On the road leading to Ningcheng, a strange team was walking slowly on it.
The reason why I say this team is strange is because in this team, apart from the twenty or thirty cavalrymen with bright armor, there are also dozens of men strung up by ropes.
Most of these men who were strung together were strong, wearing a variety of clothes, but their waists were tightly tied with a rope as thick as a thumb. At this time, they were walking forward with difficulty amidst the scoldings of the cavalry.
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"I'm not leaving! I'm not leaving! I can't walk anymore!"
After walking like this for who knows how long, a man who was tied up in the middle finally screamed in despair, closed his eyes, and sat down on the ground.
As soon as he sat down, the people tied to him next to him were caught off guard and were pulled down to the ground together! For a moment, the whole rope was thrown into chaos, and everyone fell to the side of the road in random directions.
"stand up!"
Jia Yi rode up from behind, looked at the man lying side by side, and shouted coldly! But in response to him, there were only a few feeble grunts.
They really can't walk!
We have been walking for two days. Apart from drinking some water, each person was given a hard steamed bun the size of a fist! Even if they were prisoners, they couldn't be mistreated like this!
"We want to eat!"
The man who was the first to sit on the ground scratched his neck and shouted. He had already made up his mind that unless these people gave him food, he would never get up from the ground.
"You want to eat?"
Hearing this person's cry, Liu Hongji, who followed him, sneered and whipped him without any nonsense!
"Snapped……"
The tough cowhide whip hit the man who was speaking. Even through thick clothes, his skin was ripped open on the spot. The painful man screamed "Ouch..." and rolled and crawled away from the ground.
stand up!
And that's not all, Liu Hongji waved his whip in the air and hit the man hard again!
"Ouch! Don't hit! Don't hit! I'm leaving. Isn't it okay for me to leave?" After being whipped again, the man covered his shoulders that were quickly stained red with blood and shouted with a cry!
Originally, he thought that he was still a tough guy, but he didn't expect that in the hands of these demons, his so-called toughness would be so ridiculous!
"What about you? Are you going to eat? Aren't you going to eat? If you don't want to eat, I'll leave!" Liu Hongji held his whip and sneered as he glanced at a group of thieves who were getting up in a hurry. Everyone couldn't help but shudder due to his gaze.
, quickly stood up obediently and continued on his way.
In fact, it was not that Liu Hongji had no food on hand, but for these offal, he felt that as long as he could still breathe, it was no big deal. Anyway, it was just a knife when he got there. Eat less food and save some food for them.
The team that had just stopped soon set off again.
However, after the small episode just now, the team's speed was obviously much faster.
Especially the thieves, when they looked at Liu Hongji and the others, there was obviously a deep fear in their eyes.
They don't know where these people are taking them, and they don't know what will happen to them!
They even didn't realize that their previous actions of killing people and massacring the village were enough to send them to the execution ground and accept the punishment of being cut into pieces with a thousand cuts!
In Xiao Han's words, these are a group of hateful people and a group of pathetic people!
They were just some poor people who lost their homes, but under the brainwashing and lobbying of those with ulterior motives, they blamed the government, the court, and even other people who had not been affected by the flood for the destruction of their homes and the separation of their relatives.
On common people.
In their simple and ignorant brains, there is nothing wrong with killing people and stealing goods!
Since the government doesn't care about their life or death, then they should care about their own life and death!
So whether it was robbery or plunder that happened later, for them, it was a means of survival!
Who told you not to help us? Since you didn't give, you can't blame us for robbing. As for when I accidentally killed you with a knife during the robbing, you can't blame me, right? Who told you not to hurry up?
Let go?
Xiao Han knew in his last life that if a poor person is given power, what he is most likely to do is not to pity other poor people, but to bully those poor people even harder. This is the despicability of human nature!
Obviously, those people lurking in the dark also understand this, so they use various means to provoke these people to burn, kill, loot and torture everywhere in an attempt to make this muddy water even muddier!
However, these refugees who are used as gunmen are very sad, but everyone must pay the corresponding price for what they have done!
Therefore, Xiao Han will not sympathize with them!
And not only did he not sympathize with these people, but after seeing several destroyed villages along the way, Xiao Han's hatred for these people deepened!
"Master Hou! There is a fort ahead!"
Just when Xiao Han lowered his head and thought deeply, suddenly, Lengzi rushed over on horseback, pointed at a place in front and shouted in a low voice...
"Fortress?" Xiao Han was awakened by the idiot. He frowned and looked at where the idiot pointed.
Sure enough, there, there was a high wall made of square stones, firmly stuck in the middle of two low mountains.
"Is there anyone in the fort?" After looking at the fort carefully for a while, Xiao Han couldn't help but let out a light sigh when he found that there was a figure moving on the wall of the fort.
Before this, Xiao Han had heard about the origin of these forts.
These were all fortifications built spontaneously by the local people during the chaos in the late Sui Dynasty to resist the harassment of rebels, bandits, and even government troops.
However, after the world was at peace, most of these forts were abandoned due to the inconvenience of life, but unexpectedly, they were now used by the local people.
"Master Hou, do we want to go and have a look!" Seeing Xiao Han looking at the fort intently, the fool asked cautiously from the side.
He always felt that something was not right with the Marquis these past two days! Not only did he lose his usual amiable and ordinary appearance, he also had a hint of violence in him!
The fool remembered that the last time he had this feeling was on the grassland, and everyone had seen the consequences of that time.
“Go check it out!”
Xiao Han didn't notice the strangeness of the idiot. He just pondered for a moment before nodding and making a decision.
Apart from these thieves, he saw no other living people along the way! He didn't know if those people didn't dare to walk on the road, or if they saw them from a distance, they hid first.
Now that I finally saw some local people, I naturally wanted to ask them about the recent situation here.
