Chapter 387 Special prisoners
Li Gong was thinking that someone could capture Saleh alive, but suddenly a guard came in from outside the tent and saluted him and Liu Qi and said excitedly: "Protector, Protector Liu, Saleh was captured! Not only that, he also captured a special prisoner."
"What, Saleh was captured?" Li Gong asked immediately excitedly. Liu Qi also looked at the guard with a bright look.
"It's true. One and a half hours ago, Anbe brought back a body of General Wang, a 66th Regiment lieutenant under his command, and claimed to be Saleh's. The Wang Duwei immediately sent someone who knew Saleh to identify it. It was confirmed that it was Saleh's corpse and sent someone to report to the Protector." The guard said again.
"I couldn't capture alive." The moment he heard the news, Li Gong was a little disappointed, but it was fleeting. According to the news they received, Saleh was the right-hand man of Bingbo Silin, with a very high status and was extremely trusted by Bingbo Silin. In "The Three Kingdoms", characters like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who were around Liu Bei. Killing him was a heavy blow to the Great Food Army; the soldiers of the army who killed him also made great contributions.
"I ordered the King of the King to send Saleh's body immediately!" He ordered again. "I will hang this body on the west side of the camp and be seen by the big cannibal!"
"Yes." The guard agreed.
"Although it is just a killing rather than a capturing alive, it is also rewarded with Wang Da and others according to the capturing alive." He said to Liu Qi again.
"It's great for the Protector to do this." Liu Qi said with a smile. He actually doesn't like to temporarily change the rewards and punishments that he had agreed to in advance, even if this time he is an increase in rewards. However, Li Gong is older than him and will be the master in the future. Moreover, the increase in rewards will definitely be unanimously supported by the soldiers, so he did not refute.
"But do you have to inform the guardian Wang of the commander's decision, or make meritorious soldiers?" The guard who came to send the message asked again.
"No, I will tell you personally on the day of the reward." Li Gong rejected the guard's suggestion. The reward must be increased, and of course, it must be announced at the final reward to cause the greatest surprise and enhance his impression in the soldiers' hearts.
"Yes." The guard agreed again, and saw that Li Gong seemed to have nothing to do and gave him another order. He bowed and bowed and wanted to leave.
"Stop it." Liu Qi suddenly called him. "When you entered the tent, you not only said that Saleh was captured, but also said that you had captured a special prisoner. What is the identity of this prisoner and how special it is?"
"Liu Dupu, this prisoner was originally the commander of the Great Food Army, and his status is neither low nor high; but he has another identity, and this other identity is very special."
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"Safei, what do you think Qin will treat us?"
"It's hard to say, it's hard to say. If we want to treat us well, why put us in an iron cage? This is a very humiliating practice and is enough to arouse the anger of any general.
But if they wanted to abuse us, but did not search us, snatch all of our things, and also treat the injured. The two opposite practices were done by Qin, which made me confused.
Let’s not talk about this. Zafir, how were you captured?”
"My luck is so bad! My soles of my feet were pierced by iron dysentery yesterday afternoon? Although it doesn't affect my walking after a while? But when I run, my feet still hurt. Therefore, my running speed slowed down when I retreated at night. I was captured by the Qin man."
"Sorry? I forgot that your soles were pierced by iron dysentery."
"It's nothing to be unintentional. Safe, I'm wondering why you were captured? You are obviously the first in the army to run into the mountains and forests."
"Don't mention it. I saw that Qin was launching stones with a castle cart with a warship and I immediately got off the horse and fled into the north forest. Logically speaking, it would not be caught by Qin. But I didn't know what I was thinking at that time? He actually ran east for a long distance. When I found that I was running in the wrong direction and turned northwest, I was already blocked, and I was caught repeatedly and repeatedly avoided it."
"Haha!" Even though he was a prisoner at this time and was locked in a small iron cage, Zafir still laughed out loud when he heard Safe's words.
"Be honest!" Hearing his laughter? The Tang army soldiers guarding them outside the iron cage immediately scolded them? He repeated it with the big sacred words he had just learned.
Zafir didn't listen to him and still laughed loudly.
"Zafir, don't laugh anymore. You've been whipped three times since we were both put into this cabin. It's not a matter of principle, so it's not worth it to be beaten for this." Safe advised.
At this time, he and Zafir were both on the ship. Wang Sheng determined that the body brought back by Wang Da was the queen of Saleh? He immediately arranged a ship to send Saleh's body and Wang Da who brought his body back to Guxi. The navy commander of the ship was not unwilling, but Li Gong explicitly ordered everyone to obey Wang Sheng's orders before leaving? He dared not disobey, so he could only agree.
Because the ship behind Wang Da and others was still empty? So Wang Sheng ordered all the captive generals to be locked in an iron cage and sent to Dugu.
Hearing Safe's persuasion, Zafir's laughter became less. Seeing this situation, the guard who had already raised his whip hesitated for a moment? He dropped his right arm. He could whip the captured cannibal, but if someone was beaten to death, he would be punished. Zafir had already had injuries on his body. What if he beat him to death? ‘Let's go around him and beat him.’ The guard thought to himself while putting down the whip.
After that, the two chatted a few times, but Safe was not very arrogant. Most of the time, he closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of the cage, not knowing what he was thinking about. Seeing this, Zafir couldn't talk to him all the time, so he could only squat in the cage and constantly scan the cabin, and occasionally stared at the guards, making the guards very uncomfortable.
After a long time, Safe and Zafir suddenly felt their bodies pause and the boat stopped. Safe couldn't help but open his eyes and look around, but there was only a small window in the cabin where they were. From the small window, they could only see the sky. He could not determine where he was.
Just as they were thinking, three Tang soldiers walked into the cabin and gave a few instructions to the guardians. The man agreed, walked over and grabbed the iron cage where Zafir was and pulled to the door. The three of them who had just walked in each corner, and the guard held the last corner, and the four of them joined forces to carry the iron cage out. After a while, they came back and carried the iron cage containing Safe to the deck.
When he arrived at the deck, someone tied a rope to the iron cage, slowly pushed it to the side of the boat, and tied it down with a rope. Safe looked down and saw several small boats parked beside the big boat. After the iron cage was tied to the boat, one of them untied the rope and signaled the sailors above to pull the rope back.
After all this trouble, because the Tang army soldiers treated them like goods, they didn't care about the feelings of the people inside. Safe became dizzy. After finally recovering from his mind, Safe looked around and wanted to determine where he was, but he heard the shouts of Zafir who was full of surprise and even crying: "This is a place west of the valley entrance. I used to be on duty here one night! The Qin man fought to the west of the valley entrance? Could it be that they had occupied our army camp!"
"What? That man Qin has defeated our army and even seized the camp?"
"Has the Governor been defeated and led his troops to run west?"
"Can anyone tell me why that guy Qin sent us here!"
The captured people shouted, and some people shouted at the top of their lungs, as if they wanted to use the shout to cover up their inner fear and fear.
Hearing everyone's words, Safe felt a little in his heart. There were regrets, loss, worries, and a little sadness. He couldn't help but lower his head, hugged his head with both hands, and didn't know what he was thinking.
But he soon heard new voices coming from around him. "No, the Qin man did not occupy the camp, I saw the black flag floating high!"
"Really, I also saw the black flag. The camp was not captured by the Qin man, and the governor did not fail!"
"I'll just say it! If that man Qin had seized the west side of the valley, how could he use a small boat to transport us to the shore? The big boat must be directly on the dock."
"It's great that the Governor has not failed!" Someone's voice even cried.
"The black flag is really still flying. It seems that the military camp has not been taken away by the Qin man. But if so, why would Qin man send us here?" Safei looked up at the northwest, and indeed saw the black flag. He was relieved, but he was very puzzled.
He was thinking that the boat was approaching the shore. The Tang army soldiers who were controlling the boat jumped off the boat, pushed the boat to the shore, took off the iron cage one by one, put it on the carriage that had been waiting here, and pulled it to the west by the carriage.
After a while, the carriage came to a military camp. Everyone recognized that this was their own military camp that they had been to, and they were about to wail; but they immediately saw the black flag flying in the west again.
Some people became confused and didn't understand what was going on; but some people immediately reasoned about the situation that appeared.
Soon the carriage came to a small yard with several tents and more than ten Tang soldiers. Seeing the carriage carrying iron cages coming in, the dozen Tang people surrounded him and carried the iron cages off the carriage. After all the iron cages were placed on the ground, the carriage left the yard. A man in armor walked to the front of all the iron cages and said to them in Dashiyu dialect: "I am the general manager who will manage you in the future, named Yu Dayi.
You are now prisoners of the Tang Dynasty, and I have the right to treat you with any means, especially some of you have killed the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Even if I torture you and cut off your heads, it is natural.
But since the Protector has promised not to kill the captured generals of the Great Food, I will not kill you. You will be treated as a prisoner.
The treatment of prisoners means that you have to work, work with the civilians, and do the heaviest and most tiring work. You can only eat after completing the rated work tasks every day, and you will not have any food if you don’t complete it! As for the specific standards for the rated tasks, I will tell you later.
Originally, you should have worked until death to redeem the sins you committed. But the Protector was very kind and gave you a way out to not work, which was to serve the Tang Dynasty.
There are many ways to serve, such as providing information about the Dashi Army, providing defensive loopholes in the Dashi Village, providing Dashi spies hidden in our army, etc. The more information we provide to our army, the higher the people who contribute to our army's defeat of the Dashi Army, the higher the treatment. If the Protector believes that someone is sincerely serving our country, he can be appointed as a formal official position and become an official in our country, his status may be higher than mine.
Next, someone will ask if you are willing to serve the Tang Dynasty. Those who are willing to serve our army will tell the people who are asking you what they know. If you don’t say it, there will be no one who will force you, but you will always be a prisoner.
Do you understand? Whoever doesn't understand can ask," he said at last.
No one spoke. All the big cannibals in the iron cage looked at each other or looked down and thought, but no one made a sound from his mouth.
Since no one asked, I assume you all understood. Start with you, ask." Yu Dayi glanced in the venue for a while, and saw that no one was talking, shouted loudly and pointed to an iron cage casually.
Three Tang soldiers immediately came over, opened the cage, took out the bracelet and anklet to tie it between the man's legs and hands.
Of course, this man was unwilling to do so and struggled violently. The Tang soldiers immediately pushed the man to the ground, waved the wooden stick and beat him hard, and beat him half to death. From his own perspective, Safei could see the expression of the Tang people, full of hatred, and he was ruthless, thinking that they would beat Wu Samai to death. This was even the traditional "killing stick" of the Tang Dynasty. But after beating him halfway, they stopped. The two Tang soldiers helped Wu Samai up, and the remaining man tied the iron chain. Then the three of them took him into the tent in the middle.
After a while, the Tang soldiers helped Wu Samai out and helped him into a tent on the side; Yu Dayi pointed to another iron cage.
'The man Qin sent Wu Samai into another tent, and he has not come out for a long time. Is this the result of being willing to serve or not?' Safaiss.
However, he soon learned the result. The second person who was taken into the tent stayed inside for a long time. When he came out, his handshakes had been removed and he was talking and laughing with the soldiers of the Tang army. Seeing this, Yu Dayi shouted a word to the outside of the yard and ordered him to open the gate. A carriage drove in, and the general Dashi was helped onto the carriage and put on another coat. Then the horse raised its hooves and pulled the carriage out of the yard.
"traitor!"
"Damn it!"
"Let him go to hell!"
"May the Lord make him perish!" Seeing this, everyone didn't understand what they didn't understand? They all started to curse loudly.
"Shut up! Whoever dares to speak will beat him to death!" Yu Dayi shouted, and more than a dozen soldiers also said loudly, and picked up whips and hit the iron cage beside him. Even so, after a while, the great cannibals stopped scolding.
After that, people were brought into the tent in the middle one after another. Some people chose to rebel and were immediately sent out of the yard respectfully; but most people did not choose to serve Tang Jun and were thrown into nearby tents. Safe guessed that this yard was the place where people who were unwilling to serve in the future.
At this time, Yu Dayi pointed at Zafir. He was helped into the tent by Tangren like others; but unlike others, after only a short while, he was helped out from the tent, and the Tang soldiers who were supporting him showed an angry look on their faces, and they both pinched his arms tightly, and turned blue and purple.
Perhaps because the previous tent that had not been placed in the generals of the Great Food were already full, Tang Ren helped Zafir to walk towards another tent, just passing by Safe's iron cage. When he passed by Zafir, Zafir shouted at him: "It's okay, the general Qin who asked inside would not beat people, but just ask questions. Even if he was scolded, they would not beat people. And after being scolded, they would stop asking immediately and send us out.
The black flag is still flying in the west, and the governor has not failed yet. I firmly believe that the country will definitely win this battle. Never serve the Qin man!”
"Go away, go away!" The person who was supporting Zafir couldn't understand what he was saying. Seeing him screaming and scolding him, he covered his mouth with a piece of cloth. However, before being covered, Zafir said everything he was about to say, blinked at Safir a few times, and then was pushed into the tent rudely.
‘I also believe that the country will definitely win, but my country and your country may not be the same country. My country is…’
Just as Safei was thinking, he suddenly saw Yu Dayi pointing his finger at him. Safei was immediately pulled out of the iron cage, tied his bracelet and anklet, and pushed and shoved towards the tent.
It was probably because Zafir's performance just now that they were too angry. The two Tang soldiers who were holding Safe were extremely bad at him. They held Safe's arm tightly with both hands, which made it hurt. Safe did not resist at all.
"Be honest, no matter whether you are willing to serve the Tang Dynasty or not, if you dare to scold like that person, we will definitely make you worse than death!" Before entering the tent, the Tang soldiers said in a stiff and savage manner again.
Safe did not answer, but just glanced at him. The soldiers of the Tang army felt inexplicable and said "Be honest" again, and then pushed him into the tent.
The moment they entered the tent, the two Tang people looked at Safe with disgust, but after they came in completely, they turned their heads and were about to salute the general who was asking, but suddenly their faces changed drastically. They were stunned for a moment before bent down to salute the big gift, and said in a trembling voice: "I have seen the Protector, Liu Protector!"
"No gifts." Li Gong said softly, and said, "You two will go out."
"Yes." The two of them dared not refute at all and agreed to leave the tent.
"You are that special prisoner?" Li Gong looked at Safe.
"Yes." Safe nodded without panic at all.
"I am the Great Protector of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty. He is the Deputy Protector of Anxi. We are the people with the highest authority in the Anxi in the Tang Dynasty at this time. You can tell us your true identity, without worrying about it being revealed." Li Gong stared at Safei and said. Liu Qi also looked at this person.
"The great-grandson of the last king of Persia, Belus III, Kuss, has seen His Highness, King Feng of the Tang Empire, the Great Protector of Anxi, and the Deputy Protector of Anxi." Safe was still very calm, tidied up his coat a few times, then took down the land on his head, and then said to the two of them in Chinese. While speaking, he pressed his right hand on his left chest and bowed slightly.
Chapter completed!