。 I inspected the city wall and gatehouse, arranged the defenses, and went into the city tower with Luo Rou and Xue'er to rest. It had been busy for almost the whole night, and we had just laid down when every rooster crow sounded...... I was woken up in the midst of the noise, and when I looked out through the arrow holes, I saw countless people gathering on the other side of the moat, carrying their children and various daily necessities, and countless people wept and begged the defenders of the city to enter the drawbridge and let them enter the inner city to escape the fighting. In the midst of the chaos, the crying of women and children, and the chirping of poultry vividly annotated the profound meaning of the word "war and chaos" - they learned the news of the defenders' abandonment of the outer city after dawn from the notices plastered all over the outer city, and after learning the news, a huge panic spread among the people, although King Cheng had great prestige among the people, but the people could not control so much, they only knew that the soldiers were together, mourning all over the wilderness, and the most suffering was still weak and helpless. In order to avoid the devastation of the war, they immediately packed up and went into the inner city to avoid the disaster, and they were greeted by closed gates and soldiers waiting for them.

The begging of the people quickly turned into angry scolding, and the rabbit was in a hurry and still bitten, let alone the people? When they saw that the defenders were unmoved and cruelly abandoned them, they gave up their pleas and began to abuse the defenders, their parents and officials, and the emperor who had always had a bad reputation - it was precisely because the emperor had a bad reputation that they "understood" that the emperor would not spare their lives in order to save their lives, and many people's hearts began to change, and their support for King Cheng began to rise. This is also the result that the emperor and I and the ministers all expected, but there is no way to change it, for the sake of long-term planning, giving up the outer city is a last resort, but in the eyes of hundreds of thousands of people in the outer city, it is not the outer city that is given up, but their net worth!

The defenders could not bear the suffering of the people, but the military orders were like mountains, and they could not open the gate city to let the people into the city, so they had to persuade each other with good words, and many soldiers even shed tears of sympathy, but what they did seemed so small that they were covered up in the uproar of tens of thousands of people.

As the situation continued to deteriorate, there were already people who jumped into the moat and tried to swim across the river, and as for swimming across the moat, there were walls more than ten zhang high in front of them, and they did not have the time to think about how to solve them.

I can't bear to see the people suffering, but I can't do anything about it. I also knew that I couldn't afford to sit on the sidelines, or the situation would get worse and worse.

Looking at the people under the city, I shouted loudly: "Everyone, I am the commander-in-chief of the city, and I am ordered to defend the capital......"

Seeing the appearance of the commander of the city guard, the people found a place to escape, and interrupted me without saying anything: "Since the emperor asked you to protect the capital, why do you want to give up the outer city, the outer city is not counted as a part of the capital?" Aren't the people of the outer city the people of the empire? ”

"That is, as the commander of the city, you abandoned the people, are you right to provide you with countless blood and sweat?"

"Fleeing from the battle and trapping the people in the midst of fire and water is really a wicked villain who is disloyal, unjust, and unkind, and you read the book of sages in vain! Such a person should be punished with the canonical punishment and the law of the country! One of the show-ons who hadn't been able to enter the inner city also shouted.

"At the beginning, we lived well outside the city, but you said that the rebels were coming, and in order to prevent us from being killed by the rebels, let us enter the inner city to avoid ignition. But now, you are leaving us to the rebels, what is the reason? If we had stayed in the city, there would have been a place for the rebels to run, but now? As soon as the city gate is closed, let's ......" a loud aunt said and sat down on the ground, kicked her legs and shook her hands and cried, the two seven or eight-year-old children around her were also crying more than once, under their influence, more people joined in the crying, for a time the sound of crying under the city wall shook the sky, I even believe that if Meng Jiangnu has this ability, crying down the Great Wall may not just be a bleak and sad legend.

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