Dressed as a tyrant and kissing the little queen

Chapter 288 Captive
Xiao Shangyan's mansion was originally the residence of the commander-in-chief of the garrison in Pingliang City. The front yard was for discussions and the back yard was for residents.

Because Qin Luoyu said earlier that he wanted to live with Xiao Shangyan, naturally he could only follow Xiao Shangyan here.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw three people with dark red blood all over their bodies tied up and standing in the courtyard under the escort of several barbarian soldiers.

His gaze fell on one of them, and Qin Luoyu's heart trembled slightly.

How could it be Jue Ying?
Jueying was also looking at her, and the two of them exchanged glances for a moment, Jueying seemed to be shocked too.

However, neither of them spoke, and looked away calmly.

"Young master. This person is a spy of the Ling Kingdom. He brought several people along and followed his subordinates all the way to the depths of the desert, trying to find out where our stronghold is."

Zhahetie stepped forward, "This subordinate pretended not to know, lured him into the depths, and set a trap to catch him. This person has a secret token issued by the Emperor of the Ling Kingdom. I don't know his identity. The subordinates dare not deal with it without authorization, so they will Bring him back."

Although Xiao Shangyan's brain reaction is a little slow at the moment, it is not impossible to react.

He stared at Jueying for a moment, "He is the personal bodyguard of Lingjunxing. I met him once when I was in Ancheng."

Since they came here to check their defense situation, there is no point in keeping them.

Xiao Shangyan waved his hand, "Kill it."

Zhahetie immediately took the order and ordered the guards to drag him away.

Jueying staggered from being pulled, and Qin Luoyu realized that his leg was injured, which seemed to be quite serious. A large piece of his robe was torn, and the flesh and blood on his leg were turned out, and the bones could be seen.

Her thoughts turned sharply, she wanted to plead for Jueying, but she knew that pleading would definitely cause trouble.

Seeing that Jueying had been dragged to the door by them, Qin Luoyu hurriedly said, "Brother Shangyan."

Xiao Shangyan turned his head and looked at her: "What?"

"This person is the most valued guard of Lingjunxing."

Qin Luoyu pursed his lips, ignored Jueying's gaze, and continued: "His name is Jueying, he used to stay in the Xiaoqi camp, and he knows many secrets, even military affairs. Killing him will make him cheaper, so it's better to keep him for a long time." You can be a hostage, and you can learn a lot from him."

After she finished speaking, Jueying's face turned slightly cold, and the two hidden guards even cast hatred and anger at Qin Luoyu.

These two hidden guards had never met Qin Luoyu, so they didn't know Qin Luoyu's identity.

Hearing her conversation, she seemed to be quite familiar with Jueying, and one of them stared at her coldly: "Who is important to our emperor and who is not, how do you know? Listening to what you said, it seems that you know us very well. Like the emperor, you don't feel ashamed and panic."

Qin Luoyu didn't speak, but Xiao Shangyan smiled: "She used to be the queen of your Ling Kingdom, so of course she understands Lingjun's behavior."

The faces of the two dark guards suddenly changed, and they all looked at Jue Ying, who nodded expressionlessly.

The dark guard who spoke before was very surprised, and then said angrily: "Since you are the queen of our Ling Kingdom, why are you following the barbarians in the north?"

Zha Hetie raised his foot and kicked the hidden guard hard: "Who are you talking about barbarians? She is the princess of Daqin and the sweetheart of our young master. If she is willing to follow our young master, it's none of your business?"

The dark guard bent down in pain, his face was distorted by the pain, but he refused to swallow the breath, staring at Qin Luoyu and scolded sharply: "Being the queen of our Ling Kingdom and messing around with barbarians, why is this so?" shameless!"

"presumptuous!"

Zhahetie pulled out his waist knife, stabbed it into the dark guard's abdomen, and quickly pulled it out again.

Blood spattered, and the dark guard's abdomen was bleeding profusely, and his body stiffened and fell down.

Qin Luoyu's face turned pale.Xiao Shangyan frowned, and waved his hands to signal his subordinates to drag the corpse down.

Zhahetie turned to Xiao Shangyan, and said: "The third princess said that the emperor of Lingguo valued this Jueying the most, but he reminded his subordinates."

He said something to Xiao Shangyan in a low voice, Xiao Shangyan pondered for a moment, then nodded: "I will do as you said."

Zhahetie walked slowly to Jueying, his eagle-like gaze passed over Juying, and landed on the guard next to him, he cut off the rope binding the guard with a knife, showing a contemptuous look: "you can go now."

"Go back and tell your majesty that we don't need to kill Jueying. If we want him to go back alive, we can exchange it with a prisoner captured by Ling Kingdom a few days ago."

Zha Hetie said coldly, "That man is about 40 years old, his name is Cen Qi, he is from your Ling country, he is just an insignificant figure in my Dayan, but he is my brother-in-law. If you exchange him, you won't what to lose."

The dark guard glanced at Jueying, and Jueying nodded. The dark guard knew that Jueying wanted him to go back and interrogate him, so he stopped talking.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhahe Tiehua finished speaking, he suddenly swung the saber again, a cold light flashed, and then he heard a shrill scream.

In the spray of blood mist, one of the dark guard's arms had been cut off at the root, and the dark guard was covering the severed arm, his face pale as snow.

"Since you have come to my Dayan territory, you must leave something behind."

Zha Hetie retracted the knife and sheathed it neatly, "Send him out of the city."

The dark guard was quickly dragged away, and blood dripped down all the way.

Qin Luoyu was a little dizzy in front of her eyes, she probably looked very bad at the moment, Xiao Shangyan held her hand, "I'll take you in to rest."

Qin Luoyu nodded, and couldn't help looking back at Jueying.

Jueying gritted her teeth, and looked at her with extremely cold eyes, which made Qin Luoyu's heart tremble.

Does Jueying also think that she really betrayed Ling Junxing and really voluntarily followed Xiao Shangyan?
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Yunzhou City.

The guard with the broken arm had a face like ashes, and his lips were chapped and bleeding. As soon as he entered the handsome tent, he fell down and knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty."

Ling Junxing's heart sank slightly.

This person is the secret guard who followed Jueying to the north, and he is very skilled. Now that he has returned with a broken arm, it seems that something happened to Jueying and others.

With a hoarse voice, the hidden guard recounted what happened to them during their trip.

It turned out that they followed Zhahetie and Xiao Shangyan all the way to Pingliang City, but accidentally discovered that they had multiple secret strongholds in the desert, and they were ready to retreat at any time.

Jueying made a decisive decision to follow Zhahetie deep into the desert to find out where those strongholds are so that they can be wiped out in one fell swoop in the future.

However, Zhahetie was extremely cunning, and after discovering that they were secretly following them, he did not hesitate to use the prisoners of Ling Kingdom as bait to set a trap to force Jueying and others to show up.

"When it was snowing heavily, they brutally killed more than a hundred captives and threw their bodies into the snow. Some of them were still alive. When they saw us passing by, they struggled for help."

These captives were nothing more than unarmed ordinary people of the Ling Kingdom. After the barbarians captured the city of the Ling Kingdom, they selected young women and young men and rushed them to the desert as slaves and handmaids for them to drive.

Jueying and the others hid in the dark far away and saw these barbarians torture and kill the captives with their own eyes. They only thought that the barbarians were trapped in the heavy snow and had insufficient dry food, so they killed the captives.

So seeing these dead captives at this moment, I didn't have any doubts.

And the wailing and begging of the few survivors was really too miserable.

Jueying hesitated for a moment, but finally stopped.

However, just when he was squatting down to check the wound of one of them, a dead "corpse" next to him suddenly slashed viciously on Jueying's leg.

Blood mixed with Bai Xue splashed all over, dozens of blood-stained "corpses" suddenly jumped up, swords, lights and swords covered Jueying and others like a net.

Jueying was seriously injured in his leg, but he still fought hard. There were 13 people in his party, but in the end there were only three people left, and they were finally captured due to exhaustion.

The dark guard also told them how to bring Zhahetie back to Pingliang City, how to release him, how to propose to exchange a prisoner named Cen Qi for Jueying, etc.

After finishing speaking, he hesitated to speak, with a very hesitant look on his face.

Ling Junxing knew that the dark guard still had something to say, so he backed away from the left and right sides: "If you have something to say, say it."

The hidden guard seemed to be a little confused, hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "This subordinate saw the empress in the mansion of the barbarian master."

Wei Wuji on the side looked slightly stern, and hurriedly said: "How is the empress?"

"Queen Empress"

The dark guard's expression seemed to be more entangled, "The empress and the barbarian's young master seem to be very close, calling each other Brother Shangyan, she, she also told the barbarian that Jueying is the emperor's most important bodyguard, and has been in the Xiaoqi camp , know many secrets."

Wei Wuji's face changed slightly, and he immediately looked at the emperor, but he saw that the emperor's expression was indifferent and calm, as if there was no disturbance.

Wei Wuji made a gesture to signal the hidden guard to step back: "Take good care of your wounds—don't tell anyone about meeting the empress."

The dark guard hurriedly took orders to leave.

Wei Wuji thought for a while, and couldn't help but to help Qin Luoyu find out a few words: "Well, since the empress was coerced by Xiao Shangyan to go to the North, I'm afraid she couldn't help herself."

Ling Junxing stared at the map on the table, as if he was thinking about something, and he didn't know whether he heard Wei Wuji's words or not.

Just when Wei Wuji thought that the emperor would not open his mouth, he heard the emperor say in a deep voice: "The capture of Pingliang City was previously estimated to take more than a month."

Wei Wuji said, "Yes."

Lord Ling pointed to a mountain line on the map with his knuckle-boned fingers, "Crossing the Langshan mountain range, you can reach the rear side of Pingliang City."

"That's right, it's just that this mountain is very dangerous, and it's not easy to climb over in severe winter. And Xiao Shangyan will definitely deploy heavy troops to defend here."

Wei Wuji had also thought about this route before, but later he gave up.

The six cities taken by the barbarians are distributed in the shape of an inverted "pin", and Pingliang City is at the end of the inverted "pin".

The line on the west side of the word "pin" is the Langshan Mountains.

According to the current battle situation, if they attack head-on, the Xiaoqi Battalion can take Pingliang City in a month or so at most.

If you cross the Langshan Mountains, although the battle period can be shortened, the trip is too dangerous, so Wei Wuji chose a safer way after thinking about it.

Originally, this method of combat was also asked to the emperor before, and the emperor did not raise any objections. Now, does the emperor want to adjust the attack strategy?

Thinking about this, before he had time to ask, he heard the emperor slowly say: "Tell Xiao Shangyan, Jueying, we will change. We will mobilize all kinds of troops and horses, and concentrate on the front line to fight in an all-round way. Xiao Shangyan has limited troops, so he will definitely withdraw some of the troops stationed at Langshan to support the front line. .”

The emperor's voice was deep and cold, with undeniable decisiveness: "Allow another [-] elite troops to march out of Langshan in secret. Once they arrive in Pingliang, they will immediately launch a general attack. Within fifteen days, I will attack the city of Pingliang. Plant the mausoleum flag!"

(End of this chapter)