Water Margin people

Chapter 1552 Expensive Slave Soldiers

"Your Majesty, I never meant to do that. It was Yelu Dashi who forced me to do that! That's why I had no choice but to succumb to his tyranny."

Bilege explained again and again.

"Bilege, you are a cowardly and shameless person. Didn't you say that Gaochang Uighurs are located between Western Liao and Qi, and Qi wants to occupy the Western Regions? You are a small country with few people in Western Liao, so you asked me to send troops to defeat Qi!"

Yelu Dashi stared at Bilege. This despicable man actually wanted to take all the blame and put the blame on himself.

"You were the first to say that you wanted to conquer the country, so I just said it now. Even if I didn't say it, you would force me to follow you!"

Bilege spoke shamelessly.

"Alright, I don't want to hear your noise anymore. Since the Gaochang Uighurs refused to surrender before the war, they will only end up being destroyed!"

Sun Lei announced loudly.

Bilege was shocked. Sun Lei was not joking. This was an order. The Qi army would not show any mercy to Gaochang.

"Ha ha!"

The Qi army all laughed. The purpose of this battle was to restore their control over the Western Regions, and the Gaochang Uighurs were definitely going to be dealt with.

The other three Khans all felt the same way, secretly lamenting how lucky they were that they did not border the State of Qi. The Gaochang Uighurs were about to become a thing of the past.

Lu Fang and others came over with several slave soldiers wearing scale armor.

"Jiligulu, Jiligulu!"

The slave soldier roared loudly, his tone full of impatience and anger.

Sun Lei looked at Li Qingzhao who was standing aside. Li Qingzhao's face was pale at this moment. She had no idea how many times she had vomited. The cruelty and bloodiness of the battlefield made her very uncomfortable. There were broken limbs and rivers of blood. The smell of blood was everywhere. Several teachers who had accompanied them even fainted from vomiting.

Li Qingzhao didn't react for a while. She was still trying to calm down her emotions and force herself to be calm.

"I... I don't understand you either. This is not a common saying in the Western Regions!"

It took Li Qingzhao a while to react and she realized that Sun Lei was asking her if she understood the language.

"What the hell are these animals yelling about?"

Sun Lei did not make things difficult for Li Qingzhao, but looked at the Khans. Being able to stay sober in the face of the cruel battlefield was already considered a heroine.

"Your Majesty, these people are speaking Kurdish. They say they are from the Ayyubid family and have surrendered to you. You can't treat them like this!"

Ajisi spoke.

"Is there such a thing? A prisoner feels superior?"

Sun Lei was a little surprised. These people might be the ancestors of the Italians.

"Your Majesty, these people are slaves. They only serve their employers. They were traded to Yelu Dashi by Mosul Atabek. Now that Yelu Dashi has been defeated by Your Majesty, they naturally belong to Your Majesty!"

Mahmud spoke up.

"Is that so? But the problem is I didn't say I wanted them!"

Sun Lei smiled and said that in the West these people are like goods, but the problem is that goods are only valuable if someone wants them.

"Your Majesty, they are the slave army of the Zengi Kingdom! They are the most powerful warriors in the West!"

Ibrahim quickly said that these slave soldiers were the most sought-after fighters in the West, their value was inestimable, and no one could refuse to get such fighters.

"The most powerful warrior? Just a loser on his knees!"

Sun Lei spoke with contempt. He looked down on these slave soldiers and would not believe in these "professional mercenaries".

"Jiligulu! Jiligulu!"

The slave soldiers who were held on the ground roared angrily. Although they did not understand what Sun Lei was saying, his contemptuous tone and disdainful eyes angered them. "How dare you disobey me!"

Lu Fang was furious. The soldiers around him immediately stepped forward and whipped the slave soldiers on the ground with whips. The slave soldiers immediately lost their arrogance and began to wail.

"Humph, that's all!"

Sun Lei laughed when he saw those people wailing in pain. Losers have no right to be arrogant.

"Hang them all up so they can learn the rules. Since they have chosen to be dogs, they must be good dogs!"

Sun Lei pointed at the slave soldiers and gave orders.

"Order!"

Lu Fang immediately ordered his soldiers to hang up the slave soldiers.

Looking at the hung slave soldiers, the four Khans' faces turned livid. They couldn't understand Sun Lei and didn't know what Sun Lei wanted to do. Instead of rushing to recapture this elite army, he chose to hang them up.

“Are these people worth so much?”

Sun Lei saw the expressions of the people in front of him and asked.

"Your Majesty, each of these people is worth a hundred cows over there!"

Several people spoke up and said that the slave army had strong combat effectiveness. They would charge to the front in every battle and fight to the death. They were the best warriors and it was difficult to subdue them.

"One man is worth a hundred cows?"

Sun Lei stroked his chin and thought, if that's the case, then we can't just kill it directly. Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to replace it with a cow?

"Ten thousand people is one million cows. Where do you get so many cows?"

Sun Lei looked at Yelu Dashi again and asked. After this conversion, he understood the value of these slave soldiers. He was even more curious about what Yelu Dashi had exchanged for them.

"Humph!"

Yelu Dashi just snorted coldly and was unwilling to speak.

Seeing that Sun Lei was interested, the other khans wanted to say something, but they had no idea what deal Yelu Dashi had made with Imadeddin of the Zengi Kingdom.

The battlefield soon became quiet. The Qi army captured prisoners very quickly. The cavalry surrounded the enemy in a roundabout way, and the infantry quickly followed up to control the situation. Any enemy who disobeyed was killed on the spot without a single word. This decisive killing made the Western Liao soldiers dare not resist or escape.

"Your Majesty, I can ask the Ayub family for you. Their family is the founder of the slave army, so they should know the reason!"

Ajith looked at Sun Lei and said that now they could only try their best to demonstrate their value in order to survive.

"Well, go ahead! Let's all go!"

Sun Lei nodded and spoke to the four people.

The four men, as if they had been pardoned, immediately walked towards the hung slave soldiers and began to ask questions in a gibberish. Bilege's language was obviously unfamiliar to him than the other three, but he still asked stutteringly.

“I don’t know their language!”

Li Qingzhao said somewhat ashamedly that she followed the army to solve the problems of writing and language, but now she could not help and needed some captives to do this.

"There are thousands of languages ​​in the world, and you can't possibly know them all. It's not your fault. Besides, their language has never appeared in the Central Plains, so it's reasonable that you don't know it."

Sun Lei shook his head and said, let alone Li Qingzhao, even if it was Xu Guanzhong, he would probably have a headache at this time, because there is no way anyone in the Central Plains could speak Kurdish.

"You don't have to worry about these. This time it's mainly for the Western Region. Just pack up the things in the Western Region!"

Sun Lei looked at Li Qingzhao and said that the most important thing this time was to establish the Western Regions Protectorate and make it a springboard and support for Qi State to move westward.

(End of this chapter)