Chapter Eighty-Four: Response
The sky gradually darkened, and the camp of the Great Food Army seemed even busier. And Posilin and Ziyad were heading from the rear camp to their own tent of the Chinese army.
He had just gone to inquire about the prisoners of war who had been returned by the Anxi army, and asked about the process of the battle, as well as the military situation they had seen in the Anxi camp. The amount of information obtained was very large, and the tactics of the Anxi army had never been seen before, and even Posilin admired the cleverness of these tactics in his heart.
However, he is now more and more unable to understand that Xiao Qu's illness.
It is incomprehensible that these prisoners of war were not mistreated in the slightest. According to their explanations, the way the Anxi army treats the captives is to kill the seriously injured directly, and the lightly injured can receive medical treatment, as long as they are not killed at the beginning, they will be treated well later.
According to the accounts of those prisoners of war, there were about 3,000 Khorasan prisoners of war in the entire Ansi camp, and now 700 have been released, and more than 2,500 more. It was mainly supervised by the auxiliary soldiers of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, and a small number of Anxi soldiers were responsible for supervising it, because they were afraid that they would be killed by the soldiers of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms.
The living conditions of prisoners of war were almost the same as those of the soldiers of Anxi and the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu, and their work was mainly responsible for building camps, digging trenches, setting up deer barns, etc., and serving as sparring partners when training soldiers of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu. This is also what Xiao Quai's idea is, saying that it can let those timid soldiers of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu get rid of their fear of the Khorasan soldiers and improve their morale.
Posilin was quite skeptical of this, and he firmly believed that the cunning of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu was certainly cunning, and they also seemed to be very hot-tempered and aggressive. But these are all illusions, people like them have been slaves of great powers for hundreds and thousands of years, and they have been constantly fighting wars, and they have developed a martial and aggressive character. Usually, there are many Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, and Hu fights when they disagree; They also scream when they encounter anything, but in fact, the group of people who are the least good at fighting is one word in their bones - lustful and inward-looking.
They are businessmen and speculators by nature, and although they are fierce, they are the ones who are ready to break when they really fight. It was a fool's dream that Xiao Qubing was expecting to train them to fight against the Khorasan warriors. However, this also confirms from one side that Gao Xianzhi's main force is not here, and the fact that the Anxi division in front of him is weak.
While Posilin was thinking about it, one of the guards hurried up to him and reported to him: "The messenger of Ansi has woken up, and is now clamoring to join two of his men. ”
"Then let them live together, send more people to guard them, and don't let them move around at will. Go for it. And Posilin waved his hand, and the guard immediately took the order.
Qi Yade on the side was a little suspicious: "Then the Anxi envoy obviously wants to make small moves, and the previous woman from the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms should be arrested." ”
And Posilin said disapprerovingly: "I don't know, I just want to see what kind of little name they can make?" Just send someone to watch them, and don't touch them for now. ”
"And tonight's actions won't be hidden from them?"
"I can't hide it if I want to, the transfer of 20,000 people, unless they are dead. And I guess what happened last night, then they should also know, how could the women of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms run to deliver a piece of clothing for no reason. Joke, Anthy messenger drank and wet her clothes, what does it matter to her. ”
"We just don't let them go back. To-morrow he sent some men to the camp of Anxi, and said that they would have a good time with your envoys, and that they would stay a few days longer. We are preparing money and materials on our side, and we look forward to meeting Gao Xianzhi as soon as possible. And Posilin smiled, and his face suddenly became fierce: "When we are ready, we will take a few of their sacrificial flags!" ”
Naziad laughed when he heard what he said. By this time it was already dark, and torches began to be lit everywhere in the camp.
At the same time, on the hill more than two miles southeast of the camp, Xiao Quzhi looked up at the sky, and said to Gu Xiaojun and Amir Jiang beside him: "It's almost time, let's start preparing." ”
Behind the three of them standing, there are several corpses of big eaters and dark sentinels, Gu Xiaojun and Amir Jiang untied the Hulu on their backs, and inside were forty long arrows soaked in grease.
The wind blew through the hills, and you could vaguely see that torches began to light up in the Dashi military camp at the foot of the mountain, reflecting more than a dozen camps and thousands of tents of all sizes. In a certain tent, Li Ergou, the envoy of the Anxi Army, had an argument with the guards guarding them.
"It's really stuffy in this tent, we want to go out to breathe, and you want to stop it?" Li Ergou spoke loudly in Sogdian to the two guards who were blocking them from the tent. Sogdian and Persian were originally very similar, and these Great Food Soldiers were stationed in the river for a long time, so there was no obstacle to communication between the two sides.
The two guards hesitated for a moment, and one of them said, "Your envoy, it's not that we won't let you, the emir's orders, so that we can protect you for your lives......"
"Did he say he wouldn't let us out of the tent?"
“…… Not really. ”
"Isn't that it, we'll just stand outside the tent to breathe, and we won't run around, so many of you are guarding, right?"
"The noble envoy must not leave the tent within three steps, and do not talk nonsense, or else we will not be offended."
The two guards opened the tent curtain, and before Li Ergou and the three of them walked out of the tent, they heard a loud bang in the camp, not far away, like a thunder exploding in the crowd on a dry day. Then I heard a great chaos in the nearby camp, people shouting and neighing, screaming loudly, and the voices of officers shouting loudly and reprimanding, all noisy.
The two guards in the tent were obviously stunned, and subconsciously turned their heads to look outside. Outside the tent, the other four guards and the Khorasan soldiers on duty and patrol couldn't help but raise their heads, and in the sky, four or five flames fell like meteors.
However, the sound of the explosion and the noisy chaotic sound outside the camp sounded as pleasant to Li Ergou and the three of them. The three of them smiled, reached out and snatched the Damascus scimitars from the waists of the two guards, and before they could react, they swung at their necks.
Amid the screams, the three men had already rushed out of the tent door, and outside the tent door, the four guards who were guarding looked back in shock, and saw the three of them rushing out like three tigers. They subconsciously wanted to draw their knives, but Li Ergou and another attendant with knives had already taken the lead and slashed at the nearest two.
The attendant who didn't hold a knife also didn't wait for the other party to draw his knife, and the whole person crashed into the two people who were a little farther away like a cannonball, directly knocking down one person, and the other person shook it for a while, and finally pulled out the knife and slashed it out. Li Ergou's eyes were quick, and he blocked it with a horizontal knife, and another attendant took advantage of the situation to stab the person in the lower abdomen and stir it hard.
Before the guard fell, Li Ergou snatched the scimitar from his hand and handed it out. He took a quick look at the situation outside, ignoring the big food guard who had been knocked to the ground, and rushed towards a group of guards patrolling on horseback with two followers without pause.