Chapter 1179 Shouchun City
The unexpected march route took advantage of the arrogance of the Shouchun defenders and the cover of the early summer fog.
The Wu army who made a surprise attack suddenly appeared outside Shouchun City, catching the defenders and people of Shouchun City off guard.
Especially the people and soldiers crowded at the gate, they have no vision of the defenders at the top of the city.
Hearing the siren, the soldier's expression changed and he subconsciously looked into the distance.
But the people were at a loss and didn't know why.
Even some people were in a hurry to get out of the city and entered the city, so they didn't even notice the alarm from the city head.
The first city gate soldier to react subconsciously shouted:
“Wu people! Thieves! Wu bandits are coming!”
The city gate official was shocked by the roar from the people below, and finally reacted:
“Spread out, spread out quickly!”
The panic of the soldiers at the city gate was like a plague, and it finally spread to everyone who came in and out.
With the people queuing up outside the city gate, many were so frightened that their legs were weak and they were so scared that they didn't know what to do.
The rest of them subconsciously rushed towards the city gate.
“The thief is coming!”
“Wu Kou!”
“Run away!”
…
The situation outside the city gate suddenly became chaotic.
The people inside the city gate have not yet realized what happened.
Some people saw that the exit was blocked and they were still cursing:
“Why are you squeezing? You are in a hurry to find death!”
“Wu Kou, Wu Kou is coming!”
A man, relying on his physical strength, fought his way through the exit and squeezed in while shouting:
“Get back quickly, get back to the city quickly!”
"What?"
“The Wu thief is here!”
More and more sounds came from outside the city, and more and more people began to pour into the city, finally pushing back the crowds who were blocked in the city and preparing to go out.
A frail woman was unable to stand, staggered and fell.
“Amu!”
A man who was pushed away by the crowd stretched out his arms and screamed.
But at this time, everyone was thinking about rushing towards the city. No matter how hard the man tried, he was still being pushed back by the crowd.
He watched helplessly as his mother fell to the ground and tried to get up.
I don’t know whose foot kicked her at once, then the second one, then the third one...
The woman who was only half propped up was kicked over by continuous kicks and fell to the ground again.
Then more and more feet stepped on her body.
“Amu!”
The man's eyes were red, but he could only watch the blood on the woman's face.
She stretched out her hand again and again, wanting to get up.
But he was kicked down again and again.
…
Mass stampedes began to appear.
Compared to the people who were anxious to take refuge in the city, the Wei army officers and soldiers at the city gate were even more anxious than they were.
“Get out of the way, get out of the way quickly!”
The city gate officer kept swinging his sword with his scabbard, trying to separate the resisting people.
However, compared with the people who were densely blocking the city gate and trying to escape into the city as early as possible, the dozen or so Wei soldiers at the city gate were like a few drops of water in a barrel.
"kill!"
Wu Jun's first soldier has already stepped onto the suspension bridge of the moat, his eyes filled with slightly crazy excitement.
Da Wu’s expansion of territory this time will be completed by them!
The terrified Wei people at the city gate made them feel extremely familiar.
The people of Wei in Shouchun are no different from those who were plundered at the border!
“Close the city gate, send someone quickly to close the city gate!”
The guard who came over after hearing the news immediately saw the situation at the city gate, and then saw the Wu army getting closer and closer. His eyes were about to burst, and he shouted loudly.
“General, we can’t close it!”
The Wei troops guarding the city were not fools, they had already tried it.
“There are too many people at the city gate, and the city gate cannot be lowered at all!”
“Then disperse them!”
“The comrades outside the city cannot squeeze into the city. There are not enough people outside the city gate to stop the people at all..."
“Traitor!”
Looking at the people who were being driven over by Wu Kou, the guard resentfully chopped his knife on the city head.
"General, the Wu thieves are doing fine things! The common people are doing fine things!"
A sharp-eyed soldier pointed at the crowd at the city gate and said, "Look, our man has been stabbed!"
Hearing this, the guard quickly looked around.
Sure enough, at some point, a Wu thief dressed as a commoner suddenly opened his coat, pulled out a hidden white blade, and took advantage of the chaos to stab the city gate officers who were trying to bring order.
At this time, who would have expected that the panicked people around him would turn against them?
The city gate official looked at Wu Jun Xizuo in disbelief, and opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, or maybe he wanted to remind him, but he could no longer say anything.
The life in the body is being lost at an extremely fast rate.
The cries that were so close at hand also became distant.
Everything becomes blurry…
Without the restraint of the soldiers outside the city, the people became more and more crazy.
"The thieves want to imitate the old events in Jingzhou and seize the city in white clothes?"
Tian Yu, who came a step late, looked extremely gloomy, and veins popped out in the hand holding the handle of the knife.
Even though he has experienced many hardships, he also finds the things before him extremely difficult.
On the contrary, it was the guard who arrived one step ahead of him and who dared to make up his mind.
But seeing the guard's eyes flashing with a stern look, he said sternly:
“Come here, shoot arrows, shoot arrows at the city gate!”
Hearing this, Tian Yu turned around in disbelief and looked at the guard:
“General Yang, what did you say?!”
Wang Ling nominally asked Tian Yu to guard Shouchun, but how could he really hand over Shouchun to Tian Yu?
During this trip south, he not only took away most of the Runan soldiers brought by Tian Yu, leaving only a thousand Runan soldiers for Tian Yu.
At the same time, he also asked his confidant Yang Hong to lead another army to stay in Shouchun.
On the surface, he was assisting Tian Yu in defending the city. In fact, Yang Hong was the real commander of Wang Ling's troops in Shouchun.
But seeing Yang Hong's eyes turned red, he said to Tian Yu word by word:
“I said, shoot the arrow!”
“General Tian, if you don’t make a decisive decision and continue to allow the city gate to be in such chaos, the Wu invaders will surely follow the people into the city.”
“Shouchun is an important town in Yangzhou. Once it is lost, not to mention Hefei, I am afraid that the entire Jianghuai River will fall into the hands of the Wu invaders.”
"It may even endanger Xuchang," Yang Hong stared at Tian Yu and asked, "General Tian, can you afford such a big thing?"
Tian Yu is no more than the prefect of Runan, and he has no more than a thousand soldiers under his command. He came here just to follow orders.
Unlike the Wu army who went to Qingzhou to intercept the Wu army returning from Liaodong a few years ago, he had a scepter given by the emperor to control the armies.
So he could not instruct Shouchun's defenders at all.
“Fire the arrow, what are you still waiting for?”
After Yang Hong questioned Tian Yu, he turned around and shouted to Wei Bing, who was hesitant to draw his bow.
“锵!”
But he saw Yang Hong pull out his command sword: "Whoever dares to disobey the command will be killed!"
“Puff!”
The screams of misery arose, mixed with the calls for help and cries, forming a miserable song of **** on earth in troubled times.
“Save us…”
Some of the people below raised their heads and kept shouting and praying: "We are not small workers, we are the people of Wei..."
The answer to them was denser arrow feathers.
An iron arrow hit him mercilessly in the face, causing his voice to suddenly stop.
Tian Yu gritted his teeth and watched the people falling down, and the ground at the city gate turned blood red.
He finally couldn't control his emotions.
"ah!"
He suddenly drew his sword and struck it **** the city head. He looked up to the sky and shouted with tears streaming down his face.
I don’t know whether I am shouting incompetently or shouting about the difficulties of the world.
“General Tian is too tired, send General Tian down to rest!”
Yang Hong was startled by Tian Yu's outburst, but when he saw that the other party made no next move, he calmed down and gave an order.
Tian Pengzu, the son of Tian Yu, has been following his master, seeing everything in front of him, and then hearing Yang Hong's instructions.
He didn’t wait for others to take action, so he quickly stepped forward, supported Tian Yu, and whispered:
“Sir, it’s useless for us to stay here, so let’s go down first.”
Tian Yu sighed and closed his eyes without saying a word.
Tian Pengzu half supported and half pulled him, and together with several personal guards, he sent Tian Yu down to the top of the city.
Before they had gone far, they heard a sudden "boom" behind them.
Turning around to look, it turned out that several waves of arrow feathers were shot down, resulting in a large number of casualties and deaths, which finally stopped the people from rushing into the city.
Shuchun's city gate was barely able to fall before the Wu army rushed to it.
The last scene Tian Yu saw outside the city was that Wu Jun chopped down several unarmed people, and arrows continued to fall from the top of the city.
He closed his eyes again in pain.
Like a zombie, Tian Yu was carried away by his son for an unknown amount of time without opening his eyes.
“If I had known today, why would I have left Liu Xuande back then?”
Tian Pengzu was the closest, and when he heard his master's words, his body was shocked.
"grown ups?!"
Tian Yu closed his eyes and murmured:
"When I was young, I entrusted myself to Liu Xuande, who also treated me very kindly..."
Probably remembering what happened in his early years, Tian Yu showed a look of extreme regret on his face:
“How great would it be if I could follow Zhao Zilong’s example and travel thousands of miles to find Liu Xuande?”
In my early years, I thought that only Cao Mengde could bring peace to the world.
Therefore, even though Cao Mengde massacred the city many times, he still persuaded himself in his heart that this was a last resort in order to pacify the world as soon as possible.
Who would have expected that the current situation in the world would become increasingly difficult to understand.
Even developing in the opposite direction of what I thought back then.
Especially when he was guarding the border areas, he repeatedly defeated the barbarians and kept the border officials in peace during the chaos in the Central Plains. He thought he had done something good.
But compared with Ji Han's method of governing the Hu people, it is not worth mentioning.
How satisfying would it be to be able to live in Jihan, ride horses across the desert, and conquer the barbarians?
How is it like being in Wei State, being squeezed out by Wang Xiong in Youzhou, being squeezed out by Cheng Xi in Qingzhou, and being squeezed out by Wang Ling in Yangzhou...
And every time he is squeezed out, he is the one who suffers.
Tian Yu suddenly realized that he seemed to have been on the wrong path for most of his life.
Not only was the choice wrong, but the action was also meaningless.
The seventy-year-old veteran was deeply hit, as if his faith had collapsed, his energy and energy seemed to be suddenly drained, and he lost his spirit.
"grown ups?"
Seeing that his master was getting more and more depressed, Tian Pengzu asked again worriedly.
“I’m fine.”
Tian Yu shook his head, "Help me go back."
When they arrived at the temporary residence, Tian Yu said to Tian Pengzu, "After this battle, I will write to the court to beg for the bones, retire and return to my hometown."
When Tian Pengzu heard this, he was immediately stunned: "Sir, this..."
Just when he saw the appearance of your Excellency, he remembered the scene at the top of the city, and then thought of the unfair treatment that Your Excellency had received over the years.
Finally nodded:
“What the Lord says is what it is.”
After a pause, he asked again:
“Sir, what should we do now?”
Tian Yu seemed to have recovered, and he said in a calm tone:
“Naturally, they tried their best to defend the city. Although Yang Hong regarded human life as nothing when he shot and killed the people, if the Wu invaders were allowed to enter the city, they would probably act like animals.”
Although he couldn't stand what Yang Hong did at the city gate, Tian Yu had to admit that this move was to kill the people at the city gate and save the people in the whole city.
He is not qualified to comment on what is right or wrong.
Perhaps no one is wrong, it’s just that the world is wrong.
As a young man, he wanted to assist Cao Mengde to change the world as soon as possible, so he chose Cao Mengde.
Now it seems that this idea is a bit too naive.
The general trend of the world is surging, but who dares to say that they have the ability to change it?
At this time, Tian Yu was old, short-minded and disheartened.
“You lead one thousand troops from Runan and go to the city to report to General Yang and assist him in defending the city.”
Tian Yu waved his hand, "Don't worry about me, go quickly."
Seeing that there was really nothing serious to do, Tian Pengzu accepted the order and left.
At this time, the arrow rain from the top of the city still had no intention of stopping.
A large number of people were killed and injured at the city gate. Wu Guoxizuo, who was mixed in, was also shot by the rain of arrows fired from the city wall without distinguishing between friend and foe.
Only a few were lucky enough to sneak into the city gate and try to **** the winch, but were hacked to death by the swarming Wei army.
The remaining people, as long as they could still walk, had no way to move forward, and there were Wu bandits behind them, so they all tried their best to run to both sides.
Those who ran slowly were initially thought to be in the way by Wu Jun, who chopped down some of them.
But he watched helplessly as the city gate, which was just a little bit in his grasp, suddenly closed at the critical moment.
Made Quan Xu (the son of the Grand Governor Quan Cong) and Quan Duan (the son of Quan Cong) who were leading the surprise attack furious.
With such a huge achievement taken away from his hands, how could Wu Jun let go of the people who couldn't run far, and then turned around and drove those people back - at least it would be considered a little interest.
Facing the rain of arrows at the top of the city, the two men finally had no choice but to retreat with their troops and start setting up camp.
Half an hour later, Quan Cong arrived with the main force of the Wu army.
"grown ups!"
"uncle!"
Quan Xu and Quan Duan came to Quan Cong with shame on their faces.
Quan Cong, who was riding on the horse, had no intention of dismounting. He said "hmm" and did not look at them. He just looked at Shouchun not far away silently.
“Sir, this child is incompetent, please punish me.”
Quan Cong then looked back and saw the two people kneeling in front of the horse, and said calmly:
“You two are incompetent leaders and should be dealt with according to military law, but the most important thing right now is to break the city as soon as possible.”
"It's time to recruit men in the army. If I punish you first, it will delay the siege, so I write it down first."
“If you are unable to achieve success in the subsequent siege of the city, you will be punished for both crimes.”
The two of them responded quickly: "Here!"
On the other hand, Zhang Xiu and Gu Tan, who were following Quan Cong, saw Quan Duanming's failure and were dismissed in an understatement.
The two couldn't help but look at each other, and both saw dissatisfaction in the other's eyes.
With such a good opportunity this time, if we can really succeed in seizing the city gate, it will be a great achievement.
As the Grand Governor, Quan Cong did not act impartially, but took the opportunity to give this opportunity to his son and servants.
I didn’t expect that these two people were so unlucky and missed the opportunity.
And Quan Cong was not punished at all.
What is this if not favoritism?
It's just that Quan Cong is the commander-in-chief of the army. Not only does he have a high position, he is also His Majesty's son-in-law.
The two of them have lower status than Quan Cong, and they don't even have a general title. At the moment, they can only bury their dissatisfaction in their hearts.
(End of this chapter)