A Houjin soldier jumped off his horse and approached the crowd huddled together. The people who were close to him desperately tried to squeeze in, and forced a roughly circular line into a small depression. The Houjin soldier waved the war knife in his hand and pointed to the ground, shouting something loudly, but no one understood the Manchu language. Everyone was still huddled together in panic.

The Houjin soldier seemed to be annoyed, and directly picked up his sword and cut down a person! Now the crowd is even more panicked! Squeeze into a ball even harder! But what can they do? The weapons of the soldiers in the crowd had long since been discarded, and the people had never had weapons. They could only desperately try to stay away from the vicious Houjin soldier.

It wasn't until a Houjin soldier in the distance shouted something in Manchu that the soldier slapped his helmet and shouted in stiff Chinese: "Kneel, kneel!" ”

The other horsemen let out a burst of laughter. And the large crowd of Niu Mantun fell to their knees as if they had been pardoned. Niu Mantun also knelt down in fear. He felt very worthless for the person who was slashed and killed! Just because that Houjin man forgot to speak Chinese, he was killed!

When the soldier saw that everyone was kneeling, he snorted in satisfaction. At this moment more than a dozen soldiers jumped from their horses and took ropes off their saddles. Then they rushed into the crowd, grabbed a man by the collar, lifted him up, tied his right arm to a rope, and when they were tied another man to the same rope.

Slowly, the dense crowd turned into a dozen long queues. Niu Mantun looked around in despair, and then at those vicious soldiers, he knew that he couldn't escape. Until his right arm was also tied with a rope.

Niu Mantun was unfortunate because he was captured. At the same time, Niu Mantun was also lucky, because by this time Nurhachi had already defeated all the Ming army, and he had plenty of time to clear the battlefield and capture prisoners. If Niu Mantun was in Juniper's team, he was afraid that the corpse would have been cold.

Niu Mantun's group of people were led by Houjin soldiers and stumbled towards the back. There are corpses and blood everywhere along the way! He also saw many Houjin soldiers mending knives to wounded Ming soldiers. Those wounded Ming soldiers screamed, prayed, cursed, and were still hacked to death by those Houjin soldiers! Niu Mantun was stimulated by the smell of blood and wanted to vomit, but there was nothing in his stomach, and he couldn't vomit anything! You can only stare at your feet, and you can't see the corpses and blood.

I don't know how long we walked, but everyone was driven into a camp. At first glance, the camp was hastily built, except for a few wooden fences on the outside. It's not so much a camp as a large sheepfold.

All the captured people were untied and thrown inside, only a few guards were talking and laughing, and no one paid attention to these people, but no one wanted to escape. The flesh and blood along the way has already scared them out! Niu Mantun was hungry and cold. But at this time, he also knew that his life did not belong to him, and all he could do was huddle with everyone, endure the cold wind and hunger.

Everyone stayed up until dawn. I didn't expect someone to come and distribute food. Niu Mantun received a brown rice dumpling. He recognized that this brown rice dumpling was still the stock in the Ming army camp, and he had eaten this during this time. He ate the brown rice dumplings in two bites, and finally felt that he had some thinking skills. But before he could come up with anything, a group of Houjin soldiers came in and drove them outside.

Niu Mantun walked out of the camp with the crowd, and many people from their camp had gathered outside. A group of Houjin soldiers were pointing and laughing at them. A short trench had been dug in the flat ground ahead, and the piles of wood in it were burning. Although the flames were far away from Niu Mantun, they still made Niu Mantun feel a little warm! It seems that these Houjin soldiers are not bad enough to be at home, at least they know to let them roast the fire!

Just when Niu Mantun was guessing what these Houjin soldiers were going to do, a cavalryman with a laurel armor rode up to them and shouted to everyone in fluent Chinese: "You all listen to the truth! From this day on, you are all the minions of the old Khan! But whether you live well or badly depends on today! ”

As he spoke, the man pointed to the fire ditch and said, "As long as you dare to jump over this fire ditch, you can become the warrior of the old Khan!" What do you think? Who dares to jump? The remark caused a commotion.

Niu Mantun stepped down and looked at the fire ditch. In fact, that fire ditch is really not wide. It looks like it's less than a step wide, and anyone can jump over it with all their might. But today the ditch is filled with burning wood, and the flames on it rise into the air, which is more scary!

Niu Mantun felt that he should be able to jump over. But if you skip it, you can't fall into the fire pit again, it's no joke. On the way back after he was captured, he saw many soldiers of the Houjin Army mending knives to the wounded Ming soldiers. Niu Mantun is not like falling into a fire ditch and being burned half to death and then being mended!

After a half-stop, the man saw that no one was willing to jump, so he continued to shout: "Does no one dare to jump this little fire ditch?" Jump over and you'll have something to eat and wear! It's better than starving here, right? This sentence caused an even greater commotion than just now.

Niu Mantun made up his mind and nested in the crowd without making a sound. But at this time, a person squeezed out of the crowd, and he cowered and said, "I want to try." ”

The man was overjoyed and said, "Good! You go jump! ”

Niu Mantun couldn't see the man's expression, only his back. Seeing him standing not far from the fire ditch, he hesitated for a long time, but he didn't dare to rush forward. The man picked up his whip and threw out a whipped whip and shouted, "Jump! Otherwise, I'll cut you now! ”

The man was taken aback, trembled a little, and then gritted his teeth and ran briskly towards the fire ditch. When he reached the edge of the ditch, he leaped hard, and he passed through the flames! Then the flames rose and he was no longer visible. Then there was an excited shout from the fire ditch: "I jumped over!" I jumped over! ”

The man waved his hand, and two soldiers walked by and pushed him aside from the edge of the ditch and stuffed him with two brown rice dumplings. He took the brown rice gnocchi and devoured it. Even when he rolled his eyes, he kept stuffing things into his mouth, which showed that he was hungry.

After the first person succeeded, two more people came out. The one who jumped first jumped over. Then a person obviously hesitated when jumping, but he fell into the fire ditch with insufficient strength, and suddenly let out a series of screams, and fluttered to climb up! The two Houjin soldiers next to them raised their spears and stabbed people directly into the fire ditch! The man let out a terrible scream and stopped moving. Two soldiers picked the body out of the fire ditch with their spears and threw it aside.

This scene frightened everyone, and no one dared to come forward anymore. The man flicked his horsewhip and shouted, "Rubbish! You can't jump over this! And no one jumped? He shouted many times, but no one in the crowd would say anything.

The man seemed disappointed, and when he raised his whip to give some order, Niu Mantun could not resist the temptation of food, and squeezed out of the crowd and walked towards the fire ditch. Looking at the blazing flames, Niu Mantun regretted it! But he doesn't know if he will be beheaded if he goes back at this time? So he hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and rushed towards the fire ditch. When he felt the flames hit his face, he used all the strength of his left leg to stomp on the ground and jumped, and the person passed through the flames in an instant!

Niu Mantun did not stand firm when he landed and rolled to the ground. He didn't care about the hurt body, and desperately touched his body, but found that nothing happened! Before he could be happy, he was roughly pushed aside by the two Houjin soldiers, and two brown rice balls were stuffed into his hands. At this time, everything is fake, only these two brown rice dumplings are the most real. Niu Mantun didn't care about anything else, so he squatted there desperately stuffing brown rice dumplings into his mouth.

Time passed, and more than a dozen people jumped over the fire ditch one after another. The man shouted many times, but no one would come out and jump into the ditch. With a wave of his hand, he motioned for the soldiers to drive them away.

Then the man rode up to the small group of people who had jumped over the fire and said, "You are all good! If you dare to jump over the fire ditch, it means that you have the courage! From today onwards, you will be the soldiers of the Eight Banners! You have to do my bidding! Otherwise, the military law of the Eight Banners is very strict! By the way, I'll tell you my name, my name is Li Yongfang. ”