31 The wrath of the multitude
When Na Hongwang heard these words, he immediately felt ridiculous, and said: "You actually dare to insult the Lord, it seems that these people are all Diao people who have been bought by you, Yu Ning Shizi, as the prince of the world, you should do your duty as a minister, but you don't do the way of a minister, you actually usurp these Diao people to rebel, rebellious ministers and thieves, why shouldn't you be killed." ”
Yinyi listened to him scolding the prince, and his heart was even more angry, and said: "It is you who are the rebels and thieves, when the first lord passed the throne to the prince of Yu Ning, then Yu Qing was jealous and hateful, and he plotted rebellion, and actually killed the ancestors, and killed the ministers of the court, and won the city. The prince didn't want to care about Yu Qing's usurpation, he only hoped that he could treat the people well and bless the Qing Zhou, but in the past five years, what has he done, captured the green devil and brutalized him, just to get the infinite demons to serve him, and absorb the blood of the blue devil to seek immortality, this kind of ridiculous thing in the world has also been done, that's it, he also abused the people, forcibly took food, and the people could not live, and the people suffered from the demons, he Yu Qing wanted to persecute the Qing Zhou world to what state he was satisfied? Yin Yi scolded indignantly.
The people were even more shocked when they heard Yinyi's words, they didn't expect that the current city lord was actually such a tyrant who pardoned his father and seized the throne, and they were completely enraged at the moment when they already had resentment in their hearts, and they scolded one after another.
Seeing that the situation had become like this, Yu Ning knew that it might be inappropriate for Yin Yi to say it so impulsively, so he was so busy that he stepped forward and said: "Commander Hongwang, this son of the world is not greedy for the position of the city lord, but seeing that this Qing Zhou City is suffering from a catastrophe, aren't you afraid that this catastrophe will fall on your heads and on the heads of your relatives?" Do you have no children, and your tens of thousands of soldiers have no parents and children? Maybe many of their relatives have been starved to death, many have been poisoned by evil spirits, and many have been eaten by demons, you are not sad, have you not thought that your soldiers will not be sad? Didn't you think that these people kneeling here would be sad? ”
A series of questions asked the hearts of these people, and also asked the hearts of the soldiers guarding the city wall, and also moved the guards of the Imperial Foresters, who had no relatives and children, and how many people lost their dearest and most loved ones in this absurd catastrophe, but they were helpless and powerless.
Hongwang and the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, Shui Mo, saw the soldiers with sad expressions on their faces, and knew that they had listened to the words of this instigated prince. Hongwang said angrily to the soldiers: "The city lord raised you because he wanted everyone to serve the lord, and he wanted you to defend the majesty of the city court from the traitors. ”
These soldiers all pulled their heads, and they didn't pay attention to the commander's reprimand, but thought about whether this battle was meaningful, why did they have to fight for the city lord to attack the young monarch from Wangcheng and Yu Ning Shizi, it was obviously the city lord's own mistake, why did they have to pay for their lives.
Seeing that the army's heart began to waver, Shui Mo said: "The traitors are bewitching the people, making up some lies to deceive the people, and trying to tease the soldiers, you are too ignorant, do you think that the generals will believe it, and the soldiers will believe it?" Yu Ning Shizi, if you voluntarily forgive your sins today, you will not take your life, but will intercede for you in front of the Lord, after all, you are the Lord's brother of the city, a relative of flesh and blood, how can the Lord be as ungrateful as you. He reversed his words, blaming Yu Ning's fault on Yu Ning, thinking that in this way he would restore the image of the Lord in the minds of the soldiers, so that the morale of the soldiers would not plummet.
"Then please ask General Ink to tell me that brother in the city, my Yu Ning is not rare for my life, if you open a warehouse to save your life and kill the demons, and he voluntarily pleads to the people, then even if you kill me, I will not regret it." Yu Ning said sincerely, his words were powerful and inviolable, and he was almost out of breath when he pressed on this ink sentence.
Shui Mo smiled coldly and said, "It seems that you are really stubborn, since this is the case, then it is no wonder that the general will be cruel to you." As soon as he finished speaking, he pulled out an arrow feather from the quiver of the soldier beside him, and then bent his bow and arrow, aimed it at Yu Ning's chest, and shot an arrow down.
His strength was so great, the arrow feather shot like light to Yu Ning's heart, Yu Ning was a little surprised when he saw the arrow feather that broke through the air, he didn't react for a while, and when he reacted, the arrow feather was only a few feet away from him.
Yin Yi and Qing Zhan were both shocked and wanted to come to the rescue, but they were also at a distance from him, how could they be in time? When everyone thought that Yu Ning would suffer this catastrophe, they saw that the woman behind her was busy standing up, and slapped the horse's buttocks, and the horse's buttocks were painful, so they ran to the left, and this time they just dodged the arrow feather, but what surprised people again was that the arrow feather jumped directly over Yu Ning and shot the old woman, the old woman was hit by an arrow in her heart, and blood gushed out, she only felt a flower in front of her, and the sky and the earth were dizzy, and she fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Yu Ning was shocked, and hurriedly jumped off the horse, held the old woman who fell to the ground in her arms, trembled her hands, and said, "How are you?" ”
The old woman stretched out her hand and clasped Yu Ning's hand tightly with all her might, and pleaded: "Please save the villagers, and also save the suffering Qingzhou City, I really hope that the city lord of our Qingzhou City is you, if it is you, we ordinary people will have a way to live." ”
Yu Ning was very moved when he heard this, and he burst into tears, and said: "Don't worry, I promised that your things will definitely be done, and I will definitely let this Qing Zhou City return to the way it was five years ago, so that all the people will be rich." ”
Hearing Shizi say this to herself, the old woman can be said to have fulfilled her wish, she slowly fell asleep with a smile, and the hand holding Yu Ning tightly also let go and fell down.
When the thousands of people saw the tragic death of their leader, they all wept bitterly, and their anger was even greater, and they stood up one after another, looking at the soldiers on the city wall, and their hearts of anger were incomprehensible, and they said angrily: "You people who have no heavenly reason, you don't care whether we live or die, and you want to kill us, what kind of bullshit soldiers are you, you all get out of this Qing Zhou City, and don't persecute us anymore." ”
Seeing that the people were surging with emotion, it was obvious that he was going to gather a crowd to rebel, so he hurriedly said: "Shoot arrows, shoot these chaotic people to death, and leave no one behind!" ”
After the soldiers received the order, they trembled and pulled their bows and arrows and aimed them at these people, but for some reason, every soldier who drew the bow did not dare to release the arrow, as if this arrow would become a murderer who would lose his conscience, not to mention that these people more or less had some soldiers who knew each other, how could they bear to kill these relatives of their own?
"Shoot, kill, you ungrateful and unreasonable guys, you have forgotten who gave birth to you, who raised you, here are your parents, your brothers and sisters, if you want to kill us, kill us, God will punish you." Many of the people shouted so loudly.
As a result, the situation became more chaotic, and the soldiers were even more reluctant to shoot arrows, for they were afraid that if the arrow was shot, their relatives would be killed, and they would not be able to return home in the future, because the sins they had committed were too great to face their families, for fear of disappointing them.
Because no matter how persecuted by that hope and ink, none of them dared to shoot the first arrow, as if whoever shot it would become the greatest sinner in the future.
He drew his whip and threw it at the wrists of the soldiers beside him, whose wrists hurt and could not hold on to them, and the arrows on the bowstring flew out and shot at the people.
Suddenly, the people were even more angry, they couldn't imagine that these soldiers really shot them, they wanted to rush out and fight them to the death, but they were all stopped by Yu Ning, and said: "Everyone calm down, if you are still the son of this Qing Zhou City, please listen to my instructions." ”
The people quieted down and listened to Yu Ning's arrangement.
"When there is a battlefield here, the affairs on the battlefield can be left to me and Shaojun, you can retreat to the rear first, and leave it to us here, please rest assured." Yu Ning said angrily.
"No, we are going to fight with the young prince, we are going to pull down those who persecuted us and avenge our dead relatives." The people's emotions were high, and they couldn't control it for a while.
Seeing this, Qing Zhan hurriedly patted his horse and walked in front of these people, and said: "The rules of the army, everything needs to obey the military order, if you want to contribute, please go to the rear to help, this is also of great help to us, and we, as the commander of the army, if we can't even protect our own people, and we want them to charge into battle, then what are we going to do?" So you have to trust us, can you do it? ”
When the people heard this, they all felt justified, thinking that they were messing around here, but it would make it impossible for the army to fight normally, so it was better to go to the rear to help, so that they could also pay a little effort. The people did not make a noise, but obeyed the Shaojun's arrangement and followed the five soldiers back to the camp.
After the people left, Qingzhan and Tanqi quickly arranged their troops, they had no intention of fighting, but just surrounded the city, and did not start a war, which made Hongwang and Shui Mo feel very surprised, I don't know what kind of calculation they have.
The two also considered taking a preemptive strike and directly opening the city gate to attack it, but they felt that the young monarch was not an ordinary person, if he was rash, he might have fallen into their plan, so they still stood still, just stuck to the city gate.
And Qingzhan let the army retreat a mile back, where the soldiers can rest, originally the ink and wash killed the people angrily just now made them angry, and they really wanted to do a good job, but Shaojun told them to retreat, I don't know what it means? But they didn't have any complaints, they were all obediently ready to rest, and then in the middle of the day, after the food arrived, they were busy filling their stomachs, thinking that after they were full, Shaojun would let them attack, but Shaojun still said to let them rest, and this time he also specially instructed them to sleep heavily, and it was best to snore.
Although the soldiers felt a little ridiculous, they thought that Shaojun's strategy had never been missed, since there must be some mystery in it, so they fell asleep according to their words, and suddenly thousands of soldiers snored loudly, making it like a sleeping ground outside the city.
Those soldiers on the city wall heard the snoring, it was really very strange, I don't know what the other party is doing, the ink is a little anxious, and seeing the other side of the soldiers playing like monkeys, I was annoyed, and wanted to send troops out to attack, but they were all stopped by Hongwang and said: "They did it so obviously, it is clear that they want to lead you to be fooled, you really ran to be fooled, maybe as soon as you go out, I am afraid that the whole army will not come back." ”
That ink thought to himself, this young gentleman's soldier was still vigorous just now, as if he was going to do a big job, but how could he suddenly fall asleep in broad daylight, how could he be so smart and do such a stupid thing, so it must be a trick to lure the enemy, and he can't be easily fooled.
However, Qing Zhan had already calculated the thoughts of Hongwang and Shui Mo, so he deliberately let the soldiers sleep and shout, so that they felt that there was fraud in it, so they did not dare to rush to send troops, and the reason why Qing Zhan wanted to do this was only one purpose, to delay time and wait for the night to come.
As for why they waited, only Yu Ning knew it, but Tanqi, Split, Chengfeng, and Yinyi were all kept in the dark, not knowing what was going on.
However, after thinking about it, Cheng Feng almost guessed their plan, and admired it in his heart, but although he himself guessed it, he didn't talk to anyone, and he was bored, so he leaned on the ground and fell asleep, waiting for a big battle at night.