it necessary for this king to lie to you? What does this have to do with being an adult? After taking two more steps closer, Zhou Bian stopped, still with a smile on his face.

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, the four-wheeled carriage was also made by this king, and everyone in Luoyang knows about it, so it's not surprising that this king can make a catapult." Zhou Bian's face was full of confidence.

Looking at this sunny young man looking up at himself, in addition to the majesty of being the Son of Heaven, there seemed to be an irresistible charm in the indescribable taste, and in an instant, Su Rui seemed to be in a trance. After thinking about it, Su Rui finally made an important decision.

"Your Majesty, Su Rui is willing to choose the third path."