General Qin

Gongsun Xin trembled, stopped laughing, and looked at the man in his twenties.

"Zhao Tuo...you are really powerful."

Gongsun Xin did not deny it, but his eyes were filled with hatred.

Zhao Tuo had never met Gongsun Xin, but Gongsun Xin had seen Zhao Tuo many years ago.

When Li Xin was defeated in his attack on Chu, Zhao Tuo detoured thousands of miles from Pei County and returned to Shanfu County in Qin State.

At that time, Gongsun Xin and Zhang Liang were preparing to contact the local Wei dynasty and wanted to take advantage of the impact of Li Xin's defeat to rebel against Qin. However, they were shocked by Zhao Tuo's victory in Surabaya and gave up the plan.

It's just that Gongsun Xin didn't expect that Zhao Tuo would become a lifelong nightmare for those who were anti-Qin.

"If I had known this, when I was single father, I should have killed Zhao Tuo at all costs!"

Gongsun felt regretful and couldn't help but ask: "How did you recognize me?"

Except for Zhao Tuo, all the Qin people changed their expressions.

"Are you really not Zhang Liang?"

Wang Ling's eyes widened and he almost fell out of his head with shock. He felt that the title he was about to receive would be reduced by more than half.

Li Si frowned slightly.

He didn't expect such a dramatic scene to happen suddenly.

However, Li Si was a smart man. After some thought, he found a doubt after comparing the interrogation just now with the previous questioning of Xiang Xiang.

He nodded to Zhao Tuo and said, "Your Majesty is so attentive. I guess it's the Zhao people in this person's mouth who have exposed the truth."

"What Tingwei said is that you can bring Xiang's criminals up and let them identify them."

Zhao Tuo nodded and smiled at Gongsun Xin: "The Xiang family has been wiped out by me, and everyone in his clan has confessed. We know more than you think, so you'd better be more honest and answer Tingwei properly. problems, so as not to suffer physical pain.

"The Xiang family was wiped out by you?"

Gongsun Xin was completely stunned, far more shocked than Zhao Tuo revealing his identity.

When they were arrested in Peixian County, they had just heard that the Prime Minister's Xiang family had raised a flag to rebel. It had only been a few days. Why was the Xiang family gone?

Xiang Liang was defeated too quickly.

"You are so incompetent!"

At this point, Gongsun Xin also knew where he had exposed his flaws.

When he and Zhang Liang took refuge in the Xiang family, many people in the Xiang family knew their identities.

Xiang Liang, Xiang Juan, Xiang Sheng, Xiang Xiang and so on.

As long as one of them is caught, the information about their group of seven will naturally be revealed.

When Gongsun Xin was captured before, in order to cover Zhang Liang's escape, he called himself Zhang Liang. He even confessed to Wang Ling that the man who escaped was a Zhao nationality whom he met in Daidi, in order to mislead Wang Ling.

No one in the Qin army has seen them. As long as Gongsun Xin bites him to death and he is Zhang Liang, the counties and counties of Qin will naturally relax their pursuit of the last fugitive, and they will search for the Zhao people based on the information he provided. Better cover for Zhang Liang.

Unexpectedly, Xiang's defeat would disrupt all his plans.

If the confession doesn't match up, the flaw will naturally be exposed.

Of course, it would be useless even if they were against each other, because the Qin army still had Xiang's prisoners in hand.

Sure enough, when Xiang Xiang was brought up by Qin soldiers, his identity was completely confirmed by his identification.

This made everyone sigh secretly.

Capturing the mastermind Zhang Liang and capturing the accomplice Gongsun Xin are completely different in nature.

"I guess the emperor is going to be angry again."

Zhao Tuo sighed secretly, but there was a strange feeling in his eyes when he looked at Gongsun Xin.

Gongsun Xin.

It should be the person with the same name as Han Xin in history. He was later named King of Han and called King Han Xin.

"King Han Cheng, King Zhao Xie, King Zhang Er of Changshan, King Chen Yu, and now there is King Xin of Han. Oh, it seems that Tian Dan who set himself on fire before was also King of Qi."

Zhao Tuo counted with great interest the princes of the late Qin Dynasty who were killed by him.

Gongsun Xin's fate will definitely be death. Under Zhao Tuo's influence, as many as six princes in the late Qin Dynasty will die.

At this time, Gongsun Xin ignored Li Si's inquiry and cursed on the spot to vent his anger.

"Li Si, you are from Chu, but you carried Chu into Qin and helped Qin destroy Chu. You are so shameless! Zhao Tuo, you are the clan of Zhao, but you betrayed your ancestors, became Qin's lackey, and destroyed the Zhao family. You are even more shameless. …”

Li Si had no expression on his face, and did not argue with Gongsun Xin. He only said to Zhao Tuo: "I heard that the prince invented a kind of water torture during the battle, which can make a strong man lose his stock. Can you do it on this rebel today?" Give it a try and open your eyes."

Zhao Tuo was startled, but he didn't expect that the reputation of waterboarding had reached the ears of Li Si, the court captain.

He didn't hide his secrets and told the method.

Li Si listened with great interest, and then asked someone to test it on Gongsun Xin.

Soon, after enduring several rounds of punishment, this iron-clad anti-Qin righteous man finally knelt down on the ground with water-stained face and confessed all the information like pouring beans.

"This type of waterboarding is really effective. If it is promoted among legal officials all over the world, criminals will no longer dare to plead guilty."

Li Si nodded with satisfaction, apparently thinking about promoting this punishment.

This made Zhao Tuo a little worried. If it was promoted among legal officials, there would be more cases of people being beaten into submission in Qin's interrogations in the future.

According to later statistics, about 80% of those who suffered waterboarding will speak up and succumb to this terrible punishment, allowing them to say whatever they want.

As for the remaining approximately 20 percent, they are tortured to death through waterboarding.

It can be seen that the pain caused by waterboarding and the high efficiency of interrogation far exceed punishments such as whipping.

Amid Zhao Tuo's worries, the interrogation ended completely.

Except for Zhang Liang's whereabouts, they basically got the information they wanted. Afterwards, Li Siyue and Zhao Tuo went to report to the emperor.

"Isn't this Lao Li just dragging me along to share his anger out of fear that the emperor will be angry with him?"

Zhao Tuo murmured in his heart, but did not refuse and agreed to Li Si's suggestion to go to the audience.

As for Gongsun Xin and the other two barbarians who were already lying on the ground, they were taken down. They will wait for the emperor's decision.

In the palace in Pengcheng.

As expected by Zhao Tuo, the First Emperor became furious on the spot after hearing the results of their interrogation.

He stared at Li Si and Zhao Tuo with red eyes and said, "So the one caught this time is not Zhang Liang at all. The traitor who assassinated me has still not been caught!"

Li Si explained: "Your Majesty, this is all because Gongsun Xin claimed to be Zhang Liang and attracted the county soldiers of Pei County to his side, which gave Zhang Liang a chance to escape. However, I have ordered that the counties and counties near Pei County The main traffic roads in the village are strictly guarded, and Zhang Liang is alone. If he appears, he will be captured."

Seeing that the First Emperor was still angry, Zhao Tuo said: "Your Majesty, the Haidong warrior who threw the big iron cone was killed by the county soldiers on the spot. This is a happy event. Your Majesty should be relieved."

Hearing Zhao Tuo's comforting words, the First Emperor felt more comfortable.

Zhao Tuo was right. Although the mastermind of this assassination was Zhang Liang, the person who carried out the assassination was the Haidong warrior. It was indeed worthy of joy that this man was captured and killed.

Then, the First Emperor announced the punishment for the assassins.

"Kill the assassins you kill, kill their bodies, and show their heads to all directions."

"Gongsun Xin and others smashed their cars as a warning to others."

"Zhang Liang is wanted. If there is anyone in the world who captures this thief, I will confer him the rank of Lord and give him six thousand gold."

When the words came to this, a cold light appeared in the eyes of the First Emperor.

"The thieves from Haidong dare to send assassins to help Zhang Liang in his rebellion. This small country is violating the power of God and should be punished!"