On the evening of June 20, Yu Qiuhei waited at the observatory on the outskirts of Shitama Town of the East Gate Castle, nervously watching the movements of Seima Castle.

In the morning, the Okabe family sent three important ministers to discuss the issue of sending out the people with Yu Qiuping. In the end, the agreement was reached that the Okabe family would open the east gate and send the people out to Yuqiuping's camp. And Yu Qiuping could not take advantage of the opening of Okabe's house to storm the city gate, and all the departments must stay in the camp and not move around. Although he felt that this plan was a little too beneficial to the Okabe family, Yu Qiuping, who was thinking about the people, also agreed.

However, what made him a little unhappy was that the Okabe family had to send the people out in the evening. If this matter dragged on until the night, it would be a waste of effort to help thousands of people with night blindness settle down in this ancient night, when the fingers would be dark and missing. Yu Qiuping suggested that the people should be sent out this afternoon, but the elder of the Okabe family said that he had no time to prepare. Yu Qiuping proposed to send it again tomorrow, but the old man of the Okabe family was very embarrassed and said that the grain and grass were no longer enough for today's dinner. Yu Qiuping had no choice but to agree to this condition again.

For this reason, he also prepared intensively. To accommodate more than 6,000 people at once, a lot of preparatory work was required. It takes a lot of effort to prepare food and shelter for them, to coordinate relations between them, and to maintain order. Simply, since the siege of the city by the troops of the Asahina family, they have just helped more than 10,000 people build shelters around the camp and settle down, and they have rich experience. In order to accommodate the new arrival of more than 6,000 people, Yu Qiuping ordered all the departments to mobilize, dismantle some of the rear fortifications that were temporarily unusable, and then cut down trees and build simple houses. At the same time, the residents were called on to participate in the construction work and prepare dinner for 6,000 people. Everyone used to be villagers in the towns outside the city, and they were all related to each other, so they were naturally very enthusiastic about this matter. Tens of thousands of people outside the city were immediately busy like a big beehive, and the camp was turned into a builder, and it was still not finished until the evening. And in Yinma City, there was also a lot of noise all afternoon, probably because the people were messily packing up and preparing to go.

However, Yu Qiuping is not a fool when he asks himself. In order to welcome the people, he dismantled part of the fortifications, and was very worried that after opening the city gate, it would not be the people who would come out, but the Okabe family who had broken through. To this end, he deliberately sent all the ashigaru men of Tokiwa to the fortifications and on both sides of the camp, and he and Charlie personally took the archers to monitor the movements. Several other families were also on the verge of a great enemy, and notified all the staff to be on alert in case the Okabe family attacked the east and west, and took advantage of the chaos to break through from several other gates.

Now it is seven o'clock in the Shen hour, and it has reached the agreed time to open the city, but the east gate of Yinma City has not moved, and there is a louder and louder noise in the city. Yu Qiuping couldn't help but be a little irritable, and the archers on guard at the lookout became more and more nervous. However, Okabe Motonobu didn't let him wait long, and Shin Shi went on strike, and the east gate of Yinma Castle slowly opened—and it was the ragged people who came out, not the heavily armed army—which made Yu Qiuping breathe a sigh of relief.

However, unlike Yu Qiuping's imagination of orderly people queuing up to go out of the city, the people crowded out of the city in a swarm, and the narrow city gate was immediately squeezed out. The dozens of people who were the first to squeeze out of the city immediately ran quickly along the main road of the castle town towards Yuqiuping's camp, and the people behind them also continued to crowd the city gate. It was like a cloth bag full of mung beans, and a hole was opened underneath, and mung beans gushed out, and more and more people rushed out of the city gate. The main road in the castle town was gradually crowded with people, and many people were forced to take a detour from the small road in the castle town. Yu Qiuping could roughly see that many families who had been separated in the crowding, or people who had lost their salutes, were trying to turn around and return—which obviously increased the crowding.

The fastest runner had already rushed to the edge of the ditch with cheers - the fence had been temporarily demolished by Yuqiuping to make it easier for the people to pass. Most of the people are still crowded in the castle town. Tokiwa's ashigaru men made way for the people who were rushing to make way to the gathering area behind them through their defensive positions.

As time passed, more and more people poured out of the city gates, densely distributed in the area from the eastern castle wall to the Tokiwabi fortifications. The complexity of the castle town and the trenches dug by Yu Qiuping before Yuakihei added to the congestion, and only the people at the front of the line knew where they were going, and the others just followed the flow of people in a daze. At the same time, the large number of civilians in front of the Tokiwa defense line also caused great pressure on the ashigaru people of Tokiwa. Since Tokibanbei only gave up a few small openings in the line for the people to pass through—they also had to bypass the horse rejection and the fence, the traffic was far lower than the number of people released at the city gates. Many people jumped down the trench in a crowded manner, climbed up again, pushed and shoved the fortifications in front of Tokiwa and asked for permission.

More and more people are stranded in the area, and Yu Qiuping feels that the situation seems to be getting out of control. From the watchtower, he estimated to the naked eye that there were already thousands of people crowded between the east gate and his own defense. The density of the crowd was no less than that of the Spring Festival transportation site - he had greatly overestimated the order of the villagers leaving the city, which led to the detention of a large number of people. Now, the watchtower where he is located is also densely packed with people. At dusk, the afterglow of the sunset is no longer illuminated by the entire castle town because of the obstruction of the castle. The darkness gradually descended and the crowd panicked, and several people lit up torches.

"Your Highness, this situation is not very optimistic." Tianye Jingde, who had been accompanying him on the side, said in a deep voice, "Such a dense crowd is still at the junction of the two armies, and once chaos occurs, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

"Gonbei... You're right. Yu Qiuping subconsciously said by the young name of Amano Jingde, "Then what do you think should be done now?" ”

"Your safety, Your Highness, is of the utmost importance." Tianye Jingde looked at the dense crowd of people under the watchtower, "Your Highness, the place where you are now is too far away from this army. If there is chaos, there is no time to go back and command the troops. ”

"Anyway, please go back to the army first." At Amano's strong request, Yu Qiuping, guarded by several guards beside him, climbed down the watchtower and struggled to squeeze into the crowd. The crowded people couldn't make room at all at first, and they didn't take a few steps forward for a long time.

"Move, move!" Xiao Ha Jie Sheng shouted at the top of his voice, "Make room for my Royal Highness!" ”

However, the people standing in front of them all managed to squeeze into the front position, and no one was willing to let the position that they had tossed for a long time to grab. They pushed me in the crowd, and he glared at you, all thinking of letting others make way for Yu Qiuping. Kohata and the others squeezed forward with great effort, stretching out their hands and trying to push away the crowd in front of them. However, before this one was squeezed out, the other one leaned over again, and if one of them was not careful, he would be pushed and stumbled by the crowd. The autumn leaves that Kohata Katsumori had stuck in his helmet were even squeezed out in the crowd. The crowd around was full of people, complaining and scolding, and several guards could only communicate with each other by yelling desperately.

Seeing that there were more and more people around, a few guards began to be a little unable to protect Yu Qiuping. Yu Qiuping himself was almost squeezed into the crowd by a stream of people coming from the west. In such a chaotic situation, if Yu Qiuping is squeezed out by the flow of people, it will be difficult to find it later. Xiao Ha Jiesheng hurriedly grabbed Yu Qiuping's hand and pulled him between the two peasants, and several guards also covered up. They shouted and asked the people to get out of the way, but everyone went their own way.

Several guards were in a hurry, so they drew their knives in their hands and shouted: "Get out of the way!" Otherwise, you won't be killed! ”

After the obviously dangling katana was revealed, the surrounding people immediately moved out of the way in panic, screaming and avoiding, crowding people, and soon vacated a road, and the flow of people crowded in the opposite direction. Yuqiu Ping, a few guards beside him, and Tianye Jingde, embedded in the crowd like a reef splitting the waves, and quickly squeezed back to the trench in front of the family's position, and after turning over the trench, they returned to the forward position.

"It's still easy to use a bright knife!" A guard beside Yu Qiuping sighed, "I talked so much about grinding and chirping before, and the people didn't listen to it. The sky is dark and there are many people, so it is not useful at all. But as soon as we drew our swords and made it look like we were going to cut someone, the people immediately fled in a crowd! Even if the people behind didn't want to let go, they were all squeezed out of the way! ”

"That's right!" Several other guards also catered to him.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.

They didn't notice that Yu Qiuping beside them was looking in the direction of the crumbling sunset—it was the gate of the east gate of Yinma City, and his face was already as earth-colored.

Most of the nearly 6,000 people had been pushed out of the city, but less than 1,000 had reached the resettlement site through the positions of Tokiwabi. The remaining thousands of people were all crowded between Tokiwabi and Inimajo. The dense flow of people crowded in front of the position, stranded in the position, pushing and shoving, crowded, shoulder to shoulder, and chaos. Most of the people who were next to him were exhausted, tired and hungry, and they tried every means to squeeze towards the rear of the battle. Because Chang Panbei was asked by Yu Qiuping to treat the people well, no one did anything radical to the people, which also led to the people's actions becoming more and more presumptuous, and some people even began to openly climb over the fortifications. And the people who were crowded in the crowd and moved step by step with the flow of people were even more overwhelmed by the darkness and hunger.

"Hey..."Yu Qiuping muttered to himself a little dazedly, "Is there a mistake... What if..."

I mean, just in case...

The swaying glow of the sunset was reflected in Yu Qiuping's frightened eyes.