"It's just these guys in total," Zhuangjiang said loudly. "When we caught up with them, they resisted fiercely, and several brothers were injured because of it. Fortunately, the crossbowmen arrived and they were allowed to fight.
Put down your weapons."
The rest of the prisoners were temporarily pulled down. There were a total of six or seven people wearing Xiliang armor standing in the open space. The eyes of Pei Zilie and others suddenly focused on these people.
Li Xingchen looked them up and down. One of them was a general, and the rest were soldiers.
"For your information, generals," a Nanchen commander ran over quickly, holding a eunuch's clothes in his hand, "We found this not far from the house in the middle, but there were no bodies around it.
I don’t know why there is a piece of clothing there for no reason.”
Pei Zilie took the clothes. Apart from being stained with some soil, there were no blood stains or holes. And a general had already dragged the young eunuch over. Pei Zilie threw the clothes directly to him: "Look at it.
, is it yours?"
The eunuch lowered his head and did not dare to speak. He stretched out his trembling hands to turn over his clothes and nodded quickly: "Yes, it belongs to the villain, it belongs to the villain!"
Li Xingchen and others immediately looked at each other subconsciously, and Xiao Shilian was the first to exclaim: "That means Xiao Kui must have changed his clothes?"
As he spoke, his eyes had already fallen on these people. Since Xiao Kui had even changed his clothes, the last problem was solved. The only thing left now was to remove Xiao Kui from these people.
Pull it out.
"Reporting to the commander, my subordinates have checked. The three on the right are the same as the previous soldiers. The four on the left have white hands with a little calluses. They are either new recruits who have never been on the battlefield, or...
"..." Chen Zhishen also came over at this time and said with his hands in his hands.
"That's interesting." Li Xingchen laughed and turned to look at the remaining four people, "Xiao Kui is in his thirties, these two here are very young, and the remaining two..."
"Shizhong, what nonsense are you talking to these guys?" Xiao Shilian snorted coldly, "As I say, just put the knife on the necks of those guys and let them identify them. If they can't identify them, just kill them directly.
If you drop it, someone will admit it."
Pei Zilie said in a deep voice: "These guards around Xiao Kui are all people who dare to die. It is definitely impossible for you to ask them to identify them. They might even identify a mistake for us..."
"You don't need to look for me, I am." Before Pei Zilie could finish speaking, one of them had already taken a step forward. The swords in the hands of Chen Zhishen and others were almost at the same time placed on the man's neck.
Pei Zilie waved his hand: "You all stand down, there is no need to make such a fuss."
Li Xingchen waved with interest, and several soldiers escorted the former royal relatives over. Li Xingchen grabbed a person casually, pointed at the person who stood up and said, "Is this Xiao Kui?"
The captured man's face twitched slightly. First he shook his head desperately, then nodded, but for some unknown reason, he shook his head again.
Li Xingchen directly pushed him aside, narrowed his eyes slightly, and then pulled the next person up. Just as he was about to speak, another middle-aged man who had been lowering his head slightly couldn't help it anymore and took a step forward.
, stretched out his arm to block the front of the person, slowly raised his head and looked at Li Xingchen, and said in a calm voice:
"Let them go, I am Xiao Kui."
Li Xingchen snorted, let go, and allowed the trembling "emperor relative" to stumble to the ground, and said lightly: "Should I call you a traitor or a false emperor?"
The middle-aged man reached out and unbuttoned his armor, revealing the inner lining embroidered with dragons, and said nonchalantly:
"I'm already a prisoner anyway, so what does it matter what the general calls me? I'm just curious, why is the general so sure that the person who stood up before was not me?"
Upon hearing Xiao Kui's question, Pei Zilie and Xiao Shilian also looked over curiously.
Li Xingchen also had a smile on his face and said helplessly: "Which emperor calls himself me?"
Suddenly everyone was stunned, and the middle-aged man who stood up for Xiao Kui had a look of unwillingness on his face, and immediately lowered his head in shame. But Xiao Kui held his head up and laughed loudly: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it,
I really didn’t expect it!”
"Finally we're done." Xiao Shilian breathed out, "Shizhong, what should we do with this guy?"
The eyes of everyone present suddenly became intense. Capturing Xiao Kui alive is a great achievement. Anyone who sees it has a share. Everyone present will benefit from it. Not to mention the glory of capturing the emperor of a country alive. Even if there is no merit,
It’s enough for everyone to show off for a lifetime.
"Lock him in the room first," Li Xingchen said in a deep voice, then turned to look at Pei Zilie, "After all, this place is in the north of Jiangling City. It is not suitable to stay for a long time. Let the brothers clean up. We'd better go south to Jiangling as soon as possible. Besides, the
fighting······"
"I will write a battle report now and send it to Jiangling City." Pei Zilie nodded.
And Li Xingchen looked at Xiao Kui: "Mr. Xiao, please."
Perhaps it was the word "Xiao Gong" that touched Xiao Kui, or maybe it was because he was still lamenting that he had become a prisoner. Xiao Kui just sighed softly, nodded slightly, and followed Li Xingchen. Obviously he had done this before.
I was mentally prepared to be captured, so I didn't make any unnecessary resistance at this time.
"Master, how do you think His Majesty will punish him?" Xiao Shilian looked at Xiao Kui's back curiously and asked in a low voice.
"This is not something you and I should worry about." Pei Zilie replied firmly, "At least we won't abuse him now, and we will have an explanation for His Majesty when we sacrifice prisoners in the future."
Xiao Shilian quietly sighed, and when he noticed Pei Zilie looking over, he hurriedly changed his expression, turned his head and shouted as if nothing was wrong: "You guys, hurry up and take these prisoners down, and the corpses of our own people have been restrained. When you hear
No!"
Pei Zilie smiled bitterly and shook his head. This boy was really becoming more and more shrewd. Of course, what he cared about now was not this, nor Jiangling City. He looked north subconsciously, and Pei Zilie couldn't help but frown.
Xiao Kui has been captured by them, and Jiangling City is just a turtle in the urn amid the encirclement of Nanchen's army. The only one who can still affect or determine the entire battle situation is Yuchi Jiong of Xiangyang, but he doesn't know this
What will this long-famous Northern Zhou veteran do?
Anyway, Pei Zilie was not naive enough to think that he would just sit back and do nothing. After all, the fire was burning Bei Zhou's eyebrows now!
This is what Pei Zilie has been trying to figure out before. Did Li Xingchen, who presented the strategy for the Western Expedition to the imperial court, guess something, or did he just feel that the Northern Zhou Dynasty really had no time to spare to go south?
This guy is really hard to figure out. Perhaps the only thing Pei Zilie can be thankful for now is that Li Xingchen is on his side.