After doing this, the Arab girl began to interrogate the captives who were too late to retreat due to their injuries, and Xu Qing was a friend rather than an enemy because of his great kindness to the Arab caravan, and when Xu Qing said that he wanted to avoid it, the Arab girl allowed him to observe.

There were eleven of these captives, and they were interrogated separately, and these captives were all iron-mouthed and steel-toothed, and they refused to reveal a word, but the Arab girl had no choice but to let the highest rank among his subordinates, a general who commanded a thousand people in the Great Khan's Guard, Tiemaibuti, torture them, and the Arab girl could not bear to see the cruel situation of the captives being tortured, and hid in the tent to avoid it.

Xu Qing didn't evade, he wanted to see how the ancients used torture. However, this is a wilderness, and no torture equipment is prepared, so Temaibuti first asked his men to punch and kick the captives, but no one confessed, and then ordered his men to beat the captives with the back of their knives. Three people were soon killed, two of whom had been seriously wounded in the battle. If the robbers are just robbing money, it would be too much to kill them, but they are robbers who kill people and goods, and in the blink of an eye, they have killed nearly 200 Arab caravan members, it can almost be concluded that their killing methods are so skillful, it is certainly not the first time to kill people, these robbers have bloody hands, killing people for robbery, maybe they will also rob sex, if Xu Qing out of "women's benevolence", prevent the Arabs from torture these robbers with deep eyes and high noses, who do not look like Han people, it will be impossible to find out the origin of these robbers, These Arabs will not be able to take revenge, and to whom will the innocent Arabs who died and the passing merchants who were robbed and killed by these robbers on the "Silk Road" redress their grievances?

These robber captives deserve to die, they don't deserve sympathy, letting them live will only kill more people, and they are not Han Chinese, and they have nothing to do with Xu Qing, so Xu Qing has always stood by and watched. It wasn't until six captives were killed that one of the captives couldn't hold it anymore and confessed that their bandit team was fake, and that the chiefs of several major tribes in the East Turks had jointly sent people to pretend to be them. Tiemaibuti's subordinates immediately reported to Tiemaibuti, and Tiemaibuti immediately reported to the Arab girl, who interrogated the confessed captives with Tiemaibuti in the tent, because the matter involved the enemy East Turks, and the Arab girl asked Xu Qing to avoid it. Xu Qing was taken outside the tent and outside the land of three arrows.

The Arab girl asked the confessed captive, "Why do you Eastern Turks pretend to be robbers and rob Arab caravans?" As far as I know, after the surrender of the Eastern Turks to Tang Taizong Li Shimin, only the imperial family of the Eastern Turks was placed in Chang'an, the imperial court and the army were disbanded, and the tribes and tribal chiefs were all retained, and they continued to live a nomadic life in the original sphere of influence of the Eastern Turks, and after the Western Turks were defeated by the Tang Dynasty army and moved westward, you Eastern Turks occupied a large area of land that originally belonged to the Western Turks, and lived a better life than before, and there was no reason to become bandits and rob Arab caravans, aren't you afraid that the Tang Dynasty emperor will blame? I heard that the state of Gaochang ignored the warnings of the Tang Dynasty and blocked the Tang Dynasty's trade routes with the Arab and Western Regions countries, and was destroyed by the Tang army. What is the reason why you Eastern Turks did not hesitate to risk offending the Tang Dynasty and destroy the trade between the East and the West? I believe it must not be for money. ”

The captive sneered, "Are you a Apibo? Do you dare to lift the veil for me to see? ”

Tie Maibu stroked the handle of the knife and shouted angrily: "Bold, don't you want to live anymore? ”

The captive said: "I am an orphan of war, I have nothing to worry about, and death is nothing to fear for me. I confess just to wake you fools! A few decades ago, you Western Turks were in a reluctant situation, and you didn't understand that the Tang Dynasty had a Ming monarch and holy lord Li Shimin, and the end of fighting for land with the Tang Dynasty was that there was no land. You now know that you can't defeat the Tang Dynasty, and you want to send a princess and pro-Tang Dynasty to gain time to restore your strength, but when you restore your strength, when our Eastern Turks and Turks are destroyed, the internal friction of the Eastern and Western Turks will be greatly damaged, and the final result will be wiped out by the Tang Dynasty together. So we want to prevent you from making peace with the Tang Dynasty. ”

The Arab girl is actually not an Arab, but the daughter of a prince of the Western Turkic State, named Ameda Lixiu, Han name Li Xiuer, her grandmother is the daughter of the Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, who was named a princess and a pro-Turk who was stronger than the Tang Dynasty at that time, and had not yet been divided. Li Xiu'er can speak fluent Chinese, familiar with Chinese history, culture, customs, and customs, and was selected as a special envoy by the Western Turkic Khan, who secretly visited the Tang Dynasty in an attempt to use the Western Turkic princess and the pro-Tang Dynasty prince. Although Li Xiuer is the lord of the Western Turk * Turk, she has the royal blood of the Tang Dynasty, and her speech is easy to be trusted by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and she is a living example, the lord of the West Turk * Turk is so beautiful, the princess must be more beautiful, and she is not worried that the prince of the Tang Dynasty is not moved. Of course, if the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty falls in love with Li Xiu'er, Li Xiu'er will be with the princess of the Western Turks and pro-Tang Dynasty princes.

Li Xiu'er said: "It seems that you are worried about the country and the people, since you are so patriotic, why do you want to confess that you robbers are pretending to be Eastern Turks." If the news leaks out, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty will definitely be furious and severely punish you Eastern Turks. ”

"If the emperor of the Tang Dynasty can see through the conspiracy of your relatives, it will be worth it even if we are punished by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. We bowed down to the Tang Dynasty, and it was impossible for the Tang Dynasty to destroy us, and if the Tang Dynasty wanted to destroy us, it would have been eliminated long ago. The only people who can bring us ruin are those who do not know the times, do not measure yourself, and hit stones with eggs. The captives made a generous statement.

Li Xiu'er could not convince the captives that the Eastern Turks' destruction of the Western Turks' peace with the Tang Dynasty was a fool's thing that endangered the entire Turks, and the captives could not convince Li Xiu'er that the Western Turks' peace with the Tang Dynasty was a fool's thing that harmed the entire Turks, and both of them thought that their actions were right. Li Xiu'er did not want her fellow clans to kill each other, and ordered the release of the surviving captives.

Although Xu Qing was very curious about the results of Li Xiu'er's interrogation, what was the origin of these robbers, he thought that he had come from time in time and had nothing to do with this strange era, so he didn't ask too much. Li Xiu'er was worried that the Eastern Turks would make a comeback, so she ordered an overnight transfer. But before the team could start, a wolf howl was suddenly heard, and there was more than one voice.

Wolves are afraid of fire, and Li Xiu'er's secret mission burns bonfires not to keep warm, but to scare wolves. A wolf They are the elite of the Western Turk Khan Guard, and the Arab caravans that have been bought are naturally not afraid, but the desert lacks food, and the hungry desert wolves, hundreds of them attack the merchants in groups, which are very bloody and cruel, and they eat people without spitting out bones, so the desert travelers are very wary of the desert wolves.

After a great battle, after which the wounded were treated, the dead were buried, and the prisoners were interrogated, no one bothered to add firewood to the bonfire, so the fire was extinguished, and the Desert Wolf was attracted by the bloody atmosphere of the battlefield, came here, and began to frantically attack the secret mission led by Li Xiu'er.