Chapter 74: The Great Collapse (1)
A considerable number of the soldiers and generals under Shi Le were born in the Central Plains and in many pastures in Hebei. Later, they merged with the Hu tribes scattered everywhere during the battles in the south and north, so there were a large number of excellent riders. The huge cavalry team established thus was not only the main force in Shi Le's hands to defeat the tough and sharp attacks, but also played a major role in blocking the battlefield, controlling and transmitting information.
At this moment, although Shi Le led his army to ambush outside the battlefield, he had the every move of the Jin army in Juancheng with the scout team coming and going. As soon as the collapse of the Jin army began, the brutal bandits who were eyeing the outside began to deploy. They were like beasts that had been fighting with prey for a long time and were extremely anxious, and had long been waiting for this final killing feast.
However, perhaps the repeated tragic failures brought too heavy pressure to the Jin army, or perhaps it was the terrible slap in the world. "The novel "Hope has made people lose their rational judgment. This great collapse that involved tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people was beyond anyone's imagination. Before the butcher's knife came, the military and civilians were already caught by the panic in the face of disaster. They ran around aimlessly, causing various tragic scenes and huge casualties.
"The bandits are coming! The city is trapped! The city is trapped! Run away quickly!"
All kinds of panic shouts and irritable shouts, panic crying intertwined into a thick net, covering everyone's heads, almost suffocating. On the streets in Juancheng, countless soldiers and civilians rushed from all directions in panic, pushing each other, wanting to run in other directions of conflict. The crowds were stacked layer by layer and piled up into a black mass. At the same time, more people rushed out from the mansions, military camps, and camps everywhere to join the chaos.
If someone is lucky enough to reach the city gate along the street, they will see a fierce battle between the soldiers who are congested at the city gate and the city defense generals.
Since they were defeated repeatedly in the Central Plains, one elite troops under the command of the King of Donghai became defeated soldiers and defeated soldiers. The shogunate barely gathered some of them, but even if they were constantly dispatching effective civil and military personnel to rectify, they could not recover their combat effectiveness in a hurry. The defeated and wounded soldiers who continued to join them made their already low fighting spirit even more stormy. When the cavalry of the bandits of the Central Plains drove straight to the city, they just passed by the edge of their camp, causing them to feel heart-wrenching fear. Without hesitation, they abandoned the newly sent chief officers, rushing to the camp, and running wildly towards the city gate.
The army responsible for the city defense was the troops of Qiu Guang, a close general of Sima Yue. This army belongs to one of the reliable forces that existed when Sima Yue raised the army in the East China Sea. Therefore, even when the war situation in the Central Plains was at its most critical stage, it was not easily thrown into the battlefield. The system and military strength were very complete, and it could be said to be quite powerful. However, after Yang Feixiang, the captain responsible for this city defense, immediately thought of closing the city gate and keeping danger out of it, regardless of whether the defeated soldiers outside the city might be slaughtered by the bandits.
The city gate was closed here, but the other side was about to hide in the city. The two sides immediately clashed to one place. At the beginning, they had a fist and kick, and there were some time when they were swords, guns, swords and halberds, and the casualties were tragic. After all, there were more defeated soldiers outside the city, and their fierceness in fighting for the city gate was greater than that in any previous battle. Most of the defenders of the city gate were quickly killed. Even if Yang Feixiang was furious and personally led more than a dozen fully armed soldiers to rush down from the top of the city, he could not stop the defeated soldiers from rushing.
The captain and his subordinates were like dead leaves thrown into the torrent, whirling and rolling to the ground. Yang Feixiang, whose face was covered in blood, wanted to roar a few times, so that a large cart full of debris in the diagonal thorn was pushed over by someone, and was pressing through his chest and abdomen. The huge pressure instantly caused his abdomen to burst, and his internal organs overflowed. A piece of intestine was rolled between the spokes, pulled for a long time, and then suddenly broke.
The defeated soldiers did not pay any attention to the fate of the mere city gate captains. They rushed into the city cheering, and some began to chop and disperse the soldiers and civilians who were congested on the streets, trying to hide further to a safer place; some had a good idea, so they turned around and closed the city gate, and eventually fought with their later companions. With the city gate as the center, all kinds of frenziedness spread around, and every moment, people died inexplicably, and the body was trampled into mud by countless people.
This situation lasted for nearly half an hour until the elite guards in charge of guarding the Tokai Shogunate lined up and while trying their best to restore order, it brought news that Tokai would give up Juancheng.
Just the next moment, the turbulent tide suddenly turned around. People rushed to the crowd and rushed out of the city gate corridor with the smell of blood, like an ant hole watered by boiling water, and countless ants struggled and scattered.
A middle-aged man led a few followers to the city gate at this time. They whipped the horse under their crotch and mercilessly knocked down several soldiers who were blocking his way forward. Finally, they squeezed into the crowd and rushed out of the city.
The situation outside the city was as chaotic as in the city. On the east-west official road, people were shouting and horses were neighing. Fights that lost their minds due to fear were everywhere, so that the wide official road was almost infarcted. More people simply scattered and ran around the wastelands on both sides of the road, not knowing where their destination was.
The group of people slammed the horses, and a large number of soldiers and civilians broke out from the city gate behind them. Hundreds of people suddenly wrapped them up. The crowd squeezed and hit their horses, forcing the horses to stand up. They staggered through the ditch south of the official road, and were about to go to the forest land farther away. The middle-aged man kept shouting and shouting, but he had to pull out the long knife on his waist with a "swish" to intimidate. This murderous action scared the crowd to tremble, quickly spread a little distance, and let them return to the vicinity of the official road.
"Zhang Village Master Zhang, what should I do?" A follower asked loudly, wiping his sweaty forehead.
This middle-aged man named Zhang Wu, and was the right assistant of Hu Liuniang when he was in trouble. When Lu Yao, Xue Tong and others fled into the Taihang Mountains to hide in the Lord of Jingling County, he came forward to welcome everyone into Funiu Village, so it was Lu Yao's old acquaintance. Zhang Wu was cautious, loyal and reliable, and had an organic change. The people in Funiu Village were able to be roughly protected by the invasion of the Huns, which was mostly due to the power of this person. After Lu Yao took office as General Pingbei, Hu Liuniang recruited him from Bingzhou and recommended him to the military office. Later, Lu Yao sent capable personnel to various parts of the Central Plains to undertake intelligence reconnaissance tasks, and specially appointed Zhang Wu as the general in charge.
However, no one expected that Hu Liuniang had a sudden idea and robbed him of the important task. Zhang Wu was instructed by Hu Liuniang and followed the action of the Shogunate of the King of Donghai. In the past six months, he made friends with the shogunate and bribed him, and achieved some results.
After all, Pingbei Military Mansion is a start-up, with few talents who are capable of serving as a spy and detecting the virtual and real situations in various places. However, the former bandits from Funiu Village are barely available, and they are all following in times of distress and loyalty. Because of this, many of the first batch of people selected by the Military Mansion to go south were old people. When this group of people came to a critical moment, they couldn't help but take out the old name "Zhang Village Master".
"How do I know!" Zhang Wu put away his sword and returned to his sheath, shook his head repeatedly: "The whole city of Juancheng is full of waste, and the bandits are still unknown, so they are in chaos... and wait and see!"
Chapter completed!