The soldiers who were bragging and farting didn't notice it, but they gradually touched some black figures in the dense forest, staring at the heavily armed soldiers with violent eyes, each with muscles tensed, like a cheetah about to kill its prey.

"I'm ready to eat, I've been gone for a day, and I'm starving to death."

In the makeshift camp, the soldiers beckoned each other to gather around the campfire to enjoy dinner, Huang Ruhu had just filled himself with a spoon of porridge and was about to bring the bowl to his mouth to drink, when he suddenly heard a sharp sound of breaking the air overhead.

Before he could react, a warm liquid splashed in front of him, and he stared at the scene in front of him with wide eyes, and saw an arrow stuck in the forehead of the robe holding a spoon in his hand to put the porridge in his bowl, and he stood there in disbelief for a second or two, and then collapsed forward, knocking over the pot on the fire, and the hot porridge poured all over him, but he was powerless to struggle.

"Enemy attack—"

I don't know who shouted first, and the soldiers who were eating suddenly became confused, Huang Ruhu threw the bowl in his hand to the ground and ran in the direction of the rifle.

The other soldiers followed him, shouting and scattering, and arrows flew from the surrounding forest, knocking down the soldiers and prisoners.

"Hide!"

Ruan Mei reacted instantly, pulled her son to hide behind a carriage, and yelled at the prisoners who were attacked and didn't know what to do, signaling them to come.

The prisoners reacted to this, screaming and looking for a place to hide, and just as the makeshift camp was in chaos, a large number of natives rushed out of the forest with a cry like apes, all holding the most primitive stone spears in their hands, and although the weapons were primitive, their posture was still terrifying.

"Fire! Fight back!"

The company commander shouted to the soldiers around him, and he ducked over a stony arrow that grazed over his head, raised his flintlock handcuff and aimed at one of the natives who rushed to the front and pulled the trigger.

After the gunshot, a small flower of blood bloomed on the native's chest, and the whole person fell forward to the ground, and after the company commander fired, the other soldiers finished reloading before shooting at the native.

"Roar! Roar! Roar!"

The Xia army's muskets did not repel the natives, they quickly rushed to the outside of the camp in the face of the Xia people's sporadic shots, and a runner threw the stone spear in his hand with all his might, and the stone spear fell from the sky like a torrential rain, and immediately shot more than ten Xia soldiers and prisoners.

Seeing that the natives were so fierce, where did the prisoners who were usually pampered still have the courage to continue to stay here, plus they were not tied up now, and they scattered one by one screaming and desperately, trying to escape from here.

Ruan Mei's father and son did not take advantage of the chaos to escape, they knew that running away in this strange place was death, Ruan Mei looked at a prisoner who was shot by a stone spear a few meters away from him, gritted her teeth and said to her son, "Lang'er, do you remember how your father taught you to fight with a spear before? In order to survive, I fought with my father against those barbarians!"

"Listen to you, father!"

As soon as Ruan Lang responded, he and Ruan Mei rushed out, each picking up a stone spear and preparing to engage the natives who rushed into the camp.

At this time, the company commander saw that the natives were about to rush in front of him, and ordered all the white-knuckle battles, he took the lead in drawing his saber and led the soldiers with bayonets to launch a counter-charge against the natives.

He dodged the stone spear stabbed by a native, and slashed with the saber in his hand, directly cutting the opponent over, and another native's scream rushed towards him, and the company commander kicked it hard, kicking it and staggering, and before the natives could stand firm, the saber in the company commander's hand had already stabbed him in the abdomen, cutting his stomach open, and his intestines flowed to the ground.

The other soldiers also met the enemy with bayonets, their rifles and bayonets were longer than the stone spears of the natives, which naturally made the battle more advantageous, and after a fight, the natives finally scattered with a scream after leaving behind dozens of corpses, and fled back to the forest where they had attacked.

After the natives retreated, the company commander hurriedly looked at the prisoners in the camp, and he was desperate to find that many prisoners had taken advantage of the chaos to escape

Away from here, many others were killed by the natives in battle.

Seeing this scene, he only felt that his eyes were dark, and he almost fainted.

With so many prisoners lost, if he is held accountable from above, his future is all over.

"My lord, what should I do?" Huang Ruhu, who survived, paced to the company commander's side, and asked angrily, not only the company commander, but also their pawns will be held accountable.

After all, this kind of thing happened because they let down their guard and gave the natives a chance to sneak attack, which was unavoidable in their opinion, and they were not regular troops, just soldiers recruited in the colonies for several months of training, and the quality of the regular army in those military towns was completely incomparable.

"So far, we can only report it truthfully, so many people have died, and so many prisoners have escaped, this must not be hidden." The company commander said in a deep voice, he looked very depressed, this is also normal, who wouldn't be depressed when they encounter this incident.

Huang Ruhu's face was very ugly, not only could he not relax after he went back, but he might also be punished by his superiors.

But his luck is good, at least he survived, the kid who just told him to go back and prepare to propose marriage was shot in the head by a stone spear, and his brain burst, and now he can only go to the underworld to find a female ghost to propose marriage.

The company commander let out a long breath, he looked at the remaining prisoners, and said, "Gather the remaining prisoners and send a sentry to look around to see if we can catch those prisoners who didn't run far."

Now that it is getting late, and they have no torches to light them up, they will not be able to run far, and if we catch one more, we will be punished less."

"Why?"

A sentry commander should go down and scatter with his men with torches, and the rest of the men, except for those on guard, gathered the prisoners and cleaned up the corpses on the ground.

The company commander walked up to the Ruan father and son, who were still holding the stone spear in their hands, and he looked at the natives who died at the hands of the two of them, and looked at them with a little more appreciation.

He said, "The two of you can still have the courage to resist in this situation, and your courage is commendable, I don't know what to call it?"

"Old man Ruan Mei, this is the old man's eldest son Ruan Lang." Ruan Mei introduced herself succinctly.

"Nguyen Mei?" The company commander was stunned for a moment, he looked at Ruan Mei thoughtfully, and then clasped his fists and said, "It turned out to be Chang Ningbo, disrespectful."

"It's just the past." Ruan Mei smiled bitterly and waved her hand, and when the words fell, he was curious again, "Do you know the old man?"

"I don't know each other." The company commander said, "It's just that my brother once fought with Chang Ningbo in Liaodong, and I heard my brother mention you."

"And where is your brother now?" Ruan Lang on the side asked curiously.

"After he conquered Shengjing, he was rewarded with more than 100 taels of silver by the imperial court, and his family was also given five acres of land. Speaking of the back, the company commander's face was a little more lonely.

Ruan Mei glared at her mouthy eldest son, and then said, "Mourning."

"My brother died for the Son of Heaven, and the court also gave his widow a generous pension, which is his honor." The company commander waved his hand, the loneliness on his face was swept away, and said, "Don't talk about this, Chang Ningbo, no matter why you were assigned here, you are a hero of the resistance to the Qing Dynasty in your heart, please accept the next worship."

After speaking, the company commander took a step back and bowed deeply to Ruan Mei, Ruan Mei looked at his saluting appearance, but her eyes moistened uncontrollably.

What a simple emotion, he has never regretted the mistakes he has committed more than now, he joined the account of King Lu from Zhejiang, resisted until he became Su Yan's general, and fought in the south and the north, fought bloody battles in Liaodong, and fought against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, isn't it just for the Han family to survive, and the people can live a stable life without being slaughtered.

Can ...... now

Ruan Mei thought of the people whose families were ruined because of herself, and her heart became more and more ashamed, and she cried uncontrollably, the company commander and Ruan Lang looked at him in surprise, and the company commander just wanted to ask, but Ruan Lang stopped him.

He whispered, "Let my father be alone for a while, and don't disturb him."

The company commander was dumbfounded, so he had to nod, salute the two again, and turned to leave.

This night, Ruan Mei was destined to lose sleep.

……

The next day, the convoy took the bodies of the soldiers and prisoners killed in the war and set out on the road to the plantation, and after the search of the scattered outposts, they came back with a dozen more prisoners.

But even so, twenty-three prisoners were missing, and together with the prisoners who died in the melee, a total of thirty-five people were missing, which made everyone from the company commander to the private feel depressed.

The convoy staggered through the day and finally arrived at the plantation just before dusk.

The plantation is located in a woodland near a stream, and the dense trees have been cut down to create a wooden wall around the core of the plantation.

When the convoy reached the perimeter of the plantation, several figures could be seen patrolling and swaying on the long wooden walls, and several of them spotted the approaching convoy and opened the city gates.

As the convoy approached the wooden wall, the prisoners in the carriage began to see the wooden wall surrounding the plantation, the dark red left by the dried blood and the holes pierced by stone arrows and spears.

Outside the wooden walls were wide fields fenced off, and when they arrived, they were still working hours, and there were many people in tattered clothes in the fields, working with farm tools under the watchful eye of the militia.

The laborers looked at these newcomers, and each of them was full of numbness, and looking at them like walking corpses, many of the prisoners felt that their future was full of gloom.

The convoy slowly passed through the city gate under the gaze of everyone, and stopped in the open space behind the city gate.

The company commander turned over and dismounted, and ordered the soldiers to bring all the prisoners down, at this moment, several people came from the side, and the leader looked at the obvious traces of the battle in the convoy, frowned slightly, and said, "Lao Chen, can you count yourself here, is this an attack on the road?"

"Don't mention it." The company commander waved his hand, spat yellow-green phlegm on the ground, and said, "I was attacked during dinner last night, damn, it was calm all the way, but I saw that the kung fu I was about to get was stolen, these damn barbarians."

"How's the casualty?" The man asked.

"Fourteen brothers died, and thirty-five prisoners were lost." The company commander lowered his head and said depressedly.

"Shhh

The man couldn't help but gasp, and smacked his tongue: "Your loss is not small, and when you return to Fucheng, I'm afraid you will have a lot of trouble to deal with."

The company commander shrugged his shoulders, not wanting to answer the conversation, he pointed to the prisoners who were getting off the carriage one by one under the soldiers' orders, and said, "There are a total of seventy-eight prisoners, and there are eighteen of them who are restless and want to escape and be captured, and I have marked them all."

The other party showed a smile that I knew, rubbed his hands, and said, "I will teach them how to know the rules."

The company commander's face also showed a somewhat hideous smile.

Then, the smile on his face was put away, and he said, "By the way, there are two people in the prisoner who have special identities, so you can keep it."

"Who?"

"One is Changning Bo Ruan Mei, and the other is his eldest son Ruan Lang, I heard that he was still an officer of the forbidden army before." The company commander said, pointed his finger at the sky, and continued secretly: "It is said that something was committed in the capital division, and the Son of Heaven was angry and exiled here."

"I've seen this kind of person a lot, why is it special?" The other party pursed his lips and said disdainfully.

"He has a meritorious service in resisting the Qing Dynasty, and I personally hope that you will take it away, brother." The company commander said, "After all, brother, you also know what those Qinggou did before they were driven away."

When the other party heard him say this, he was silent for a while, nodded, and said, "I remember, don't worry."

"Thank you very much, when you return to Fucheng, I will invite you to eat and drink." The company commander clenched his fists and said.

The other party smiled and took it, and then

So he got down to business, and he asked his men to take over the prisoners, and gathered them all together to give lectures.

After the prisoners were gathered, this man walked up to them, his eyes swept around these guys with fine skin and tender meat, and his eyes were even more disdainful, he cleared his throat and said, "My surname is Zhang, and the supervisor of this park will be the laborers of my park from now on.

This governor doesn't care what your identity was before you came to Yingzhou, as long as you get here, you have to abide by my rules, it's a dragon, you have to coil it for me, it's a tiger, you have to lie on my stomach, otherwise, hum......

Listening to his warning sneer, the prisoners' faces showed nervous looks.

But his purpose was more than that, he then gave an order to drag out the eighteen men who had fled the previous night, stripped them naked, and whipped in front of everyone.

Soon, the heart-rending screams of the prisoners and the screeching of whips on the skin resounded in the plantation, and the overseer looked at the frightened looks on the prisoners' faces, and nodded secretly with satisfaction, the purpose of disarming the newcomer had been achieved, and the next thing was to manage.