Chapter 42: The Battle Begins [Chapter 1]
It was so crowded that the mob could no longer throw bricks with their hands and feet.
However, the charge did not stop, for the mob with stabs under its feet was squeezed in or trampled under the feet of the mob like a tide of people behind them.
At this time, the mob was crowded together, there was no room to throw bricks, and the inside of East Street was safer than it was at the beginning.
A savage, primitive slaughter began.
At the beginning, the battlefield was mainly concentrated at the end of Dongjie Street, where the street less than 20 meters wide was densely packed with thousands of people, and the mobs frantically rushed up, and under the huge thrust behind, some mobs actually stepped on people's heads and shoulders to climb up the city wall, as long as they climbed up, the flat hoes on the city wall immediately swarmed up......
Blood splattered.
Murderous boiling.
It was the most savage of battles, with no sharp weapons, no well-trained soldiers, and some honest peasants, whose weapons were hoes, scythes, sticks, and teeth.
Someone kept climbing, someone kept falling, and those who fell were immediately trampled into meat sauce by the tide of people. Those mobs were extremely brave, they were simply not afraid of death, and some of them actually grabbed the weapons stabbed from the city wall out of thin air and pulled the people down the city wall by force. Among them, some powerful mobs actually began to pull the sacks of the city wall with their bare hands.
In the distance, some people began to dismantle houses and make siege tools out of the wood on top of them......
The end of the small East Street has become a hell for the devil, shouting and killing, screaming, shouting, and ringing loudly. At this time, people have forgotten about fear, and are just mechanically fighting, resisting, and attacking with the weapons in their hands.
There were more and more corpses outside the city walls, and under the corpses, the city walls were getting shorter and shorter, and the situation was urgent.
Immediately, someone began to carry food non-stop.
The strength of the large number of people was once again revealed, and in just ten minutes, the city wall at the end of the street increased by more than two meters, reaching five meters as a whole, and the back has been extended into a slope, even if the wall is demolished, it will not collapse.
Injured people are being replaced.
As time passed, the mob began to show signs of fatigue in attacking.
After all, the mob was not a well-trained soldier, they were at first a guard of honor, with a large number of people, with the courage of the moment, the morale was high, and they attacked wildly. In fact, they were cold and hungry one by one, and their physical strength had long been exhausted after a long journey, and the small city wall was not only not destroyed, but as it became higher and higher, the willpower of the mob began to waver, especially the mob in front of them, who were injured under their feet, and the pain was unbearable, and they began to retreat.
The back rushed forward, the front retreated, and soon, the mob that was all united in one heart crowded together, chaotic, and without the sharpness of the beginning.
"The Ma family has more food, everyone go to the Ma family!"
"Yes, yes, the Ma family is in the west of the bridge, we can go around it......"
“......”
At the moment when the battle was at a stalemate, suddenly, someone shouted in the crowd, and some people echoed, and the mob, which had been in turmoil because of the long-term attack, immediately retreated like a tide and rushed into those alleys.
It came and went as fast as it came, and in just a dozen minutes, thousands of mobs disappeared without a trace, leaving rubble and corpses and wailing wounded everywhere.
Zhao Yuan and the city climbed the city wall, and in front of them was a devastation, in addition to rubble, corpses and wounded, there was also a mess of weapons.
In just one hour of fighting, the end of Dongjie Street has become a ruin, and countless houses on the other side have been demolished, the walls are broken, and some houses are still rising black smoke.
Wanjia also paid a heavy price.
Twenty-seven people were killed, 56 were seriously injured and some were slightly injured. The main cause of Wanjia's deaths and serious injuries was the first wave of brick attacks, because Wanjia was not wary of the mob using flying bricks as an attack weapon, and some workers were caught off guard and were directly killed by the flying bricks.
"Thank you, Zhao Yuan. Looking at the messy end of Dongjie, the frightened Chen breathed a long sigh of relief and finally got through the crisis.
Zhao Yuan waved his hand at the people around him and motioned for them to go down.
"Madame, there is a very important matter for you to decide now. After the workers left the city wall, Zhao Yuan said with a serious face.
Say. ”
"Excuse me, does the Ma family have a deep hatred with the Wan family?" Zhao Yuan's gaze was extremely deep.
"Ma Jia...... This is not true, it is generally a commercial competition, although the Ma family is a little despicable and shameless, but it does not exceed the duty of a businessman. Chen hesitated for a moment and said.
"Well, the Ma family is now inexorable, I don't know what Mrs. Lu Dao's plans are?"
"Why do you say this, please say it directly!" Chen Shi frowned and looked at Zhao Yuan.
"Madam, the Ma family and the Wan family are competing in Xujiaqiao, and no one can dominate, and in fact, this is a good thing, because with the Ma family, the Wan family will not be lazy. ”
"You mean that it is the Ma family that is spurring the Wanjia family forward?"
"Yes, of course, that's not the most important thing. With the Ma family here, Wanjia can do business with peace of mind in Xujiaqiao, and the relationship between the Ma family and Wanjia is really a cold relationship. ”
"Dead lips and cold teeth...... ...... lips and teeth cold," Chen muttered in a low voice, "What do you mean?"
"I think that Mrs. can rescue the Ma family now, of course, the timing of the rescue needs to be grasped, not only to play a role in warning the Ma family, but also not to let the Ma family collapse, and after the Wan family rescues, you can use this to ease relations with the Ma family, and you can also establish a spiritual leadership position in Xujiaqiao. Mrs. thinks about it, if after this disaster, the prestige of the Wanjia family will rise in a straight line, and the people of Xujiaqiao will definitely look forward to the Wanjia family, if there is anything in the future, as long as the Wanjia raises their arms and shouts, they will definitely gather. ”
"Why are you so merciful all of a sudden?" Chen asked suddenly.
"......" Zhao Yuan was stunned, and he didn't know how to answer this question.
In fact, Zhao Yuan didn't think about it so much, he just wanted to spend this cruel winter quietly, and the demise of the Ma family, the first family of Xujiaqiao, was obviously not conducive to the stability of Xujiaqiao.
Theoretically, to protect the Ma family is to protect yourself.
Of course, the deeper reason Zhao Yuan didn't realize that he didn't want the tragedy of their Zhao family's extinction to be repeated in the Ma family.
"Okay, according to what you mean, after so many years, I have been fighting with the Ma family, recall, there is no deep hatred, Ziyu said, to be a man must stand up to the sky and the earth, worthy of his conscience. Let's just let the Ma family go once. ”
"Madam, the master is really far-sighted, he is a person who cultivates the truth, and naturally knows the role of the Ma family in ten thousand families, otherwise, with the power of the master, the Ma family can be leveled overnight. ”
"Hehe, I didn't expect you to have only been in Wanjia for three months, and you have such a thorough understanding of the master's heart, I have shared the bed with the master for decades, but I don't know what the master of the road thinks in his heart, ashamed and ashamed...... Well, you say, how to rescue the Ma family?"
"Now that the mob has lost its spirit, and they have now dispersed into small units, we only need to open the walls at both ends of East Street, divide the troops into two ways, one way into the alley at the east end to chase down the lone mob, rescue those residents who have not evacuated, and protect their property; ......”
"And then?"
"Take advantage of the victory and pursue, chase and kill all the way, and break up the ranks of the mob. We must let those mobs know that they are afraid, let them know how powerful Xujiaqiao is, and only by letting the news spread that Xujiaqiao can live a quiet winter!"
"Okay, good idea, our Xujiaqiao, our Wanjia, is by no means a place for them to come and go whenever they want!" Chen's dignified face showed a rare hint of domineering.
"Ma'am, let's get moving, it should be about the same by now. ”
"Well, you're in charge. ”
"Yes, ma'am. ”
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