Chapter 287: Gathering the People and Captives
Cao Xiu saw that in front of the two neat teams, there were some Shu soldiers holding whips and broadswords to maintain order, and some of them were disobedient, or those who went to the wrong team, they would be whipped by these Shu soldiers, and then they would be honest.
Of course, there are also those who are not honest, and those who are not honest are all Wei soldiers, and the common people have always been very well-behaved in front of whips and broadswords. But at this moment, the dishonest Wei soldiers were lying on the ground. Cao Xiu also saw that there was an open space in the middle of the ranks on both sides, and the open space was full of Wei soldiers.
Seeing this, Cao Xiu's pupils shrank, and his breathing became heavy. There are no less than hundreds of Wei soldiers lying in the open space in the middle, but they are not lying on the beach basking in the sun and enjoying life, in fact, their life has come to an end.
Each of the lying Wei soldiers had an area stained red with blood, and if you took off their clothes and looked closely, you would see that there was actually a hole there.
It was from these holes that blood flowed out, and some of them were still bleeding from the holes, indicating that they were not dead, but most of them had already lost their blood and their lives. The soil in the ground was stained red with blood~ a large piece of red, making the nearby black soil turn into red soil.
Obviously, these are the "dishonest" Wei soldiers, all the Wei soldiers who wanted to resist and wanted to make a rebellion were mercilessly killed by the Shu army, and then piled up in this open space to deter future generations.
Those Shu soldiers who held knives and whips to maintain order were all wearing rattan armor, and those Wei soldiers who were in chaos slashed at them with knives had no effect at all, even if they were knocked to the ground and trampled by the crowd, they would not be hurt.
And if they can't suppress the chaotic soldiers, the Shu army will blow the suona here, and the vine armor soldiers who maintain order here will immediately lie down when they hear the specific suona tone and adopt a lying down posture.
The fire~ spearmen in the phalanx over there began to shoot after they lay down, and those chaotic soldiers were instantly crushed by the dense lead bullets. At this time, as long as they are not stupid, whether it is a rebel or a common person, they will hold their heads in their hands and fall to the ground. As a result, the rebellion of the Wei soldiers was quelled at once.
Under the pressure of the fire ~ gunner, the chaos was calmed down quickly, of course, it is conceivable that such a simple and crude bullet pressure method will definitely injure many people by mistake. Although the fire~gunners tried their best to aim at the Wei soldiers who were making trouble, the accuracy of the fire~ guns was very average these days, and not everyone was a sharpshooter, plus the people and the Wei soldiers were mixed together, and accidental injuries were inevitable.
Fortunately, most of the people who ran at the front were Wei soldiers, so, in general, it was also Wei soldiers who were injured and killed. That's it, whether they want it or not, whether they are willing or not, they have to be prisoners obediently. All those who witnessed this scene knew that if they did not take prisoners and did not obey the arrangements of the Shu army, only death awaited them.
After the chaos was calmed down, the fire ~ spearmen also stopped shooting and continued to shoot, but no one dared to stand up at this time, because no one knew whether the Shu army would continue to shoot, and no one wanted to be the first bird to be shot. At this time, the sound of suona sounded again in the Shu army's array, but this time the tone was not the same as the tone that made the vine armor soldiers lie down just now.
The vine armor soldiers who maintained order heard the suona sound of this tone and knew that this was a signal to tell them to stand up, so they stood up one after another, and began to punch and kick to drive away the Wei soldiers and people who were lying on the ground to stand up as well, and continued to walk forward, divided into two sides according to the order to those tables, and asked those masters to help register the information, assign numbers, and then began their glorious captive career.
After such a farce of killing chickens and setting an example, the Wei soldiers in the back were much more well-behaved, and the people who witnessed this massacre did not dare to have other thoughts, even in the back, those who did not have the opportunity to see all this with their own eyes, when they approached and saw the corpses of the Wei soldiers piled up in the open space, they would also understand what had just happened here, so they were honest.
This kind of chaos and bombing was repeated several times, so that there were hundreds of Wei soldiers piled up in the open space and a small number of civilian corpses mixed inside. Seeing this scene, Cao Xiu was extremely sad and angry, and wanted to fight to the death with the Shu army with a knife, but the soldiers held down his hand and refused to give him a knife.
One of the soldiers persuaded him: "General, a good man does not suffer immediate losses, although the tiger falls in Pingyang in front of him, he may not be able to soar into the sky in the coming day, please don't act rashly." I hope that the general can leave a useful body, and he may have the opportunity to fight for His Majesty in the future. ”
Cao Xiu sighed and said, "Now that he is about to become a prisoner, what are you talking about soaring into the sky, and what are you talking about continuing to fight for Your Majesty?" ”
"Otherwise, hasn't the general heard that the Shu army has always treated prisoners preferentially? The Shu army never killed prisoners, and all the prisoners were either selected into the army, or they were incorporated into the baggage team to carry grain and grass materials for the Shu army. If this is really the case, the general will definitely find an opportunity to escape from the scope of Shu and return to His Majesty~. "The pro-soldier said.
It seems that this pro-soldier has a good understanding of the Shu army's policy of preferential treatment of prisoners, but there is one thing he is not right, Shu will not easily divide the land for those prisoners, they will be incorporated into the construction corps first, to mine or farm. Only prisoners who have served Shu for a sufficient number of years and performed well have the opportunity to be assigned fields and regain their status as civilians.
Cao Xiu was persuaded by his own soldiers, mainly because of the prospects described by his own soldiers, which made him believe that he still had a chance to escape, and that he still had a chance to return to Wei to continue to fight for the Cao Emperor. As long as it is not a time of complete despair, people will not make crazy moves, Cao Xiu is now hopeful in his heart, and naturally he will no longer do those radical acts.
Seeing that he persuaded the general, the soldiers immediately stopped him, pulled him into the crowd, and helped him take off the armor on his body, after all, the Mingguang armor on his body was too conspicuous. However, their actions have fallen into the eyes of the vine armor soldiers who maintain order, and the vine armor soldiers have long been staring at this big fish dressed in the wind from a distance, and they have been waiting here for a long time, and when they saw him hiding in the crowd, they immediately rushed over, pushing away the people and Wei soldiers who were blocking the way, to catch this big fish.
Cao Xiu's personal soldiers desperately blocked these rattan armor soldiers, and first bought time for the general to change his clothes. Of course, the rattan armor soldiers will not be polite, and they will immediately draw their swords and cut them, and Cao Xiu's personal soldiers will not show weakness, and they will also pull out their knives~ and cut against the rattan armor soldiers. An unexpected skirmish took place.
ps. I worked overtime tonight and almost didn't have enough time to finish writing. Until now, I can barely open my eyes. Fortunately, I finally got enough 2k