At night, the snoring sound of the cells in the camp was like thunder, and the prisoners of the Chen army, who had been tired for a day, slept soundly, and built the river embankment was a hard work, digging the soil, carrying the soil, ramming the earth, and carrying stones all consumed a lot of their physical strength, and they could only recover after eating enough and sleeping at night.

In a certain cell, Wu Liutou slept outside at the fence door, he lay on his side on the ground and snored like thunder, but his eyes opened slightly from time to time, quietly looking at the movement outside, and seeing that Zhou Bing on duty at night was dozing, he looked at the lock on the cell door again.

The iron lock looked very strong, but it was not too much in his eyes, and when the time came, he could break it with the sewing needle in his hand, and once the lock was opened, it was time to play with his life.

Wu Liu's family is a generational military household, and he is called as a slave by the big families on weekdays, and he has done all kinds of chores, and he went to repair the lock by mistake, and he became a part-time locksmith after tossing a few times, so it is easy for him to pick the lock, and the only thing he lacks is the tools.

A month ago, Zhou Jun asked people to help the prisoners mend their clothes, Wu Liu took advantage of the fact that people were not paying attention to the sewing box, took a sewing needle that turned over the ground, and ate ten whips for this.

Thinking of the kind old woman who sewed clothes, he felt a little reluctant in his heart, the other party was about the same age as his late mother, and when he helped sew clothes, he also asked him to listen to the words of the 'official army' and strive for his early release.

The release sounds hopeful, but it sounds good, Zhou Jun captured them to do coolies, digging ditches, digging sand, and repairing river embankments, all of them are hard work, and what if they eat something good, it is nothing more than to let them do more work.

Wu Liu felt that Zhang Shun was right, Zhou Jun just wanted to let them be coolies until they were tired to death, thinking that they were about to die like a stray dog in a foreign land, how could they not sleep well.

Although it is inevitable to die in a different place as a soldier, but it is helpless in the chaos of the army, and now there is a chance to escape home, so you have to fight hard, the first few times someone resisted and failed, it is true, but this time everyone planned for more than a month, and the certainty of success is greater.

There was a slight grinding sound in the cell, and he knew that it was Shi Chang leading his companions to sharpen knives, of course, it couldn't be metal knives, they were all sharp stones picked up from the soil on weekdays, and a hard stone that was also picked up was used as a whetstone, and it was slowly sharpened every night and finally turned into a small stone knife that could kill.

In order to prevent the Zhou army from detecting, they spent a lot of effort to hide these stone knives, not only to guard against the cell boss but also to guard against the informants, those unconscionable cowards did not dare to escape, but they wanted to sell their former comrades in exchange for benefits.

Now that ten have been prepared, everyone has it, Wu Liu is in charge of letting off the wind at night, and at the same time pretending to snore to cover up the sound of the grinding knife, and after a long time of hard preparation, it will come in handy.

Approaching the beginning of winter, the night wind is cold, perhaps because of the strong wind, the Zhou soldiers on duty at night have hid in the shelter, he looked at the arrow tower in the distance, the sentry is still loyal to his duty.

'So serious, you deserve to blow the wind, it's best to blow out tuberculosis!' ’

Scolding and scolding, the sentries standing on the arrow tower are the most difficult to deal with, they must have bows and crossbows in their hands, condescending to shoot a quasi, so far they can only pray for God's blessing, and don't shoot the stray arrows when they get into trouble for a while.

"Is the hour coming?"

There was a gentle question in his ear, he knew that it was Zhang Shun's voice, glanced at the hazy moon in the night sky, and replied softly: "Almost." ”

There was an extra piece of something in his hand, cold and cold, he knew that it was a sharpened stone knife, although it was only the size of a dagger and very simple, but as a veteran who had seen blood, he could kill people with this thing.

"You have to be ruthless later, if you can't do it, you can poke your eyes or kick your crotch." Zhang Shun said in a low voice.

"Yes."

The cells were made of bamboo, wood, and earthen walls, and each room was very close to each other, and each room was held for a prisoner, and the soundproofing effect was not very good, so they spoke very quietly, so as not to be listened to by those who cared about it.

In the autumn wind, most of the soldiers on duty in the camp shrank to shelter from the wind, except for a few places where the brazier was lit to reflect the bright light, many places were dim and unknown, and Wu Liu still looked out by pretending to sleep.

The hour has come, it is time to make an appointment, although the sentry on the arrow tower is still sticking, but most of the Zhou soldiers on duty at night have gone to take shelter from the wind, this is a good opportunity, but there is no movement in the direction he is concerned about.

Just when he was a little puzzled, suddenly there was a movement in the fence door of a cell opposite, and after a few breaths, the cell door was pushed open, and several black shadows ran out of the cell.

"Wait a minute, let's see what's going on first." Zhang Shun said in a low voice, Wu Liu calmed down when he heard this, he knew what the other party meant: first see how many people are involved.

According to what the beard said before, there were six of them participating in the riot this time, and only by relying on at least so many people to attack the guards and release the other comrades.

If only one or twenty people come out, then don't think about it anymore while they are resting as soon as possible, and even if they participate, their colleagues who are imprisoned elsewhere will not participate, because the hope of success is too slim.

It is not impossible for this kind of thing to be done in advance, but it is not impossible for Wu Liu and others to endure it for several months, and they can't help but be careless when they see that the riots have just emerged and are bloodily suppressed.

Fortunately, things went well, and the fence doors of several more cells were opened, and seeing that dozens of people had run out, Wu Liu's mood was very excited, and at this moment, the situation suddenly changed, and Zhou Bing, who was sheltering from the wind, discovered the abnormality.

"How did any of you escape!!"

The prisoners who had just escaped from the cell saw that the matter was revealed, some of them howled and rushed to Zhou Bing, who rushed to hear the news, and some of them ran to other cells, among them seemed to have lock-picking experts, and several of them ran towards Zhang Shun and Wu Liu.

"Quick, unlock, let's go!" Zhang Shun shouted, his voice was full of excitement, Wu Liu was also forced to suppress the excitement, he inserted the sewing needle that had been held in the palm of his hand into the lock hole, and opened the iron lock with just a few flicks.

"Why is it so slow?" Zhang Shun smiled and said that the iron lock was a little troublesome, and the others ran out of the prison, shouting and killing, it seemed that the enemy and us had been in close combat, and the piercing gong sounded on the arrow tower.

Tonight the wind is strong, many Zhou soldiers are hiding to avoid the wind, Wu Liu looked in the direction of the walled gate, and found that there is no one guarding there, this is a big opportunity, they bet right!

"According to what was said, a few of you will go out to pick the lock and release everyone!" The beard shouted loudly, Zhang Shun looked at Shi Chang, saw that he nodded, and asked Wu Liu to unlock the doors of the other cells.

The shouts became more and more loud, and the defenders of the camp began to mobilize their hands to suppress the bullets, the sentries on the arrow tower kept shooting arrows, and the captives were all dressed in white clothes very conspicuously, but many of them took off their clothes, and most of them dodged the cold arrows except for a few unlucky ones.

Wu Liu's movements were very quick, and he opened the iron locks of three cells one after another, but just as he was about to open the fourth iron lock, he suddenly felt that something was wrong: no one came out of the prison.

When the lock was opened, he and his companions shouted, "Come out, run away," but no one came out of the cells he had opened so far, and when he turned his head, the prisoners in those cells were indifferent.

Panic, confusion, fear, all kinds of expressions, but no one dared to come out, Wu Liu caught a glimpse of a person who seemed to want to get up, but was pulled by his companion next to him, the man hesitated for a moment and then sat down.

"Come out! Let's go! I can't get tired here!! Wu Liu roared, his former comrades were now frightened, the prison door had been opened, and he didn't dare to fight, he felt that he had worked in vain.

Looking back at the cell door in front of him that was about to pick the lock, the ten people inside looked at him indifferently, without the slightest intention of coming out, Wu Liuyi gritted his teeth and pried open the iron lock with a sewing needle, and shouted at these people: "If you can't go, you can't stay here and have cubs!" ”

No one responded and no one got up, everyone in the cell lowered their heads, no one dared to look at him, Wu Liu sneered when he saw this and turned his head and left.

"It's all scared rubbish!"

After several failed riots, many people have been frightened, some people have been informant from time to time, many things that are still in the planning are then exposed, and according to the cruel rule that one person commits a crime and the whole team sits together, fewer and fewer people dare to escape.

In Wu Liu's opinion, they successfully broke out of the prison tonight, and helped the others open the prison door, if everyone can fight hard, they will have at least half a chance to escape after breaking out of the camp.

Their idea was to fish in troubled waters, and after hundreds of people rushed out, they let those who fled south attract the attention of the Zhou army, and they turned to the northwest and fled into the mountains, although this is a bit unauthentic, but at least it also gave everyone a chance to live.

It was pitch black in the field at night, and thirty or forty out of a hundred people could flee to the river, and as for who could enter the water, it was up to fate to blame others.

As a result, these people didn't even dare to come out of the cell, and would rather die of hard labor than give it a go, in this case, Wu Liu didn't bother to waste his words, he led his companions to rush to the direction of the gate, where there were already companions picking the lock.

"Let's go, Zhou Bing is going to surround you!" Shi Chang beckoned Wu Liu, followed by several people who were all partners of the same Shi, Wu Liu dodged one of the feathered arrows that was shot, glanced around, and found that the number of people on his side did not seem to have changed much.

In the cell that had been opened earlier, there were still many people shrunk, and those people, like Fang Cai, seemed to be the same, and did not dare to step out of the cell door to escape.

"The door is open and let's go!!" There was a shout from the direction of the walled gate, Wu Liu was overjoyed when he heard this, and many people ran over, it was the beard and others who abandoned the defenders and wanted to rush out.

"Let's go, don't pay attention to these cowards!" Zhang Shun shouted behind him, Wu Liu and the others ran towards the slowly opened walled gate, but they didn't run a few steps before they saw that the walled gate was frozen.

"Open the door, open the door!" Some people were so anxious that they shouted loudly, but the two gates could not be opened no matter how hard they tried, and some people looked through the cracks in the doors that only dogs could penetrate, and found that the gates were chained outside.

"There is a wire outside the door, it is impossible to open, we are ambushed!"

At this point, the faces of the people surrounding the gate changed, and suddenly the fire shone behind them, and many Zhou soldiers armed with swords, spears, and bows and arrows surrounded them, which was in stark contrast to the previous casual performance.

"Who is it! Who betrayed us!! (To be continued.) )