"Your Highness! The Okabe family is on the attack! This is no accidental mess! Amano Jingde couldn't remember how many times he yelled at Yu Qiuping, but he was extremely excited at this time, who had always been silent. The archers on the watchtower in front of them kept waving torches to warn the main formation, and there was a panic in the main formation.

"This is not an accidental chaos of the people because of the crowd trampling! It's the Okabe family who has been planning for a long time, treating the people as human shields and driving them over to disperse our formation! They're going to break through! Sanada Masayuki was also in a hurry, and said loudly to Yu Qiuping: "Your Highness! Make a decision! ”

In Chang Panbei's main formation, there is a platoon of archers and arrows led by Charlie. On the left and right sides of the formation were five platoons of veterans who were responsible for guiding the people to the rear. In front of this formation, there were five platoons of recruits, and beyond that there were trenches, and beyond the trenches there were ten watchtowers, each of which had several archers on it.

However, the troops of the Okabe family, who fought their way out of the city gates, were obviously very afraid of the ten watchtowers. The archers at the head of the city and outside the city beckoned the archers on the watchtower to rain arrows. The archers of Tokiwa were in a dilemma, lighting torches, and they were obviously the targets of the Okabe family. If you don't light a torch to make a gesture, you won't be able to deliver the message like the main formation behind the formation, because the watchtower is already crowded with people fleeing in a panic at the moment, and it is impossible to communicate from the road. There were even people who were afraid of being trampled on, and in a hurry, climbed to the ladder of the watchtower.

Soon, two of the archers on the watchtower were wiped out by the fire of the Okabe family, and the other watchtowers were forced to extinguish their torches sooner or later. The Okabe family, armed with torches, fired rockets at the watchtower, and the lit watchtower was a daily eye-catcher in the evening, and the two hundred archers of the Okabe family shot mercilessly at the weak Tokiwabei archers, and the dozens of archers at the front were killed and wounded in a short time. The feather arrow, which did not hit Tokiwa, fell into the fleeing crowd, causing huge casualties and further aggravating the chaos. The surging crowd had gradually exceeded the strength of Tokiwa's ashigaru, and even Ashigaru began to be knocked down, and the defense line began to become unstable, like demonstrators storming the police in a march.

"Zijing, Ziping, Mi Qisuke. A few of you! Yu Qiuping saw that more than 30 subordinates on the watchtower had died one after another, and felt that his heart was dripping blood, he walked quickly to the back of the first five platoons of Ashigaru, and with some red eyes, he quickly ordered: "Don't be so polite!" Let the people not storm the position! Run from both sides! ”

"Your Highness! Do you want to use a knife! The water atom blushed and hung his spear in front of him, and shouted without looking back against the collision of the three people: "I can't stop it!" ”

"Ziping! No! Before Yu Qiuping could speak, the water atom on the side roared in a voice that overshadowed the noise, and the usually Sven warrior was bruised at the moment: "You attack the people!" Worthy of my father's instructions! ”

"That's right! Don't kill! We agreed to let them out to save them, and we must not do anything to the people like the beasts of the Okabe family! Yu Qiuping shouted at the ashigaru, "Push them back!" Shout at them and let them go both ways! ”

The ashigaru, who had received Yuakihei's order, struggled to push the crowd back towards the side of the trench. After all, most of the people had been hungry for several days, and they had been crowded for an evening, tired and hungry and had no strength, and were pushed back again and again by the ashigaru people who used to be prepared. "Go to the side! Please, folks! "Don't storm the ground! Otherwise, don't blame us for being polite! The shouts of the ashigaru people came and went, but only a few people stopped, and more people still rushed to the defense line.

Later, I don't know if it was the southernmost platoon of the defense line under the spontaneous leadership of the ashigaru, it was neatly playing the trumpet and shouting, "Go! On the side! Walk! Past! On the side! Walk! Later, this slogan gradually spread, and more than 200 ashigaru people on the entire front line shouted according to the beat, under the leadership of Yu Qiuping, tearing their throats like neatly: "Go! On the side! Walk! The unison shouts of more than 200 people suppressed the exclamations and noises of the people. Under the guidance of such a rather infectious force, the crowd at the forefront began to slowly stop. They had long lost the ability to think for themselves in the panic, and they had blindly followed the crowd towards Chang Panbei, and now they were blindly following the shouts and slowly squeezing in both directions. Although there are still many people who still crash into the defense line in a panic, the momentum has been curbed by Chang Panbei.

However, before Yu Qiuping, who was standing on the front line, breathed a sigh of relief, the situation in front of him had undergone major changes. It turned out that the Okabe army, which had rushed with torches, had already rushed directly behind the people. Immediately after, a scream and wail sounded behind the people!

"The Okabe family has killed someone!"

When the screams of "Okabe's family has killed someone" sounded again, the people were once again in chaos. If the last time such a commotion broke out, it was only because the Okabe family shot the people with bows and arrows, then this time, it was the Ashigaru family who slaughtered the people who had no power to fight back! Kotaro, who was in the rear, was completely confused when he watched the demons with blood-stained blades recklessly harvest their lives. His brain went blank, he just shouted "spare my life" in confusion, pulled his nephew tightly, and squeezed towards the pile of people in front of him! He frantically pushed everyone in front of him away or even pulled back to beg them to help him block the attack! The surging crowd pushes everyone in front of the center who can't help themselves forward! And the hard-won order of the people in front of him immediately collapsed in chaos! They scattered and fled, no longer willing to go to great lengths to maintain order as instructed, but rushed to the line of defense and the trenches on both sides in order to avoid the Grim Reaper behind them!

This time, the crowd is more menacing than every previous one. Tsukiwa's ashigaru couldn't stop the people who bumped into him, and he was forced to retreat again and again, even if they shouted the same slogan as last time, it would be useless. Yu Qiuping, who was standing at the forefront, couldn't help but clench his fists as he watched the defense line begin to waver.

"Your Highness, please order an indiscriminate attack! Attack the people! Sure enough, Amano Jingde's cold voice sounded in his ears.

Yu Qiuping understood that what he said was right.

Yu Qiuping looked at the people struggling in front of the defense line, all of them were ragged and their faces were withered, old and young. They had just encountered purgatory-like days in Yinma City, and they had managed to survive, but they had to be slaughtered by two armies.

Thousands of people, thousands of people who are usually honest and honest, digging in the soil. They don't have any lofty ideals, they don't have any ambitions to govern the country, and they can't even leave a speck of dust on the pages of history. People in later generations admired the great achievements of princes and generals, but they could not see these living creatures.

Thousands of people, each with their own name, their own family, their own character, their own good memories. They may also be coquettish in the arms of their parents when they were young, or they may be blushing in the face of quarrels in their youth, or they may be so excited that they can't sleep on their wedding night, or they may also give birth to their first child, sincerely thank God for their gifts, and then raise their offspring just as their parents raised them.

However, in the face of killing, everything is insignificant. No matter how happy and beautiful the love and memories you had, you can't escape the cruelty of war.

"If we don't give the order to attack, the people will break up our defenses! The Okabe family will take advantage of the situation to cover up! Tianye Jingde said, and Yu Qiuping also quietly thought in his heart, "We Chang Panbei is proud of the array of spears that can't be played, so we can only be slaughtered!" ”

"Give an indiscriminate attack order, kill the mob who dare to rush into battle, and use the shock of the gun array to force the people to roll back! Stabilize the situation! Amano Keide whispered again.

"I'm sorry." Yuqiu calmed his heart, looked at the people who kept coming forward, their faces were full of tears and horror, and raised his hand high. The phrase "indiscriminate attack" is already on the lips.

Suddenly, a terrible shout came. The owner of the voice is an ordinary farmer named Muji.

It stands to reason that in such a noisy environment, it is difficult for Yu Qiuping to hear this voice. It stands to reason that it is difficult for him to see this middle-aged man's actions in the dim evening.

And yet that's what happened.

The tearful, exhausted father lifted the infant baby high, struggling to squeeze in the sidelight of Tokiwabi, but he never got an inch. The shouts of killing in the back were getting closer and closer, and the husband, who had just lost his wife and daughter, and whose coarse cloth clothes were still stained with the blood of his wife and daughter, tried his best to send the baby forward. The color of the other people around him suddenly dimmed, and only the figure of the man was left in the crowd, which was extremely clear.

"Save my child's life! It doesn't matter to me, let my child pass! ”

It was this sentence that used up all the strength of the body and reached Yu Qiuping's ears. The raised hand also froze in place all of a sudden.

The softest place in my heart was suddenly touched. That hand, no matter what, could no longer fall.

His eyes were a little moist, and his vision blurred for a moment. The scenery, which had been dim just a moment ago, suddenly brightened. The crowd, which was vague just now, suddenly came alive. Everyone, crying as hard as they can, desperate to survive.

Every life is so unique and precious. They have good memories for more than ten years or decades, and that unique life belongs to them.

This hand, as long as it falls, the lives of these thousands of people, the unique lives of thousands of people, will be erased in this world in an instant! I let them out to save them! Didn't I swear to alleviate the suffering of every suffering people in the world? Haven't I always kept telling my word!

I... The image of Imagawa Yoshimoto suddenly appeared in my mind.

"Remember one thing that will challenge you for the rest of your life to see if you can beat yourself." When Yu Qiuping walked to the door, Imagawa Yoshimoto suddenly said.

Yu Qiuping turned around and listened attentively, and that sentence was imprinted into the young man's mind from then on, and accompanied him throughout his life.

"Make a choice with no regrets."