220 - Things Go Wrong

Plotline: Main

Type: Social

It is normal to secure civilians aligned with the enemy troops after any engagement. I can't blame the Daurians for that. Sometimes, the civilians fight back, so I likewise can't insist that lighting the camps on fire and driving the civilians into the work area was inhumane, only unusual.

As happens in war, some of the civilians were escorted off by soldiers, usually but not always of the opposite gender, and people pretended they couldn't hear the noises over the chaos. Sometimes, the victims were placed back with their fellows. More often, they weren't seen alive again.

The tents burned, the fortresses burned, and then soldiers of the Loyalist Army surrounded the work area, and lit the edges of that on fire as well.

I feel compelled at this point to remind the reader that these were the loyalists that answered to Lord General Ding Mu, and not to the admiral or anybody under his staff.