Chapter 3 86 The Capture Incident
Liu Qi is paying a heavy price for his recklessness.
When the two armies just fought, Li Wuchang, who had been hiding behind Jiang Minglun, suddenly broke out, and with Jiang Minglun's cooperation, he violently tore through the escort team in front of Liu Qi, killed Liu Qizheng directly, and then attacked with all his might.
Although Liu Qizheng said that he had the peak strength of the sixth rank and his swordsmanship was also quite outstanding, he was completely unable to resist Li Wuchang's reckless moves, and after only two moves, he was taken off by the beaten long sword, seriously injured and vomited blood, and his left arm was almost abolished.
Fortunately, there was a seventh-rank beginner Liu family master who came to the rescue in time, and there were also seven or eight Liu family masters who sacrificed their lives to besiege Li Wuchang and prevent him from taking advantage of the victory to pursue him, which allowed Liu Qizheng to pick up a small life.
Yoo Ki-jeong's troops were even worse.
The four lieutenants under him were all killed in battle, which was caused by Wu Xun and Zhao Xun's ruthlessness, more than 800 of the 1,500 soldiers in the north were killed, 500 surrendered on the spot, and only about 200 fled in a hurry with the wounded Liu Qi.
Li Wuchang symbolically pursued and gave up.
The main thing is to be afraid of ambushes.
The battlefield was quickly cleared.
"What should we do with these captives? You can't just kill them, right?" asked Li Wuchang.
It's okay to fight for power on the battlefield, but everyone has surrendered on their knees, so you can't all be hacked to death.
"Of course you can't just kill ...... Well, let's do things according to the rules!" Wu Xun proposed.
After capturing a prisoner on the battlefield, there is naturally a set of rules for how to deal with it.
In general, it is possible to exchange prisoners for prisoners. In other words, let the defeated side ransom people with property within the specified time, and if the property has not yet arrived after the time has passed, then deal with it casually.
Regardless of whether it is the Central Plains or a foreign country, it was this set of rules a long time ago, although there are no explicit regulations, but the battlefield is like a game.
"That's to let the court pay to ransom people?" Jiang Minglun raised his eyebrows.
"Let's talk about it, how much should we price?" said Fat Bear smiled.
"The imperial court's pension for the soldiers killed in the war is only a dozen taels, if it is at that price, I'm afraid these five hundred captives won't be sold for much money, right?" Cao Hao pursed his lips, and then said fiercely: "Why don't you kill them directly?"
Li Wuchang shook his head and said, "Since there are so many people playing games in the Central Plains, let's still do things according to the rules of the game, don't mess around!"
Zhai Changping nodded and said, "According to the rules...... Moreover, the living are worth more than the dead!"
Zhao Xun scolded with a smile: "I said, how did you act like human traffickers?"
Everyone laughed.
Li Wuchang thought for a moment and said, "It doesn't matter if you have more money or less. But you can think of a way to see if you can seize this opportunity to make a little trouble, increase our influence, and give the other rebels a little confidence!"
Wu Xun proposed: "Although our troops are small, we must take the posture of a county-level force. Just like this, write a letter to He Taishou in the north, and ask him to personally bring money to us to get people, otherwise he will be killed!"
Jiang Minglun frowned and said, "Let the Beidi Taishou come to the door in person?"
Wu Xun snorted coldly: "Anyway, I gave him a chance, it's not a violation of the rules!"
Li Wuchang said fiercely: "Lao Wu's statement is good, we are a county-level force! It is better if he can't keep it too much in the north, let's go directly to Hongnong to do something, there is not much time, Yan Chong, Zhang Yanbang, and Liu Jinke are all waiting for us." ”
Bloodthirsty light flashed in everyone's eyes.
......
Liu Qi was seriously injured and fell into a coma after returning to the Northland.
After listening to the report of the surviving soldiers, He Taishou in the north was so angry that he jumped to his feet and cursed in his heart.
This arrogant Liu Qizheng did not listen to orders, did not wait for Jingzhao's troops to converge, and went to provoke Li Wuchang alone, and finally suffered this fate purely self-inflicted.
But He Taishou fell into passivity.
"General Liu, can you give me an explanation?" Beidi Taishou waited until Liu Qi was waking up, and immediately went over to question.
Liu Qizheng was speechless for a while, and the hatred for Li Wuchang in his heart was even worse.
Until now he could not believe this fact.
A team of pro-guards, more than a dozen Liu family masters, including a few seventh-grade beginners, couldn't stop Li Wuchang.
How can it be?
But it happened.
But if he ran slower, it would be a total annihilation that day.
He also practiced martial arts hard, but now he is only at the peak of the sixth grade, he doesn't understand why Li Wuchang's martial arts are so high, in his opinion, an eighth-rank beginner master can't exert the effect of Li Wuchang.
Beidi Taishou roared: "I obviously asked you to wait for General Yang and General Qin of Jingzhao, but you attacked privately, did you not take this Taishou in your eyes? Or did you not take the will of the imperial court into account at all?"
Liu Qizheng immediately said: "My lord's forgiveness, I'm just confused for a while......"
Beidi Taishou secretly hated, and said: "You stabbed the basket, you look at it! Now that Li Wuchang has captured more than 500 Beidi soldiers, he is asking me for money, and he wants me to come to the door in person, you tell me, what should I do?"
After that, he handed Liu Qizheng a letter, which was the letter sent by Li Wuchang.
"Lord Ho of Northland County:
The contemptible Lu Xifa recently captured more than 500 soldiers in the north, Lu is not a cruel and murderous person, he should abide by the rules of the battlefield, how much money you can calculate according to the Huns.
Attention, I don't want silver tickets, I want real money, because silver tickets are worthless!
In order to show your sincerity, I hope you will come to Feng Yi's southwest in person, and inform Jingzhao County to suspend the action against our army!
Three days, no waiting!
The contemptible people don't want the Hongnong rebels from all walks of life to see the scene of the court soldiers rolling in their heads!
By the way, I understand the truth that the two armies will not fight each other, so Lord He doesn't have to worry.
However, Feng Yi is not only a certain army in the southwest, but also hopes that Lord He will send a few more masters to protect himself!"
After Liu Qizheng finished reading it, he said angrily: "Li Wuchang definitely wants to be unfavorable to adults, and asked Jingzhao County to suspend his actions against him, he is simply dreaming!"
He Taishou said coldly: "Dreaming, then what should you do if you tell me?...... You have also seen that if I don't go, he will invite the righteous army of Hongnong to watch the scene of the soldiers of the imperial court rolling around! If those 500 soldiers die, there will definitely be rumors that the northern land is too protective of the lives of his subordinates, and what will happen when the court blames it?"
Between two fires.
The captives must be saved, and if they are not saved, the consequences can be big or small.
But if he went to Li Wuchang's army in person, He Taishou didn't dare.
Li Wuchang said it well, the two armies are fighting without slashing, who knows if he will suddenly be ruthless.
Didn't the letter also say that Feng Yixian was not only Li Wuchang's troops, but this was not a threat.
Not long after Li Wuchang's uprising, the first wave of regular operations killed the guerrilla generals of the imperial court, captured more than 500 soldiers of the imperial court, and swaggered to negotiate deals with the imperial court's taishou.
It's just that more than 5,000 people dare to be in such a dangerous position as the junction of Feng Yi and Jingzhao, and they can be so arrogant, which is undoubtedly an encouragement for other rebels.
This also made Li Wuchang's momentum even worse!
Feng Yi's Hanshui Gang in the southeast and north of Hongnong will also have more confidence, and with Li Wuchang in front, they can attack the imperial army more boldly.
And the morale of Feng Yi and Hongnong's defenders was reduced.
Liu Qizheng thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Of course you can't go over in person, adult, people have to be saved...... In this way, I will send someone to talk to His Second Highness!"
Beidi Taishou nodded.