Chapter 513: Persuasion in front of the city
Lin Haotian looked at everyone once, and it wasn't until the end that he went to see Huang Qi. He was not arraigned, but went directly to the place where she was being held.
At this time, Huang Qi had been imprisoned in the dungeon of the county government by the demonic underworld, and was closely guarded by the demonic underworld warriors inside and outside.
The county hall's dungeon is not large, and there is only one torture room and two cells inside under the garden in the backyard. When Lin Haotian arrived, Huang Qi was locked in the torture room, his wrists were tightly clasped by iron ropes, and they were nailed to two thick iron pillars.
Lin Haotian still had an impression of Huang Qi, and after looking him up and down, he immediately inspected the surrounding torture instruments.
Seeing him, Huang Qi was not surprised, nor did he show nervousness, and said with a relaxed expression: "I didn't expect that a mere folk girl could attract the dignified General Lin." ”
Lin Haotian casually picked up a soldering iron from the stove, looked at the iron that burned red on it, and said leisurely: "You, a 'mere folk girl', are not small, you dare to assassinate a dignified general. ”
As if he didn't see the soldering iron in his hand, Huang Qi shrugged his shoulders and said, "The people's girl is just acting on orders, and General Lin should go and ask Lord Hong for an understanding instead of wasting his time on the people's daughter." ”
"Bang dang!"
Lin Haotian threw the soldering iron back into the furnace, walked up to Huang Qi, examined her beautiful and delicate face, and said, "You must know that what you did was a capital crime, and you still have to do it when you can refuse or escape." This can only show one point, you are the dead soldier of Lord Hong, and you are willing to do it for him, and you don't even want your own life. But it's very strange, how can a dead man confess his master directly without even being tried after being caught, such a soft-boned little girl dares to assassinate the commander of an army, isn't this puzzling?"
I heard Lin Haotian's words. The faces of everyone present changed in unison. Including Shao Lin, who came with him. yes, why didn't you think of that!
If Lin Haotian didn't break it, Shao Lin still felt that the whole thing was reasonable, but after Lin Haotian said so. He also realized that there was something wrong.
A hint of surprise flashed in Huang Qi's eyes. But it disappeared immediately. She looked at Lin Haotian's fierce gaze and said, "It's not that I'm greedy for life and afraid of death, I just understand a little." If it falls into the hands of the demon underworld, it can't be said if you don't want to, since you have to say it sooner or later, why should you suffer from your own flesh and skin first?"
Lin Haotian nodded, if he explained it like this, it would make sense, he smiled slightly, and said, "Maybe you don't know yet, General Chen is not dead." ”
This understatement shocked Huang Qi too much, and his already white cheeks instantly became whiter, but he was very calm, reacted quickly, blinked his eyes, and returned to normal. He raised his eyes to look at Lin Haotian, but he didn't say anything.
He was very confident in his shot, and with a powerful stab that pierced through his chest, even if Chen Bo was not killed on the spot, it was impossible to be saved again. When Lin Haotian said this, he was just deceiving himself.
Seeing that she didn't believe her words, Lin Haotian approached Huang Qi and said, "Why do you think Ben Shuai suspects your motives? It was General Chen who personally told Ben Shuai that you had said before you made a move that Hong Hao was a traitor to Youguo, and although he deserved to die, General Chen was far superior to Hong Hao. How's that, Ben Shuai is right?"
A trace of surprise flashed on Huang Qi's calm face, that's right, this was indeed what he said to Chen Bo, her voice was very low at that time, and it was impossible for others to hear it, so how did Lin Haotian know? Could it be that Chen Bo really didn't die?
Lin Haotian did not miss the change in his expression, and said leisurely: "Ben Shuai understands that you want to commit rape for You Guo, so you pretend to be mysterious to Lord Hong, and the purpose is to frame Lord Hong, so that you can kill two birds with one stone, and eradicate General Chen and Lord Hong, the two 'traitors' of You Country." ”
Huang Qi didn't speak again, his two eyes stared at Lin Haotian.
The latter also looked at him without blinking, puzzled and curious, and asked: "It's just that Ben Shuai doesn't understand, Miss Huangqi is young, she doesn't look like someone who can come up with such a trick, presumably, someone secretly taught you to do this, right?"
She still didn't speak, her mouth closed.
Lin Haotian said: "Tell Ben Shuai, who that person is, as long as you are willing to say, Ben Shuai will never hurt you." But if you don't say it, you yourself understand that falling into the hands of the demon underworld warriors is worse than death, no matter how cruel the means, they can use them. ”
Huang Qi suddenly snorted and laughed.
Lin Haotian raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is the Yellow Flag girl laughing at?"
"General Xiaolin!"
"Oh?"
"General Lin said so much to himself, I almost thought that the general was suffering from madness!" she looked at Lin Haotian and said with a smile.
Hearing this, the faces of the surrounding demon warriors sank, their fists clenched one by one, their eyes shot a cold poisonous light, and their teeth clenched, as if they might pounce on him at any time and tear him apart.
Lin Haotian was stunned for a moment, laughed on his back, and after a while, he stopped laughing, nodded, shook his head again, took two steps back, looked at Huang Qi and sighed lightly, and then didn't say anything more, turned his head to Shao Lin and said, "He will hand it over to you, what to do, you can handle it yourself." With that, he didn't delay, turned around and walked out.
"Subordinates send off your lord!" Shao Lin and the other demon martial artists bowed their hands together.
Until Lin Haotian's footsteps disappeared outside the room, everyone straightened their waists and looked at each other, and people sneered and rolled up their cuffs one after another......
Lin Haotian believed that even if Huang Qi was an iron tooth and steel tooth, the people of the Demon Martial Arts would have a way to pry his mouth open.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether anyone instructed him, or who the person who instructed him was, Lin Haotian only had one thing to figure out, that is, whether there were any Yellow Flag allies within his side, and whether there were unknown hidden dangers.
Today, Huang Qi can assassinate Chen Bo, and maybe someone will assassinate Ding Feng and Jin Cheng tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, he stabbed himself and Song Hao succeeded, this is too terrible, it can't be prevented, and there are endless troubles.
During the interrogation of Huang Qi by the Demon Warrior, Lin Haotian had Hong Hao and his subordinates all released.
Hong Hao was naturally very grateful to Lin Haotian, and at the same time, he couldn't hide his sense of complacency, he didn't expect that adults could trust him so much, and he didn't even try it, so he just let himself go, presumably. My future prospects are also limitless! Hong Hao is more loyal to Lin Haotian and is more dedicated to doing things.
The next day, at noon, Shao Lin came to see Lin Haotian. At the same time, he also brought a yellow flag confession.
The Demon Warrior really didn't disappoint Lin Haotian. After being tortured overnight, he extorted a confession. Finally, Huang Qi, who had been tortured to the point of delirium, told everything.
Lin Haotian really expected it right, there are indeed people who collude with Huang Qi, and these people. It was the knights of the country who were brought to the coalition camp with him at the beginning.
Now these knights have either mixed into Hong Hao's men or blended into You Jun, and it is the list of these knights that Shao Lin has brought.
Lin Haotian roughly read the list from beginning to end, snorted twice, threw the list back into Shao Lin's arms, and said: "Strictly investigate! Find out all these people for me, and then try and check again, so that no fish slips through the net." It's better to kill by mistake than at any cost!"
Lin Haotian has always been reluctant to punish traitors, and he hates this kind of person the most.
Shao Lin has followed him for so long, how could he not understand his personality, his face was straight, and he said in a deep voice: "My lord, don't worry, all the spies who are mixed into our army will not be missed!"
"Well, go do it!" Lin Haotian nodded and waved his hand.
"Subordinates retire!" Shao Lin was about to leave, but Lin Haotian stopped him again and asked, "Where is Huang Qi?"
"Not yet, but ...... The injury is a little serious, if you don't care about him, it is estimated that it will not survive two or three days. ”
Lin Haotian rolled his eyes and said: "I can't let her die, I have to leave her behind, let everyone else see, Nie Lin is now dying, and even the means of assassination have been used, and he deserves to be a bullshit." ”
"But......" Huang Qi was not instructed by You Wang Nie Lin! Shao Lin muttered in his heart.
"Two skins on people's mouths!" Lin Haotian saw his question, raised his eyebrows impatiently, and said: "You are the one who judged the person, how can you say no!" At this time, if you don't buckle the basin to Nie Lin's head, how long will you wait?
According to Lin Haotian's instructions, the Demon Underworld Warrior launched a secret investigation within the You Army, and there were not many people involved, and the lower ones were added together to less than twenty, but the scope involved was very wide, and even included two corps commanders.
These two corps commanders were not chivalrous, but were bewitched by the chivalrous men who had infiltrated the army and secretly colluded with them. Lin Haotian didn't want to make a big deal out of it, and all the people who were secretly arrested were secretly executed by the demon warriors, and it was announced that they were sent to carry out the mission.
After this brief turmoil, Lin Haotian ordered the whole army to continue to march westward and march to Nanyue City.
Nanyue City, as Lin Haotian knew in advance, is in a unique location, the whole city is built on a slope, the west is high and the east is low, from the east into the city, all the way is a slope, it is difficult to walk normally, and it is even more difficult to attack the city.
Lin Haotian and Song Hao, under the protection of their respective subordinates, approached Nanyue, raised their eyes and watched for a while, people couldn't help but gasp, secretly stunned, just looking at the terrain of Nanyue, it is a dangerous place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, I heard that there are more than 100,000 defenders inside, and it is too difficult to take this city by force.
"Gollum!"
Song Hao swallowed his saliva, turned his head to look at Lin Haotian, and said, "Brother Lin, Nanyue is steep, this battle is ...... How are we going to fight?"
Lin Haotian rolled his eyes and muttered in a low voice: "It seems that the strong attack is not good." As he spoke, he said to Shao Lin behind him: "Carry General Chen over, General Chen and Gong Song, the head of Xiangshan County, are also old acquaintances, let him persuade him outside the city, maybe there is a possibility of success." ”
Shao Lin answered, explained to the guards of the Jin army, and ordered him to carry Chen Bo over quickly.
Others didn't know if Chen Bo was fake, but Chu Lianyu and Song Haoke knew that they looked at each other, and Chu Lianyu couldn't help but ask, "My lord, is this...... Will it work?"
"The devil knows!" Lin Haotian shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile: "Now I can only be a dead horse doctor." ”
In Chen Bo's memory, Gong Song's personality is still very good, upright, honest and full of a sense of justice. has an excellent reputation in the local area, as for whether he can persuade him, Lin Haotian has no bottom in his heart.
After more than half an hour, 'Chen Bo', who was lying on the soft collapse, was quickly carried over by the You army, and on his left and right, there were accompanying guards and many You army generals.
Although the incarnation and the true body and mind are connected, Lin Haotian still has to pretend to go forward and explain that 'Chen Bo' will talk to Gong Song before going to Nanyue City, and strive to persuade him to abandon the city and surrender.
The current 'Chen Bo' is still seriously injured. The body was lying on his side weakly. His face was pale, his expression was sluggish, and he did not have any resistance to Lin Haotian's explanation. Nodding slightly. In a hoarse voice, he said, "The last general obeys." ”
He said yes simply. But the generals on the left and right were all taken aback, and now they have turned against the coalition army, for Gong Song and the others in Nanyue City. They are the enemy, and what should they do if they rush to the front of the city and the other party releases their arrows? Usually, it is good to say, but now that the general is seriously wounded, he has no ability to protect himself at all, and even if the other party only sends a pawn, he can easily kill the general.
"General, this ...... Is this too dangerous?" the generals first looked at Lin Haotian, and then gathered around the soft collapse, reminding in a low voice.
"It's okay!" 'Chen Bo' waved his hand with a smile and said, "Although I don't have a deep friendship with Master Gong, we are also old acquaintances, and he won't poison me." ”
"But ......"
"No more!"
'Chen Bo' said to the guards on the left and right: "You take a white flag and carry me to Nanyue City!"
"Yes!" The guards did not dare to disobey, and they all agreed, someone found a small white flag, held it high, and the other guards raised it softly, ready to go to Nanyue City.
The generals were willing to watch him go on an adventure alone, and said in a gossipy voice: "General, the last general will accompany you to the end!"
'Chen Bo' shook his head and said, "I am mainly talking to Lord Gong this time, and I am not going to war, what are you doing with so many people? ”
Seeing his resolute attitude, Zhongyou General had no choice but to stand in place, watching 'Chen Bo' and his party go farther and farther, approaching the front of Nanyue's city little by little.
Because they were not many in number, only a dozen of them, and they came with white flags, the defenders of the city saw them, but did not release arrows to warn, but when they were less than fifty steps away from the city gate, the city suddenly shot down an arrow, nailed to the ground in front of everyone, and at the same time someone in the city shouted loudly: "Whoever comes, sign up!"
"My general is General Chen Bochen, let your county head come and talk to my general!" shouted back to the city with the white flag.
Yo! It's Chen Bo! The defenders in the city were startled when they heard this.
Of course, they are no strangers to Chen Bo, the dignified general, I am afraid that there is no one in the army who does not know him, not to mention, when Chen Bo led an army of 400,000 to go on the expedition, he also passed by Nanyue.
The defenders did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent people to the city.
'Chen Bo' and his entourage waited outside the city for nearly an hour before the city gate slowly opened, and then, a group of people came out of it, headed by a civil official, who was not a bystander, it was Gong Song, the head of Xiangshan County.
The defenders led by Gong Song did not stop until they approached 'Chen Bo' and the others.
Seeing 'Chen Bo' lying on his side and his face full of sickness, Gong Song was also stunned, stunned for a moment, and bowed his hand and said: "I don't know if the general is coming, if you miss the distance, don't be surprised by the general." ”
Gong Song's polite attitude made the tense atmosphere between the two sides much less, and 'Chen Bo' forced a smile, pointed to the wound on his chest, shook his head and laughed at himself: "Lord Gong, now I can't get up to return the salute." ”
How did Chen Bo get injured? Gong Song knew about his defection to the coalition forces, but he didn't know that he was wounded, and he questioned: "...... general's injuries?"
"It's an assassin sent by the king, who wants to kill me!" Chen Bo said with a wry smile.
Gong Song nodded understandingly, no matter what, Chen Bo is the general of You Guo, and he knows the situation, defense, and strength of You Guo well, and his betrayal is undoubtedly a huge threat and hidden danger to You Guo, and it is understandable that the king sent a killer to assassinate him, but the means are a little despicable. He said with a smile: "The general is blessed with a great life, safe and sound, and congratulations." ”
"Now, this time I made a special trip to find Lord Gong, and I persuaded Lord Gong to defect to the coalition forces with me. Without any more superfluous nonsense, he got straight to the point.
His straightforwardness shook Gong Song's body, Chen Bo was so bold, he was already injured like this, he couldn't even stand up, and he dared to go to his own place to persuade him to surrender, didn't he want to live?
"Eat the king's luck, bear the king's worries. Now that the Four-Nation Coalition is committing a crime against our country, all those with lofty ideals should throw their heads, spill their blood, and fight bloody battles with the enemy, and General Chen, as a dignified general, should be even more so. However, now that General Chen has not only surrendered the Four-Nation Alliance, but also persuaded me to surrender, wouldn't he also trap me in disloyalty?" Gong Song sighed and continued: "In my heart, General Chen was originally a heroic man who was upright and daring, but what the general is doing now is too disappointing. ”
'Chen Bo' looked at Gong Song for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Lord Gong thinks that I am greedy for life and afraid of death, so I defected to the Four-Nation Alliance?"
"Isn't it?"
"If that's the case, do I dare to drag my seriously injured body and come to see Master Gong alone?" 'Chen Bo' said: "If one country offends my country, it may be that the other party is wrong, but the four countries are all wrong? The people of a country accuse the king, maybe they are bewitched by thieves, but the people of the world are condemning the king, are they all bewitched by thieves? I know that in your eyes, I am a traitor to You Country, but from beginning to end, I have never betrayed You Country, I only betrayed the faint monarch who vainly sought the throne of the Son of Heaven and brought endless disasters to You Country. ”
His words were sonorous and awe-inspiring, which moved Gong Song and the defenders behind him.
First, people were shocked by his unscrupulous scolding of the king, and second, from the bottom of their hearts, people had to admit that his words were reasonable, You Guo can have today, it is completely caused by the king, but these words can only be thought about in their hearts, and no one dares to say it.
Seeing that Gong Song and the others were silent, 'Chen Bo' pointed to the guards around him, and then tugged at his clothes hard, and said: "Lord Gong, you can see clearly, my brothers and I are still wearing You Jun's military uniform, and our banner is still You Jun, and this will never change." ”
"However, General Chen wants to lead the Four-Nation Alliance to attack the capital......
"That's for the faint monarch to step down and push the Ming monarch to succeed to the throne!" (to be continued......)