Two quarters of an hour later, Nie Ze led the guards to the west wall.
He came to Xie Xing and asked,
"What's going on now?"
"Meet Commander Nie. The enemy did not attack the city, but chose to bypass Yumen Pass. There are enemy troops from the north and south."
Xie Xing pointed to the bottom of the city wall and said.
At this time, the enemy's hundreds of thousands of troops had all come over, leaving only a small force that had not bypassed Yumen Pass, and that was just a tail.
"There is no siege."
Nie Ze breathed a sigh of relief. He was still a little confused when he was woken up in the middle of his sleep, but after a while, he calmed down.
"The enemy is trying to surround us?"
"That's right. They may want to cut off our logistical supplies to besiege us."
Until now, Xie Xing and Nie Ze had not thought about the enemy's true intentions, and still thought that the enemy was trying to surround them.
This is their habitual thinking. When encountering enemy troops surrounding the city, they subconsciously believe that the enemy troops are going to besiege the city. After all, their years of garrison experience at Yumen Pass have allowed them to develop a fixed thought, that is, as long as Yumen Pass is still there, the enemy troops will be there.
You can't hit the rear because the defenders of Yumen Pass will cut off the opponent's supplies and make dumplings of the enemy's army.
So I didn't think about it at all.
When they thought that the other party was going to besiege the city, the two of them became even more relaxed, feeling that the other party was seeking death.
At this moment, a soldier ran over quickly and said loudly,
"Reporting to Commander Nie, Zhao Long, the commander-in-chief of the Zhenbei Army, has assembled the Zhenbei Army and is going out of the city to pursue the enemy. At this time, they are probably already out of the east gate."
Hearing this, Nie Ze's face suddenly darkened and he said angrily,
"This Zhao Long, why did he disobey the military order and go to battle late at night? What if the enemy is ambushing you? This reckless man!"
The soldier swallowed hard and said cautiously,
"Marshal, Marshal Zhao asked the villain to help bring you a message."
"What did he say?!"
Nie Ze stared angrily.
"He said that the enemy army still has a lot of logistical supplies. The enemy army wants to penetrate directly into the hinterland of our country and cause trouble in the rear area!"
"What? What do you mean? The enemy is going straight into the hinterland? Are they looking for death? Aren't they afraid that we will trap them inside our country? Aren't they afraid of cutting off their food routes..."
Having said this, Nie Ze suddenly felt like he had swallowed a dead fly, which got stuck in his throat and his eyes widened with horror.
Xie Xing focused his eyes and said quickly,
"Nie Shuai, Zhao Long is right, the enemy army still has a lot of logistical supplies, why are they afraid of being blocked inside our country.
For them, they will starve to death if they wait here. If they enter our country, they can plunder the people's supplies and survive for a few days longer. They can also kill more people of our country to take revenge."
Nie Ze naturally thought of this, his face was as gloomy as water, and he gritted his teeth and said,
"Sure, these people know they will die, so they will definitely intensify their efforts to massacre our people in revenge.
The two counties to the east are both the fiefdoms of Zhenbeihou, with a combined population of over one million. Even if you don’t count those in the city, there are hundreds of thousands of farmers outside the city. If they were to rush in..."
Nie Ze and Xie Xing both shuddered.
If it is an ordinary war and the enemy troops enter the country to plunder, they usually rarely massacre the people. They just rob the people of supplies and food and leave.
But the situation is different now. These hungry enemy soldiers, knowing that they are bound to die, will definitely massacre the people in revenge.
Kill one to get enough capital, kill two to earn blood.
The people are not all young and strong. They are unarmed and have no power to fight back in front of these young and strong troops who are like wolves and tigers.
"Beat the drums and assemble the army!"
Nie Ze shouted.
On the top of the city, the soldiers immediately beat the military drums vigorously, and the dull sound of the military drums rang in the silent night inside Yumen Pass.
Soon, the defenders mobilized together. At this time, wherever there was any enemy shadow around Yumen Pass, they all had already bypassed Yumen Pass and ran towards the east.
Nie Ze's order was to assemble the entire army. The fast-paced drumming naturally attracted the attention of the strong men in the city.
Han Yun didn't sleep at all. After hearing the sound of the drum, he immediately got up and left the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, flying towards the west wall.
"What's going on?"
Han Yun came to the city wall, saw Nie Ze, and immediately asked straight to the point.
Nie Ze quickly explained the situation, and Han Yun's expression suddenly changed after hearing this.
"Master Hou, Zhao Long has led the Zhenbei Army to pursue him out of the city..."
Before Nie Ze finished speaking, Han Yun immediately said,
"That's not enough. Send all the cavalry in the city to chase down the enemy. In addition, when the elders of the Qi family come over, as well as the third elder of Tianshi Mansion and Pan Dengyan, let them rush to the east as soon as possible.
to pursue the enemy.
The infantry in the city must be assembled first, but do not leave the city. The enemy country still has a hundred thousand Hami army that has not been dispatched. If the Hami army takes the opportunity to chase our cavalry, use the infantry to go out of the city and destroy them immediately."
"good."
After Han Yun finished explaining, he immediately stood up and flew towards the east. He could not just watch the people of Dachuan die in the hands of the enemy's army for no reason.
However, by this time it was too late.
The enemy's army is running all over the mountains and plains, stretching for dozens of miles, with no formation at all. Everyone has only one idea in their mind, and that is to rush to the east as quickly as possible, where there is food.
Yumen Pass is surrounded by desert, but a few dozen miles further east, there are mountainous farmlands bordering the desert area, and not all of it is desert.
There are also many farmers, hunters, and herdsmen.
Because of the landform, the people here are not as concentrated as in the Central Plains. The houses in the villages are very scattered, and scattered houses and households can be seen everywhere.
But this also brings great difficulties to the defense work, and it is impossible to quickly gather villagers for defense.
The first batch of Loulan troops to set off had already arrived in these villages at dawn.
When those people saw the grain hoarded by the farmers' homes and the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep raised in the yards, their eyes instantly turned red. Regardless of their fatigue, they raised their butcher knives and attacked the farmers.
Suddenly, screams and wails filled the air, and the quiet little village turned into a hell on earth.
The cavalry of the Zhenbei Army failed to catch up with them, because the Zhenbei Army had already caught up with the enemy troops behind them and started killing them.
The Loulan Army that came from behind saw that the nearest farmer's house had been occupied by friendly forces, so they continued to run towards the hinterland to the east.
Instead of robbing friendly troops and causing conflict, it is better to robbing the unarmed enemy civilians.
These hundreds of thousands of people scattered like stars in the sky, overwhelming the sky, and rushed into the homes of ordinary people with a radius of hundreds of miles.
On this day, hundreds of thousands of people in western Dachuan were killed and injured, and suffered heavy losses. It is called in history books,