The deputy general and the military advisor were startled and quickly turned their heads to carefully observe the people who were coming to support them.
Unexpectedly, the scene in front of them made their pupils tremble. They saw that the necks of the neatly arranged soldiers were all flashing with cold light. What else could it be but the tip of a knife?
Sure enough, the next second, Tianling's soldiers stood out from behind them with swords in hand.
"This, is this your plan?" The military advisor suddenly realized and looked at Zhao Yiming in disbelief.
The deputy general was furious and raised his sword to chop at him again, "You despicable villain, give me your life."
Unfortunately, this time he didn't even get close to Zhao Yiming and was captured by Jingyu.
"Put them all down and take them back."
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"Hahahaha, Brother Zhao is really resourceful! Originally, the other side had 10,000 more people than us, but as soon as you came, you wiped out more than 7,000 enemy soldiers that day, and captured thousands of them alive by yourself. Today, you brought back more than 2,000 people without any effort. Now the gap in numbers has been narrowed!" Zhou Haoqun couldn't help but said happily.
The deputy general also emphasized, "They have no food now. It seems that this battle will not last long."
Zhao Yiming shook his head, "It will still take some time. At least it will take us quite a while just to walk from Xijing Pass to the Western Liao Imperial City."
"The Imperial City of Western Liao? Could it be..." Zhou Haoqun and the deputy general were shocked. They looked at each other and their heartbeats suddenly quickened.
A place where prisoners of war are detained.
The first batch of prisoners of war initially thought that Zhao Yiming would execute them and even resisted. But later they saw that Zhao Yiming not only did not torture them but also gave them food, except for forcing them to do hard labor. In addition, their general did not send anyone to rescue them, so they gradually calmed down.
But with the arrival of the military advisor and deputy general, this peaceful state began to become restless.
They surrounded the military advisor and the deputy general and kept asking:
"Master Military Advisor, Master Deputy General, are you here to rescue us?"
"Did the general send you here?"
"Are we leaving now?"
"Master Military Advisor, Master Deputy General, why aren't we leaving yet..."
Faced with the soldiers' questioning, the military advisor and the deputy general blushed and were speechless.
In the end, the soldiers who came with him embarrassedly revealed the truth, "We, we were also captured by Tianling soldiers."
Upon hearing this, the originally noisy scene suddenly became quiet. Everyone looked at each other, and finally returned to peace again.
Seeing that the enemy wasn't coming to rescue them, the soldiers stopped talking and retreated to catch up on some sleep. They still had to work at daybreak! Today they had to fight to get some meat again.
The military advisor and the deputy general had barely closed their eyes when Tian Ling's soldiers came to wake them up with gongs and drums, "Hurry up, hurry up, don't dawdle if you want to eat."
Since there were new people joining today, the Tianling soldiers who were in charge of the prisoners of war specially divided them into groups. The military advisor and the deputy general were assigned to two teams of five people respectively.
The city wall of Xijingguan has been almost repaired. The task assigned to them today is to help the people repair their houses, which includes picking up tiles, building walls, chopping firewood, etc.
The military advisor was originally a scholar, and he also considered himself a pillar of Western Liao. Naturally, he was unwilling to condescend to do such menial labor for the common people of Tianling.
While the other four were sweating profusely, he stood by with his arms behind his back and watched coldly. He thought that his behavior would anger the guards and he would suffer some hardships. He was mentally prepared to sacrifice his life, but he didn't expect that the guards said nothing and just lowered their heads to write and draw on a small booklet.
The military advisor was confused by this abnormal scene. After thinking for a moment, he just thought that the other party wanted to settle the score later, so he continued to do as he pleased, but did not notice that the four people in the same team seemed to be hesitant to speak.
It was not until noon that the guards took him back to the prisoner gathering area. The four people in the same group were given lunch, but he was the only one who didn't even get to touch the bowl and chopsticks.
He had not had enough to eat every day when he was in the Western Liao camp, and he had gone out to rob food last night, so the little food he had eaten before was long gone. Now the aroma of the food kept hitting his sense of smell, making him feel even hungrier.
Seeing everyone holding their bowls and eating with big mouthfuls, especially seeing that the portions were quite large, the feeling of hunger instantly overcame his little bit of dignity, and he could no longer hold back and argued with the Tianling soldiers who were guarding him.
"Why do everyone have food to eat, but I don't?"
The soldier disdainfully imitated the way he had put his hands behind his back earlier and said, "Everyone else was working this morning, and you were the only one standing there with your hands clasped behind your back."
The military advisor choked and was speechless. It seemed like someone had said in the morning that he had to work before eating.
At this moment, his teammate couldn't help but speak up, "Master Military Advisor! We could have eaten rice and meat after working so hard today, but because you didn't do anything, we have to eat only these coarse grains."
Before the military advisor could react, another person in the same group said something that hit him even harder, "Why don't you just not be in our group this afternoon?"
So he is being disliked?
The discomfort of hunger and the disgust of his companions immediately made him angry and furious, but as proud as he was, how could he be willing to show weakness in front of these people who used to look up to him.
He pointed at them and started cursing, "You spineless people, didn't the Tianling people just give you a bite to eat and you forgot your roots?
You are committing treason, a grave crime, punishable by the death of your entire clan."
The scolded Western Liao soldiers were stunned, and immediately thought of their relatives who were still far away in Western Liao, and they couldn't help wiping away their tears.
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