Ji Changying tsk-tsk-tsked and patted Tal's face. "Why wouldn't I dare? Who do you think you are? I've got the person in my hands, and you're still not awake?"

Ji Changying's rebellious words made Tal's face red and neck thick with anger, and he felt very humiliated.

"Zhongli Zhou! We've been rivals for years, after all. How dare you allow your men to humiliate me like this? Aren't you afraid you'll fall into my hands in the future?"

Zhong Lizhou looked at him with a half-smile: "You misunderstood, this is not my subordinate, I can't control it."

This perfunctory answer made Tal glare at him. Seeing that he refused to give in, Ji Changying snorted coldly: "Brother! Give me your stinky socks and let him taste them first!"

Ji Mingxue was stunned for a moment, "Ah...? Oh!"

He was about to bend down to take off his shoes, and Tal's face immediately turned green.

He could die tragically or heroically, but he could never endure being humiliated and being laughed at at any time after his death. He never expected that he would fall into the hands of someone who did not play by the rules.

"You are simply unreasonable! Your methods are despicable, worse than a villain's, yet you dare to humiliate me like this!"

"You've been educated, and you can probably pronounce a few words. But you haven't studied much, and you're really failing at this. Those who achieve great things don't dwell on trivial matters. I'm going to teach you a lesson today!"

Ji Changying shook her head towards Ji Mingxue: "Come, let him taste your stinky socks."

Ji Mingxue suppressed the excitement in his eyes and said shyly, "I feel a little embarrassed to give him such a personal thing..."

The others looked at the brother and sister with blank faces, not knowing whether to sympathize with Tal for falling into their hands or to scold him and tell him that he deserved it.

Although they each have different positions, if they were in this situation, they would probably want to die immediately.

"If you dare to do this to me, you will definitely regret living in this world in the future!" Tal looked at Ji Mingxue with murderous eyes.

"Think about all the civilians you ordered killed over there. What's the big deal about eating a few stinky socks? I'm going to force you to drink some excrement and then walk you from here to there for your men to see!"

Ji Changying narrowed her eyes and signaled Ji Mingxue to hurry up.

Originally, Ji Mingxue was a little worried. Would their treatment of the barbarian general anger them?

But seeing that the prince did not stop his sister, and hearing Tal's threatening words, his eyes flashed with eagerness, and without any hesitation, he picked up the socks and was about to stuff them in.

Seeing that they were about to stuff the socks into his mouth, Tal knew that these two people were serious and not just trying to scare him.

What she just said, this girl can really do it!

By that time, even if he could survive, he would lose all his prestige when he returned to the grassland and would only be ridiculed by others, not to mention making his subordinates obey him. He would probably have to hand over all his power!

"Wait! I agree!"

Tal gritted his teeth and squeezed out these words.

The excitement in Ji Mingxue's eyes suddenly disappeared.

He had already planned to not wash these socks and just keep them as a gift. He would take them home with him and they would be enough for him to blow on for the rest of his life.

The result is now yellow.

"What a waste of feelings..." Ji Mingxue glared at Tal and withdrew his hand angrily.

Tal didn't want to pay any more attention to the two mentally ill siblings. He looked at Zhonglizhou and asked, "Do you mean what you say?"

"Of course." Zhongli Zhou suppressed the smile on his face. "How about this, let's go back to the pass together and wait for your people to release our people. Then I will release you."

Tal looked at him intently, "That's better. Otherwise, I have plenty of ways to die if I want to. I will never let you go before I die. Even if the whole city is buried with me, it's worth it." He said with a cold face, "I still want to live with dignity!"

But if he is pushed to the limit, the worst that can happen is that everyone will be destroyed and no one will have an easy life.

"certainly!"

Now both sides are restraining each other, and amidst the mutual vigilance, there is strange peace, and they are slowly moving towards the checkpoint.

Tens of thousands of barbarian troops came out of the pass and stood outside to confront the Liangzhou Guards, with the hostages from both sides all in the front.

"Let them release him!"

Zhonglizhou looked at the people on the ground, put on a serious face and asked Tal.

He said something incoherently to the army outside, causing a commotion among the barbarians. After a while, some people gradually loosened the shackles on the people.

After being released, the people were surprised and happy, and they knelt down and kowtowed to Zhongli Zhou to express their gratitude.

"Line up! Let them into the city!"

The Liangzhou guards immediately divided into two rows, standing side by side with spears in hand, leaving a passage in the middle for the people to pass. Seeing the road cleared, people rushed to the interior of the pass.

The barbarians stopped only when only a few hundred Tieling guards led by Zhang Ke and Duan Yunzheng were left.

"Once you release me, I will release these people myself. I want this and that too, but there's no such good deal!"

Tarlao was calm and collected. In his eyes, the people were nothing more than cattle and sheep that could be slaughtered at any time. However, releasing these soldiers would only add strength to Zhonglizhou.

"How about this! I'll capture you and we'll both leave the city to exchange, and then we'll release the person together."

Ji Changying stood aside and made a kind suggestion.

Tal glared at her. If it was someone else, he might have agreed, but when it came to this person speaking, he always felt that there was something wrong.

"No! Find someone to take me out!"

"Why are you so busy? Is there any place for you to talk?"

Ji Changying slapped Tal in the face with her backhand, "It's settled. I'll take him down!"

Tal was furious: "I will cut off your hand--"

Zhongli Zhou grabbed her arm and said, "Aren't you putting yourself in danger by doing this? You don't have to go to such lengths. Just leave the person to me."

"Leave it to you? Who among you can fight me?"

Ji Changying's simple rhetorical question made Chang Yu and several other soldiers' faces freeze.

Zhonglizhou tied up Tal tightly and said, "Chang Canjun, take the people to exchange for the hostages."

He glanced at Chang Yu, who immediately understood: "Yes!"

Since the decision has been made, Ji Changying let go at the right time.

She and Zhongli Zhou stood on the city wall and watched Chang Yu and others take Tal out of the city to exchange hostages.

Just at the moment when both sides let go, Tal suddenly jumped up, broke the rope on his body, and flew with a roundhouse kick to hit Chang Yu in the heart.

Zhang Ke and Duan Yunzheng, who had just been released, immediately turned around and resisted when they saw this.

At Zhonglizhou's signal, the Liangzhou guards inside the pass also rushed outside.

Tal fought one against two, forced back the two people beside Chang Yu and joined the cavalry that came over, jumped onto the horse's back and gestured for the men to retreat.

Looking at the Liangzhou guards chasing after him, he showed a smug smile on his face: "Zhonglizhou! You still lost 10% after all! Hahahaha!!!"