Chapter 161: Abandoning the City

When Huo Yi was woken up by the general, he was shocked to hear such bad news, he hurriedly climbed the city wall, and saw eight small squares of company level, two columns in front and back, blocking the north gate of his Zhuangzi, and there were the same eight small squares at the south gate.

There are only two gates in the South Zhuangzi, and the Huo family is completely blocked in the Zhuangzi.

Huo Yi carefully observed the array under the city for a while, and the initial panic calmed down a lot, because he didn't see the cannons, there were no cannons, and this group of people didn't have siege equipment, and it was definitely a fool's dream to capture the Nanzhuangzi that he had been operating for many years.

The Chen army under the city also seemed to know that they couldn't capture Zhuangzi, so they just lined up quietly and did not attack the city, as if they were waiting for something.

Looking at the Chen army, who had not attacked the city for a long time, Huo Yi was thinking about it, and someone came to report that someone had seen a large group of men and horses coming towards Zhuangzi in the northeast.

Huo Yi climbed to the top and looked, his heart sank, about ten miles away in the northeast direction, a large group of people and horses were moving towards Nanzhuangzi, seeing that there were thousands of people, among this large group of people, there were dozens of big cars slowly moving.

Seeing this scene, Huo Yi knew that it was not that others did not bring an artillery team, but that the foot soldiers came to block him first, and the artillery carriage came later.

Although the Huo family has more than 2,000 Zhuangding under their name, they are scattered in three Zhuangzi, and there are only 1,000 Zhuangding in this southern Zhuangzi, and there are more than 100 remaining generals.

Huo Yi understood that if there were no cannons, more than 1,000 people would be able to hold a small Zhuangzi, which would be more than enough, but if there was a cannon bombardment, it would be difficult to block the gate of Zhuangzi or the crisp earthen wall.

Huo Yi looked at the large group of people in the distance with a gloomy face, and finally he stomped his feet violently, turned around and went down the city wall, and walked towards Huo Mansion.

Back in Huo's Mansion, Huo Yi ordered all the generals to gather and order the generals to be neatly draped, prepare war horses, and listen to his orders at any time.

The generals, who didn't know what the master would order, were neatly draped and led their horses to the school yard behind Huofu to gather.

Huo Yi was already dressed neatly, and accompanied by the leader of the Huo family, he was waiting on the school field with a gloomy face.

It's no wonder that Huo Yi's face was gloomy, he waited on the school field for half an hour, but he only waited for less than a hundred horses, and almost a third of the people did not come.

Knowing that it would be useless to wait any longer, Huo Yi gave an order and went straight to the north gate of Zhuangzi with his family.

On the way to the north gate, some of the leaders of the family passed down Huo Yuanwai's order, and it turned out that Huo Yuanwai planned to let the family general escort him to break through and escape.

After Chen Xian's first armed march, Huo Yi had already sent the main family members out.

Huo Yi asked more than 100 of the most trusted and strongest generals in the family to escort his eldest son to the Flying Tiger Village, and took charge of the village left by Liu Erzu for him.

He asked his brother to escort his old mother to the other courtyard in Dongping Mansion City.

Some less important family members were sent by him to the Tai'an Prefecture Governor's Office, which is also the Tai'an City in Fengfu County.

At this time, in addition to himself, there were only a few less favored concubines and heirs who were also not favored, even if they lost it, they would not feel distressed.

Hearing that it was just a breakthrough, not a death, the generals couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Everyone came to the north gate, and Huo Yuanwai ordered the Zhuang Ding guarding the door to open the door.

The Zhuang Ding thought that they were brave and invincible, and they wanted to go out to attack the enemy formation, and their morale was greatly boosted for a while, so they hurriedly opened the gate of Zhuangzi and put down the suspension bridge.

When the suspension bridge was lowered, the leader of the Huo family rushed out first, and a group of cronies protected Huo Yi and rushed out of the gate of Zhuangzi.

The family members who rushed out of Zhuangzi did not rush to the Chen army, which was lined up two hundred paces in front of the Zhuangzi gate, but ran against the Zhuangzi wall for a while, bypassed the Chen army's formation, and fled to the north.

The commander of the Chen army outside the north gate was Li Shi, the commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion, and after he identified the escape intention of this group of cavalry who suddenly killed, he immediately ordered Chen Xian to give him half of the cavalry company to pursue without hesitation, and at the same time sent cavalry to report the situation to Chen Xian.

Soon, fifty lancers outside the south gate also bypassed Zhuangzi and joined the pursuit.

The three cavalry marched one in front and two behind, and soon went far away.

Huojia Zhuang Ding on the wall of the north gate found that the owner of the village led the cavalry of his family to not only attack the enemy formation, but led people to abandon them and escape, and immediately panicked.

The news spread to the Zhuang Ding who opened and closed the city gate below, and everyone was also dumbfounded, Huo Yuan ran out too quickly, and did not order to close the city gate, and Zhuang Ding who was in charge of the city gate did not dare to close the door without authorization, so he couldn't lock his grandfather outside the city, right? So the gates were still wide open.

Hearing that Huo Yuanwai ran away, everyone panicked and didn't know what to do for a while, so they were stupid there.

At this time, there was Zhuang Ding on the city wall who took off his coat, threw down his weapon and ran down the city wall, and ran towards Zhuangzi, some people called friends while running, "Li Sanlang, go quickly, all the staff have run away, what are you still guarding?" I heard from the people who escaped from Yiyuan that King Chen didn't kill the villagers, but also used us poor men to farm, as long as he didn't take knives and guns, he would be fine......"

Listening to these people's shouts, more people ran.

A group of Zhuang Ding who were stunned in the hole in the wall of the city gate turned their eyes to one of the white-faced young men, and someone asked: "Li Sanlang, is what Wang Wu said true?" ”

Li Sanlang stammered: "Listen...... Listen to Tangjiazhuang...... Bai Xiaoyi, who came to join his relatives, said...... It seems like this...... That...... That King Chen occupied Tangjiazhuang...... One...... Didn't kill anyone......"

Several people looked at each other for a moment, and one of them said: "Then what are you guarding, in case you anger King Chen, let's go, let's go, let......'s go."

As he spoke, the man also threw down the spear in his hand and took the lead in running out of the doorway, taking off his coat as he ran.

On the one hand, Huo Yuanwai abandoned Zhuangzi and fled, which dealt a heavy blow to Zhuang Ding's morale, and even the leader of Zhuang Ding did not have the heart to gather his subordinates, and fled after a little struggle.

On the other hand, the people of this era did not attach much importance to propaganda and the power of the ordinary people, so the powerful people in Yiyuan County did not demonize Chen Xian, but Chen Xian sent many people with relatives in Yiyuan to various places to join relatives and friends in various places soon after the armed demonstration.

These people have only one task, to propagate Chen Xian, especially among young people, some of the ideas and ideas given to them by Chen Xian, and the other is to publicize Chen Xian's benevolence and righteousness, so as to reduce the willingness of these places to resist him in the future.

At this time, the effect of this propaganda was reflected, knowing that Chen Xian would not kill people indiscriminately, the Zhuang Ding who ran away from the master naturally had no will to resist.

Li Shi, who was outside the north gate, looked at the open city gate and the city wall that suddenly became empty, and then looked back at the direction where the group of cavalry had fled just now, thought slightly, and waved his hand, ordering the axe and spearmen of each company to break away from the phalanx, form a loose formation, and escort the musketeers into the city first, controlling the city gate and the city wall.

The axe spear is only a little over three meters long, and it is obviously easier to use it in the alleys of the city than a long spear of about four and a half meters.