"According to your opinion, if the people who enter now can't find the mechanism, they will come out of the troop transportation channel?"
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... looked a little frightened, but also a little timid.
It was not that he was afraid of death. Ever since he rebelled with Li Qiong, he had already put life and death aside. Instead, he was facing the emperor, his emperor, who had suffered a great loss at his own hands. Although he and the king When Qi talked about it, he was very disdainful, but when they actually met, he immediately showed his timidity.
Maybe it was guilt, maybe it was something else, but no matter what it was, he didn't dare to raise his head when facing Zhao Guan's family.
By the way, this was also the first time he met the emperor himself. Back then, he had a low status, and Liu Guangshi was the biggest official he had ever come into contact with.
At this time, Zhao Guan's family asked, Jin Sai just repeated everything Li Qiong said, which was a bit funny. He had such a low posture, and he knelt down and bowed down as soon as they met. This kind of appearance would be difficult for anyone to see. Even though he was here, he wouldn't have thought that he was actually here to threaten the emperor.
Yes, it's a threat.
"Return, return to your Majesty, the marshal said that there are many roads below Bozhou, including Han Road, Jin Road, Tang Road, and our Song Road, and except for Han Road and Tang Road, the other roads are indeed They were all flooded by the eddy water."
"Right now, in the Tang Road that Zhao...Zhao and Yang are entering, next to it is our Song Road. Marshal Li has already discovered the truth and dug out several roads. As long as he If the mechanism is touched, the silt river underground will flow out from the walls and roofs, and then the two generals and their soldiers will have no chance of escaping."
Jin Sai didn't really stutter, but he always spoke intermittently. It took him a lot of effort to finish speaking, and as he spoke, big drops of sweat rolled out of his forehead.
He kept scolding himself for being a coward in his mind, fearing an upset, but he just couldn't control himself.
Taking advantage of the emperor's silence, Jin Sai carefully raised his head. This was the first time he had the opportunity to look at the emperor. When he saw the man who was about the same age and temperament as Li Qiong, he frowned. , holding grass pulled from somewhere in his hand, pinching it constantly.
After pinching off a piece of grass, he threw it away. After a while, there was only a little tail left in the hand, and there was no place to cut off.
There were footsteps behind him, and Jin Sai quickly lowered his head. Liu Bang looked at Zhong Lei, who stood forward and whispered:
"After walking a few miles there, it is indeed blocked. I have already asked people from the Imperial City Department to dig out, but the boulder is tightly attached to the wall, so it may take more time."
In fact, when Jin Sai came to deliver the message, Liu Bang had already believed him, and asking people from the Imperial City Division to take a look was just to confirm his thoughts.
In this case...he asked:
"Please explain his conditions again. I didn't understand what I heard just now."
Li Qiong neither surrendered nor resisted. The request he made was that he had to make his own choice, but he did not say what the consequences would be if he made the choice.
There was no room for delay in fighting on this battlefield. Li Qiong was unwilling to say it clearly, and Liu Bang was unwilling to take the trouble to guess. Whenever he couldn't figure it out, he regarded Li Qiong as stalling for time.
Who knows if that kid went to Kaifeng to ask for help.
When Jin Sai heard the emperor ask about this, his heart began to turmoil at first... To be honest, even he himself still didn't know what his marshal's idea was.
But he only knew that Li Qiong would not harm him. This time he was negotiating with Zhao Guan's family, maybe it was some kind of military strategy learned from military books, but he was short-sighted and could not understand its meaning.
"Going back to the official's house, the marshal said, if you want to keep the people in the troop transportation channel alive, then, then..."
He tried 'that' several times but still didn't come out, but before Liu Bang lost his patience, he finally made up his mind.
"Then please kill the people in Bozhou City."
Not to mention it was Liu Bang who said this, Guo Yaoshi and Zhong Lei were all confused when they heard this. But just as the emperor was about to ask, Jin Sai spoke and his words became smoother.
"Xiao Yaksha said that you are sending 30,000 soldiers, and there are more than 120,000 registered civilians in Bozhou City. One soldier will return four civilians. You have to choose."
"If the life of the people in the troop transportation road is decided, then Marshal Li will release the people in the city and you will kill them all in front of everyone, then Zhao and Yang will do it, and then you can Out."
"Hiss~~" Liu Bang smacked his lips lightly, "Is your marshal a lunatic?"
Jin Sai replied: "Before today, it was quite normal."
"He wants to kill the people in the city. Can't he just do it himself? Why does he have to let me do it?"
"Whether he wants me to be blamed for massacre of the city, or because someone here slept with his mother-in-law, he is embarrassed to say, so he just thought of this way, just kill them all, and even use a borrowed knife to kill them."
Jin Sai was speechless: "Official, official, Marshal Li is not married yet."
Liu Bang nodded: "You have known him for a long time. Please analyze it for me. What does he mean?"
Although Zhao Guan's family always spoke of "I", which was somewhat different from the image in Jin Sai's imagination, the lack of pretentiousness also made him feel a little more relaxed.
After all, he didn't see any of the golden dragon energy mentioned in the play. The emperor at this time was almost like an ordinary person.
Jin Sai said sincerely: "I don't know."
He forgot his identity for a moment and called himself a minister, which attracted the attention of Yaoshi Guo and Zhong Lei.
First, Li Qiong is stalling for time. No matter what choice he makes, Zhao Mi and the others will be drowned.
Second, he meant it. He would do whatever he chose, but he must have had his own intention in letting himself choose.
Third, this man is crazy. The people of Bozhou City regard him as their biological parent and are grateful for his kindness in rebuilding. How could he want all the people of Bozhou to die?
It is not that Liu Bang has never done such things as massacre, but the three massacres he did were either done when he was following the anti-Qin army in the early stage, or were done by his subordinates... He had extremely loose control over the people under his subordinates. He was so lenient that he was let go when he had a fight with Han Xin, which resulted in him being almost killed by Xiang Yu later.
But after the founding of the country, this kind of thing never happened again. After all, people who have their eyes on the world should think more about it when doing things.
To put it bluntly, if we take a step back, including Fan Kuai, Zhou Bo, Chai Wu, Liu Jia, and others, plus all the people he followed Xiang Liang to attack the city and massacred the city, there are not as many people as there are in this city of Bozhou. .
Speaking of Liu Jia, Liu Bang then remembered that this boy seemed to have killed the city father.
One hundred thousand people must not be killed. If they were killed, it would be bad to arouse resistance from the people everywhere. However, the more than 30,000 elites of the two yamen trapped in the troop transportation channel could not be lost like this.
Liu Bang was indeed a little embarrassed.
But before he could be embarrassed for a long time, Jin Sai said in an even more difficult tone:
"Guan family, the villain can't come out for too long. Marshal Li only gave him half an hour in total. If he can't go back and recover in half an hour, he will think that the villain was killed by you and just release the water into the tunnel. It’s inside.”
"If you have thought about it, just give the villain a word."
Liu Bang bit his lip, and even the stench around Bozhou felt that it had subsided a lot. What on earth did Li Qiong... want to do? !
He couldn't guess it. He really couldn't guess a person he had never met before.
So he could only choose the safest one and the one with the greatest certainty... Li Qiong was probably considering his feelings towards the people. These people were grateful to him and even risked their lives to defend the city for him when he was the father of the city. He would definitely not take the lives of the people.
And he made himself choose this way just to see if he also loved the people as his own children... Although there was no reliable clue to this conjecture, it was consistent with Li Qiong's status as a scholar.
Literary people naturally take it for granted and regard fighting as a game.
The more he thought about it, the more likely it became that Liu Bang couldn't think of any other possibilities, so he said to Jin Daipui:
"Common people, I love the people as my son, choose the people."
Jin Sai was very moved and saluted the emperor and said:
"The villain has thanked the officials on behalf of the people of Bozhou...Then, the villain will retire."
Watching the man's leaving figure, Liu Bang felt very bad. He didn't know if it was because he had left something behind, or because he felt uncomfortable being manipulated.
(End of chapter)
