Crossing the Unknown Country

Su He and his family heard the enemy enter their yard. The family listened to the noise outside and heard people inside and outside the house. Those people were slamming things and cursing in their own language, because their tone was aggressive. Finally, the things in the cellar were found and moved away. On this side of the basement, they could feel someone coming down from the cellar. Su He's family held their breath. Although they knew they couldn't find it, they could still feel the movement over there. The whole family sat there honestly, not daring to move. Su He sat near the wall of the well, listening to the movement outside. Those people were chattering at the mouth of the well. Maybe they couldn't find the bucket, so in the end, a group of people took turns to look here and left.

After a while, a man came with a big rock and threw it into the well with a thud, which caused a big splash of water. Some water also splashed into Su He's side. They probably thought there was someone hiding in the well, so they just smashed the person to death in the well. These people saw that there was no response from the well, and left cursing.

After a long while, Su He and the others finally heard the sound of these people walking out, but they still didn't dare to move, because who knew if they would leave someone to guard upstairs. Now they could only wait, and as long as they were not sure, they would stay in the basement.

The Dongjie Army searched this place very carefully. All the villagers in this village who had harmed their people were killed without mercy. In the end, they found people in several cellars because the crying of children exposed the people hiding in the cellars. These people were so scared that they told everything, but they only knew that everyone had fled to the mountains, and nothing else was clear. Fortunately, the village chief just told everyone to follow him to the mountains if there was anything, and did not say where to go specifically. They saw that there was nothing to ask, so they killed the children and the elderly directly, and raped the women and killed them. Su He and others heard the villagers crying for help in the basement, and they felt very uncomfortable, but no one could do anything. They would die in vain if they went there and could not save anyone.

One of the men was unwilling to run to the mountain by himself. When he was discovered, he tried to fight with the people, but was beheaded by them. The people in his family were so scared that they were caught and killed. All those who were discovered were killed without a single one left.

The Dongjie people also sent a team to search the mountain. If they found it, it would be the best. If they didn't, they had to return within half an hour. They had to go to another village. These people searched the mountain briefly. Because the entrance of the village chief's cave was relatively secret, they passed by the cave without finding it. The children didn't cry because the village chief had led them to the innermost part of the cave. They also had people surround them with something outside, so that the children fell asleep in the dark environment. The villagers on the mountain narrowly avoided the search and escaped a disaster.

After these people left their village, they killed people in several surrounding villages. When the head of the neighboring village saw the billowing smoke from Shili Village, he knew that the enemy was coming. He quickly told the villagers to hide or flee to the mountains, but some of the villagers there did not listen to the head of the village. They thought that if Fenggou was defended, there would be no enemy troops here. As a result, just when these people thought that there was no situation and said that those who ran away were fools, these people came. There were so many people that they had nowhere to hide and were directly captured. Kneeling and begging for mercy was useless. The more they were killed, the more humiliating it was. They were directly hacked and robbed.

All the villages near this town were cleansed without exception, and anyone caught was killed. The garrison in the town had already discovered the situation in Shili Village, and they had already entered a guard state, but they did not rescue these villagers, because they received orders to defend Baima Town, intercept and annihilate the enemy. The biggest task of their 2,000-man garrison was to guard the passage here and protect the rear of Fenggu City.

They had sent people to Fengyu County and Fenggu City, a border city, to inform them that the enemy was coming over the mountain and to prepare them. They had not yet obtained any specific information about the enemy. When the second letter was sent, a spy informed them that there were as many as 5,000 people, and they had also built a fortification to prepare to meet the enemy.