On the evening of June 20, Yu Qiuping was waiting on the observation deck outside Dongmen Castle Town, nervously watching the movements of Yinma Castle.
The Okabe family sent three important ministers and elders in the morning to discuss with Yu Qiuping the issue of sending out the people. The final agreement was that the Okabe family would open the east gate and send the people out and deliver them to Yu Qiuping's camp. And Yu Qiuping
You can't storm the city gate while the Okabe family is open. All ministries must stay in the camp and are not allowed to move around. Although he feels that this plan is too beneficial to the Okabe family, Yu Qiuping agreed for the sake of the people.
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However, what made him a little unhappy was that the Okabe family had to send the people out in the evening. If this matter was delayed until night, it would be so dark at night that in ancient times, it would be really useful to help thousands of people with night blindness settle down.
It would waste a lot of effort. Yu Qiuping suggested that the people should be sent out this afternoon, but the Okabe family elder said that there was no time to prepare. Yu Qiuping also suggested that the people should be sent out tomorrow, but the Okabe family elder was embarrassed and said that there was not enough food and grass for today's dinner.
Yu Qiuping had no choice but to agree to this condition again.
For this reason, he also made intensive preparations. To accommodate more than 6,000 people at once, a lot of preparation work was required. He had to prepare food and shelter for them, coordinate their relationships, and maintain order.
After a lot of effort, Asahina's troops had just helped more than 10,000 people to build residences around the camp and settle down since they besieged the city. They were rich in experience. In order to accommodate the newly arrived more than 6,000 people, Yu Qiuping ordered all ministries to mobilize.
, demolished some of the rear defenses that were temporarily unused, cut down trees, and built simple residences. At the same time, they also called on residents to participate in the construction work and prepared dinner for 6,000 people. Everyone used to go outside Yinma City
The folks in the castle town were all related to each other, so they were naturally very enthusiastic about this matter. Tens of thousands of people outside Yinma City were immediately busy like a giant beehive, and the camp was turned into a construction site. Until the evening, there was still no one.
It can be finished. In Yinma City, there was also a lot of noise all afternoon, probably because the people were busy packing up their belongings and getting ready to set off.
However, Yu Qiuping asked himself that he was not a fool. In order to welcome the people, he demolished some of the fortifications. He was very worried that when he opened the city gate, it would not be the people who came out, but the Okabe family who had broken out. For this reason, he deliberately prepared Tsukiwa's feet
All the young men were dispatched to the fortifications and on both sides of the camp. He and Charlie personally led the archers to monitor the movements. The other families also acted as if they were facing a powerful enemy and notified everyone to be on alert in case the Okabe family made an attack from the east to the west and took advantage of it from other gates.
A chaotic breakout.
Now it's seven o'clock in Shenshi, the time agreed upon to open the city, but there is no movement at the east gate of Yinma City, and there is an increasingly loud noise coming from inside the city. Yu Qiuping can't help but feel a little irritated, and he is on guard at the observation deck.
The archer also became more and more nervous. However, Okabe Gennobu did not let him wait long. He stopped classes at the end of the day, and the east gate of Yinma City slowly opened - what came out were ragged people, not a fully armed army -
This made Yu Qiuping let out a sigh of relief.
However, unlike Yu Qiuping's imagination of people lining up to leave the city in an orderly manner, the people were swarming and thrown out of the city. The narrow city gate was immediately filled to the brim. The first few dozen people who squeezed out of the city immediately rushed out of the city.
He ran along the main road of the castle town towards Yu Qiuping's camp, and the people behind him kept crowding the city gate. It was like a cloth bag filled with mung beans, and a hole was opened underneath, and the mung beans poured out like water.
The scene was the same. More and more people rushed out of the city gate. The avenue in the castle town was gradually crowded with people, and many people were forced to take detours from the small streets in the castle town. Yu Qiuping could roughly see that it seemed that
There were many families who got separated in the crowd, or people who lost their salutes and were trying to turn back - which obviously aggravated the crowding.
The fastest runner has already rushed to the edge of the ditch with cheers - the fence has been temporarily demolished by Yu Qiupei to facilitate the passage of the people. However, most of the people are still crowded in the castle town. The ashigaru of Joban Bei are rushing to catch up.
The incoming people made way for a small path, allowing them to pass through the defensive position and rush to the people's gathering area behind.
As time went by, more and more people poured out of the city gates and were densely distributed in the area from the east city wall to Jobanbei fortifications. The complexity of the castle town and the trenches dug by Yu Qiupei intensified the crowding.
, only the common people walking at the front of the team knew where they were going, and the others just followed the flow of people blankly. At the same time, the large number of common people in front of Joban Bei's defense line also caused trouble to Joban Bei's ashigaru.
There was tremendous pressure. Since Tsukiwabei only allowed a few small openings for the people to pass during the release of the line - they had to bypass the horses and fences, this resulted in the traffic volume being far lower than the number of people released at the city gate.
Many people jumped down from the ditch in a crowd, climbed up again, pushed against the fortifications in front of Joban Bei Shigaru, and demanded to be let through.
More and more people were stranded in this area, and Yu Qiuping felt that the situation seemed to be out of control. According to his naked eye estimation from the watchtower, there were already thousands of people crowded outside the East City Gate to his own defense line.
The density of people in the room was not inferior to that of the Spring Festival Transport scene - he had greatly overestimated the order of villagers leaving the city before, which resulted in a large number of people being stranded. Now, the watchtower where he was was also densely packed with people.
The sun was setting in the west, and the remaining light of the setting sun could no longer illuminate the entire castle town due to the obstruction of Yinma Castle. The darkness gradually fell, intensifying the panic of the crowd, and a few people lit up torches for lighting.
"Your Highness, this situation is not very optimistic." Amano Keitoku, who had been accompanying him, said solemnly, "With such a dense crowd, they are still at the junction of the two armies. Once chaos occurs, the consequences will be disastrous."
"Kwon Bingwei... you are right." Yu Qiuping subconsciously called Amano Jingtoku's childhood name, "Then what do you think we should do now?"
"Your Highness, your safety is the most important thing." Amano Keitoku looked at the dense crowd of people under the watchtower, "Your Highness, where you are now is too far away from our army. If there is chaos, there will be no time to go back and command the troops."
"No matter what, please return to the army first." At Amano Keide's strong request, Yu Qiuping, escorted by several guards, climbed down the watchtower and squeezed into the crowd. The crowded people began to
There was no room at all, and I didn't even take a few steps forward after struggling for a long time.
"Move, move!" Xiaoban Jiesheng shouted at the top of his lungs, "Make some room for my Highness!"
However, the people standing in front of them all managed to squeeze into the front position, and no one was willing to give up the position that they had to struggle for a long time. They pushed each other in the crowd, and others glared at you.
They all wanted to let others make way for Yu Qiuping. Xiaoban Jiesheng and others struggled to push forward, stretching out their hands to try to push away the crowd in front of them. However, just after they squeezed this one away, another one came closer.
If you are not careful, you will be pushed and staggered by the crowd. The red leaves that Xiaobanjie stuck on his helmet were even squeezed out in the crowd. The surrounding crowd was full of people, complaining and cursing, and several
The guards could only communicate with each other by yelling at the top of their lungs.
Seeing that there were more and more people around, several guards began to be unable to protect Yu Qiuping. Yu Qiuping himself was almost squeezed into the crowd by a flow of people from the west. In such a chaotic situation, if Yu Qiuping
Being squeezed away by the crowd, it would be difficult to find him again. Xiaoban Jiesheng hurriedly grabbed Yu Qiuping's hand and pulled him from between the two farmers. Several guards also covered them.
He screamed and asked the people to get out of the way, but everyone still went their own way.
In desperation, several guards drew their knives in their hands and shouted sternly: "Get out of my way! Otherwise, I will kill you without mercy!"
After the dazzling samurai sword was revealed, the people around him immediately moved away in panic, screaming and shrieking, and people crowded together, and soon a path was cleared, and the flow of people squeezed in the opposite direction. Yu Qiu
The few guards beside Heihe and Amano Keitoku were embedded in the crowd like rocks breaking through the waves, and quickly squeezed back into the ditch in front of their home position. After climbing over the ditch, they returned to the forward position.
"It's better to use a bright knife!" A guard next to Yu Qiuping sighed, "I said so much before, but the people didn't listen. The sky was dark and there were so many people, it was useless. But we
As soon as he drew his sword and looked like he was going to kill someone, these people immediately crowded and fled! Even if the people behind him didn't want to give way, they were all squeezed out of the way!"
"That's right!" Several other guards also responded.
He does not mean that.
They didn't notice that Yu Qiuping beside them was looking in the direction of the shaky sunset - that was the east gate of Yinma City, and his face was already earthy.
Most of the nearly six thousand people had already squeezed out of the city, but less than a thousand people passed through Jobanbei's position and reached the resettlement site. The remaining thousands of people were all crowded between Jobanbei and Yinma Castle. They were densely packed.
A stream of people crowded in front of the position, stayed in the position, were pushed and squeezed, shoulder to shoulder, and it was chaos. Most of the people who were close to Tokiwa Bei Ashgaru were exhausted, tired and hungry, and tried every means to move towards the position.
Then they squeezed away. Because Chang Panbei was asked by Yu Qiuping to treat the people well, no one did any excessive behavior towards the people. This also led to the people's behavior becoming more and more reckless, and some even began to openly climb over the fortifications. And squeezed in the crowd, followed
The people who were moving step by step were even more confused in the darkness and hunger.
"Hey..." Yu Qiuping muttered to himself in confusion, "Did I make a mistake...what if..."
I mean just in case...
Chapter completed!