"Have you found out everything? Did they kill everyone on the mountain?"
Prince Beigong Bai said anxiously that he had been on the road for nearly a month and should have arrived ten days ago, but he received a piece of news on the road that there were many local rebels in Fukuoka, so he wanted to waste more time on the road. If he could cause more damage to the Tang army, then he would have the confidence to negotiate after arriving.
But since Li Xiang came, there has been no good news received every day. Most of the time, there are reports about what happened to the people on the mountain and what happened to the families of the rebels at the foot of the mountain. So Prince Beigong Bai is a little anxious. If things continue like this, he might be held accountable by the Tang army for wasting time on the road.
"Your Highness, the news we received seems to indicate that almost all of them were killed. However, the Tang army also suffered heavy losses. Hundreds of them died in the mountains. However, those were not the real Tang army. Some of them came from Goguryeo, and some were recruited from Fukuoka."
The people under him said anxiously that in order to get this news, they also lost a lot of intelligence personnel. Now Fukuoka and Nagasaki have been isolated from other lands. No outsiders can enter. They can only take risks to enter. But every time they take risks to enter, people always lose their lives. If it weren't for Prince Beigong Bai's order, these people would not take the risk. This time he was able to come back, it was really a life-or-death experience.
After listening to his men's words, Prince Beigong Bai sat in his seat in a daze. He had wanted to use these rebels to create trouble for the Tang Dynasty and increase his bargaining chips at the negotiation table, but he didn't expect these people to be so useless. In less than a month, so many of them had been cleared out.
"Now that we have nothing to rely on, should we speed up?"
Suzuki Nakatasu has already run away. This guy also came to Prince Beigong Bai's tent. According to the order of Emperor Fuso, as the deputy envoy of negotiations, he must always follow Prince Beigong Bai. He has no choice. If he had a choice, he would definitely run back to the capital.
He still remembered the days in Fukuoka. He had gone through so much hardship to escape, but was eventually sent back. He still remembered how the Tang army killed people. Now, every night when he went to bed, he could think of the corpses floating in Nagasaki Harbor. He was really afraid that one day he would become one of them.
Now he was a little envious of Watanabe. If he had surrendered at the beginning, perhaps he would not have had this concern. The Tang army took Fukuoka too quickly. According to their previous thinking, Fukuoka's strength was still good. As long as Miyazaki resisted well, he would definitely be able to cause some losses to the Tang Dynasty. But he didn't expect this guy to run away.
"I think it's better to hurry up. There are many of our Fusang people in the Tang Dynasty. They can calculate the time it takes to get here from Kyoto. If the delay is a little shorter, then we can still explain it. After all, there are always storms at sea. But if it takes too long, then there is no explanation."
Suzuki Nakatasu thought for a while and said that he also agreed to waste time on the road before. Look at the heavy losses suffered by the Tang army. They are still not so tough at the negotiation table. They actually want us to pay for their occupying forces. Are we paying you to invade us?
But now he no longer has that idea at all. If he doesn't seize the time, the Tang army will definitely regard this as Fuso's fault. These people always do what they say and never talk. Every mistake will make you pay the price.
"So what are we waiting for? Tell the people below to speed up, and tell the others to go even faster. We must connect with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty. Only then can we negotiate. I should have known better than to listen to you bastards. You've ruined our impression for no reason. What if you make things difficult for us during the negotiations? What will we do then?"
Upon hearing this, the people below knew that Prince Beigong Bai was also a fool. The emperor could not send anyone else because those princes were all relatively young children, so he could only send this fool prince. But looking at his behavior, he was unable to fight for the deserved benefits for Fuso.
Lord Suzuki came from the capital, and of course he knew what kind of person Prince Beigong Bai was. He was both happy and afraid of sending such a person. He was happy because such a person had no brains. Although Lord Suzuki was the deputy envoy of negotiations, he could basically hold power.
What is scary is that such a person dares to do anything, and sometimes, for his own safety, he may even sell out the entire Fuso.
Tang Dynasty military camp.
"Your subordinate, Fujii Jiro..."
"My subordinate is Zhang Qixiong..."
At this moment, the two generals in front of Ding Tu knelt down at the same time. These two people were the generals from Goguryeo and Fuso who had recently gone up the mountain to suppress the bandits. Seeing how happy they looked, they must have come back to receive their rewards. They did a good job indeed. The banditry on the mountain was dealt with by them, and now it has become disorganized.
"Where is Hayao Miyazaki?"
Ding Tu looked at the people behind the two of them and did not catch the original Fukuoka Daimyo Miyazaki.
Originally, both of them had smiles on their faces, but after hearing what Ding Tu said, they didn't know how to respond. According to their plan, they should have been able to capture Miyazaki Junming, but the fight between the two had reached a fever pitch. Everyone wanted to show up in front of the Tang general, so Miyazaki Junming took advantage of the conflict between the two and actually escaped from the junction of the two armies.
"General, we haven't captured Miyazaki Junming, but we have captured his family members, and they are all outside the camp."
Because Jiro Fujii was familiar with the terrain on the mountain, he set up several traps. It was because of these traps that everyone around Miyazaki Hayao was captured. Now there are only a dozen followers left by that guy. The rest were either killed or captured. Even if they continued to resist on the mountain, they probably wouldn't be able to hold out for long.
"This general is asking about Miyazaki's name, not his family."
After hearing Ding Tu's words, Fujii Jiro started to break out in a cold sweat.
