Chapter 60: Killing

Immediately following the Gangfeng camp across the river was Zhang Ding's Perak camp.

According to the predetermined plan, the Perak camp walked off the pontoon bridge and went directly around the north gate, and went straight to the east gate of Shaanzhou Mansion to set up camp, camping against the water, and replacing Gu Baisong's 100 horse team. Zhang Ding led an auxiliary army of 1,500 people, unloaded the grain and grass materials from the cart, and began to build lookouts, dig trenches, set up horses to resist horses, and erect fences in the north, west, and south directions...... Because the area to be defended is not large, in less than half an hour, it looks like the camp is already in shape.

The next to cross the river were Gao Tengdou's three flying beast battalions and Guan Shengyun's pro-army Breaking Sky Battalion. When they landed, they simply assembled in a group behind the Gangfeng battalion and then drove a short distance south. Wait until the whole army is in the rear, You Futian's Nutao battalion lands on the shore to take over the defense of the Gangfeng battalion, and at the same time, it is also necessary to wait for Gu Baisong to drive the people to the city, and the large army will enter the main offensive position in the south of the city. You Futian was in charge of the defense of the West Gate, and on the shore was the Nutao Battalion to replace Gu Baihua to block the gate, and the Tianyi Battalion in the Qinglong Stream was the backup strategy.

The north gate of Shaanzhou Mansion facing the Yellow River is empty and unenclosed. Guan Shengyun and Luo Yonghao wished that the officers and soldiers in the city would run from the north gate - in front of them was the Yellow River, which had a huge drop and turbulent current, not to mention the boats, even if they threw a plank in the river, they would be swept under the water by the torrent here, and it was completely impossible to cross the river. There are defenses on the shore in the west water, besides, even if You Futian is scrapped, drilling into the ancient road of dozens of miles is a dead end, if you go around to the east, you need to first break through the defense line north of Zhang Ding's camp, and then break through the headquarters of the Perak camp, and then break through the defense line in the south again...... Well, well, even if Hongnongwei has such open-minded combat power, then he will hit the three flying beast camps of Gao Tengdou who have been waiting for a long time!

At this moment, Shaanzhou City has become an isolated island in the encirclement of the iron wall - it is hopeless to break through, the only question is to see if Guan Shengyun's teeth are hard enough to gnaw off this fat bone.

In the blink of an eye, a large number of people had poured into the city, and those in front were crying and beating with their fists, clapping with their palms, scratching with their fingernails, and banging against the closed gates with their shoulders, while those behind continued to squeeze forward and push. The individuals in the crowd are so small that they are completely incapacitated, like a lonely boat in the sea, moving left and right in the irregular direction of the crowd, and people are desperately trying to keep themselves on their feet: as long as they stumble and fall, they will be trampled on the soles of their feet by a pair of big feet around them, and they will no longer be able to struggle until the end of their lives.

Manpower could not shake the heavy city gate, and the people along the wall on both sides began to trample on each other and crawl towards the city, at this moment, driven by the fear of the unknown, the frightened people have fallen into a state of collective unconscious madness, and almost no one will think about a common sense: the three-foot-high city wall is impossible to climb by means of human ladders!

According to the figures in the household register of the state government, there are more than 3,000 households in the south of the city. However, because Shaanzhou Mansion is located at the transportation hub, inns, restaurants, tailor shops, carriage and horse shops, teahouses, foot shops and other service industries are very developed, and there are more people who have not been registered by the government, with a total population of more than 40,000. Ma Wensheng's reason had already been overwhelmed by great fear, and when he saw the surging crowd coming overwhelmingly, he suddenly felt that he was in danger.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Get them all out of the way! Ma Wensheng stared at his blood-red eyes and hissed through gritted teeth and ordered.

"Master Ma, I can't help it!" Jing Xiangshan roared angrily, "These are all people! What does God entrust you and me? Defending the land and the people, our duty lies, the people just want to flee for their lives, how can they kill in vain?! ”

"You talk nonsense! How do you know that they are all people, and what should you do if there are thieves who sneak in and take advantage of the chaos to enter the city? Besides, the thieves are going to attack the city, they," as he spoke, Marven pointed angrily at the chaotic crowd below the city, "they are clearly helping the thieves!" Give me arrows! ”

Wang Jian knew that in front of these civil officials, it would not be his turn to speak as a small martial artist, but if he really wanted to obey the order to shoot the people who were climbing the city for help, he really couldn't do it for a while, so he could only deal with the snake and ordered: "Knock on the Bangzi to warn, remove the arrow clusters and release the arrows, and disperse the crowd!" ”

The sound of a dense bang sounded at the head of the city, and the chief and chief non-commissioned officers took out the arrows used for reporting and communication from the quiver (the arrow shaft was tied with a bamboo whistle), knocked out the clusters of arrows, and shot them in the air, and the archers and ordinary soldiers who were not equipped with arrows waved and shouted at the same time to signal to the people under the city to leave.

However, the sound of bangzi and a limited number of arrows whirring through the air was quickly drowned out in the hustle and bustle of tens of thousands of people, even if the people in front heard it, they were crowded by the huge force from all directions, and they couldn't hold back at all, and the crowd continued to surge, squeezing in the direction of the city, and the wailing and crying for help were higher and higher.

Gu Baisong's cavalry team stopped two or three arrows away from the city wall, sparsely opened a half-arc cordon, and coldly reined in his horse to look at all this in front of him, maintaining a high degree of vigilance.

On the wall, Ma Wensheng continued to roar: "Such a death row prisoner, this is a bloodless and undead heart!" Shoot me! Hurry up and release the arrows! ”

Wang Jian cried with a sad face and said with a hard face: "My lord, we are the official army, we are the official army!" ”

snapped, and hit Ma Wensheng with a big mouth on his face: "Dog material!" The officers and soldiers will kill the thieves! Aren't these wall climbers thieves? If you deliberately indulge again, you will be a gang of thieves, and this official will behead your whole family according to the theory of thieves! ”

Pan Ding, Jing Xiangshan and others looked at the hysterical Ma Wensheng in amazement, Wang Jian covered his face, looked at the two, saw that no one said anything, lowered his head, closed his eyes and waved his hand to the city......

The screams were followed by the sound of arrows breaking through the air, and the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers also picked up smaller bricks and stones as much as possible and threw them down the city.

They are helpless, they are sad, they are angry...... However, there is nothing they can do about this catastrophe! The habit of long-standing drove the vast majority of them to weep, to kneel down to the head of the city with their knees limp, to stretch out their hands in despair, and to cry and pray for mercy that they would never get, until they or those near them were shot and struck......

Due to the structural design of the Ming Dynasty's military system itself, most of the soldiers were not good people, however, to shoot at the people, except for a few people with serious psychological distortions, although they did not get a clear order, most of them still couldn't bear it, and often took a half-string method, and it was also a diffuse without aiming, and the slingers did not do a probe attack, but just picked some small pieces of masonry and blindly threw them out through the wall - however, the crowd was too dense, and the target was the thinly clothed people, even so, In the blink of an eye, two or three hundred people were still hit by arrows or smashed in the head and bleeding, the dead fell on the spot, and the wounded struggled and wailed at the feet of the crowd.

Seeing the indiscriminate attack of throwing stones and bows and arrows in front of the city, the people behind did not dare to crowd forward anymore, the huge impetus of the crowd disappeared, and the people who knelt on the ground saw that there was no hope of asking for help, and there were still sparse arrows falling down in the city, and finally someone understood: there were high walls and arrows in front, and thieves and guns in the back, more and more people simply sat down, pointed at the city and scolded desperately - yes, they don't hate thieves, those are thieves! They poured out their anger and hatred on the city: in a sense, they were right to do so—the thieves had just driven them away from their homes, while the government that was supposed to protect them had slaughtered hundreds of lives in broad daylight!

What's wrong with them?

To the west of the crowd, outside the cavalry cordon, Guan Shengyun's main force walked silently. The auxiliary team began civil engineering work behind the crowd, and in less than an hour, it completed a solid and huge defensive line that ran through the east and west of the south of the city—there were ready-made village dwellings to live in, and the auxiliary team only needed to build fortifications, and did not need to waste time building barracks, so it was very efficient.

Finally, the crowd under the city began to move: they left the city wall for about a hundred paces, avoided the range of bows and arrows to the west, leaned against the bank of the Qinglongjian River, and in the southwest corner of the city wall, the open space between the three flying beast camps of Gao Tengdou and the two fortifications of You Futian's Nutao camp temporarily stopped. It's not small, but it's still crowded, but it's the only place they can stay safely, at least for now.

Ma Wensheng in the city finally breathed a sigh of relief and laughed dryly: "Well done, the first battle was a big victory!" The official immediately drafted the recital and asked for credit for you. Everyone cheered up, and the great achievements in defending the city were rewarded," and then added viciously, "Those who dare to relax and slack off will correct the Fa on the spot!" ”

Then, he pointed to several subordinates: "Lord Pan, Lord Jing, Wang Yanshi, you pay close attention to the movements of the thieves, defend the city separately, and don't be careless." The official first went to patrol the city. With that, he ran down the city wall in a puff of smoke.

The three people on the wall looked at each other: this is to kill the people who fled over, the thieves have not attacked the city at all, where did they come from? Patrolling the city? The strong enemy is waiting, the patrol city is not on the city wall, you run to the city to patrol a hammer?

Soon, everyone on the south gate upstairs understood—there was a faint sound of Lord Ma's angry scolding from the direction of the city gate below: "You class of death row prisoners! The official wants to block the door, and he has to use a stone! These pieces of rubble have a! What, can't find it? Bastard! Go pry the steps! Baolun Temple, Confucian Temple, and State Ya, don't they all have ready-made? Drag it over and hold the gates! Don't have an ox cart? Go find it yourself and drag it out! Whoever doesn't give it is a thief......"

On this day, Guan Shengyun's army did not rush to launch an attack, completed the predetermined plan to encircle Shaanzhou and arranged for the guard troops on duty, and the main force rested on the spot outside the city. Around the time of Shen, the officers of each battalion gathered at Guan Shengyun's command post, a large restaurant in the south of the city, for a military discussion before launching a formal attack.