Under the coercion of the Jinzhou soldiers, the prisoners began to slowly walk towards the river. Once the crowd moved, they could no longer prevent the tragedy from happening.
"After crossing the river, no one is allowed to run around. Squat where you are and someone will arrange it for you!"
"Don't run around, let alone try to run away. Anyone who violates this rule will be killed immediately!"
"After dawn, I will give you money to go home. If you can go home, you can stay and serve in the Chinese army."
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The lies spun by Shi Dayong were told verbatim to the prisoners by the Jinzhou soldiers.
Amidst the shouting, there were also curses and screams, but they were quickly replaced by the sound of neat footsteps.
The lie was easily accepted by the prisoners. Although the attitude of the officers and soldiers was so bad, the promises gave the prisoners a glimmer of confidence. They really thought that the officers and soldiers were going to send them to the town on the other side of the river, and then release them after dawn.
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If I could go home, I would be willing to get beaten up.
Deceived by lies, a thousand relatively strong prisoners took a step towards the Liusha River without any knowledge. The latest novel "Pig Island Novel"
The remaining 2,600 prisoners were ordered to sit down and wait for the 1,000 people to cross the river before leaving.
The composition of these weak prisoners is very simple. They are all young and strong people from Beizhili who were coerced. Compared with the 1,000 prisoners, these people are generally more courageous. Seeing the officers and soldiers select the strong ones from among them, some people
They even thought that the officers and soldiers were going to kill them.
Therefore, some people were crying secretly, and there was a sense of fear in the crowd
Many people even wanted to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the officers and soldiers and sneak into the team crossing the river to avoid being killed here. However, the officers and soldiers were very tightly guarded and they had no chance to slip through.
As the thousand people moved further and further away, it became impossible for the remaining prisoners to get in, and the crowd began to turn from fear to despair.
What is strange is that none of these prisoners thought of finding an opportunity to escape while the officers and soldiers' attention was focused on the prisoners crossing the river.
You must know that at this time, there were only more than a hundred Jinzhou soldiers left to guard these prisoners. Although Cao Bianjiao's wolf cavalry blocked the road to the west, they only had a mere two hundred soldiers.
If the prisoners scream and escape at all costs, the night will be their best ally
At least, they can escape half of them
However, no one ran away, so Shi Dayong felt strange
Not knowing that the God of Death was waiting for them in front of them, when the captive team reached the river, the people at the front suddenly stepped back and looked at the ice in front of them with some uneasiness. Their expressions and eyes were very complicated, and their hearts were also very tangled. I didn't know if it was...
Keep walking forward
Seeing the captive team suddenly retreating, Shi Dayong was startled, thinking that the prisoners had discovered something wrong on the ice.
Looking towards the ice, everything was normal. Song Qing was still leading a hundred or so people there pretending to fetch water, and nothing was exposed.
"Drive them across the river. If they refuse to cross, kill them!"[
Shi Dayong ordered his own soldiers to convey the order, and also asked someone to convey the order to Cao Bianjiao, who could come at any time to drive the prisoners across the river.
On the shore, when they found that the prisoners were not leaving, the Jinzhou Army immediately stepped forward to shout at them and hit them with blunderbuss, trying to get them to continue moving forward.
The people at the back of the team didn't know what was happening in front of them, but they still walked forward involuntarily and were squeezed by these people. The people in the front found it difficult to stand still, but they refused to cross the river, so they could only hold their faces or protect themselves with their hands.
Holding his head open and letting the officers and soldiers beat him
After receiving Shi Dayong's order, Li Dashan immediately rushed over with his men. Without asking any questions, he just shouted at the prisoners: "If you don't leave, we will shoot!"
Dozens of Jinzhou soldiers holding fire cannons immediately pointed their torches at the match ropes in their hands. The black holes of the cannons were pointed at the prisoners in front, ready to light them at any time.
At this time, Song Qing saw something was wrong on the ice, and he also led people to run over with torches and swords drawn in his hands, ready to come up and kill the prisoners who disobeyed orders at any time.
"Don't, don't fire the gun, let's go, let's go"
Seeing that the officers and soldiers were trying to kill them, the prisoners who refused to cross the river were so frightened that they quickly begged for mercy. They did not realize that the officers and soldiers were trying to kill them, but they felt uneasy and stopped moving forward.
Compared with the uneasiness they didn't know why, the bright swords and black muzzles in front of them made them even more frightened.
Several prisoners stretched out their feet toward the ice in fear. Under their guidance, the prisoner team soon walked towards the middle of the river.
They walked very slowly, not sure whether they were afraid of slipping or if they were afraid that if they walked too fast, the ice would collapse. Perhaps the latter would be more likely to be affected than the former.
one hundred two hundred and four hundred
As more and more prisoners poured onto the ice, the ice that had been silent began to make subtle cracking sounds.
The sound is so loud that if you don't listen carefully, it will be difficult to be noticed.
In addition, after they stepped onto the river, the Jinzhou Army began to consciously retreat back and kept a sufficient distance from them. In this way, the prisoners could not use the light of torches to find anything wrong on the ice.
Finally, all the 1,000 prisoners walked onto the river. Those at the front could reach the river safely after walking more than a hundred steps.
The ice layer did not collapse
Shi Dayong was a little impatient, but he still waited patiently. If the ice did not collapse until all the prisoners crossed the river, then maybe God couldn't bear that these people would be buried in the belly of the fish.
Moving step by step, walking on the frozen ice that was suspended in the air, the prisoners felt even more uneasy.
Both sides were waiting. The Jinzhou Army was waiting for the ice to collapse, while the prisoners were waiting for the people in front to pass quickly.
Time passes minute by minute
Shi Dayong was not disappointed. Although the ice on Liusha River was frozen solid enough, it could not withstand the weight of a thousand people walking on it at the same time after the Jinzhou Army dug holes in it.[
With a "creak" sound, a prisoner was horrified to find that a large hole suddenly opened in the ice under his feet.
The hole is dozens of feet long and is still extending.
Almost at the same time, there were several more crisp sounds of ice breaking, and the flat ice surface was like white paper after being twisted, with dozens of wrinkles appearing at once.
"The ice is about to collapse, run!"
The one who made the sound of running was not the prisoner, but the commander-in-chief of the Jinzhou Army, Song Qing. Although he was far away and the crack did not extend to the area under his feet, he also felt instinctive fear. The Jinzhou soldiers on the ice also invariably felt the same.
Run further away, there is nothing more terrifying in this world than drowning in freezing water.
All the prisoners who were walking retreated, looking at their feet with ashen faces. No one dared to move.
"Damn it! God will take care of you!"
A prisoner suddenly used all his strength to rush to the Jinzhou Army on the shore and shouted a curse. Immediately, he stepped lightly and the whole person fell down and disappeared at a shocking speed.
one two three
Countless prisoners were dragged into the frozen quicksand river by the broken ice. They struggled, roared, shouted, and waved their hands for help, but there was no straw for them to catch.
The prisoners ran in all directions in panic. However, the faster they ran, the faster the ice cracked.
The cracks underfoot spread faster than the captives' feet
"Help! Help! Help!"
Screams for help resounded over the Shahe River. On both sides of the river, cold eyes, frightened eyes and unbearable eyes, everyone's eyes were looking at them.
No one could save these prisoners. Soon, no one could be seen on the ice. Only several heads were seen writhing in the river, and several hands were waving desperately.
Those broken ice floes became the life-saving straw that the prisoners fought for.
The bone-chilling river water instantly took away people's body temperature, and the warm cotton clothes became a deadly shroud, dragging each life into the bottomless river water.
The ice floes could not save these prisoners, and many of them were even drowned by their companions from the ice floes.
There is no difference between those who know how to swim and those who don't know how to swim. All struggles are in vain in this frozen quicksand river.
The cold makes people numb and makes human beings struggle again
Lives sank one by one, corpses floated up one by one
The Liusha River is crying, and the waves caused by the drowning people hit the ice, making a dull echo. It seems to be the cry of those who died, and it seems to be accusing the world of the atrocities of the Jinzhou Army.
it's all over
Looking at the tragedy he had caused with his own hands, Shi Dayong felt extremely guilty, but he had no regrets. He could only silently pray that these beings could rest in peace in another world.