Chapter 893： captive

Qi Haoran walked around the foreigners with an ugly face and asked, "All of them surrendered?"

Zhou Zhou bowed his head, "Yes."

Qi Haoran snorted coldly, "Foreigners are so unscrupulous? Why don't you kill yourself if you don't die in battle?"

He wanted to capture pirates alive, but that was limited to three or four, not three or four hundred.

Three or four hundred prisoners, when he fought with the Jin Kingdom and Xixia, at least fifty thousand people had this number of prisoners, but they only had three thousand people and there were more than four hundred prisoners, which was too greedy for life and fear of death. Too disrespectful, right?

Mu Yangling asked, "If it were you, would you kill yourself if you didn't die in battle?"

Qi Haoran glared and said, "Who can capture the Lord?"

"Didn't I say if?"

"There is no such if," Qi Haoran said solemnly: "I can never be captured."

If he can't win, he won't run?

He is stupid!

Qi Haoran summoned Zhou Zhou and said, "Hurry up the interrogation, find out their old nest, and see how many people are left there."

"My lord, this place is close to their lair, we might as well go back and talk about it." This time they lost a lot. What if this group of pirates were not only surrounded by these people?

Qi Haoran glared at him and asked, "How sure are you to defeat the pirates at sea?"

Zhou Zhou was silent, and Qi Haoran snorted coldly: "You are not sure, this king will not fight at sea, and they are really surrounded by them at sea, we will all go to sea to feed the bastard? If you stay on land, you can at least save your lives. ."

Zhou Zhou was ashamed.

Qi Haoran took Mu Yangling up the mountain to see Fan Zijin, and before leaving, he instructed him: "First ask about their nests, their number, and weapons and equipment."

Zhou Zhou hurriedly responded, while arranging the wounded, he slipped a pirate to ask questions.

Qi Haoran's eyes widened when he saw Fan Zijin with disheveled hair, unshaven beard and dirty face. He had never seen him so embarrassed when he grew up.

Fan Zijin's eyes widened, and he asked, "How long do you want to watch?"

Qi Haoran pouted, squatted beside him and said, "If this were on the street, I would definitely treat you as a beggar, come and tell my brother, how did you get to this point?"

Fan Zijin rolled his eyes, kicked him to the side, and asked, "What about those pirates?"

"More than half of them died, and more than 400 people were captured. Some of them with black hair like us all ran away. I didn't let anyone chase them."

"It's okay not to chase," Fan Zijin said, "they are the natives here, who were forced to join the army by the foreigners. If they escaped, they would definitely not return to the bandits' den, but back to their own villages, and maybe they could even fight with the foreigners. ."

Qi Haoran couldn't help sitting up straight and asked, "There are still many people in those pirates' lair?"

Fan Zijin shook his head, "I don't know how many people there are, but there are definitely people there." He glanced at the Zhou family in the distance and said, "The Zhou family has always wanted to go to sea again, so they have never stopped inquiring about the sea in the past 20 years. , they heard that this group of foreigners has been here for seven or eight years, which proves that they have been operating here for at least eight years, and it is impossible that these people are the only ones."

"Then they have surrounded you for so long and you can't fight, why don't you ask for help?" After all, robbery is not a war, it is best to fight quickly.

Fan Zijin shook his head very shyly, "How do I know, you should ask the pirates."

Qi Haoran asked curiously: "I haven't asked how you came to the bandits' den, didn't you mean to test the boat? How did you get here? Lost?"

Fan Zijin's face darkened and he didn't want to talk to Qi Haoran.

Qi Haoran shuddered and became even more curious, "How did you guys get into this? If you don't tell me, I can ask others."

Fan Zijin said angrily: "Are you busy? You haven't dealt with those prisoners yet, and, when will we be able to go back?"

Qi Haoran was also distressed and said, "I have to take them back and raise them, how do I know what to do?"

The key is that there is no precedent. Pirates have been caught before, but they were all Han Chinese. They were either distributed, executed, or sent back to their hometowns to go to Congliang, but now they are all foreigners.

Neither is appropriate.

Fan Zijin sneered: "After the trial, they will all be killed."

"No," Qi Haoran said solemnly: "Although I also despise them for surrendering, but since they surrender, they cannot be killed."

It is not that Qi Haoran has the idea of ​​treating the captives kindly, but his principle of doing things.

It's not that Qi Haoran has never captured the enemy. When he fought against the Jin Kingdom and Xixia, the number of prisoners reached 5,000. Qi Haoran never killed them, and of course he had no money or food to support them. people, or in exchange for their captives and Han slaves.

But do these foreigners have their captives and Han slaves in their hands?

So it can't be dealt with according to the routine.

Fan Zijin looked at Qi Haoran's distressed appearance, and still urged him to kill everyone, saying: "There are many pirates along the coast of Daqi, take this opportunity to warn them, these foreigners are really hateful, and they don't know what to do with their hands. How much blood was lost, I don’t complain about killing them. Could it be possible that you transported them back to the government office for a sentence and then took them to the vegetable market for beheading? That’s not the place that dirty my Daqi.” Fan Zijin said, “I’m the prefect, Anyway, if you want me to judge, they will be sentenced to death."

"Then kill after the sentence is pronounced." Qi Haoran adhered to the principle.

When the two were bickering, the soldiers had already brought grain from the boat to bury the pot to make rice. Yan Mo personally cooked a pot of porridge for Fan Zijin. .

Qi Haoran looked at his stomach in surprise, shouldn't this kind of thing happen to him?

Fan Zijin also blushed a little, Qi Haoran said thoughtfully: "If you're hungry, tell me earlier, study the ink, and quickly bring the porridge over."

As soon as Fan Zijin picked up the bowl, Zhou Zhou came up to report, "My lord, the pirates said that their old nest is not here, it's on another island, a day's journey from here, this is just one of their footholds, although there are stockades on the island. , but not on a large scale.”

"How many people are there in their lair?"

"There are still 5,000 people, but about 3,000 people are local indigenous people who are hired by them to work. Only 2,000 people and they belong to the same country. It is said that they are hired, but they are actually robbed slaves. Those natives are very pitiful, rushing to the front to give their lives, only half full."

"They didn't go back and notify those people to come to help?"

Zhou Zhou shook his head, "They don't dare, they said, because they are one-to-one with the natives, and they have been dishonest recently, so every time they don't dare to bring too many natives out, and they don't dare to leave too many, if If they adjust again, they will lose their balance, and they are confident that they can catch Mr. Fan and the others, so..."