Chapter 2260: Fraud (March Monthly Ticket Plus 11)
General Meng was startled and sat up straight, his wound causing a hissing sound. He asked in pain, "What?"
After asking, he immediately stared at Jin Kuian.
Jin Kuian's expression was calm, but General Meng could still see the momentary shock in his face, coupled with the slightly widened look in his eyes just now...
General Meng immediately looked up and exchanged glances with the shocked Lieutenant General Nie. They both said, "Rest for one night, and we'll leave tomorrow."
Lieutenant Nie turned to look at the prisoners and said with a deep gaze, "Let's deal with them all tomorrow morning."
Bai Shan frowned slightly and wanted to stop him, but General Meng spoke first, "No, they are already prisoners, we can't kill them."
Nie, the military officer, said, "With a powerful enemy at hand, keeping these people will do more harm than good. Once their reinforcements arrive, they'll turn around and attack us..."
"Just recruit them," General Meng said, looking up at him intently. "These prisoners have been captured. Killing them again would be a violation of imperial law."
But who would know about killing prisoners on the battlefield unless someone specifically reported it?
He hadn't asked them all to follow suit yet.
Bai Shan coughed lightly and said, "You can try to convince them."
"Just because they say so, we're going to believe it? What if they suddenly turn against us?"
Bai Shan said, "Don't you always need cannon fodder when you're dealing with the enemy camp?"
This is indeed not a violation, General Meng stopped talking.
General Nie still didn't want to keep those prisoners, but General Meng said so, and Bai Shan also agreed. Bai Shan agreed, and Zhou Man naturally agreed with Bai Shan. After all, she was the chief officer, and to a certain extent he still had to listen to her.
General Nie stopped talking.
General Meng, feeling he had won, softened his expression and explained, "General Nie, our General Zuo is a Turk. If he knew we massacred prisoners in the Western Regions, not only you and I, but also my father would be held accountable."
Only then did Lieutenant General Nie remember General Zuo Ling. He sighed and nodded, "Alright."
However, they did not take all the prisoners away. General Nie glanced at the remaining soldiers and decided to leave all the seriously injured horse bandits behind tomorrow.
Without food, water and horses, they probably wouldn't survive long. It would be no different from killing them. The key is that they don't have to do anything.
Manbao treated Jie Chen's ruptured wound. Fortunately, he did not suffer any new injuries, which was good news.
She stood up and twisted her aching neck, then asked Zhou Liru to treat the injuries of the horse thieves.
Zhou Liru didn't think anything of it and went over with the medicine box. However, Liu Huan was stunned and grabbed her and asked, "No, you still want to treat the horse thieves' injuries?"
Man Bao said: "Even if we save the medicine and don't use it on them, at least treat the wound. Suturing it will not only stop the bleeding quickly, but also heal quickly."
She is a doctor. She can't just watch people bleed to death in front of her, right?
Zhou Liru couldn't bear to watch, so the two of them went to treat their wounds. Bai Shan saw this and asked Bai Erlang and the others to go and help, saying, "They all know some Chinese, so tell them more about Princess Jinjiang's husband."
"Princess Jinjiang?" Bai Erlang, who had been asked to recite the royal family relationship chart a while ago, thought hard before remembering, "Oh, General Si Li from the Left, what did he say?"
Bai Shan said quietly, "He is a Turkic."
Shirojiro:......
Yin Huo laughed and said to Bai Erlang, "Let's go. He wants to surrender."
But I'm afraid we can't recruit enough people in one night.
However, they still won their favor by staying up late to treat people's injuries and stop the bleeding, and the originally tense situation eased a lot.
Manbao was busy for half the night. In the end, he simply washed his face and hands, took off his coat, and fell asleep in the car.
The others are similar.
The next morning, Mrs. He and her friends prepared some dry food, and they were ready to set off immediately after eating.
Manbao and his men gave up their carriages to the seriously wounded soldiers. As for the bodies of the fallen soldiers, Lieutenant General Nie had a large pit dug to bury them. He was not sure whether the sand pit would be moved and whether the bodies would be exposed again later, but at least they were still fresh and would not be eaten to pieces by wolves.
General Nie put away their signs, turned around and left.
Manbao and others were riding on their horses. They also looked back and then rode away.
Erge, Jin Kuian and others were thrown into a car, and General Nie left behind many seriously injured prisoners. No one objected. They were surprised enough that they did not kill all of them but took some of the prisoners with them on the road.
If it were them, they would kill all the men and take only the women.
But... looking at the bandages on their bodies, the prisoners didn't know whether they should be moved. Anyway, their emotions were very complicated and they didn't want to talk for the time being.
Manbao and Baishan didn't have time to think about these things right now, so they didn't dwell on sentimentality for long. They rode their horses and walked on either side of a carriage with General Nie. General Meng leaned against the carriage and spoke to them, "If reinforcements from Tibet really arrive, just run for your lives. We'll block them for you."
Manbao looked very touched, "General Meng is indeed a man of high moral character."
General Meng raised his hand and said, "How dare I accept such praise?"
He said, "We can't let you civil servants and a bunch of students go into battle and kill the enemy, can we?"
Nie, the lieutenant general, complained to him, "Since General Meng has brought a thousand soldiers, why doesn't he bring more?"
"Most of the troops left at the checkpoint are infantrymen. I'm going to chase you, aren't I? If we ride at full speed, how could they possibly catch up?" General Meng said, "I'd rather return to the checkpoint. We can lighten our luggage and return in two days, but it will take at least three days to get to Gaochang from here. And..."
He glanced disdainfully at the carriage loaded with luggage and said, "You have too much baggage. At this rate, it will take at least four days to reach Gaochang."
Bai Shan said expressionlessly, "It would take two days to go south from here. I'm afraid we'll run into Tibetan reinforcements. And if we go north from here, I think it will take time for them to catch up."
"There are people I left behind at the checkpoint."
"What if there are too many reinforcements and you can't hold on?" Bai Shan said, "It will be too late to ask for help from the Anxi Army then."
And how stupid was he to run for his life in the direction of the Tibetan reinforcements?
What if they encounter Tibetan reinforcements before they return to the checkpoint?
This possibility was still very high, even General Meng did not dare to pat his chest and say that there was no danger. General Nie did not need to think about it and directly chose to go to Gaochang.
A good horse never turns back, and a good man naturally won't turn back. He is not that stupid. If he goes back, he will have to go to Gaochang again afterwards, right?
(End of this chapter)
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