Chapter 25: On the Road

On the mountain road from Wugu to Bozhuo City, more than 5,000 slave laborers were under the custody of the Tang Army, and under the reminder of the sticks of the supervision team, they diligently waved the tools in their hands to widen and flatten the mountain road. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

If you only look at the surface, these slave laborers are a hard-working army that has no complaints about the work they are currently doing.

But if someone can see into their hearts, they will find out. The resentment in the hearts of these people was like a surging river, and all kinds of vicious curses repeatedly cursed every Tang Army and every supervision team they could see.

"Smack!"

"You gang of Goryeo barbarians and Silla Yi, your dog claws and pig legs for me to hurry up, if you can't repair to Bozhuo City in three days, everyone will not be able to eat, and you ghost beasts will starve to death."

Lieutenant Tang Jundu, who was in charge of supervising the work, rode a horse and waved the long whip in his hand and scolded and scolded the slaves, and when he saw that one of them was moving a little slower, he whipped it over, and the flesh and blood of the person who beat him were blurred, and he screamed.

"What is that Tang dog talking about?" A slave servant, busy with his work, asked his companion beside him.

"Hmph. A dog was scolding us there, and if we didn't repair it to Bozhuo City within three days, we wouldn't give us food. ”

"Damn, these Tang dogs are too deceitful, they treat us as livestock, and sooner or later they will cut off the head of that Tang dog."

Several busy slave laborers with their heads bowed around them swore in low voices, cursing indignantly.

"Smack."

"Ah......" Before the mouths of the cursing people were closed, a thumb-thick whip flew in the air and whipped several people, the clothes they were wearing were instantly torn, and the flesh left a bloody whip mark on the ground and screamed in pain.

"See?" The lieutenant shook the whip in his hand, pointed at the beaten to the ground and screamed, and shouted at the other slaves: "This is the end of lazy and nonsense. ”

"Why don't you hurry up and hang these filthy goods upside down on the roadside trees for me, and put them down tomorrow morning if you don't die."

"No......" Several supervision teams hurriedly set up several slave laborers who had fallen on the ground, tied their hands and feet, dragged them to the big tree on the side of the mountain road, and hung them upside down on the tree.

Hum! There was a muttering thing. I think I can't take you barbarians if I don't understand? Just use you to kill chickens and monkeys, and hang on the side of the road to warn other slave workers.

Looking at his masterpiece, the lieutenant was very proud, and pointed to the slave workers hanging upside down on the tree and admonished his men: "If you find some slave workers working like them again but muttering to each other, you will do the same, first whip them and then hang them upside down on the tree." ”

"Obey the orders of the Captain!"

The lieutenant hummed a little song and rode forward to inspect the front, and while working, his eyes peeked at the fierce and vicious Tang army lieutenant in the distance, and the slave workers on this section of the road couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Ren Qiang enjoyed the eyes of the slaves who were afraid of him, and the errand arranged by His Highness was the most satisfying to him. You don't have to train or patrol all day long, you can leisurely watch these slaves work, and if you are a little dissatisfied or you are in a bad mood for a while, you can make fun of these slaves.

No matter how dishonest the slave laborer is, he can be subdued and timid, and when he sees me, he can be like a tiger about to eat people, lying on the ground and unable to move.

Five thousand people bowed their heads to themselves, obedient like rabbits in their hands, which made Ren Qiang feel an indescribable sense of accomplishment and satisfaction in his heart.

Starting from Anshi, the slave laborers were escorted to build roads, and as many as 200 slave laborers were killed by Ren Qiang for various reasons along the way.

This is still hands-on, those who were ordered by him to rush to repair the road were executed to death from exhaustion and various work-related injuries, and there are only 700 people left in 5,000 people.

So that within a few days of Ren Qiang taking over this errand, he left a name for cruelty and plunder in the eyes of the slaves, and the slaves changed their complexes when they heard about it. In my heart, I greeted Ren Qiang from the eighteenth generation of his ancestors to the eighteenth generation of his descendants.

Under Ren Qiang's madness, the slaves were threatened at every moment, and they kept repairing the road at the next moment, so that the progress of repairing the road was much faster than Li Yu estimated by more than three days.

In order to show his face in front of His Royal Highness and fight for his share of the merits of not having to fight the battlefield, Ren Qiang even forced the slaves to repair the road to Bozhuo City three days in advance.

In this way, when this official road is completed, it is seven days ahead of His Royal Highness's order, which is a great merit that does not require hard work, and His Highness will not reward it, and the official position can also be promoted.

Hahaha......

As for the lives of those slaves, who cares?

After the Goryeo rebels are pacified, I can also return to my hometown in fine clothes, envying the poor and sour people who have always looked down on me.

Mother, my Ren family is a Gaojiazhuang who moved to Taihang Mountain to escape the war in the last years of the previous dynasty, and has always been oppressed and looked down upon by the poor people surnamed Gao. When I become famous, see how I go back to make you a poor man with a high surname unable to raise his head, and then he will hold your toes like Hu Ren.

In the forest on the mountain ridge where the road construction army was busy, several sneaky figures looked at the crowd on the mountain road.

"Isn't that Tang Jun? Those who were working seemed to be going to attack General Anshigao's subordinates, as well as the Silla people. ”

The captured Goryeo and Silla armies simply took off their armor and were still wearing their original battle robes, which made it clear at a glance that they were identified.

Quanshuijing watched the thousands of people building the road under the mountain, most of them Goryeo prisoners, building the road under the whipping of the Tang army. I don't want to be expected by myself for the worst ending, God, why did I get lost in the mountains and forests? If I had rushed back a moment earlier, our army would not have been defeated by the Tang army's calculations.

With so many captives repairing the mountain road from the black bones to Bozhuo City, tens of thousands of troops in this battle must have been annihilated by the Tang army, otherwise why would even the black bones be occupied by the Tang army, and now even Bozhuo City is also occupied by the Tang army. The whole avenue was built from west to east to Bozhuocheng, which was more conducive to the Tang army to dispatch troops to attack our Goguryeo.

Today's evil consequences are difficult for me to bear the blame, if I didn't know the latest situation of the Tang Army, I instigated Gao Yanwu to attack Anshi, and the situation in Liaodong would not have been so corrupt.

After a month of running in the mountains and forests, there were only two subordinates left, and it was not easy to find out of the mountain, but what I saw was that the black bones were burned by the Tang army.

"General, what should we do now?"

The painful spring sutra looked at the helpless and depressed eyes of the only two subordinates and said in a deep voice: "Didn't you learn from the people that Anshun, the grandson of the treasure king, ascended the great treasure in Pyongyang and led the Goguryeo army and people to fight against the Tang State?" Now we can only go to the new king and report the truth about Liaodong. ”

The three of them quietly slipped away from their hiding place, for fear of making a movement and alarming the Tang army under the mountain.