Chapter 213 Waiting for the Rabbit

The bustling crowd is everywhere, just like a market, blocking the road to death.

A piece of news came from the north that the North Gate had been breached, and the landlords and gentry were immediately anxious. They know that no matter who comes in, they are the object of suffering. If they come in, they will rob their property, and if they come in, they will not let them go.

They drove the carriage with the softness at home. Big and small bags, fleeing together, the road is full of traffic. In order to compete for the way out, they tore off their former disguises. Even if they were drinking yesterday, they could even fight fiercely today because of a road.

"Quick, let them get out of the way." Zhao Lian said that there are still many people in Taizhou City. As long as they gather their troops and fight a counterattack, they will eliminate the rebels who enter the city. Otherwise, if they lose Taizhou City, even if they go back as him, they will be questioned.

These personal guards are all Zhao Lian's followers in the province. They are very loyal. They lined up in front of Zhao Lian in the shape of a falcon, and the guards in the front row showed the knife.

In the rioting crowd, the bright knives still had a certain deterrent. The guards clamped Zhao Lian in the middle and walked forward with difficulty step by step.

Before he got to the barracks, seven or eight guards around him were separated. Zhao Lian took the rest of the people and walked forward worriedly. The uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, because he saw the defeated soldiers escaping from the camp.

"Catch one by one!" Zhao Lian ordered.

The guards immediately moved forward and pulled a soldier in a coat and no trousers in the crowd.

"Brother, run quickly. If you don't run, you'll be finished." The soldier said.

"What did you say?" Zhao Lian asked immediately.

Seeing that he was an official, the deserter immediately softened: "Your Excellency, the chaos has surrounded from all directions. The north gate has been broken for a long time, and the east gate and south gate have also broken. Now, everyone is running to the west gate."

"Aren't there thousands of brothers in our camp?" Zhao Lian asked that these thousands of people were his greatest hope.

How many thousands? The deserter looked back in fear: "Your Excellency, thousands of our horses have been scattered. I watched countless brothers fall beside me with my own eyes. Few people can escape. They blocked the gates of the camps on both sides of us, and even the impact of the Mongolian cavalry did not work. Your Excellency, please let me go. Later. I'm afraid I can't leave."

Do you really want to give up? Zhao Lian was a little unwilling. He still wanted to ask questions, but he saw a group of people coming on the street in the distance. They were all holding spears and their momentum was like a rainbow.

"Your Excellency, let's withdraw, too. I'm afraid it's hard for these people to ensure that you are thorough." The guard said.

Zhao Lian sighed, "Well, let's withdraw too!"

The army was defeated like a mountain, and thousands of people's battalions were taken over by others. What else can I do? With just a dozen people, as soon as the other party came up, they couldn't even run away.

The deserters just now had already run away. The guards covered Zhao Lian and ran to the west gate together.

Among all the commanders, Lv Zhen felt that she was the most relaxed. The north was so lively and had nothing to do with her. She was eating meat in other camps, and she couldn't even drink soup. However, he could not help it. He could only complain about her life: southeast and northwest, corresponding to one, two, three, four battalions, herself. The third battalion is just in charge of the west gate.

"Brother, what should we do? Just wait here?" Behind him, Liu Dezhi asked quietly.

Hidden in the woods west of the west gate, the four hundred-man teams were already jealous. Listening to the familiar sound of fire in Taizhou City, they knew that everyone else was fighting. Liu Dezhi couldn't help but come to fight on behalf of the wishes of the soldiers.

"Nonsense, this is the eldest brother's order. Our task is to take people here and wait for the people who come out of the city to throw themselves into the net." Lu Zhen said. Give me energy and listen to my command later.

Lv Zhen was also a little suspicious. The eldest brother only robbed three doors and left a west gate. Will the other party really come out of the west gate? Also, what kind of person is Shi Nai'an? Why does the eldest brother believe him so much?

As I was talking, I saw that on the gate in the west, the suspension bridge was quickly lowered, so quickly. When the suspension bridge hit the other side of the moat, it shook the shore with dust.

Then, the gate slowly opened and squeezed out of the gate hole.

"Attention, everyone, everyone must stop me from driving the carriage. What they hold there is all unrighteous wealth, which is the exploitation of us." Lv Zhen said.

The task given by the eldest brother is to wait for these big families who have escaped from the city, ordinary people, who will not have many things, and it is not worth escaping. Even if they escape, they will not have much property, and those big families will definitely bring the gold and silver that have been hurriedly packed up. These things are all The funds needed by the Rebels now.

The soldiers, who had already been waiting in the woods, held their strength and rushed out with spears.

Hearing the huge sound on the other side of the north gate, the whole city has woken up from their sleep, especially those big families. Their families have a big business. What they are most afraid of is to be attacked by the chaos outside. Then they hear the shouts of killing outside, the sound of "c bang" that make their ears numb, and the fear in their hearts is oily. They know that Taizhou City has been broken, and those dilapidated households have attacked in. Where did they come from? It doesn't matter, and they don't have time to think about it. The most important thing for them at present is to be able to escape their lives.

They woke up their wives, brought valuable things from home, and let the family members put on the carriage. They coincidentally began to flee.

Where to escape? You don't have to think about this problem. Naturally, you will go to Yangzhou City in the west. Therefore, most people did not run to the east gate and the south gate, but directly to the west gate.

Some small families also joined their teams, most of whom hid at home, tremblingly waiting for the uninvited guests to enter the city.

There are more and more people, and the more they squeeze to the west gate, and the people who can finally squeeze to the gate are only a few of them.

When the soldiers guarding the city saw this, they were already scared. If they opened the gate, they would be punished by their superiors. If they didn't do it well, they would kill the head. However, if they didn't open the gate, these people who blocked the door would also crowd up and eat them alive.

In the end, they no longer hesitated, because they saw their companions, ran over from the walls on both sides, and brought amazing news: the three gates have been broken, and now only the west gate here is still there, and I'm afraid the camp can't be saved. Now The most important thing is to run for your life.

The centurion guarding the gate of the Acropolis finally ordered to open the gate!

The suspension bridge was put down, the gate was opened, and the black crowd finally came out of Taizhou City.

Out of Taizhou City, it was just the beginning of their nightmare. A group of wolf-like rebels have rushed over.

Looking at the bright spear, all the people were scared to death.

I knew it earlier. I should have been hiding in Taizhou City. There is still a little hope. Now, with so many things, how can I escape?

Fortunately, they caught up with all the infantry. They coincidentally chose a way: cutting off the reins of the carriage, riding a horse to escape, taking their wives or with their concubines, which became a difficult problem for them.

The carriage was left on the road and blocked the gate. The crowd behind cursed, but there was nothing they could do. They had to abandon the carriage and run away.

The soldiers who rushed over, their target is not the crowd that escaped. They are disciplined troops. During this period of training, discipline has long taken root in their minds. They will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, let alone attack civilians. Besides, they have left things behind, so they can't force them to stay there. Some generous big families.

"Listen, everyone, we are the team of Brother Zhang Shicheng of Xinghua. If we are willing to stay in Taizhou, everyone will get five mu of land and be exempted from three years of tax. Please return to Taizhou City at ease!" Lv Zhen found twenty loud soldiers and shouted at the fleeing crowd.

Of course, the big families in these crowd are not moved. No, they should be very moved, because the fields they divide are theirs. Now they hate it so much, but there is nothing they can do. Some of the ordinary households who fled in the crowd stopped.

Five mu of land is exempt from tax for three years. This condition is simply great! It's much better than their current life. If that's the case, why do you run?

They stopped, so the back was more crowded.

"Bop out of the way, get out of the way!" At this moment, a group of soldiers behind, with a big knife and a long gun, did not hesitate to cut at the crowd in the way, trying to kill a bloody road. This was a team of soldiers who escaped from the city. They were stationed on the wall at the foot of the northwest. When the centurion saw that the situation was not good, he immediately led his troops to break through, but they chose the wrong direction and saw The east gate was also taken down before rushing to the west gate.

However, their speed is not slow, because they killed this road.

No matter who it is, everyone who is in the way is a ghost under the knife. In this way, they went all the way to the west gate and saw the crowd fleeing at the west gate. They knew that this was the only way to live in front of them, so they opened a bloody road more bravely.

On the other side, the rebels holding spears were not guilty to the civilians and were still shouting. Even if some civilians were fleeing, they did not chase them. On this side, they were originally guards guarding the civilians, but they attacked the civilians crazily. In an instant, the west gate fell into calm. The civilians hid back, but their eyes were extremely angry. If I had known, I would have stayed in Taizhou City honestly. With five mu of land, I could eat enough and live a good life.

"Let's kill them, these beasts!" Liu Dezhi said.

"Yes, kill them. They are simply not human beings, but scum!" Liu Ergou also said aside.

Lv Zhen was a little hesitant. The eldest brother gave herself the task, which was to have a scattered army, so take advantage of it. If there were a team of enemies, then let it go. After all, this is outside the city. If you want to annihire them completely, you have to add several times the number of troops. However, looking at the beasts of these soldiers, his mind began to heat up. Let go of this group of animals? No way!

"Team 3, Team 4, block them from the north and south and kill these animals!" Lv Zhen took the rest of her big brother to support her 100-person team and blocked it in the west. Half of the team are fireballers, but he doesn't dare to use it. There are civilians behind them, and sting bullets will bring unnecessary casualties to civilians.

Breaking a way, the escaped soldier breathed a sigh of relief. The fire was too sharp. None of them were sure that they could survive in that environment. Now, they can still run as far as they can.

However, when they looked up, they found that they had been surrounded by people.

There are bright spears everywhere, and dozens of fires pointing at them. They just killed civilians without mercy, but now there is a trace of hesitation.

Can I get out? It's all here. Do you still want to stay here? Or go back?

Go ahead! The leading centurman shouted, "Go south!" He doesn't want to touch those fires. He already knows that the attacking team from the salt field in the north can't escape to the north. Now only to the south is the only way out.

"Kill the past, we have a way to live!" The centurion said. This group of outlaws once again summoned up the murderous. They waved the weapons in their hands and shouted to the south.

Compared with the noisy deserters, the rebels on both sides did not say a word, but had a fierce murderous atmosphere.

"First row, ready." The centurion commanded skillfully in the back.

The spearmen raised their spears, and the tip of the spear was shining, ready to return with a full of blood.

The deserters shouted and rushed up, one hundred steps, fifty steps, twenty steps, ten steps, five steps... "Stab!" The centurion shouted.

"Brush!" Countless spears were stabbed out. Suddenly, the deserters who rushed to the front were pierced. They had been ready for a long time. As soon as the spear came out, they quickly picked up the spear with a knife and cut off the handle of the spear. It was not until they were stabbed that they found that the other party was using a fine steel spear. They were unwilling. If they had known it, they would not have rushed over. This was simply death!

"Second row, thorn!" Then, the second platoon stabbed out, and many deserters fell to the ground.

"Good!" Suddenly, a voice shouted in the crowd.

Then, several voices also shouted, "This group of deserters are really damned, okay!"

Many people have made up their mind to go back to Taizhou City, divide five mu of land, and live a good life, which is much better than being angry under the Tartar.

Taking advantage of the attention of the sniper soldiers on this group of deserters, countless large families were able to successfully escape from the siege. They looked at the city of Taizhou behind them and felt particularly heavy. This time, they really left the house cleanly.

The awe-in-in-minate Zhao Lian entered Taizhou City so grandly a few days ago. He asked Dalu Huachi to lead the team to attack and flatten the group of thieves in the east of Taizhou. Unexpectedly, in a few days, the wolf sent out did not bring back a lamb, but let others take out the wolf's nest. If it hadn't been for Zhao Lian sent by the province, he would have thought it was the internal anniation sent by Xinghua, which was simply a slap in the face of Zhao Lian.

Taizhou City was breached, mainly because of an accidental attack. The main general was outside, and Zhao Lian did not assume the responsibility of guarding Taizhou City. It happened that this gap was seized by the anti-thief Zhang Shicheng.

It's too late for Zhao Lian to say anything. Now, the most important thing is to quickly recall the sent out. With his 10,000 elite soldiers, it is enough to retake Taizhou City.

Zhao Lian was thinking about it immediately, and the gate arrived. What surprised him was that when the crowd arrived here, they did not move. Looking ahead, it turned out that a team of escaped troops were being beaten by the rebels.

He didn't want to go up to rescue. These few people died in vain. He still had a more important task. Taking advantage of the hustle and bustle of fighting on both sides, Zhao Lian and his personal guards, like other big families, finally escaped.

In fact, this is also Lv Zhen's deliberate release of water. Originally, the task given by the eldest brother was that people could leave, and the ill-righteous wealth would be confiscated, but what he didn't expect was that Zhao Lian, a big fish, slipped away quietly under his eyes.

The spear array in the north is slowly advancing, and the deserters sandwiched in the middle, except for a dozen lucky escapes, the rest have become bleeding corpses.

Those who should have run have run, and those who should have left have slowly retreated back. Then there are deserters running out. When they see those "models", they are all weak. They quickly run back and find a place to hide. Maybe there is still a way to survive.

Outside the west gate, there are all kinds of carriages scattered across the ground.

If she didn't believe it before, now, Lv Zhen simply admired the big brother's siege plan. At the least cost, she got this military town. The Rebels have this strong city, which can attack, retreat and defend, and turn passivity into initiative.

Zhao Lianzongma came to the north. Looking from afar, the north gate had been blown up, and the moat in front of him was also blocked. He was excited: the gate no longer exists now. He called back 10,000 elite soldiers led by timidly, and he could rush in directly through this gap. In a day or two, the city The door hole can never be repaired.

"Let's go and inform General timidly." Zhao Lian said to the guard beside him.

"Your Excellency, we should return to Yangzhou. There are bandits everywhere. I'm afraid we can't be thorough." The loyal guard said.

Do I have a thorough response? I went back to Yangzhou, and then the official did it! Zhao Lian doesn't want to go back so dimly. No, we are heading north! At this time, General Ji Fuhua should have taken the salt field, and then led the team to quickly return to recapture Taizhou City. We are still a great credit.

The guards had to protect Zhao Lian and run to the north.

At this time, the battle in the city is coming to an end. Tang He led the team, entered through the Nancheng Gate, and immediately rushed to the Taizhou Yamen and the Military Bureau. Especially the Military Bureau, he knew that this was something urgently needed by the eldest brother. A hundred people were left to guard the Acropolis Gate, 100 people went straight to the government office, and the other 200 people, led by Tang He himself, went straight to the Military Bureau.

(to be continued)