There were several prisoners beside him who also echoed: "Yes, Master, just do it, okay.
If this continues, we will not be executed, but we will die of exhaustion."
Wang Shuang sneered, "Okay, since you don't want to run away, there's no need to run away."
The prisoners were overjoyed and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you so much, Master, thank you so much, Master."
Unexpectedly, Wang Shuang immediately turned his face and shouted: "Kill everyone who comes."
"Yes."
Several Northern Army cavalry rushed over on horseback, stabbing down with several spears.
The prisoners who had just begged for mercy fell into a pool of blood in the blink of an eye.
Wang Shuang looked at the other prisoners and shouted: "Have you all seen this?
This is the result of cheating and cheating.
Either you carry food on your back to keep marching, or you will be killed.
What are you looking at in this wilderness?
Why don't you carry it on your back?"
Anyone who hesitates to keep up with the team’s food supply will be killed.”
Under the threat of death, the prisoners no longer dared to hesitate.
They put their food bags on their backs and ran forward, desperately chasing the team in front.
The marching speed of fifteen miles per hour is actually not very fast.
A normal person can easily achieve it by jogging for an hour.
However, each of these prisoners is carrying dozens of kilograms of grain bags, which is fatal.
Wang Shuang followed the orders issued by Liu Cheng and ordered the Northern Army soldiers who were guarding these prisoners that any prisoners who acted rogue and refused to maintain the marching speed would not be tolerated and would be killed.
After more than two hundred captives were killed in a row, other captives who also had this mentality no longer dared to do so.
On the one hand, they wanted to continue to eat three full meals a day, but they did not want to be killed, so their body's potential was at the limit of hunger and death. inspired by threats.
In the next two or three hours, more than 300 prisoners were killed one after another.
These people were undoubtedly in poor physical condition and physical strength.
They could not withstand such a long and intense march, and they did not have strong willpower. , refused to leave, so Wang Shuang could only order their execution.
As more and more prisoners were killed, other prisoners became more and more frightened.
Even if they knew that their bodies could not hold on, they could only desperately carry food on their backs to keep up with the marching team in order to survive.
At dawn, in addition to those who were killed, there were more than 400 prisoners in poor health during the entire march who could not withstand such a high intensity and died of exhaustion.
They collapsed during the march and could not get up again. , Wang Shuang ordered them to take off their food bags and throw them on their horses to continue marching.
Two days later, Liu Cheng ordered everyone to eat and rest for three hours.
The prisoners seemed to have received an amnesty.
One by one, they dropped their food bags and fell to the ground, gasping for breath.
It was as if all the bones in their bodies were falling apart.
No one was there.
No matter how strong you are to do any action, even speaking is a luxury.
Liu Cheng learned from Ji Li Drum Cart that it would take a total of ten hours from Xushi to Chenshi, excluding the rest time in between, and he would march 130 miles overnight.
If it is an army that has undergone long-term training, it is not particularly difficult to march one hundred and thirty miles in one night.
But these prisoners have never had enough to eat before, have never experienced any training, and each of them has at least With a weight of sixty kilograms, the intensity of marching was simply appalling.
However, these people finally survived the first day.
This night, they seemed to be thrown into hell.
They endured a night of torture in hell, and everyone was tortured to the point of losing most of their lives.
In the temporary Chinese army camp, Liu Cheng drank soup and gnawed on roast chicken and asked Wang Shuang: "Tell me, how many people were killed last night and how many people died from exhaustion?"
Wang Shuang cupped his fists and replied: "We killed more than 500 people, and more than 400 people died of exhaustion on the way.
A total of more than 1,000 people were lost."
A thousand people were reduced in one march.
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This was only one night.
Wang Shuang felt very terrible.
At this afternoon, I am afraid that in less than ten days and a half, there will be only a few of the twelve thousand prisoners left. , thinking of this, Wang Shuang felt a chill all over his body.
He asked carefully: "Lord, why do we take these prisoners on the road?
Taking them will not only slow down the march, but they are also a big burden, and they will consume the food and grass.
Why not kill them all, or kill them all?"
Let it go, there seems to be no benefit in doing so."
Liu Cheng glanced at Wang Shuang, took a bite of the cake, and said as he chewed: "Let them all go.
I let them go today.
Tomorrow they will be forcibly recruited by Kong Min or Li Min and organized into an army again to fight against the imperial court.
Kill them all."
Too much is harmful to Tianhe, and it will fall A crime of bloodthirsty and indiscriminate killing.
Besides, we have seized so much grain and grass, and with our current transportation capacity, we will definitely not be able to maintain high-speed maneuverability; after all, the grain is dug out of the fields by the people after a year of hard work.
Yes, it would be a pity to burn it.”
"Also, this general has an idea to conduct an experiment to train these prisoners into an army that is not afraid of death, has strong mobility and execution ability.
As for how many of them can survive this period?
It just depends on their luck, willpower, patience, and endurance.”
At this time, shouts and noises came from outside the tent, "Let go, let me go, I want to see your general, let me go quickly, let me go."
Liu Cheng frowned and asked, "Who is this?"
Wang Shuang cupped his fists and said, "It should be the person named Xu Jing who was caught yesterday."
Liu Cheng thought for a while and waved: "Let him come in."
"promise" Xu Jing was led in.
When he saw Liu Cheng, who was wearing a terrifying mask, he no longer had the same noisy energy as before.
He bowed and said: "General" Liu Cheng wiped the sword with a silk cloth.
While wiping it, he said calmly: "What's the matter with you?
Why are you making a noise outside the tent?
Do you think my sword is bad for you?"
Xu Jing saw Liu Cheng wiping his knife.
The blood on the knife could not be wiped away because of the blood stained by the killing.
He couldn't help but swallowed, stepped back and said, "General, there are so many prisoners.
You either let them all go, or you kill them all, maybe you torture them like this, you torture so many people to death in one night, you are going too far and it is too cruel."
"Well."
Liu Cheng slowly raised his head and stared at Xu Jing.
The eyes in the mask seemed to have murderous intent, "I need you to teach me what to do.
See, you are impatient with life, and you are too tired to live."
It’s hard to protect yourself, but you still dare to meddle in other people’s business.”
Xu Jing was not very courageous to begin with, but when Liu Cheng, who was wearing a mask and full of murderous aura, stared at him and threatened him, his legs weakened from fear.
He had his hands tied and thrown on a horse last night.
He had carefully observed the soldiers and horses, and he didn't even raise any flags.
The weapons, armors, etc. of this soldiers and horses were all standard equipment, and the soldiers and horses followed orders, prohibitions, and disciplines.
Their sex was excellent, and every knight looked majestic and battle-hardened.
He couldn't even tell whose men they belonged to.
Xu Jing said: "Okay, okay, I don't care, you can do whatever you want, but you captured me, but you didn't give me food to eat, what do you mean, those prisoners have food to eat, but you don't give me food to eat?"
, I am an official after all, but I am not as good as those ordinary prisoners.
Scholars can be killed and cannot be humiliated.
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You might as well kill me with one knife."
Liu Cheng stood up and walked in front of Xu Jing.
Xu Jing was so frightened that he backed away.
Liu Cheng forced him to retreat to the edge of the tent and said coldly: "It's because of you that scholars in the world only know how to get something for nothing and empty talk harms the country." become civilian From today on, you only have one meal a day, and you can only eat half full.
You don't work, and you don't get food.
It's just as simple as coming here, taking him down, and giving him a steamed bun.
This is Food rations for the whole day today.”
"Nuo" The two knights came over and dragged the speechless Xu Jing out.
After Wang Shuang saw Xu Jing being dragged out, he cupped his fists at Liu Cheng and said, "Master, since you want to use him, but you still treat him like this, I'm afraid he won't bow his head easily."
Liu Cheng sneered: "Hey, let's starve him for a few days first.
Hunger can make a person understand many truths that he didn't understand before.
Hunger can make a person lower his noble head.
Hunger can make a person give up his self-righteousness."
"Okay, I, the general, must set off with the army.
Those prisoners are not used to the training of this kind of rapid march, and they are physically overwhelmed.
You lead two thousand people to stay, and wait for them to rest for an hour and a half before urging them to go on the road. , kill those who deserve to be killed, beat those who deserve to be beaten, and never die on the way.
Don't be soft-hearted, otherwise it will be difficult for you to control these more than 10,000 people with only 2,000 people.
Moreover, what this general needs is an iron-blooded warrior.
We need to eliminate the weak ones with weak will and weak body.
If we do not use harsh methods, Military law and discipline will be difficult to restrain them in the future, do you understand?"
Wang Shuang hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "I understand."
Just after midnight in the morning, Liu Cheng set out first with three thousand cavalry.
He sent a team of scouts to scout the road twenty miles in front of the army, followed by three thousand men and horses.
When Shen Shi arrived near Chen County in Chen State in the afternoon, the forward scout team sent people to Pegasus to report: "General, we found a troop of one thousand soldiers and horses coming twenty-five miles ahead.
This thousand soldiers are coming towards us."
There were a large number of carriages among them, which seemed to be a grain transport team, but those carriages were empty."
"Oh, the grain transport team, the empty carriage."
Liu Cheng was startled, but he immediately thought of something, "Could it be the men and horses of Li Min, the prefect of Yingchuan?
They have sent grain and grass to Sun Jian, and they are going back to Yingchuan."
The scout who reported the news clasped his fists and said: "This thousand-man army only has a dozen cavalry, the rest are infantry, and there are more than three thousand civilians.
The flag they are flying has the word "Li" written on it."
"It seems that they are really the men of Yingchuan Prefect Li Min," Liu Cheng said.
He immediately took the map, looked at it, and immediately ordered: "Send an order to the entire army to speed up and set up an ambush twelve miles ahead."
"promise" In less than a quarter of an hour, Liu Chenggong quickly moved with three thousand cavalry to the predetermined location.
This was a mountain ridge.
The mountains were not high and golden wheat grew everywhere
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