"Yes, redeem!" Nokia raised his head: "His Majesty the Emperor of my family said, you and I have two families fighting each other, I don't want to let these slaves return and increase the strength of Li Dashuai, killing it will be more beneficial to us, but God has the virtue of a good life, we are unwilling to raise the butcher knife to these unarmed people, but we can't put it back in vain, so according to the rules and regulations of the grassland, you can redeem these slaves!" ”

Li Qing sat high behind the big case, his hands were on the case, he leaned forward, staring at Nokia who was standing in front of him and talking, but the anger in his eyes became stronger and stronger, until he saw Nokia's heart hairy, and his voice unconsciously became lower and lower.

"Unwilling to raise a butcher's knife against an unarmed man?" Li Qing sneered at first, and then laughed louder and louder, "General Nuo, you say this is really ridiculous, you barbarians have marched into Dingzhou countless times for hundreds of years, and there was that time when you did not raise a butcher's knife to the defenseless Dingzhou people, where you passed, you killed people and plundered, burned houses, this time you actually launched a good heart, I am afraid that it is not that you don't want to kill, but you don't dare to kill!" ”

"The two armies are fighting, fighting on the battlefield, the life and death of both sides are in their own destiny, there is nothing to complain about, but if you dare to slaughter my innocent people, Bayan Kala City is broken, I will repay it tenfold, if you kill one of my people, I will kill ten of you, and then the blood will flow in the city, and you will regret it!" Li Qing took the case and became angry.

Taken by Li Qing's momentum, Nuo Qia's heart was taken away by him, ashamed and ashamed, annoyed and hateful, his lips trembled, his face turned purple, he looked up at Li Qing, and only after a while did he protest and said: "If you kill a prisoner, hasn't Li Dashuai done it?" In the first battle of the Angu tribe back then, tens of thousands of old and weak women and children fell under Li Dashuai's swords, guns, bows and crossbows, what are these people? Li Dashuai's justice survives? ”

Hearing Nokia reprimand Li Qing, he stood up in the wind, took the long knife out of its sheath, stepped two steps, put the knife on Noqia's neck with a choked sound, and said angrily: "The thief is so rude, wait to kill the people of Dingzhou, how many millions of people have been there for hundreds of years, I can't wait to kill a few of you, is it natural for you to kill my people, and it is unrighteous for me to kill your people?" Dare to be rude to the handsome, I will hack you alive! ”

Nokia didn't move, just held his head high and stared at Li Qing.

Li Qing was silent, waved his hand to let the mountain wind retreat, and he slowly sat down, forced to helplessly, let Shang Haibo order the slaughter of tens of thousands of old and weak women and children of the Angu tribe, for this massacre, deep in his heart Li Qing has been difficult to let go, and other people think that it is different from what is taken for granted, but Li Qing from later generations is difficult to agree. looked at Nokia, and said slowly: "Since ancient times, there has been no justice in the national war, you and I have been fighting for hundreds of years, this hatred has been soaked into the bones, it is pointless to argue about these, okay, redemption, it's not impossible, Bayar made a price, but you said it?" ”

Hearing that Li Qing finally agreed to redeem it, Nokia breathed a sigh of relief, "Ten catties of grain for a slave, there are still 100,000 slaves in Bayan Kala City, and Li Dashuai only needs to give one million catties of grain to bring back these people." ”

"Ten pounds of grain?" Li Qing stared at each other in surprise.

Lu Da stood up in a hurry: "Bayar has such a big appetite, and he is not afraid of breaking him?" Such an unreliable redemption condition, don't even think about it. ”

Nuo Qia said: "General Lu's words are wrong, in the past, a slave was worth a lot, he lived in Dingzhou for a long time, and General Lu, who is well versed in the rules and discipline of my grassland, must know very well, this price has been given away in vain, His Majesty the Emperor of my family is very sincere in making this deal, so he offered a low price, how can General Lu still say that this condition is too high?" ”

"This time is also another time." Lu Dalin sneered: "At this time, 100,000 slaves in Bayan Kala City have become a hot potato, kill, you don't dare, let them live, but every time you have to consume a lot of food, so that your already pitiful little material is even more embarrassing, in this case, we only give one pound of food per person, I also think it is high?" ”

"How can it be!" Nokia was furious and looked back at Li Qing, "Li Dashuai, since you are so insincere, then this business will be stopped, and these 100,000 slaves will stay in the city, and when we Bayankala finish eating the grain, we will kill these slaves and cook them, 100,000 people, there are always millions of catties of meat, enough for us to eat for a long time." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the tent gasped together, although the Great Chu people have always called each other barbarians, barbarians, but in fact, the grassland has been deeply eroded by the Great Chu culture in hundreds of thousands of years of exchanges with the Central Plains, and it is very different from the early years, this cannibalism is unheard of.

"You, you're beasts! I actually want to eat people. Wang Qinian took the case.

Nokia sneered again and again, "I heard that in the year of the Great Chu disaster, there was also a move to change the son and eat it, why did several generals do this surprise?" My grassland clan is facing a life-and-death crisis, and if I can't hold Bayankala, it will be the disaster of destroying the country and destroying the clan, not to mention cannibalism, it is ten times more tragic or a hundred times more tragic, and we will do the same. ”

The large number of slaves in the city has always been a knot in Li Qing's heart, not to mention that the barbarians eat people, that is, when they hit the city of Bayankala, Bayar only needs to put the slaves on the city wall, as a meat shield, and he will also throw a mouse taboo, always do not want to attack the city first to shoot his comrades who claim to save the savior one by one at the head of the city, if this is done, the early propaganda made by Dingzhou among the soldiers will be scrapped, take a look at the scene of the battlefield recognition of the iron leopard and others in front, I am afraid that the 100,000 slaves are inside, Many of them are the relatives of their own soldiers, and it is also the responsibility of the commander to protect the relatives of his own soldiers, and it is also an excellent way to bring the soldiers to their hearts, so these 100,000 slaves must be rescued in advance. At present, it seems that Bayankala is almost at the end of his rope, otherwise Bayar would never have made such a self-exposing move.

"Okay, Nokia, you don't have to talk about it, you go back and tell Bayar, although I don't lack food in Dingzhou, but the grain has been transported all the way, but the loss is also very great, and there is not a lot of excess food, but for the sake of my comrades in the city, I am still willing to squeeze out a part to redeem them, but five catties of grain for a slave is the highest price I can pay, if I want, our two families will exchange, if not, then we can only avenge the blood and hatred of these comrades who died."

Before Nokia could answer, the mountain wind had already stood up, "Dashuai, I am against it." Will we provide food to the other side, so that these barbarians will be well fed to kill our warriors? Think again, big guy. ”

Wang Qinian also stood up, "Commander, please think twice!" I don't think we can give them any food, and I don't think they have the guts to kill these slaves. ”

"Then you can try it!" Nokia said angrily.

Li Qing keenly grasped the trace of panic floating in Nuo Qizhi's eyes, and his heart was already more confident, "Two generals, the soldiers under your command are from Dingzhou, and the people in the city are also from Dingzhou, the palms and backs of their hands are meat, how can we favor one over the other, our soldiers are fully armed, and the slaves in the city are unarmed, I believe that it is your soldiers who are also willing to fight to the death to kill the enemy, and exchange their lives for the safety of their comrades." Haven't we always done that? Needless to say, I have made up my mind, Nokia, do you agree? ”

Noqia said: "I have no right to decide the price proposed by the marshal, I need to go back to the city to ask His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Li Qing waved his hand and said: "Okay, then you can go and come back quickly, our army will not attack the city today, I will wait for your news in the tent." It didn't take an hour to come and go. ”

Looking at Nokia's back, Li Qing smiled at the mountain breeze, "General Guo's reaction is very fast, with your cooperation, presumably Bayar will not dare to bargain with us." ”

The mountain wind smiled and said: "The handsome man has his own calculations in his chest, and the mountain wind will help a little." ”

Tang Hu behind Li Qing said in surprise: "General Guo, weren't you still desperately opposing the opinion of the marshal just now, why did you become helping the marshal for a while, what does this mean?" ”

Several generals in the tent were smiling and silent, and Tang Hu was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, in fact, it was simple to put it bluntly, Noqia saw that the generals under Li Qing's command were opposed together, and he naturally wanted to explain this point to Bayar when he went back, and Bayar knew the news, he must have worried that the price was too high, so that Li Qing, who was already a little hesitant, gave up this deal with hatred under the opposition of the generals, so that the 100,000 slaves were really smashed in his own hands. In this way, 100,000 slaves in exchange for 500,000 catties of grain is also a small gain, at least Bayankala can support it for a longer time.

Sure enough, an hour later, the returning Nokia agreed to this clause, and three days later, every day the Dingzhou army handed over 50,000 catties of grain to the barbarians, in exchange for 10,000 slaves, up to ten days.

"Drumming, Jujun!" Li Qing instructed Tang Hu, "Three, it's time for our generals to know our overall strategy. ”

Outside the tent of the Chinese army, dozens of cowhide drums beat at the same time, spreading far away to the battalions, which is the drum of the generals.

Half an hour later, the battalion commanders of the Dingzhou Army gathered in Li Qing's big tent, Li Qing's eyes swept from everyone's faces one by one, Lu Dalin, Guoshan Feng, Wang Qinian, Jiang Kui, Guan Xinglong, Jiang Heiniu, Wei Xin, Xiong Dewu....... one by one their own familiar or unfamiliar faces swept through their eyes, the eyes of the generals flashed with excitement, all the time, Li Qing rarely convened all the battalion-level generals to discuss matters, and always formulated the strategic direction of the general directly, and then let the generals below play freely, As long as the strategic goal is achieved, Li Qing will not pay much attention to the tactical process. Thousands of people, each general has his own style of operation, if he interferes in everything, it will only limit the intelligence of these generals, so that they are tied, not only let them not be refined, but will make them become echo worms, Li Qing, who has crossed over, will not forget in his original era, in that magnificent war of liberation, how the People's Liberation Army, which has no formal military training, defeated those [***] generals with extremely high military literacy.

"Generals, below, what you hear will be our final strategy to capture Bayankala in Dingzhou!" Li Qing said slowly.

(To be continued)