Chapter 683: Yifang
At this moment, outside the city gate of Yifang County, there is a panicked scene, how many tired people are surrounding the four gates of the county seat, begging to open the city gate and let them enter the city, and on the city wall, the military men wearing red jackets are also looking at the chaotic crowd under the city with nervous faces. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
These people, most of the Flying Kite Fort fell, the soldiers burned to the border of Lanzhou, they have begun to flee, these days, have been tired and haggard to the extreme, Yifang County at this time is not small, the city wall is also very complete, than Lanzhou Prefecture under the county Yifang is more solid.
Fleeing here, it is already close to Taiyuan Mansion, these refugees who left early in the morning finally feel safer, and when they arrive here, Taiyuan Mansion will always send a large army to guard this key place? Everyone just wants to have a place to live in the city, and the government can give some thin porridge, so that everyone can suffer for a few more days.
On weekdays, after paying taxes and serving in conscription, the burden of layers is heavily pressed on the heads of the people, and the fields are desperately working to create such a rich Song Dynasty, and now the Jurchen Tartars are coming, and the defenders are scattered all the way, and everyone has escaped by themselves.
Thousands of ragged people wailed and begged around the city wall, the sound of pleading was earth-shattering, the few soldiers guarding the city and the strong people who were conscripting, holding the battlements to look down with unbearable faces, looking at each other, no one had the courage to open the city gate that had been blocked, but kept sending people to find the person who could take charge of the task and hurry up to the city.
I don't know how long it took, but a general in his thirties, thin and tired, his eyes were blue, and he was afraid that he had not slept for several days, finally walked up to the city, and several equally tired guards gathered behind him. Seeing that this general seemed to be a person who could take charge, the voices of the people in the city suddenly became loud again.
"General, please let us enter the city! Escaping here, it was easy to struggle for a life from the Tartars, some old and some weak, they couldn't walk, and the food was eaten. Accumulate some yin virtue! ”
"We men can sell our energy to build the city wall, transport earth, stones, bricks and tiles, and do anything! I begged for a change for my mother-in-law and doll, and there was a broken temple and kiln to rest and take a breath, and the general, be merciful! ”
"We want to see the county! On weekdays, we are all parents and officials, and we people really respect them as parents, but now the people are in trouble. Did the parents abandon it? ”
The general held on to the battlements, sneered, and shouted at the city: "Straight lady thief, I also see the county honor, the even bird county honor, I have long said that I want to go to Taiyuan Mansion for help, and I patted my ass three days ago and walked away from him!" Just leave me here to top the tank! ”
The general of that army is called Guan Sheng, a native of Daizhou, Hedong, born in Wuju, and sent to the Hedong garrison forbidden army, a person from Wuju. In the Great Song Army, he was the most unpopular, and the status of those generals who had been born in the army for generations was simply far from the status of the generals.
Guan Sheng is really a little ability, more than ten years of hard work, when he suppressed the Taihang Mountain bandits and Luliang Mountain bandits, he made great contributions, and when the Liao State was still there, he fought the Liao people who came to fight the grass valley and dismounted the military horses, crossed the border and burned the Liao people to patrol the shop, and finally mixed into the official position of a small envoy, a commander of the dispatch.
However, it also broke the bones, and the hard work of the field can no longer be eaten, when the Yangling Group presided over the rectification of the forbidden army stationed in Liaodong, Guan Sheng was retained because of his military exploits, and he could not enter the two main field forces because of physical reasons, so he was sent by a Fang Shanzhai to inspect and placed in Yifang County.
The so-called Fangshanzhai, in the southwest of Yifang County, has long been abandoned, for the inspection of Fangshanzhai, the garrison is also within the borders of Yifang County, commanding three or four hundred garrison forbidden troops who have not been selected into the two main forces of the field, maintaining local security, and at the same time guarding the west gate of Taiyuan Mansion.
Although he was sent here, the way to promotion in the army would come to an end.
However, after Wang Huang and Yang Ling joined forces to rectify the Hedong Forbidden Army, the original mess of the forbidden army with different military numbers and the command system of the general army was also empty, and the forbidden army stationed in these places was directly responsible for the back camp of the Shence Army set up by Han Shizhong in Taiyuan Mansion.
Guan Sheng also lost the ambition of the junior high school martial arts, so he lived in Yifang County with peace of mind, only occasionally got up in the middle of the night, secretly hated his own uncompetitive body, thinking of the arrogance of his youth, wanting to be a famous general in Lingyan Pavilion, and wanting to leave traces in history, he could only laugh at himself.
The war on the eastern edge of the river was in full swing, the Jurchen suddenly broke through the border from the direction of the Lan army, and the smoke spread all the way to the south.
This county respects the generals on weekdays, and the people are self-exalted, and the minister's money can be consumed in less than the middle of the year. The small words are fresh and gratifying, and he is also a little famous in the literary world, but he is empty and aggressive after drinking, from the central government to the locality, there is no one he does not dare to criticize and criticize.
Since the war against Yan, all the characters in the changes of the court situation have been criticized by him as useless, and the king of Jin is even more reckless, and he has the ambition to clarify the world, as if once the court calls him back to Beijing and entrusts him with a heavy responsibility, he can save the world, eliminate the evil spirits, and reorganize the dynasty, and the so-called border troubles are not worth mentioning. can
It is this county lord who has his own great article on governing the country in his chest, and he is really prosperous, after the news of the Jurchen continuous southward military information, he can't give up, and he weeps day and night in the government office, just saying that his good life is about to be cut off here by the traitors and evil people in the court.
Guan Sheng's responsibilities are related, and from time to time there are things to rectify the defense of the city, and he has to ask this county lord to order and cooperate, where does this county lord have the slightest heart to come to see him? In the end, this county lord finally took a few cronies, escaped out of the city at night, and left a book saying that he was going to Taiyuan to ask for help.
The order to escape, the emergency military situation continued to come, Yifang County suddenly became bad, the rich people fled, the people fled, even the military horses under Guan Sheng were also panicked, as long as the Jurchen military horses suddenly appeared at this time, it was another situation where the city fell without the slightest resistance!
At this time, Guan Sheng, who had always been sick and crooked, stood up, beheaded the sergeants who wanted to escape, and forcibly opened the county treasury to reward the whole army, Enwei and Shi stabilized the army's heart, and led the military horses under his command, blocked the city gates everywhere, repaired the guards, raised grain and materials in the city, and planned to defend the city in Yifang!
This is the west gate of Taiyuan, if it is easy to fall here, let the Jurchen Tartars rush into Taiyuan Mansion, this state affairs can not be asked, at this time, the dignified Song Dynasty, someone must stand up! It's worth eating food for so many years!
These days, Guan Sheng almost sleepless inch by inch inspected the city defenses, inspected the city, and organized the strong militia in the city to help defend Yifang. Concentrate on the daily distribution of grain and straw, demolish the empty houses of temples and collect bricks and stones for guards, and also concentrate on craftsmen to repair blades and build arrows.
Today, the city is clamoring, Guan Sheng has not been able to sleep for an hour, and hurriedly went to the city, in the face of the thousands of fleeing people around the city, the news that the county has fled, suddenly shocked the city to be quiet, and they have fled to the west gate of Taiyuan Mansion, but even the parents and officials here have abandoned their posts and absconded, the entire east of the river, where is it safe, and where is it possible to avoid the Jurchen Tartar soldiers?
A few children's hungry cries sounded in this silence, and the city and the city were speechless, Guan Shengqiang cheered up and said loudly: "Fathers, we are here to fight, others have escaped, we don't escape." If you lose it here, Taiyuan Mansion will be in danger! Someone has to drag the tartars here! Flee to the east, for we will not die, and the Tartars will not be able to pursue you!" The gates of the city could not be opened. Who knows if when the city gate is opened and thousands of people enter the city, the Tartars will suddenly cover up and rush into the city! ”
He shook deeply at the people outside the city, turned his head and instructed his subordinates: "Throw food out of the city!" ”
The soldiers and the people who volunteered to stay in their homes threw cooked food such as steamed cakes to the outside of the city, but those who had relatives in Taiyuan Mansion, or their own people also fled to Taiyuan Mansion, while throwing food again, while shouting loudly, let these people bring words to their relatives, there must always be someone in front of the Tartars for their homeland to fight to the death, children are not filial, and they will not be able to accompany them in the future!
The refugees were picking up cooked food, and at the same time, they were also entrusted to find their relatives one by one, and when they arrived, the city and the city were crying, and at this time, in the distance of the road in the west valley, there was a large cloud of smoke and dust, and there was a faint cry!
Guan Sheng, who looked at everything that happened in front of him with a cold face at the head of the city, suddenly straightened his waist, and ran to the highest place of the enemy tower at the head of the city with his personal guards, looking westward, up and down the city, they all found the commotion and smoke and dust rolled up over there, all looking westward, running to the height of the enemy tower Guan Sheng raised his eyes and looked as hard as he could, and saw that in the smoke and dust, hundreds of people were running and crying, looking at where they came, it was the people who fled all the way from Yifang, the state of Zhiyifang!
Hundreds of people stumbled in the smoke and dust, many people ran so much that they vomited blood, and after them, there were teams of knights, scattered to occupy a very wide front, unhurriedly drove these people to flee in the direction of Yifang, these knights were wearing leather robes, kofa rope heads, bows and knives, it was the appearance of Hu Qi!
The state of Yifang has fallen, Hu cavalry front, has been killed before Yifang, these Hu cavalry who drive the people like dogs and sheep, from time to time also urge the horse to rush into the fleeing people, swing a knife to kill one or two people, and then turn triumphantly, arousing a crazy cheer from the miscellaneous beards.
And the people can only run forward numbly, from time to time someone still fell to the ground, tired, and then stepped on by countless pairs of feet, can be driven by the Hu cavalry, insist on here are strong men, along the way, I don't know how many women and children, old and weak, have been looted, killed, buried in the ravine!
What about Yifang's officials? What about Yifang's defenders? What about the big people in Yifang who provide for the people? And what about the so-called strong army of the Great Song Dynasty that should hold the strong fortress on the edge of the Lan army? These people are really not as good as the King of Jin, at least the Department of the King of Jin has been fighting to the death with these Hulu at the forefront!
Guan Sheng's eyes were about to split, but the city gate had been blocked, and there were only hundreds of weak troops in the city and strong people who had never practiced war, and at this time, nothing could be done!
Guan Sheng desperately rushed down the enemy tower and shouted at the city: "Escape!" Flee east! Thousands of people exploded at once, and their cries were ten times higher than before.
In the cry, the crowd was chaotic, pushing and trampling on each other, all trying to seize the road to the east, these people left the county and poured onto the road to Taiyuan Mansion, and in the distance Hu Qi also discovered the movement here, and immediately hundreds of horses crossed the refugees they drove away, overtook in the smoke and dust, and pounced on the people who had not fled far from the city!
Guan Sheng shouted angrily: "Release the arrow!" Shoot the arrows! Kill the Tartars! "The bows and crossbows on the city wall are suddenly excited, but Guan Sheng's military horses, there are only a hundred or dozens of people who can shoot strong bows and crossbows, and the Hu cavalry who can shoot and impact along the road outside the city is just this little bit of people and horses, and these hundreds and dozens of people can't all gather to this city wall facing the road for a while!
A small number of feathered arrows shot out, knocking down a few Hu cavalry, but this bit of damage to the Hu cavalry brigade was like being nailed by mosquitoes, and more Hu cavalry were still red-eyed, rolling towards the people who were running frantically under the city.
In the refugees, there are goods, there are women, and there is everything that these Hulu want to get! They just want to bring the greatest fear, so that these southerners no longer have any will to resist in front of them, and in such panic and fear, they have rushed all the way to the city of Taiyuan Mansion!
In the end, the strong army of the Southern Dynasty was destroyed, and the rich Southern Dynasty was destroyed, who let this Southern Dynasty, except for a few military horses, the rest of the people, in front of them, did not have the slightest blood to resist!
Guan Sheng also gritted his teeth and opened his bow and arrows, shooting three arrows in a row. But he was injured and damaged, and he was no longer strong when he was young, and the three arrows could not reach far, and he fell lightly halfway, and the Hu cavalry rushed into the people's brigade, trampling on it wantonly, slashing and killing it wantonly, and the cry went straight to the sky.
Why don't the Ori family fight? Officers and troops along the way, why don't you fight? Could it be that this Great Song Dynasty doesn't have a man who dares to fight? Under the so-called situation of Fengheng and Yuda in the past few decades, there is a piece of internal strife, a piece of weakness and chaos, a wasted national strength, and an extravagant folk style, which turned out to be just the end of the world under the flashy scene.
In such an apocalypse, who can stand up and help the crisis? On the city wall, the defenders and the people were strong, staring blankly at the tragic scene in front of them, and even the bows and arrows in their hands slowed down. This day has been poked into a big hole, who can stop this turmoil and make up for this day? (To be continued.) )