"Dad, where are we going? Are we going to die? ”

In the long procession, a young and immature face asked the man in front of the rope with a hint of curiosity and horror. The men and women, bound together by ropes, were all dejected, carrying their few belongings and valuable softenings, while beside the long procession were soldiers dressed in colorful clothes and armed with spears to escort them.

"Don't talk!" The man walking in front of the boy scolded the boy, and only then whispered after looking around at the guards who were escorting him not far away and not noticing him: "Don't talk, don't make trouble, if these flowers want us to die, then our grandfather will die in the west camp that day!" They're going to take us to their lair, and they're going to follow ......."

The father's explanation made the boy feel a little more at ease, but following his father's words and remembering the experience of that day, the boy still shuddered involuntarily.

On that day, after receiving the order of the prefect, the young man and his father were sent reinforcements to the west camp in the outer city, although they did not understand why they did not concentrate their forces in the inner city to resist those fancy people, but the duty of the soldiers was to obey, and the boy and his father had no right to speak, so they could only carry out this order, and the defenders in the inner city came to the west camp unsuspected.

Entering the west camp of the outer city, everyone found a trace of strangeness, not only are there very few soldiers in the original west camp, but also when they enter the west camp, they are asked to put down the original weapons in their hands and pull them to the field to prepare to replace the new weapons, sure enough, when everyone put down their weapons suspiciously but could not question the field, after coming to the field, suddenly a person dressed in floral leather clothes holding weapons and pushing small cannons suddenly appeared from all around...... At this point everyone understood - they had been betrayed.

Already disarmed, and facing a ring of cannons and bird muskets facing them...... The rest of the matter is very simple, few people will still be heroes at this time, and even if they do, they will be killed by the terrible gunman on the high platform...... If everyone desperately rushes in one direction, although many people will be killed by cannons and muskets, there will definitely be people who will be able to break out of the encirclement smoothly...... It's a pity that the frustration of being betrayed and the piercing words of the other party's shouting make it impossible for everyone to mention the desperate resistance......

After being tied up like chickens, all the captives were broken up and sent out of the city, where many military households who were also disarmed and detained were gathered, and it was not until nightfall that the rhythm of the deliveries basically stopped......

When night really falls, it's not that no one wants to escape by taking advantage of the night, but it's a pity that those flowery people seem to know what these people think, and disrupting the team to tie them up with other people is to prevent the group from escaping, and one person escapes and ten people around him suffer! Although this kind of punishment is cruel, it has to be said that it is quite effective!

Moreover, after night, a burst of gunfire and cannon fire broke out in Liuzhou City, and this dense gunfire also reminded the people who tried to escape - the entire city and the surrounding area are about to fall, where can you escape?

The sound of guns and cannons in the inner city continued to sound in pieces for three days, although some people said the next day that the prefect and the remaining soldiers not only defended the city but also beat these rebellious people, but it was no problem to coax the ordinary people with these words, but here...... Please, most of the defenders have become captives and left the inner city to squat here, is the prefect exorcising ghosts and inviting the gods to fight?

During these three days, the boy was sent to the other side by several people in white who had checked his body and registered his name and family information, because through the incident of the shelling beforehand, everyone knew that these people in white clothes could heal people and save their wounds, and some strange requests of these people in white were curious but all followed, and the boy noticed that the strong and healthy people were chosen to stay on his side, while the disabled and defective were assigned to the other side. And not long after staying here, those flower skin soldiers appeared here in waves with the families of the people present...... And the appearance of the family members of these personnel not only made the scene full of voices shouting father, mother, son and wife, the people in the family were worried about the men who were with them, and the captured men were not worried about their relatives by the heart-wrenching gunfire in the city......

The flower skin soldiers only gave everyone a short time to get together and ask for warmth, but fortunately they did not separate their families, but asked a group of ten people to tie each other together, to bundle each other in waves, the boy and his father because of the death of his mother had long been dependent on each other, and the flower skin soldiers who took care of them assigned the two to two teams with more women and children, old and weak, until the number was about the same, and then the team set off.

Every day the team gets up early in the morning, everyone after eating a night of very thick hot porridge and a pancake or a steamed bun after the team begins to set off, although those flower skin soldiers are not very urging, but the speed of the team is not slow, because most of the team are young and healthy adults, the old and weak are not much to drag down, and there is nothing to bring almost belongs to the light travel, and there is a very important reason that the flower skin soldiers eat enough along the way, plus the place to eat every morning and afternoon is fixed, If you can't get out of the position, lie on the ground and scream, there will be no bite of food for you, so for the sake of stomach problems, no one will make trouble along the way.

According to the speed of the procession, the boy's father calculated in his heart that he could walk nearly fifty miles in one day, and after the weather improved in the past two days, it even reached more than sixty miles in one day yesterday, and after a few days in a row, everyone had walked north from Liuzhou City to an unknown territory.

Walking across a makeshift pontoon bridge to a pier, everyone here clearly felt that this place was different from the city, where busy people unloaded boatloads of supplies and quickly pulled them into the mountains by horse-drawn carts. Walking on this road that can run two carriages in parallel, everyone is curious to find that this road surface is smoother and more solid than the road built with stone slabs in Liuzhou City, and a group of people are paving gravel and mortar to the road to extend outward......

What is even more surprising is that when they came to the camp next to the mine, they found that the living conditions here were simply better than their "home" in Liuzhou City, I don't know how many times, although the rows of shacks were a little simple, but it was extremely convenient to get water and go to the toilet, and every military family could be assigned to live in a shack.

In the field, a few foremen in their forties warned everyone about the rules here, no stealing, no picking quarrels and provoking trouble, no running around, going to the toilet in a designated place, no crowding and cutting in line when eating, and punishment after violating the rules...... Strangely, however, the foremen did not seem to be worried that these men would run away, or that they would be lazy in their work; And after two days here, everyone knew why even the previously captured captives did not want to run away - although they were not free to be a prisoner here, they were at least fed and clothed, and if they behaved well, they could work hard for a few years, and they could be converted into slave laborers and even villagers in a formal mountain village!

The identity of the official villagers of the mountain village does not seem to be very rare for these military families from the city, no matter how we say it, they are also from the city, what has this hillbilly seen...... It was only when some of them were organized to go around the new village...... When these people came back, they decided not to mention the glorious past of their city people, because compared with Xincun, Liuzhou City was simply a shack concentration camp! Beautiful houses, lively streets and a variety of dazzling products, although the scale is much smaller than Liuzhou City, but its prosperity and neat and beautiful momentum suddenly made Liuzhou City be compared......

With the understanding of the new environment and the new boss, the military households soon understood how to live better here, compared with the bitter days in Liuzhou City, the military households and their families are more willing to work and eat here with their own hands, and there is no exploitation of the military leaders and officials who are parasitic on themselves, and the quality of everyone's life depends on the payment of their own labor, doing more and doing less; People's life needs to be contrasted and hoped, compared with the words in Liuzhou City, it is simply a good day like heaven here, and the labor can be rewarded accordingly, which is already a good day for people in this era......

Compared with the military households who arrived first, the craftsmen who came back in the next few days seem to adapt to the environment faster than the military households, thanks to the fact that the craftsmen are easier to understand and master the division of labor than the military households......

The boy who followed his father here did not go directly to work in the mines or anywhere else, he was sent to the academy under the age of fourteen, and there were many children of military families who were sent to the academy with him, so that his children could stay here to study, and the school provided three meals to ease the burden of his own burden...... This is an important reason why many people are reluctant to leave...... (To be continued.) )