"You are indeed here." Seeing the seven or eight people walking into the room, Said was stunned for a moment and said with a smile in fluent Chinese.
"You know we will all come?" Zhu Gui and Lan Zhen looked at each other and then spoke.
"I don't know if you princes from the Ming Dynasty will all come, but General Lan will definitely come." Said replied.
"Why do you think General Blue will definitely come?"
"Isn't this obvious? I have put forward such conditions, and I will not surrender casually no matter what. Even if General Lan wants to try to persuade me to surrender, he will come here to see me." Said had already relaxed at this time, and then
replied.
"You are right. I don't think you will surrender, but since you are still alive and have not committed suicide, I will personally persuade you to surrender once." Lan Zhen answered with a smile and sat across the table.
But he did not immediately persuade Said to surrender. Instead, he said: "Sayed, I have a few questions. I hope you can clarify them for me."
"Please tell me, but I can't guarantee that what I'm telling you is the truth." Said said.
"We already know that you concluded that the Ming Dynasty wanted to occupy the entire India, so you sent troops to rescue Bangladesh together with the Bahmani Sultanate. But did the person who wrote the confession voluntarily surrender to your country, or was he discovered and captured by your country?
"
"People from our country discovered that he was going to be a spy, so they arrested him for interrogation and obtained a confession." Said thought for a while and felt that there was no need to hide it, so he told the truth.
"Did your soldiers who first arrived in Bangladesh come up with the strategy of attacking the Ming army camp at night, or was it the idea of a certain general?" Lan Zhen asked again.
"Didn't you get the answer to this question?" Said asked back. The army he sent to Bangladesh has been completely wiped out, and many of them, including some senior generals, were captured by the Ming army. The answer to this question should have been answered by Lan Zhen long ago.
It’s only right that you know.
"I did get the answer, but this question is very important. I hope to hear your answer." The expression on Lan Zhen's face changed slightly and she spoke. Prince Daming, who was sitting behind him, also stretched his neck to look.
Said, waiting for his answer.
Hearing Lan Zhen's words, Said was even more puzzled, but Lan Zhen obviously would not explain further and could only say: "That strategy was thought up by Salha. He used to be a general of the Timur Khanate, and very
A general who is trusted by Timur has participated in the Battle of Yiwu and knows your army very well, so I appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the army to rescue Bengal. He also came up with the strategy."
"Then where is he now?" Lan Zhen immediately asked again, seeming quite anxious. After a pause, he added: "Has he been killed by you?"
"No, I did not execute him. Of course I wanted to execute him after the more than 200,000-strong army in Bangladesh was almost wiped out, but at that time the armies of the three subordinate vassal states of your country, Qin, Ta, Ting and Ting, had already gone south to attack Lang.
On the north bank of the Qinzangbo River, and Sarha has rich experience in fighting your army, I deprived him of his military power and appointed him as my advisor to advise me on fighting your army."
"After your country stopped siegeing the city last night, I discussed with Salha and all the generals how to proceed with the next step of the war, and then let him go back to rest. After that, you destroyed the east wall and launched the siege. I will then
When we sent people to find Salha, he had already disappeared. I don’t know whether he was hiding or whether he had died in the battle." Said replied.
"Immediately send an order to search for Salha throughout the city!" After Lan Zhen ordered the guards behind her, she turned to Said and said, "Do you have a portrait of Salha?"
"Yes." Said pointed to a cabinet. Lan Zhen's guard walked over and opened the cabinet, took out many portraits and placed them in front of Said. Said picked out Salha's portrait and handed it to Lan Zhen.
"Let the accompanying painters paint according to this and post it all over the city. We must find Salha." Lan Zhen ordered again. The guard agreed and left with the portrait.
"Why do you have to find Salha? The casualties in the night attack on your country's army in Dhaka City were not many." Said couldn't bear it, or rather he didn't want to bear it anymore, and asked in confusion.
"A very important person was injured in that sneak attack, and he was seriously injured." Lan Zhen gave a rough explanation, and immediately asked other questions. He asked many questions, some of which Said answered.
Some questions were not answered, and Lan Zhen didn't really care, she just asked.
After a while, Lan Zhen stopped for a cup of tea and asked the last question. "Who came up with the idea of torturing Ming Dynasty captives under the city of Lahore more than a month ago?"
"It's also Salha." Said told the truth since he had a premonition that if the answer to this question was him, he would probably die miserably.
"It's him too, this son of a bitch!" Zhu Shangbing, who was sitting in the back, couldn't help but say.
"When we find him, we will give him a hard death! Let him feel that death is a relief." Zhu Gaoxu also gritted his teeth and said.
"It turned out to be him. That's right. Although this method is vicious, it does work and angers the soldiers. It is easier for people like Salha who have dealt with the Ming Dynasty the most to come up with it." Lan Zhen also muttered softly, but he
Not as angry as the princes behind him.
"Okay, I don't have any more questions to ask." Lan Zhen said at this time, and immediately said very casually: "After that, it will be a routine persuasion to surrender. If you are willing to surrender, Ming Dynasty can keep the whole body for you. According to Tianfang believers
The custom is to bury you, and your children and grandchildren can survive, but they cannot stay in Delhi and will be moved to Su Fan or Song Fan."
"Is this the Ming Dynasty's condition for persuading surrender?" Said suddenly raised his head and looked at Lan Zhen.
"This is Ming's condition for persuading surrender." Lan Zhen replied still very casually.
"This is not persuading me to surrender, this is an insult to me!" Said slammed the table hard and said loudly. He never expected that the Ming Dynasty's conditions for persuading surrender would be so harsh! He could not survive, and neither would his children and grandchildren.
Implicated! He has never seen or even heard of such conditions for surrender.
"You're right, this is an insult to you." Lan Zhen said with a smile.
"You!" Said suddenly stood up and pointed his finger at Lan Zhen. Lan Zhen's guard immediately drew his sword and pointed it at Said. Two more people came up behind Said and pushed him to his seat.
"You feel humiliated, don't you?" Lan Zhen also stood up, with a slightly twisted smile on her face and said: "If you had surrendered when the Ming Dynasty sent troops to India, the Ming Dynasty would definitely treat you preferentially. But who
What if you were defeated and captured? Allowing your descendants to live is already a blessing from God. You still have to thank His Majesty."
"In India, we..." Before Said could finish his words, he was interrupted by Lan Zhen: "I know the rules of India." If he didn't know the rules of India when he just arrived in Bangladesh.
, but after so long and having captured countless Indian generals, he already knew the rules of India. But, "Why did the Ming Dynasty follow the rules of India? You have to know that it was the Ming Dynasty that destroyed the Delhi Sultanate in India and captured them alive.
You, not the Delhi Sultanate, destroyed the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains! Since you are now in the hands of the Ming Dynasty soldiers, you must abide by the Ming Dynasty's rules."
Said was silent for a while and then said: "After all, I am a king. I know that the Ming Dynasty also has a saying called 'taboo for the venerable', and the king should enjoy preferential treatment."
"So you can get the whole body." Lan Zhen said again with a smile. Then, he saw Said raising his head and looking at him again, and said sarcastically: "Even if Ming offers slightly better conditions, such as allowing you to live, you
He won’t surrender, so why would I put forward such conditions?”
"As a king, even if you are defeated and captured, you should receive preferential treatment!" Said said. Although he had made up his mind to die, he was very insistent on this point.
"Give you preferential treatment? Ha, if I give you preferential treatment, how can I explain it to the soldiers who died in India?" The smile on Lan Zhen's face gradually disappeared, and she said in a stern voice: "Before you talk to me, can you think about it?
Come on, how many soldiers of the Ming Dynasty died in your hands! I know what you want to say, soldiers are just inferior people and cannot be compared with you as the king, and other words. But in my opinion, you Indians, you are too powerful.
Believers, even those with the highest status, are not as good as the most ordinary Ming soldiers! Since you ordered the battle with the Ming army and resisted the heavenly soldiers, you have to endure what happened today!"
After hearing these words, the first thing Said felt was not humiliation, but surprise. He had heard similar words before, whether in India or in heaven, someone said that the life of the most noble pagan was
It was not as good as other Bon religion believers; but in actual implementation, no one would do this. Pagan kings and nobles were given preferential treatment. He had never seen such an "externally consistent" approach as the Ming Dynasty, and was surprised for a moment.
But what followed was even more painful humiliation and extreme anger. 'How dare someone do this to me!' he thought. But soon a sense of powerlessness emerged in him. Even if he was angry, what was the use?
Ming Guo is powerful enough to not care about any rules, and he is not afraid of death, but if he does not want to suffer more insults, he can only accept reality.
"I hope to be able to pass away in a few days, after the Guerbang Festival. And I hope that in these few days and after death, I can receive treatment equivalent to that of a Ming Dynasty king. I know that after being captured, Timur received treatment equivalent to that of an emperor.
treatment, and he was buried according to higher etiquette after his death," Said said.
Lan Zhen put a smile on her face again, but what she said made Said feel like he was trapped in an ice cave. "Dream! You will be executed tomorrow, and because you refuse to surrender, you will be publicly beheaded! You
All his children and grandchildren will also be executed!"
"I..." Said was completely panicked and wanted to surrender. But at this time, Lan Zhen was no longer interested in listening to him. She stood up and said with a smile: "You want to accept the terms of surrender? Haha, that's just
I said it to tease you, but you took it seriously. Take him down! Guard him with a few people and put cotton in his mouth. He must not die before his public execution tomorrow!"
"Yes, General Lan." Several people agreed, grabbed Said, tied him with a rope, took out a piece of cotton and stuffed it into his mouth, and took him out of the room. Said said "
He made a sound of "wuwu", as if he wanted to beg for mercy, but no general or prince looked at his expression. He could only be dragged away in despair.
"Hmph! Although he did not come up with the method of torturing the prisoners in front of the two armies, but as the king, he personally led the troops to rescue the city of Lahore. Without his order, how could anyone dare to torture the Ming soldiers? Since he dared to do it
With such an order, he cannot be spared. Do you still want to be respected by the king? Bah!" Zhu Shangbing stood up and said with a sneer.
"I can also warn all the foreign countries in India that the warring soldiers of the two armies have their own fate. The Ming Dynasty will not pursue it after the war. But if anyone dares to torture the captured people of the Ming Dynasty or capture and kill the people of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not spare him!
Zhu Gui also said.
"Have all Said's children and grandchildren been found?" Lan Zhen asked a soldier at this time.
"Sayed should have thirty-five children and grandchildren in Delhi at this time. Eighteen of them have been captured alive, twelve have been killed, and five of them have not yet been found." Pu Bing replied.
"Let the soldiers find these five people. But this is not very important. The priority is to find Salha. Tell the soldiers that whoever finds Salha will be rewarded with five hundred taels of gold!" Lan Zhen ordered.
"Yes, General Lan!" Pu Bing agreed excitedly, turned around and retreated.
After giving the order, Lan Zhen breathed out and was about to turn around to talk to Zhu Shangbing and others. Suddenly another soldier came over and said in a very panic tone: "General Lan, your highnesses, it's not good! It's about to happen."
I can’t stop His Highness Prince Pu!” (To be continued)
