Chapter 34: Capture the Thief and Capture the King
It can be seen that in order to capture Hanzhong City, most of the barbarians have left the valley.
Along the way, they encountered neither patrols nor sentries. It was not until they sneaked into the largest tent in the center of the camp that they finally saw six barbarian guards standing outside the tent.
Liu Xiu and the other three hid beside a nearby tent. They squatted down and looked around for a moment. Liu Xiu picked up a stone and made a retreat gesture to the two county army men. The two understood and nodded together.
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They slowly retreated and hid behind the tent. Liu Xiu flicked the stone in his hand. Bang! The stone fell to the ground with a soft sound.
The six barbarian guards standing guard outside the Chinese army's tent all heard the noise. They looked at each other, separated into two groups, and walked towards the tent where Liu Xiu and the others were hiding.
The two guards walked to the side of the tent and looked around, but found nothing unusual. When they were about to go around to the back of the tent to have a look, one person and two barbarians jumped out from the back of the tent.
The guard didn't even see clearly who was coming. The man was already in front of them, and with lightning strikes, he grabbed both of them by the throat.
The two wanted to shout, but their throats were tightly squeezed and no sound could come out.
They subconsciously wanted to draw their swords, but it was too late. Then two men from the county army rushed out and stabbed each of them with a sword, piercing the hearts of the two guards.
Liu Xiu bent down and slowly lowered the two corpses hanging on his hands to the ground. Then he made a few gestures to the two county army men and slowly backed away.
Two companions went over to check the situation, but they never came back. The remaining four guards looked at each other in confusion, then separated into two more and walked towards the camp over there.
As soon as the two of them left, Liu Xiu, like a ghost, walked out from behind the Chinese military tent and quietly came behind a guard. He covered his mouth with one hand and held his other arm tightly.
He strangled the other person's neck and pulled his arms back hard. Hearing a soft click, the guard's neck bones were broken.
The guard next to him heard the movement and looked back subconsciously. He first saw his companion who had fallen to the ground. His face suddenly changed, and he opened his mouth wide. Just as he was about to shout, he jumped up as high as he could, when Liu Xiu dropped from the sky and hit him on the top of his head with his elbow.
Now Liu Xiu's own strength was already extremely strong, and coupled with the inertia of his falling body, one can imagine the strength of this elbow.
Click! The guard's Tianling Gai was shattered by Liu Xiu's elbow and arm, and he fell to the ground.
The two guards who were walking to the tent nearby heard something wrong behind them and hurriedly turned around to look back. They saw their companions lying on the ground and Liu Xiu standing there dressed in black.
They subconsciously drew out their scimitars and shouted loudly: "You...(barbaric language)"
The two of them only uttered one word, and two men from the county army silently touched their backs and slit their throats cleanly with a knife.
It was too late, but it was too late. Liu Xiu and the other three eliminated the six guards in the blink of an eye.
After clearing away the guards outside the Chinese army tent, Liu Xiu and the others secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Liu Xiu asked two men from the county army to drag the guard's body to the shadows. He walked to the curtain of the central army tent, slowly opened a gap, squinted his eyes, and looked inside.
The Chinese military tent is divided into two layers: the inner and outer layers. The outer layer is used for discussing military affairs, and the inner layer is used for people to live in.
The outer layer was pitch black and there was no one there, but the inner layer was faintly illuminated, and Liu Xiu could faintly hear a woman sobbing.
He frowned slightly, swayed, and dodged into the central military tent. He casually took out the scimitar from his waist, raised his legs high, put his feet down lightly, and walked straight to the inner curtain.
, pull the curtain open a little.
The inner layer of the central military tent was fairly bright with candles lit. Compared with the outer layer, the space here was relatively smaller. There were several blankets made of animal skins placed in the center, which were considered beds.
A circle of wooden fences are placed.
What made Liu Xiu furious was that the people locked up inside the wooden fence were all women, all with disheveled hair and naked. There were probably five or six of them.
On the bed, there lay a fat middle-aged barbarian. On both sides of him, a naked woman sat kneeling on each side. There was a rope tied around the woman's neck, and the other end of the rope was caught in the middle-aged barbarian's hand.
It looks like a dog on a leash.
At this time, the middle-aged barbarian was closing his eyes, enjoying the services of the two women around him. After Liu Xiu looked at it, he opened the curtain with a swish and strode into the middle room of the Chinese army tent.
None of the women present seemed to have expected that someone would suddenly break in, and the person's appearance was too scary. His clothes were black, his hands were black, and even his face was black.
They were so frightened that they screamed and huddled into a ball. The two women who were kneeling next to the middle-aged barbarian even screamed and retreated to the side.
The middle-aged Barbarian who was enjoying himself was woken up. He opened his eyes with an angry look on his face. When he saw Liu Xiu coming straight towards him, he subconsciously asked: "Who are you? (Barbarian language)"
Liu Xiu couldn't understand the barbarian language, and even if he understood it, he wouldn't answer his questions. He walked up to the middle-aged barbarian, and when the latter was about to sit up from the animal skin rug, Liu Xiu kicked him in the chest.
This kick pushed the middle-aged barbarian back to lie down on the animal skin blanket. The latter covered his chest with his hands and his face turned red from suppressing it. After a while, he opened his mouth wide and screamed like a pig.
Liu Xiu didn't have any unnecessary nonsense. He cut off the rope in his hand with a knife, turned to look at the two women with shocked faces, and said, "Go find some clothes and put them on."
After he finished speaking, his eyes fell back on the middle-aged barbarian. He saw the middle-aged barbarian stopped howling, turned over, and crawled on the animal skin blanket with his hands and feet. After crawling a certain distance, he stood up with difficulty.
The figure looked at Liu Xiu in shock and horror, and asked in half-baked Chinese: "You...who are you?"
Liu Xiu looked around and saw a roll of rope thrown on the ground against the wall. He walked up to the middle-aged barbarian and kicked him on the outside of his knee. The middle-aged barbarian groaned and swung his body in the air.
He fell heavily to the ground.
Before he could scream, Liu Xiu stepped on his back, then tied a rope around the middle-aged barbarian's neck, and then tightened it a little harder. The middle-aged barbarian almost died on the spot.
. He grabbed the rope around his neck with both hands and pulled outwards desperately.
Liu Xiu ignored him, pulled the rope, and dragged the middle-aged barbarian up from the ground. The middle-aged barbarian's hands scratched out streaks of blood on his neck, his eyes bulged outwards, and there were blue veins on the side of his face.
Jumped so high.
Seeing that the middle-aged barbarian was about to be strangled to death by himself, Liu Xiu relaxed his grip slightly and let the rope that was tightly strangling the middle-aged barbarian's neck loosen a little.
As the rope was loosened, the middle-aged barbarian opened his mouth wide and took in big breaths.
Before he could catch his breath, Liu Xiu raised his hand and slapped his cheek several times. When the middle-aged barbarian's eyes met his own, Liu Xiu asked, "Your name is Xiesang?"
The middle-aged barbarian was stunned for a moment, shook his head subconsciously and said, "I don't..."
He just said two words, and the women who were locked up in the wooden fence shouted: "He is Xiesang! He is Xiesang, the leader of the Xie tribe!"
Hearing this, Liu Xiu looked at the middle-aged barbarian again, the cold light in his eyes getting stronger and stronger. The middle-aged barbarian only looked at Liu Xiu for a moment, then shuddered and stammered: "I...I am resting."
Sang...don't...don't kill me, I can give you whatever you want..."
Before he could finish speaking, Liu Xiu suddenly pulled out one of his ears and swung the scimitar in his hand from bottom to top. Hearing a scream, Xiesang's right ear was cut off with a knife.
Xiesang covered the side of his head and howled desperately. At this time, the sounds of fighting could be heard outside. Xiesang's cries must have attracted the barbarians in the valley, and they had already fought with the two county soldiers.
Liu Xiu took the rope and dragged Xiesang out of the central army tent. When he got outside, as expected, the two county army men were surrounded by numerous barbarians. Liu Xiu shouted: "Stop it!" As he spoke,
He put the knife in his hand on Xiesang's stubby neck.
People were startled by his sudden voice, and turned around to see that the old patriarch was actually being held hostage.
People's first reaction was to rush forward to rescue him. However, they only ran two steps before Liu Xiu's scimitar had already cut the skin of Xiesang's neck, and blood flowed out from the wound.
Xiesang was horrified, his face turned pale, and he shouted sternly at the people running towards him: "Don't come here! Don't come here! (Barbaric language)"
All the barbarians stopped and looked at him and Liu Xiu blankly.
Seeing that Liu Xiu had successfully restrained Xiesang, the two already desperate men from the county army immediately cheered up. They ran out of the crowd and came to Liu Xiu's side. They could not hide their excitement, beaming with joy, and rushed to Liu Xiu's side.
Liu Xiu nodded repeatedly and praised in a low voice: "Brother, good job!"
Liu Xiu nodded to them and said to Xiesang: "Ask your people to release all the captured Han people!"
Xiesang's expression changed uncertainly, he lowered his head and said nothing. Liu Xiu pressed the scimitar to his neck again, and this time, more blood flowed from his neck. Xiesang no longer dared to pretend to be deaf and dumb.
, shouted at his tribesmen: "Let them go! Let all the prisoners go! (Barbarian language)"
Although Xiesang is old and is no longer in charge of things, and Xie Tu is basically responsible for all matters of the clan, Xiesang is still the clan leader after all, and no one dares to disobey his orders.
Several people hurriedly turned around and ran back.
Liu Xiu narrowed his eyes and watched the group of barbarians running away. He said to Xiesang: "Don't play tricks with me, otherwise, you will be the first person to die!"
As the patriarch of the clan, Xiesang was usually respected and worshiped by others. When had he been threatened with such evil words? But now he fell into the hands of others. He was under a low eaves and had to bow his head.
After about two quarters of an hour, a large group of people wearing county army uniforms were escorted over by dozens of barbarians.
The hands of these county soldiers were tied behind their backs, some had their heads drooped, and some had expressions of grief and indignation.
When they were brought to the Chinese military tent by the barbarians and saw the scene, everyone couldn't help but be stunned, wondering what was going on.
Liu Xiu glanced at the captured county soldiers and asked the two officers: "Are they all?"