Chapter 2258 Casualties (March Monthly Ticket Plus 9)
Lieutenant Nie counted the casualties before stepping forward with his knife in hand and kicking Erge away. He then pressed his foot against his head, leaning over and staring into his eyes. "I can catch you once, but can't I catch you a second time? You idiot, you should stay away from me."
Erge looked at him with red eyes, spat out a mouthful of blood, and said in a hoarse voice, "You think too highly of yourself. If you hadn't been lucky and managed to escape several times, do you think you could have made it into the desert alive?"
Nie Canjun was furious. Bai Shan, who had already bandaged the wounded and came over to check on the situation, said calmly, "Luck is also a kind of strength."
Erge raised his eyes to look at Bai Shan at General Nie's feet, grinned, and said to General Nie: "You only have brute force. If it weren't for those two, I would have killed you in Liangzhou."
Bai Shan said, "Although I'm very happy that you agree with me, you're wrong. Even if you weren't paralyzed by us and attacked us immediately, the more than 100 of us are not just for show. It's still uncertain who will live and who will die."
Bai Shan patted Lieutenant General Nie and said, "Don't step on him. It's pointless. The most urgent thing is to find out how he got out of the prison in Liang Province. Also, where did he get all these people? I remember Governor Duan said at the time that all the bandits in the mountain had been wiped out. Even if there were some left out, there shouldn't be so many, right?"
"I know!" General Meng, who had been sitting silently on the side, interrupted, "But can you heal my wounds first?"
Only then did everyone see that he had a cut on his waist and abdomen. He was pressing it, but his clothes were also stained.
Bai Shan was startled and said hurriedly, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? I can't handle this. Wait, I'll go find Manbao."
Manbao took a while to come. There was no other way. The patient she was treating was in critical condition, so she had to wait until she had dealt with the patient before she hurried over.
General Meng's face was a little pale, but he applied pressure properly and the bleeding had slowly stopped. The main reason was that the wound was not very deep.
Manbao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. He carefully undressed him and began to clean the wound. Bai Shan moved a torch over to light her way.
General Meng watched as the two men gathered in front of his stomach, discussing, "Luckily the cut wasn't deep or very long, otherwise it would have left an ugly scar."
Bai Shan: "Who will go to see his belly?"
Manbao: "His wife?"
"That's just her personal preference. Don't make wild guesses. What if she happens to like it? After all, it's a sign of her accomplishments."
General Meng: ...Can we not discuss this in front of him?
He simply hissed to indicate his presence.
Manbao, who was stitching him up, raised his head and looked at him, "Does it hurt?"
General Meng nodded and said, "It hurts."
"Of course it hurts," Manbao said, "How can it not hurt when you're bleeding so much?"
General Meng: ...He thought that by asking this she could help him stop feeling pain.
Manbao sped up, patched his stomach amid his hissing, and then applied hemostatic medicine. She left the bandaging to Bai Shan and turned back to check on the other injured.
Bai Shan saw that his eyes were following Man Bao's back, so he asked him, "Does it look good?"
General Meng nodded and said, "This Doctor Zhou is indeed worthy of his reputation. He is very brave and different from the young ladies I have met."
Bai Shan tied a knot, smiled at him and said, "She is my future wife."
The smile on General Meng's face fell, and he became serious. "Brother Bai, please don't misunderstand me. I don't mean anything else. I heard that Doctor Zhou is engaged, and it turns out to be Brother Bai."
Bai Shan smiled slightly and said, "I know, I'm just very happy that you agree with her so much. We are going to Gaochang, and we will go together. It will be easier for us to travel if we have a good relationship."
General Meng frowned, "How did you know we were going to Gaochang?"
He remembers that he didn't say it, right?
Bai Shan smiled and said, "Isn't that so? By the way, have their den of thieves been wiped out?"
His eyes slid across the soldiers he had brought with him and asked, "You came all the way from Yumen Pass, didn't you? You only brought these few people with you, did you?"
Of course not. They came to support Anxi. He brought a thousand soldiers with him, and the rest were behind him. These were cavalrymen. They rushed to rescue them because they knew they were here to chase the envoy team.
But how did Bai Shan know these things before he had the chance to say them out loud?
Bai Shan had already asked, "Just now, the Major General said he knew the origins of these horse thieves?"
General Meng finally came back to his senses and said, "Hmm," "The one leading the group is called Jin Kuian. He was originally a general under Ba Zhuo. He was once a slave and was promoted because of his extraordinary bravery."
Bai Shan had done some research before coming to the Western Regions and was quite familiar with the forces there. He understood immediately, "So after Ba Zhuo died, he became a horse thief?"
General Meng nodded. "Those two men you sent back were very stubborn. Even after being tortured, they refused to confess. However, they did reveal a lot of information during their conversations. Plus, since you mentioned meeting those people before, we kept an eye on them. We found out as soon as they entered the city."
General Meng said, "Later, we set a trap outside the city to capture them, but unfortunately, he escaped with a few people. We captured a few people at the time, and since there were so many people, we were able to get the truth without much torture."
General Meng glanced at Jin Kuian who was still in a coma, and actually felt a little sympathy for him. He had already learned from his subordinates what Jin Kuian had been going through during this period, which could be summed up in three words - bad luck!
He had never seen anyone with worse luck than him in his life. Really, he ran back and forth three times. He obviously didn't take the wrong route the first time, but he still missed the path with others.
General Meng was also frank. He pointed directly at Erge, who had a bruised face and many wounds on his body, and said, "This man was also Bazhuo's subordinate and a close confidant. When Bazhuo fled, he asked him to take away a batch of gold and silver, hoping that he would make a comeback in the future."
Jin Kui'an's men knew a lot, mainly because there was no need to hide such things. They went to Liangzhou for gold, silver and jewelry, and such a happy thing had to be publicized.
So many people knew the whole story, and when General Meng interrogated them, they told everything like a bamboo tube pouring beans.
He said, "He took a group of people with him back then, but they were quite scattered. When they arrived in Liang Province, Bazhuo was killed by the Tubo. When the news reached him, he hid the gold and silver. He was the only one who knew about it. Later, he joined a nearby horse caravan and became a horse thief with them."
(End of this chapter)
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