100,000 people were driven away, howling and crying while helping the old and the young to rush towards the city of Texas.

The scene was spectacular.

Dark clouds overwhelmed the city, and the heavens and the earth were full of crying, which severely suppressed the morale and confidence of the Chu army.

"Siege!"

The flag of the Swiss army flew and the trumpet sounded, which was composed with the cry.

The dense crowd of people has rushed to the range of the Chu army's arrows like ants, and the Chu army has been able to see their miserable faces, among them there are men and women, old and young, all of them are extremely pitiful, some people are holding hoes, firewood knives and other weapons, and more people have nothing, not like they have come to fight, but like they have come to flee.

Du Zhenghe opened his mouth and wanted to shout "release the arrow", but in the end he didn't shout.

He has killed many people in his life, and naturally he knows that Ci is not in charge of soldiers. But...... Although he couldn't say what was the difference between killing one person and killing 10,000 innocent people, the feelings were still different after all.

At this order, so many people below were killed like cattle...... He even saw a man at the front of him holding a child, the size of his son, crying loudly.

He struggled to keep his composure, and thought that Texas didn't have that many arrows and ammunition, so what if he let them go? In the end, it can't be killed......

Thinking like this, even the confidence in defending the city began to waver.

"Shoot the arrows!"

At the moment when Du Zhenghe hesitated, a loud shout sounded.

Du Zhenghe turned his head to look, only to see Wang Xiao personally snatch a bow, shoot the bow, and the next refugee in the city fell in response.

"Shoot the arrows! Don't hesitate! ”

The rain of arrows swept down on the people outside the city, and there were pools of blood everywhere, and the cries were earth-shattering......

~~

Ding ran sideways among the refugees, he originally lived in Dingzhuang, northeast of Texas City, and was taken captive two days ago. He was in his twenties, with loose hair and skinny bones, and he looked like he was in his forties and fifties. His family had already died seven years ago when Jiannu entered the fortress, and he was the only one who escaped by hiding in a tree hole. Life has not been good in the past seven years, and after suffering until now, he was still caught in the war disaster.

After the captivity, I only ate a very thin bowl of porridge this morning. Then they were forced to line up and begin the siege.

The Swiss army didn't distribute too many weapons to them, and after the hoes and knives were distributed, those who didn't receive them ran forward with their bare hands, and they didn't know what to do next, anyway, the Swiss army behind them did what they told.

They don't dare to resist, if anyone runs slower, they will cut it down with a knife, they have never fought, and they can't resist if they resist.

In the middle of Ding Heng's east procession, the people of the same village were scattered, and he did not recognize the refugees around him. On the left is a woman, holding a five- or six-year-old girl in her hand, crying and crying as she runs.

There are many such people in the team, saying that it is a siege, but it is nothing more than to make the Chu army kill until they have no strength.

The rain of arrows in front of them struck, some people screamed and fell, some people screamed and wanted to escape, but they were cut to the ground by the Swiss army, so the team continued to move forward.

The old man next to Ding Heng couldn't run anymore, fell to the ground, and was also hacked to death.

The little leader who was responsible for driving away this group of people was called Sun Sancai, a veteran of the Zhennan Army, and he was very fierce. After hacking the old man to death, he still kept urging.

There were corpses left on the ground in front of them, and they ran over with blood stains, and the woman on Ding Heng's left tripped and fell on the corpse, and the child in his hand fell to the ground and cried.

"Officer...... I can't really run......"

Before the woman's voice fell, Sun Sancai slashed down again. The woman swallowed, and the child cried louder, and the liver and intestines were broken, so that people could not bear to hear it.

Sun Sancai took another step with a knife in his hand.

Ding Heng was so frightened that his scalp was numb, but he quickly picked up the child, lowered his body and said, "Military ...... Master Jun, I bring, bring...... Run away with this baby. ”

His voice was very small and accented, although Sun Sancai didn't hear it clearly, he still understood what he meant when he looked at the frightened and pleading face in front of him. He sneered: "Go to the siege and put this baby in front of the officer." ”

I seem to think this is interesting.

Arrows rained down on the walls, huge stakes with ropes swayed on the walls, and with a bang struck the heads of the ladders and the people who were attacking, white and red liquid splashed everywhere, and corpses fell from time to time, piling up high under the walls.

Ding Heng leaned over, rushed to the wall with the child in his arms, and looked at it as if he was in hell.

"Go up the ladder!"

The child in his arms was still crying, Ding Heng was holding her with one hand and holding the extremely unstable ladder with the other, trembling all over. Before his feet stepped on, there was a thud, and a huge wooden stake smashed against the ladder.

The ladder fell, Ding Heng fell on a corpse, fortunately he didn't climb high and luckily didn't die, and someone stepped on him again, he bowed down and protected the little girl under him. With a "bang", a corpse smashed on him.

"Don't play dead there! Get on it! Sun Sancai held a shield in one hand to protect his head, and a knife in the other hand to continue to persecute.

Muddy tears flowed down Ding Heng's blood-stained face, and he cried out silently in his heart.

"Oh my God, open your eyes......"

~~

In the city of Texas, many people gathered in front of the government and wept bitterly.

Many of the people in the city had relatives and friends living outside the city, and so many people were coerced to attack the city and then die under the city walls. They ran to the outer city one after another to beg the officials and soldiers to raise their noble hands, and after being dispersed by the officials and soldiers, they ran to cry and beg the king of Qi.

"Your Highness! My grandfather lives outside the city...... He's eighty-one...... I beg you to spare them......"

The cry shook the sky.

Geng Shubai quickly led the Jinyi guard over to drive him away, so the crying became even more miserable.

Zhou Yan couldn't bear it when he heard it, and insisted on coming out despite the dissuasion, and at first glance he saw that Jinyiwei was dragging an old woman away, the old woman's fingers were picking at the floor tiles, her nails had already fallen off, the blood was not stopping, her clothes were torn, and her body was skinny, but she refused to leave when she died, and kept wailing.

"Lord! My son is just outside the city...... I'm not alive when he's dead......"

Zhou Yan's scalp was numb.

He was young and blood-hot, and when he looked at the pleading and pitiful faces, and heard that the people were being slaughtered on the city wall, the whole person was stunned.

For a moment, he seemed to have made a decision in his mind.

"Go to the city."

The officials were frightened and hurriedly pulled him back, but Zhou Yan was extremely stubborn this time, and walked out again without making a sound.

Song Xin understood him best, waved away others, persuaded him for a long time, and finally knelt in front of him and hugged his legs.

"Your Highness! You can't go, Your Highness...... Even if you go, it won't help, you will only be in a dilemma...... Let Huaiyuan Hou kill him, you just don't know about it now...... If the people have a grudge in the future, Your Highness only needs to say that Weichen is stopping you, and then Your Highness will kill Weichen to calm the anger of the people......"

Zhou Yan's lips twitched, a little incredulous.

"Sir?"

Two words came out, and the voice was very soft.

"Your Highness, you understand...... If you want to defend the city, you must not be soft-hearted, and Huaiyuanhou did the right thing in this matter. If His Royal Highness intervenes to stop it, Dezhou City may be lost as a result...... Don't ......"

"Sir?"

Zhou Yan seemed to be a little puzzled, and muttered, "Are you ...... My Mr. Song? ”

"Your Highness......"

"That's not what Mr. Song taught me before...... He said, 'The people are only the state, and the country is solid', and he said, 'The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light', but now you say that the city of Texas is broken, and I will die, so because I don't want to die, I have to let people slaughter 100,000 innocent people outside the city? And then, for the sake of my own reputation, I am going to kill my own husband? ”

Song Xin raised his head, and his face was full of old tears.

All along, he felt that he had taught King Qi very well, he was ambitious, willing to admonish, understood benevolent governance, and would definitely become a virtuous monarch in time, but he was too young, and it was not wrong to be young, what was wrong was the current situation.

The situation is changing too quickly, and the young King Qi has not been able to adapt and transform, not hypocritical enough, not hard-hearted enough, in other words, too naïve. Even if he was more mature than almost all fifteen-year-olds, it wasn't enough.

"You can't look at it like that, Your Highness......"

"Are you my Mr. Song?" Zhou Yan asked again: "Tell me, which is more important, me and the 100,000 people outside the city?" ”

Song Xin sighed and said slowly: "Your Highness is heavy." ”

The hall was quiet for a while, and the shouts of killing outside the city were still there, echoing far away.

"We read the books of the sages, 'The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the king is light,' but we actually don't believe it. What I have taught Your Highness is a means that will be able to be used over time......"

Zhou Yan closed his eyes and shook his head.

He didn't listen to what Song Xin said.

He felt that enough was enough, that everything was enough, hope, disappointment, hope, disappointment. The ups and downs have reached the limit of what he can bear.

Even if Wang Xiao came back, he didn't feel any lighter. In the past few days, the prestige of the 'King of Qi' has been pushed to the top because of the things Wang Xiao has done, but today it has been violently ripped off.

Even the gentleman he trusts the most just wants to teach himself to be like his father.

I really don't understand why they are busy changing the Son of Heaven......

The people's will is changeable, the situation is changeable, and even the truth in the mouth of the gentleman has been changing, but he is tired.

He finally understood that it was already difficult to supervise the country, and it would be even more difficult to be the emperor, he used to feel that his father was incompetent, and he must prosper the world, but now it seems that he has not even reached half of his father's emperor.

Oh, the young man is angry and self-righteous......

Zhou Yan thought about it, took off his crown, untied the royal robe, and stood there wearing only his middle coat.

"Let go...... Your Highness, Your Highness, the only thing that Mr. cares about is Your Highness...... I don't deserve to be Your Highness, and I don't want to be Your Majesty in the future...... You let go, or send me out to King Wu Yan. I can't afford so many people's lives with this one life, I'm tired. ”

Song Xin was stunned......

"This matter, His Highness himself does not count." Someone walked into the church.

Song Xin's face was still full of tears, and when he turned his head to look, he saw that it was Wang Zhu.

Wang Zhu still has that cold expression, but there is a big bag on his forehead, which shatters that cold temperament in plain terms, and looks a little ...... Comical.

~~

At the same time, the East Wall of Texas.

In the shouts of killing, Ding Heng hugged the little girl and trembled up to the city wall. He didn't know how he managed to climb up safely and not get knocked down.

But even if he went to the city, he didn't know how to attack the city, so he held the girl in his arms, leaned around, leaned over half of his body, and muttered: "Official...... Leave us alone...... Please...... The baby is still ......."

The cowering words are like mosquitoes.

The officers and soldiers did not answer him, but just watched from afar.

In the distance, a fire rose from the camp in the rear of the Swiss army......

In fact, the sledgehammer defending the city had stopped swaying, and the rain of arrows had not fallen for a long time, so Ding Heng was able to climb to the top of the city safely.

Ding Heng turned his head, looked at the huge pillar of smoke, pouted, and shouted, "Don't attack the city!" The officers and soldiers are going to win! ”

……

"Vice Marshal Qin succeeded." In the city tower, Wang Xiao quickly whispered, and shouted: "Gao Chengyi, Lin Shaoyuan!" Lead the Ben Rui army to receive the people into the city! ”

"Yes!"

"Qinshan Lake! Lead 5,000 horsemen out of the city with me to meet the enemy! ”

"This ...... Hou Ye ......"

"Listen to military orders!"

"Yes!"