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An hour later, the Houjin army moved again. With the sound of conch, the huge team pressed towards the fortress again, but this time it was not Baoyi and the Han army that were at the forefront, but a large group of people, men, women and children, one by one crying and mourning, slowly advancing under the threat of the Tartars' swords and guns.

Although Su Thick Leg had never experienced such a thing, he immediately understood Tartar's intentions, and his face changed.

"The Tartars actually drove the local people to attack the city!"

Ma Wei shook his head helplessly: "Tartars are as vulgar as beasts, and this kind of indiscriminate trick is often used in border towns...... But I pity these people. ”

Su Thick Legs watched the Tartar army get closer and closer to the city wall behind the people, and he was anxious, but he didn't know what to do, so he asked Lin Weiye for instructions: "Lord Commander, what should I do?" ”

Lin Weiye looked ahead, the people in front could almost see the facial features, seeing the panicked, frightened, and helpless expressions of these people, he felt very uncomfortable in his heart, and turned around and asked: "Thick legs, is there any way to repel the Tartars without hurting the people?" ”

"It's impossible." Su shook his head and said, "The Tartars are mixed with the people, and the swords and guns have no eyes, and Da Luo Jinxian can't do it." ”

Ma Wei gritted his teeth: "Lord Commander, if you don't resist for fear of accidentally injuring the people, thousands of us will die without a place to bury." Tartars are not good men and women, we have killed so many of them, once they break through the castle, they will definitely kill a chicken and dog. ”

Lin Weiye was silent, as if he was thinking about something.

Ma Wei continued: "Besides, even if we all die, these people will not have a way to live, the old and weak will all be cut down, and the young and young women will be taken captive......

Su said hesitantly: "Do you aim your guns at the people?" Will the reputation of the commander-in-chief and the general be affected? ”

"Reputation is all false, how can the lives of soldiers matter?" Ma Wei blushed and said with a rough neck, "Could it be that it has become a little false name, so you will stretch your neck over and let the Tartar chop it?" ”

Lin Weiye finally spoke, he seemed to have made up a great determination, and said solemnly: "Ma Wei is right, we can't put thousands of soldiers of the Independent Regiment in danger because of moral constraints, this is an extremely stupid and irresponsible approach. Thick legs, you give the order to fight, you can fight how you want, don't worry too much, if you have any notoriety, I will bear it. ”

Su Rough Legs looked at the city—the hideous expression on the face of the Tartar hiding behind the people could almost be seen—he let out a sigh of relief and nodded, "The subordinates know what to do." ”

He gave the order: "Order all the companies and platoons on the city wall to fire their guns into the sky to warn them, and then shout a message, so that the people will flee the battlefield on their own, so as not to eat their guns." Those who take 100 steps before entering the castle will be killed! "Although the chance of escaping in the face of the sword and gun behind is not very high, and it is possible to be killed by the Tartars, at least there is a chance to survive - if the Tartars pursue the people, they will inevitably make their own positions chaotic, and most of them will not chase after them - if they enter the crossfire range of the fortress, there will be no way to survive at all, and they will block the bullets for the Tartars, and the death will be even more worthless. The lesser of two evils, I believe that the people with bright brains will make a choice.

Orders were conveyed layer by layer. After a while, the gunshots rang out, and the frightened armor soldiers subconsciously shrank their heads and hid behind the people. However, no lead bullets flew over, and if you looked closely, the guns of the defenders on the city walls were all pointing upward.

The soldiers of the Separate Regiment began to shout.

"Folks, guns have no eyes, and if you go any further, you will eat lead, you have to think clearly."

"Uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters, hurry up and run to both sides, if the Tartars chase you, we will greet them with cannons!"

"Although we are paid to be soldiers, but we are all children of Denglai and the two states, if you make cannon fodder for the Tartars, whether it is the Tartars taking advantage of the situation, or we are forced to hurt you, it is a matter of relatives hating enemies, you have to think clearly!"

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The shouts came and went, and the people who were trembling forward hesitated when they heard it. The soldiers in the back felt this change, raised their swords, and slashed more than a dozen people, and Niu Lu Zhangjing, who knew Chinese, scolded loudly: "Don't have a fluke mind, hesitate, and kill without mercy!" ”

One of the young children cried in fear, and the mother hurried to cover her mouth, lest she might anger the tartars. However, it was still a step too late, and a soldier in chain mail strode up, picked up a short axe, and cut off the child's head with a "bang", and the blood sprayed all over the ground, and the mother saw her son's tragic condition, her heart was like a knife, she screamed, her eyes were dark, and she fell to the ground unconscious.

The people were in an uproar, even the children were killed, and the ferocity of the Tartars deeply stimulated their nerves.

The young and vigorous young men winked at each other, whispered to each other, and exchanged views.

"How about it, a soldier can kill a Tartar, and we are also standing and peeing men, why don't we go back and grab a few knives and fight with the Tartars, it's better than dying in a nest?"

"That is, the Tartars don't even let go of the children, and will they let us go?"

"I heard that I was caught by the Tartars, either my head was cut off, or I was captured and returned to Liaodong as a slave, pigs and dogs are not as good, I don't want to live like this for the rest of my life."

When a few old men with white beards heard this, they blew their beards and glared: "What do you know? Can you beat a Tartar with your bare hands? It's better to listen to the words of the Tartars and go forward, the soldiers in front are all natives of Dengzhou and Laizhou, maybe they know each other, and they won't shoot us. ”、

You Qingzhuang couldn't help but retort: "Since they are all villagers, let's go up like this to embarrass the family, isn't it hurting them?" People are good men who kill Tartars, but we are shrinking turtles and blocking guns for Tartars? If they could not bear to shoot, the Tartars went up to the wall, and they were the ones who died. ”

"You know a fart, these soldiers are all eating imperial food and getting paid silver, and it is what they should do to fight and die, why should we ordinary people listen to them? It is better for them to die than for us to die. ”

Most of these old men are patriarchs, chiefs and the like, and they speak with a lot of weight on weekdays, although they are captured, Jiwei is still there, as soon as they speak, the thoughts of the young people are forcibly suppressed. The people continued to move slowly forward under the watchful eye of the Tartars.

Seeing that the shouting was ineffective, Su Bush's legs were a little breathless, and he said to Lin Weiye: "I underestimate the bloody nature of the people of Shandong, no one resists, and no one dares to escape!" ”

Lin Weiye was at war in his heart, biting his lip tightly, biting out the blood marks without noticing. After a while, he burst out a sentence from between his teeth: "No matter, do it when you get into range." ”