Fang Jie looked at the assassin leader in front of him who seemed to die at any moment, without a trace of pity in his eyes. He is confident in the severity of his attack, and knows that 30% of this guy's current performance is pretending. It can be seen that this is a smart person who knows what means to temporarily save his life under what circumstances.
He used the pain as an illusion to make Fang Xie think that he was about to die.
But because of this, Fang Jie saw another point, that is, this person is afraid of death.
Everyone is afraid of death, but some people can still insist on themselves in the face of death, and some people will change themselves in order to survive. Therefore, there will always be many martyrs who are admired in this world, and there are also many traitors who are cast aside. But in the face of life threats, who can guarantee that they will die generously like the martyrs they admire
So Fang explained, fork him out and kill him.
"Wait... wait a minute..."
The leader of the assassins obviously didn't expect that Fang Jie really didn't intend to ask him anything, and all the countermeasures he had just thought of were useless. The way of thinking of the Eastern Chu people is actually somewhat different from that of the Sui people. Because of the development of commerce, the Eastern Chu people seem to be more flexible in their minds. They have always looked down on the stubbornness and extremes of the Sui people.
Therefore, in the face of death, there are very few Eastern Chu people who can achieve the stubbornness and extremes of the Sui people.
In the eyes of Eastern Chu people, everything has value, no matter what it is.
This is a kind of inertial thinking formed by a business empire that maintains the supremacy of interests for a long time. Every Dongchu person can clearly set value standards for everything. They will only do it when the effort and gain reach a certain ratio, and at this time, the assassin leader knows very clearly what he needs to pay and what he can gain. He is also very aware of the value of these things and can save his own life.
"You can't kill me, I still have great value..."
When he was being dragged outside, he shouted at Fang Jie with all his strength.
Fang Jie waved his hand, and the two Xiaoqi School who were carrying him outside stopped immediately.
"We are indeed Chu people..."
The assassin leader struggled to sit up and leaned against the door frame: "The few you caught before were all mages invited from the Duchy of Ross on the other side of the ocean. They said they were capable of doing things for us. They have a high status, but later they can no longer get along in the Duchy of Ross... so they plan to come out and make a fortune outside."
He explained the origins of those sorcerers, and the other party explained: "The reason why we came is because of the request of Nanyan Emperor Murong Shame. Murong Shame knows that you will definitely attack Nanyan, General, and he thinks Depending on Nanyan's strength, she might not be able to stop you, so she asked Chu for help."
Fang Jie nodded: "Emperor Dongchu agreed to Murong Shame's request, surely not only sent you here?"
The leader of the assassins nodded: "Our mission is to join forces with these mages from the Ross Principality to assassinate you. If we fail, there will be other means. The Ross Principality sent a team of hundreds of people to Dali City in Nanyan. It is said that They carry powerful weapons."
"What?"
Fang Jie asked, although he could almost guess the answer.
"have no idea… "
The leader of the assassins shook his head: "I really don't know. Those people in the Principality of Ross have been guarding those things closely along the way, not letting our people get close. I only heard that it is a powerful weapon, but I don't know What the hell is it?"
"Hundreds of people?"
Fang Jie seemed a little confused about this number. He could guess that the Ross people must have brought some powerful firearms, but the number of hundreds of people was still too small. Considering the level of technology in this era, even if the people of the Principality of Ross were much ahead of the Sui, they would not be able to create anything terrifying. If it's just artillery, hundreds of people can operate no more than a few dozen guns.
The power of artillery in this era has not been abnormal enough to kill the Quartet. Dozens of artillery can indeed turn the tide of the battle, but at most it is self-protection. Counting on the attack? Facing the light cavalry of the Black Banner Army, the power of the artillery was much lower than that of the infantry. Therefore, if there is no accident, these artillery are only placed in Dali City for defense.
It is impossible to divide this quantity into several batches and arrange them in other big cities.
Isn't it artillery
"How many people did the Principality of Ross send to East Chu this time?"
"Less than a thousand people."
The leader of the assassins replied: "In order to keep secret, the people from the Principality of Ross came to Chu State on a merchant ship of the State of Chu, but they were followed by a merchant ship of the Principality of Ross on the way. After arriving at Eastern Chu, find an excuse to get rid of all the merchants from the country of Ross."
Fang Jie frowned slightly, and immediately thought of what Chen Xiaoru said.
The Merchant Ship of the Ross Kingdom that Huotongtianxing saw in Eastern Chu must have encountered the Eastern Chu ship carrying the Ross National Army in the middle of the mountain, so it followed curiously. In order to prevent leaks, these Ross businessmen were deliberately lured to Eastern Chu, and then silenced.
Therefore, Fang Jie immediately felt that things were far from being as simple as the assassin leader said. If it's just to help Nanyan Murong shame to resist him, is it necessary for Dongchu to collude with the people of Ross Principality? In order to keep it secret, the people of the Principality of Ross even did not hesitate to get rid of their own citizens to keep it a secret. What is this secret and how big is it
A strong anxiety rose in Fang Jie's heart.
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Fang Jie carefully pried off the stones inlaid on the six mage sticks with a knife, without touching them with his hands. He knows that these things have extraordinary power and can change some natural phenomena. The so-called mages are just relying on the functions of these meteorites to deceive people.
Fang Xie subconsciously thought that these stones would be used in the future, so he didn't throw them away. Maybe it's just his mentality of preparing something even if it's not necessary, but with the memory of his previous life, Fang Jie is very interested in the profession of mage.
"What's the use of these things?"
San Jinhou who had already arrived looked at the several stones of different colors. If it wasn't for occasional bursts of faint light, his first instinct was that they were just ordinary stones.
"It's not very useful. Meteorites that can change the force field. Together, they will cause some unnatural phenomena, like a magic trick."
Fang Jie smiled, and asked people to put the six meteorites in iron boxes and seal them up.
San Jinhou didn't seem to be interested in this kind of thing, he smiled and said: "Foreigners always do some weird things... What is a force field?"
He was more interested in what the other party said.
"It's nothing, it's just a vocabulary I came up with. There is no suitable word to describe the ability of these stones, so I came up with one."
Fang Jie smiled, turned around and said to a man who knew foreign language, "Ask them why they came to Tai Sui."
A shopkeeper of Huotong Tianxia nodded, walked up to the mages who were kneeling on the ground and asked: "The general asks you why you came to Da Sui and why you came to assassinate! You don't have many chances. If you still cherish your own lives, answer truthfully and seriously."
The leading mage was silent for a while and asked the shopkeeper, "If we say so, will you promise not to kill us?"
"The general is honest, the premise is that you are honest and not honest."
"us… "
The mage sighed and said, "We just couldn't get along in the Principality of Ross, and wanted to regain our status outside. That's why we accepted the invitation of the Emperor of Chu and came here to assassinate the general. We need money, we like money, we It is no longer possible to have a wealth status in the Principality of Ross... "
The shopkeeper translated it once, and Fang Jie shook his head: "Not honest at all..."
He pointed to the leading mage and said: "Kill this man, remove his limbs first, and don't let him die within half an hour."
Chen Xiaoru agreed, and with a sneer, went over and kicked the sorcerer over, then threw him on the ground with his clothes in his hands, two Xiao cavalrymen came over to hold down the sorcerer's hands and feet, Chen Xiaoru drew his saber, without hesitation at all. The mage's left arm was chopped off. The wailing sound immediately rang out in the room, making people's ears ache.
Fang Jie turned and left, as if he had lost interest in interrogating them. San Jinhou followed behind him, and the two of them were talking in low voices as they walked.
Chen Xiaoru was in charge of the execution interrogation when he was at the Ouchi bodyguard, perhaps few people knew how to kill a person slowly better than him. He chopped it down one by one, and it was extremely cruel to see the blood and flesh, but the mage would not die soon. This kind of torture is not only for that mage, but the other mages are even more unbearable.
They watched helplessly as their companions were cut open by that cruel and savage Central Plains man, and their limbs were stripped off part by part. The wailing yelled until their scalps were numb and their hearts were trembling. The fear could not be described in words. For them, this is hell.
Chen Xiaoru chopped one hundred and eight knives, for half an hour, neither more nor less.
The sorcerer didn't even have the strength to wail, his throat was like that of a beast before it died, it was very low, but it was more direct to people's hearts.
The shopkeeper of Huotong Tianxia also turned pale. Seeing that Chen Xiaoru, whose hands were covered in blood, gestured to him, he walked over bravely and said to the remaining five mages: "This is the price for your dishonesty. The general is kind, but he hates others to deceive him the most. He can forgive you for being tricked into coming here to assassinate him, but he can’t forgive you for not cherishing the opportunity he gave. Now, who among you would like to tell me, what are you doing? Why are you here?"
The other people were so frightened that they didn't even dare to speak.
Chen Xiaoru walked over impatiently, and wrote a number on each of the five people with bloody hands, from one to five: "Now you choose, I will give you the right to choose, and you choose a person. Answer. One, two, three, four, five... try your luck."
The shopkeeper translated the words truthfully. Of the five people, four were immediately paralyzed by fright, and the other one was frozen there, completely forgetting what to do. They looked at each other, and they both saw guard and hostility in each other's eyes. It has to be said that Chen Xiaoru only used a few numbers to make the five people lose trust in each other.
Chen Xiaoru smiled ferociously: "Aren't you coming? Then I have to draw lots."
He found a few pieces of paper, wrote the numbers from one to five, then folded the paper and threw it into the sky, then randomly picked up a note from the ground and opened it.
He looked at the sorcerer with three written on his clothes, and said with a smile, "Congratulations, you have won the lottery."
"I said that!"
The person who was pointed at did not need to listen to an interpreter to know what it meant, he yelled hoarsely while crawling and kneeling back to dodge: "I am willing to say anything, I am willing to tell you everything I know! "
"Ask separately."
Chen Xiaoru said to the shopkeeper: "Don't give them a chance to collude. If any of them answer differently, point it out, and I will kill you slowly..."
The shopkeeper shuddered, not daring to look into Chen Xiaoru's eyes.
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"This is unusual..."
Fang Jie thought for a while and said to Marquis San Jin: "Eastern Chu people have no courage to attack the Sui Dynasty. Seventy percent of their commercial income comes from the Sui Dynasty. If they go to war, it will cut off their source of income. In terms of military affairs, Their strength is not enough either. But now that people from the Principality of Ross have appeared, I always feel that the Emperor of Eastern Chu is playing some tricks."
"In my opinion, it doesn't matter too much."
Marquis San Jin said: "To fight Nanyan, even if Murong Shame has firearms in his hands, the number of hundreds of people in the area can't affect the overall situation. General, I suddenly thought of a way to break the city... just... a little cruel gone."
"What?"
"Cut off the upper reaches of the Nanmeng River, and then flood the city with water."
Fang Jie's complexion changed, and he subconsciously glanced at San Jinhou. He found that there was something excited in San Jinhou's eyes, which was fleeting. It was a kind of excitement that can only be felt when enjoying certain things. Although it disappeared quickly, it did not escape Fang Xie's attention.