Chapter Twenty-Five: Two Unlucky Eggs
With hot tea and a few snacks, Song Nan's stiff and tired body was relieved, and at the same time, the reason for the incident was also known from Jiang Bin's narrative.
It turned out that Jiang Bin hurriedly invited Song Nan to come overnight, not that he didn't catch the prisoners, in fact, after Jiang Bin led more than 200 elite soldiers selected by himself to rush to Black Mountain Fort yesterday afternoon, he immediately launched a surprise attack on the small Tartar stronghold.
The Tatar soldiers have been arrogant recently, and built five or six strongholds in the north of the wall, which are used as transit resting places to harass the border land of the Ming Dynasty, the general combat principle of the Tatar cavalry is to raid and plunder, and there is no large force of permanent troops, and the battle between the two sides is also based on small force operations, and the Ulzhou Wei is also mainly to prevent raids and loot in the area of Montenegrin Fort, the number of people in Montenegro Fort is limited, and there are only more than 40 resident soldiers, and secondly, these soldiers are forced to come here to garrison, and they are thankful that they can save their lives. Since entering October, they have frequently harassed the villages, plundered a lot of property and temporarily hoarded the people in the transit forts, waiting for the opportunity to transport them away.
Jiang Bin led the crowd to attack the Tartar soldiers by surprise, and was pulled out of three walled forts in a row, until the arrival of Mongolian ranger reinforcements, Jiang Bin announced the withdrawal of troops, with a dozen prisoners and dozens of rescued people back to the Black Mountain Fort, the task of capturing the prisoners can be regarded as a successful completion.
But the trouble is that the captives are caught, but the candidates who can be used as counter-false witnesses can't be picked out, once the Mongolian soldiers are captured, they all know that they are a dead end, and they are completely waiting for death, if you want to say that Jiang Bin is a good hand at cutting people and killing people, but this matter obviously has to use his brains and mouth, Jiang Bin didn't know how to start with Lu Dao all of a sudden, so he had to hurry up and invite Song Nan to come.
Song Nan couldn't laugh when he heard Jiang Bin's narration, but he also admitted that Jiang Bin's attention was right, the witness is an important part of it, the candidate and the confession must be realistic, and he guarantees that he will not talk nonsense and retract the confession when he passes through the court, but he can't just pull someone out casually, I thought that I didn't need to worry about these things, but I didn't expect to do it myself.
"Lord Jiang, where are the Tartar captives? Take me to see it. ”
"Locked up in a stone chamber on the lower level of the walled fort, I called a few brothers to greet them."
Song Nan naturally understood what the so-called greeting meant, and hurriedly said, "Take me to see it." ”
The two walked out of the hall to the southeast, a row of stone steps slowly descended, deep into the ground, it was a stone room half-buried in the ground, as soon as they entered the room, there was a ghost crying wolf howl, the air was mixed with the smell of blood and feces and urine, Song Nan frowned and looked, more than a dozen Tartar prisoners were stripped of their clothes and tied to the pillar, several Ming soldiers were laughing The leather whip dipped in cold water and whipped them, the Tartar soldiers were grunting and shouting, some of them had already come out of the feces and urine, and they were in a mess.
Song Nan frowned and said, "Why are you torturing them?" ”
Jiang Bin scratched his head and said: "I want to give them a dismount first, torture and humiliate ordinary dog tartars, they are afraid of being offended, then wouldn't our matter be easier?" ”
Song Nan smiled bitterly: "Is there a boss among them?" ”
Jiang Bin asked the soldiers around him, "Is there a Tartar leader?" ”
The soldier said: "I don't know what to say, I asked them all to say that they were ordinary soldiers." ”
Song Nan asked, "Have you figured out their names and identities?" ”
The soldier shook his head and said, "I don't know. ”
Song Nan sighed secretly, if things are to be faked, naturally they can't be fake, their names and identities must be on the right number, and they can only choose the best candidate if they know their identities, Jiang Bin seems to have completely ignored these factors.
"Let them go, let them put on their clothes, I want to know their names and identities, preferably among them there are Tartar leaders, and the officials are more desperate for their lives, and the confessions of ordinary Tartar soldiers are more convincing." Song Nan said softly.
Jiang Bin nodded, waved his hand and ordered someone to loosen the Tartar soldiers, all the Tartar soldiers put on their clothes one by one, and stood there in a row, Song Nan looked around, these guys looked similar to the Han people, if it weren't for the different clothes and hairstyles, they really couldn't see the difference with the Han people.
"Tell me, who among you is the leader?" Song Nan asked.
The Tartar soldiers only wanted a quick death, turned a blind eye to this problem, and no one wanted to confess their leaders before they died, and they couldn't live anyway, and it was superfluous to say a word.
"Listen, you Tartars originally harassed my Daming border town, looting and burning all kinds of evil, and it is not an exaggeration to kill a thousand knives in our hands, but this time our Qianhu adults don't want to kill you, as long as you confess the leader among you, you can regain your freedom and let you go back to reunite with your family." Song Nan said sharply.
The Tartars couldn't believe their ears, the two sides had never been captured and could go back alive since the two sides were fighting, they were all trying their best to torture each other to death, how could they be vicious, and such a good thing would fall on their heads today? Has Immortal Heaven opened his eyes?
The Tartar soldiers exchanged glances with each other, and some of them were about to move, when suddenly one of the Tartar soldiers muttered a few words in a loud voice, and suddenly the other Tartar soldiers all looked solemn and closed their lips and did not dare to move.
Song Nan saw it in his eyes and asked Jiang Bin, "Do you know what Lu Dao said to him?" ”
Jiang Bin stretched out his hand to summon a soldier and said, "Don't you understand the Tatar language?" What did that guy say? ”
The soldier said, "The guy told them not to believe us, that we lied to them, and that they would inevitably die in the end; If you confess to the official, after you go back, the whole family will be killed, and no one will be left. ”
Jiang Bin said angrily: "Ri Niang, this dog Tartar must be an official, come, pull him over and give him a taste." ”
Song Nan wanted to oppose it, but after thinking about it, these Tartar soldiers were far more difficult than he imagined, and it was necessary to make an example of them; Without saying a word, Jiang Bin flew up and kicked into the mouth of the Tartar soldier, only to hear the sound of 'Kala', the Tartar soldier's jaw bone was kicked to the side, and several teeth spurted out of the crooked mouth along with minced flesh and blood; as soon as Jiang Bin made a move, several executing soldiers immediately rushed up, punched and beat him wildly, and the bones of the Tartar soldier were broken in dozens of places, like a puddle of mud spread on the ground.
"Throw it into the field and feed it to the wolves." Jiang Bin shouted.
The soldiers dragged the Tartar soldier away, leaving a long trail of blood on the ground, shocking to their horror.
The hearts of the Tartars were shocked, they died, they couldn't stand to suffer so much before they died, the person who was dragged away just now was obviously not out of breath, and they were thrown into the field on such a cold day, and they were torn apart by the wolves if they didn't freeze to death, and this kind of death was really miserable.
The Tartar soldiers kept swallowing and spitting, and they didn't even look at the Ming army in front of them.
Song Nan said: "Everyone, your family is looking forward to your return, it is rare for our thousands of households to be gracious, do you want to waste this opportunity in vain?" Do you want to be beaten half to death like the man just now and thrown out of the wolf to feed the wolf? ”
A Tartar soldier suddenly said: "Left and right are death, and betraying the official will also affect the family, I can't say it." ”
Song Nan smiled: "It's just to say who is the official, it's not a betrayal." Besides, when you go back, who knows what you said? As long as you cooperate, I will swear to spare you your life. ”
The Tartar soldier said: "Those who go back alive will inevitably leak their mouths, and whoever says that they are unlucky." ”
Song Nan said with a smile: "It's easy to do, come to people, take them down, everyone must confess the name and position of the official, and then compare them uniformly, if there is someone who is not right, or who refuses to confess, there will be no forgiveness; Now that you have all explained, no one can get out of it, and see who dares to be lazy when they go back. ”
When the Tartars heard this, they suddenly felt that it was a good way, it was good to live, but if they were stabbed and stabbed by their families after they went back, the gains outweighed the losses, so that everyone had a share, and everyone would keep their mouths tightly closed.
At that moment, all the Tartar soldiers were taken down to explain separately, and after a while, thirteen pieces of paper were summed up, except for the two Tartar captives who handed over the white rolls, the other Tartar captives all scored full marks, and the two guys who handed over the white rolls were the small leaders of the Tartars, just one fat and one thin, and the fat one was called Daruchi was a brand soldier head; And the thin man turned out to be a centurion named Hua Buwen.
Jiang Bin was extremely surprised, he thought that there were at most long soldiers here, but unexpectedly, two big fish appeared; Song Nan was also extremely happy, the higher the official position, the more he spared his life, the easier it was to start, and he did not waste all his efforts.
The two Tartar officers were taken into a secret room with pale faces, Jiang Bin retired from the idle people, and only interrogated the two of them separately with Song Nan.
It turned out that there were only some low-level soldiers stationed in the Tartar fort north of Ulzhou, and the Tartar soldiers went south to disturb the rangers, and they would not be stationed in one place for a long time.
It's a pity that the passing year is unfavorable, and I don't know if the incense didn't burn in front of the Immortal Heavenly Throne, but coincidentally, Jiang Bin happened to start the captives, and the two didn't have time to escape, and were captured by Jiang Bin's men.
People are unlucky to drink cold water and stuff their teeth, it is not an exaggeration to use this sentence to describe the mood of these two guys at this time, the two regretted their intestines, and they thought that they must be unfortunate this time, and after explaining, they will wait for the knife with their necks.
Jiang Bin and Song Nan looked at each other and smiled after listening to the story of these two unlucky people, there seemed to be providence in the dark, the identity of the Tartar Baihu was more convincing, and the rest was to convince one of the two, and then wait for Fang Datong to inspect the goods.