"Soldiers are deceitful. As long as they can win, there is nothing wrong with any method. We have already won and you have been defeated. I advise you to accept the facts and let everyone surrender. This cold Damn it, aren't you suffering from being here? Come on over and have a cup of hot wine together." Chen Xiaohu persuaded Wu Hanzhong.
Wuhan closed his eyes tightly and said nothing, indicating that he was determined to die!
He didn't express his position. Even if some of the soldiers wanted to surrender, they didn't dare to say anything.
"Oh...stubborn!" Chen Xiaohu sighed, "What about that? Master Baili has prepared a celebration banquet for us in the city. He is urging us to go back. I won't accompany you. You just stay here." Wait, think about it carefully, I will come back to see you later... By the way, it doesn't matter if you are injured, right?"
The ribs were broken, the legs were broken, four or five people fainted, and seven or eight people vomited blood. Do you think it's important or not?
"Come here!" Chen Xiaohu shouted, "Throw down the rope stretcher, pull up all the wounded soldiers and bring them back to the city for treatment! Don't worry, we will take good care of them and we will not force them to surrender. , and send them back after they have been dealt with.”
Wuhan remained silent this time, seemingly acquiescing. A dozen soldiers hurriedly grabbed the ropes dropped from above and tied all the wounded soldiers tightly to the stretchers. There was a shout from above and everyone pulled up.
"Then I'll go to Ang first." Chen Xiaohu didn't forget to say hello to Wu Han before leaving. He was very careful about etiquette.
Wuhan and others were melancholy in the pit for a long time, when they suddenly smelled the alluring aroma, but it was Xuanming City bringing wine and meat to the brothers who were staying above the pit.
It’s okay if the meat is barbecue, but I don’t know what kind of wine it is. It’s so fragrant!
"Are you guys hungry? You must be hungry after fighting for so long! Come up and have a hot bar together?"
"If you don't want to drink, why don't you eat some meat?"
"If you don't want to eat meat, why don't you have some pastries? Do you like mooncakes?"
"Why don't you try the canned fruit to quench your thirst?"
"Have you ever seen this? It's canned beef."
"Don't just talk, leave two jars for the brothers to try."
"No, this thing has to be hot before it tastes good, otherwise your mouth will be filled with butter and it will be greasy!"
The brothers above greeted him warmly and seemed to be very sincere. The soldiers below were silent and quietly swallowed their saliva.
There are more than a dozen dead and injured war horses in the pit that can be slaughtered and eaten, but the problem is that there is no fire. You can't eat them raw by eating their hair and blood, right?
Damn it, those war horses are not hungry, because there is a lot of hay underneath, and now their bellies are full...
The night passed, the day passed, the night passed again...
The soldiers were so hungry and thirsty that they finally couldn't help but start slaughtering the horses, eating them raw or else they would starve to death! It's okay to be hungry, but the feeling of thirst is really unbearable. Now the thick and salty horse blood is like nectar to them!
But the Yanyun brothers stopped their barbaric behavior.
"Brothers, you must not do this. War horses are our most loyal partners as soldiers. They are all comrades in arms. How can you bear to kill them just to fill your stomach?"
"Why don't you eat them? Oh, they're all full of maggots, right? You can't eat them. You'll have a bad stomach!"
"Hey, hey, what about you, put the knife away quickly, or I will shoot you!"
"No one is allowed to kill the war horses, otherwise don't blame us for being rude!"
It turns out that the Yanyun soldiers are actually not that friendly...
Why don't they want to starve us to death or die of thirst? If that's the case, it's better to fight with them!
The sad thing is that I can't fight even if I want to, because I can't climb up at all. Now I have been hungry for three days and I have no strength.
Then don't bother, it's better to wait for death, or surrender, after all, starving to death is too uncomfortable...
But what happened next was beyond their expectations.
"It's been three days and they haven't surrendered yet?" But it was the inspector Chen Ping who personally came to inspect the prisoners. He stretched his head and looked down, "There's no need to get up and kneel down, no courtesy, no courtesy... tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk , What a good man, if I have to surrender after being hungry for three days! Since they won’t surrender, then I can let them go.”
"Ah? Let them go? Mr. Chen, are you serious?" someone questioned.
"Nonsense, why can't we kill them all if we don't let them go? This is what our Lord Baili means. Lord Baili really has a Buddha's heart... Why are you so dumbfounded? Hurry up and get down the ladder for your brothers! But I see that the brothers’ legs are weak and they can’t ride the horses, so they should stay with us and feed them before returning them,” Chen Ping said.
Wuhan and others did not react at all to this great news. This must be someone else's joke, or it could be an illusion caused by our hunger and confusion!
It’s simply impossible!
It wasn't until more than a dozen ladders were lowered that they realized that Chen Ping was serious?
Are you really going to let us all go?
They really let go, but they only let go of the people but not the horses. Considering that they were now weak, the Yanyun brothers also very considerately asked them to keep their armor and weapons, otherwise they would be in trouble!
Why did you let us go? Chen Ping explained it very clearly. We, Mr. Baili, were still not convinced when we heard that you fell into a trap, so we decided to fight you again.
Until you are completely convinced.
So what, I would like to ask, are you Baili adults sick?
Maybe they were really sick, because Baili Qingyun, in a humanitarian spirit, not only let them go, but also made them eat a full meal before going on the road...
Baili and Li Tanhua barely spent a single soldier, and just used a little trick to capture Wuhan and the others.
The reason why he didn't kill him was because Baili didn't want to expand this conflict, especially he didn't want to form a blood feud with them. He just wanted to teach them a lesson so that they would remember it for a long time.
In the past three days, Baili had sent people to bring back all the hay that the Xinghe tribe had worked so hard to capture and bundled.
Why do you need so much hay? Don't forget that there are more than 20,000 war horses and more than 50,000 cattle and sheep. You are not allowed to feed these war horses, cattle and sheep on the way back?
The ones I left behind have to eat grass for the winter...
Chen Xiaohu suggested leaving some war horses, because looking at the situation, the Xianhe tribe would definitely not give up and would definitely send troops to invade. We must not recruit strong men to expand the team? Where would you be without a war horse?
But Baili said that now Yanyun's guards are in urgent need of war horses, so it's better to keep them. Our small town doesn't need to raise so many soldiers. It's mainly useless.
As for the Henghe tribe, there is no need to worry. I think our five hundred people are enough. If we can't hold on to the county seat, why don't we?
As long as they hold on for ten days and a half, someone will naturally come to deal with them...
