Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 59 Exchange Conditions
All the Beirong soldiers who surrendered were imprisoned in Dazhai.

Among them, Gu Lilie was held incommunicado, with four soldiers guarding him all the time.

When Su Yuan and Chu Changning arrived, he was closing his eyes and muttering something in a low voice, as if he was praying.

"What, do you want some god to save you?"

Su Yuan's voice made Gu Li violently open his eyes.

He stared at Su Yuan, his originally handsome face became distorted due to extreme hatred.

"You are Su Yuan!"

"good."

This was the first time the two met, Gu Lilie looked at the extremely young Su Yuan, and couldn't accept it in his heart.

"Where did you get so many soldiers and horses!" He shouted, "Even Su Tufeng doesn't have that many cavalry!"

This is the question he is most concerned about, and it is also a question that is hard to solve.

Su Yuan didn't answer his thoughts, and sat on the chair brought by Chu Changning: "What does this have to do with you, a prisoner?"

"you!"

Gu Lilie wanted to stand up, but his whole body was bound tightly and he couldn't move at all. He could only stare at Su Yuan with fierce eyes.

After staring for a few seconds, he suddenly said: "You want to avenge your father, right? Then kill me! The warriors of Beirong are never afraid of death!"

"The warriors of Beirong are not afraid of death? Haha."

Both Su Yuan and Chu Changning laughed.

This completely angered Gu Lilie. He could accept defeat, but he could never accept insult.

"What are you laughing at!"

"Of course your joke is too funny." Su Yuandao, "I'm not afraid of death, why did half of the Beirong soldiers in your camp surrender, huh?"

"..."

Gu Lilie's eyes widened, but he was speechless.

"Don't worry, you want to die, but I won't fulfill you so soon."

Looking at Su Yuan's expression, Gu Lilie suddenly had a bad feeling.

"You... what do you mean? Don't you plan to avenge your father!"

"Revenge must be avenged, but killing you with a single knife is not enough." Su Yuan raised his finger to the north, "I want you to see with your own eyes how Bei Rong completely disappeared from this world. By then It must be very happy to end your little life again."

"Su Yuan! I'll kill you!!!"

Gu Lilie was furious, but incompetent.

In his anger, there is more fear and despair.

As the "intelligent and brave" third prince, after this battle, he knew very well that Bei Rong could not resist Su Yuan's fierce cavalry.

Once Su Yuan continued to advance northward, the Beirong might really fall into a doomed situation.

Absolutely not!
Gu Lilie clenched his teeth, his brain was running fast, thinking about how to stop this from happening.

Su Yuan had already turned around to leave, but when he was about to leave the account, Gu Lilie suddenly shouted: "If you don't do that, I will tell you a piece of confidential information!"

"Confidential information? Not interested."

"It's about your parents! Don't you want to know who really killed them?"

Su Yuan stopped abruptly.

He turned around and looked at Gu Lilie: "What do you mean by that?"

Seeing that Su Yuan was interested, Gu Lilie sneered and said, "It seems that you want to know, that's very good, exchange."

"exchange?"

"I know that you will not let me go, and I will not beg you. But my condition is that you return all the Beirong warriors who surrendered to Beirong! Then I will tell you."

"Do you think you are qualified to negotiate terms with me?" Su Yuan said lightly.

"That depends on whether you really want to avenge your parents." Gu Lilie calmed down and assumed a negotiating posture.

"My lord, this person is full of tricks, don't trust him!" Chu Changning reminded Su Yuan from the side.

"Hmph, it's about the lives of my Beirong warriors, I will never lie." Gu Lilie looked at Su Yuan, "To prove what I said is true, let me tell you something first... Both you and your father think your mother is Because of the obsession in practicing kung fu in the early years, he left behind a hidden disease, and later died because of it, right?"

As soon as these words came out, Su Yuan's eyes immediately became sharp.

His mother became obsessed with practicing kung fu, and only he and his father knew about it. Others only thought that his mother died of illness, and they didn't know about it at all.

Gu Lilie is a Beirong man, how did he know it?

"Looking at your eyes, I should be right. Why, are you going to do this exchange?" Gu Lilie paused, "If you want to torture me and force me to speak out, then you can try it, look at me Gu Lilie can't stand it!"

Su Yuan narrowed his eyes, nodded after a while and said, "I can put the captive back."

"I don't believe you! You have to put the person back first, and then let the envoy of Beirong tell me. I'm sure you will only tell you after you have released him!"

Gu Lilie was very shrewd and didn't want to give Su Yuan the possibility of cheating.

Coming out of the big tent, Chu Changning said worriedly: "Your Majesty, do you really want to let people go back? We captured nearly [-] Beirong soldiers. If we let them go back..."

"Changning, didn't I just say in the tent that I will make Beirong disappear. But I don't mean to kill all Beirong people, do you understand?"

"The subordinates understand that the meaning of the prince is to let the 'country' of Beirong disappear."

"good."

"But the King of Beirong, he will definitely not agree."

"The result is the same whether he agrees or not, but before that, I have to win Mozhou first."

Although Su Yuan attacked Wansheng's camp, he did not intend to continue northward to attack Beirong.

On the one hand, Beirong, as a nomadic people, is scattered too widely, unlike the people of Dazhou, most of them live in county towns and villages. It would be too time-consuming to attack them one by one.

On the other hand, taking Mozhou first will also help consolidate his rule over the Northland, and open the door for both southward and eastward exit.

Therefore, he is not in a hurry to eat Bei Rong's dish.

"People can be released, but it's definitely not for nothing." Su Yuan thought for a moment and said, "King Bei Rong, you have to pay some price anyway."

Su Yuan returned to the commander's tent and summoned the messenger Zhang Qian.

"My lord, what are your orders?"

After Zhang Qian with thick eyebrows and big eyes appeared, he immediately asked respectfully.

"Zhang Qian, I want you to go to Beirong as an envoy, meet the king of Beirong, and negotiate with him about the return of his prisoners."

"My lord, what price do you plan to make King Beirong pay in exchange for the captives?"

"What does Beirong have?" Su Yuan shook his head, "Gold, silver and jade are nothing, we only need their cattle, sheep, livestock, dried meat and food."

"Yes, my lord." Zhang Qian expressed his understanding.

At this time, the sky was bright and the sun was rising from the sky, Su Yuan couldn't help yawning.

After tossing all night, he was really tired.

"You go now, I'll send a hundred soldiers to accompany you with full guards."

Su Yuan was not worried that the king of Beirong would kill Zhang Qian, unless the king was confused and wanted the life of an envoy instead of his [-] captives and his son.

These hundred guards were more to prevent Zhang Qian from encountering some unreasonable sand bandits who killed people and robbed them.

"Thank you, my lord, Zhang Qian will set off now."

Watching Zhang Qian leave, Su Yuan also went back to Beifeng City, fell asleep at the mansion.

He slept until the afternoon, and just as he woke up, he saw Shen Lian rushing over.

"My lord, news came back from the brothers in the capital that the emperor has issued an imperial edict about your rebellion."

(End of this chapter)