Looking at the letter that was returned in his hand, Chu Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo couldn't help but frown.
Although he didn't know whether this word was a slang term used in the Wei people's dialect to curse people, but thinking about it carefully, it was definitely not a good word if it was followed by a stupid word.
Although he is clearly at a disadvantage, he still dares to insult the enemy's powerful army without any scruples. It seems that the coach of the Wei army is not a rational guy...
Thinking of this, Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo couldn't help but worry about the safety of his cousin Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu.
After thinking carefully for a moment, Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, ordered the guards on his left and right: "Call Lian Bi over."
"yes."
The guards clasped their fists and ordered to leave. After a moment, they invited General Lian Bi.
"Son."
"Hmm." Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo nodded and asked Lian Bi: "Lian Bi, I asked you to bring those people with the army. Where are they now?"
Lian Bi clasped his fists and said respectfully: "Young master, are you referring to the prisoners in Zhaoling City?...After getting the master's letter, I sent someone to guard them, and they are now in the army."
"Okay, take them with you and I'll go to Wei Camp later."
"yes."
After a cup of tea, Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, led General Lian Bi and half of the army towards the Wei army's Yanshui camp.
The remaining 40,000 or so Chu soldiers continued to cut down local forests to build camps.
Around Shen time in the afternoon, the 40,000-strong army led by Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, arrived at the Yanshui camp of the Wei army.
The arrival of this army can be said to have stirred the nerves of the soldiers on duty in the Wei camp. The latter quickly sounded the alarm, and hundreds of soldiers rapped their shields with their swords to warn the entire camp that the Chu army had arrived. !
Upon hearing the siren, Su Wang Zhao Hongrun and Bailiba quickly led their entourage to the southern camp wall, climbed up the camp wall and personally inspected the Chu soldiers outside.
They couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, because logically speaking, Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, should not have sent his troops to attack the Wei army's Yanshui camp before the Chu army had built the camp. After all, the fortress-like Yanshui camp was not a temporary one. It can be easily overcome if you know how.
They were puzzled. But they were not worried at all. In fact, they hoped that the Chu army would attack the Yanshui camp regardless of life and death.
But unfortunately, the 40,000 Chu troops slowly arranged themselves in formation just a stone's throw south of the Wei army's Yanshui camp. After waiting for a long time, they had no intention of attacking.
However, the commander of this Chu army, Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, took the initiative to drive his war horse to the front of the army and observed the Wei army's Yanshui camp in the distance at close range.
However, the results of careful observation made the Chu prince and nobleman frown.
Because under close observation, the shock he felt was far more detailed than when he looked at Haogang from a distance in the morning.
"A certain...is the Lord of Yangcheng, Xiong Tuo."
He drove his horse back and forth for a few steps. Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, shouted in the direction of Yanshui Camp: "Who is in charge in the camp opposite? Come out and talk to someone."
"What does this guy want to do?"
Zhao Hongrun stood on the camp wall and frowned, observed, and muttered.
Beside him, Bailiba also looked puzzled, shook his head and said, "Let's wait and see what happens... He won't lead tens of thousands of people outside our military camp for no reason."
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded, then turned to look at Baili Ba.
His eyes conveyed a message: Are you coming or am I coming?
Bailiba smiled and raised his hand to make a gesture of invitation.
Thinking about it, he has given up the right to speak to Zhao Hongrun, so he will naturally not steal the limelight from His Highness Prince Su.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun took a step forward. Holding his hands on the wood of the camp wall, he shouted in a deep voice: "This is Ji Run, King Su of the Great Wei Dynasty. What advice can Lord Yangcheng have?"
Huh?
Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, was stunned when he heard this. He squinted his eyes and looked carefully at Zhao Hongrun on the wall of Wei Yingying in the distance. A burst of surprise appeared on his handsome face.
He originally thought that the person in charge of this Wei camp would be a certain general from the Wei Kingdom, but he did not expect that it would be such a young descendant of the Wei Kingdom's imperial line.
Ji Si (Zhao Yuansi)'s son?
Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, muttered in his heart, with a slightly displeased look on his face.
You must know that he and Emperor Wei had a feud. After all, when he was young, he was set up by the latter when he and Emperor Wei conspired with the Song Dynasty. As a result, Wei conquered most of the Song Dynasty in vain, but in the end he did not get any. benefits.
This incident later spread to the Chu State, making the Yangcheng Lord a laughing stock among the princes and nobles of Chu, so he still bears a grudge to this day.
After thinking about it, Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, shouted: "I came here just for one thing...my cousin, Lord Pingyu, Xiong Hu, was captured by you and others?"
It turned out to be for Xiong Hu...
Zhao Hongrun suddenly realized it and did not hide it. He said truthfully: "Yes, Lord Pingyu of your country is in our military camp at the moment."
good……
Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, was really relieved when he heard this. What he was most afraid of was that Wei Bing was ignorant of the importance and killed his cousin Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu. After all, everything is over once a person dies, and there is nothing he can do to save anything.
"Free him!"
Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, said in a deep voice.
"Hahaha……"
Zhao Hongrun's laughter sounded from the south wall of Yanshui Camp, and the laughter was full of sarcasm.
Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, was not surprised by this. After all, he did not think that the Wei people would release his cousin so easily.
So, he turned to the general Lian Bi behind him and said: "Bring those people... up."
"Yes!...bring it up."
Following the order of the Chu army general Lian Bi, more than a dozen men in ragged clothes were threatened with swords and guns by dozens of Chu soldiers. They slowly walked to the front of the formation with angry faces.
These people...
Zhao Hongrun's expression changed slightly, because from the official uniforms on these ragged men, he recognized that most of them were local officials of his Wei State.
As expected, the words of Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo confirmed the identity of these people.
"These are officials from your country's Zhaoling City... Ji Run, how about a deal between you and me? You release my cousin Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu, and I will also release these officials from your country's Zhaoling City. how?"
As he spoke, he glanced at the dozen Wei prisoners and said calmly: "My lords, King Su of your country is here. Don't you have anything to express?"
The dozen or so Wei prisoners looked at each other with angry expressions on their faces. They obviously guessed the intention behind Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo's words, but out of etiquette, they should indeed salute His Royal Highness King Su across from him.
Because his whole body was tied with ropes, the leading prisoner among the dozen people knelt on the ground with a thud. He shouted loudly in the direction of Zhao Hongrun: "I'm the official... Zhaoling County Governor Chen Bing, bow to His Highness King Su."
As he bowed down, a dozen Wei prisoners behind him also knelt down.
"Chen Bing? Chen Bing, the county governor of Zhaoling?"
Behind Zhao Hongrun was Pei Zhan, the former magistrate of Yanling County. Hearing this, his complexion changed drastically. He pushed through the crowd and stood in the front. He shouted loudly: "County Governor Chen, do you recognize me, Pei Zhan?"
"Master Pei?" Chen Bing was stunned and exclaimed: "Master Pei from Yanling?... Is Yanling okay?"
As expected, it was Lord Fu Chen Bing of Zhaoling County...
Pei Zhan took a closer look, with a somewhat sad look on his face.
You must know that Yanling is not far from Zhaoling, and there is only Linying County in between. Therefore, they have been in contact with each other for borrowing grain and other local county affairs, and they can be regarded as local colleagues who have a friendship.
I just didn't expect that Lord Chen Bing from Zhaoling would become a prisoner of the Chu army.
"Yan Ling...it's nothing serious." Pei Zhan sighed and replied loudly: "Thanks to the support of His Royal Highness Prince Su and the Junshui Camp, I, Yan Ling, survived..."
"That's good..." Chen Bing smiled in relief, then kowtowed heavily in the direction of Zhao Hongrun, and shouted in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness, the incompetence of the subordinate officials caused the fall of Zhaoling, but I, Zhaoling,
The army and the people fought until the last moment, but they did not bring shame to the Wei Dynasty!... I, Yanling Military Lieutenant Liu Xu,
All the soldiers in the city died in the battle. Although we and the civil servants fought hard, it is a pity that we were captured by the Chu army. It is really a great shame and humiliation!" After saying that, he raised his head and shouted with a tragic face: "We have already had the will to die.
I am willing to sacrifice my life for the great Wei Dynasty, and I hope His Highness King Su will not care about us, so as not to allow the evildoers of Chu State to succeed!"
He obviously shouted the last sentence while looking back at Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Shut up!"
When a Chu soldier saw Chen Bing insulting Xiong Tuo, the king of Yangcheng, he kicked Chen Bing to the ground.
Looking at this scene, the Wei people on the wall of the south camp of Yanshui Camp all clenched their fists.
"Your Highness..." Pei Zhan looked at Zhao Hongrun with a pleading look on his face, but hesitated several times.
Seeing this, Bailiba, the general of Junshui Camp, hurriedly whispered: "Your Highness, although the experiences of those adults are sad, they must not be exchanged for Xiong Hu... Xiong Hu is a prisoner in our camp, so he can
That Xiong Tuo threw a rat-proof weapon."
"Your Highness..."
"Your Highness..."
There was endless discussion here, but Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, was already impatient and shouted in a deep voice: "Ji Run, do you agree to exchange prisoners? I don't have that much patience." As he said that, he snorted coldly and deliberately
Said: "If you are unwilling to exchange prisoners, then it is useless for me to keep these prisoners... Come on, kill one of them!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Hongrun's angry shout was heard from the direction of Yanshui Camp: "How dare you?!... Come on, bring Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu up. If the other side dares to kill anyone indiscriminately, kill him!"
Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, frowned, then laughed loudly and said: "Don't try to trick me!... How dare you kill my cousin? If you kill my cousin, these people will all die!"
"Hmph!...You are right. Since you can't kill, you can cut off an arm, right?...Come here, pick up Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu. If the other side kills someone indiscriminately, chop off one of Xiong Hu's hands!"
…After chopping off the hands, chop off the feet, and after chopping off the feet, cut off the flesh!”
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Listening to Zhao Hongrun's murderous shout, Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo was momentarily frightened by King Su who was opposite him and was more than ten years older than him.
The Chu soldiers who were about to kill one of the Wei prisoners with their swords were also frightened by this scene. They held their swords and gestured at the head and neck of one of the prisoners for a long time, but in the end they did not have the courage to do so.
Cut it down.
After a long time, Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, waved his hand: "Step back."
Seeing this, the Chu soldier took back his weapon with relief.
Su Wang Jirun...
Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, looked at the young son of his enemy with complicated eyes.
His guess came true. There was indeed an irrational commander in the Wei army camp opposite. (To be continued.)