"I know why you are crying." Shang Bing took a few steps forward and reached out to help him up. At the same time, he looked outside the city and stared at several corpses in tattered clothes.
These corpses were not only in tattered clothes, but also very thin, but tall. It seemed that during this period of time, they suddenly changed from having enough to eat to not having enough to eat. Some of the corpses were lying on their backs. If you use clairvoyance,
Looking over, you can see the distinctly oriental face of the corpse.
Shang Bing glanced for a few times and turned back. Just as he was about to comfort the soldier, he suddenly heard Song Hu shout again: "Your Highness! The soldiers of the Samarkand Kingdom are about to attack the city again! Your Highness, hurry down to the city!"
Hearing Song Hu's call, Shang Bing's guards seemed to have a conditioned reflex to escort His Highness towards the city.
But Shang Bing, who usually walked down the city with his guards obediently, pushed his guards aside today and said loudly: "We'll go down again after a while!"
"Your Highness, the city is in danger!" Song Hu was originally calling the soldiers and civil servants to prepare for defense. Hearing this, he quickly turned around and said.
"Today I want to see how violent Timur was and what methods the Mongols used back then!" Shang Bing said with some excitement.
"But..." "Nothing but! At this time, the city is safe, isn't it?" Shang Bing interrupted.
Song Hu persuaded Shang Bing a few more words, but Shang Bing insisted on staying at the top of the city, and he had nothing to do. However, he walked to the edge of the city and kept an eye on the cannons of the Samarkand Kingdom. Once he noticed any signs of the cannons being pushed forward, Shang Bing would
Bing was still unwilling to go down and had to take him down by force.
Shang Bing didn't know what Song Hu was thinking. He stood on the edge of the city wall and watched the retreating people move out of the way. Another group of Samarkand soldiers walked out of the camp, outside the range of the cannon at the top of the city.
whole team.
After that, a scene rarely seen in ordinary wars occurred: hundreds of people dressed in various colors and white hats holding whips in their hands, drove thousands of people in rags out of a camp, and drove them away.
He walked in front of the soldiers, and then someone pointed at Yiwu City.
These people hesitated to come forward and were whipped with whips; some tried to resist and were immediately shot to death with bows and arrows. A white hat walked up a slope and yelled a few words, and a complete team of a thousand people was lifted up.
The spears were forced towards them, and these thousands of ragged people could only walk towards Yiwu City while crying and howling.
The Thousand-Man Team is still following behind, following at a not fast but very steady pace. Once the pace of those in front slows down, they will stab them mercilessly, leaving the gun tips covered in blood.
Other Samarkand soldiers who had just formed their formation also lined up and followed behind.
Gradually, these people forced themselves within a hundred feet of the city. Most of them were crying, and a few shouted: "We are the people of the Song Dynasty..." "Save me, I don't want to die!" "Mother,
I’m in pain…”
"God damn it, open your eyes!"...
Not only do they have oriental faces, they also speak Chinese. Yes, they are the Han people in the garrison cities who were captured by the soldiers of the Samarkand Kingdom.
Looking at the people who were being forced forward slowly by the swords, guns, bows and arrows of the Samarkand soldiers, and getting closer and closer to Shen Tou, Shang Bing seemed to have seen faces that were either numb, painful, or full of despair.
They are all dressed up like Han people. Among them are mothers protecting their children with their bodies, young people supporting old people, innocent children who don’t know that disaster is about to happen soon, and rich people shivering in broken silk satin.
There are households, farmers with numb expressions on their faces, and scholars wearing long robes... all kinds of people make up a nation, almost all of them appear on this hellish battlefield, waiting for death to come.
Shang Bing, who originally held up the clairvoyant eye, slowly lowered his hand. His face turned pale and his expression became very ferocious. There were cracks in the wooden shell of the clairvoyant eye held tightly in his hands, but he was completely unaware of it.
These are all his people! They are the people he brought from the Central Plains with all kinds of hardships! They are the people he has visited before and even received some of them! But at this time, they are being driven like livestock.
The city rushed over.
Song Hu's expression was also very ugly, but he had seen this scene dozens of times. Although he was in a very bad mood, he ordered the soldiers to prepare.
Some soldiers started crying again on the top of the city, perhaps because they saw their fellow villagers. But most of the soldiers were like Song Hu. Although their faces looked sad, their hands did not stop at all.
After a while, when these people walked about a hundred steps away from the city wall, Song Hu said loudly: "Fire the arrow!"
"Stretch!" There was a sound in Shang Bing's ears. It was the special sound made by the bow string when the arrow was ejected. This sound was not unfamiliar to him. He heard it almost every day since he came to the northwest, but today he heard it
, as if his heart was moved.
"Stop! Stop everyone!" Shang Bing shouted as if he was going crazy.
Hearing his shout, the soldiers paused, but immediately put the second arrow on the bowstring, and fired the arrow with another "put" sound.
In an instant, thousands of arrows flew into the sky like raindrops, drawing a semicircular arc in the sky. After passing the top, they accelerated and fell, covering the people of the Ming Dynasty. In the following decades, this scene was the scene that all those who had participated in this
It was the nightmare of the soldiers who defended the city. Within a hundred steps, all the civilians were shot to death without distinction! The fallen corpses immediately covered the outside of the moat, and blood flowed from the dying bodies, staining the large areas of soil red.
After witnessing this, the people who had not yet approached the moat immediately cried hoarsely and refused to move forward; some of them mustered up the courage to fight the Semu people or the Samarkand soldiers who were driving them before they died.
, but how can these unarmed people fight against the beasts wearing heavy armor and holding sharp blades? The center of the battlefield suddenly turned into a Shura field; and the people who were driven closer to the city wall again were shot down by bursts of arrows.
Let out a dying cry!
"Gu told you to stop! You dare to disobey Gu's order!" Shang Bing shouted loudly.
"Your Highness!" Song Hu had to shout loudly: "If we don't shoot them, let the Xilu rush to the bottom of the city, or even let them climb to the top of the city, the city will not be able to defend!"
"A few days ago, some soldiers couldn't bear to shoot arrows, so they rushed to the city and set up ladders to attack the city! If the soldiers hadn't used their lives, the city would have been destroyed!"
"Your Highness, this is not the time for women to be kind!"
"But," why doesn't Shang Bing understand the truth? But it was the first time he really faced such a situation, facing his own people being shot and killed by his own soldiers, and it was still difficult to accept it for a while.
His life was too easy. When he was in Xi'an, although he led troops to fight, the barbarians dispersed or surrendered when the Ming army rushed forward. After he came to the northwest, because no matter whether he was Shamichagan or
Mahamu had to rely on him, and he occupied Yiwu without much fighting. Since then, it has been developing peacefully. He has never seen such a cruel scene.
Seeing that Shang Bing had calmed down, Song Hu didn't care to comfort him anymore, and ordered the soldiers to use city defense equipment to deal with the Semu people's attack.
Shang Bing stood up again at some point and stared blankly at the Samarkand soldiers who were trying to climb the city and the Ming soldiers who were struggling to overturn the ladder. Every time a ladder was overthrown, several Samarkands were killed.
The Chinese soldiers screamed and fell down. If they were lucky enough to fall on the ground, they could survive; if they were unlucky enough, they would fall on other people's heads, and two lives would be lost immediately.
Shang Bing stared blankly at a ladder set up not far from him. Several soldiers from the Samarkand Kingdom were climbing up the ladder towards the city. Because there were too many ladders, the soldiers guarding the city were stunned.
Time actually did not push the ladder down. It was not until someone was about to climb to the top of the city that they tried hard to tilt the ladder.
‘Is this the person who massacred Gu’s people just now?’ Shang Bing thought as he recalled the face that looked very different from the Han people.
He was thinking when he suddenly heard a voice: "Your Highness, why are you still at the top of the city!" He then heard this voice: "What are you guards doing for a living! Even the ladders from Xilu were built over and you didn't help His Highness down.
!”
Song Hu was busy commanding the defense of the city just now, and thought that Shang Bing had been escorted down by the guards, so he didn't pay attention. Until he saw the enemy's cannon being pushed forward, he suddenly remembered his original order and turned his head to look.
At a glance, he saw Shang Bing still at the top of the city.
Song Hu was immediately frightened to death! In such a chaotic battlefield, a stray force would not be noticed at all; if this stray force hit Shang Bing, he would have no choice but to die as an apology, and he would not be able to implicate his father and brother.
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He immediately ran over and shouted loudly.
After listening to Song Hu's words, the guards woke up as if from a dream. They had never experienced such a battlefield, and they were stunned for a moment. At this time, they were dragging Shang Bing down to the city in a hurry.
Shang Bing was taken down from the city in a daze, put into a carriage and sent back to the palace.
After getting on the carriage, Shang Bing came to his senses, but did not say anything, but allowed them to take him back to the palace.
When he arrived at the palace, Shang Bing got out of the car and walked to his study. At the same time, he ordered a young eunuch: "Hurry up and call the two kings."
Not long after, Right Minister Gao Xiang hurriedly walked to Shang Bing's study and saw Shang Bing sitting in a chair in a daze. He hurriedly asked: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you? Why did you summon me to the palace?" Shang Bing usually met in the palace.
Personally patrol the city or visit injured soldiers to boost morale.
"Just now I saw the soldiers of the Samarkand Kingdom, or as the soldiers are called now, the Xilu, driving the people of the Ming Dynasty to rush ahead and attack the city."
"Those are all the people of the Ming Dynasty! They were the people I brought here with great effort from the Central Plains and asked the officials to give them to me. Just like this, they were treated like pigs and dogs and sent to die." Shang Bing said with a sad tone.
, said.
"Your Highness will collect their corpses for them and avenge them! From now on, we will capture all the soldiers of the Samarkand Kingdom who drove away the people of the Ming Dynasty. They will all be dealt with in accordance with military law and are not allowed to surrender!" Gao Xiang did not see the situation at the top of the city and could not be like Shang Bing.
I felt the same way, so I said it.
He then added: "Husband, although I am a civil servant, I also understand that you must not be kind to women in war. Your Highness is very sad to see your people being killed. I also understand that, but you must not be soft-hearted at this moment."
"I understand what you said. In the worst case, in order not to interfere with the general's command, I will not go to the top of the city anymore. But," Shang Bing said and stood up: "when I saw the faces of the Ming people who were driven away,
, and seeing other faces with very different looks, I suddenly understood why the local Yuan soldiers were so cruel to the Semu people after the rebellion in Quanzhou."
