The master slave was slightly startled, then he looked up and found that the other person looked familiar. He paused for a while before realizing something: "Are you Saba? Yelu Saba?"
"It's me!" Saba sighed. "I never thought that we would meet each other in this life..."
Halfway through his words, Saba's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he stopped, looked at a short and sturdy Mongolian warrior beside him, and whispered something in Mongolian. Then, the Mongolian warrior who was drinking mare's milk raised his head and glanced at the group of surrendered people from Zhending like a wolf.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Hong Ya secretly cried out that it was not good, and immediately stood up to explain: "Don't misunderstand, fellow Mongolian generals. We were pardoned by Emperor Zhao himself. We are not fugitives. You can tell by our appearance, and we have nothing to do with the Fourth Prince... The Fourth Prince has been in Hutuo, Henan since the war... Tai Shi Nu just happened to be there."
The people around him woke up, became serious and responded one after another.
Even the Grand Tutor's slave had no choice but to hurriedly stand up and give a brief explanation under the Sixth Prince's gaze.
And Saba also translated honestly.
But unexpectedly, by the fire, after finding out the whole story, the Mongolian warrior asked Yelu Saba to relay an incredible but heartbreaking reply.
"My headman said that even if Emperor Zhao pardons you, we can't let you go." Yelu Saba swallowed his saliva. "We must leave ten or eight heads behind, so that we can tell Emperor Zhao that we dare not slack off and indulge suspicious people!"
Everyone's scalps tingled after hearing this and they could only go to see the Sixth Prince and Hong Ya.
At this point, the two knew they couldn't cover it up any longer, so Hong Ya stood up and revealed everything: "Don't kill people indiscriminately... This is the Sixth Prince of the Jin Kingdom who was previously stationed in Zhending. This time, he heard from Emperor Zhao that he wants to return to Yanjing to negotiate peace."
Yelu Saba quickly turned around to prepare for translation.
Unexpectedly, after hearing Hong Ya's words, the Mongolian warrior stood up and stared at Erluguan across the fire, gritting his teeth and saying, "I knew you looked familiar, but I never thought you were the Sixth Prince... Sixth Prince, it's been many years since we last met in Huining Mansion. You were still a kid then, right?!"
Erluguan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly stood up and asked: "Is it Hebula Khan?"
"Of course it's me." The lightly-armored Mongolian warrior, also known as Hebule, shook his head repeatedly. "What a pity, Sixth Prince, it has to be you. If it was someone else, it would be fine, but since it's you, I can't let you go easily... Because if I hadn't let you escape in Datong before, why would I have gone through so much trouble to come here to apologize to the Zhao Song government?"
Erluguan tried to ask, "What do you mean by not letting him go easily? Didn't Kublai Khan just hear it? I went to Yanjing to discuss peace on the orders of Emperor Zhao!"
"I know." Hebule suddenly grinned. "I won't kill you either... but no matter what, I have to take you back so that I can show Emperor Zhao that I have no intention of letting you go privately..."
"If that's all, I'll go with you again." Eluguan was completely helpless.
"How can it be so easy?" Hebule bent his bow and pointed his arrow at the other party, and then spoke coldly. "Since you have been pardoned by Emperor Zhao himself, Emperor Zhao must know your number, so this time we can only do our best to kill most of you and bring more heads with us! What do you think, Sixth Prince?"
After these words were spoken, there was a moment of silence around the fire. Starting from Eluguan himself, almost all the surrendered people from Zhending felt weak in the knees, while the surrounding Mongolian warriors bent their bows and held their swords, waiting for Hebula to shoot arrows before they could attack together.
The next thing that broke the silence was not Hebule's whistling arrows, but the words of Minister Hong Ya who, after realizing that the arrow was likely to be directed at him, said: "You can't kill me! I am the future prime minister of the Jin Kingdom appointed by Emperor Zhao! My position is as important as that of the Sixth Prince!"
But it was this sentence that directly started the massacre.
Halfway through his words, Hebule was slightly startled. Taking advantage of this opportunity, more than a dozen generals from Zhending who surrendered, led by Tai Shi Nu, suddenly turned around and tried to seize the horses of the Mongols nearby and escape, while the Mongols quickly took action on their own... Although both sides had no armor or long weapons, and were generally tired, the Mongols, armed with daggers and bows and arrows, were undoubtedly at an absolute advantage.
Bowstrings crackled and sword blades gleamed in the afterglow. Although a few of the Zhending surrendered warriors managed to escape, more of them were easily slaughtered by the Eastern Mongols beside the campfire.
After killing most of them, Eluguan and Hong Ya were tied up and placed on horses. When they looked up, they could see the heads of familiar faces placed on the sides and rear of the other horses.
The owners of these heads never imagined that the Zhao Song government did not kill them, but they suddenly lost their lives because of the absurd reason that a certain Mongol wanted to "show off".
"Sixth Prince."
When crossing the Zishui River again, Hong Ya on horseback could not help but speak to the Sixth Prince Eluguan who was not far away. "After the defeat, human life is worthless, and you and I are both like defeated dogs on the road... We should make peace if we can!"
In the gradually darkening twilight, Eluguan did not respond.
Then, at the second watch, Hebule arrived outside Zhending City after a hard journey. Then, according to Yelu Saba's previous "instructions", after informing him of his name and origin, he took off his clothes and knelt outside the north gate of Zhending City in the middle of the night with a horsewhip on his back.
"Why are you all working so hard?!" Although Emperor Zhao was very excited because of the acquisition of the Zhending treasury during the day, he was still a little angry after being woken up by Liu Yan and Shao Chengzhang. "Can't you just lie down and let me do whatever I want?"
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