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On the north bank of Santai River, a group of men were waving hoes and shovels. Many men walked to them with baskets, and waited until the basket was filled with soil and then picked up, sweating profusely onto the river bank being built.

There are only two types of people who have been shaved since ancient times. One is the person who is punished, the other is the monk after Buddhism entered the Central Plains, and the first type of person is busy by the river.

They were all Chen Jun soldiers who were captured one after another since April this year. When they arrived at the north bank, their hair was shaved off and turned into bald heads. What the Zhou army did was to highlight their "different" and to prevent them from escaping.

The Book of Filial Piety says: Your body, hair, skin, and your parents dare not hurt them. It is the beginning of filial piety. Unless you become a monk, if you have a choice, no one will be willing to shave your hair, but if you are defeated and captured, you will have no choice.

By the soldiers captured last month, all the Chen army captives had their heads shaved. Of course, those who were earlier in the month had already grown stubble. The length varies according to the length of the month. From a distance, they looked like a group of monks who had just returned to secular life.

There were also some officials who acted as supervisors scattered among them, and behind each officer was a small group of soldiers. They were wearing armor and holding swords, and their eyes were patrolling the working prisoners from time to time.

There were camps more than fifty steps off the shore, and there were many soldiers stationed inside. Looking at the archers on the building, they checked the movements by the river from time to time. On the dam on the other side of the river, patrol teams were walking from time to time. Some of them carried bows and arrows, some held spears, and their eyes were also looking at the working prisoners on the north bank from time to time.

The Zhou army was not allowed to be unpredictable. These prisoners who were busy building river embankments were not ordinary people. Many people had seen people killing people with blood. Once a riot was in chaos, it would be amazing. At the beginning, they all started with small-scale conflicts.

Pretending to fight a few people, when the supervisor came, he suddenly started to rise. Several companions who had already connected each other attacked each other, snatched the weapons of the supervisor and soldiers, and called on others to resist together, in order to rush to the riverside and flee back to the south bank.

Then they were suppressed without exception, and they were lucky enough to die and hung up and showed up for public display. After several troubles, Chen's army captured hundreds of people and killed them, and Zhou Bing, who was supervising the worker, also suffered casualties.

There were also those who were determined to escape. The captives were mainly building the Santai River embankment. They didn't run far on the shore so they plunged into the Santai River. However, they couldn't escape much, either being shot or being waited by the navy guarding downstream.

Riots and escapes continued, so the alert forces began to increase, and the cruel even-sitting began to be implemented.

The prisoners were grouped together by ten people and selected the leader from ten people. If someone made trouble, the leader would settle the matter. If the supervisor did not accept the responsibility, the supervisor would drag him to whip him fifty whips. If one person escaped, all the person would be in charge.

If you beat a stick, you have to give a sweet date. If you have good performance, you can get a reward. You can add some rice for dinner that day. If you have good performance, you can add some meat slices. If you have good performance, you can add some meat slices. If you have strong and soft, the prisoners will start to be honest.

Then some of the prisoners of Chen Jun took revenge, especially those who worked hard to supervise the workmanship, and those active figures who worked hard to make a living, either died suddenly after a night, or were killed by various "accidents".

Zhou Jun's revenge was even more cruel. If one person was killed overnight, the other people would not ask about the reason, and all the suspects would be executed. If they died "accidentally" on the construction site, the other people would not ask about the reason, and all the suspects would be executed.

After killing more than a hundred people, looking at the shocking head, the captives did not dare to resist. Everyone was guarding against other things like thieves. In addition, eating and resting were strictly separated, and the various thoughts that had been hidden in their hearts gradually dissipated.

Of course, the Chen army soldiers missed home, but sometimes they thought it was good here, because at least the prison rice was a food for people, which was much better than the bibimbap eaten in the army, and even slices of meat from time to time.

The clothes are pretty good, at least the fabric will not be so easy to tear apart. Compared with the inferior military uniforms that the official army has given, the plain prison uniforms worn on them can be called clothes.

Of course, the place I live is not as good as my home, but it is much better than I thought. At least the prison cell can be kept clean and you are not allowed to stool at will. You can clean the wooden barrels every day. Although it tastes good, it doesn’t look like a pigpen at least.

He was called on time every day, and there was a bowl of porridge for breakfast. Although it was not much thicker, it surprised many people. However, thinking about Zhou Jun had to do his own hard work, so he could only eat enough to work. This is much stronger than being in the army.

In the army, if you are not lucky, you may not have a good meal. Compared with the treatment of both sides, some people even had a strange illusion: they are now in the army. Before, they were just slaves to the generals.

Many of them were recruited people, with poor families or military households from all generations. When they did not fight, they would serve as tenants for the big family, and when they fought, they would serve as soldiers for the generals.

Nowadays, working as a hard laborer in Zhouguo, although it is a little harder, it is not worse than that in the army. The most important thing is that as long as you are obedient, you will not be whipped, you will fall asleep when you are tired every day, but your stomach can fill it up, and you can even eat salty porridge from time to time. Many people begin to feel that it is better not to go back here.

Of course, it is only limited to bachelors who don’t have to worry about having enough food for one person. Everyone has old age or young, and they are lucky and even have a wife. As the end of the year approaches, their homesickness becomes more and more profound.

On a construction site, one prisoner stopped carrying an empty basket, and the other prisoner shoveled soil into the two baskets with a shovel.

"I've agreed, what's up here?" The captive who carried the basket said in a low voice. He had a beard, and the strong man who was shoveling soil into his basket was silent.

Beardless said no more, because Zhou Jun only had hair and did not shave his beard, so he could leave his beard. He was not anxious when he saw the other party not answering, because the supervisor was very strict in his supervision and was not allowed to whisper at will.

The basket was quickly filled. Just as the beard was carrying the basket with a shoulder pole, the strong man whispered, "I understand." The beard nodded gently and carried the basket without moving.

No one was disturbed throughout the process. Several companions who shoveled the soil with him pretended not to see it. The strong man glanced at the left and right and confirmed that he was not staring at by the supervisor. He continued to shovel the soil quietly. The small piles gradually became larger, and someone carried a basket to load the soil.

"I've decided, just follow the time I said last time." The strong man whispered, and the man didn't look at him silently. Both sides seemed like passers-by. The basket was filled with soil. He whispered, "I know" and then carried the soil away.

After another half an hour of busyness, the sun sets in the west and the sound of gongs sounds in the camp. The supervisors shouted loudly and shouted "Stop the work". The prisoners lined up according to their own positions and walked towards the camp in an orderly manner. The Zhou army set up a checkpoint halfway, and they handed over the tools in their hands one by one.

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During dinner, the prisoners stood in the open space in the camp holding food. Even when they were eating, they lined up in line, and there were five steps away from the front, back, left and back.

The Zhou army stipulated this to prevent the connection between prisoners. Except for the leader, the two are not allowed to talk to each other. Whoever has small movements in the open space can be seen at a glance. After dinner, they will go back to the prison to rest and continue to work the next morning.

In order to facilitate the construction of the river embankment, camps were specially set up on the north bank. On the one hand, the prisoners who acted as laborers were resting nearby, and on the other hand, the soldiers guarding them had a stronghold. If they came from Xiyang City every day, it would take a lot of time on the road alone.

"Old Liu, have you decided?" the strong man asked in a low voice. His erotic position was standing on the left, and his companions who were walking past the right were all burying their heads for dinner, and no one seemed to hear him speak.

"Is that guy reliable? It's not the eyes and ears of Zhou Jun, right? What do you think about Zhang Shun?" asked Shi Chang. The strong man said softly that he shouldn't. His name is Zhang Shun, and he recognized his beard. He had old men and young men in his family, so he was sure to go home.

"I'll think about it again." After Shi Chang said that, he continued to eat. Zhang Shun had no expression when he heard this, and was also eating.

He was a big-headed soldier of Chen's army. He had been promoted to the ranks, but he was evil and was defeated by Shangguan. Later, he followed the army westward in May. As a result, Wuchang was captured by the Zhou army for the second time. He was lucky enough to die and was caught in Jiangbei to work as a hard laborer.

Some unwilling comrades organized several riots. With the idea of ​​carefully sailing the ten thousand-year-old ship, Zhang Shun did not dare to participate, so he was not hung up and dried up, nor did he lose his life.

The Zhou army was very strict in guarding, but the Chen army soldiers were not inferior to their desire to return home. Although hundreds of people were killed for various reasons, they were still brave enough to connect privately, and they were one of them.

All ten people were already recognized by the army. Everyone had a family and a family, so they all wanted to escape and reunite with their families. Zhou Jun thought that using the method of sedition could force the prisoners to submit. Maybe others would surrender, but this was useless to them.

However, the Zhou army bought unconscience among the prisoners, and the reason why the connections were discovered by the other party many times was because these ears and ears leaked the news, so it makes sense that they were cautious.

Zhang Shun recognized that beard was a general's unit. On the day when Wuchang City was broken, the general was captured and was usually imprisoned alone like other generals. These ordinary soldiers were naturally used as coolies, and the beard showed nothing abnormal.

He did not steal the limelight or talked about it. After avoiding the Zhou army's several killings of chickens and monkeys, he found Zhang Shun's long-term leader and said that he was planning to escape. After observing them for a long time, he was sure that he was willing to do so, so he wanted to invite them to join the group and run away.

But there are some considerations about how to escape. From here to the river, you have to pass through Xiyang City. If you jump into Santai River and walk down, you can still not escape the search of the Bazhou navy when you reach Bakou. The only possible way is to catch fish in troubled waters.

Gathering like-minded companions and attacking the camp directly. They had prepared some simple weapons in private, first attacking the defenders to open the camp gate, and then calling on others to escape together.

Break the camp and immediately run into the northwest mountains, allowing other people who run around to escape to attract the Zhou army to chase after them. They escaped in the mountains for a few days and then walked westward, and then swam across the south bank by the river.

The Zhou army wanted to prevent fugitives. The riverside to the south was at the top of the main point. Then there were soldiers guarding the Ba water in the lower reaches of Santai River and Bakou. It is said that the local big family of Santai River was guarding the west side of Santai River, but there was a greater hope of running in the mountains to the northwest.

So the problem is that if you want to suddenly attack the defenders and open the camp, then there should not be too few people involved, but if there are too many people talking, it will be over if the news is leaked, so Zhang Shun knows that he is struggling.

"What do you think?" Shi Chang asked suddenly. He and the others in Shili could not choose, but this person had always had insights, so everyone wanted to hear his opinions.

"As a coolie here, you will be exhausted sooner or later. You may die if you work hard, but you can go home if you work hard right!"
Chapter completed!