Chapter 543: Loulan's Calamity
After another quarter of an hour, Nie Ze led his guards to the western city wall.
He came to Xie Xing's side and asked,
"What's going on now?"
"Meet Nie Shuai, the enemy army did not attack the city, but chose to bypass the Yumen Pass, and there are enemy troops in the north and south."
Xie Xing pointed to the city wall and said.
At this time, the enemy's hundreds of thousands of troops had all run over, and only a small number of troops had not yet bypassed the Yumen Pass, which was just a tail.
"There is no siege."
Nie Ze breathed a sigh of relief, he was woken up in the middle of his sleep, he was still a little dazed at this time, but after a while, he eased up.
"The enemy is trying to surround us?"
"I guess, they probably want to cut off our logistical supplies in order to besiege us."
Until now, Xie Xing and Nie Ze had not thought of the enemy's true intentions, and they were still thinking that the other party was trying to surround them.
This is their habitual thinking, when encountering the enemy army around the city, they subconsciously think that the enemy army is going to besiege the city, after all, the long years of Yumen Pass garrison experience, so that they have developed a fixed idea, that is, as long as the Yumen Pass is still there, the enemy army will not be able to hit the rear, because the Yumen Pass defenders will cut off the other party's supply, and the enemy army will be dumplings.
So I didn't think about it at all.
Thinking that the other party was going to besiege the city, the two became more relaxed, feeling that the other party was killing themselves.
At this moment, a soldier ran up quickly and said loudly,
"Qi Qi Nie Shuai, Zhao Long, the commander of the Zhenbei Army, has gathered the Zhenbei Army to go out of the city to chase and kill the enemy army, and it is estimated that he has already killed from the east gate at this time."
Hearing this, Nie Ze's face suddenly became gloomy, and he said angrily,
"This Zhao Long, why don't you obey the military order and fight late at night, what if the enemy army has an ambush, this reckless man!"
The soldier swallowed with difficulty, and said cautiously,
"Marshal, Zhao Shuai asked the villain to help bring you a message."
"What did he say?!"
Nie Ze glared angrily.
"He said, the enemy army still has a fart of logistical supplies, and the enemy army wants to go straight into the hinterland of our country and cause trouble in the rear!"
"What? What do you mean? The enemy is going to go straight into the hinterland? Are they looking for death? Aren't they afraid that we will trap them inside our country? Don't be afraid to cut off their food routes......"
Speaking of this, Nie Ze suddenly stuck out of his throat as if he had swallowed a dead fly, his eyes widened, and his eyes were full of horror.
Xie Xing's eyes were fixed, and he said quickly,
"Nie Shuai, Zhao Long is right, the enemy army still has a fart of logistics supplies, what are they afraid of being blocked in our country.
For them, waiting here is also starving to death, entering our country, they can still loot the people's materials, they can live a few more days, and they can kill some more of our people to retaliate. ”
Nie Ze naturally thought of this, his face was gloomy like water, and he gritted his teeth and said,
"Knowing that they are going to die, these people will inevitably intensify their massacre of our people in retaliation.
The two counties in the east are both fiefdoms of Zhenbeihou, with a combined population of millions, even if you don't count the city, there are hundreds of thousands of farmers outside the city, if they rush in......"
Nie Ze and Xie Xing shuddered in unison.
If it is an ordinary war, the enemy army enters and plunders, and generally few people massacre the people on a large scale, and they all loot the supplies, grain and grass and leave.
But now the situation is different, these hungry enemy troops, knowing that they are certain to die, will inevitably massacre the people in retaliation.
Killing one is enough, killing two blood earns.
The people are not all young and strong, and they are defenseless in front of these wolf-like young and strong troops.
"Beat the drums and assemble the army!"
Nie Ze shouted.
At the head of the city, the soldiers immediately beat the snare drums vigorously, and the dull sound of the snare drums sounded in the silent night inside the Yumen Pass.
Soon, the defenders mobilized in unison, and at this time, there was still the shadow of the enemy around Yumen Pass, and they had all bypassed Yumen Pass and rushed to the east.
Nie Ze's order was to assemble the whole army, and this fast-paced drum beat naturally attracted the attention of those strong people in the city.
Han Yun didn't sleep at all, and after hearing the sound of drums, he got up and left the Zhenbei Hou Mansion as soon as possible, and flew towards the west city wall.
"What's going on?"
Han Yun came to the city wall, saw Nie Ze, and immediately asked straight to the point.
Nie Ze quickly explained the situation, and Han Yun's face changed suddenly when he heard this.
"Master Hou, Zhao Long has already led the Zhenbei Army out of the city......"
Before Nie Ze finished speaking, Han Yun immediately said,
"That's not enough, send all the cavalry in the city, all go out to chase and kill the enemy, in addition, after the elders of the Qi family come over, as well as the three elders of the Heavenly Master Mansion and Pan Dengyan come, immediately let them rush to the east and chase the enemy as much as possible.
The infantry in the city should be assembled first, but do not go out of the city, the enemy country still has 100,000 Hami troops have not been dispatched, if the Hami army takes the opportunity to pursue and kill our cavalry, immediately use the infantry out of the city to destroy them. ”
"Okay."
After Han Yun finished explaining, he immediately got up and flew towards the east, he couldn't watch the people of Dachuan die in the hands of the enemy army for no reason.
However, it was already too late at this point.
The army of the enemy country ran all over the mountains, stretching for dozens of miles, and there was no formation at all, and everyone had only one thought in their hearts, that is, to rush to the east as fast as possible, where there was food.
Yumen Pass is surrounded by desert, but dozens of miles to the east, there are mountainous farmlands, bordering the desert area, not all of which are deserts.
There are also many farmers and hunters, as well as herders.
Because of the topography, the people here are not as concentrated as in the Central Plains, and the houses in the villages are very scattered, and scattered houses and households can be seen everywhere.
However, this also brought great difficulties to the defense work, and it was impossible to quickly assemble the villagers for defense.
The first group of Loulan troops to set off had already arrived in these villages at dawn.
Those people, when they saw the food hoarded by those peasant households and the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep raised in the yard, their eyes turned red in an instant, and they did not care about their fatigue at all, raised their butcher knives, and killed those peasant households.
Suddenly, screams and wails rang out, and the peaceful village was reduced to purgatory on earth.
The cavalry of the Zhenbei Army was stunned that they could not catch up with them, because the Zhenbei Army had caught up with the army behind the enemy army and started to kill.
The Loulan army, which came from behind, saw that the nearest farmer had been occupied by friendly troops, so they continued to run towards the hinterland to the east.
Instead of robbing friendly troops and breaking out into conflicts, it is better to rob those unarmed enemy civilians.
These hundreds of thousands of people, scattered all over the sky, scattered overwhelmingly, and rushed into the homes of the people within a radius of 100 miles.
On this day, hundreds of thousands of people in the western part of Dachuan were killed and wounded, and the losses were heavy.
"The Scourge of Loulan"!!