Chapter 231: Cross the River! Cross the River! Cross the River!
The tragedy that took place in the middle of the river shocked the prisoners who stayed on the west bank. They looked at what was happening in front of them in horror and disbelief.
The massacre on the ice was bloodier and more terrifying than any massacre they had ever experienced.
As the last cries for help dissipated in the dark night sky, the prisoners still had not woken up from this nightmare.
They stared blankly at the river, staring blankly, the muscles on their faces seemed to be frozen, without any change. The latest novel "Pig Island Novel"
Silence, suffocating silence, no sound [
This is a kind of fear that comes from the depths of the heart, a kind of terror that freezes blood instantly like ice.
"Ah uh uh"
Qi Sanbao's mouth was wide enough to hold a wine bottle, and the hand holding the knife couldn't help trembling. He looked at Jiang Wanli standing in front of him in horror.
He took a step back with his right foot. He was frightened by the tragedy. As long as the officers and soldiers in front turned around, he believed that he would instantly slash at them with a knife.
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It must have been done by the officers and soldiers, it must have been done by them, they wanted to kill us all, kill us all!
Qi Sanbao didn't want to die. He didn't want to be like those people and become the victim of officers and soldiers. He even began to regret that he shouldn't have listened to Zhao Xueqi. Anyway, it would be better now to stick out his neck and let others slaughter him!
The rebels who followed him "anyway" also had their hearts in their throats and stared at Qi Sanbao intently. They were ready to fight the officers and soldiers.
Nothing is more alarming and unsettling than being killed
However, the officers and soldiers in front did not make any move that frightened them. They always looked at the river steadily and did not show their ferocious faces or wave their butcher knives at all.
No one even turned around and said a word to them, they just stared at the river.
Seeing with their own eyes a thousand living lives being swallowed up by the river of love, no matter how accustomed these Jinzhou soldiers were to seeing life and death, they could not help but be deeply shocked.
They are not butchers, let alone executioners, they are just soldiers, soldiers fighting for their country.
They didn't know why the general wanted to kill these prisoners who had laid down their weapons. When they heard the order to kill the prisoners, the soldiers were surprised and confused. However, a soldier's bounden duty is to obey, and they are used to obeying the general's orders under certain conditions, just as they
You can go all the way to Liaodong to serve the pride of your hometown.
There must be a reason for the general to do this. The soldiers comfort themselves so much that they instinctively think about the good side of things instead of the bad side.
But no matter how they thought about it, what happened before them still made them a little heartbroken. After all, it was not the barbaric slaves who died, but the people of the Ming Dynasty like themselves.
Perhaps, not long ago, these people, like themselves, were still planting crops in the fields, hugging their wives and children at home and saying ridiculous things. Now, they have become frozen corpses.
"Cross the river"
Shi Dayong sighed and waved to Guo Yi, who hurriedly rode his horse to deliver orders to each camp [
"Get up, get up, cross the river, cross the river!"
The familiar voice sounded again, but this time, no one got up. The prisoners seemed to have reached an agreement that they would not get up even if they died.
The Liusha River not far away has become a deadly monster in their eyes, and the officers and soldiers in front of them are the incarnation of the monster.
After calling dozens of times, the prisoners still did not move.
Seeing this, Shi Dayong knew that the prisoners no longer trusted him and they were afraid of suffering the same fate.
He smiled bitterly. If it were him, he wouldn't be able to get up either. He might even make a desperate fight with the officers and soldiers. Anyway, he would be dead. Being hacked to death would be more pleasant than drowning in the water.
If at this time, a time traveler like myself suddenly possessed one of these captives, what would the situation be like?
Stand up, the bastard gets angry, shouts, the crowd responds, kills himself to a great defeat, and then writes a new page?
Thinking too much, thinking too much, Shi Dayong smiled self-deprecatingly. If possible, he really didn't expect such a scene to happen, because he felt that he seemed to be getting more and more violent, and seemed to have fallen into paranoia. If this continued, who would
Do you know what you will become in the end?
Let’s talk about the future things later. For now, let’s send these poor people to the other side of the river. Everyone is born and raised by their parents. No one can take away other people’s lives casually. No matter how hard it is, no matter how forced it is, it is still sinful.
Shi Dayong rode his horse to the small slope where the flag-waving soldiers were, and raised his voice and shouted to the prisoners: "You should be lucky that you can live! Those who died died for you, because their death was a substitute for
I’ll take your life!”
"You won't have to be like them. I can guarantee that everything is over and you can cross the river safely. No one will harm you!"
The prisoners were not moved by Shi Dayong's words. They looked at the masked military commander blankly and cursed viciously in their hearts.
Shi Dayongnai knew that the prisoners' wariness could not be dispelled by just a few words. It seemed that they had to let them prove that they could survive.
"Drive them across the river. If anyone is unwilling to cross, behead them on the spot!"
After saying a cold word, Shi Dayong turned his horse and ran towards the river.
"Let's go! If you want to live, leave! If you don't want to live, don't move!"
The Changping soldiers began to intimidate, and the movements in their hands began to become louder.
Under coercion, some dubious prisoners began to stand up, but there were not many of them, only a few hundred, but most of them still sat there and refused to stand up.
The prisoners who stood up found that most of their companions were not moving, and they didn't know for a moment whether they were listening to the officers and soldiers' instructions to cross the river, or whether they were just sitting here like their companions.
The two guards, Li Dashan and Shao Wu, were impatient. If the prisoners continued to drag on like this, when would the weather be so cold? Who the hell would be freezing outside?
Shi Dayong's command to kill people became a gold medal for Li Shao and the two. After a brief exchange of opinions, they ordered two hundred Changping soldiers to hold firecrackers and aim them at the captive crowd, and asked the wolf cavalry to assist [
If you don’t eat the soft ones, you can only eat the hard ones.
Li Dashan shouted fiercely at the prisoners: "If you don't leave, we will start shooting!"
But the threats had no effect. The prisoners seemed determined and no one was willing to move.
"Damn it! Looking for death!"
Li Dashan came forward, spat, and waved his hands towards the gunmen.
Suddenly, the sound of "bang bang" firecrackers started, and after the black smoke cleared, more than a hundred prisoners fell in a pool of blood, struggling and rolling.
Wails and screams of terror ebbed and flowed, and the unintentional prisoner retreated like a frightened rabbit.
"Anyone who cannot survive the river will be killed!"
The wolf cavalry pressed forward ferociously, and the clatter of hoofbeats made the prisoners unable to breathe.
The slower the wolf cavalry's horses are controlled, the more frightened the prisoners will be.
Cao Bianjiao raised his long sword and looked ahead expressionlessly.
"Hurry up, cross the river, hurry up, cross the river quickly, you guys should cross the river quickly"
Commander Li Gu couldn't bear the thought of these young men being coerced by the rebels to be killed or injured again. Seeing that the wolf cavalry was about to take action, he hurried to the prisoners, grabbed a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old, and then pulled him
Walking onto the ice without looking back
"If you want to live, come with me, quickly!"
Li Gu's actions caused the wolf cavalry to stop and attracted the attention of the prisoners.
Under everyone's gaze, Li Gu pulled the young man forward quickly on the ice. The young man was already pale with shock, but he did not dare to struggle and resist, and allowed the other person to pull him forward involuntarily.
moving
There is no conspiracy, the killing is over
All the prisoners saw the officers and soldiers pulling a man across the river smoothly.
Are the officers and soldiers really not going to kill us?
The prisoners began to commotion, and some people began to believe that the officers and soldiers would not massacre them anymore.
Seeing that the prisoners started to move, Shao Wu hurriedly shouted: "If you want to live, cross the river!"
The Changping soldiers rushed up again, threatening one after another. Finally, dozens of prisoners slowly walked out of the crowd, glanced at each other, and walked to the river.
They walked a few steps, stopped a few steps, and looked back at the people on the shore from time to time.
The time spent walking on the ice is like days and years. Time passes minute by minute and there is no change in the ice layer.
It was not until they reached the other side safely that the prisoners believed that the officers and soldiers would not kill them again.
"Crossing the river, crossing the river!"
This time, it was the prisoners themselves who were shouting. In their eyes, the dozens of companions who had safely crossed the river became a guarantee of survival.
Soon, more than two thousand prisoners poured onto the ice like a tide. They were nervous and scared, but soon they began to get excited because they discovered that there were no traps on the ice.
After half a stick of incense, all the prisoners finally crossed the river. Under the supervision of Jiang Wanli and Qi Sanbao on the other side, they entered the barracks where they originally lived in the town in batches.
Shi Dayong was the last to cross the river, walking slowly on the ice with Guo Yi and more than a dozen soldiers
The ice is too slippery to run a horse. You can only walk forward slowly. Otherwise, you will definitely stumble and fall off the horse.
The ice surface here is more than a mile away from the collapsed ice surface, and there is a risk of collapse.
Guo Yi was about to ask the general what to eat in the town, but he saw the general suddenly reined in his mount, and then stared motionlessly at the ice under his feet.
Guo Yi was surprised. He walked over with a torch to see what the general was looking at, but this made him almost scream.
Under the reflection of the fire, under the ice, one corpse after another clung to the ice. At a glance, they were so densely packed that you couldn't even see the end of them.
Shi Dayong looked at the lives he had killed silently. He dismounted silently, squatted down and looked down steadily.
In his sight, a body floating on its back close to the ice beneath his feet suddenly moved, then turned around.
When the body was turned over, Shi Dayong screamed "ah" and stepped back. He sat down on the ice and his breathing suddenly became more rapid.
When he saw the corpse, his eyes suddenly opened and he looked at him more bitterly.
"General, what's wrong?" Guo Yi and a group of soldiers rushed over. Guo Yi helped Shi Dayong up and looked at the ice under the ice at a loss, but he couldn't see anything.
Shi Dayong let go of Guo Yi, calmed down, and looked under the ice again, but this time he couldn't see anything. Under the ice, there were only blurry shadows in the darkness. Other than that, he couldn't see anything.
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Seeing that the general looked wrong, Guo Yi asked uneasily: "General, what happened?"
Shi Dayong didn't speak. After a while, Fang shook his head and told the soldiers: "It's okay. Let's get on our horses and cross the river."
All the soldiers were surprised. They didn't know what happened to make the general lose his temper. Guo Yi was also suspicious, but he didn't dare to ask more. He took Shi Dayong's horse, helped him mount, and then led his men to follow.
Crossed the river
Underfoot, corpses one after another are slowly floating downstream with the water in an unknown direction.