Chapter 835: Deception in the interrogation
A rustling sound quietly faded away outside the tent. The three people who suddenly disappeared were not discovered immediately, because there were too many people going out to the toilet at night, and no one would pay attention to when someone went out and when they came back.
At this time, the dozen militiamen led by Xun Ge'er and the three captured grassland soldiers had arrived at the forest they had agreed on in advance, which was the place where Tiezhen and Yang Feng had met before.
According to the prior agreement, the three groups tied up the people and each found a secret open space for interrogation. This could prevent the three grassland soldiers from colluding with each other, and they could also use the advantage of not being able to see each other to deceive them. The most important thing is that after the three parties have finished the interrogation, these militias can verify the results with each other to prevent someone from lying about the results.
Xun Ge'er's interrogation started quickly. The captured grassland soldier was tied to a tree trunk, and the five militiamen in front of him did not make any cover-up, because they had no intention of letting these guys go back alive, so it didn't matter if they saw their faces.
When the grassland soldier who was caught by them recognized that the person who caught him was a militiaman in the same military camp, he was immediately shocked and angry. He couldn't understand why these militiamen treated him like this, so he could only hum and shout to attract others' attention, because from the time, he felt that he was not very far away from the camp.
But how could Xun Ge'er give him this opportunity? He commanded the other four militiamen and said,
"Cover his mouth with animal skins. You, tell him in grassland language that we just want to know something. You must tell the truth when asking him anything, otherwise we will kill him here today."
One of the militiamen stood behind the tree and covered the man's mouth. Another militiaman who could speak grassland language stood in front of him, while relaying Xun Ge'er's words, he gestured at the grassland soldier with the hatchet in his hand.
This guy was originally timid, and after being frightened like this, his legs suddenly became soft. If he hadn't been tied to the tree, I'm afraid he would have fallen to the ground.
When Xun Geer saw that the grassland soldier was so scared, he couldn't help but started laughing, and said to his companion who was acting as an interpreter.
"You go and ask him, where did the thousands of people sent by our Xin tribe at the beginning of the year hide? Were they killed and then blamed on the Han tribe, so that they could covet our wealth?"
"Ah? You can ask like this?!" The little friend who acted as an interpreter was stunned for a moment.
"Oh, I just want to trick him, you listen to what he says first." Xun Geer said with a confident smile.
"Okay, then I'll try, Xun Ge, you are so smart." The little interpreter agreed, and couldn't help but praise him. He couldn't help but admire him in his heart. It turned out that interrogation could be done in this way.
After the interpreter recounted what Xun Ge said, the grassland soldier who was asked the question suddenly struggled in panic, his face full of grievances, and he struggled with his mouth, as if he wanted to defend himself.
Xun Ge'er immediately stretched out his hand to pinch his neck, pointed at this guy's nose and said, I will let you go later, if you dare to shout or scream, watch carefully, I will definitely strangle you to death before you shout. As he said this, he pinched the grassland soldier's neck as a demonstration, and almost suffocated the guy to death on the spot.
After the grassland soldier nodded to indicate that he understood, Xun Ge'er loosened the burlap that blocked his mouth. The grassland soldier hurriedly explained, and his companions next to him began to translate in real time.
"No, it's not what you said. We really didn't kill your people. At that time, the Han tribe used the sky punishment weapon. The iron balls shot from several miles away flew everywhere, and when they flew into the crowd, there was immediately a lot of blood and flesh flying.
Our coalition army has suffered heavy losses and started to flee. How could they have time to deal with your people? I ran relatively late at that time and saw that your more than 2,000 bamboo armor soldiers were all surrounded by the Han army. I don’t know what happened later, but I think that if those people were not killed by the Han army, they must have been captured and made slaves by them. It is definitely impossible for them to come back.
Damn it, Xun Ge’er, it is really as you said. They really took the more than 2,000 people sent by the commander-in-chief to fight with the Han tribe. "
The companion in charge of translation finished translating what the grassland soldier said, and did not forget to complain about it himself, which was considered to be the matter of the grassland people and the commander-in-chief colluding with each other to fight with the Han tribe.
However, in order to confirm his previous speculations, it would not work just to rely on these few words just now, so he heard Xun Ge’er say again.
"Ask him, when the Han tribe attacked, why did they only care about running away and ignore our more than 2,000 troops? Did they do that on purpose, just to use the Han tribe to get rid of our people so that they could take the spoils alone. "
The translator repeated Xun'er's words again. The grassland soldier who was interrogated was so aggrieved that he almost cried. He couldn't help but complain in his heart, and he took the spoils for himself? We didn't even touch the hair of the city wall, where did the spoils come from?
Oh, yes, if the artillery shells fired can be considered spoils, they did suffer a lot.
But they still have to defend themselves. After all, they are afraid of death.
"Brother, you really misunderstood. Before the attack on Kaiyuan City, our leader had agreed with an elder on your side that we would provide most of the troops, and you, the Xin tribe, would provide weapons and bamboo ladders. If we can break through the city, we will share the Han army's equipment equally between the two sides, and the population in the city will also be divided equally. You have the majority of various craftsmen, but we want more ironware.
There was no problem in our discussion, but we didn’t even get to the city wall that day. The Han army lined up outside the city to fight, and suddenly a super powerful long-range weapon appeared. We were dispersed before we even got close to the city wall. We didn’t even have time to escape. And you mentioned dividing the spoils, but there were no spoils, so how could we divide them?”
At this point, there was no need for Xun Ge’er to elaborate, everyone already understood what was going on. Xun Ge’er had a set of interrogation skills. He did not ask directly, but used rhetoric to disguise himself as knowing part of the story, and tricked the guy into telling the whole truth.
As expected, in order to save his life and prove that his side had not harmed their companions from the Xin tribe, the grassland soldier did not want to provoke a conflict between the grassland people and the Takeshima people at this tense juncture . He immediately explained the whole story and the whole incident, blaming the Han tribe for the annihilation of the group of people sent by Commander Xin.
This directly proved that all the conjectures that Brother Xun had told everyone before were true.
The commander-in-chief really wanted to obtain the technology of the Han tribe, so he colluded with the grassland people to plunder the city of the Han tribe. The two sides even discussed how to distribute the craftsmen and other technical personnel in the city after the victory. What they didn't expect was that the Han tribe, which had built a strong city, actually abandoned the city and ran to the open space outside to fight them, and even won. This was very speechless.
However, the fact that the commander-in-chief sent people to collude with the grassland people to rob the Han tribe first has been confirmed by this grassland soldier. In this way, Brother Xun's first step of the plan has been achieved.
(End of this chapter)
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