Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

After breaking into the room of the post house, the situation inside was appalling, tables, round stools and other furnishings were in a mess, a dozen people fell on the ground in disorder, and the walls and ground were stained with blood. Who killed the man and locked the door? The doors and windows were all closed, and when Guo Shao walked to the door, he smelled a very unpleasant and strong mixed smell, just like the person who was hanged under the eaves, not only the smell of blood but also the stench of excrement. Even people killed by knives and guns are not so beautiful. It seems that because of the loss of muscle control, the flesh in the body will flow out.

Guo Shao's heart was cold... Qing Xu and these nuns were killed as spies? Just died in the ****?

He stepped over the threshold, took off the scabbard and turned the lying corpses over to look at them one by one. He has never seen Qingxu, but he has heard the description of a delicate woman with a pointed chin and single eyelids, and she is fourteen or fifteen years old. And Qingxu is not a nun, she has hair.

He walked very carefully, of course he would not directly step on the dead body with his feet, but when he turned his head inadvertently, he found a trail of footprints and blood on the floor tiles, and he inevitably stepped on the blood dripping everywhere on the floor tiles.

"We didn't kill these people..." the official at the door said tremblingly.

Guo Shao turned around and asked, "Are all the people you arrested here?"

The official suddenly said: "There is still one locked up there, a young lady who claims to be the younger brother of Fuyao Chen Tuan."

"Are you still alive? Take me there immediately!" Guo Shao threw away the scabbard, turned and left.

Everyone quickly left the tragic massacre scene and went to another room. This time, Guo Shao didn't need to do it himself, Luo Meng, who was even heavier, rushed forward, slammed into the door with his iron armor, knocked over the door panel, and suddenly the scream of the frightened girl came from inside.

After hearing this, Guo Shao rushed forward, and there was indeed a little girl standing under the small window in the innermost part of the room. She was not tall and looked a little thin, with single eyelids and a pointed chin. Holding a hairpin in her hand, she said with a strong local accent: "What do you want to do, my master is Fuyao, my master is very powerful! Don't come here..."

I saw that there was a thick wooden lattice on the small window at the back, one of which had a gap, and there were some wooden chips on the ground below. Dare she hold a hairpin before trying to break the wood?

When Guo Shao heard this, he suddenly felt a big stone in his heart fall to the ground. He looked at Qingxu carefully and said, "Of course I don't want to do anything to you. I'm here to save you. You don't even know that I don't even care about my life to save you..."

"You're so strange! Do I know you..." Qingxu leaned her back against the wall, and she seemed a little uncomfortable being looked at by Guo Shao's eyes. From time to time, he also looked at Guo Shao with his eyes. The two of them looked at me and I looked at you, and their behavior was very strange.

People who have nothing to do with each other, but Guo Shao cares about her so much...Of course he knows the reason in his heart, but it still feels very mysterious. Is this the chance they talked about?

The two men and women looked at each other for a while, Guo Shao finally came to his senses, turned around and asked, "Where's Jing Niang? Tell Jing Niang to come over."

After a while, Jing Niang came over coldly, her face was pale, but she didn't say anything. When she walked to the door, she saw Qingxu, and finally said: "Qingxu, do you still remember me?"

"Master Yuzhen?" Qingxu's face was filled with joy. After all, it is a teenage girl, no matter whose younger brother it is, she always feels safer when she sees acquaintances, and Qingxu is not immune.

Seeing this, Guo Shao silently left the room. Shen Sheng said to the two soldiers beside him: "Look at them, don't let Qingxu get lost."

Qingxu and Jingniang said a few words when they met each other, and when they looked up, the strange young general just now had disappeared.

Guo Shao went to the courtyard of the post house, turned around and asked the official who had led the way: "Who killed this person?"

"Humble position... I don't know about humble position." The official said hurriedly.

Suddenly there was a sound of "铛", the light of the saber flashed, Luo Yanhuan drew the saber and swung it towards the officer's neck, a trace of blood flowed onto the saber. The official was horrified, his body went limp, and he sat down on the ground in fright.

The official tremblingly said: "Zhao, Zhao Chongtao's order..."

"Where are people?" Guo Shao asked again.

Guan'er said: "The defeated soldiers in front came to the posthouse. Zhao Chongtao learned that he was defeated, so he went to Qingniling with General Li and others in the morning."

At this moment, Yiqi rushed to the gate of the post house and came in to report: "The commander of the Shu army is called Li Tinggui. He asked to treat the captured subordinates well. If we agree, we will surrender."

Luo Yanhuan laughed and said, "Can we still negotiate conditions at this time?"

Guo Shao waved his hand and said, "Order Wang Zhang to agree to Li Tinggui's conditions, and solve the problem early to save trouble."

Guo Shao sent another person to let Li Dazhu, who was stationed at the head of Baishui Road, and other two commanders gather on the North Road. Then they divided the troops to escort the surrendered Shu army soldiers to the north of Qingniling... Guo Shao discussed with Li Chuyun and others, planning to abandon the post house, occupy only the Qingniling highland, and then return the main force to the north.

In the evening, a group of generals and officials of the Shu army came to the post house tied with ropes. Guo Shao led the crowd to meet him in the lobby. As soon as Li Tinggui and the others walked into the lobby, they noticed that General Zhou Jun's gaze was very strange. It was neither angry nor kind, but it seemed that Li Tinggui and the others were pieces of wheat cake, or piles of gold and silver...there was that illusion.

"The defeated general, kill if you want!" Li Tinggui raised his head and said angrily.

Guo Shao asked, "Who is Zhao Chongtao?"

A general of the Shu army behind Li Tinggui said, "I am."

Guo Shao said: "Pull it out and peel off the skin."

Li Tinggui was furious after hearing this, and cursed: "Who promised to never kill prisoners, and talk like fart? I will lose the battle, and death is not a pity. If you have the guts, cut me off!"

Guo Shao said coldly: "In battle, you don't have to pay for your life when you kill an opponent, but you have to pay for your life when you kill an unarmed person. It's only right and right to pay for your life when you kill someone." After saying that, he waved his hand, "The rest will be imprisoned."

At this time, Zuo You, who was sitting at the table beside him, found a magnet somewhere, and leaned towards the pile of coins on the table with the magnet, and the coins immediately got stuck to the magnet. Zuo You said: "It's really iron money. Shu is short of copper, so we use iron to make money...We can't use this money back."

Guo Shao stood up calmly, neither treated the generals of the Shu army courteously, nor said that he wanted to kill them, and only dealt with one person. He came out from the back door of the lobby, called Luo Yanhuan to come forward, and said in a deep voice: "Take someone to coerce the generals of the Shu army, and let them send someone back to get money to redeem their lives... No iron money, just use it for birds! I want gold, silver, precious stones, and silk; let Zuo You do this with you, so that he can calculate how much it will cost at any level, and the price is clear and honest."

Luo Yanhuan said: "The soldiers of the Shu army are forbidden soldiers, and the forbidden soldiers of the Shu Kingdom are not poor. They are often rewarded by the emperor of the Shu Kingdom. There are thousands of prisoners, and one person is not a lot."

"Okay, you and Zuo You are fully responsible for this matter." Guo Shao said.

Li Chuyun said: "If the people of Shu really use money to redeem people, let's let them go like this? Especially if you let go of the general of the Shu army without saying a word, it's hard to say that it will be stabbed in the court..."

Guo Shao pondered for a while: "Brother Li's words are very true. I have seen that two days ago, I sent someone to Tokyo to report on how to treat the prisoners of war... First go to Fengxiang and tell the Hakka provincial envoy Zan Jurun. You don't need to hide it. Just say that if you get the money, he will also have a share."

Li Chuyun said: "The soldiers of the Shu army should be fine, but those generals, if the officials order to arrest them and bring them back to Tokyo...then we have collected money but not behaved? It is said that the bandits in the green forest will abide by the rules."

"Zan Jurun will make a small report on the military extortion. And we have already asked for an order first, and the officials and the court should follow suit; if they want to be arrested, then they will be arrested. Even bandits are worse than...disobeying the rules." Guo Shao said, "Those who extorted money and got rid of the 'loss' caused by the rebellious army will also hand over some at that time."

Li Chuyun sighed and said: "Before the war, I promised the soldiers to share the money. For today's plan, this is the only way. My lord, why don't you leave this matter to the general. How can the people I sent tell Zan Jurun?"

Guo Shao nodded bluntly and said, "Brother Li will do it then."

Li Chuyun found an acquaintance in the bodyguard, told him to go to Fengxiang to meet Zan Jurun, and repeatedly told him: "The rest of the Shu army was besieged in Qingniling. The generals were greedy for life and feared death. They asked for money to redeem their lives before they were willing to surrender. Our generals were afraid that the lone army would go deep and be attacked by the reinforcements from the Shu Kingdom. They wanted to make a quick decision, so they reluctantly agreed."

A group of riders took the seal of Guo Shaogai, the tiger leader, and went straight to Fengxiang over Qingniling early the next morning.

Zan Jurun asked about the news in detail, pondered for a long time in the posthouse, and sure enough, he began to write a secret report. In order to explain the matter clearly, he also wrote about Wang Jingbu and Xiangxun's plundering of property in Qinfengchengjie City, and then discussed that the forbidden army did not occupy the city, so they blackmailed the Shu army for reinforcements;

After writing the secret memorial to the Privy Council, Zan Jurun sealed it with burnt lacquer, and then sent a courier to deliver it directly to Tokyo.

At this time, the monarchs and ministers of the Zhou Dynasty in Tokyo were celebrating the success of the attack on Shu... If Wang Jing and other troops were in a stalemate in Qinfeng, the Zhou army would not be able to easily start a war against Nantang for a while; only after the battle situation was clear could they take action against Nantang to avoid high-intensity battles on the two fronts.

The privy envoy Wei Renpu didn't think that the army's looting and extortion were nothing at all. As long as they won the Shu Kingdom, other things could be avoided. He reported to the emperor's suggestion that the surrendered soldiers of the Shu army in Qingniling should be dealt with by the left side of the Hu Jie army; The emperor thought it was right, approved it immediately, and then asked the officials to write an imperial edict to appease Qin Feng's surrender.

Wei Renpu also suggested that regardless of Wang Jingbu's looting of Qinzhou and others, he should send people to reward him, and ordered Wang Jing to move to Qinzhou and the west edge of the town. What the privy envoy Wei Renpu said was very appropriate and was implemented soon.