At three o'clock in the morning, everything was silent.

Chengdu police chief Chen Guangyuan, accompanied by deputy director Fan Chunlin, took turns to inspect one traffic artery after another, every time he stopped, Chen Guangyuan couldn't help but look at the dark and dreary west of the city, a heart was pounding, nervous, for a long time did not hear gunshots and other abnormal movements, his nerves tensed even more.

The east gate of the wide west school field was the main entrance of the entire barracks, and the two sentries were cursing in the strong wind before the rainstorm came, and had just pulled out matches to light a cigarette in the leeward of the pillar of the gate, when two black shadows suddenly appeared and rushed up, and the two sentries who had been hit the head were dragged into the shadows without snorting.

At about the same time, the north gate and the south sentry of the main camp were subjected to similar plots.

At the end of the light of the dim street lamps in the camp, hundreds of heavily armed border officers and soldiers slid down the city wall along the long ropes, quickly divided into three teams and assembled, and went straight to the three small reading camps where the officers of the Fourth Division lived.

Thousands of border guards rushed into the eastern, southern, and northern barracks gates, and in the blink of an eye, the rows of barracks were surrounded by water, and the doors of the barracks were violently kicked open, and the sound of high-powered military pistol fire was heard frequently, which was soon drowned out by bursts of roars, warnings, and exclamations.

In just 40 minutes, more than 4,300 officers and men of the Fourth Division were escorted to the middle of the wide camp, and dozens of bonfires were quickly lit, and the blazing light illuminated the entire camp as bright as day.

The more than 4,000 officers and men of the Fourth Division, who were in the middle of the guns of 5,000 border guards, were extremely embarrassed, stripped to defenseless, huddled together in a chaotic manner, and cried incessantly, and many of them thought that they might not survive.

More than 100 border soldiers brought over more than 80 corpses that had been killed due to resistance, lined up in front of 4,000 prisoners, and the burly and murderous head of the border guards, Zheng Yi, stood up, and the red bonfire reflected his body and face even more terrifyingly.

Zheng Yi put away the newly issued military pistol, and ordered loudly in a bell-like voice: "Officers and soldiers from Sichuan stand up!" Lao Tzu only gives you five minutes, don't blame Lao Tzu for not saying hello beforehand! ”

With a "boom," more than 1,000 slick officers and men rushed forward, and before they could reach the muzzles of the rows of black holes, they consciously stopped, shouted and shouted, and defended that they were from Sichuan.

For a while, the Sichuan sound of "Ge Laozi made a mistake", "I am from Yucheng with a hammer", and "Don't be wronged" were endless, and soon rushed into a group of border troops with loaded guns outside the encirclement, waved the butt of the gun, and beat the guy who was crazy and jumped out to confess, and beat all the sounds into the stomach on the spot.

As a majestic password sounded, one by one, the naked men quickly lined up in two rows, and were soon escorted out of the encirclement.

Sun Zhaoluan, the commander of the Third Division, had already led his troops to wait at the east gate, and with a smile on his face, he ordered his subordinates to take over the prisoners, screen their places of origin again, and then distribute military uniforms, let this group of soldiers put them on, blow the trumpet to assemble, shout the trumpet and run to the East Campus Station, more than 1,400 Sichuan officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division have become people of the Third Division of the Sichuan Army in a blink of an eye.

The huge encirclement gradually narrowed, and groups of fierce border officers and soldiers rushed into the pile of prisoners, dividing them into eight squares with bayonets with rifle butts.

Zong Yi's loud voice sounded again, thousands of border officers and soldiers rushed to the pile of prisoners in a company, took out ropes and began to tie up, and the crying on the field was shocking and shouting, but under the threat of rows of guns and bayonets, no matter how much they cried and wailed, they were only obediently bound, and the slightest change in individual resistance would be beaten violently, and the screams were enough to make all the prisoners scatter.

At five o'clock in the morning, the torrential rain hit, and 2,749 prisoners of the Dian army who were tied up and gagged were escorted out of the west gate in a string, and the cavalry of the 2,000 border army rode horses to guard both sides.

Faced with the relentless whip of the border cavalry, all the captives, driven by great fear, began to trot, and once they ran there was no chance to stop.

The sky was cloudy, the heavy rain began to lighten, a deep ditch six meters wide and more than one meter long, two miles long blocked in front of the captives, and the strings of prisoners connected by long ropes were like seeing death, whimpering in horror and despair, some subconsciously wanted to escape but were tripped over, most of them were paralyzed in the mud on the spot, and the whole team was in chaos in an instant.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

After three shots, a company of guards and 2,000 dismounted cavalrymen swarmed up and dragged all the prisoners to the side of the deep ditch, and the officers and men of the engineer battalion directly under the command who had been waiting on the other side of the ditch could not help but laugh, brandishing shovels and pretending to fill in the earth, and the more than 2,700 prisoners were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, paralyzed in fright by the muddy trench, and closed their eyes in despair.

The god-like Zang Yi stepped forward again, glanced at the captives with disdain, and roared loudly unwillingly:

"You deserve death for your wickedness! All the people, all the policemen and soldiers in Chengdu want to kill you to take revenge, if it weren't for the mercy of our Commander Xiao, Lao Tzu would never let you live until now! Listen, from now on, you must use your own hands to make up for the sins you have committed, and pave the way for the construction of bridges for the fathers and villagers in Chengdu and Sichuan, as long as you can do a good job, indicating that you have changed your mind and become a new person, after half a year, you will be given the travel fee, and you will be sent home, and those who do not obey the order will have their sentences increased, and those who flee will be killed-"

After shouting, Zong Yi turned his horse's head, and together with Tang Wulin, the commander of the cavalry, led all the cavalry back to the city, leaving a company of guards and officers to guard it, and the engineer battalion began to take over the prisoners.

Qin Shanqi, the commander of the engineer battalion, gave an order, and the six hundred sappers lifted the waterproof baggage one by one and crossed the trench, and began to loosen the prisoners who were already half frightened to death, divided into more than 50 squads in groups of 50 people, and then opened the baggage and issued orange horse coats and shorts with huge black numbers to the prisoners one by one.

Only then did the captives determine that they could live, and one by one they hugged their shorts and jackets, and cried bitterly, and finally the cry shook the sky, and the four fields echoed, and the guards and soldiers were angry and sad, thinking to themselves, who let you beasts do evil? You don't deserve to wear military uniforms, and if it weren't for the commander's mercy, I'm afraid you would all have to go to the underworld.

After all the captives had cried enough, Qin Shanqi unhurriedly boarded the small dirt bag, pointed to the long trench, and loudly assigned the task:

"What you have to do now is to dig this defensive canal around the new camp, the construction requirements: 5,000 meters in length, 6 meters in width, 2.5 meters in depth, it must be completed within a month, and then bring in the water from the north. During this period, we guarantee the safety of your lives, as long as you don't run away, don't contradict, don't be lazy, we won't beat and scold you, you will eat whatever we eat, you won't let you go hungry, and we will do it with you! Turtle grandchildren, do a good job, strive to clear your sins as soon as possible, and go home early to reunite with your parents and family...... The ministries listened to the order and started work—"

The sky is bright, the city of Chengdu under the dark clouds is calm, and yesterday is slightly different is that there are a lot more patrol police on the streets, the police are happy to tell the citizens who came up to inquire about what happened last night, the citizens were pleasantly surprised, ran to tell each other, and the whole city soon sounded the sound of firecrackers.

The policemen, like all the citizens, also had a feeling of revenge, and they were grateful to Xiao Yimin and his border army officers and men, which showed how deep the damage caused to the citizens and police of Chengdu by the barbaric Yunnan army of the Fourth Division for a long time.

(To be continued)