In the middle of May, as the essence of the three auxiliaries, there are not many abundant aquatic plants in the Bashang Field, giving people the biggest feeling is noisy, noisy, crowds of people, shoulder to shoulder, as far as the eye can see, there is almost no idle land.

Although it is so densely populated, it has nothing to do with prosperity, but chaos to the extreme. There is almost no end to all kinds of disputes and private fights, and every moment and everywhere is a chaotic and evil thing of bullying the weak and bullying the outnumbered.

From south to north, Bashui cut this piece of land into two parts, the west is the chaotic Bashang Field, and the east is where the Jin army's middle road camp is located.

Du Hong walked out of the Bashang Wilderness under the arch guard of nearly a thousand elite soldiers, looking at the enemy camp through the water, and his eyes were full of melancholy. In the more than 20 days since the Jin army's forward rangers appeared on the edge of Bashang, he has not completely sat in the city of sorrow and waited for the Jin army to attack, but still set up several defensive lines around the perimeter to organize counterattacks and obstruct the Jin army's march.

However, these counterattacks, far from yielding little success, only exposed the weakness of his control over the army. Some troops even crossed the Bashui with their front feet, and scattered on the opposite shore with their hind feet, completely unwilling to go far to meet the enemy.

The only consolation is that even if the soldiers mutinied, they did not escape too far, and after wandering in the wild for a while, they often followed the displaced people back to Bashang.

The Jin army's offensive was too fierce, and thousands of cavalry wandered between Ba and Chan on the front road, and most of the soldiers in the suburbs were killed, and the people around Chang'an were trapped in the Bashang wilderness. In the middle of the road, many of the dock walls that have stood in the countryside for decades have been ruthlessly blasted open, and the villagers have nowhere to hide, so they can only flee into Bashang.

Now in the wilderness, the number of people has increased exponentially, and even Du Hong was greatly surprised to see this, he didn't know that there were still so many people living in the countryside.

However, the surge in numbers did not bring Du Hong's strength to increase, on the contrary, the Bashang defense line he had previously operated had already been shattered and wiped out after repeated attacks.

The Jin army's offensive was swift and fierce, far beyond the imagination of these Jingzhao heroes. Originally, in their opinion, Du Hong occupied Chang'an, and had the bad deeds of forging the edict of Emperor Chu, so he should be ranked as the first target of attack no matter what. Before conquering Chang'an, the Jin army should not have time to pay too much attention to the surrounding suburbs. As long as they stay within their own borders, they can avoid the first danger.

But it turned out that they still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Jin army, maybe the other party really took Du Hong as the primary target of the crusade, but there was no need to waste too much energy and time to clean them up. The incredibly powerful stone cannon was placed outside the dock wall, and few of the dock walls remained intact after a round of heavy bombardment!

Without the protection of the dock wall, those villagers did not have the courage to meet the Jin army in the unsheltered suburbs, some simply surrendered, and some scattered in the suburbs and approached Bashang.

Especially in the counties of Lantian, Xinfeng, Baling and other counties on the main march route of the Jin army, the losses of the townsmen can be described as heavy, and the survivors of the dock wall are only two or three out of ten, and they still surrender in Shunyi first because they saw the opportunity early, and as for the remaining stubborn postures, they were all bombarded by stone artillery.

These villagers fled all the way to Bashang, but they did not accept Du Hong's control, and each gathered his subordinates to seize the divided area on the slope and temporarily gain a foothold, so that the Bashang Plateau, which originally still had some order, was chaotic to the extreme for a while.

Du Hong did not gain a foothold here for a long time, and someone found his traces, and soon a townsman led his soldiers to this place, shouting from afar: "The Jin army tyrannically destroyed the countryside, and the general had tens of thousands of people, so he didn't dare to go far to meet the battle and save the villagers......"

Hearing this kind of reprimand, Du Hong hated the roots of his teeth, if he wasn't worried about causing turmoil on the plateau and giving the Jin army a chance to attack, he really wanted to kill his manpower here!

After Du Hong's trace was leaked, it also caused a lot of confusion in the surroundings, many villagers rushed here, some people scolded him for being timid and did not dare to fight, some asked him to choose a good place to recuperate for his family, and some asked him for the goods and other things he had previously assisted.

In order to avoid causing a bigger riot, Du Hong could only walk north along Bashui under the protection of his guards until he reached the vicinity of Baqiao, and the noise around him gradually stopped.

The general of Baqiao is Du Hong's henchman named Zhang Shi, and when he saw that the main general was here, he stepped forward to report the military situation: "Our department was ordered to intercept the flow at the Weishang cofferdam, the silt is overflowing, and the waterway is difficult to navigate, so the Jin army can temporarily block the east of Lishan ......."

Hearing the general's report, Du Hong's face finally relaxed a little, which is a rare piece of good news recently. The Jin people's navy was strong, and their prestige had long been spread abroad, and once they drove straight into the realm along the Weishui, the situation would become even worse.

However, this good news is not enough to reverse the overall disadvantage. If the fleeing villagers can obey his orders to fight back, he is also confident that he will have a decisive battle with the Jin army in Ba, but this is impossible, once the war starts in vain, the first reaction of those villagers must be to continue to flee backwards and collapse the layout of his camp.

"People's hearts are sluggish, morale is eroding, Chang'an is no longer defensible, the only way to do this is to give up, accept my usable pawns, protect my useful body, get out of danger first, and then choose a good opportunity to counterattack......"

In the face of his henchmen, Du Hong no longer concealed his true thoughts. The hundreds of thousands of people living on the Ba Shang were an unbearable burden for him, and if he remained here, the final result would only be to wait for death together. But if the crowd fled, these hundreds of thousands of panicked people would be enough to delay the pursuers and give him a chance to escape.

But even if he escapes, he can't simply pat his ass and leave, after all, he still has an agreement with the villagers before, if he really breaks the contract easily, he will be hated by the villagers, once those villagers on the hill surrender to the Jin army, after a little reorganization, they will turn into the vanguard of chasing and killing him. So before he fled, he had to make some more preparations.

After returning to the base camp of Shijicheng, Du Hong sent people to the Bashang Plain to invite the leaders of the fallen township sects to discuss how to resist the attack of the Jin army on the opposite side.

After receiving the information, the leaders of those township sects also weighed their own small actions, although they were in trouble and the township assets were seized, but the township situation of the people was not lost, and it was not that they were not worried that they would be annexed by Du Hong, but at present, with their own strength, they really could not see the hope of defeating the Jin army and taking away the family business, and they still needed one person to stand up for the entire township power.

Therefore, except for a small number of people, the vast majority of the township leaders still came at the request, and for a while, there were two or three thousand people gathered outside Shiji City alone.

Du Hong did not underestimate these townsmen because they were in trouble, but he was still courteous and thoughtful, and went out to greet him in person, and when everyone gathered there, he sighed: "I really can't imagine that the Jin army attacked my countryside in the name of Wang Shi, and the tyrannical places are especially Xiongnu and Qianhu!" The army passed everywhere, and the nostalgia collapsed, but none of them were intact......"

When everyone heard this, they were also indignant for a while, they were in the pain of losing their homes in the new calendar, and they were full of bitter hatred in addition to the fear of the Jin army. When it comes to the sore spots, there are many people who can't help but cry.

"The hometown feud is deep, and I can't bear it, today I have summoned you here, just to awaken the spirit of my Guanzhong Erlang, and fight to the death with the enemy in the Bashang Field!"

Du Hong raised his arms and roared, and then his cronies brought a large number of cages and placed them under the hall, he stepped forward to open those cages, which were filled with pearls and jade treasures, and for a time made the hall full of brilliance: "There are many gold and jade heavy goods, both my private savings for many years, and there is no lack of recent villagers' funding, but the countryside will be gone, so what is the pity of the heavy goods." Today, I am here to reward the soldiers. Do you have the courage to join me in the battle? ”

Hearing Du Hong's generous statement, everyone was also excited for a while. So the crowd roared and marched to the wilderness, carrying with them a great deal of silk, furs, and other things, in addition to these jewels, and even many weak women gathered together with these treasures as rewards.

Soon, Du Hong's soldiers and the powerful domestic slaves carved out an open space in the crowded ba, gathering a large number of gold, silver, goods, and delicate women here. Du Hong climbed to the top of a dock wall and loudly announced the military order, saying that all outlaws who dared to cross the river to attack, as long as they could bring back a head of the enemy, they would be asked for and taken from all the goods and beautiful women in the field.

The great desire of people, the lust of wealth, such a naked temptation, soon caused an uproar on the hill, and the people all burst out with great enthusiasm, if it were not for the fact that there were still a large number of soldiers around to protect them, I was afraid that they would not be able to hold back and rush forward.

As Du Hong's military order was transmitted to all sides, there was no shortage of strong forces on the hill that had begun to organize spontaneously, rushed to the near shore of Bashui, threw the floating board into the current, and rushed to the opposite side in a noisy manner.

The Jin army also reacted quickly, first more than 1,000 cavalry galloped out, shooting along the river, a large number of swimmers drowned on the way, not allowed to land on the shore, the corpses or drifted or sank, and gradually even the river was congested.

Many of the soldiers who rushed to the front on the opposite side, seeing such a bloody and cruel picture, gradually remorseful in their hearts, but at this moment they were already involuntarily, and a large number of people in the rear who were encouraged by the wealth and silk howled and rushed towards it, and many people in front of them could not recover and fell directly into the water.

In the end, this section of the Bashui River was even filled with human corpses and canes, which made the way for the people in the rear to rush and kill more and more obviously, and more and more people landed on the opposite bank, had a stable foothold, and then launched an attack on the Jin army camp.

However, how could this group of people break the solid and stable camp of the Jin army with only a bloody courage and a completely disorderly rush, and the only result was that the corpses were scattered in this field, and there were countless casualties.

"The Jin army is hard to bear, and the disaster of the countryside is not a crime of war! His soldiers killed people and killed people, and they didn't care for the lives of my countrymen! Even though I have the intention to fight a decisive battle, you can also see that this is only a futile effort to cost the lives of the people. Even though my heart hurts unbearably, in order to preserve the vitality of one or two locals, I also want to ask everyone to retreat with me and avoid the edge for the time being, and there will always be a chance to avenge this big revenge in the future! ”

Du Hong pointed to the bloody battlefield near Bashui and said with a sad face. He did not hesitate to use thousands of lives to create a picture of bloody killing, just to break the stubborn will of these villagers and flee outside under their coercion. As long as these townsmen are in his hands, he still has the possibility of gathering people to make a comeback in the future.

On the contrary, if he really escapes alone and leaves these villagers in this realm to accept the management of the Jin people, these people will inevitably chase him and kill him in order to clear away suspicion and invite merit and favor!

Of course, in addition, he also has the luxury of hoping that he may really be able to use this to motivate and crush the Jin military camp on the opposite side with great momentum, if that situation really happens, everyone will naturally be happy. But it was obvious that the facts in front of him told him that his idea was purely superfluous, and that the strength of the Jin army was far beyond the strength of these rabbles who only relied on blood and bravery.

The demeanor of those townsmen is also unpredictable at this time, and they have not had time to make any decisions, and there are already villagers outside the dock wall who have begun to rush away from the guards outside the goods and loot, seeing that the chaos is about to spread to all directions.

At this time, Du Hong didn't give them much time to think about it, and directly ordered the elites around him to be surrounded by half coercion and half protection, rushed out of the dock wall, broke away from Ba Shang, and went straight to Chang'an in the rear.

Although he was also deeply distressed by the hundreds of thousands of people in Bashang, he was afraid that he would not have the opportunity to have so many people for the rest of his life this time.

But it's a pity that his strength is insufficient, and if he wants to swallow the sea to make up for it, he will only support himself, so the Jin army drove the people westward without any scruples, and it is natural that he is looking at this. Otherwise, the Jin army's vanguard elite cavalry arrived at Bashang a long time ago, if it was really to be tightly sealed, how could those lost dogs arrive at Bashang unimpeded.

Not only can he take these people away, but even Chang'an, where he originally ruled the people, he needs to give up. You must know that the Jin army ranger has been out of his monitoring a few days ago, I don't know where he has wandered, maybe this time he abandoned the city and fled is also within the Jin army's plan, so he is likely to encounter the attack of the Jin army on the way to escape, if you want to really escape, you will inevitably have a hard battle.

However, he is not without arrangements, and Yao Yizhong, a Qiang man who was far away earlier, has no lack of intentions to build a retreat. Although Lao Qiang is not credible, he is eager to return to his hometown, and it is inevitable to collide with the Jin army.