The captives in the tent were chatting privately in Khitan - because of this they didn't care too much about the volume of their speech - it shouldn't have attracted the attention of Mutel, who didn't know Khitan at all, but when Mutel passed outside the tent, a few stiff but very special Chinese words such as "ammunition base" and "straggler line formation" came out, so that Mutel, who overheard it, had to stop and figure out that these few people should not have appeared in the population of this era. Especially words that should not appear in the Khitan mouth, where did the Khitan captives in the tent come from. However, as Mutel, he naturally did not go directly into the tent to inquire, but turned his head and ordered the guards guarding the prisoners to take all the Khitan prisoners in the tent to the government office in the city for interrogation.

When Muttel returned to the government office, he first called the Khitan interpreter who accompanied the army, and then came to the lobby of the government office to wait. In a short time, the guards of the prisoner of war camp brought in more than a dozen Khitan prisoners. Seeing that there were two rows of armed and mighty soldiers standing above the lobby, and the young general who was obviously the commander of the place sitting behind the public case looked himself up and down with a serious face, the dozen or so Khitan captives couldn't help but tremble in their hearts, for fear that they had violated the rules of the prisoner camp, or had been too active in the previous siege battle, or had "mistakenly injured" some important person on the other side in the battle, and now they would use themselves to prepare for severe punishment. Therefore, there was no need for the guards standing next to the hall to scold, as soon as the dozen or so Khitan captives entered the hall, they knelt on the ground very consciously, listening to the fate of the big people in the hall with anxiety.

The captives behaved exactly what Muttel wanted to see, so that the interrogation he would have ensued would be much smoother. After a moment of silence, Muttle, who felt that the atmosphere had been almost baked, said in a deep voice: "Fang Cai, are you talking about the 'ammunition base', 'skirmisher formation' and other combat-related things in the tent?" ”

Before the interpreter could finish reading all of Muttel's words, the captive, who knew Chinese, pointed to his two companions and shouted in relatively proficient Chinese: "Back to the general's words, it is these two people who are talking about the 'ammunition base' and the 'skirmish formation'. They were originally centurion-level officers, and in order to survive, they posed as ordinary soldiers and hid in the tents of villains. The villain and others did not dare to speak out because of their obscenity, and hoped that the general would forgive and forgive their sins. ”

As soon as they saw that someone was taking the lead, several other captives also echoed each other in skillful or blunt Chinese. And the two Khitan captives who were accused of being centurions reprimanded them in Khitan language in anger and deplenate, and on the other hand, they were ready to rise up, intending to do Zuihou's resistance.

The behavior of these two Khitan centurions naturally had only one result, and before they could stand up, they had been smashed to the ground by the guards who came up on both sides with the butts of their guns - if it weren't for the fact that their own masters still had something to ask these two people, and they had some control when they attacked, they were afraid that if the butts of the guns went down, the two Khitan centurions would be smashed with broken tendons and even smashed to death in the hall.

The two Khitan centurions were also honest after receiving this rifle butt, and the arrogance they had just treated their subordinates was gone, and they just lay on the ground with their heads broken and bleeding, desperately waiting for the other party's severe treatment.

In fact, these two Khitan centurions were completely scared of themselves. At the beginning of the capture, he was afraid that the other party would be severely punished if he knew that he was an officer, so he pretended to be an ordinary non-commissioned officer to escape the identity interrogation, but he did not know that the crossing team had always been armed with the practice of not accepting surrender, and there was no habit of killing prisoners. After being exposed by his subordinates, he thought that the other party would punish him for concealing his identity, so that he wanted to fight to the death and fight to break the net, but he didn't know that the big man in the hall didn't take their concealment seriously at all, and all he really cared about was a few Chinese characters that they inadvertently said in the Khitan language during their chats - this was not their carelessness, but in fact, these words could not find a suitable Khitan language to correspond to, so they had to borrow Chinese pronunciation to express them directly. …,

When they figured out the reason why they were brought in from the translator's mouth, the two Khitan centurions, who originally thought that they were going to die, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Once they knew that they would not die, the two men knew each other, and they knew everything about Muttle's problems.

After listening to the confessions of the two captives, and figuring out that the words that should not have appeared in this time and space were from the mouth of the deputy commander of the personal battalion of the commander of the Khitan army, Yelu Enemy Lie, who had already known and witnessed that Yelu Enemy Lie and his generals and personal soldiers had been hit by his own artillery fire, Muttel was a little disappointed at first, but then his heart moved, remembering what he had heard from the personnel cleaning the battlefield before leading his troops into the Gubei Pass that they had rescued a so-called deputy commander of the pro-army battalion from the pile of dead people. So, while waving his hand to let the guards take out the prisoners from the hall, he hurriedly let in the prisoner of war camp guards who had been waiting outside the hall, and ordered them to return to the prisoner of war camp immediately to find the deputy commander of the pro-soldier battalion who was seriously wounded, and asked them to send him to the gate as soon as they found him, and he was treated by his own best military doctor.

Although they did not understand that their commander valued an ordinary deputy commander so much, the guards of the prisoner of war camp immediately took the order, and not only quickly carried the deputy commander to the Guancheng government office and handed him over to the military doctor found by Mutel for treatment, but also sent the two soldiers of the pro-military battalion who were found with the deputy commander, so that Mutel could learn more about the deputy commander.

Compared to the lieutenant commander, the two soldiers were slightly less wounded, and they were only stunned by the loud sound of the shells exploding, and did not suffer serious internal or external injuries. Therefore, he had already woken up shortly after being sent to the prisoner of war camp, and was now in good time to be questioned by Muttle.

Satisfied with the proactive behavior of the POW camp guards, Muttel praised them and instructed his military doctor to carry the lieutenant down and heal him. Then he ordered the two captured soldiers of Jerevi to be brought to the hall, and they were carefully questioned about the lieutenant commander. The two pro-soldiers naturally poured beans into bamboo tubes, and told in detail everything they knew about the deputy commander.

After listening to the two men's accounts, Muttel waved for them to be taken down. After sitting there and pondering for a while, he got up and went back to his residence, took out a pen and paper and wrote a draft of the telegram, which the telegraph operator immediately sent to the four committee members scattered around, and copied it to Zhang Xiaofei, the head of the intelligence department.

It was late at the end of the day when Mutel sent the telegram, and it was expected that the Committee's reply would not be received until the next morning. To Muttle's surprise, just as he was about to go to bed, he received a joint reply from the committee and the Ministry of Intelligence. By this time, it was past midnight, which showed that the Committee attached great importance to this matter.

In the reply, the committee recognized Muter's judgment in the telegram that the deputy commander of the pro-military battalion might be a traverser, and decided to send Liang Ziyue to Gubeikou Pass early the next morning to examine and inspect him. At the same time, in order to verify the testimony of the two captured soldiers, Zhao Min'an, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, will also go with Liang Ziyue. In addition, although there were a number of agents from the Internal Affairs Section of the Ministry of Intelligence and a squad of personal guards accompanying them, considering that it was still wartime, and most of the roads along the way were mountainous, it was easy to give hostile Shili with ill intentions an opportunity to take advantage of, and the "Liangyuan" side had limited troops, and it was difficult to send more troops to provide protection for Liang Ziyue, Zhao Min'an and others, so the committee asked Muttel to send a team of cavalry early the next morning to meet Liang and Zhao and his party along the road, so as to ensure at least the second half of the journey. At the same time, it is also the safety of the most dangerous and threatening part of the journey.

Naturally, Muttel had no objection to the committee's arrangement, and he immediately sent people to the station of the "Ranger Battalion" to give an order, ordering Deputy Battalion Commander Ma Shizhong to select a company and set off early the next morning to meet Liang and Zhao and his party along the official road to the southwest. When everything was arranged, Muttel settled down and went to bed.