Under the coercion of the Jinzhou soldiers, the captives began to slowly walk towards the river. As soon as the crowd moved, it could no longer prevent the tragedy from happening.

"After crossing the river, no one is allowed to run around, squat on the spot, someone will arrange for you!"

"Don't run around, let alone want to run, violators will be killed immediately!"

"After dawn, I will pestering you to go home, and if you are homeless, you can stay in the Chinese army to serve."

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The lies woven by Shi Dayong were told word by word by the Jinzhou soldiers to those prisoners.

Amidst the shouting, there were also shouts and screams, but they were quickly replaced by neat footsteps.

The lies were easily accepted by the captives, and although the attitude of the officers and soldiers was so bad, the promises gave the captives a glimmer of hope. They really thought that the officers and soldiers were going to send themselves to the town on the other side of the river, and then let themselves go home after dawn.

If you can go home, you will be willing to be beaten.

Deceived by lies, a thousand relatively strong captives took a path of no return towards the quicksand river without knowing it

The remaining 2,600 captives were ordered to sit down on the spot and wait for the 1,000 to cross the river before leaving.

The composition of these captives with weak physique is very simple, and they are all young and strong people who have been coerced into coming. Compared with the 1,000 captives, these people were generally less courageous, and when they saw the officers and soldiers select the strong ones from among them, some even thought that the officers and soldiers were going to kill them.

As a result, some were secretly crying, and a wave of fear permeated the crowd.

Many people even wanted to sneak into the procession to cross the river while the officers and soldiers were unprepared, so as not to stay here and be killed. However, the officers and men were so tightly guarded that they had no chance to slip through.

As the thousand men farther and farther away, the captives left behind no longer had a chance to blend in, and the crowd began to turn from fear to despair.

Strangely, none of these captives thought of finding an opportunity to escape while the attention of the officers and soldiers was all on the prisoners crossing the river.

You must know that at this time, there were only more than 100 Jinzhou soldiers left to guard these captives. Although Cao Bianjiao's wolf cavalry blocked the road to the west, they only had two hundred men.

If the captives shouted and fled desperately, the night would be their best ally.

At least, they can run half of it.

However, no one ran, so that Shi Dayong felt strange

After the captives who didn't know that the god of death was waiting for them in front of them walked to the river, the people in front suddenly stopped, looking at the ice in front of them with some anxiety, their expressions and eyes were very complicated, and their hearts were also entangled, I don't know if Lu Dao continued to walk forward.

Seeing that the captive team suddenly stopped, Shi Dayong was startled, thinking that the captives had discovered something wrong on the ice.

Looking at the ice, everything was normal, it was still Song Qing who led a hundred and ten people to pretend to fetch water, and nothing was exposed.

"Drive them across the river, and if they refuse to cross, kill them!"

Shi Dayong ordered his own soldiers to go to pass the order, and asked someone to pass the order to Cao Bianjiao, who would come over at any time to drive the captives across the river.

On the shore, when they found that the captives were not leaving, the Jinzhou army immediately stepped forward to ask them and pushed them with a gun, trying to make them continue to walk.

The people at the back of the line didn't know what was happening in front of the road, but they still walked forward involuntarily. Under the push of these people, it was difficult for the people in front of them to stand still, but they refused to cross the river, so they could only hold their faces with their hands or protect their heads at the beating of the officers and soldiers.

Li Dashan, who received Shi Dayong's order, immediately rushed over with his people, and didn't ask anything, only shouted at the captives: "If you don't leave, you'll be fired!" ”

Dozens of Jinzhou soldiers armed with firecrackers immediately aimed their torches at the firerope in their hands, and the mouth of the black hole was aimed at the prisoners in front of them, and they were about to ignite the fire at any time.

At this time, Song Qing saw that the situation was not right on the ice, and he also led someone to run over with torches. The swords are all drawn in their hands, and they are ready to come up and slash the captives who do not obey orders.

"Don't, don't shoot, let's go, let's go"

Seeing that the officers and soldiers were going to kill them, the prisoners who refused to cross the river were frightened and hurriedly begged for mercy, but they did not find out that the officers and soldiers were trying to kill them, but they were uneasy and stopped moving.

Compared to the uneasiness in their hearts, they were even more frightened by the bright sword and the black mouth in front of them.

Several of the captives stretched out their feet towards the ice in panic, and with their guidance, the captive procession soon headed towards the middle of the river.

They walked very slowly, and they didn't know if they were afraid of slipping or if they were in a hurry, and the ice would collapse. Perhaps, the fear of the latter may be greater than the former.

One hundred, two hundred, four hundred

As more and more captives poured onto the ice, the ice, which had been silent, began to make a subtle cracking sound.

The sound is so small that it is difficult to be noticed unless you pay close attention to it.

In addition, after they walked on the river, the Jinzhou army began to consciously retreat backwards, keeping enough distance from them, so that the captives could not use the light of the torches to find anything wrong on the ice.

Finally, a thousand captives all took to the surface of the river. Those at the front walk more than a hundred steps to reach the river safely.

Ice, but it didn't collapse.

Shi Dayong was a little anxious, but he still waited patiently. If the ice does not collapse until all the captives cross the river, it may be that God can't bear to let these people die in the belly of the fish.

Moving step by step, walking on this layer of ice that hangs in the air and I don't know how thick it froze, the uneasiness in the hearts of the captives is even stronger.

Both sides were waiting, the Jinzhou army was waiting for the ice to collapse, and the prisoners were waiting for the people in front to hurry over.

Minutes and seconds passed.

Shi Dayong was not disappointed, although the ice of the quicksand river was frozen solid enough, it could not bear the weight of a thousand people walking on it at the same time after the Jinzhou army chiseled the points in four places.

With a "creak", one of the captives was horrified to find that a large hole had suddenly cracked in the ice beneath his feet.

The mouth was dozens of feet long, and it was still extending.

Almost at the same time, there were several crisp sounds of crushing ice, and the flat ice surface was like white paper that had been twisted, and dozens of wrinkles appeared at once.

"The ice is falling, run!"

It was not the captives who made the sound of running, but Song Qing, the commander of the Jinzhou army, and although he was far away, the crack did not extend to the area under his feet, but he also felt instinctively frightened. The Jinzhou soldiers on the ice also ran farther away, and there was nothing more terrible in this world than drowning in frozen water.

The walking captives all stopped, and everyone looked at their feet as if they were dead—no one dared to move.

"Holy God! God will clean you up! ”

A captive suddenly yelled and cursed at the Jinzhou army on the shore with all his might, and then his feet were light, and the whole person fell. The speed with which it disappears is staggering.

One, two, three

Countless captives were dragged into the frozen quicksand river by the shattered ice, struggling, roaring, screaming, waving their hands for help, but there was not a single straw for them to grasp.

The captives ran in all directions in terror, but the faster they ran, the faster the ice shattered.

The cracks under their feet spread faster than the captives' feet.

"Help! Help me! Help me! ”

Screams of help resounded over the Sand River. On both sides of the strait, cold eyes, frightened eyes, unbearable eyes, everyone's eyes are looking.

No one could save the captives, and soon there was not a single person in sight on the ice, only countless heads tossing in the river, countless hands waving in despair.

The shattered ice floes became a lifesaver for the captives.

The bone-piercing river instantly robbed people of their body temperature, and the warm cotton clothes became a deadly shroud, dragging lives into the bottomless river.

The ice floes could not save the captives, and many were even pushed off the ice floe by their companions and drowned.

There is no difference between those who know water and those who can't water, in this frozen river of quicksand, and all struggles are in vain.

The cold numbs people and makes them unable to struggle anymore.

Life sank and corpses floated up.

The quicksand river was crying, and the waves raised by the people who fell into the water hit the ice, making a muffled echo, which seemed to be the cry of those who died, and seemed to be complaining to the world about the violence of the Jinzhou army. Yes.

It's over.

Looking at the tragedy he created with his own hands, Shi Dayong felt guilty, but he never regretted it. He could only silently pray that these beings would rest in peace in another world.