The soldiers were a little overwhelmed, but luckily the order had already been handed down.

Shi Jin and Zhou Zhong roughly assigned each killer team a task, that is, to let them each go to search.

Not to mention that the horse thieves are already frightened, even if they still want to sneak attack the officers and soldiers at this time, the officers and soldiers of a killer team are enough to deal with them for a long time, and once a killer team is attacked, the nearby killer team can quickly rush over.

From time to time, there was a burst of shouting and screaming in the Hutou cottage.

It wasn't until half an hour later that it was completely quiet.

Dong Ce rode his horse and slowly stepped into the cottage. At this time, it is already the beginning of sunset, and there is a brilliant sunset on the horizon, even in this early spring, the sun at dusk seems to be soft, lazy, and warm.

Basking in such light is truly indescribably pleasant.

In particular, the cottage I am in now used to be someone else's thing, but now, it is surrendered to my own feet.

Dong Ce squinted his eyes and sighed comfortably. Only then did he realize that the scenery of the valley he was in was really good. There are mountains on all sides, all of them are not high, but they are extremely steep, so the sun can penetrate in, but the wind is blocked out, so the valley is exceptionally warm. At this time, the whole valley was a warm yellow, and the forest in the north was all thick green, and the mountain behind the forest, I don't know what was contained in a large amount of the rocks, was as red as blood. At this time, it is rendered by the sun, and it is even more magnificent!

After looking at it for a while, Dong Ce's gaze moved downward, slowly sweeping over the sitting or kneeling captives in this clearing.

Entering the gate, there is a clearing, at the end of the north of the clearing, is a rather large scale of the righteous hall, and at this time, the prisoners found from the cottage are arranged in this clearing, there are two killer teams guarding, a dozen horseback riding family members under the leadership of Wang Hun around the clearing, they are all holding bows in their hands, the bow is wound, as long as any prisoner dares to move, immediately an arrow to kill.

The search was nearing its end, and most of the captives had been escorted over. Now there are two hundred and thirty or forty people in the open field, and most of them are old and weak, women and children.

The Tiger Head Cottage has been around for a long time, and many of the horse thieves in it have been living in the cottage for many years, both in terms of physiological needs and traditional concepts of inheritance, they need to have women. From the perspective of human psychology, there is a considerable sense of expectation for having your own family.

The horse thieves in the tiger head cottage often went out to plunder, and in addition to silver, grain, silk and silk, and livestock, a very important part of the robbery was people: men and women.

Men are usually sturdy men who are taken back as slaves or assimilated into horse thieves, while women are usually young, somewhat beautiful women. Of course, it is not excluded that some horse thieves have special hobbies, so naturally they come according to their own aesthetics.

These women were robbed of the cottage, except for the best ones who were enjoyed by the leaders, the others were basically shared. They are occupied, and they don't have the strength to resist, what else can they do?

Over time, many horse thieves actually have families in cottages, have wives and children, and even more than one mother-in-law, of course, there are more children. And some horse thieves are also filial, and they became horse thieves for various reasons, but they didn't want their parents at home to be implicated, so they took their parents over.

After today's series of battles, there are not many middle-aged men left in the cottage, there are about forty or fifty of them, all of whom are already here, and they are more or less injured. Their families numbered as many as 1780 people. Of course, these old and weak women and children cannot all be the families of the remaining thirty or forty horse thieves, and there must be people from the families of the horse thieves who have been killed.

Among these people, they do not know whose husband, whose son, or whose father was killed by the officers and soldiers.

The faces and eyes of the captured old and weak women and children were full of fear. And those horse thieves are more indifferent and desperate. They fled in a hurry, but they did not know where to flee, and some of them were quick and tried to flee into the woods outside, but they happened to run into the cavalry of the officers and soldiers, and killed them with a knife. They have been completely frightened, and they don't dare to escape, besides, even if they escape, where can they let their families go? Some fled home, intending to close their eyes to death with their wives and children, and when the officers and soldiers broke down the door, they were honestly tied up, and few dared to resist.

Dong Ce's gaze swept slowly, no one dared to look at him, and where his gaze swept, the captives all lowered their heads.

Dong Ce's brows furrowed, and his scalp suddenly tingled.

What to do with these captives is really a real problem.

Some families are complete, the man who is the pillar of the family has not died, and his family has not died, such a family, Dong Ce is even welcome. Because of the bonds of their families, these former horse thieves will think twice about what they want to do again, and they will never dare to rebel easily. And once Dong Ce gives them land in Panshi Fort, so that they can settle down and live a stable life, who will hang their heads on their waists to do such a business without capital?

You know, these horse thieves used to be good people, how could this step be just their responsibility?

These families are easy to settle, but it is difficult to say that the men in those families were killed by themselves.

They're very submissive now, that's true, but who knows how deep the hatred will be buried in their hearts? Who knows if they will stab themselves at a critical moment?

Is it possible to kill them? As soon as this idea came together, it was immediately extinguished by Dong Ce.

How can you do that?

Dong Ce shook his head, and suddenly came up with an idea: just because he couldn't place them in Rock Fort didn't mean he couldn't place them in other places.

He pondered it for a while, and had an idea in his mind.

However, Dong Ce's destination was not here, and after a turn here, he took people to Bai Mazi's house. According to Dong Ce's order, Bai Mazi's house is not allowed to be entered by others, and he sent Wang Tong to inspect it about a quarter of an hour ago.

Entering Bai Mazi's house, Dong Ce couldn't help but sigh. This white pockmark is really a little capable, Hutou Cottage is located in the deep mountains, and it is difficult to go up and down the mountain road, but he can build a house here, and it is not easy. I heard Wang Forty-six say that this guy went to rob craftsmen in order to build a house, and he can really toss.

As soon as Dong Ce entered the door, he saw five people standing outside the east wing, all of them women, two in their forties, rough hands and feet, wearing green cloth clothes, and they should be rough old mothers. There are three more, but they are young women, two of them are sixteen or seventeen-year-old girls, not very beautiful, but they can also be called delicate and lovely. And the last woman was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a goose egg face, thin eyebrows, thin lips, and a pair of watery eyes, which was very coquettish. It's a pity that there is unconcealable fear in her eyes, there is no trace of blood on her face, and it is full of fear, which dilutes her beauty.

"These are all people from Bai Mazi's house, two rough old mothers who do rough work, and the two younger ones are maids. The older one is the one in Bai Mazi's room, called Yang. ”

Wang Tong came in early, but he blasted these people out, and he had already figured out the details. "It's a toss-up." Dong Ce didn't know what to say about Bai Mazi's enjoyment like this, so he had to make such a comment.

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