It is not unheard of to buy and sell captured soldiers. In addition to buying and selling, the powerful and arrogant military advisors in ancient times even dared to capture and control prisoners seven times.
Just listen to the rumors about these things. At this moment, before they started fighting head-on, the other party captured 8,312 of their own people and ran to the front to sell them...
"This is too much!" Chen Xihua shouted.
Qi Yong can't be embarrassed either.
"Buy it or not!" Gao Zhou said loudly, "If you don't buy it, I will leave. After passing this village, there will be no such store!"
"How can we allow you to be so arrogant!" Chen Xihua was furious, "Hengxiang Mansion is just around the corner. If you know the truth, you will return my troops and horses immediately. Otherwise, don't blame me for not leaving any room as soon as my army enters Hengxiang Mansion!"
"General, don't anger him!" Qi Yong said hurriedly.
Gao Zhou laughed loudly: "You are really joking. Hengxiang Mansion is not my home or my land. You can take it if you want. We only want wealth! But you got Hengxiang, but you lost more than 8,000 soldiers.
, What should you bring to explain to Jiao Jinhu when you go back? Don’t forget how many soldiers and horses Tian Dayao killed in the battle a few months ago! General, can you still withstand the loss of troops and generals?"
Chen Xihua felt a pain in his chest and pulled out the knife: "You little thief, don't be so rampant!"
"General!" Qi Yong shouted through gritted teeth.
"Who doesn't have a sword?!" Gao Zhou also pulled out his weapon and faced them, "You don't even save your own soldiers, but you are still shouting here, what kind of general do you think you are? You go home to pull cattle, farm and pick up manure!"
"You, you! Cough cough cough!" A violent cough came up, and Chen Xihua choked.
"What about you?" Gao Zhou looked at Qi Yong, who was holding a feather fan, "You can speak well. If you can speak well, please come forward!"
Everyone's eyes turned to Qi Yong.
Qi Yong took a deep breath, turned around and asked his entourage to fetch his mount, then he got on his horse and rode away.
"How do you call it?" Gao Zhou asked.
"Let us all sing together, with one heart and one mind, and sing."
"You look like a military strategist, but you are not very famous. Jiao Jinhu has been defeated for many years. I wonder if you can be responsible for this?!"
Qi Yong prides himself on being calm and self-possessed, with extraordinary concentration, but now his hands are shaking.
"General Gaolang, you are a military general, not a civil servant, so you don't have to be so sharp with your tongue."
Gao Zhou sneered: "Let's get down to business, are you not going to take care of the 8,312 captured soldiers, or are you determined to buy them? But my second lady said, if you delay a moment longer, the price will increase by three taels. Now I am with you."
I think you are having this conversation between thirteen and two people!"
"Wait a minute, General Gao Lang! I'm waiting in a hurry just to recover Hengxiang. Where can I find enough silver?"
"You can write an IOU!" Gao Zhou pulled out a scroll and threw it over, falling on the lawn two steps in front of Yan Xun and Qi Yong.
A soldier from behind quickly ran up, picked up the scroll from the ground, and handed it to Qi Yong.
The inside of the scroll is really paper and pen. The pen is dry and needs to be dipped in saliva, and the paper is the IOU written in black and white.
It is indeed an IOU!
The handwriting is sparse and free, handsome and elegant. It is considered a good calligraphy, but the content is really annoying.
Signed by Xia Jiajun, A Li.
"No! Dingxin, you can't sign!" Chen Xihua said weakly.
"If you don't sign, all your soldiers will be looking at you!" Gao Zhou shouted, "Old man, when you lead an army in a war, the soldiers should be like brothers, like brothers! When brothers are in trouble, they throw their heads and blood, vowing to protect their lives.
My brother is safe and prosperous! But look at you, what tens of thousands of taels of silver can do to you! How can it not be a good deal to buy a life for just ten taels of silver?"
"General, take care of yourself!" Qi Yong shouted to him.
Looking back at the IOU, Qi Yong's hands were shaking so much that they were almost indistinguishable from Chen Xihua's lungs.
The IOU said that the person can be pledged and redeemed as soon as possible by getting some silver. One day's meal payment will be counted as twenty coins. The sooner the person is redeemed, the sooner the settlement will be settled.
And, at the end of the IOU, there is a very important piece of information, which is that they will not tell this matter outside of the case.
Qi Yong himself didn't expect this.
It is true that if this matter is really spread, the entire army of the three states will lose face if they are not mentioned.
Over the years, because he wanted to beat Peifeng again and again and was forced to withdraw again and again, Duke Enyi's face has been almost humiliated in the world. Now if he humiliates such a big person again, Duke Enyi will be furious, and the court will be full of people.
Everyone in the film may be affected, and dozens of heads will be lost by then.
And Qi Yong's head was fixed in it.
Qi Yong closed his eyes, took a few deep breaths, lowered his head, and signed on the paper.
Then draw the stamp.
"Dingxin!!" Chen Xihua wailed.
The scroll was returned to Gao Zhou's hands by the soldiers. Gao Zhou looked at it for a few times, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "You will retreat and return to Sanzhou to get the silver and pick up the people!"
"Retreat? Why should we retreat? We are here to take Hengxiang!" Chen Xihua said angrily, "Hengxiang is not your land, so get out!"
"Shut up, you old guy!" Gao Zhou said to him, "I see that you don't want to save your soldiers at all. You are trying every possible means to anger me so that I can kill them, which just saves your money. Okay.
Kill someone with a borrowed sword! Your soldiers sacrifice their lives for you, but you are so cold and heartless? Hehe, I am your enemy, I even look down on you, are you worthy of being the opponent of my Xia family army? Ah bah!"
"You, you guy... poof!" Chen Xihua spat out a mouthful of thick blood from his chest and fell off the horse.
"General!!"
"General!"
…
Everyone gathered around him.
Qi Yong was frightened and quickly rode back.
"Master Qi!" Gao Zhou called to him.
Qi Yong turned around and looked at him: "General Gao Lang, please speak."
"After you lead the troops back, you secretly collect the money and bring them back. Our second lady said we won't spread the word, but we won't. Except for everyone in the world, your Jiao Jinhu will never know about this in his life."
Qi Yong frowned slightly, understanding what the other party meant.
After Gao Zhou finished speaking, he turned his horse's head and left.
The sky is getting darker and darker, and the sunset is about to burn out its last remaining light.
Under the dim sky, Qi Yong saw a girl sitting on a horse in the distance.
Wearing dark red clothes, she was leading the way, motionless, and the wind in the wilderness swept over her body, raising her elegant and refreshing ponytail.
Qi Yong had to admit that this time they sent troops to Hengxiang and were completely defeated.
Even, they haven't had a head-on battle or encounter with the opponent yet.
Before Gao Zhou could get far, he reined in his horse and looked at him: "What's the matter?"
Qi Yong paused and asked: "If we had not gone to Gushan and Santangling, nor had we turned to the southwest and gone all the way from the east to Hengxiang, what would we have encountered?"
"Then we'll wait for you east of Hengxiang!" Gao Zhou said, not understanding how an army leader could ask such a question.
Qi Yong's heart trembled and she said, "Thank you very much."
