Chapter 557 The cry shook the sky

Rushing all the way forward, as far as the eye can see, the streets are full of people, and the expelled people crowded all the way along the streets to the City God Temple near the south gate, and the long flow of people is not endless.

Meng Tietou frowned, and his face became more and more gloomy.

He estimated that there were at least 20,000 or 30,000 people who were helping the old and the young, crying and making trouble, and he secretly thought that such a situation was very dangerous, and if it was not handled properly, once it exploded, it was very easy to have a stampede.

In the past, when he was in Liaodong, he had seen many times that the fleeing crowd was frightened and fled, pushing forward and shoving backwards and trampling on many people.

However, at this moment, he has no ability to maintain order at all, so he can only take care of his subordinates to walk along the street as much as possible, so as not to be scattered by the crowd.

Finally squeezed through a few streets, the city tower was already in sight in front, and there were more and more soldiers on the street, one by one, as if they were facing a great enemy, eyeing each other.

Meng Tietou took a look, the mound in front of the main city gate had been dug up, and a considerable number of people had gone out, and there were also figures outside the city at a glance.

"Go back!"

Suddenly, Meng Tietou frowned and stood still.

"Old, old man......"

Meng Qing, the leader of the family who followed closely, turned his head to look at him, panting and confused.

"Let's go back......"

Meng Tietou looked at the city tower, his hesitant gaze flashed, and then he waved his hand, "Go back down." ”

"Uh...... Whew! ”

……

The intention of abandoning the city has been decided, and it is said that it is better to go out of the city sooner rather than later, and he has also chosen the direction of leaving the city - the east gate.

Due to the relationship between the canal and the city, if you go out of the city from the south gate, if there is no ferry, only the southwest direction is the way to survive on the land route, and theoretically you can escape along the west bank of the canal all the way to the Yangtze River.

However, this road was too dangerous for Meng Tietou - it was already the world of thieves, and if he was interrogated many times, he would inevitably reveal flaws.

In addition, the west gate and the north gate are naturally not to be considered.

Therefore, only from the east gate to mix out, turn to the north, cross the ancient ditch and then turn back all the way to the west, whether to Yizhen or Luzhou, there is no brigade of thieves.

However, the ghost made the gods worse, and Meng Tietou still saw the situation at the south gate with his own eyes before he died.

took people all the way to the south gate, and he said that he was inspecting, but in fact, it was mainly because of Wang Jijun.

Along the way, in fact, he has been hesitating.

For Wang Jijun, Meng Tietou's feelings are a little complicated.

On the one hand, Meng Tietou was slightly disappointed, this young man's talent did not seem to be as outstanding as expected.

However, on the other hand, he found that this kid's heart was very simple, very clean, and not as many crooked intestines as others, so that it seemed to him that he was even a little stupid.

In him, Meng Tietou seemed to vaguely see the shadow of his youth - hesitant, helpless, and wanted to live as a person, but he didn't know where to live......

He really wanted to take this kid with him.

If he can make a comeback in the future, this kid may still be of some use - compared to others, at least he has figured out a set of methods for training the "new army".

In addition, he was a little reluctant to leave the more than 100 "new army" musketeers - that was his only "achievement" in Yangzhou.

However, just now he found that in front of the fierce and vicious one-eyed dragon, his idea seemed a little too naïve......

Just now, when he passed through a secret gate, he was stunned to find that this secret gate, which was less than three hundred steps away from the main city gate, had been quietly replaced by a team of unfamiliar guards who spoke Shanxi dialect.

This kind of secret door is not uncommon in this era, usually not opened during the day, but at night, specially reserved for those important people who enter and leave the city for important matters.

Since the Ming thieves came to attack and Ma Jinbao ordered the main city gate to be blocked, it has become a special passage for a few privileged people and scouts such as those who do not collect at night.

Because the opening of the secret door is very small, almost only one person and one sedan chair can pass through, it is easy to block in an emergency, and behind the door is the hiding hole, not afraid of a small group of enemy soldiers sneak attack.

"This one-eyed dragon! Damn it! ”

Meng Tietou secretly gritted his teeth and hurried down with his feet......

Since they had already taken precautions, it was impossible to sneak the new army away.

However, the crowd of ordinary people inspired him, and it was not difficult to change into civilian clothes and go out of the city in this mess.

Meng Tietou didn't want to go to Yizhen, he wanted to go directly to Luzhou - to report Ma Jinbao.

Originally, this time he had the intention of dying, but now he was teased by Ma Jinbao and greatly humiliated by Cui Duyan, he was really angry - instead of giving his life in vain, it was better to fight with them and fight to the death.

Although he has also escaped from the battle, there is a reason to denounce Ma Jinbao this time, and it is not a big problem to think about it.

Although his career has not been smooth, Meng Tietou thought to himself, after all, he was also from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty in Liaodong, and there were many old friends in the army of the capital and Lord Hong.

"I have to do a little more work here, maybe I can return to the Eight Banners Camp." He thought to himself.

……

At about the end of the day, just after a few mouthfuls of dinner, Wang Luo hurried to the south gate.

A large fence had already been erected at the corner of the street where his shop was located, and a team of local Ding Zhuang and Cao soldiers were guarding it.

Under the pretext of preventing the chaos of the people, they all have swords, guns, bows and arrows in hand, as if they are facing a great enemy, in fact, everyone knows in their hearts that this is to strictly guard against those green battalion soldiers who have lost their discipline, and they must not be allowed to harm their own territory.

Accompanied by several small leaders, Wang Luo stood behind the fence with his hands in his hands, looking gloomily at the scene at the city gate not far away.

There was already chaos, tens of thousands of people were hurrying out of the city, and inside and outside were crowded with people helping the old and the young, looking sad, and everywhere there were the cries of children and women.

Driven by shouting and scolding, the crowd continued to walk slowly, slowly pouring out of the city gates, one step at a time.

The rebels on both sides stared at the flow of people with red eyes, seeing if there was still oil and water to fish, and from time to time rushed over to pull out one or two people and snatch their burdens.

Finally getting out of the city, these old and weak women and children have become homeless refugees.

Some of those who had relatives in the suburbs and countryside to go to went straight to the southwest.

But there is no place for many more people to turn to.

In particular, there are many women and children, most of whom have been separated from their husbands and brothers who have been arrested, and they have never gone far away, especially at night, let alone traveling far away, and some have never even gone out of the city gate.

At this moment, they were driven out of the city in a hurry, and seeing that the night was approaching, they did not distinguish between north and south, and heard that there were many bandits outside the city, and they were all frightened and overwhelmed, so they could only gather under the city and refuse to leave for a long time.

The vicinity of the canal wharf was already full of people, the ferries had long since been searched, and the refugees had nowhere to cross the river, and most of them had to stop and form a long queue from the wharf to the city wall.

The defenders at the head of the city saw that many people were stranded outside the Jiangmen, which affected the people behind them to go out of the city, and they were afraid that they would be mixed up by the thieves, so a thousand generals shouted to the city.

The people outside the city listened...... Get out of the gates, or you'll let off the arrows!" ”

After shouting several times, seeing that the crowd was still indifferent, the bowstring of "Bang Bang Bang" sounded, and more than a dozen archers shot a round at the city.

The people who approached the city wall immediately killed and injured several people, which immediately caused a cry to shake the sky......