People naturally sympathize with the weak.
Although Qi Ercai's group had many people, most of them were old folks and children, so the soldiers naturally believed their words.
The injured person was dragged away and locked in the city's prison. Starting tomorrow, they will be brought out for public display every day when the city gate opens and thrown back in when it closes.
Although two meals are provided daily so they won't starve to death, similarly, no doctor will be appointed for treatment.
The public display could last anywhere from ten days to a month, and whether or not they survive until release depends on their resilience.
As for the accomplices of the robust man, they dispersed and ran away amid the surrounding crowd at the time the soldiers were capturing people.
It's too time-consuming to catch them all one by one, and since those people didn't really act, they could only be left alone.
