readsfreenovel Chapter 332: Recapture of Bicheng
Chapter 332: Recapture of Bicheng
Chu Xiaomu and nine others were sandwiched between Ding Qi's eight guards. They got on their horses tremblingly and obediently, and followed Ding Qichi towards Bicheng.
Qisheng had grown a lot taller. Although he was smart, he couldn't understand why these people beat and scolded his master, tied him up and then let him go. He could only follow Chu Xiaomu and rub his head against him from time to time. Chu Xiaomu glanced at him and couldn't help but burst into tears.
Ding Qi and eight guards led Chu Xiaomu and his group of nine. Just like the horse team that came to deliver dry food and supplies two months ago, they also headed north first, and then turned west and returned to Bicheng after reaching the official road.
Ding Qi looked very anxious, constantly urging his horse to run faster. In less than a day, he reached the official road between Dongzhongying and Bicheng. Unfortunately, his horse was exhausted and slowed down after reaching the official road. He could only let the horse rest for two hours before continuing on his way.
They also encountered some small villages with tents along the way. Fortunately, they did not encounter something like what happened in Dongxi Village, which made Ding Qi, Chu Xiaomu and others breathe a sigh of relief.
Except for Gao Tinggeng who was sometimes quiet and sometimes furious, nothing happened along the way. When everyone stopped to rest and eat, they untied the cloth tied around Gao Tinggeng's mouth to feed him dry biscuits or mutton. Gao Tinggeng drooled, but ignored the dry biscuits and mutton handed to him. Instead, he opened his mouth and bit the palm of the soldier who handed him food. Ding Qi sighed, but he was already unconscious and was afraid that he would not be able to recover for a while, so he had to order the guards to tie his mouth again to prevent him from suddenly hurting others.
After two days of traveling, they finally arrived at Bicheng. The four gates of Bicheng were guarded by Li Xian's Zhongjing Army. Usually, there were nearly a hundred people guarding each gate, but now there were nearly half of them. It seemed that many soldiers had been withdrawn.
Chu Xiaomu and others thought that the last time they went back to Bicheng, they not only drove thousands of horses, but also captured the assassin leader Li Ji. Although they were still a despised horse herding team at that time, it was also magical and majestic. Now, three months have passed, and everyone has become a formal soldier of the Nanding Army. Unexpectedly, this time they came back and became criminals who killed civilians. Although the people in Bicheng didn't know about this yet, they seemed to be able to feel the strange looks they gave them.
As soon as they entered Bicheng, Ding Qi ordered the guards to pull Chu Xiaomu and others off their horses, tie them up with ropes again, and push and pull them to the prison in Zhongjingying.
Everyone guessed that he would be punished and executed, and they were terrified. Chu Xiaomu looked down and saw that Qisheng had run away. He thought it was good that he was gone. If he was really executed, he didn't want him to see it. It had grown a lot, ran faster, and became smarter. Even if he didn't take care of it anymore, it should be able to survive in the grassland. Thinking of this, he felt relieved.
Su Mishun was trembling as he walked, while Zhang Houze was crying even louder, crying non-stop: "General Ding, we didn't mean to kill the villagers of Dongxi Village on purpose. They are really not human anymore... Please explain to the general and let us go..."
Ding Qi just glared at them and led the eight guards out without saying a word.
When a guard soldier with a face full of flesh heard that Chu Xiaomu and his men had actually killed the villagers, he raised his spear and lashed at Zhou Weide, who was walking at the end, and angrily cursed: "You vicious little bastards, you actually dared to kill civilians, are you tired of living?!"
As soon as Ding Qi left, Zhou Weide became bolder and retorted, "We killed monsters and evil spirits! Not the people of Bicheng!"
The guard kicked him hard again and said, "Good boy, you still dare to be stubborn! General Ding said that if you kill people, they are people. Can't he even distinguish between people, monsters and evil spirits?! Tell me the truth, how many people were killed? Were they men or women?!"
Zhou Weide snorted and said, "What's it to you?!"
The guarding sergeant was furious and raised his gun to shoot, but was stopped by another sergeant who whispered, "I heard that the whole village was massacred, and dozens of people were killed."
The soldier was frightened and froze, his spear stopped in mid-air, he didn't dare to drop it, he didn't expect that these guys in front of him would kill without blinking an eye, they were even more evil than evil spirits. Zhou Weide turned around and glared at them fiercely, he couldn't help but shuddered, and the spear in his hand almost fell to the ground.
Chu Xiaomu and the other nine were locked up for the entire night. As soon as the sun rose, two guards opened the prison door outside the prison, brought nine bowls of food, and shouted, "Hurry up, eat and get out of here!"
Everyone was very hungry and ate up the food in just a few bites.
Zhang Houxi asked, "Brother, has the general learned of our grievances and is going to let us go?"
A soldier said, "You wish! Now the whole Bicheng knows that you massacred an entire village. They are making trouble in front of the general's tent, saying that they want to see you executed with their own eyes!"
These words struck everyone's already trembling hearts like a cold thunderbolt. Zhang Hou rolled his eyes and immediately collapsed to the ground, fainting. Su Mishun's hands and feet were trembling and he could not stand steadily. Chu Xiaomu's hands and feet were tied, so he could not help the two of them up and was at a loss for a moment.
The soldier cursed, "How could you be so brave when killing people? Who knew... Humph, those who sweep horse manure are those who sweep horse manure, a bunch of incompetent cowards!" He called four soldiers in from outside the prison, and half dragged and half supported everyone out.
Chu Xiaomu recognized these four soldiers as the guards in front of Bi Ye's tent. He couldn't help but ask, "Brothers, I am Chu Xiaomu from Baihua Island. Does the general really want to execute us?"
A soldier said: "Almost half of the people in Bicheng are now surrounding the general's tent, asking the general to give everyone an explanation... Alas, it's difficult for the general to do so..." As soon as these words came out, Chu Xiaomu's heart suddenly turned cold, and he immediately thought: Did I really do something wrong? Should I really let go of those "villagers" who were like humans but not humans? Should I really not care about the lives of the villagers in another village?
Four soldiers pushed Chu Xiaomu and nine others into a prisoner car made of iron bars. The small prisoner car was packed to the brim, even more cramped than the slave cage car they had been in more than a year ago.
Before they had even walked halfway, a large group of rough-handed Bicheng citizens came over, blocking the street and shouting and cursing at the nine people in the prison van. Everyone's face was filled with anger, even resentment. Some of them picked up stones and dirt and smashed them at the prison van, some reached into the prison van and scratched and clawed at everyone, and most of them gathered outside the van and cursed viciously...