Chapter 11: The Man Behind the Scenes
A mouthful of cold water sprayed down, and the two horse bandit leaders immediately shook their heads, and then opened their eyes and shouted.
"**, who...... Ah, who are you? ”
"I don't want to live anymore, dare to ...... Someone, night attack! ”
The two of them immediately struggled to the death, cursing loudly, until a few cold horizontal knives rested on their necks, and the two of them became honest and began to look around. They found that they were in an open space in the middle of the camp, surrounded by seven or eight campfires, and there were more than a dozen torches lit next to them, illuminating the whole field. A group of soldiers were eating around the fire, talking and laughing. Looking at the tents on the side, there was no movement, and blood flowed out of the tents.
"Don't look at it, one hundred and ninety-six horse bandits, all of them had their necks cut in their sleep."
Gao Xianzhi walked in front of the two of them, slowly squatted down, and said, "You attacked Yu X twice, but you want to ask who X is?" ”
The two looked up at Gao Xianzhi in horror, and one said, "You are Gao Xianzhi." ”
"It's a certain house." Gao Xianzhi nodded, his expression was solemn, and said: "Do you see the situation clearly, your people have either been killed, or they have been tied up like you......" Gao Xianzhi pointed to the ten horse bandits who were tied up into rice dumplings and thrown to the ground not far away: "So, no one can save you." Now I have two questions to ask. ”
The two looked at each other for a long time, and they really didn't see a single horse bandit who could move, and they completely gave up their illusions, knowing that Gao Xianzhi was not lying. Cao Alanyan gritted his teeth and said, "What's the problem?" ”
"First question, who bought you to intercept and kill someone?" Gao Xianzhi looked indifferent, stared at his eyes, and paused word by word: "Second question, who is the force behind you?" What is the purpose of doing all this? ”
Gao Xianzhi stood up, holding the horizontal knife in his hand, and made a gesture: "Stand up and talk back." ”
Cao Alanyan was shocked in his heart, Gao Xianzhi knew so clearly. But after thinking about it, it must have been Kang Shifen's leaked secrets, and he usually didn't care too much about doing confidential work, so it was not surprising that Kang Shifen knew this. However, Kang Shifen is only a small leader after all, and he can't touch the core secrets. In fact, to be honest, he himself knows these two problems and is not very clear.
Cao Ah Lan glanced at Tian Lun next to him suspiciously, his eyes flickered, and he was about to speak. At this time, Tian Lun next to him shouted: "You dare to say it, the top will not let your ...... go" Then he was hit with a few scabbards, a kick in the stomach, and he hunched over and vomited.
Gao Xianzhi patted Cao Alanyan's shoulder, and his tone was sincere: "You see, if you don't want to be like him, just say it honestly." I can promise you that I will spare you my life. ”
Cao Alanyan was originally a Hu person, and the essence in his bones is to obey the strong, and whoever is strong listens to whom. For example, the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms Hu, where Cao Alanyan is located, is in the gap between the major forces of the Tang Dynasty, Dashi, Tubo, and Tuqishi, and it has always been who is strong and submits to whom; Another example is the three surnamed Qarluq, who are between the Eastern and Western Turks, and often rebel with the rise and fall of the Eastern and Western Turks, which can be said to be the wisdom of the survival of small countries, or it can be said to be their helplessness. For a long time, he has also developed the character of the Hu people who do not know what loyalty is, capriciousness, and rudder when the wind blows.
Among the two big leaders of the horse bandits, Tian Lun is a Han Chinese, and Cao Alanyan is a miscellaneous beard of the Nine Kingdoms at first glance. Gao Xianzhi's choice of Cao Alanyan to break through was undoubtedly very wise, and soon Cao Alanyan quickly said that he knew everything.
It turned out that Cao Alanyan was the Tutuo commander of a Dehegan (that is, a local nobleman) of Cao State in the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu, and later Zhongcao was occupied by the Great Cannibals, and his master was killed. Cao Alanyan took a few of his subordinates and fled all the way east to become horse bandits, and then fled to Anxi, becoming a small horse bandit leader on this section of the Silk Road. Later, a mysterious force swept away all the horse bandits in this area, and the other Han horse bandit leaders refused to surrender and were killed on the spot, and only he surrendered on the spot and was reused.
And who that mysterious force is, Cao Alanyan actually doesn't know much. I only know that the leader is a white-clothed swordsman with unfathomable martial arts and a penchant for wearing masks, and there are more than a hundred knights who also wear white. Just more than 100 people, swept the entire Silk Road, from Qiuzi to Yumen Pass. The more than 100 white-clothed knights were all extraordinary, including Hu, Han, and Turkic. The white-clothed swordsman was a Han man, with black hair and black eyes. He alone and one sword were more powerful than the more than a hundred people combined.
The white-clothed swordsman is not permanently stationed here, and the dragon always sees the head and does not see the end, so if there is something, he asks the white-clothed knight to come over with a token to pass it on. The resident here is a person sent from other places, responsible for supervision and control, and the one next to him is called Tian Lun. Half a month ago, 10 Hu people from the Nine Kingdoms brought 500,000 yuan in money, saying that if there was a big business to discuss, who knew that they wanted to intercept and kill the envoys of the four towns of Anxi.
Cao Alanyan's original intention was to kill the ten Jiuguo Hu people and swallow the money. Two days later, two white knights came with tokens and asked him to take over the business. This is what happened later, but Cao Alanyan didn't know much about the inside story Cao Alanyan didn't know as much as Tian Lun next to him, he was sent from the upper echelons of this force.
Tian Lun stared at Cao Alanyan viciously and said: "Cao Alanyan dog, we won't let you go, even if you flee to the ends of the earth, we can also find you, and you yourself know how powerful he is!" ”
Gao Xianzhi glanced at him, and then laughed: "Oh, since you know, so-and-so came to ask you, or those two questions." Who are the forces behind you? Who bought you to intercept and kill so-and-so? ”
Tian Lun gritted his teeth, his eyes revealed a little fear, and then he became fierce again, the green tendons on his head jumped up and down, and his expression was quite arrogant and unruly, at this time, he didn't forget to threaten: "If you kill Lao Tzu, my father will avenge me." ”
"Oh, who is your father, tell so-and-so." Gao Xianzhi's eyes stared at him, his face was calm, and his tone was gentle, and then he began to press the wound on his big arm with his fingers: "This arrow was shot by a certain one." ”
Tian Lun shouted, beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his head, and then he was immediately blown cold by the cool breeze of the Gobi, and cold sweat dripped down drop by drop: "Kill me!" ”
Gao Xianzhi stopped the movement of his hand, looked at the two fingers with blood, and rubbed Tian Lun's body in disgust. clapped his hands: "Zhang Dazhuang, pluck off his ten fingers one by one, and ask him if he can make a move." ”
The screams like killing pigs sounded, Tian Lun's body was already soaked with sweat, but he still gritted his teeth and refused to confide half a word. It scared Cao Alanyan on the side and trembled.
Xiao Quzhi watched coldly from the sidelines, and couldn't help but be happy when he heard the sentence "My father will take revenge on me", and he was a second ancestor. When he saw Zhang Dazhuang pouting his ten fingers, he still resisted this trick. Xiao Quai's illness knew that Gao Xianzhi couldn't get his confession.
For training and leading troops, Gao Xianzhi is undoubtedly the top expert in this era. But he is undoubtedly a layman when it comes to how to torture to extract confessions. This Tian Lun is undoubtedly an arrogant hard bone, hurting the other party's body will only make him break the jar and fall, and he is bent on death. The best way for this kind of person is to attack the heart, break through the opponent's psychological defense, and soon confess, but unfortunately it's too late.
Xiao Quzhi thought of a solution that the master said.