On the first day, there were about one or two thousand refugees gathered under the city, and everything was peaceful inside and outside the city.
The next day, the number of refugees gathered under the city increased a lot. Some people tried to shout to the top of the city and beg for food. However, the top of the city did not meet their demands except asking them to leave as soon as possible.
On the third day, refugees continued to gather from all directions. The number of refugees exceeded 10,000. The defenders on the top of the city observed that there were many fights and other riots among the refugees, but the riots soon subsided.
As the dispute continued, I don’t know whether the party who started the dispute died or someone stopped the dispute.
On the fourth day, refugees continued to gather under Yan'an City, as if they had no place to go except this city.
On the fifth day, there was not much blank space left outside the city. No matter which direction you looked, you could see a mess of human heads, and the noise made by these people gathered together, no matter it was day or night, was loud and clear.
Extremely noisy.
Day six.
Jiang Wan was woken up from his sleep. He felt a little nervous at that moment, but after looking at the sky outside, he felt a little relieved.
It was already getting bright outside. If someone woke him up in the middle of the night, it would definitely be bad news that he didn't want to see.
However, the news coming from the top of the city did not make him feel much relieved - the refugees began to take action.
When he hurried to the city, he saw groups of refugees swarming towards the city. He could clearly see without a telescope that among these large groups of refugees,
Many people were even shirtless.
There were probably hundreds of people rushing towards each place. As if they were afraid of arrows being fired from the top of the city, they hurriedly arrived at the city, dropped everything in their hands, and then ran back quickly. However, they had not yet returned to the refugee group.
Hundreds of other people had already rushed out again and passed by them.
Jiang Wan's face became a little ugly. From the top of the city, he could clearly see what the people who rushed to the city dropped in their hands.
Those were bags of loess, and those even shirtless men wrapped the loess in their clothes and sent it to the ditch of the moat under the city.
"They don't want to fill in the moat!"
Xu Caining looked at the situation in front of her in astonishment. She arrived earlier than Jiang Wan, but she still couldn't believe the situation in front of her.
And in just a short time, this section of the moat, which is nearly 100 meters long, has been piled up to a height of more than a foot. At this speed, it will not even take a morning to fill up this section of the ditch.
"According to your instructions, they didn't attack us, so we don't need to pay attention to them..." Feng Wanli said with a solemn face.
"Isn't it considered an attack if they fill up the ditch? Does it count if they follow the filled mound and rush directly to the city wall?" Xu Caining glanced at Feng Wanli with dissatisfaction: "Sir, the firearms battalion requests to open fire to block the enemy.
Let’s take action!”
"It's not time for the firearms battalion to take action!" Jiang Wan raised his head and looked at the dark crowd of refugees in the distance: "These people are not spontaneous, but organized by someone. This shows that someone is not only instigating these people.
, but are organizing and commanding these people!"
He turned around and looked at his officers: "Everyone, the worst has happened. This is civil unrest!"
"Commander Jiang, order your soldiers and horses to repel these bandits..." Song Gun ran up to the city in a disheveled manner, with a look on his face: "If we wait for them to fill the moat and build mounds of earth, we soldiers and horses can't
I can’t resist the thousands of thieves outside!”
"This guard is not equipped with crossbowmen. Please mobilize the crossbows that your government can mobilize and go to the top of the city!" Jiang Wan said: "Use crossbows to disperse the crowd and force them not to get close to the moat!"
"What kind of soldiers and horses are you talking about!?" Song Gun was stunned. He looked up and saw several people staring at him. He stamped his feet fiercely: "Come here, gather the people, call all those who can shoot.
Here, hurry up and bring the arrow over here..."
Archers are the elite of the army, and it is not easy to train them. In the huge Yan'an Prefecture, there are only twenty or thirty people who can shoot bows, let alone accuracy. Anyway, the refugees under the city are Wuyang Wuyang.
Shoot at the crowd, don't worry about missing.
After several rows of arrows fell down, a dozen of the refugees fell down, and more people started to run back with the arrows on their bodies, crying for their fathers and mothers. Hundreds of people suddenly became a mess and ran towards the way they came from.
Even the second batch of refugees who came out to fill the soil were shocked into chaos.
When the people on the city saw the effect, their faces suddenly relaxed, and the archers cheered one by one, as if they had won a battle.
"Give me a good guard. If we can't count on others, we have to count on ourselves!" Song Gun shouted loudly: "Those who shoot bows and arrows will be greatly rewarded by this government, and they will be given an extra pound of food every day!
"
"The thieves have retreated!"
Xu Caining whispered: "Vulnerable!"
"No, we're just retreating for the time being!" Jiang Wan shook her head: "If there are really people on the other side controlling these refugees, they should know that as long as they drive the refugees close to the city wall to fill in the soil, there will be no reaction from the top of the city!"
The dozen or so refugees under the city who had been shot by arrows, some of whom were lucky enough to survive, were shouting loudly, trying to get away from the city wall.
However, the archers who had just received the reward were all at a time when their morale was high. How could they let their military exploits slip away like this? Dozens of people were holding on to them, and even picked up those seriously injured refugees who were not dead.
As a target, the arrows flew down one after another as if they were free. Until those few people finally stopped shouting and lay motionless on the ground, the arrows on their bodies were like reeds by the river.
The same, densely packed piece.
When Xu Caining saw this scene, her lips moved, as if she wanted to say something. She turned around and saw Jiang Wan and Feng Wanli, all of whom had tense faces and said nothing. She let out a breath and finally said nothing.
.
Half an hour later, there was movement again in the large group of refugees on the opposite side, and hundreds of people came out of the crowd, still carrying various cloth bags and containers, heading towards the city wall, but this time,
, the speed at which they came over was much slower than last time.
"They are crazy, aren't they afraid of death?"
Xu Caining finally couldn't help shouting. He knew that he would be shot to death by bows and arrows when he got to the city wall, but these people still came out. This was not in the battle formation, and there were no people with swords behind them to drive them. These people
How could a person come here without fear of death?
"These people are all old and weak!" Jiang Wan's voice seemed a little bitter: "It's not that they are not afraid of death, but they intend to die. Only when they die will their descendants have a chance to live!"