Han’s Son is Not a Slave

In Xinhui City, the scorching sun is like a blazing fire. Countless young and strong people carry their shoulders with bare shirts on their shoulders. Looking from a distance, the high city walls are full of densely packed human heads, like ants filling the load of soil and the bricks of boulders with bricks. On the gap more than ten feet wide. ▲∴top▲∴dot▲∴small▲∴say,

The dense crowd, let the scorching sun bake, but no one dared to say a word, and no one dared to snort, just mechanically repeating the already numb work, everyone was tanned, and the two who carried the burden. A layer of skin was peeled off on the shoulders, revealing the red skin, and the burden was only distressing. It's like this, and they don't dare anyone to pause for half a minute, let alone scream in pain, because they know that no one will come to sympathize with them, and no one will come to pity them, and the only thing they can get by begging for forgiveness is more cruel whipping. , and even be dragged out and beheaded in public!

Compared with survival, the pain suffered by the body is hardly worth mentioning, and the torment of the body and mind is even less worth mentioning.

Finally, the crisp sound of the gong sounded, and the coolies who had been working for a long time waited for their long-awaited short rest. Although the rest time was only half a column of incense, the food they could get was only a bowl of vegetables soaked in salt water. For these coolies who are already tired to the limit of their bodies, this rest time is the most comfortable and happiest time in their life. Unfortunately, happy times are always short-lived, and after they devoured the food, the gong to go to work sounded.

After greedily licking up the little bit of oil and water in the bowl, the coolies straightened up and headed to the construction site with energy. Behind them, most of the gap in the city wall that had been collapsed had been filled. On the complete city walls on both sides of the gap, some soldiers of the Taiping Army are working hard to hoist the artillery that fell off the city wall, and many young men from the city are laboriously carrying the pine trees to the top of the city. The air was filled with the stench mixed with the fragrance of oil, but there were hundreds of cauldrons simmering golden juice mixed with feces.

"One, two, up!"

In the sound of neat horns, more than a hundred Qing soldiers with blue flags captured by the Taiping Army are using their milk-feeding strength to move blocks of boulders that are longer than a person onto the city wall. It disappears out of thin air, and it takes a long time to breathe before moving the next piece again. From start to now. Dozens of prisoners inlaid with the blue flag have been killed or injured, and most of them were injured by lifted boulders. Now, a lot of mud mixed with blood plasma can be seen under the city wall. God knows if there are corpses buried under the mud.

"Dare to be lazy!"

"Bah" sounded a whip, and a green battalion soldier covered his face and wailed, but his legs and feet did not dare to take a step. Endured the pain, he picked up an empty basket and trotted back, not daring to look at the Taiping army who beat him.

The sound of whipping, shouting and scolding came one after another. Driven by the swords of the Taiping Army, hundreds of Qing army prisoners, together with the yamen and young men who were recruited from the city, repaired the gap in the city wall that was blown up by the Taiping Army under the scorching sun.

Day and night without rest, dozens of people have been exhausted to death, and dozens of others have been injured by falling rocks or beaten to death. Several Qing army prisoners with blue flags were even used by the Taiping army to kill chickens to warn monkeys.

"The second child Qi passed out, the second child Qi passed out!"

Suddenly, someone in the crowd picking soil under the city cried out, but there was no commotion in the surrounding crowd. No one went to see the second child of Qi, who was dragged away by the Taiping Army.

After panting and laying a city brick on the cornerstone, the officer Huang Si finally couldn't help but let out a "bah", and then cursed in a low voice: "Zhou Xiucai is really ruthless, all the villagers. He got it!"

Hearing this, the companion next to him couldn't help but sneer: "Which one of us is a villager? Don't you forget, we are not from the Xinhui. How many villagers of Zhou Xiucai are left in this city?"

"We're not his countrymen. But he can't find us if he wants revenge. We didn't eat his wife and children!" Huang Si was indignant and felt injustice for his experience.

"You didn't eat his wife and children. There is always someone else in the stomach, right?" The companion said a word without raising his head.

Hearing this, Huang Si was stunned, and immediately blushed. When the old thieves were besieging the city, it was not without reason that these yamen could survive.

The yamen next to him saw that Huang Si was still standing stupidly, and couldn't help but urged: "Let's work hard, block this city wall as soon as possible, and we can rest earlier, otherwise, we will be really exhausted." Said The flag soldier who was standing on the wall of the city wall pouted and said, "The soldiers of the court are all working hard there. What are we? Let's do it quickly."

"Ugh..."

Huang Si let out a long sigh, and silently put the bamboo basket full of mud on his shoulders. I don't know if he was thinking about his stomach or Zhou Xiucai. He moved very slowly. He sneered just now. When the companion saw it, he couldn't help sneering: "Why, Huangtou hates it? If it's too hard, why didn't the thieves go with the county magistrate when they broke the city?"

"you!..."

Huang Si was angry, but Huang Xianzun set himself on fire. What does this guy mean by letting him go with Huang Xianzun!

Seeing that Huang Si was about to be courageous, others looked at him and said: "Okay, let's stop talking, what's the point of talking about it now, and the thieves will chop off your heads when they hear it!"

Hearing the beheading, Huang Si suddenly shuddered, and couldn't help but look at the heads hanging on the city wall. The heads of the people who were panting on the city by the rattail pigtails were really chilling in the sunlight, making him feel chills. He couldn't get a little angry anymore, and he didn't dare to say a word again.

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On the city wall, Zhou Shixiang stood at the crenel and silently looked at the prisoners who were working below. After listening to the reports from several of his subordinates about the progress of the project~www.NovelMTL.com~, Song Xianggong nodded with satisfaction and walked to Zhou Shixiang's side. Said: "Qianhu, if we can't make it through tonight, this gap will be blocked. At that time, the Qing army will have nothing to do with us." After he finished speaking, he hesitated for a moment, and said: "It is not enough for the prisoners to die after being driven into service for several days. Unfortunately, the people in the city have also suffered a disaster, and it is expected that there will be many casualties..."

"Mr. Song doesn't need to say this."

Zhou Shixiang withdrew his gaze, waved his hand, slowly faced Duke Xiang of Song, and said, "If one person dies, ten people can be saved, a hundred people can save ten thousand people, ten families can be saved by losing one family, and ten thousand families can be saved by losing a hundred families, then No regrets."

"But after all, the people in the city escaped from the dead, and our army uses them like this, it is inevitable that they will be suspected of tyranny. Is the Lord Qianhu..."

The governor of Song Xianggong has come to this point. In order to protect the Taiping army, he can only do it regardless of manpower. But after all, he is a scholar, and he still has a bit of benevolence in his heart. , But before he could finish speaking, Zhou Shixiang interrupted him again and said coldly: "The people of Xinhui should have died long ago, and I, Zhou Shixiang, should have died long ago, since the day their relatives died tragically, the people in this city have no reason to live alone. Driving them today is just to let them atone for their sins, but I was a woman in the past, but today’s situation is a matter of life and death, if you don’t sacrifice them, you will have to sacrifice the entire camp, whoever is more important, sir, should know.” continued. .