Chapter 40: Zhao Tong extorted confessions

In this Changsha battle, the losses of the Shu army were not light, not to mention the loss of people and horses who were attacked before entering the city, although the momentum was like a bamboo after entering the city, and the battle situation was very smooth, but in such a large-scale battle, a certain amount of damage was inevitable.

In this battle, the Shu army suffered more than 7,000 casualties, of which more than 2,000 were killed, most of them were rattan armor soldiers, and there were also hundreds of musketeers. The musketeers didn't charge forward, but they didn't have any armor on them, and they were easy to overtake with just an arrow or a machete.

After the Battle of Changsha, Liu Hou sent Vulture to lead his second division to regain the county seats, while the rest of the troops rested on the spot. In the battle to enter the city, the second division basically did not make much effort, and because of the large number of attrition caused by the sneak attack in the early stage, the second division was filled with a large number of recruits.

These recruits have not been baptized in actual combat, and now they are taking this opportunity to gain actual combat experience in the low-intensity battle to recover the county seats. It can be regarded as a substitute for training.

The 6th Regiment of the Musketeers was also a recruit and a reserve regiment, and this time Liu Hou sent them out to cooperate with the vulture bones to attack the county towns, so that they could also gain some actual combat experience. The 6th Regiment was not equipped with muskets, but now the other regiments were resting, and the men had to rest, and the guns could not rest.

Liu Hou asked the 1st to 5th regiments to vacate some guns and ammunition for the 6th regiment temporarily, so that they could take them to fight first and return them after the battle.

Liu Hou had already planned to wait for the Sixth Regiment to go through the baptism of war, and then pick out a few hundred people from them, replenish them to the regiments that had suffered losses, and re-replenish the main battle troops.

Then, according to the old rules, all the troops damaged in this battle were selected from Zhu Bao's fourth division, that is, the baggage team, to replenish to full strength. And the baggage team is not afraid of the loss of manpower, this time captured 30,000 Eastern Wu soldiers, as long as their injuries are healed, they can be rationed to Zhu Bao, but I am afraid that the baggage team will be strict and overstaffed.

In this way, there were more than 50,000 people in the baggage team, and later Liu Hou saw that the road was wrong and decided to rebuild the fifth division. The original Fifth Division was handed over to Zhao Yun to garrison Guiyang, and Guan Suo, the commander of the Fifth Division, became a single commander after not being a serious division commander for a few days. Now that there are plenty of troops, it is time to rebuild the Fifth Division.

So, Liu Hou asked Guan Suo to go to the baggage team to select strong soldiers and reorganize the Fifth Division. Because it was a pure cold weapon unit, Liu Hou still gave him 20,000 troops, and the remaining 30,000 people were left for Zhu Bao to be a baggage team. In that case, the troops on Zhao Yun's side could only be renamed the Guiyang Garrison Division or the Sixth Division.

It is said that Zhao Yun, the Guiyang garrison, has not been idle these days, and has really fought a few big battles. With Lu Xun's ability, it is impossible not to think of the benefits of copying the enemy's back road.

It's a pity that the Eastern Wu army, which sneaked up on the back road, met Zhao Yun, and there was no good fruit to eat. With Zhao Yun, a fierce general in the world, as long as he reports his name, he can basically scare people to the point of urine, once he hands it over, he can end the battle with one or two moves, or ten moves and eight moves.

In addition, there are Buqi to help win the hearts of the soldiers, and the military spirit of the Guiyang garrison division has not been in any trouble, and it can basically exert normal combat effectiveness. So, there was basically no suspense in those battles. The Eastern Wu army's strategy of sneaking up on the back road to attack the grain road failed without exception.

A month later, the reorganization of the Shu Army was basically completed, and the reorganization of the Fifth Division was basically completed. Liu Hou planned to move his army north and continue to march towards Jingzhou. As for Changsha, after thinking about it, he finally made up his mind and prepared to transfer Buqi to serve as Changsha's Taishou.

With the ability of Buqi, there is no problem with Ren Zhoumu, when a Taishou is a bit condescending, the key is that after this period of observation, Liu Hou found that Buqi was really enlightened, and he really became a good official who thinks about the people everywhere, and there is no doubt about his loyalty. In this way, he can rest assured that he is too shou of Changsha.

The situation in Changsha has stabilized, and there is no need for Zhang Zhongjing to come forward to shake the scene, so he can rest assured that Bu Qi is appointed as the Taishou, of course, Zhang Zhongjing still does what he likes to do, that is, the health cause.

The strategic location of Changsha was very important, and Liu Hou planned to leave Guan Suo and his Fifth Division to defend it, so that Bu Qi was in charge of civil affairs and Guan Suo was in charge of military affairs, even if Bu Qi wanted to make trouble, he could not do it.

Just when Liu Hou arranged a qiē and was about to set off north to Jingzhou, Zhao Tong came to Liu Hou and reported to him the results of the interrogation of Qincha. After more than a month, Liu Houdu had forgotten about it, and now Zhao Tong came to report that he remembered that he had ordered Zhao Tong to torture and interrogate Qin Cha.

It seems that Zhao Tong is really not suitable for the promising profession of coerced confession. After Zhao Tong came in, he first saluted Liu Hou, and then reported on his month-long career of coercing confessions.

Zhao Tongyi began to persuade first, and after persuasion for three days and three nights was ineffective, then whipping, whipping for three days was also ineffective, and then began to persuade again. Zhao Tong gave him a lecture on politics and reason, but this Qincha just refused to let go.

At this time, Zhao Tong remembered Zhao Yun's punishment for him when he was a child: not giving him food. Zhao Yun has been very strict with the two brothers since they were children, and if they don't meet his requirements, they won't be given food at every turn, and he feels that it is the most unbearable thing in the world.

Therefore, he thinks that as long as he comes up with this trick, this pampered Qincha will definitely give in. As a result, Qin Cha was starved for three days and three nights, and he fainted directly from hunger without confessing.

Zhao Tong felt incredible, even if he was hungry when he was a child, it was unbearable, how could this person be starved for three days and still be able to hold on?

Then, Zhao Tong thought of another way, that is, to use feathers to scratch the soles of Qincha's feet. It was a game he had played with his friends when he was a kid, and he thought it was intolerable.

As a result, after these days of repeated torture, this Qin Cha felt a little sluggish, and he was not scratched and giggled as Zhao Tong expected.

This made Zhao Tong feel very frustrated, and after that, he also thought of a few tricks that he thought were very useful methods to extract confessions, all of which were not childish things without exception, but there was no result after tossing for a month.

One day, Zhao Tong went to the cell to extract a confession from Qin Cha, because the long-term forced confession did not have an effect, he was a little depressed, and let his subordinates do it, he sat absentmindedly and played with a piece of jade the size of a goose egg.

This is a piece of Burmese jade, which was seized by Guo Yuzhi from Meng Yu's lair when he was in Nanzhong, Liu Hou gave it to Zhao Tong casually, Zhao Tong also liked it, and often took it out to play, and the jade was played with by him to be smooth and moist.

"Ice ...... Ice species boxwood green? This is ice species boxwood green! Yes, can you show me? There was a faint exclamation from beside him.

Zhao Tong turned around and saw that it was Lord Qincha who was being repaired by his subordinates.

"Humph! What do you know, it's all this time, what jade are you still thinking about, hurry up and confess, otherwise, there will be your good fruit to eat. Zhao Tong scolded.

In fact, he was very curious in his heart, he just thought that this stone was very beautiful, but he didn't know what its reputation was. But there is one thing he knows, that is, this stone must be very valuable, otherwise it would not enter Meng Shu's treasure house, and it would be treasured and collected.

"This is an ice boxwood green jadeite, and I am absolutely not mistaken, it is only produced in Hungsawady (Myanmar) south of Yunnan. However, even if it is jadeite, ice boxwood green is an extremely rare species. This thing can be called priceless. ”

"Really? Is this thing really that valuable? Zhao Tong was aroused by him, forgetting that this Qin Cha was his own prisoner, and took the initiative to ask.

"Of course, the ice boxwood green itself is very precious, but there are also grade differences in the same ice boxwood green, which depends on its 'water head', color, seed pit, ground, luster, emerald color layout and so on." Chin Cha said.

Zhao Tongyi listened, this guy said the truth, as if he really understood, so he handed him the handle in his hand.

Qin Cha saw this, he was reluctant to let go, turned this goose-like jade over and over again, and muttered to himself while looking at it: "It's really, it's really a rare ice species boxwood green, or the best ice species old pit jade." The head is long, there is no trace of impurities in it, the luster is lubricated, the best, the best. ”

Qin Cha looked at it, saliva was about to flow out, Zhao Tongyi snatched the jade and said, "Hmph! What is rare in the world, such stones, my prince is more. It's just something he threw at me. ”

"What do you know about a little hairy child, the fresher this jadeite, the higher the value. Ice boxwood green is the most sunny of the jadeite, and of course it is also the most valuable one. Moreover, this piece of jade has the essence of positive, thick, yang and even, and it is the best of the best. The value is immeasurable. If you take this jade to some small country, those kings will even be willing to exchange a city with you. ”

In fact, this piece of jadeite is not an ice species but a more precious glass species, but the ancients did not have the concept of glass, and it can only be said to be the best ice species.

"Humph! So what, no matter how precious jade is, it is not a stone, and my prince never looks at these things in his eyes. If there is merit, no matter how precious it is, it will be rewarded. You'd better confess quickly, or I'll have eighteen other ways to deal with you. ”

This Zhao Tong said threatening words in his mouth, but he had said these words countless times, and he couldn't do anything to people in the past month.

But the speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart, Qin Cha's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said: "If so-and-so says, you, you can give me this stone?" He also dared to speak, and he said just now that he was a priceless thing, and now he dares to ask for it.

It's just that Zhao Tong is not a master of goods, and he doesn't care about this piece of foreign object at all, when he heard Qin Cha say this, he couldn't help but be brightened, he said: "Really? Are you really willing to say? Okay, as long as you explain the problem well, this broken stone will be given to you. After that, Zhao Tong simply stuffed this rare piece of precious jade into Qincha's hands.

Qin Cha trembled with his hands, took this piece of ice boxwood green jade, which was priceless in his eyes and was just a plaything in Zhao Tong's eyes, and then told the cause and effect of the matter like pouring beans from a bamboo tube. Zhao Tong didn't expect that Qin Cha's mouth, which he couldn't pry open with all his might, was pried open by a broken stone.

This Qincha is actually a hard bone, but he has one thing that is not good, that is, he is too greedy for money. Greed for money is usually associated with fear of death, and people who are greedy for money and not afraid of death are indeed rare, but this Qincha is such a strange thing. He is such a person who loves money like his life, he can resist the torture of torture, but he can't resist the temptation of a piece of superb jadeite.

Hearing this, Liu Hou remembered the scene in the domestic Lingling paint, when Zhou Xingxing was arrested and was about to be shot, he couldn't get out after thinking of several ways, and finally took out a hundred yuan and a pack of cigarettes and was released.