Chapter 235: Escorting Prisoners
"Put down your weapons, surrender and you won't be killed!"
The angry roars of the rattan armor soldiers echoed throughout the mountains and forests, and blood continued to flow down the sharp blades. Holding the blood-stained swords, they pressed forward step by step, like ruthless killing machines.
In the face of absolute strength, the warriors of the opposing tribe were quickly defeated by their knives. They dropped their weapons and chose to kneel down in surrender.
Although Shi Lei's style of doing things is to be cautious, he is not stupid.
With the information provided by Wang Chuan and the tribal leader, they knew the approximate location and distance of this tribe.
After witnessing the strength of the rattan 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 rattan armor soldiers, he easily and completely defeated them.
Two tribes were wiped out in one day.
This is still affected by their mobility 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.
"This tribe has a slightly larger population. In one trip, we captured twenty-three people."
In this era, winter is a great disaster for these primitive tribes.
It is not uncommon for some weak primitive tribes to be destroyed in just one winter.
For tribes like these that have survived until now and still have thirty or forty people, they are considered to be of a certain scale.
At the end of the day, we wiped out two small tribes and recruited a total of thirty-nine people, which is considered a good result.
With the 'Eye of Insight' on, Zhou Xu looked around and found that all the panels were two-star, without any unexpected gains.
After revealing the truth, Zhou Xu closed his eyes and signaled his subordinates to take the prisoners away.
Logically speaking, at this critical juncture of mobilizing troops, with further battles to come, he should not waste his mantra power 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 that much free time to guard the prisoners.
So according to Zhou Xu's idea, there should be no delay and just send these captives to Salt Lake Village or Black Moon Village to work as laborers.
In this way, they on the front line don't have to worry about guarding and managing the prisoners.
Compared to the beginning, the power of his mantra has become much stronger. After looking at the panels of thirty-nine people, this consumption is still within his control.
At the same time, in Huangshan Village...
The first sixteen prisoners were quickly escorted to the front-line outpost at the foot of the mountain inside Huangshan Village.
By the time they got here, it was already evening.
The group was temporarily detained at the outpost and was not given any food.
The next morning, they were taken over the hill and headed towards the post station at the foot of the mountain on the other side.
"I say, where the hell is this taking us?!"
Hei Mu was a tribal leader after all. He had expected that they would be hungry from yesterday until now and had not been given a single bite of food. But as soon as the sun rose, they were urged to cross the mountains and ridges. What did this mean? For a moment, he felt a little annoyed.
However, the tribal warriors in charge of escorting him didn't care whether he was a leader or not. All of them were captives to him anyway.
"Stop talking nonsense and just follow me!"
"you!"
Hearing the scolding, the hungry Hei Mu suddenly became angry and was about to lose his temper, but when he thought of his current situation, he backed off.
After walking for about another half an hour, we finally arrived at our destination.
"Wait, what is that?"
Before entering the post station, the cattle and horses resting and eating grass inside attracted the captives' attention.
There were no such animals in the mountains, and the never-before-seen creatures unsurprisingly attracted the captives' attention.
Noticing the movement of the prisoners, the village soldier in charge of escorting them frowned and turned around.
"What are you looking at? Go over there and get some water."
At this moment, the captives were tired and hungry, their throats were dry and about to smoke. When they heard that there was water to drink, who would have the time to care about how strange the cows and horses looked? They quickly ran over to get water.
“Queue up, queue up!”
Although they didn't understand the meaning of queuing, they were not stupid. They followed the instructions of the escorts and quickly lined up. Each of them took a bamboo cup and received half a cup of water.
Now, this half cup of water is as precious to them as nectar, and they are even reluctant to drink it all in one gulp. They hold it carefully in their hands and drink it in small sips, hoping to drink it for a while longer.
The people in Huangshan Village behave like this not because they are stingy. After all, there are plenty of spring water on the mountain, and it is not a precious resource. There is no need to be stingy.
The reason why they were not given food or enough water was to make it easier for them to control these prisoners.
Without food, people have no strength and naturally behave themselves.
After receiving the water, the person in charge of escorting them didn't seem to have any intention of urging them to keep going. Faced with this situation, Hei Mu simply sat down on the ground.
Seeing this, the other prisoners around followed suit and soon all of them sat down. They were exhausted after crossing mountains and rivers.
During this time, the escort officers just glanced at them but didn't pay any attention to them.
Not long after that, a noise was heard from a distance.
It was an animal they had never seen before, and it was dragging a strange object towards them.
The prisoners had never seen cows, let alone ox carts, so they didn't know how to describe it.
The ox cart soon stopped in front of them. The escort officer in charge of driving the cart was pulling the reins and sitting on the front of the cart, with no intention of getting off. The other escort officer jumped off the cart and walked towards them.
"Everyone get up!"
With a loud shout, the escorts began to grab the prisoners and rush them to the car.
"Go in, everyone!"
This ox cart is used by them to transport goods. It is very spacious, but basically has no comfort.
Of course, the escorting personnel had no interest in whether the prisoners were comfortable or not. They just kept stuffing as many prisoners as they could fit, and forced ten of them to fit in.
"Okay, there's no more room."
If the escort officer sitting in the front and driving the car hadn't shouted, the other person might have been thinking about cramming two more people in.
"That's it, let's go!"
There were sixteen prisoners. After ten were taken away, there were still six left. However, it was undoubtedly a waste to use an ox cart to carry six prisoners. Therefore, these six people had to wait until the next prisoners were brought in, and then ten prisoners would be taken away in one cart.
They didn't have to wait too long. Before dark, the larger group of prisoners was brought over.
They just loaded them into three trucks and took them all away.
Although it was getting dark, they had no intention of resting another night.
Unlike before, the mountain road is difficult to walk on and climbing in the dark is indeed dangerous.
However, the terrain of the Gobi Desert between Huangshan Village and Yanhu Village is relatively flat, and due to the scarcity of resources, there are no wild animals.
There is absolutely no problem in lighting a torch and traveling overnight.
(End of this chapter)
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