Chapter 496: The transformation of slaves (please vote and subscribe)
Luo Chong came up with a way to make a hole in this encirclement, giving those totem warriors a hope of survival. Of course, this hole cannot be too big. To control the number of people coming out at one time, they must be allowed to come out one by one, just like the Han tribes in the early days, herding cattle out of the ditch.
In this way, the method of directly opening the city gate is not advisable. The south gate has been completely blocked, and it is not easy to open it again. The north gate is open from top to bottom. If a crack is opened, too many people will come out, so Luo Chong chose to dig several tunnels under the city wall and let the people in the city get out through the tunnels.
If you want to control the number of people coming out, dig the tunnel diameter a little smaller, so that only one person can pass through at a time, and when people just climb out, they cannot immediately make an effective counterattack. In this way, as long as a few soldiers are placed at each hole, the hole can be firmly guarded.
After the plan was finalized, Luo Chong immediately sent some soldiers down the city wall with ladders. The military shovels that were previously issued to them as temporary weapons became tools in their hands. Some were digging in front, and some were transporting soil in baskets in the back.
Under the more than 600-meter-long north city wall, a total of ten tunnels were being dug at the same time. This tunnel did not need to be too long, just a dozen meters was enough, because the bottom width of the entire city wall was only ten meters, and a length of more than ten meters was enough to connect the inside and outside of the city wall.
Just as the soldiers began to dig tunnels, Luo Chong issued a new task to Hanyang City, preparing a large number of ropes for tying people; preparing a large number of trauma medicines for treating injuries; and then the specialty brought by the mushroom tribe, the blue poisonous mushrooms, which can make people hallucinate when taken internally and paralyze nerves when applied externally, which is considered a natural trauma anesthetic.
The Hanyang County Magistrate who received the order was very confused. The first two were easy to understand. Didn't they report victory a few days ago? No need to ask. The ropes must be used to tie up the captives. The trauma medicine was understandable. His own people were injured and needed treatment. But why did he need so many anesthetics? He was a little confused. Even if it was for treating injuries, it shouldn't take so many, right?
However, this was the order of the leader. Even if he had questions, he had to ask after the matter was done. And even if he didn't ask, there would definitely be news after these medicines were used up.
Unfortunately, the facts were not what the Hanyang County Magistrate thought, because the things that Luo Chong wanted were not for his own people at all, but for the captives.
A large number of captives were right in front of him. According to Luo Chong's plan, they would definitely be captured, but how to tame these slaves after they were captured and make them work honestly for the Han tribe was a problem.
Luo Chong had used shackles to restrain the captives in the past, but now the Han tribe has begun to cast coins with bronze. Not only is it too expensive to cast shackles, but it is also impractical to gather 2,000 pairs of shackles in a short time.
Later, Luo Chong used the method of not adding shackles, but that was to starve the slaves to death first, and then disperse them to various construction sites for batch management, and then send people to guard them. However, there were too many hidden dangers in doing so. Later, slaves often escaped. In this case, those who escaped and were caught were executed in front of the slaves, and then their bodies were hung for demonstration. Gradually, the slaves also accepted such a fate. Anyway, they just worked. The Han tribe did not give them food, but they just had no freedom.
However, the problem this time was caused by too many slaves, making the previous two methods inapplicable. Therefore, Luo Chong came up with a new method, which was to cut off toes.
Fingers and toes are very important to everyone. This punishment of cutting off fingers has been passed down through the dynasties, and Luo Chong has certainly heard of it.
The most famous one is the shogunate period of the island country. At that time, the punishment for samurai in the island society was to cut off the little finger. The little finger seems to be of little use, but for those who practice martial arts, after losing the little finger, the remaining four fingers can't even hold the samurai sword tightly. If someone knocks, the sword will fly away. Therefore, the samurai whose little finger is cut off basically bid farewell to the samurai career forever. This is a punishment only one level lower than suicide.
The thumb among the five fingers also has a great role. If the thumb is cut off, the remaining four fingers can no longer do the "grip" action, which is worse than cutting off the little finger.
Of course, Luo Chong didn't want to cut off the slaves' fingers, because no matter which one was cut off, it would affect their future work for the Han tribe, so Luo Chong actually wanted to cut
off their big toes. When people walk and run, the big toe also plays a big role, because whether walking or running, they need to support the forefoot and use the toes to grip the ground.
But cutting off the big toe can still make them walk, but they can no longer walk fast, and they will never be able to run again.
The purpose of Luo Chong cutting off their big toes was to limit their walking speed. In this way, all the slaves who had been punished would never be able to escape even if they wanted to. After being caught, they would have to come back to do heavier work.
As for how many people could survive after this "amputation surgery", Luo Chong said that he had never considered it at all. Slaves were not human beings. If they died, they died. They could only blame their bad luck and should not have mistakenly surrendered to the enemy camp of the Han tribe.
Three days later, the things Luo Chong asked for also arrived at Fuma Pass one after another. It was on the night of this day that the ten tunnels under the north wall were completely opened under the cover of night.
Because the location of this tunnel was too close to the city wall and it was opened at night, the totem warriors in the city did not immediately find the abnormality. This result was exactly what Luo Chong wanted.
The next morning, just when the totem warriors in the city were about to run out of food and their throats were thirsty, a rumbling drum sound suddenly came from the north wall, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Then they saw that under the high city wall, there were actually a few white sheep running around. The white figures were particularly eye-catching against the background of the khaki city wall and the green grass, and the people locked in the city saw them at once.
In an instant, a question appeared in the minds of many totem warriors. They were not thinking about food and water, but where did these sheep come from? In the past few days, they had looked for an exit, but all failed. At this time, seeing a few sheep appearing out of thin air, the idea that had basically been forgotten quickly occupied their brains again, that is - escape.
(End of this chapter)
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