In the blink of an eye, a year has passed, for Ling Yuan, the days in this city are already completely familiar, at this time there is no difference between him and the people around him, in his heart, he has become more and more regarded as a local, gradually forgetting that he is actually just an outsider, a person who doesn't even know where he comes from.
However, just when he thought he could live like this for the rest of his life, he didn't expect that something suddenly happened to disrupt his life.
Not only his life, but also the peaceful life of the rest of the people in the entire city was also shattered.
In the past few days, the world seems to have become unpeaceful, and I heard that the enemy from the north has taken many cities in succession all the way south.
Wherever those people passed, they burned, killed, and looted, and they did all kinds of evil, and I heard that many cities became hell on earth after them.
News of this is coming from the north, especially as some refugees who have fled from the north have begun to pour in.
Under such an atmosphere, the atmosphere in the entire city suddenly became tense.
Not to mention anything else, at least the business in Ling Yuan's blacksmith shop has become quite hot, and the people who come here are basically looking for him to build weapons, in order to hope that when the enemy really kills him in the future, he will be able to resist it.
Even the government began to prepare at this time, the city gate was originally unguarded, and there was a team of soldiers there every day, and the city gate was closed early every day.
The most important thing is that Ling Yuan has already received a call from the government to build weapons and other things for the government, and under various circumstances, it seems that a big war is coming.
While Ling Yuan was working overtime to catch up, he also prepared a long knife for himself, after all, he also wanted to be able to protect his family when the crisis came.
He didn't know who the enemy of the north was, but he knew that it was a much more powerful opponent than his own cities.
I heard that those people were extremely savage, and they had always lived in the bitter cold of the northern land, and for these cities in the south, they had never seen such an enemy.
It is precisely because of this that the government does not know much about the other party, which leads to a serious lack of coping methods and lags.
Only five days later, wolf smoke appeared outside the city, and the enemy was less than a hundred miles away from the city.
At this time, after knowing the news, many people in the city were in chaos, they were not thinking about how to resist, how to keep the city, and keep their lives.
Instead, he thought about how to escape from the city and avoid contact with the enemy.
Ling Yuan had no intention of escaping, and he had nowhere to go, after all, this city was his home, and he was ready to resist to the end with the officers and soldiers, and like many hot-blooded youths, he was ready to defend his homeland by force.
However, the necessary preparations must be made, and he said to his family that if the city really could not be saved, let them flee to the forest, which was about to be forgotten by himself.
In such a place, the enemy should not chase after it, after all, that place is not an ordinary place, and the enemy just has so many people that they can't even make a splash after entering.
And after all these preparations, the enemy is already in the city.
After less than a cup of tea, the enemy outside the city attacked.
Looking at the black pressure outside the city, it seemed that there was no enemy in sight, and many people were directly frightened.
For the people in the city, after many years of Chengping, they have forgotten how to fight, and they are no longer bloody.
Now, when they saw these wolf-like enemies, many people were directly frightened, and their weapons were thrown directly on the ground, and they turned around and ran.
In particular, the officers and soldiers who were supposed to be the main force to resist the enemy were all showing off their might on weekdays, and it was okay to bully the common people, and it was simply a joke to let them fight with knives.
Under such circumstances, how could it be possible to block the enemy's attack?
The defenders of the city, who were already at a disadvantage, after escaping a lot of people, even if the remaining Ling Yuan and the others wanted to resist, they could not recover it.
The enemy's attack lasted less than a pillar of incense, and the entire city was directly breached, and many people, especially those who were in power and wealthy, went out of the city and surrendered.
However, these people did not end well, because for the enemies their aim was not to take these cities, but to plunder them and then return to the north.
As far as they are concerned, these officials and rich people naturally have to be squeezed well, and after robbing them of their money, they will directly set up arson and rape and plunder.
The most terrible thing is to slaughter the city for a day, kill those who are old, weak, sick and disabled or useless to them, and finally burn the entire city with a fire when they leave.
Ling Yuan and some of the people who were struggling to resist were captured, but instead of killing them, the enemy took them all prisoner and prepared to take them back to be used as coolie slaves.
For the enemy, these captives were a precious treasure to be fought and killed, and they could be driven to their pleasure.
In this way, Ling Yuan and the other young men and women were all strung together, as if they were a string of sugar gourds, and they were led and driven to the north.
Before leaving, Ling Yuan glanced back at the blazing city behind him, where he had his happiest days, and his wife and family, according to his orders, had already hid in the forest before the war began.
Although it is said that it did not fall into the hands of the enemy, it is a good thing.
But for him, he knew the horror of that forest, and it was completely impossible to go to that place, and he would not let them take this step if it was not a last resort.
"Maybe, we won't be able to go back here again" There are not many people with the same expression as Ling Yuan, everyone looked at the city behind them that was gradually turning into white ground, and they all looked sad, a neighbor who was familiar with Ling Yuan, sighed at this time and said, this resonated with many people.
But such a short pathos was soon forced to be put away under the rebuke and whipping of the enemy.
Ling Yuan and they were led by the enemy all the way to the north, and along the way, the enemy's troops continued to join in, and gradually became a huge team, and the most of the entire team was not the enemy himself, but the prisoners and trophies like Ling Yuan.
The procession stretched for hundreds of miles, and after walking for several months, they finally came to a meadow, where they stopped.
Along the way, Ling Yuan was whipped and driven away from time to time, and everyone was not only poor in what they could eat, but they were never full.
Many people have completely fallen along the way, and those who finally persevered to this northern land are probably only less than seventy percent of the original.
However, compared to those women, Ling Yuan and these men were better.
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After all, they just sell their power and work as coolies.
After settling in such a place, many of the captives died due to the lack of adaptation, and in the end, only forty percent of the people who actually survived here were the original.
There were less than ten people left in the same city as Ling Yuan, and the rest were either assigned to other places or were dead.
And surviving is not necessarily a good thing, every day they have to be enslaved by the nobles of the enemy, they are the slightest disappointment, they are beaten and scolded, often take pleasure in torturing Ling Yuan and them.
When you are happy, rewarding you with a few moldy steamed buns is as rich as the New Year's Festival for Ling Yuan's people, and if one is not happy, he will kill these captives directly, or directly feed them alive to lions, tigers, hungry wolves, etc.
In less than a year, many people can't hold on, and Ling Yuan is already only skinny and bones at this time, and he is no longer the same as before, and his whole body has been completely emaciated, I am afraid that even his wife standing in front of him can no longer recognize him.
But he is still alive only because he still thinks that one day he will be able to see his family and his children, and such a belief has always supported him to continue to persevere.
Let him not give up to live even in the most difficult moments.
And just as he was gradually adapting to this life, one day they were sold by the nobleman to whom they had been assigned at the beginning, and sold to the mines, making them miners.
Compared with the previous life, the life of this miner is even more difficult, not only is there not enough food and drink every day, but even sleep can only sleep for a short hour.
In the dark mines, they were enslaved, and they had to pay a full ration of ore every day, otherwise they would have no food.
This is quite light, but the more serious thing is to hang people, beat them under the scorching sun, and then hang them in the sun, and many people who are already unbearable will die directly on the flagpole.
As the days passed, under such a life, Ling Yuan's acquaintances became fewer and fewer, and in the end, he was the only one left.
He gritted his teeth and struggled to support himself, and there was only a little hope left in his heart.
Although it seems that he, like the other miners here, has gradually begun to become numb under such enslavement, in his heart, he has always wanted to escape from this place of hell on earth, and wants to return to his home and meet his family
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