The First Marquis of Daxuan

Chapter 317 Understanding (Please subscribe, please collect, please vote for the monthly ticket and recommend the ticket)
Su Mu really didn't expect Hu Baidao to be so vicious.

Killing people is the token of allegiance that bandits have to pay when they join a gang.

He thought everyone was a decent person, but he didn't expect that the other party was actually a devil in disguise.

Killing on the battlefield and massacring prisoners are two completely different things.

What's more, the people who are going to be killed now are their comrades.

If they really killed these comrades from the Taiping Division, they would have no other choice but to follow Prince Su until the end.

And even under Prince Su's command, they will become the most notorious group of people.

It is one thing to surrender to Prince Su, but to betray one's former comrades and even kill them is absolutely the most despicable thing.

"Why? Are you unwilling? Or are you reluctant?"

Hu Baidao said with a sneer.

"Or is it that you are not sincere in joining His Royal Highness Prince Su?"

He looked at everyone with sharp eyes, and a murderous aura spread across the field.

At the same time, tens of thousands of soldiers around all raised their spears and lances.

The sound of weapons rubbing against each other echoed in the air, lowering the temperature around them by several degrees.

As long as Su Mu and others dared to refuse, these soldiers would immediately attack them.

Niu Wu and the others had gloomy faces and grasped the hilts of their knives. The situation was about to break out.

"Hahahaha!"

Suddenly, Su Mu burst into laughter.

"General, are you sure you want us to do this?"

After Su Mu's laughter attracted everyone's attention, it suddenly stopped. He looked at Hu Baidao with a serious expression and said in a deep voice.

"Have you ever thought about the consequences of doing this?"

"as a result of?"

Hu Baidao said with a half-smile.

His face was full of an expression that said, "See how you make this up."

"Since ancient times, killing prisoners has been unknown."

Su Mu said in a deep voice, "If we kill them now, everyone in the Taiping Division will know that if they fall into the hands of His Royal Highness Prince Su, they will surely die.

What do you think will happen if they fight with His Royal Highness Prince Su again? "

Without waiting for Hu Baidao to answer, Su Mu continued, "In that case, if they fight with His Royal Highness Prince Su again, they will definitely fight to the death.

It's not just the people from the Taiping Division, it's the same for everyone else. If they know they are going to die, everyone will fight to the death.

Is this the consequence the General is willing to see?"

"You think I'm afraid?"

Hu Baidao sneered, "Do you think they didn't fight desperately before?

In the face of absolute strength, any struggle is futile."

"Are you sure that His Royal Highness Prince Su really possesses absolute power?"

Su Mu said calmly, "Mingyi Marquis Zhang Songtao can easily let me keep a space treasure for him. Do you think the other marquises have similar treasures?

Besides these, how many other treasures do they have?

If they are really pushed into a corner, what do you think they can do?

Are you sure that if a marquis is determined to assassinate His Royal Highness Prince Su, how much trouble will this cause His Royal Highness Prince Su?"

"General, I come from the Taiping Division, and I know the people there best. If you kill them now, I can guarantee that the marquises of the Taiping Division will definitely kill you and His Royal Highness Prince Su at all costs."

Su Mu said with a serious expression.

Hu Baidao fell silent.

Su Mu's previous rhetoric was fine, but he had to seriously consider the fatal threat from Lord Taiping.

"No matter what, you still don't want to kill them."

Hu Baidao said coldly.

"I am thinking about you, General."

Su Mu said seriously, "Since we are all in the same boat, I can't just watch the boat sink, right?
I think it’s better to keep them than to kill them now, as they may be of other use in the future.”

Hu Baidao's eyes flashed coldly as he stared at Su Mu.

Su Mu looked straight into his eyes, neither dodging nor avoiding, with a calm expression.

The two looked at each other for a long time, and Hu Baidao finally spoke slowly, "Then I will keep them for a while longer.

However, Su Mu, as far as I know, you should have more than these people under your command. Where are the others?
Did they break up with you?

You surrender to His Royal Highness Prince Su, but they don't agree?
I now have five thousand troops with you. You can lead them to wipe out those people.

You can't have another excuse for this, can you?"

Hu Baidao looked at Su Mu with a sneer on his face, "Don't tell me you don't know where they went.

I believe that with your ability, Su Mu, you will definitely be able to catch up with them."

Everyone: "..."

How dark is this person's heart?
How can such sinister means emerge in such an endless stream?

"I told you, pretending to surrender is unreliable."

Niu Wu complained in his heart. He quietly tightened the handle of the knife and stared at Hu Baidao.

If he is really exposed, he will have to take a risk and try to see if he can capture Hu Baidao alive.

To catch a thief is to catch the leader. As long as Hu Baidao is caught, there is still a glimmer of hope.

Otherwise, it would be almost impossible to break out of the encirclement of an army of tens of thousands.

However, the aura of Hu Baidao is unfathomable, and I may not be able to do it.

Niu Wu was in a heavy mood.

This is not Su Mu's fault. Su Mu has done well enough. But no one could have imagined that Hu Baidao would be so shameless.

"I just arrived and the general gave me 5,000 troops. Isn't that inappropriate?"

Su Mu said with some reluctance.

"I will send a deputy general to follow you, otherwise five thousand troops will not obey your orders."

Hu Baidao said meaningfully.

The deputy general not only helps Su Mu, but also monitors Su Mu.

"In that case, I will take the responsibility."

Su Mu bowed to Hu Baidao and said, "General, those who parted ways with me are all elite students of the Bailu Academy in Songjiang Prefecture. It should be considered a great achievement to wipe them out."

"If you can really do it, this general will personally recommend you for the credit."

Hu Baidao said with great confidence.

…………

More than a hundred people were hiding in the dense forest more than ten miles away from Hu Baidao's army.

Mo Xuesong's face turned pale and he shuddered as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"How about it?"

Wu Yiqi, Huo Zhenting and Yang Zheng hurried forward and asked in a deep voice.

"How are Su Mu and the others doing? Has the war started?"

The three asked anxiously.

"No."

Mo Xuesong looked a little strange, shook his head and said.

As a rare genius in the Beast Taming Sect in a thousand years, Mo Xuesong is best at controlling monsters.

He was unlucky indeed. Some of his demon pets died while others escaped.

The genius of the Beast Taming Sect now doesn't even have a proper demon pet.

Just now he caught a wild beast from the forest...

Monsters are as intelligent as humans and can communicate normally.

However, wild beasts have low intelligence and are actually more difficult to control because they simply cannot understand what you mean.

Just now, Mo Xuesong used a forbidden technique to force the beast to share vision. He could see everything the beast saw, and used this method to investigate the situation more than ten miles away. This method was very cruel. After using it, the beast would definitely die, and Mo Xuesong himself would also be backlashed. If he was not careful, the result might be serious injury.

"Su Mu——surrendered to Prince Su."

Mo Xuesong hesitated for a moment and spoke slowly.

"impossible!"

Wu Yiqi said in a deep voice.

"I saw it with my own eyes."

Mo Xuesong said, “Not only has he surrendered to King Su, but King Su’s general has now arranged for him to lead 5,000 troops to pursue us.

They have already started recruiting soldiers, and they will attack us in an hour at most."

"Why would Su Mu do such a thing?"

Wu Yiqi frowned and asked, "Is this a self-torture tactic?"

He has known Su Mu for many years and absolutely does not believe that Su Mu is capable of doing such a thing.

"It's possible."

Huo Zhenting said in a deep voice, “Prince Su has hostages from the Taiping Division. If they threaten Su Mu with the lives of those people, Su Mu may agree to them temporarily.

Su Mu is a very shrewd boy. He can definitely do things that other Taiping Division pacification envoys cannot do.

Maybe the general under Prince Su was deceived by Su Mu."

"The general under Prince Su sent a deputy general to lead 5,000 troops to cooperate with Su Mu's actions."

Mo Xuesong said, "Whether he really surrendered to Prince Su or was just playing a trick, he has no choice now.

On one side are the hostages of the Taiping Division, and on the other side are us. If you were him, and you had to sacrifice one side, what would you choose?"

There are always differences in the closeness and distance of people.

Anyway, if it were Mo Xuesong, with his fellow disciples from the Beast Taming Sect on one side and other unrelated people on the other, he would definitely choose his fellow disciples.

These people had no actual relationship with Su Mu, at most they had fought side by side.

Mo Xuesong felt that there was no doubt about what choice Su Mu would make.

"He is not that kind of person!"

Wu Yiqi said firmly.

"So, do you think he has any choice?"

Mo Xuesong said.

Wu Yiqi was silent.

"Let's just assume for the moment that he pretended to join Su Wang Li Shu in order to save people."

Mo Xuesong said in a deep voice, "But the generals under Prince Su Li Shu are not fools, they will definitely ask him to show his loyalty.

Leading troops to kill us is the best loyalty. If Su Mu refuses, he and those people in the Taiping Division will die.

He had no choice.”

"You said he had no choice, that's because you don't understand him."

Huo Zhenting suddenly said, "Think about it, the current situation is that we, the people of the Taiping Division, and the 5,000 troops sent by the generals under the command of Prince Su, now it seems that either we die or the people of the Taiping Division die.

Is there another possibility?"

"Then five thousand men died?"

Yang Zheng, a disciple of the Sword Sect, said hesitantly.

Not to mention that there are only a hundred of them left now. Even if they didn't split up, more than four hundred people facing five thousand elite troops would have no chance of winning.

Before, they could only deal with an army of more than a thousand people, and that would cost them a lot of money to achieve a tragic victory.

An army of five thousand was beyond their ability to handle.

So no one thought of this possibility at first.

Even if they cooperated with Su Mu and others, it would be impossible for them to kill 5,000 people.

"impossible?"

Mo Xuesong frowned and thought, "Those are 5,000 fully armed elite soldiers, how can we possibly kill them?

If we cannot wipe them out completely, as long as one of them escapes, the hostages of the Taiping Division will surely die.

If that is the case, what is the point of Su Mu's pretended surrender?
Isn't he doing this just to save the hostages?"

Mo Xuesong thought about it over and over again, but couldn't figure out how to kill those 5,000 elite soldiers.

"Don't ask me, I don't know either."

Huo Zhenting shrugged and said, "I just think that Su Mu might think so, but I don't know how to do it."

"Given Su Mu's personality, he might do that."

Wu Yiqi pondered.

"It's meaningless for us to discuss Su Mu's character now. Who can tell me what we should do?"

Mo Xuesong said.

This is a matter of life and death for them all. If they guess wrong, they will all die.

Even if the guess was correct, how to deal with the 5,000 elite troops was still an important question.

"Run."

Huo Zhenting said as a matter of course, "The first rule of life in the martial arts world is, if you can't win, run away!"

Everyone looked at each other, as if - it made sense.

…………

"How to fix it?"

Niu Wu followed closely behind Su Mu and glanced at the five thousand elite soldiers following them, as well as the deputy general who had been staring at them.

he asked quietly.

Is he really going to lead these 5,000 people to hunt down Wu Yiqi and the others?
Wu Yiqi and his men cannot withstand the attack of five thousand elite troops.

"Beat him to death."

Su Mu said lightly.

Niu Wu: “…”

Beat him to death?
Who are you trying to torture to death?

Wu Yiqi and the others?
Or these five thousand troops?
"We can't be disloyal..."

Niu Wu whispered.

Although Wu Yiqi and his men were not members of the Taiping Division, they had fought side by side, lived and died together...

Su Mu glanced at him. What does this have to do with loyalty?
What should we do if we don’t kill these five thousand soldiers?
In order to rescue the brothers of the Taiping Division from Hu Baidao, these five thousand people must die.

If they don't die, it will be the turn of the brothers in the Taiping Division to die.

"Master Su, General Hu said that those people must not have gone far. He gave us ten days."

The deputy general suddenly raised his voice and said, "So, Lord Su, you must not take the wrong path. Otherwise, if you fail to complete the task within the specified time, you will be punished by military law."

"Are you threatening me?"

Su Mu glanced at the deputy general and said coldly.

"This is not a threat, it's a reminder."

The deputy general said, "Lord Su used to be in the Taiping Division, so it didn't matter if he was a little lax, but now Lord Su is in the army.

When you are in the military, you must follow military rules.

If the rules are broken, military law will not show mercy, and several heads will fall off.

As for whose head it is…"

The deputy general sneered twice, "Don't blame me for not reminding you."

"Ten days, right? I understand."

A sneer appeared on Su Mu's lips.

He had never seen anyone so eager to die.

Ten days are the last time you have left, so enjoy it.

　First update. I didn’t get up in the morning. When I opened my eyes it was already past nine o’clock…

　　
　
(End of this chapter)