"Ah? Just the two of us?" Mu Guan was stunned when he heard it and stammered.
"Yes. Aren't they your people? They are so honest and pitiful, they will definitely not hurt you. They can't stand the cold, so you'd better go down quickly and tie them up to prevent them from freezing." Qiao Yu said.
"I..." Mu Guan was timid.
He sympathized with these people, but he didn't dare to go down alone with Chen.
What if someone suddenly attacked and hurt someone else? Especially with his mortal enemy Leng in the crowd. If Leng didn't want to live anymore, wouldn't he just go up to Leng and kill him, thus settling their feud?
"Chen?" Seeing Mu Guan hesitate, Qiao Yu looked at Chen.
Chen was also a little scared, his eyes wandered, and he didn't dare to look at Qiao Yu.
Qiao Yu was speechless.
Everyone has compassion, but it depends on the time!
She sympathized with the people trapped in the trap and felt they wouldn't resist, much less harm anyone. But who could say for sure? Unlike the people from the God Tribe above, who were temporarily incapacitated, they still had weapons, and there were so many of them, and they were united. In her opinion, they were even more dangerous than those from the God Tribe.
If you want to sympathize with such a person, it also depends on whether you have a strong enough life.
As the leader, she felt sorry for these people and ignored the rules she had set. She immediately handed over the ladder and sent people down. What if they killed the people who went down and then climbed up the ladder to kill a few more? How would she face the relatives of those who died in this way?
As the old saying goes: "A kind heart cannot command an army, and a good heart cannot be an official."
If she sympathized with one and couldn't bear to kill that in the war, she would end up like Xiang Yu, harming not only herself but also the 400 tribal people she led.
Although Ming, Mu Guan, and Chen had no ill intentions and didn't consider such things, they pleaded for mercy in front of everyone without considering her position. If she refused, she would appear particularly cruel, and Ming and Mu Guan would win the hearts of the people; if she agreed, she would appear unprincipled, and the discipline of war she had emphasized would become a bunch of nonsense.
This batch of captives was so large, over 300 in total. If she went to the God Tribe to capture those left behind, her population would instantly double that of the Dragon Tribe. Winning over these people would be no easy task. If she wasn't careful, someone could exploit public opinion to overthrow her and become the tribal leader themselves.
Although Qiao Yu is confident that she will not be killed with her abilities, under the instigation of public opinion, once the people in the tribe no longer believe in her, then her role as leader will be meaningless.
The human heart cannot stand the test.
Therefore, Ming, Mu Guan and Chen Zheng's actions put her in a state of turmoil.
Now, no matter how timid Mu Guan and Chen were, Qiao Yu would not allow them to retreat. As for Ming, he was an elder, so Qiao Yu couldn't ask him to set a trap and tie someone up.
"Why don't you hurry up?" She frowned and looked directly at Mu Guan and Chen. "They are your people. If you delay any longer, they will suffer even more down there. Can you bear to see them freezing?"
Mu Guan and Chen looked at Ming for help, but saw that Ming was looking away, pretending not to see their gazes. They suddenly felt very regretful.
In this war, although Qiao Yu stood on the city gate and did not personally attack the enemy, she was worried that everyone would fail because of mistakes. She explained every detail that needed to be paid attention to in this war, including how to disguise, the location of ambush, the timing of attack, when to come out to deal with prisoners after the war, how to prevent prisoners from suddenly attacking and injuring people, how to search people, and when to deal with enemies in traps. Everything was explained to everyone clearly.
In war, one must fully obey the orders and deployments of the generals and not act on one's own, something Qiao Yu repeatedly emphasized.
Qiao Yu has his own judgment on how to deal with the captives in the trap, so they should not interrupt and disrupt Qiao Yu's plan.
"Hurry up, go down." Qiao Yu urged again.
Mu Guan and Chen had no choice but to take the vine and hand the other end to Menghu and Shanshi, letting them hold one end of the vine and climb down along the vine.
"Wait." Qiao Yu was truly angry this time. He glared at the two of them and asked, "Have you forgotten what I told you?"
Mu Guan and Chen were stunned, not understanding what Qiao Yu meant for a moment.
Shanshi, however, reacted quickly and reminded them, "You haven't asked the people below if they are willing to surrender."
This was a process Qiao Yu repeatedly emphasized. During the interrogation process, observe the captive's emotions. If they were unwilling to surrender, or if they said "yes" but their expression and eyes didn't reflect the true intention, they would first need to find a way to dispel their resistance. They shouldn't just approach and tie them up. If persuasion proved impossible, they would be disposed of.
The principle is not to leave any consequences due to momentary impatience and put the entire tribe in danger.
Mu Guan and Chen then remembered this and quickly shouted to the people in the trap.
At first, those people seemed not to hear them and ignored them.
After the two men described their life in the Dragon Tribe and used the captives of the Stone Tribe as an example, saying that as long as they sincerely became members of the tribe and behaved honestly, they could live the life they were living now, the people in the trap responded.
"Really?" This was the voice of a young boy.
"Really." Mu Guan recognized the young man and called his name, "Ci, I'm Guan. You still recognize me, right? You know I never lie."
Seeing Ci remained silent for a long time, Shanshi and the others couldn't help but start to persuade him: "You survived the bullying of the God Tribe, so I guess you don't want to die. So why don't you lay down your weapons and give yourself a chance to see what the difference is between the Dragon Tribe and the God Tribe? What if what Mu Guan said is true?"
At this time, Leng raised his head, looked at Ming, then looked at Qiao Yu, and asked Shanshi and Menghu, "Who is your leader? I want to speak directly to your leader."
When Qiao Yu saw this, he laughed in his heart.
Look, who says you should sympathize with someone just because they're pitiful? Kindness isn't so easy to release. Leng guessed they wanted to use the captives to increase their population and would definitely be reluctant to kill these fifty or sixty people, so he was using this to negotiate with her.
Seeing that the group of people below did not accept their goodwill at all and instead acted as if they were negotiating, Ming Hechen and Mu Guan were all stunned, and then their faces became very ugly.
This is a slap in the face by one's own people!
Fortunately, they still sympathized with these people and kept speaking well of them, but in the end, they didn't believe them at all and even threatened to surrender to the leader of their Dragon Tribe.
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