Chapter 198: Killing
The panic quickly began to spread among the thieves, and the sound of iron hooves overwhelmed everyone like a thunderbolt.
Some of the bound people have even begun to shout at the top of their voices: "The king is here! The king is here, and we are here!"
And the thieves who guarded the lambs had long since disappeared.
Among the more than 80,000 people, there were many sober-minded people, who were in danger and entered the houses in an orderly manner under the arrangement of the chief, although their eyes were a little panicked, but more resolute.
But such people are always only a minority, and the thieves rise quickly, but they also disperse quickly in the face of powerful threats.
More people fled in a panic outside or in the direction of other city gates, like a swarm of ants.
The people who were accidentally pushed down in front didn't have time to get up at all, and they were trampled by the chaotic tide running behind in an instant, and countless people were trampled to death in an instant.
The leaders of the various bandits were all anxious, not because they felt sorry for the fools who did not obey orders, but because as the crowd fled, their strength also diminished.
At this point, for every person who escapes, their chances of getting out alive will be reduced.
Some of the tens of thousands of people are still very smart, and they do not choose to hide in the corners of people's houses and resist stubbornly.
It's okay for these stragglers to bully and bully the defenseless people, but in the face of the regular army armed to the teeth, how can they still have the courage to resist?
But if you run away with the crowd, let alone whether you can run out, if you are not careful, you will be trampled into pulp at any time, and the risk of escape is even greater than the risk of resistance, so a fool will do it.
These clever people quickly threw away the guys in their hands, casually touched a handful of blood stains on the corpse on their faces, and simply blended directly into the ranks of the people, pretending to be innocent refugees.
Since it is the king's master, it must be here to save the people, so it can't be that they will slaughter the people, right? This is generally the case with the thoughts in the minds of this kind of people.
Soon, the sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, followed by the whistling of sharp blades breaking through the air, and then the ground of the entire official road seemed to shake.
One of the thieves uneasily swept a piece of sawdust off his head and looked solemnly at the end of the road ahead.
The subordinates on the side looked flustered, their legs trembled like chaff, and he said in a trembling voice: "Big brother, let, do we really want to fight against the officers and soldiers? Why don't you run in other directions with those people?"
The leader of the team looked solemn, turned around suddenly, and slapped the face of the subordinate who had just spoken, directly knocking out a row of teeth in his mouth.
The few people gathered in the room were all his henchmen, and the person who spoke just now was his cousin, if it weren't for this relationship, I'm afraid it wouldn't have been as simple as a slap in the face just now.
In a rage, he lifted his cousin's collar, put his face to the end of the road and yelled, "Run! Run your grandma up! With such a wide road, can you outrun other people's four legs on two legs? The cavalry charged, and the knight on horseback only had to straighten the iron spear, and with the power of the charge, he could easily pierce a sugar gourd!"
The men were silent, but they looked at the leader with a look of joy and sincerity.
Yes, in such a terrain, although the official roads extend in all directions, it is also conducive to the cluster charge of the cavalry, not to mention them, even the well-trained infantry can hardly resist such a charge.
Escaping is tantamount to digging your own grave, and now you can only save your life by holding your ground.
The leader's cousin suddenly pointed to the end of the official road and shouted, "It's coming! It's really coming!"
The eyes of everyone in the room suddenly looked out of the window, only to see a black flag suddenly appear at the end of the official road, followed by a group of iron horsemen who were in the sky.
As the leader said just now, the iron cavalry spear at the front was already covered with a series of corpses, and judging by their faces, they were all thieves who had just fled in the direction of the city gate.
The cavalry charged again at the sound of the trumpets of the attack, and all those who stood in their way became the targets of their attacks.
While charging, hundreds of knights in the first row shouted: "Those who surrender on their knees raise their hands high, and those who do not kneel on the ground will be treated as thieves, and whoever does not surrender will be beheaded!"
In the center of the road, there were some people who were bound hand and foot, and at this time, they couldn't help crying when they heard the knights' shouts, and someone in the crowd shouted, "We are all people who have been coerced by thieves, and we ask the king to rescue us!"
Some timid men and women, who considered themselves to be suffering people, did not care about the words of the knights, and were frightened and only knew to bury their heads in the cavalry.
As they ran, the men cried and shouted, "Help, help me! I am a good citizen!"
The knights in the first row had cold eyes, and the spears in their hands were raised flat, as if they had not heard them at all, and the blood on the tips of the spears was dripping down to the ground like a torrent of blood from the mouths of those who ran towards them.
Poof, poof, poof, and the blood stained the earth reddened again, and both the people and the thieves were pierced by the spears in the hands of the knights.
Those who jumped out thinking that they could finally escape the clutches of the devil still had a look of disbelief on their faces before they died.
Not only the thieves in the house, but even the people who had already struggled to get up to greet the king were stunned by the scene that happened in front of them.
The charge continued, but the people who stood up hurriedly knelt down again, and the thieves who escaped this time also learned wisely, they directly threw the weapons in their hands, and knelt on both sides of the road very familiarly.
Sure enough, the cavalry rushed through the kneeling crowd, and there were only a few unlucky civilians in this round of charge, who were really tied up to death, and were thrown in the middle of the avenue, unfortunately trampled into flesh by the horses' hooves.
The thieves in the house looked at each other, and this time without waiting for the leader's order, nine out of ten of the people hiding in the house took the initiative to walk out of the house, and knelt down on the side of the house with their hands raised.
Five thousand cavalry roared past, and before the frightened crowd could breathe a sigh of relief, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves from behind, and everyone hurriedly buried their heads in their crotches again, and no one dared to look up.
He Zhangwen came slowly with more than 100 horsemen, and behind him was the heavy and orderly advance of the phalanx of foot soldiers.
Tens of thousands of heavily armed Forbidden Army foot soldiers lined up in a long line, and the forward troops followed He Zhangwen's cavalry in a triangle.
He Zhangwen looked at the people who were honestly kneeling on the ground and surrendering, his eyes couldn't help but show a touch of joy, and he turned to the several captains who were guarding his side and gave orders.
The lieutenants all clenched their fists on their horses to receive the order, and then galloped back to their respective ranks, and then assigned tasks to the sergeants one by one.
Dozens of small groups of soldiers were soon formed in the phalanx of infantry, one in units of ten people, responsible for collecting the thieves and civilians in the area, and the large army was left with 5,000 people to be responsible for guarding the town.
He Zhangwen rode on his horse and waved his whip and shouted, "Keep advancing!"
The remaining soldiers continued to march, and the chaos in the south of the city was basically cleared.