"What?"

"I've surrendered. You've caught the wrong person. Let me go!"

Inside the military tent, Sha Dingzhou, Wan and others yelled at the Ming army around them.

Not only did the Ming army soldiers not listen to them, they tied the rope into a knot.

"You..." Sha Dingzhou was angry and annoyed, and looked up at Li Dingguo.

"Master Li, what is this for?"

"Yes, Lord Li," Wan shook her body and said in a coquettish voice, "Hurry up and tell them to stop. They are hurting me."

Wan's words made Li Dingguo's eyebrows twitch uncontrollably. He coughed lightly to cover it up and said, "Don't panic, everyone. Listen to me first."

After all the surrendered generals' eyes fell on him, Li Dingguo continued the previous topic: "Chen Changming said something before he died. He said that there are very few people who have self-knowledge. It's a pity that none of you have it."

"The court and Duke Mu have treated you well, but you have no intention of repaying them. Instead, you have rebelled and are planning to establish your own regime."

"But Lord Li, we have already surrendered, and you have accepted our surrender!" Wan said hastily, "Isn't it too dishonest to bring up the old crime again now?"

"Credit?" Li Dingguo snorted. "The court appointed you as chieftains to guard a region. Where is your credit?"

"Besides, although I have accepted your surrender, the court has not pardoned you. Before the imperial edict of pardon arrives, you are all guilty."

"The guilty should be tied up!"

Sha Dingzhou, Wan Shi, Xiong Yiju and others were speechless.

Although Li Dingguo was suspected of forcing his explanation, his arguments were well-founded and could not be refuted.

"Anything else you want to say?" Li Dingguo said with his hands behind his back.

Sha Dingzhou lowered his head and kept silent.

He has accepted his fate.

"Take him away!" Li Dingguo ordered with a cold face.

Sha Dingzhou and other generals were taken away.

"Sir Li, I have something to say!" Wan's voice rang out outside the military tent.

"Bring her in."

After a few breaths, Wan was brought in.

After she entered the military tent, she looked around first, then came three steps in front of Li Dingguo, knelt down and begged, "General...save me!"

There was sadness in her tender cry, which made people feel pity.

"It's no use begging me, only His Majesty can save you!"

"It's useful. General, just one word can save my life." Wan quietly changed her self-proclaimed name.

Li Dingguo said nothing, but waved his hand to signal the soldiers to take her away.

Wan was panicked.

The desire to survive made her throw away the last bit of shame, and she said loudly in front of everyone in the military tent: "As long as the general can save my life, I am willing to serve you like a slave."

The military tent was as quiet as water.

Everyone first looked at Wan jokingly, and then looked at Li Dingguo with envy.

Wan is so beautiful.

Most people can't handle this kind of behavior that comes right to their doorstep.

However, Li Dingguo was not an ordinary person.

He has ambitions in his heart and a journey under his feet, and he will not be affected by the woman in front of him.

Seeing that Li Dingguo still didn't give her a chance, Wan knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "I just want to survive, what's the harm in giving me a chance?"

Li Dingguo asked coldly, "You also know how to survive?"

"Don't the soldiers and civilians who died in the war want to live?"

"Duke Mu's mother, Chen, burned herself to death! His brothers Mu Tianze and Mu Tianrun died in battle, as did counselor Zhou Ding, West City Gate guard Chen Dajing, and chieftain Lu Yongming."

"Do they just want to die?"

"So many people died because of you, how can you have the nerve to say the word 'save lives'?"

Wan knelt on the ground in despair, crying bitterly.

"Take him away!" Li Dingguo waved his hand with disgust.

Two soldiers roughly lifted up Wan and took her out of the military tent.

After pacifying the surrendered soldiers and cleaning up the battlefield, Li Dingguo returned to the camp to rest.

"Lord Li," Chief Long Zaitian came over to the door of the tent.

"Is there something wrong?" Li Dingguo asked.

"Sha Dingzhou took away countless gold and silver when he left Prince Mu's Mansion. Today, when we cleaned up the Qigelong old village, we only found less than 500,000 taels of silver. The rest is missing. I want to interrogate Sha Dingzhou and his wife overnight to find out the whereabouts of the gold and silver."

"That's fine, just be careful not to hurt anyone."

"Don't worry, sir. I know what I am doing!" Tusi Long Zaitian skipped away.

He brought dozens of generals to the tent where Sha Dingzhou and his wife were imprisoned.

Sha Dingzhou and Wan were tied together, looking at each other in silence.

"You," Long Zaitian pointed at one of his men and said, "Take Sha Dingzhou to the tent next door. I want to interrogate Wan Shi myself."

Wan stared in horror, as if she understood what was going to happen next.

Sha Dingzhou was quickly taken away.

Before he was taken away, he heard the words he least wanted to hear: "Get out and line up. I want to be the first one... to be interrogated!"

The interrogation lasted a long time before it ended.

After waking up, Wan remembered nothing except that the moonlight that night was particularly bleak.

Two days later.

Li Dingguo led the army on the return journey with spoils and prisoners.

Outside the city of Yunnan, Duke Mu Tianbo of Qian and Governor Wen Anzhi led the military and civilians in the city to welcome them.

"Congratulations to General Li on his triumphant return. This achievement will surely go down in history!"

"Your Excellency, the Governor-General, have praised me too much. I, Li, do not deserve it!"

After the greetings, Mu Tianbo looked at the captives behind Li Dingguo.

Sha Dingzhou had long lost his former majesty and he stood there listlessly with his shackles.

"Sha Dingzhou, should you die?"

"Damn it, please spare my life, Duke Mu."

"Ha!" Mu Tianbo snorted coldly and ignored him.

"Who is this?" Mu Tianbo pointed at the second prisoner.

The second prisoner was a woman with disheveled clothes. There was no light in her eyes and she looked like she had lost her soul.

"This is Wanshi."

"Bah, you deserve it!" Mu Tianbo spat at her.

After scolding the prisoners, Mu Tianbo invited the soldiers to go into the city to rest.

Although the rebellion had been put down, the prisoners, the fate of the Ming army, and how to deal with the captured spoils became problems.

Mu Tianbo, Wen Anzhi and Li Dingguo got together to discuss and decided to write a joint letter to the capital.