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Try to make the situation more favorable to the beams.

The captives who were called looked at the handkerchief carefully, and one of them hesitated and said, "This seems to be used by Brother Jiang." ”

As soon as he said this, the other person also remembered, "Yes, it was used by Brother Jiang, and his sister-in-law embroidered it for him." ”

Su Zhang and Wu Shilang glanced at each other and asked, "What's his name?" ”

"I didn't know what it was called before, but now it's called Jiang San, General Shi likes to name slaves according to their age, he should be the third in that group of captured people, so he is called Jiang San."

"Shizhan?"

"Yes, it's General Shi." The man hesitated for a moment and said: "But Brother Jiang is literate, his martial arts are also good, and he is smart, and now he is a small secretary in the camp. ”

Su Zhang's face was ugly, can they Han people only be second-class citizens?

Wu Shilang asked, "You just said that Jiang San has a younger sister?" ”

"Yes, I heard that his sister was captured with him, but half a year ago she asked General Shi to give it to the general." The man glanced at the handkerchief and said in a low voice, "He often praised his sister's ability to her, and she only learned embroidery from their mother for two years, and she embroidered very well." ”

"He's very prestigious in the army?"

The man smiled bitterly and said, "We are slaves, so what prestige can we have?" As long as they don't kill us for fun, it's fine. ”

Su Zhang asked lightly, "I mean he has a lot of prestige among the Han soldiers?" ”

"That's right, because he can say a few words to General Shi, so he often takes care of us, and we trust him more."

Su Zhang and Wu Shilang glanced at each other and asked, "Can he still talk to Shi Zhan?" ”

"Brother Jiang is smart, he often gives advice to General Shi, and he can always say it right, so General Shi will listen to his advice."

Su Zhang and Wu Shilang understood what Lin Qingwan meant, and waved their hands to let the prisoner take down.

A few people couldn't help but kneel on the ground and said: "General, we were all forced, we were all Daliang people before, they forced us to go to the front, please let us go." ”

Su Zhang looked at them and said lightly: "Don't worry, we won't kill all the captured Han people, and when it is clear that you were good citizens before, we will let you go." ”

Several people breathed a sigh of relief, kowtowed and left.

Su Zhang waited for them to leave before looking at Wu Shilang, "Let's go, let's make good use of this person." ”

At night, the Liao army also retreated ten miles, no longer attacking the city, and kept a certain distance from Dingzhou City.

Martial law is imposed in the army, and no one is allowed to go out and move around indiscriminately.

But it was only in the upper barracks, and most of the people in the lower barracks were captive slaves, including Han Chinese, Hui people, and Tubo people, who didn't even have armor or weapons, and they were in rags and leaned together to keep warm.

They mostly have sticks in their hands, and that's their weapon.

Normally, during the siege, they will be driven to the front to resist the arrows, as long as they can rush into a city, and then survive, and kill enough people, they can be transferred out of the lower camp to the middle camp.

If you don't fight in the future, you may be able to change from a slave to a second-class citizen.

And Jiang San has not been on the battlefield a few times, he relied on literacy and advice to get mixed up with General Shi, mainly doing clerical and account work.

At this time, the upper barracks were in chaos, so he stayed in the lower barracks most of the time, so as not to be cut off by someone in the eye at some point.

He is Han, and if he dies, he will die, and no one will care.

But tonight was destined to be a sleepless night, and he lay on his side on the bunk, holding a handkerchief in his hand and remained silent.

After a night of struggle, the next day he quietly went to the barracks, but instead of looking for Shizhan, he went to General Gu Lijia.

Shizhan is from Wendihan, which is why he gave his sister to Wendihan, but Gulijia is from Ganl, or rather, he is from the Asalam tribe.

He was born in the Asalan tribe, and he was a distant cousin of Ganle, and this time he was not in the reckoning, after all, his father and brother were both officials in the court, and if he died here without explanation, his family would not give up.

At this time, it was not yet dawn, but there were already people in the army, and Jiang San was not obvious walking in the camp, so he quickly touched Gu Lijia.

He took a deep breath, suppressed the fear in his heart, and bowed humbly to surrender to Gu Lijia.

He had a second option, but he didn't want to.

Denounce the people who come into contact with him?

Then, the people who come into contact with his sister now will also be implicated, and he won't have the heart to care about what happens to Da Liang and the county lord at that time, but he and his sister won't have any good end.

He has been a slave for five years, and he knows these Liao people too well, in their eyes, they are like ants, whether they are meritorious or not, they crush them like crushing a bunch of ants.

It's not difficult, and there will be no waves in the heart, it's just a matter of whether the mood is good or bad.

So even if he and his sister make meritorious contributions, I'm afraid they won't be able to live.

Even the other party will kill all the slaves in the barracks in order to prevent future troubles forever.

So he can only listen to the words of the general Su, maybe he still can't live, but at least his sister's hope is much greater.

Not long after, Jiang San was quietly brought into the camp, he "pounced" on his knees on the ground, and almost threw himself on the ground: "General help." ”

Gu Lijia frowned and asked, "You are from Shizhan, why did you come to save my life with me?" ”

Jiang San's face turned pale and said: "It's General Shi who may want to kill me, I, I heard what the Great General and General Shi said......

Gu Lijia's eyes sank, and he couldn't help but sit up straight and ask, "What did they say?" ”

At the same time, in the palace in Shangjing, almost at the moment when the morning dawned, Liao Khan, who had been holding the bed, suddenly lifted his eyelids, and then slowly sank, and his breathing slowly disappeared with this action.

The Imperial Doctor's face changed drastically, and after touching his pulse, he knelt on the ground and announced, "Khan, you're dead!" ”

The generals and ministers in the room were stunned for a moment, and then they pretended to cry, and one of the ministers said: "Since the Khan has died, let's declare all three princes back." ”

"No," one shouted, "The war against Liang has just begun, how can you declare the princes back, wouldn't that be in Liang's hands?" ”

"Yes, the assassins must have been sent by them this time, in order to make us have civil strife in Daliao and then eliminate the war? So we can't make them happy. ”

"Then what do you say, the country can't be without a king for a day, but the three princes are all at the border."

"Just call the eldest prince back, leave the second prince and the third prince to guard the two states of Youyun, and continue to the south," one of them said: "You must know that there are many people affected by the disaster in our Daliao now, but they are all waiting for the food of the Liang State to save their lives." ”

"The incident happened suddenly, and the khan did not say that he would hand over the throne to the eldest prince, how could he only call the eldest prince and not call the second prince back?"

The courtier, who had already received Wen Dihan's signal, immediately said: "There is also the third prince, he has outstanding ability, he has made a lot of military achievements in the past few years, and he is very obedient to the public, since you want to call the eldest prince and the second prince back, then simply call the third prince back." ”

"Nonsense, the generals are back, who is leading the troops to fight in front?"

"Aren't there still Gulja them? For the time being, they will lead the troops first, and when the new khan ascends the throne, they will then go south to attack Liang. ”

"Yes, if you can take advantage of the situation to capture the Great Liang, it will also be a merit of the new Khan."

"Let's not talk about the rest, we have to send someone to inform the three princes about the death of the Khan......"

Seeing each other left and right, there was a commotion in the hall, everyone had endless opinions, and the two of them were so angry that they couldn't do it, is it time to seek personal gain?

The two glanced at each other, and the two people, who had always been-for-tat, stood together at this time, and after drinking everyone, they said: "Block the news, the death of the Khan is not allowed to be publicized for the time being, secretly recall the eldest prince and the second prince, and let the third prince lead the troops at the border pass." ”

After a pause, Zuo Xiang said: "The matter of the death of the Khan is also not allowed to be passed on to the third prince, and the decree is clear, saying that the eldest prince and the second prince will not be able to attack Dingzhou City for a long time, and His Majesty will announce that the two will come back to teach, and the third prince will lead the troops for the time being." ”

This is to completely exclude the third prince from the list of heirs.

Wen Dihan's people sneered in their hearts, fortunately, the third prince had already prepared, otherwise Da Liao would really have changed people, and the third prince would be the last to know.

The left and right used strong means to suppress all kinds of opinions in the court, and in order to prevent the leakage of news, they went to the capital to impose martial law.

The reason is also ready-made, to search for the Assassin and the Assassin's accomplice.

Although martial law is imposed and people on the surface cannot go out, Wendihan's people still find a gap to pass the news outside, and then wait for Wendihan to return to inherit the throne with peace of mind.

The four people who were lucky enough to escape were lying on the kang in a broken room, listening to the wind outside and saying with annoyance: "It's been three days, and there is no movement in the palace at all, could it be that Liao Khan is not dead?" ”

The guard's face turned pale and said, "The arrow missed." ”

"But wasn't that old boy already in poor health, frightened and frightened, and injured, and survived?"

"When the emperor's life is hard," Xu Jun gritted his teeth and asked his companion to burn his wounds, and then he was given medicine to stop bleeding, "maybe he will survive." ”

"Crow's beak!"

Xu Jun smashed his mouth and said regretfully: "It's a pity, it was a little far away at the time, otherwise it would be good to rush up and die together." ”

"You can be content, it's good to be able to escape with your life, you see we went to twenty-eight people, and only four ...... came out"

Speaking of this, everyone's mood was depressed.

The search continued, and they were all injured a lot, and they didn't know if they would be able to get out of Beijing alive.

The guard was excited, retracted his thoughts and asked, "Do you want to find a way to pass on the message to the county lord?" ”

Xu Jun shook his head, "Don't drag more people into the water, Wendihan must have someone here, and they will spread the news." If Wendihan knew, her aunt probably wouldn't know. ”

"His grandmother's said to send someone to pick us up, but it turned out that we were pigeons."

"Satisfied, it's good that he didn't sell us to the Liao Imperial Court."

"How dare he?" The guard said angrily: "If you force me in a hurry, I will say that he instructed me." ”