The leader sent more than twenty people to explore the basement, but after waiting and waiting, they never came back.
He sensed something was wrong and waved to the men next to him.
"Sir, what are your orders?"
"I think those brothers are in danger. There is a problem down here, and we can't go down hastily. You take a few people down there to burn firewood, and I'll see where those people can hide."
It's dangerous down there, so don't go down there. If all the people in the village hide down there and wait for the thick smoke to pour in, even if it doesn't burn them to death, it can suffocate them to death.
Half an hour later, the basement was filled with thick smoke. Even the soldiers who were burning firewood at the entrance of the cave were blinded by the smoke. There was still no reaction inside.
Just when the leader was furious, a coughing sound came from not far away.
The leader was overjoyed and rushed there with his men.
As soon as I got there, there was another coughing sound from another place.
"Sir, there are people over there."
The leader showed a proud smile: "It seems that those rats underground can't hide. You guys go over there..."
"Sir, there is a cave entrance here..."
"Sir, there is also a cave entrance here..."
"I wonder how they can hide these cunning rats." The leader gestured to his men to go and arrest them.
When soldiers jumped down one after another, they saw a figure in front of them.
They chased the figure into the basement.
The leader watched his men jump down one after another, but he didn't see them come out for a long time.
He secretly screamed that something was wrong and shouted towards the entrance of the cave: "Come back."
However, those soldiers had already chased the people and ran away.
No! Maybe he didn't run far away.
But...
It became a trophy intercepted and killed by the villagers.
In the tunnel, an old man knocked the soldier unconscious with a shovel, then raised the shovel and swung it hard several times.
Looking at the bloody dead people on the ground, the old man who committed murder for the first time sat on the ground tremblingly.
"Old Su Tou, how are you?" A villager came out from another passage and saw the dead man in front of him and said, "That's right, Old Su Tou, take away his badge, it's your trophy."
"I killed someone!" Old Su's head trembled.
"If you don't kill him, he will kill us. Did you see the weapon in his hand? If our village hadn't built this, they would have slaughtered us like animals."
"Yes, if I don't kill him, he will kill me."
"Let's go, there are a few more over there, let's take care of those bullies."
The killing in the tunnel went on silently.
The terrain below is in the minds of the villagers, but to outsiders it is like a maze, and there is no way to figure it out.
More than a hundred soldiers descended into the tunnel, only to be killed.
The leader looked at the few soldiers left and knew that he could not stay here any longer. If he stayed here any longer, he might die without knowing how.
This place is very evil.
"Let's go." The leader said through gritted teeth.
The remaining soldiers were also frightened.
When they first arrived, everyone was high-spirited and murderous, as if they already had beauty and money in their arms.
But within a short period of time, they became like frightened cowards who did not dare to stay here any longer.
The soldiers left from the village entrance.
They ran away very fast, as if there were evil spirits chasing them.
"ah……"
The ground is empty.
Their bodies fell downwards.
The leader stopped in time, but a large net fell from above, and he was caught in the net.
"Let me go! You villains who only dare to hide in the dark! Let me go! Let's compete head-on if we can!"
The villagers who had been hiding appeared.
There were more than a dozen people in the trap, a dozen people in the net, and more than twenty people escaped from the trap and fishing net, but they looked frightened and did not dare to resist at all.
"Commander Yang, what should we do now?" the villagers asked Yang Chong, the leader responsible for the security of their village.
Behind Yang Chong, in addition to the villagers, there were a hundred formally trained soldiers. He said with a smile: "Don't worry, folks, we will take these people away."
There's a lot a prisoner can do.
As long as the leader is eliminated, the other soldiers have nothing to fear. Didn't you see that they were frightened out of their wits?
Zhou Pengfei waited for good news from his men in the camp. After waiting for a long time, no one came back.
"Someone...come..."
"grown ups!"
"Go and find out immediately. Why haven't they come back yet?"
Not long after, the scout responsible for inquiring about the news came back and reported to Zhou Pengfei: "Sir, everyone we sent out has disappeared."
"What?" Zhou Pengfei's expression changed drastically, "There are three thousand people in total, and all of them are gone?"
"My subordinates went to various villages and saw only blazing flames and... the smell of barbecue in the air..."
"The regular army we spent five years training can't even deal with ordinary people?" Zhou Pengfei was severely hit. "Are all the people in Shanghai and North City transformed from tigers and wolves?"
"My subordinates didn't dare to alert others, so I don't know how they were defeated."
"There is no food and heavy losses. If that gentleman knows, he will definitely not let me go." Zhou Pengfei clenched his fists, "In this case, the only choice is to attack by force. We have no other way out!"
As long as Hubei City is captured, the previous losses will be nothing. What they need is everything in Hubei City.
The victorious soldiers from each village returned to Hubei City with their spoils of war.
Mu Siyu listened to the heads of hundreds of households talking about their battles with great interest, with a smile on her face.
After they finished speaking, Mu Siyu said, "Before you left, did you tell the people to stay in the basement until the war is over?"
"Madam, just don't worry. The basement designed by madam is not only ventilated, but also well-lit. They have prepared enough food down there. Even if they stay there for a year, there will be no problem."
"Madam, how to deal with those prisoners?"
"Those who are willing to surrender, those who give powerful information, save their lives and wait until the war is over to deal with it. Those who are tough-talking and unwilling to give in, give them a good time! After all, we are all kind-hearted people, facing those who are looking for death
We must fulfill their loyalty.”
The soldiers never expected Mu Siyu to be so decisive. If it were another woman, she would not dare to kill so many prisoners. But here, there seems to be no such thing as mercy.
"Master, Zhou Pengfei's army has no food, and now that the plan to snatch it has failed again, I'm afraid it will jump over the wall." Li Guyuan said.
"Yes, in less than an hour, Zhou Pengfei will lead an army to launch a strong attack, so are you ready to fight to the death?"
"We will live and die with Hubei City." The crowd shouted loudly.