"Your Highness! The Okabe family is attacking! This is not an accidental chaos!" Amano Keidei can no longer remember how many times he has roared at Yu Qiuping. He, who has always been taciturn, is extremely excited at this time. On the watchtower ahead
The archers kept lighting torches and waving to warn the main formation, and Tokiwabei's main formation was in panic.
"This is not an unexpected chaos caused by the crowd trampling on the people! It's just that the Okabe family has been planning for a long time, using the people as human shields to drive them away and break up our formation! They are going to break out!" Sanada Masayuki was also anxious at the side.
, said loudly to Yu Qiuping: "Your Highness! Please make a decision quickly!"
In Tokiwabe's main formation, there is an archery platoon led by Charlie. On the left and right sides of the main formation, there are five veteran platoons responsible for guiding the people to the rear. In front of the main formation, there are five recruit platoons, and beyond that is the trench.
, beyond the ditch, there are ten more watchtowers, each with several archers on them.
However, the Okabe family troops who fought out of the city gate were obviously very afraid of the ten watchtowers. The archers at the top of the city and outside the city all directed their arrows at the archers on the watchtowers. Tokiwa Bei's
The archers were in a dilemma, lighting torches was obviously the target of the Okabe family. If they did not light torches to mark, they would not be able to convey the message to the main formation behind the formation - because the watchtower was already crowded with people running in panic at the moment, and there was no way they could
It was impossible to communicate from the road. Some people even feared being trampled and climbed onto the ladder of the watchtower out of desperation.
Soon, two of the archers on the watchtowers were wiped out by the fire from Okabe's house. The other watchtowers were forced to extinguish their torches sooner or later, but they could not escape their fate. Okabe, who was holding a torch,
The Okabe family fired rockets at the watchtower, and the lit watchtower was always visible in the evening. Two hundred archers from the Okabe family shot mercilessly at the weak Tokiwabi archers, and the dozens at the front were
The archers were all killed or wounded in a short time. The arrows that missed Tsukiwabe Shigaru fell into the fleeing crowd, causing huge casualties and further exacerbating the chaos. The surging flow of people had gradually surpassed Tsukiwabe.
The ashigaru were able to withstand the intensity, and some ashigaru even began to be knocked down, and the line of defense began to become unstable, much like the demonstrators attacking the police during a parade.
"Zijing, Ziping, Mi Qizhu, you guys!" Yu Qiuping saw that more than thirty subordinates on the watchtower were killed one after another. He felt his heart was bleeding, and he quickly walked to the five rows at the front.
Behind the ashigaru, with some red eyes, he quickly ordered: "Don't be so polite! Tell the people not to attack the position! Run from both sides!"
"Your Highness! Do you want to use the knife?" Shui Zongping, blushing and thick-necked, held a spear in front of him, resisting the collision of three common people, and shouted without looking back: "We can't stop it!"
"Ziping! No!" Before Yu Qiuping could say anything, the water atom in the row next to him roared in a voice that could cover the noise. The usually gentle warrior had veins popping out at this moment: "
You attack the common people! You live up to your parents’ instructions!”
"That's right! Don't kill people! We only agreed to let them out to save them. We must not attack the people like the beasts of the Okabe family!" Yu Qiuping shouted to the Ashigaru, "Push them away
Go back! Shout to them and tell them to go both ways!"
After receiving the order from Yu Qiupei, the ashigaru fought hard to push the crowd back towards the ditch. After all, most of the people had been hungry for several days, and they had been crowded all night. They were tired, hungry and had no strength. They were beaten by Tokiwa.
The Ashigaru were pushed back again and again. "Go to the side! Please, fellow villagers!" "Don't attack the position! Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude!" The Ashigaru shouted one after another, but only a few people stopped.
More people still swarmed towards the defense line.
Later, under the spontaneous leadership of the ashigaru, the platoon on the southernmost side of the defense line neatly shouted: "Go! To the edge! Go! Go! To the edge! Go!" Later
, this slogan gradually spread, and more than two hundred ashigaru on the entire front line, under the leadership of Yu Qiuping, shouted in unison like tearing their throats: "Go! To the side! Go!" according to the rhythm, and more than two hundred people were led by Yu Qiuping.
The uniform shouts of the people suppressed the exclamations and noises of the people. Under such an infectious guidance, the crowd at the front began to slowly stop. They had long been lost in panic.
The ability to think for oneself, before, I blindly followed the crowd towards Tokiwa Bei, but now I blindly follow the shouts and slowly squeeze to both sides. Although many people are still rushing towards the defense line in panic, the momentum has been lost to Tokiwa.
Be prepared to contain.
However, before Yu Qiuping, who was standing on the front line, could breathe a sigh of relief, the situation in front of him changed significantly. It turned out that the Okabe army, which came with torches, had already rushed directly behind the people. Immediately afterwards, there was a tragic scene.
Screams and wails sounded from behind the people's formation!
"The Okabe family killed someone!"
When the screams of "The Okabe family killed people" sounded again, the people once again fell into chaos. If the last time such a commotion broke out, it was just because the Okabe family shot people with bows and arrows, then this time it was the Okabe family who killed people.
The ashigaru of the tribe slaughtered the helpless civilians with real swords and guns! Kotaro, who was in the rear, was completely confused when he looked at the evil ghosts with blood-stained blades and reaped lives unscrupulously. His brain was completely confused.
Blank, just shouting "spare life" in confusion, pulling his nephew tightly, and squeezing into the crowd in front! He pushed everyone in front of him away like crazy and even pulled back
, in order for them to help him block the attack! The surging crowd pushed every involuntary person forward! And the hard-won order of the people in front immediately collapsed in the chaos! They fled in all directions,
No longer willing to work hard to maintain order according to instructions, but in order to avoid the death behind them, they rushed towards the defense line and the trenches on both sides in a swarm!
This time, the crowds were more violent than before. Tokiwabei's ashigaru could not stop the people who were running into them, and they were forced to retreat. Even if they shouted the same slogans as last time, it would be of no avail. Stand still.
Yu Qiuping, who was at the front, could not help clenching his fists as he watched the defense line begin to waver.
"Your Highness, please order an indiscriminate attack! Attack the common people!" Sure enough, Amano Keitoku's cold voice sounded in his ears.
Yu Qiuping understood that what he said was right.
Yu Qiuping looked at the people struggling in front of the defense line. They were all in ragged clothes and with withered faces. They were old and young. They had just experienced a hellish day in Yinma City. They had finally survived, but they had to encounter two armies again.
of massacre.
Thousands of common people, thousands of people who are usually honest and good-natured, digging for food in the dirt. They have no lofty ideals, no ambition to govern the country. Not to mention their names, not even a speck of dust can be left on the pages of Qing History. People in later generations,
I admire the great achievements of princes, generals and ministers, but I can't see any living creatures.
There are thousands of people, each with their own name, their own family, their own character, and their own beautiful memories. They may have acted like a spoiled child in their parents' arms when they were children, or they may have had angry quarrels in their youth.
Maybe you will be so excited that you can't fall asleep on your wedding night. Maybe you will sincerely thank God for the gift when you give birth to your first child, and then raise your offspring just like your own parents raised you.
However, everything is insignificant in the face of killing. No matter how happy and beautiful the love and memories you have been, you cannot escape the cruelty of war.
"If we don't give the order to attack, the people will break up our defense line! The Okabe family will take advantage of the situation and kill them!" Amano Keitoku said, and Yu Qiuping quietly muttered in his heart, "We, Tokiwa Bei, are proud of the formation.
If you can't use your spear and stab, you can only let others slaughter you!"
"Issue an indiscriminate attack order, kill the mobs who dare to rush into the formation, and use the shock of the gun array to force the people to retreat! Stabilize the situation!" Amano Keide said in a low voice again.
"I'm sorry." Yu Qiuping was heartbroken. He looked at the people who were coming forward, their faces full of tears and fear, and raised his hands high. The phrase "indiscriminate attack" was already on his lips.
Suddenly, a shrill shout came. The owner of the voice was an ordinary farmer named Muji.
Logically speaking, it would be difficult for Yu Qiuping to hear this voice in such a noisy environment. Logically speaking, it would also be difficult for him to see the actions of this middle-aged man in the dim evening.
But all this happened.
The tearful and exhausted father held the infant baby up high and struggled to squeeze in beside Tokiwabei's ashigaru, but could not get any closer. The shouts of death from behind were getting closer and closer, and the man who had just lost
The husband, who had lost his wife and daughter, and whose coarse clothes were still stained with the blood of his wife and daughter, tried his best to send the baby forward. The colors of the other people around him suddenly dimmed, and only the figure of the man remained in the crowd.
clear.
"Save my child's life! It doesn't matter to me, let my child pass!"
Just these words, which were spoken with all the strength in his body, reached Yu Qiuping's ears. The hand raised high suddenly froze in place.
The softest place in my heart was suddenly touched. That hand, no matter what, could never fall again.
My eyes were a little moist, and my vision was blurred for a moment. The scenery that was dim just now suddenly became brighter. The crowd that was blurry just now became alive. Everyone was crying and yearning with all their strength.
Survive.
Every life is so unique and precious. They have beautiful memories of more than ten or decades, a unique life that belongs to them.
As long as this hand falls, the lives of thousands of people, the unique lives of thousands of people, will be wiped out in this world in an instant! I only let them out to save them! Didn't I swear that
, do you want to alleviate the pain of every suffering people in the world! Haven’t I always said that I will do it!
I...the image of Imagawa Yoshimoto suddenly appeared in my mind.
"Remember one thing, it will be a lifelong challenge for you to see if you can defeat yourself." When Yu Qiuping walked to the door, Imagawa Yoshimoto suddenly said.
Yu Qiuping turned around and listened. From then on, those words were imprinted in the young man's mind and stayed with him throughout his life.
"Make a choice without regrets."
Chapter completed!