Chapter Ninety-Seven: The City Is Broken
A basket of improvised bombs did not repel the 100,000-strong Beimang army, but caused relatively large casualties to the Beimang army.
Most of them were casualties caused by the Northern Mang's soldiers stampeding each other while dodging bombs.
When there are no more bombs to throw at the head of the city, the bloody blade fight really begins.
When the city was broken, there were less than 100 soldiers of the Baiyun Kingdom who could stand, and they were all dripping with blood, and they couldn't tell whose blood it was.
The knives and guns in his hands have long been curled or broken, and can only be used as burning sticks.
Zhong Lishuang took his only subordinates, fought his way out of the bloody road with a fierce force, and retreated into the Huiyan Mountains under the heavy pursuit of the Northern Mang's soldiers.
The pursuing Beimang people did not chase and kill when they saw the people running into the mountains, but returned to Luokou City to rob the treasure.
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The empty Luokou City has long been empty, and valuable things have long been taken away by the people.
The Beimang people, who had nowhere to vent, set fire everywhere in the city, and an ancient border pass city with a history of hundreds of years was burned to ruins.
Zhong Lishuang, who retreated into the mountains and forests, counted the soldiers who followed, and there were only fifteen people left.
Including him, all of them are wounded, with no food, no medicine and nowhere to go, which is their predicament at this time.
The army is defeated and the city is broken, and if you go back according to the law of the dynasty, you will die, and it will drag down your family.
"Whatever you have planned, tell me and listen!" Zhongli looked at the smoke-billowing Luokou City Road under the mountain.
Fortunately, all the people in the city were evacuated, although they were a little chilling, but they also caused many innocent lives.
Zhong Lishuang became more and more determined to take off the brilliance on his body and become an ordinary person from now on.
"General, I'll go wherever you go!" Ma Yuandao, whose face was dripping blood.
"General, I am willing to die with you!
If you go back, you will die, it is better to wander the rivers and lakes from now on and be a person who is happy to take revenge. "Guarding Qu Xingjin said.
"General, I don't want to work for the court anymore, the saint is incompetent today, and he doesn't sympathize with the suffering of the people at all.
We have guarded the border for many years, and we have not even returned home once, and our salaries are even more intermittent.
If the general hadn't taken us to threshk grass, our family would have starved to death eight hundred times.
Not to mention this war that lasted for more than two months, Yunze Mansion and the imperial court did not reinforce a single soldier or food. "General Pingde is righteous.
"General, Luokou City is afraid that it has been abandoned by Yunze Mansion long ago, so he is waiting to make a fuss about us.
We're gone, and we're going to be accused of running away.
Maybe none of the seriously injured who returned to Yunze Mansion could be saved. Lin Li said in a deep voice.
"If you want to go back to Yunze Mansion, take Xizhao Town to Ping'an Village, which is the fastest way back to Yunze Mansion.
If you are willing to go back to Yunze Mansion or other places, we will say goodbye. ”
Zhongli Shuang took off the broken armor on his body and threw it on the ground, wearing this thing in the hot weather, he could cover the prickly heat all over his body.
The sweat soaked the wound and the pain was scorching, and since he wanted to take off this identity, he would no longer carry this obvious sign.
Zhongli tore a piece of dirty cloth and divided it into strips, temporarily wrapping the wounds on his arms and legs so that he would not bleed too much and die.
Zhong Lishuang believed that as long as he entered the mountain, he would be able to find medicine to heal his wounds.
At this time, you can only heal your injuries and then try to find a place to go.
The big city can't be set foot in a short period of time, and it is inevitable that he will have to change his identity to walk outside in the future, and he just hasn't shown his face in front of people.
"General, are you really not going back? Do you want the lives of your brothers? ”
Lin Li looked at Zhong Lishuang in disbelief, although the victorious general in his mind was young, he was a good general who loved soldiers.
There were a few generals who were able to send the seriously wounded to the back city before the big battle, and the entire Baiyun Kingdom could not find one.
Even those great generals who raised private soldiers, it was impossible for them to disperse their forces before the decisive battle.
"I've done everything I can for them, and it's up to them to survive or not.
Life can only be called a real person if it is in one's own hands. ”
Zhong Lishuang didn't have the foolish idea of exchanging his own life for someone else's.
Carrying his half-cut iron gun, he sank into the mountains and forests.
Ma Yuan, Pu Wu, Luo Haotang, Ping Deyi, and Qu Xingjin followed without hesitation.
Because they neither want to die nor drag down their families, and there may be a way out for them to follow the general.
The remaining ten people stood in place, hesitating, not knowing what to do.
In the end, Zhongjun's thoughts and worries about his family made them choose to return to Yunze Mansion to report the news.
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When the news of the destruction of Luokou City reached Yunze Mansion, the Beimang army, which had burned and looted all the way, had already approached the city.
Yunze Mansion, where the city gate was closed, gathered 50,000 soldiers and horses to garrison here.
The eunuchs and wealthy families who got the news at the first time quickly fled from Yunze Mansion.
As soon as this group of people left, the gates of the north and south were closed, and no one was allowed to go out.
On the main streets of the city, several joint announcements of the Lord of Futai and the general defending the city were posted.
The young and middle-aged men in the city were conscripted on the spot, and men between the ages of 18 and 50 without disabilities all went to the city to resist the enemy.
A man of appropriate age who is talented and famous can be exempted from military service, but he has to pay 20 taels of silver.
Every household in the city also has to donate food and materials.
All the materials needed to defend the city must be donated free of charge.
As soon as this order came out, the people in the city complained, but they couldn't resist the bright sword.
In the end, the people of Luokou City, who could only obediently pay the required materials and were scraped a layer of ground, only then did they understand how merciful General Chang Sheng was to them.
However, at the most critical moment, they abandoned the victorious general and fled the city.
In the north, there was a lot of wolf smoke, and a large number of refugees who fled the famine and deserted the army flocked to Yundu, and some people took the south to the Jiangfu Plain.
The capital of a country is the safest place for most people, and the Son of Heaven can always earn a way to survive under his feet.
The civilians whose lives are as cheap as mustard in troubled times pin their only hope on the high Son of Heaven.
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The head of the city of Yunze Mansion.
Shi Gang and a group of seriously wounded people supported each other, and suddenly stood at the front of the city, followed by a group of soldiers of Yunze Mansion with bows.
Shi Gang and the seriously injured looked tragic, looking at the Beimang army under the city, Shi Gang actually showed a relieved smile.
"General, the last general will accompany you immediately!"
Shi Gang, who did not want to be a shield, fell face down and fell down the city wall without any struggle.
The seriously wounded who supported each other followed Shi Gang together by crawling or climbing over or planting on the ground.
A group of soldiers who thought they would be able to get reasonable treatment when they returned to Yunze Mansion, but they didn't get anything.
After learning the news that the city was broken and the general and all the soldiers were martyred, he was in pain.
In the end, they could not escape the fate of being forced to be a target in the city, and a group of iron-blooded men followed their comrades who died in battle with disappointment and tragedy.
Ten Lin Li, who had time to enter the city in the future, hid in the distance and saw his seriously injured comrades commit suicide and die.
What loyalty, patriotism, and family are all in vain, and I just want to grow two more legs, far away from this evil Yunze Mansion.
The ten people quietly left the place where they were, and returned the same way into the Huiyan Mountain Range.
wanted to catch up with the traces of Zhongli Shuang's six people, but there was no way to find it for a while, and the ten people could only find a place to heal their injuries first, and then try to plan the next road.