Turbulent Times Chapter 296: Captive transaction

Unexpectedly, after hearing Xue Qiluo's pretentiously generous words, the commander named Wu Luoye immediately blushed with shame. Lowering his head, he muttered for a long while before saying in a gnat-like voice: "Little chief, I was sent by Qin Anhou of Sui Dynasty and General Zhenyuan Wang Junlin to deliver a message to you. In a great battle, I was accidentally captured by the Sui army!"

"Ah...!" Xue Qiluo and other generals Xue Yantuo were stunned for a moment, and then looked at Wu Luoye with a very different look.

"Huh, tell me! Wu Luoye, what message did the Wang Junlin dog tell you, a coward, to give us?" Xue Qiluo's expression had turned cold, with disgust on his face.

"Little chief, 8,794 of our soldiers were captured by the Sui army. Wang Junlin said that he was willing to let us buy all the prisoners with 500,000 sheep and 50,000 horses, and also killed us in battle. The body of the captured soldier will be returned to us for burial. If we cannot redeem so many sheep and horses, a captured soldier will be worth twenty sheep or two horses, and a corpse will be worth Three sheep. The ransom for a centurion is five times that of an ordinary soldier, and ten times for a thousand commander.”

"We can't afford so many sheep and horses now!" Xue Qiluo cursed loudly, his face pale with anger. If Xue Yantuo had enough sheep in their hands to support the survival of the tribe, they would not have braved the wind and snow to come to the Sui Dynasty to fight the grass valley. Besides, even if it could be obtained, neither he nor his father Yi Shibo would be able to exchange so many sheep and horses for more than 8,000 captives. That's another matter.

"Wang Junlin said that if we can't get it out, we can collect it in batches, with a deadline of one month. After this deadline, all captives will be slaves in the territory of the Sui people forever!" Wu Luoye said with a flushed face. .

"Longevity will curse the shameless and cruel Sui people!" Xue Qiluo cursed cursingly, but he never thought about how their 30,000 troops dispersed before, how they killed, burned and looted in Xifeng County of Sui Dynasty. When I met the Sui people, all women, children, old and young were killed, and all women were raped and raped to death.

"Wuyeluo, how many of our big tent cavalry were captured by the Sui people?" Carter Xiong asked suddenly.

Wu Yeluo thought for a while and said, "There are probably more than a thousand people."

Carter Xiong turned his head and said to Xue Qiluo: "Little chief, why don't you redeem the big tent cavalry first, each of them is a warrior carefully selected by the great chief, and can be worth one to a hundred."

Xue Qiluo felt that what Carter Xiong said was right, he quickly glanced at the heads of the tents, and said: "That's right, the large tent cavalry are our most elite fighters, and they cannot be slaves to the Sui people."

"Little chief, the warriors of our Red Rain Tribe are not bad either. They were trapped in the Shifengzhai Fort and captured. Naturally, they cannot be slaves to the Sui people." Chi Hongzhu, the head of the Red Rain Tribe, said with a gloomy face .

"Our Dark Horse Division suffered heavy losses in attacking Shifengzhai. There are not many soldiers, and the captured warriors have to be redeemed." Ha Bagou, the leader of the Dark Horse Division, said through gritted teeth.

"We Feiluo warriors..."

The heads of various ministries argued hard one after another, Xue Qiluo's face was ugly, but he couldn't suppress it. Let the villages and towns not shoot, and the attack on Shifengbao was fruitless. The disastrous defeat in the morning had greatly reduced his prestige. If he dared to suppress it forcefully at this time, it might trigger a mutiny.

And the arrogance of the leaders made Xue Qiluo more and more determined to redeem more than a thousand captured cavalry. He knew that in the Turkic Khanate, the strong are respected. Even if their prestige is affected, these people dare not be so presumptuous. But how to deal with these leaders now, he wanted to call in the guards outside the door several times to kill all the leaders who dared to disrespect him, but his reason told him that he absolutely couldn't do that.

"Little chief, why don't you redeem the 300 bravest fighters from each department first." Carter Xiong said at the right time.

Xue Qiluo had no choice but to agree under the hostile eyes of the leaders.

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In order to prevent the captives from freezing to death or starving to death, Wang Junlin made each of the redeemed captives eat and drink a bowl of hot mutton soup before the captives were traded, except that some special seasonings were added to the hot mutton soup.

Looking at the thick snow outside, Xue Qiluo couldn't help sighing, he wanted revenge, but Wang Junlin didn't want to leave Shifengzhai, he still had to attack Shifengzhai. The nearby villages and towns have also been robbed by them, and it is almost impossible to lure the other party out of the city. In the past few days, more than 1,000 cavalrymen and nearly 2,000 of the most brave warriors from various tribes have also redeemed them with sheep and horses.

"Why don't you buy back my brother Mihuago, he is so strong." There are more than 5,000 soldiers who are slaves in the other party's hands, and these 5,000 people have their own relatives and friends. The chiefs only redeemed their own confidantes and their own nephews, and refused to redeem the sons and husbands of ordinary shepherds. They were very dissatisfied with the unfair behavior, and often gathered at the gates of the big tents of various chiefs or Xue Qiluo to protest. But the chiefs and Xue Qiluo couldn't solve their difficulties. In the disastrous defeat a few days ago, they kept all the cattle, sheep and many horses. The 20,000 reinforcements brought not many cattle, sheep and horses. . And that hateful Sui Dynasty poisonous general Wang Junlin opened his mouth, a soldier wanted twenty sheep or two horses to redeem, where did they get so many cattle, sheep and horses?

"Little chief, didn't the Sui people allow us to pay in batches? I think there are still 3,000 horses in the public treasury. How about redeeming some warriors!" He was so annoying that he had no choice but to run to find Xue Qiluo. He looked listless and his face was a little pale.

"Give them the horses, and our soldiers can't guarantee one person and two horses. When we fight again later, what should we give our soldiers?" Xue Qiluo asked loudly, looking like a defeated dog up cock. No one understood his difficulties. The leaders believed that he deliberately weakened the strength of the various ministries, while the ordinary soldiers below thought that he was only good to the cavalry, and did not regard the fighters of the other ministries as their brothers. But who is willing to think for him, think about the overall situation. If he used horses to redeem the people today, when the enemy came, many soldiers would only be one man and one horse. On the broad grassland, if the cavalry could not guarantee one man and two horses, how far they could keep running, or how long they could fight would directly affect the strength of their troops.

"Little chief..." Habagou was about to say something, but suddenly his face changed, and he ran out with his pants up. For some reason, he suddenly started to have diarrhea today, and every time he pulled it, it continued several times. His whole body was weak and weak.

PS: The second update is here———