Chapter 90: Soldiers or People
"According to your intentions, if the people who go in now can't find the mechanism, they will have to come out of that transportation road?"
Liu Bang looked at the person in front of him, it was Jin Sai, the deputy general sent by Li Qiong, and Jin Sai himself ...... It is not only a little sincere and fearful, but also a little timid and cowardly.
It's not that he's afraid of death, since he rebelled with Li Qiong back then, he has already put life and death aside, but facing the emperor, his emperor, the emperor who suffered a big loss in his own hands, although he was very disdainful when he talked to Wang Qi, but when he really met, he immediately showed his timidity.
Maybe it's guilt, maybe it's something else, but no matter what it is, anyway, he doesn't dare to raise his head now facing the Zhao official family.
By the way, this is also the first time he has seen the emperor himself, when he was low, Liu Guangshi was the biggest official he had ever contacted.
At this time, Zhao Guanjia asked, Jin Sai just repeated everything Li Qiong said, and it was a little funny to say it, his posture was so low, as soon as they met, he knelt down and bowed first, this kind of appearance, no matter who came to see it, he would not have thought that he was actually here to threaten the emperor.
That's right, it's a threat.
"Return, back to the Shengshang, the marshal said that there are many roads under Bozhou, both Han Dao, Jin Dao, Tang Dao, and our Song Dao, and in addition to Han Dao and Tang Dao, other Dao are indeed flooded by whirlpools."
"Right now, Zhao ...... Zhao and Yang entered the Tang Road, next to the side is our Song Road, Marshal Li has already found out the truth and dug a few roads, as long as he touches the mechanism, the underground silt river will flow out from the wall and the top, and then the two generals and their soldiers will have no possibility to get out. ”
Jin Sai didn't really stutter, but when he said this, he was always intermittent, and it took a lot of effort to finish speaking, and as he spoke, a big drop of sweat rolled out of his head.
He kept scolding himself in his heart, afraid of it, but he couldn't control himself.
Taking advantage of the emperor's silence, Jin Sai cautiously raised his head, he had the opportunity to look at the emperor for the first time, and saw that the man who was about the same age and temperament as Li Qiong frowned at this time, holding the grass in his hand that he didn't know where it came from, and kept pinching.
Pinch off a piece, then throw away a piece, and in a short time, a piece of grass is only a little tail left in the hand, and there is no place to pinch off.
There was a sound of footsteps behind him, Jin Sai hurriedly lowered his head, Liu Bang looked at Chong Lei, who stood forward and said:
"After walking a few miles there, it is indeed blocked, and the minister has already called the people of the Imperial City Division to excavate, but the boulder is tightly attached to the wall, and I am afraid it will take some more hours."
In fact, when Jin Sai came to deliver the word, Liu Bang had already believed it, and letting the people of the Imperial City Division take a look was just a solid idea.
Case...... He asked:
"You talk about his conditions again, Lao Tzu didn't understand it just now."
Li Qiong neither surrendered nor resisted, and the request was to make her own choice, but she did not say what the consequences would be if she made a choice.
The fighters on this battlefield can't be delayed, Li Qiong doesn't want to say it clearly, and Liu Bang doesn't want to bother to guess, but whatever he can't figure out, he thinks Li Qiong is delaying time.
Who knows, did that kid go to Kaifeng to ask for help.
When Jin Sai heard the emperor ask about this, he first began to churn in his heart...... To be honest, even he himself still doesn't know what his marshal is up to.
But he only knew that Li Qiong would not harm himself, and this time he negotiated with Zhao Guan's family, maybe it was also the art of war learned in the military book, but he had a short knowledge and didn't understand what he meant.
"Back to the official's house, the marshal said that if you want to keep the people in the troop transport road alive, then, then ......"
'That' didn't come out after a few strokes, but he finally made up his mind before Liu Bang lost his patience.
"Then please kill the people of Bozhou City."
Don't say that it was Liu Bang, Guo Yaoshi and Chong Lei on the side were all confused, and the emperor just wanted to ask, Jin Sai opened his mouth, and he spoke smoothly.
"Xiao Yasha said that there are 30,000 soldiers you sent in, and there are more than 120,000 registered people in this Bozhou city, one soldier, and four people, you have to choose."
"If the people in the transportation road are determined, then Marshal Li will release the people in the city out of the city, and you will kill them in front of everyone, then Zhao and Yang will be able to come out."
"Hiss~~" Liu Bang smacked his lips slightly, "Your marshal, is you a madman?" ”
Jin Sai replied, "It was normal before today. ”
"He wants to kill the people in the city, why not do it himself? Why do you have to let Lao Tzu come? ”
"Do you want Lao Tzu to bear the charge of slaughtering the city, or is it that someone is sleeping with his mother-in-law here, he is embarrassed to say, so he thought of such a way, just kill them all, and use a borrowed knife to kill people."
Jin Sai was a little speechless: "Official, official, Marshal Li has not yet married." ”
Liu Bang nodded: "You have known him for a long time, you analyze and analyze Lao Tzu, what does he mean?" ”
Although Zhao Guan's family has a 'Lao Tzu', which is a little different from the image in Jin Sai's imagination, this appearance without a frame also makes him feel a little slack.
After all, he didn't see any golden dragon energy mentioned in the play, and the emperor at this time was almost like an ordinary person.
Jin Sai said sincerely: "The minister doesn't know. ”
He forgot his identity for a while, and called himself a minister, which attracted some sideways glances from Guo Yaoshi and Chong Lei.
First, Li Qiong is delaying time, no matter how they choose, Zhao Mi and they will be drowned.
Second, he came to be real, and he would do whichever he chose, but he let himself choose this way, and he must have his intentions.
Third, this person is crazy, the people of Bozhou City regard him as their biological parents, and thank him for his grace to recreate, how can he want the people of Bozhou to die?
It is not that Liu Bang has not done this kind of thing in the slaughter of the city, but the three times he slaughtered it, either when he followed the anti-Qin army in the early stage, or did it by the people under his hands...... He was extremely lenient with the people under him, so lenient that he was released when he met with Han Xin and a few people, causing him to be almost killed by Xiang Yu later.
But after the founding of the country, this kind of thing has never happened again, after all, people who have their eyes on the world should think more about things when they start doing things.
After taking 10,000 steps back, all of Fan Xu, Zhou Bo, Chai Wu, and Liu Jia were counted on his head, plus the number of people who slaughtered all the cities he followed Xiang Liang to attack, there were not as many people as there were in this Bozhou city.
Speaking of Liu Jia, Liu Bang remembered that this kid seemed to be the father of the city.
100,000 people, it must not be killed, if it is killed, it will not be good to arouse the resistance of the people everywhere, but it is impossible to lose the more than 30,000 elites trapped in the transportation road.
Liu Bang was indeed a little embarrassed.
However, before he could be embarrassed for long, Jin Sai said even more embarrassed:
"Official, the villain can't come out for too long, Marshal Li only gave a total of half an hour of effort before, if he can't go back to his life for half an hour, he will be killed by you as the villain, and he will be released directly into the tunnel."
"If you think about it, give the villain a word."
Liu Bang bit his mouth, and even the stench around Bozhou felt that it had subsided a lot, Li Qiong ...... What the hell do you want to do?!
He couldn't guess, someone he hadn't even met in person, he really couldn't guess.
So he could only choose the one that was the most secure and the one with the greatest grasp...... Li Qiong is probably considering his heart for the people, these people are grateful to him, and even risked their lives to defend the city for him when he was the father of the city, he will definitely not want the lives of the people.
And he let himself choose this way just to see if he also loves the people like a son...... Although there are no reliable clues to this conjecture, it is also in line with Li Qiong's literati identity.
Literati naturally take it for granted, and regard fighting a war as a game.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was very likely, mainly because Liu Bang couldn't think of any other possibilities, so he faced Jin Track:
"The people, Lao Tzu loves the people like a son, and chooses the people."
Jin Sai was quite moved, and saluted the emperor:
"The villain replaced the people of Bozhou and thanked the official family...... Then, the villain retired. ”
Looking at the back of this person leaving, Liu Bang felt very bad, I don't know if it was because of what he had left behind, or because of the taste of being pinched, it was not very comfortable.
(End of chapter)