Chapter 64: The Death of Pengcheng
"What?! How could the Hu people enter the city? Where are the defenders? Suddenly hearing that the city was broken, Pei Dun's face changed greatly, he couldn't stand anymore, he sat down on the ground, and everyone present scattered one after another.
"The colonel guarding the city gate took refuge in the Hu people, and opened the city gate while our army was unprepared, and now the Hu army has entered the city from the west city gate! Hu Ren is powerful, and Lord Thorn Shi is easy to avoid the enemy's edge, so let's hurry up, it's too late! ”
It's a pity that Pei Dun was frightened by the news of the Hu people entering the city at this time, and his hands and feet were so weak that he couldn't walk normally, but fortunately, several generals were competent, and everyone found a good horse, tied Pei Dun to the horse, and the others followed to protect him, and galloped all the way out of the mansion to the south gate.
Pei Dun, who was lying on horseback, didn't mention how much he regretted it at this time, and at the same time couldn't help but sigh that his life was not good, otherwise how could he have just taken over the power of Pengcheng and was attacked by the Hu people? Fortunately, Pei Dun escaped in time, and at this time, the Hu people had just entered the city, and they had not had time to block the city gate, so that Pei Dun and his party escaped from the south gate smoothly.
At this time, the defenders of Pengcheng painfully found that the city gate was like a levee bursting, and they could no longer stop the rolling Hu iron cavalry. There were those who were as timid as rats who took the opportunity to abandon their weapons and flee in all directions, but there were also those who could not bear to be captured and chose to fight the Hu people to the end.
However, in the end, they were outnumbered, coupled with the lack of backbone, and the spontaneous small-scale resistance of the soldiers at the bottom could not change the reality of the fall of Pengcheng......
"Woo!" A tense sound of bull's horn suddenly sounded, and thousands of Han cavalry rode high-headed horses galloping back and forth in Pengcheng, and the chaotic sound of horses' hooves beat on the hearts of everyone in Pengcheng like bells and drums.
The earth-shattering shouting and killing, the mountain shook, the ground moved, and the Han army with the might of breaking the city was high-spirited, and the murderous aura that rushed to the sky rose into the sky, shocking the families who were originally scolding in Pengcheng panicked, shouting and screaming in their own mansions. /
"Oh no, the Hu people are entering the city."
"Quick, run away, the Hu people are here."
To say that the most pitiful at this time are the ordinary Shu people, when they learned that the Hu people had entered the city, where could the people still sit still, they shouted one after another, regardless of how the officers and soldiers guarding the city scolded, they just stumbled towards the city gate.
The already chaotic scene was extremely chaotic, and countless people were trampled and injured due to the crowding, and the embarrassment made the Han soldiers who entered the city couldn't help but laugh.
Seeing this, Zhao Gu rode his horse around in front of the queue, and after inspecting his soldiers, he took out the ring head knife on his waist, pointed to the city gate, and shouted loudly: "Sons, the general order: The day the city is broken, it is the time to slaughter the city, take this city, and kill it happily!" ”
"Slaughter the city! Slaughter the city! Slaughter the city! ”
Wang Sang and Zhao Gu's subordinates were originally extremely vicious bandits, and later took refuge in the wild and untamable Huns, and were contaminated with many Hu habits. Now as soon as he heard that he could slaughter the city, he came to his senses, and there was no need to cheer up any more, all the officers and soldiers were red-eyed, and they roared at the top of their throats.
As soon as the soldiers of the Han State shouted to slaughter the city, the face of the Jin army in the city suddenly changed, and the slaughter of the city by the Hu people was not an occasional thing in these years, and it would happen almost every time the Hu people entered the place. Hearing this, some bloody Jin army officers immediately shouted and asked: "Everyone, now that the city is about to be destroyed, and my family members are behind me, the Hu people want to slaughter all the people in my city, can you agree?" ”
"Can't! No! No! Hundreds of remnants of the Jin army shouted in unison.
Seeing that his originally low morale had been boosted, the Jin army officer couldn't help but be extremely excited, and hurriedly shouted, "Yes! We will never say yes! If the Hu people want to slaughter the city, they must step on our corpses. It's a man, pick up a weapon, please kill Hu with me! ”
"Kill Hu! Kill Hu! Kill Hu! Hundreds of Jin soldiers were in high spirits, clenched the blades in their hands, shouted indulgently, and their morale was also at their peak.
This can be regarded as annoying Zhao Gu, I saw him glaring angrily at hundreds of Jin troops, and shouted: "Sons, kill them all, kill!" ”
"Kill the Huren! Kill! Nearly 300 defeated soldiers of the Jin army saw that the retreat was at an end, but they became desperate, and they followed closely behind the officers with their own shouts, and went to meet the surging Hu cavalry with the momentum of mourning.
Damn it, damn it! Hundreds of remnants of the Jin army rushed like this, but Zhao Gu, who led the army to take over the city gate, was so angry that he jumped like thunder. I thought that I would be able to take over the city gates smoothly, but I didn't expect to encounter hard stubble as soon as I came.
"General, what should I do?" When Zhao Gu was in a hurry, the deputy general next to him saw that the situation was wrong, and immediately lowered his voice and asked.
"Kill all this Jin army!" Zhao Gu saw that the victory that was about to come was gone, and he was suddenly furious, cursed, twisted the horse's head, and led his troops to cover the past.
"Kill!" Zhao Gu was also very brave, and a spear made it fast, stabbing several oncoming Jin soldiers to death one after another. When the soldiers of the Jin army saw that their own people were killed by the enemy generals, they were furious, and soon several people roared to meet them, intending to fight to the death with the enemy generals.
But he never thought that a few long arrows suddenly flew out from the opposite side, stabbing the several Jin soldiers to the ground. Then a large number of Han soldiers surrounded the remnants of the three hundred Jin army warriors, Zhao Gu was like a tiger into the flock of sheep into the Jin army array, under this heavy blow, hundreds of Jin troops were no longer able to resist, the formation was suddenly chaotic, the courage to fight to the death earlier was gone, under the front and rear of the Hu army, it soon collapsed, and the casualties were not counted.
Seeing that they had successfully broken through the defense line of the Jin army, a burst of cheers rang out in the Han army's array, while the remnants of the Jin army in the city were demoralized to the extreme.
Subsequently, under the personal supervision of Zhao Gu, the Han soldiers broke out again, each roaring, scrambling to storm the remaining Jin defense line. Although many Jin soldiers took the initiative to fight with the enemy, it was a pity that the Han army, which came very quickly, had already reached the city, and most of the Jin army defending the city did not have time to react, so they were killed by the Han soldiers who entered the city by surprise.
Kill, kill! The soldiers of the Jin army, who were shouting wildly, did not care about their own casualties, and despite paying the price of hundreds of people, they still failed to drive the Hu people out of the city. Most of the Jin troops who participated in the defense of the city, except for a small number who fled and died in battle, most of them were captured by the enemy.
The Jin army, who was captured by the Hu people, watched his comrades all the troops go black, and everyone's faces were sad, and the corners of their eyes were sad, and their faces were extremely painful!
At this point, the entire Pengcheng battle situation has fallen into an irreversible fiasco!
Don't look at Zhao Gu shouting to slaughter the city, in fact, the people below were stopped by Wang Sang and Sima Ao before they could execute. Wang Sang knew that he did not come to Xuzhou to plunder, but to be a soil overlord. If he kills all the people, he will still rule a fart!
Didn't you look at Cao Wei? It was because of the restraint of his subordinates that he successfully entered Qingzhou, and there is this ready-made example, of course Wang Sang is willing to follow suit.
Not to mention Pei Dun and his entourage who fled, just Sima Ao, who entered the city with the Hu army, as soon as he entered the city, he went straight to the Assassin's Mansion non-stop, but he didn't expect to pounce, it turned out that Pei Dun had already fled.
Wang Sang rode a horse and stood in front of the door of the Assassin's Mansion and asked Sima Ao: "Sir, do you want to take revenge?" ”
"Yes!" Sima Ao replied without hesitation, didn't he pay so much just to take revenge on Pei Dun and Wei Shuo?
"Good! Ben will give you a chance, with your 2,000 cavalry, immediately go out of the south gate and go to pursue Pei Dun! Pei Dun has just left, so he must not have escaped far, and if he is lucky, he may be able to catch him. Let Wang Leopard go with you this time, the two of you bring more arrows, if you encounter the Jin army, you can't be reckless, just use arrows to force back from afar. However, if there is no trace of Pei Dun after thirty miles, he will return to Pengcheng immediately. Wang Sang was afraid that Sima Ao would be carried away by hatred, so he specially admonished.
"No!" Sima Ao followed Wang Bao out of the south gate with excitement on his face.
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Gradually, as the family went on, the shouting and killing in the city gradually stopped. Whether it is the common people of the Shu clan in the city, or the powerful families, they all realize that Pengcheng has changed to a new ruler! It also means that from today onwards, the situation in Xuzhou will inevitably usher in new changes. The family led by Pei Dun could no longer control the entire situation in Xuzhou, and Xuzhou officially entered the Warring States Period.