Chapter 235 Escorting Prisoners
“Put down your weapons, surrender without killing!”
The angry shouts of the vine armor soldiers echoed through the mountains and forests, and blood continued to slide down the sharp blades. They held blood-stained swords, They pressed forward step by step, like ruthless killing machines.
Faced with absolute strength, the warriors from the opposite tribe quickly collapsed under their butcher knives. They threw away their weapons and chose to kneel down and surrender.
Although Shi Lei's work style seeks stability, he is not stupid.
With the information provided by Wang Chuan and the tribal leader, they knew the general location and distance of the tribe here.
After witnessing the strength of the Vine Armor Soldiers on the first day, he only took a brief rest and rushed to the outside of the second tribe before sunset. Relying on the strength of the Vine Armor Soldiers, he easily defeated Its complete disintegration.
We defeated two tribes in one day.
This was still affected by movement efficiency, otherwise based on their combat effectiveness, Shi Lei felt that they could wipe out all the small tribes in this area in just one day.
“The population of this tribe is slightly larger. In one trip, we captured twenty-three people.”
In this era, winter is a catastrophe for these primitive tribes.
Some weak primitive tribes were completely destroyed in one winter. This is not a strange thing.
For a tribe like this that can survive until now and still have a population of thirty or forty people in the tribe, it has a certain scale.
At the end of the day, two small tribes were eliminated, and a total of thirty-nine people were recruited, which is not bad.
With the 'Eye of Insight' turned on, Zhou Xu looked around and found that they were all two-star panels, with no unexpected gains.
After releasing the mantra, Zhou Xu closed his eyes and signaled his subordinates to take the prisoners away.
Logically speaking, at this juncture of mobilizing troops, there is still a battle ahead, and he should not waste the power of his mantra on looking at the panels of these prisoners.
But the problem now is that Zhou Xu has no intention of placing these prisoners on the front line, or even in Huangshan Village.
After all, at this stage, they don’t have much free time to guard the prisoners.
So according to Zhou Xu's idea, don't delay too much and just send these prisoners to Salt Lake Village or Black Moon Village to work as coolies.
In this way, they don't need to worry about guarding and managing prisoners on the front line.
Compared with the beginning, the power of his mantra has become much stronger. Looking at the panels of thirty-nine people, this consumption is still within his control.
At the same time, here in Barren Mountain Village...
The first sixteen prisoners captured were quickly escorted to the frontline outpost at the foot of the mountain inside Barren Mountain Village.
By the time they got here, it was already evening.
The group was temporarily detained at the outpost without food.
Early the next morning, they were escorted over the top of the mountain and headed towards the inn at the foot of the other side of the mountain.
“I said, where on earth is this going to take us?!”
Hei Mu was also a tribal leader before. He has been hungry since yesterday and hasn’t given him a bite to eat. It was within his expectation, but as soon as the day broke, he urged them to cross the mountains and ridges. What did this mean?
For a while, I felt a little annoyed.
However, the tribal warrior responsible for escorting them does not care whether he is the leader or not, they are all prisoners when they get here.
“Stop talking nonsense, just follow us!”
“You!”
With a scolding, the hungry Heimu suddenly felt a little angry in his heart. , I just wanted to get angry, but when I thought of my current situation, I stopped thinking.
After walking for about half an hour, we finally arrived at our destination successfully.
"Wait a minute, what is that?"
Before entering the inn, the cows and horses resting and grazing inside attracted the attention of the captives. There was no such animal in the mountains. The never-seen creature attracted the attention of the captives without any surprise.
Noticing the movements of the prisoners, the village soldier responsible for escorting them frowned and turned his head.
“What are you looking at? Go over there to get water.”
At this moment, the prisoners were all tired and hungry, and their throats were so dry that they were almost smoking. When they heard that there was water to drink, who had the time to care about how strange the cows and horses looked? Run over quickly to get water.
“Queue up!”
Although they didn’t understand the meaning of queuing up, they were not stupid. Following the escort’s instructions, they quickly lined up and took the bamboo cups one by one. , received half a glass of water.
Now this half glass of water is no less precious to them than a fine wine. They are even reluctant to drink it in one gulp. They hold it carefully in their hands and drink it in small sips. Wish I could drink a little longer. .
The people in Huangshan Village behave like this, not because they are searching. After all, there are plenty of spring water on this mountain, and it is not a precious resource. There is no need to search.
The reason why they were not given food or enough water was to facilitate their control of these prisoners.
Without food and lack of strength, people naturally become honest.
After receiving the water, the person responsible for escorting them seemed to have no intention of urging them to continue walking. Faced with this situation, Kuroki simply sat down on the ground.
When the other prisoners around him saw this, they all imitated him. In the blink of an eye, they all fell down. They were already exhausted from the long journey over the mountains and ridges.
During this period, the escort just glanced at them, but did not pay much attention to them.
Not long after that, a burst of movement came from a distance.
It was the animal they had never seen before, dragging a strange thing towards them.
The captives, who had never seen an ox, let alone an ox cart, didn’t know how to describe it.
The bullock cart soon stopped in front of them. The escort responsible for driving the cart was holding the reins and sitting on the front of the cart with no intention of getting off. The other escort was He jumped out of the car and walked towards them.
“Everyone get up!”
With a loud shout, the escort began to grab the prisoners and rush them to the car.
“Go in, everyone in!”
This ox cart is used by them to pull goods. It is very spacious, but it has basically no comfort at all.
Of course, the escort was not interested in caring about whether the prisoners were comfortable or not. Anyway, they kept stuffing them in as long as they could fit in. He forced him to stuff ten prisoners into them.
“Okay, we can’t squeeze anymore.”
If the escort sitting in front who was driving the bus hadn't shouted, the other person might have been thinking about stuffing two more in.
"That's it, let's go!"
Sixteen captives, after taking away ten, there are six left, but it is undoubtedly a bit difficult to pull six captives in an ox cart. It was a waste, so these six people had to wait for the prisoners behind to arrive, gather ten of them and then take them away in a cart.
They were not kept waiting for too long. Before dark, the larger group of prisoners was escorted over.
I just managed to load three cars and take them all away.
Although it was almost getting dark, they had no intention of spending an extra night's rest.
Unlike before, the mountain road is difficult to walk, and climbing in the dark is indeed dangerous.
But the terrain in the Gobi between Huangshan Village and Salt Lake Village is relatively flat, and due to the lack of resources, there are no wild animals.
It’s no problem to light a torch at night and travel overnight.
(End of this chapter)