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Chapter 21: After the War, Prisoners [Please read]

Bang!
Mao Chengshun, who was hiding behind a few white soldiers and was about to retreat down the slope, heard a loud explosion and was thrown down the slope by a wave of air. Something was pierced into his face, which was extremely painful.

After landing, his ears were ringing and he was dizzy. He vaguely heard howls all around him, but he couldn't get up for a while.

When he finally got up, he saw a man wearing chain mail and a strange helmet (explosion-proof helmet) falling in front of him.

Recognizing that this man was the one who used the repeating gun before, Mao Chengshun ran away regardless of the pain in his body.

"Do you still want to run?"

Liu Sheng kicked Mao Chengshun in the calf, causing him to fall to the ground.Then he picked up the waist knife that Mao Chengshun had thrown aside, and stabbed Mao Chengshun with the knife, just in time to break Mao Chengshun's throat and drop it.

Mao Chengshun may have some talents and may be able to extract more value, but for Liu Sheng, he is not suitable for capture at the moment.

Although his homemade grenade only killed or injured four or five people from the Inspection Department, it was extremely intimidating and caused the remaining dozens of Inspection Department soldiers to collapse and flee in all directions.

At this moment, a cursory look revealed that there were at least 50 to [-] people escaping in a hurry from the south slope of Fangshan Mountain.

For him, killing or capturing these people was obviously more important than capturing Mao Chengshun.

Forgetting the white soldiers who came from the refugees, he was not prepared to let go of any of the archers from the Inspection Department.

Therefore, after Mao Chengshun was killed with one knife, he picked up the knife and chased the other archer.

In the stockade, Peng Youyi, Huang Kui, Liu Erhe and others also pursued and killed the escaped patrol officers...
Half an hour later, Liu Sheng stopped the last inspection archer only one mile away from Xiaoli Village.

"Surrender or die." Liu Sheng said simply and directly.

The archer, who was quite good at running on mountain roads, said angrily: "Kill my eldest brother, and still want me to surrender you, there is no way!"

After saying that, he swung his sword towards Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng didn't ask who the eldest brother of the archer was. He blocked his knife with his left arm and wiped open his throat with a slash of his right hand.

After capturing Mao Chengguo a few days ago, he asked clearly.The archers under Mao Chengshun were either members of the Mao clan in Maojiaji, or were related by marriage to the Mao clan.

Therefore, during the pursuit, after stopping the archers, he only asked if they were willing to surrender, and directly killed those who were unwilling to surrender.

The same goes for those white servants.

Eight of the archers escaped, but only two surrendered.Several others who were unwilling to surrender or were hesitant were killed by Liu Sheng.

On the other hand, those white servants who were refugees had no loyalty to Mao Chengshun. After being chased by Liu Sheng, they all knelt down and begged for mercy.

Although Liu Sheng intended to control the number of prisoners in this battle, he did not prepare to kill the prisoners.

Therefore, when encountering such surrendered white servants, Liu Sheng asked them to throw away their weapons and go to Liujiazhai.He also made it clear that if he met again outside Liujiazhai when he came back, he would be killed without mercy.

As a result, when he returned to Liujiazhai, he didn't meet a single servant on the road.

Liu Dachuan and others were cleaning the battlefield and combing away the prisoners.

"My boss is back!"

Seeing Liu Sheng coming up, everyone on our side who participated in this battle showed respect.If Liu Sheng hadn't been coordinating the overall situation today and taking action at the critical moment to defeat the soldiers from the inspection department who poured in from the village gate, they would have been defeated.

Therefore, even if the "mythical" aspect of Liu Sheng is excluded, everyone still admires his commanding ability and personal bravery.

"What are our casualties?" Liu Sheng asked.

"This..." Liu Dachuan faltered for a moment. He was so busy that he forgot to know his own casualties.

Fortunately, Zou Runniang came over at this time and said: "My boss, we injured seven people, five of them were slightly injured, and the other two injured their muscles and bones, but they should be able to recover after a period of training, and they will not become disabled."

That's 0 battle losses.

Liu Sheng was not surprised.

Even the twenty sword and axemen who were in reserve wore simple breastplates made of iron sheets and held steel knives and steel axes. Their armors were all stronger than those of their opponents.

As for the equipment of crossbowmen and soldiers, the equipment is better.

What's more, he always controlled the rhythm of the battle. That is to say, the ten soldiers on his side fought relatively fiercely when the patrol officers and soldiers rushed to the stronghold in the second wave, and the intensity of the others' battles was not too intense.

In the Inspection Department, except for a dozen archers, the remaining white soldiers were refugees who had only been recruited by Mao Chengshun for a few days, and their combat effectiveness was weak.

Comparing the two, it is reasonable for Liu Sheng to achieve such a record.

After learning that Mao Cheng had brought people into the mountain, Liu Sheng arranged for the old, weak, women and children to hide in the cave.

Zou Runniang and other women were worried and watched outside the cave.Seeing that the battle was over and a complete victory had been achieved, Zou Runniang immediately led a group of women to treat the wounded and help clear the battlefield.

After Liu Sheng followed Zou Runniang to see the condition of the wounded, he went to Liu Dachuan to learn about the situation of the prisoners.This time Liu Dachuan answered it.

"Reporting back to my boss, we captured two archers and 48 white soldiers in this battle. Now these people are tied to the wood pile in groups of ten, and Erhe and Erli are leading the crossbowmen to watch. .”

In fact, Liu Sheng could see these things with his eyes. The reason why he asked Liu Dachuan was to cultivate Liu Dachuan's ability to finish the war.

Others, such as Zhou Maohua, Liu Erhe, Zheng Erli and others, Liu Sheng also assigned tasks before the war to hone their abilities.

After arranging Zhou Maohua to lead people to recover the weapons lost when the soldiers of the Inspection Department were defeated, Liu Sheng stared at the dozens of prisoners beside the wood pile and pondered.

Counting Mao Chengguo's three men, he already had 53 prisoners on his side.

Not only will more prisoners consume more food, but the most important thing is that they need people to guard them, and Liu Sheng currently only has more than 30 young men under his command.

If all these people are placed in North America and there are not enough guards, some people may run away.

It would be easier if the person who ran away integrated into the Indian tribe, but if he met a Westerner and revealed the secret of his North American camp, it would cause a lot of trouble.

If these people were released in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Sheng would be worried that they would inform the government about the details of the Liujiazhai battle after they went out.

A group of bandits hiding in Tianmu Mountain may not attract the attention of the government, but if this group of bandits has dozens of armors, crossbows, and even fire blunderbuss that can fire continuously, it will definitely attract the attention of the government.

This will also cause him big trouble.

As for the simplest and surest way, it is to kill these prisoners.

But as a modern person, even if he has served in the special forces, he has some psychological barriers to killing prisoners. He does not want to do it unless it is absolutely necessary.

After much thought, Liu Sheng decided to send all these prisoners to North America.

For one thing, North America is in urgent need of manpower for reclamation.

Second, it is easier to obtain food supplies in North America.

In the end, if the captives escaped in North America, the probability of causing any negative impact or bad things would be smaller than if they escaped in the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, given the superstition of the people at the bottom at this time, maybe after passing through the space gate to North America, they will also believe that he is a "god" and follow him wholeheartedly from then on?

Even if only some of the prisoners have such psychological changes, it can help him keep an eye on the few prisoners who may escape.

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In the morning, not long after Mao Chengguo and his two archers were locked up in the wooden house, they heard Liu Sheng's call to the old, weak, women and children to take shelter in the cave. He was very happy at that time.

Because Liu Sheng made it clear in his words that officers and soldiers from the Inspection Department were about to call.

Although he and the two archers had their hands and feet tied tightly behind their backs, their mouths were covered with cloth strips, and they were tied to a thick piece of wood behind their backs. They could not speak or move, but they could see each other's expressions.

He clearly saw at that time that both of his subordinates were also excited and happy.

About half an hour later, there were indeed shouts of killing coming from outside, one after another, becoming more and more violent.

Just when Mao Chengguo thought Mao Chengshun and the others were going to break through the newly built stockade, a series of gunshots suddenly sounded, and then there was another explosion.

Then came the pitiful howls and the shouts of the people in the village chasing the defeated troops of the Inspection Department.

This change made Mao Chengguo and the other three look at each other in confusion.

Although they became Liu Sheng's prisoners, they had clearly observed Liu Sheng's men in the past few days - they were only about thirty young men and dozens of old, weak, women and children.

Even if Mao Chengshun only brought the remaining archers and white soldiers from the Inspection Department, he shouldn't be defeated by such a small number of people, right?
But when he thought of the series of gunshots and explosions, Mao Chengguo understood again.

If Liu Shengzhen had trained a small team of fire gunmen and thunderbolts, and suddenly used them, he could indeed defeat Mao Chengshun and others.

What's more, Liu Jiazhai also has Liu Sheng who is as skilled as a fierce general in the army.

Thinking this way, Mao Chengguo could only sigh and hope that Mao Chengshun would be prepared next time and bring more officers and soldiers to rescue them.

But there is a premise here, that is, they must survive before Mao Chengshun attacks Liujiazhai next time.

squeak~
The door of the house opened, and the afternoon sunlight shone in, making it difficult for Mao Chengguo and the other three to open their eyes for a while.

"Mao Chengshun is dead."

Liu Sheng walked in and told the three people news that shocked them.

When he untied the hemp ropes on the legs of the three of them and took off the cloth strips strangling their mouths, Mao Chengguo couldn't help but said: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Another archer also said excitedly: "Don't try to lie to us! There is no way that Inspector Mao will die!"

Liu Sheng straightened up and clapped his hands and said: "His body is outside. You can see it when you go out. But you must obey my instructions after you go out, otherwise you will not be able to be prisoners and will have to be a corpse like Mao Chengshun."

(End of this chapter)