My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 585 News about Zhang Jiao

In the incomplete corner of the hall, the cold wind was pushing in, causing the bonfire in the brazier to sway.

"I want to ask you if you know where a man named Zhang Jiao is being imprisoned by you."

In the main hall, Su Chen stood up from the table and looked at the dark-skinned figure coming in. This was the prisoner Le Jin and the others had captured.

The opponent was wearing a hooded cloak. The cloak was now in tatters and the hood had been pulled down, revealing his bare head.

Following the voices above, Baddeli secretly looked at the Easterners who were looking around him. His legs were trembling slightly as he stepped forward. Even though he had seen the world, in such an environment, anyone would be able to do it. nervous.

Then, his eyes finally returned to the Eastern Emperor on the Satsuma throne.

As an enemy, the other party was too young. He heard from his teacher that the East was a powerful empire, and the emperor who ruled there should be a mature and steady man in his forties.

However, what fell in his eyes was so young, even though the other person looked majestic and solemn, with such power that it was difficult to look directly at him.

However, Baddeley knew very well that no matter whether the opponent was young or old, the one who decided this war was the Eastern man standing in front of the throne, and the entire palace was filled with Eastern generals who could destroy everything.

They actually attacked here from the east. They heard that the entire Satila to Hasai City, the Samo people to the Sakprut people were all slaughtered.

Not long after, a man who looked like an official walked up to him and translated the Eastern emperor's words using common Western language that was not very pure.

"Zhang Jiao?"

When Baddeley heard the name, his expression was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the other person was not asking about military secrets, but a person's name.

He knew some of this name.

Now, the other party wanted to know. Baddeley pursed his lips and looked at the ground without saying a word.

On the throne, Su Chen waited for a long time, but did not see the other party speak, so he said to the generals with great interest: "It's a pity that Junchen, my jester, didn't come with me."

"Your Majesty, you might as well let me come. I still know a thing or two about prison."

An Lushan stepped forward from behind Lejin and the others, with a belly as big as Dong Zhuo's. The reason why he volunteered was not because he could really pry open the mouth of this black barbarian from the West, but because he habitually seized the opportunity and wanted to show his ability in front of the emperor.

Whether it works or not is another matter, at least let the emperor have an impression of him first.

The translator there once whispered to Baddeley: "Your Excellency, if you don't speak, you will soon enjoy the torture from the East. Did you see the general who just came forward? He is very good at torture. "

The clerk's words were simple, but many. Along the way, he also introduced the powerful connections and the Emperor of Xia in front of him.

The more Baddeli listened, the more his eyes widened. He thought Emperor Sakprut was young enough, but he didn't expect that the Eastern emperor in front of him was actually less than thirty.

Baddeli felt a little bad when he heard that the other party was eighteen years old, commanded eight hundred people, conquered the vast territory in the east after several years of war, and was also conquering the countries above the sea and wiping them out.

He unconsciously compared the Eastern Emperor in front of him with Emperor Sakprut.

I once followed my teacher Lothar and met the emperor several times. When I compared it, I found that the Eastern Emperor in front of me was bigger than Emperor Sakprut.

I heard from the literary official that this Eastern Emperor had the ability to reach the sky. He could take the enemy's head out of thousands of troops with his bare hands, and he could even make meteorites fall from the sky. This was how the capital of the Japanese Kingdom on the East China Sea was destroyed.

Although Baddeli had not seen such rumors in person, he believed it in his heart. After all, Emperor Sakprut also had brilliant achievements and some methods that ordinary people could not understand.

After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly discovered that the Eastern Emperor was very similar to Emperor Sakprut.

The teacher also stayed with Dadi for a while.

He had also heard many rumors about the Great Emperor, especially the twelve knights, six nobles, four generals, and two commanders under the Great Emperor's throne.

Moreover, there were many mythical things in the rumors. Baddeli couldn't help but think of the Sword in the Stone that his teacher Lothar mentioned before.

But what’s even more amazing is that the emperor had just risen. When he encountered a strong enemy and fled, the river that blocked the road was parted in his hands, and he allowed the defeated army to pass through the river bed and reach the other side...

In the subsequent war, knights, nobles, generals, and commanders whom he had just known came to join him one after another. From a small seaside town in the northwest, they fought their way to the south step by step. The Samo people also fell into the sand before the soldiers.

Until they encountered the army from the east and came over unexpectedly.

As for the Zhang Jiao that the Emperor of the East is asking about now, Baddeli has seen him before, and only met him once in a while. He heard that he has magic power. The prophet Moses needs this person, and his teacher Lothar has set a trap. , attracted the two of them, and used a stone given by the prophet Moses to restrain their magic power. However, the old man named Zhang Jiao was extremely brave even without his magic power, and killed more than twenty people who besieged them. , was caught by a big noble.

Now the Eastern Emperor himself committed suicide and massacred the city all because of that old man. Now that he thought about it, the other party valued him so much, and Emperor Sakprut also imprisoned people in Nongma. I don't know if it was a blessing or a curse.

To say or not to say?
Baddeley knew very well that if he didn't speak harshly, he would most likely be dragged down and chopped by the other party, and then his head would be hung on the city wall like the barbarian soldiers, allowing vultures to peck at him while his body would be buried in the soil. The pit gradually rotted and turned into bones.

When he thought of this scene, Baddeley suddenly shuddered.

What he could do to take advantage of the opportunity to escape was a person who cherished his life. How could a person who cherished his own life be so tight-lipped and strictly guard secrets?

The clerk on the side saw that he lowered his head and said nothing, but he seemed to understand from the look on his face. He smiled and said softly: "Compared with death, living is the meaning of life, and you have only two choices now, either live or die. , there is no other choice for you.”

Over there, Su Chen was sitting on the throne, waiting a little impatiently, and his burly and strong body stood up.

Standing in front of the throne like a mountain, giving Baddeli an invisible sense of oppression. The Eastern emperor, wearing an imperial robe with black background and white dragon pattern, slowly raised his hand. Baddeli's eyelids twitched. My heart clenched.

Seeing that Su Chen was about to open his mouth to speak, Baddeley did not dare to hesitate anymore. He gritted his teeth and saluted forward quickly: "I'll tell you!"

He squeezed out a little voice to respond to the Emperor of the East. The clerk on the side smiled and translated the other person's words: "Your Majesty, this black barbarian is willing to speak."

Su Chen slowly lowered his hand, opened his mouth and said, "Ask him, does he know where Zhang Jiao is..."

"Back to Your Majesty, this barbarian said that the Imperial Guard is in Nongma City, in the far west." After asking Baddeley, the clerk's face changed when he heard the news about Zhang Jue, and he hurriedly said to the emperor who had returned to the throne. .

In the royal palace, the faces of all the civil and military officials, especially the generals of the Three Kingdoms in the late Han Dynasty, became ugly.

Su Chen above also frowned: "Continue to ask him why he wanted to arrest Zhang Jiao."

Asked by the translator, since Baddeli decided to save his life, he naturally stopped hiding it.

He told the Eastern officials next to him who understood Western languages ​​things that no one knew.

"Prophet Moses... He asked my teacher, Holy Lothar, to use the believers to learn the purpose of Zhang Jiao and his party here, so he set a trap for ordinary believers to trick them into the trap. I I once asked the teacher why he wanted to arrest these Orientals. The teacher said that the prophet Moses believed that Zhang Jiao had magical powers that could be provided to him to better predict the will of Heavenly Father. "Baddeli, who is in his thirties, is not that old. He should be cautious and steady, and the expression on his face simply seemed to say, "I didn't lie, everything is true."

"Moreover, I heard from the teacher that Emperor Sakprut has always wanted to move eastward, and wanted to connect the two places closely and become one country."

After he said this, Xiahou Dun shouted: "How presumptuous!"

Su Chen raised his hand and waved to everyone and Xiahou Dun. After they fell silent, he put his hands behind his back and walked down the stairs step by step.

"How old is your Emperor Sakprut? What generals do you have under your command?"

The civil servant asked about the emperor's words, causing Baddeli to tell Su Chen all the current events and rumors he had heard.

"Thirty-two years old... Haha, he is four years older than me. He has done the same thing." Su Chen listened to the other party's words word for word. After walking towards Badley, he stretched out his hand and hugged the black man. hugged his shoulders.

"Your emperor must be very powerful. He only needs the Satsuma Empire to unify the entire west. It's a pity that I stepped in and a piece of the Satsuma Empire was taken away from him."

Su Chen stood next to Baddeley, holding his arms around the other person's shoulders, and said with a smile, but Baddeley was extremely uncomfortable, his neck was strangled by the other party's arms, and his breathing became unsmooth.

"But I came here personally to take all the land away from him."

Saying this, Su Chen held the opponent's neck with one arm and pulled him towards the palace door. Baddeley did not dare to struggle and could only follow Su Chen's footsteps to the palace door.

It's almost dawn, and in the deep night, the heavy snow is getting smaller and smaller, and it seems to be stopping.

Su Chen looked at the eastern sky, where a trace of white was gradually appearing, and said in his gentle yet majestic voice: "Thank you for telling me all this."

While the clerk was translating, Baddeli turned his face with difficulty and looked at the Eastern Emperor in front of him with confusion. He did not understand what the other person meant when he suddenly said this to him.

The neck tightened suddenly!

Before the clerk's words were fully translated and conveyed to Baddeley, he looked at the Eastern Emperor in front of him with his eyes wide open and breathlessness. He wanted to push him with his hands.

Before his hand touched Su Chen's dragon sleeve, his elbow suddenly squeezed hard, and there was only a small sound of "bang" and the bones breaking.

Baddeley's eyes were bloodshot and he stared at Qingming's sky with his mouth wide open. He stopped struggling under Su Chen's elbow and soon lost his breath.

"I'm sorry, you may not know that a war never tires of deceit."

Su Chen let go of his arm and carried it behind his back. Baddeli's body fell on the palace door with a bang, and was then dragged away by the soldiers who came over. He was thrown into the truck together with the Western assassins who had previously attacked the Satsuma Palace, and then loaded into the truck. A soldier habitually gave the corpse a stab wound.

As soon as the blade was removed, Baddeley, who was originally a corpse, suddenly sat up, holding the blade that was halfway into his chest. He opened his eyes wide and looked at the Eastern soldiers who were finishing the blow.

"How do you...know...I pretended to be dead..."

As soon as he finished speaking, in the astonished sight of the two soldiers, he fell straight on top of a pile of corpses.

"This guy is actually pretending to be dead!"

"I even heard the sound of the neck bones breaking. I can't understand why I deliberately deceived His Majesty."

"We both have this matter in our stomachs. Don't reveal that this man pretended to be dead, otherwise His Majesty will lose face."

The two soldiers each said a few words. The soldier who had just finished the wound was worried. After pulling out the sharp blade, he cut off Badde's head from the body and threw it into the corner of the carriage. Then he pulled the carriage with confidence. , take this car of corpses outside.

The carriage passed from sight. Su Chen looked at it for a moment, then turned around and walked among the generals, waving his hand.

"That's it for today's banquet. Although it has disturbed the mood, the harvest is still quite fruitful. At least we know where the Imperial Master is. It's time to disperse!"

Walking up the imperial steps, Su Chen turned around, pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment, and gave Lejin a few words of advice to the generals who were going into battle.

"First collect the bones of the brothers who died in the battle... and temporarily store them in this city. When we go back in the future, we will take them back together and hand them over to their parents and relatives."

Le Jin and others fell silent.

This time we faced this group of Western barbarians on a snowy night. Although they were not inferior to the opponent in terms of momentum, and even used 2,000 men to withstand the opponent's attack of more than 10,000 people, in the final analysis, we were still too arrogant and did not defeat the Western barbarians. The barbarians looked down upon him, which was why so many soldiers died in the battle.

The sky gradually becomes brighter.

When the emperor's order was issued and Le Jin and others rode out of the city, several huge bonfires had been erected in the wilderness.

The surroundings were filled with officers and soldiers from various armies, all looking solemnly at the piles of firewood covered with the corpses of their comrades.

The atmosphere was solid and solemn, and no one spoke at this time.

In the distance, the Mongolian Qingqi were also watching. As a person who grew up on the grasslands, I didn’t have much impression of such a ceremony. But after joining the Western Expeditionary Army, I saw the tacit understanding and understanding of the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army. The friendship between joking and joking colleagues gradually fell into this atmosphere.

Soon after, the emperor's guard of honor stretched out in the city, and the winter sun was shining brightly.

In everyone's sight, the tall imperial chariot stopped in front of several piles of firewood. Su Chen walked out of the carriage, and the surrounding military generals also followed him, stood behind him, and together they faced the direction where the heroes' souls lay. ,

The cold wind was biting. Su Chen glanced at the faces around him. Li Tiangang came out of the carriage. He was wearing a Taoist robe and stood in front of him to chant sutras for those who died in the battle.

After a moment, Su Chen took the drink from Wu Zixun and raised it above his head.

"I conquered the barbarians in the west, opened up the territory for my descendants of Great Xia and expanded the territory. I fought consecutive battles and won many victories, which made the soldiers arrogant and arrogant. Even though I won a great victory, my soldiers died in a foreign land. I regret it...

It also serves as a warning to all generals and gentlemen.

This bowl of wine should be offered as a sacrifice to the dead soldiers on the high platform, your comrades, my soldiers, and to all those who will die in battle in the future! "

After speaking, Su Chen held the wine bowl and slowly poured it down from left to right.

"Send my son to death!"

The soldier stepped forward and threw the torch, and a raging fire broke out on the woodpile. The firelight reflected every figure. Everyone watched in silence as the corpses were engulfed in the flames.

Under the winter sunshine, every face showed an unprecedented level of solemnity.

(End of this chapter)