Chapter 39 Blood Road (1)
Lu Yao chased the brigade and advanced rapidly.
Not long after walking, Chen Jin came out of another alley. When he saw Lu Yao, he patted the bulging quiver and grinned.
"Thank you!" Lu Yao slapped his shoulder. As long as the bow and arrow are in his hand, Chen Jin is the most trustworthy comrade-in-arms; and the tacit understanding between the remaining Bingzhou Army is beyond the reach of others.
Chen Jin and Lu Yao walked side by side and said in a deep voice: "That one-eyed guy is very powerful."
"oh?"
"He judged the origin of the arrows much more accurately and faster than that of ordinary people." Chen Jin emphasized his tone: "If it weren't for blinding one eye, this person should have been a first-class archer."
"When this person was under the command of the King of Chengdu, he was indeed famous for his shooting skills..." Lu Yao sighed. Chen Jin was an expert. As expected, he said that this topic was helpless. He gradually accelerated his pace: "Let's go quickly. Several city gates in the south of Yecheng were lost. It is said that Shi Le was taking people to Jianchun Gate. If they occupied Jianchun Gate, we would be in big trouble."
"Who is Shi Le? Is Ji Sang's bandit leader?...Shi Le!" Chen Jin suddenly jumped up, and he widened his eyes and asked in surprise: "Is it the one from Tuanbai Valley? He wasn't burned to death?"
A few months ago, the Huns' army attacked Jinyang, and Lu Yao led a partial army to defeat the enemy in the Battle of Tuanbai Valley. At that time, Shi Lexian used powerful means to rectify the Huns' army that was scattered due to Qiao Xi's death, and then led the army to continue the attack. When confronting Lu Yao, he boldly gave up his base and ruthlessly. The entire army raided the key pass of Tuanbai Valley, almost forcing Lu Yao's troops into a dead end. Although the Jin army won in the end, it was a bit lucky. It seems that Chen Jin was deeply impressed by the Jie people who used fierce and dangerous troops.
Lu Yao trotted constantly and replied with a wry smile: "It's that Shi Le, he is not dead. This time, the Ji Sang bandits broke through Yecheng, and he also participated. It is said that he was leading his army to attack Jianchun Gate at this time."
Chen Jin's steps became faster involuntarily: "In short, everything is to leave the city, so let's not delay."
After a while, they had gradually left the rampant area of bandits. The two of them relaxed a little. Looking back, they saw dozens of fireheads dancing with the night wind. The messy Mars were swept by the gushing hot air, flying all over the sky, like huge tentacles twisting and changing postures, constantly sweeping buildings and linings into them. The sound of firewood bursting and the sound of collapse of buildings came one after another, but the thieves' crazy shouts of killing seemed to be gradually getting farther away.
The thieves set fire everywhere in Ye City, which certainly played a terrifying and disturbing role, but also hindered their own course of action. Once the flames were ignited, they quickly lost control. Some thieves were only concerned about plundering everywhere. After a little neglect, they actually fell into the sea of fire and died in great grievances. Some thieves rode their horses on their snatched horses, but the horses were naturally afraid of fire. Once the fire appeared in the distance, the horses neighed and would only spin on the spot no matter how they drove them away.
The destruction of Yecheng by this fire was even far greater than the looting of the bandits. One of the five capitals of Cao Wei, a thoroughfare in Hebei, hundreds of magnificent houses turned into white land one by one; the mountains of money and jade were all swept away under decades of operation. And how many creatures were swallowed by the fire were immeasurable.
Lu Yao and Shen Jin looked around for a moment, and then they felt that the fire had moved to the east. The two of them did not dare to delay any longer and continued to go east.
Turning two street corners is Jianchun Gate.
Jianchun Gate is a key transportation pass to the east of Yecheng. It is not a simple city gate, but a hall-style building with one gate and three roads, with a very large scale. The entire city gate is five rooms wide and three rooms deep. The rammed earth base at the bottom is about meter high. The city gate building is also very grand. The city walls connected on both sides are also symmetrical, and there are two towering palaces with symmetrical left and right. There are wide squares inside and outside the city gate, which are huge in scale, which is shocking to see.
This is also the garrison of the Yecheng City Gate. There are officials such as the city gate Sima, the city gate guard, and other officials. There are 500 soldiers, divided into two squads, guarding the command day and night.
But Lu Yao came to Jianchun Gate at this moment and saw that the city gate was wide open, and there was no guard. It turned out that the city gate guards in Yecheng were one of the few people. They ran for extortion and traveling every day, and there was a lot of oil and water. Therefore, those who could guard here were the confidants of officials at all levels in Yecheng, the relatives of the aunts and the old friends of neighbors, all mixed in, and the ground was scraped day and night.
But these people had the will to fight? Hearing the sound of killing in the city, they all knew something was wrong. Before the boss could speak, they found all kinds of reliable or unreliable reasons to slip away. After an hour, the fleeing people brought various rumors. So the remaining officers and soldiers were no longer possessed and scattered.
It would be fine if these people left, but then the people in the city and a large number of defeated soldiers gathered together, all planning to leave the city. I don’t know how many people were mixed up and crowded. At first glance, the black crows filled the entire square, making people dizzy.
The main entrance of Jianchun Gate and the two side doors are in one place, less than five zhang wide, and the door hole is about ten zhang deep. On weekdays, there are soldiers who are in and out to maintain order, which is enough to apply. But now, a large number of people are rushing to leave the city, and the flow of people is more than ten times higher than usual? Secondly, these residents have no discipline, and they are crowded and rubbed each other, which blocks the city gate. At this time, some people fall, some curses, some push, some are panicked, some are in panic, and some are crying, some are crying, and some are calling their parents. As the crowd gathers more and more, they become more and more chaotic.
Some residents even saw that they had no hope of leaving the city gate, so they turned to the top of the city wall and used clothes to connect the growth rope to pull themselves down the city. However, the wall of Yecheng was more than four meters high. If the long rope made of clothes was not flat, they could only let go and jump down. I don’t know how many people fell and broke their bones.
Shen Jin had a sharp eye and soon discovered the people who arrived in advance.
They gathered on a city-climbing trail a little far from the city gate, and many people showed anxious expressions.
Yang Heng took his several of his corps to push away others and squeezed to the stone pier that was used to tree flagpoles closer. He climbed up the stone pier and waved the torches in his hand. When some people's attention turned to him, he shouted loudly: "Everyone! Everyone! I am the chief of the chariot, Yang Heng. Listen to me, don't crowd around! Everyone lined up and could leave the city immediately! It would be slow to get entangled in such a place!"
Before he finished speaking, he threw a bundle over and was hitting Yang Heng's face. The bundle was covered with clothes and was not hard, but it was slapped on the face, which still made Yang Heng's legs weak and fall down. After all, the chief sheep was a literati and his feet were very floating. In the period after meeting with Lu Yao, he had fallen many times. But he was tough, and after a few struggling, he stood up again, climbed the stone pier and continued to shout loudly.
The position of the chess chief is not low. In the past, millions of people responded to the words of a word, and stomped his feet and half of Yecheng would sway. But who would take him seriously at this moment? It is because people in the world are inevitably selfish. In such a crisis, they only need to walk one step faster than others. Some people even sneered in their hearts: You, the official, want us to give up our way... Maybe you will leave first, leaving us to the tiger's mouth! Bah!
So, let Yang Heng roar at the top of his lungs, the crowd became more and more fierce.
There were several teams in the crowd who were dressed in beautiful clothes, probably the high-ranking officials and nobles. Each team had dozens of people, surrounded by strong slaves. Relying on the large number of people, they pushed the people in front of them away, and even waved the whip in their hands, making the people wail continuously, and rolled all over the ground to open the road.
But when they drove away a group of people, more people would crowd them into the gaps, which would make the situation in front of Jianchun even more chaotic.
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This is July 5th. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it will be even late, because you have to wait until your child goes to bed before you have time to write. Please apologize for all readers and friends, so I won’t give it a special notice in the future.
This work has been written for four months now, and has been hacked by readers many times, and has been encouraged by readers many times. In any case, these are the joy of writing and the motivation for writing. There is no support for the manuscript, but the next 100,000 words will be the key to Lu Yao's ability to truly become a powerful force. I will plan carefully and write it carefully.
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Chapter completed!