Chapter 671: Fleeing
"Isn't the Kim army already near Jeju City? By midnight, we threatened to attack the Jin army. When the time comes, everyone will go together, I don't believe that Shao Hongyuan will not go, as long as he runs, the court will punish his crimes first, where will it be our turn. Zhou Hong clamored again.
As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately felt reasonable.
With Shao Hongyuan's temperament, coupled with his discord with Li Xianzhong, the two are in the same city, and this Jin army was also attracted by Li Xianzhong, as long as he heard that the Jin people were coming, he would definitely run.
When he escaped, he would not notify his subordinates to flee together, he must have to flee first, leaving the army to resist the Jin people for him, rather than this, it is indeed better to take the first step, when he thought that his soldiers were all in the city to resist the Jin people, naturally he would not have thought that they had already gone out of the city for the first time, he didn't know, how could the court investigate?
"Okay, then I'll listen to Zhou's control, let's go together tonight!"
"Okay, let's go!"
"I don't want to die here, I'll go too!"
"I'll go too!"
........
More than 20 commanders quickly reached a consensus.
In the end, it was agreed that at three o'clock, we would meet near the south gate on time.
That night, at that time, more than 20 commanders and guards gathered at the south gate.
The commander in charge of guarding the south gate of Jeju ordered the defenders to open the gate and lower the drawbridge.
"The Jin army is here, run!"
"The Jin Army is here, run!"
"Jin Ren is here, run!"
..........
In the dimness of the south gate, I don't know who it was, shouted in a loud voice, and then many people let go of their voices in response.
After shouting, the commanders, under the cover of their own guards, rode their horses out of the city and headed straight to the south.
When the Song army in the city was sleeping soundly in the middle of the night, they suddenly heard the Jin people killing, causing some people to shout for their lives, where would they think more, turn over and sit up, pull their legs and run to the city gate, even abandon their weapons.
"The golden man is here, run!"
"Run!"
The enthusiastic soldiers shouted loudly as they ran, reminding those who were still asleep to get up and flee for their lives.
In a matter of moments, the south of Jeju was in chaos, and in the darkness, countless people went straight to the city gate empty-handed, trying to seize the gate.
However, the city gate was so wide that because there were too many people fleeing for their lives, pushing and scrambling, the city gate was not smooth.
Under the constant shouting and reminders, tens of thousands of people woke up from their sleep almost at the same time, including the Right Route Army, which controlled Shao Hongyuan.
He woke up from the noise and noise, and because his good dreams were disturbed, he asked angrily, "What is the noise?" ”
The captain of the guard hurriedly replied: "My lord, the golden man is here!" ”
"What! Coming so soon? Gather all the generals to meet the enemy! As soon as he heard that the Jin people were coming, Shao Hongyuan's groggy head suddenly sobered up.
"The camp is in chaos, and there is no one to be found! Let's go, my lord! The captain of the guard said urgently.
"Tell me to go down and bring me everything!"
With the help of his personal guards, Shao Hongyuan quickly put on his armor and quickly left the camp, leaving without forgetting the personal trophies in the camp.
"My lord, it's too late, Jin Renqi is fast, we can't run away with things!" The captain of the guard said urgently.
"Then take only these five boxes, don't let me lose them!" Shao Hongyuan was very reluctant, but he quickly chose five large wooden boxes, and the others could only give up.
The captain of the guard had no choice but to be.
A moment later, Shao Hongyuan rode straight to the south gate under the escort of his personal guard.
In the darkness, tens of thousands of people at the south gate were crowded together, scrambling to flee for their lives, all wanting to escape from the city first, and the gate less than two zhang wide in front of tens of thousands of people seemed very narrow.
The gate is less than two zhang wide, for some reason, half of it is closed, because everyone is squeezing out, the top of the closed half of the door is dead, no matter how the people behind shout to open the door, the people near the gate are only a few steps away from the city, all are scrambling, no one pays attention to it, even if a few people hear the shouting, there is nothing they can do, because the strength of one person cannot be the enemy of hundreds or thousands of people who are bent on fleeing for their lives.
Shao Hongyuan came to the south city gate quickly under the escort of the personal guards, and when he saw that the city gate was blocked by people who wanted to leave the city, he immediately panicked.
"The Lord of the Rulers has arrived! Move! Move! The guards urged their horses to shout in the midst of the chaos.
At this time, the rebels are all trying to flee for their lives, who will pay attention to any adults or adults, because there is no one to give way at all, and they are all desperately squeezing forward.
"Lord Commander is here! Move! Move! Get out of the way......" the guards shouted anxiously.
No one paid attention to the chaos in the army, and they had only one thought in their hearts, to escape from the city!
"Get out of the way! Move! Get out of the way...... several anxious guards struck, their whips slashing at the heads and faces of the rebels who were squeezing their backs towards them.
The soldiers of the chaotic army, who were crowded, were suddenly jerked from behind, and under the pain, they were immediately furious.
As soon as he turned around, he saw that the horsewhip had been drawn again, and he didn't think about it, so he raised his hand and grabbed the horsewhip in his hand, and when he pulled it hard, he snatched the opponent's horsewhip away.
"Look for death!" When the guard whip was snatched, he immediately drew his sword in his hand and raised his knife to slash down.
The soldiers left the camp in a hurry, in a hurry to flee for their lives, they didn't have time to get their weapons at all, they only had the horsewhip they had just snatched in their hands, where could they block the opponent's knife!
Blood splattered, and the soldier who had snatched the whip screamed and collapsed to the ground.
"Get out of the way! The rulers are here, and if you don't dodge, this is the end! The guard rode on his horse, holding a bloodied knife and roaring in the darkness.
"Killed!"
"The Jin army spy has entered the city!"
"The Jin army has entered the city!"
"The Jin army has entered the city!"
........
When he was struggling to flee for his life, he didn't know who was stained with blood, and he immediately shouted in a nervous way, and the other unknown people immediately echoed and shouted in order to force the people in front of him to hurry out of the city so as to make way for them.
The scene near the south gate was even more chaotic for a while because the guards killed a soldier.
At the same time, more and more people on the street behind Shao Hongyuan woke up from their dreams and swarmed in the direction of the city gate.
"Kill a way, let the adults go first!" Shao Hongyuan's personal guard captain saw that there were more and more people behind him, and they were rapidly approaching, if they couldn't get out of the city immediately, they would definitely be trapped in the city, and under nervousness, he gave a crazy order to his personal guards.
There is only Shao Hongyuan in the eyes of the guards, and whoever threatens their master will die.
And so a killing began, in the chaos and tumult in front of the city gates.
The guards charged forward, their long knives slashing directly at anyone who was facing them in front of them.
They slashed with knives and shouted, "Get out of the way!" Move! The rulers are here! ”
In a matter of moments, dozens of people lay down in front of the guards.
The soldiers, who were bent on fleeing for their lives, were shocked when they heard the screams and shouts behind them.
When he looked back, he saw that Shao Hongyuan's personal guards were wielding knives and killing indiscriminately, and his heart palpitated.
They are now empty-handed, and if they don't get out of the way, they will soon die at the hands of their own people before the Jin people can kill them.
So the alert soldiers hurriedly squeezed to the left and right, avoiding the direction in front of Shao Hongyuan's personal guards.
However, due to the crowd in front of the city gate, it was impossible to get out of the way in a short period of time.
Shao Hongyuan's personal guards saw that the road was not wide enough, and there were people blocking the road in front of them, so they did not have the slightest softness, nor did they mean to leave each other's lives, time is life, and the sooner they go out of the city, they will have more chances to live, their knives, knives and knives are deadly.
Seeing that Shao Hongyuan's personal guards were killing people frantically in order to grab the way to escape, the soldiers who were scrambling quickly came to their senses, they only had meat necks, where did they fight for each other's steel knives?
In less than a quarter of an hour, the crazy guards opened a bloody path for Shao Hongyuan at the south gate where 10,000 people scrambled to get out of the city.
Then, under the escort of his personal guards, Shao Hongyuan urged the horse out of the city and fled to the south in a hurry.
Tens of thousands of soldiers in Nancheng, seeing that Shao Hongyuan, who was under the control of the capital, did not hesitate to escape from the Song army, it can be seen that the Jin people are fierce, and it is impossible to have the ability to resist at all.
So, after Shao Hongyuan left the city, tens of thousands of soldiers who wanted to survive wanted to scramble for their lives again, rushed for their lives, and crowded to the south gate, which closed half of the gate.
Just when the southern city was in chaos, the news that Shao Hongyuan had escaped with his troops reached the northern city, and at the same time, the news of the Song army's retreat from the southern city was also sent to the Jin army, which was camped several miles away.
Li Xianzhong, who learned the news, was extremely angry and immediately led the army to the south of the city to suppress the deserters.
But 20,000 or 30,000 people gathered in the south of the city, and they saw with their own eyes that their main general did not hesitate to kill their own people and run away, and now they saw the arrival of the main general of the army on the left, thinking that the north of the city had been broken by the enemy, and Li Xianzhong was also going to flee from the south of the city.
Li Xianzhong looked at the hundreds of zhang distance from the south city gate in front of him, there was a crowd of black oppressors, his people couldn't go up at all, and no one in front of him listened to their shouts, and in desperation, he suddenly became angry, and immediately scolded Shao Hongyuan for being shameless.
As soon as he finished scolding, he heard his subordinates report: "The Jin people are approaching, and the vanguard is less than a mile away from the north of the city!" ”
In desperation, Li Xianzhong had to sigh hatefully: "Shao Hongyuan has misled the country!" ”
"Let's go! Return to the north of the city to defend against the enemy! ”
The order was issued, Li Xianzhong turned the horse's head and took his guards to the north of the city.
Along the way, he saw with his own eyes that countless soldiers were still rushing towards the city gates, but he no longer wanted to persuade them or order them to go back.
The morale of the fleeing soldiers has been weakened, and even if they are forced to go back, they will be sent to death.
Li Xianzhong returned to the north of the city with his troops, and did not defend the city, but ordered the city gate to be opened and go out of the city to meet the enemy.
If the enemy's 50,000 troops attack with all their might, with the current chaos of Jeju City, it will definitely be impossible to defend it, but they must not be allowed to easily besiege Jeju City, otherwise tens of thousands of troops will all be buried in Jeju.
Li Xianzhong quickly led the army out of the city, and less than a mile north of the city, he met the vanguard of the Jin army.
The two armies did not have time to set up their formations, and immediately launched a fierce battle in the dim moonlight, and the melee was a mess.
The vanguard of the Jin army was less than 3,000 men, and within a quarter of an hour of fighting with Li Xianzhong's troops, he was shocked to find that the Song army was coming out of the city in a steady stream, rushing straight from the left and right sides, intending to surround them.