The Taiping Army Central Army's Great Account, who commanded the battle in Mingdemen, also felt the corresponding changes. On the model sand table of one hundred and ten squares in Chang'an City, various flags marked by the enemy and ourselves are also in front of Zhou Huai'an. With the flying reports like flowing water, they begin to replace with a more rapid frequency:
"Whether it was in Guanglufang, which was out for reconnaissance, or in Huaiyuanfang, it was discovered that the officers stationed in the interior had begun to abandon their fronts and retreated as a whole organization..."
"The investigative team responsible for infiltrating the enemy's rear separately reported that they originally went to retake the official flags of Yanpingmen and Chunmingmen, but suddenly returned halfway..."
"In addition, some people who fled from the area claimed that the officers and soldiers were gathering all kinds of supplies, carts and horses, and driving the people out of their homes one by one. Many young people and women have been taken away..."
"Foreign Emergency News, some officials started to set fire in the city square between the east and west cities, and clashed with the survival team that had rushed there. Then they went to support the fourth and seventh regiments of Xuanfeng, and at the same time in Pingkang. On the west side street between Fang Fang and Xuanyang Fang, several battles broke out under the banner of the'Zhulu Army'..."
The staff officer in charge of on duty was talking about this, and suddenly paused before continuing:
"The Rangers in the East City found a figure who was suspected to be the former Jing Zhaoshao Yin Mengkai, and they are trying their best to escort them back halfway..."
Zhou Huaian, who had been silent for a long time, raised his eyebrows slightly. Since the one who was considered clean and self-conscious among the officials of the Qi dynasty, he was able to survive the disaster. For his next arrangement and plan, it is more or less the icing on the cake. .
However, the actual situation in the East City is that Meng Kai has been rescued from the dry well by the soldiers, but he was not escorted back as the military newspaper claimed; instead, he led a man wearing a cap with ears and a large crotch officer uniform. Everyone came to Bi Luosi outside the northwest corner of Jiugongfang District.
"As long as you can rescue the corresponding person and wait, what if I will go with you..."
Meng Kai, who had been dealt with and exploded with some ulcers and wounds, emphasized again to the military academy that surrounded him.
"It's saved... Lead the way."
As the leader, Yi Damao said in a dull voice like gold. It didn't take long before they appeared outside a temporary barrier at a street corner, and then boarded a tiled roof to take a closer look.
Because this place used to gather hundreds of restaurants and shops in Chang'an City, specializing in cooking and selling various types of piro, steamed cakes, sesame cakes, pill pill, pill pill, glutinous rice and other special noodles. The ubiquitous barriers at the corners of the streets were blocked; the banner of "Goose Gate Guarding and Catching" was also erected in the sky.
It’s just that the atmosphere looks a little messy. It seems that there are far fewer officers and soldiers than expected. They are not guarding behind the corresponding barriers and barriers, but are busy packing up amidst the shouts and screams. It seems that it has been going on for quite a while, giving many scattered objects on the ground to vehicles of various sizes in the village, or tying up workhorses.
Therefore, the few remaining guards who carried bows and arrows on their shoulders and held knives and guns at the gates were also absent-mindedly looking back and looking forward, not even noticing that the outside world had been cleared out. Those three to five groups of patrolling teams have been killed one after another, stripped of their robes, and thrown into abandoned shops.
Afterwards, this ranger of more than one hundred people divided up half of its staff and under Meng Kai’s guidance, the cat leaped into a small canal with only shallow water and silt at the waist, and the rest of the team fought. Holding the captured flag, walked forward slowly.
A moment later, in the temporary camp where Bi Luosi was located, there was a burst of ignition and roaring noises; then the rangers outside did not hesitate to move forward. All the officers and soldiers behind the fence fell down, opened the fence and fished in troubled waters.
"Jinzhou soldiers came to grab something..."
"A Jinzhou dog that is cool and dry..."
"If you have something to say, don't do it anymore..."
However, only a long time later, these yells and roars turned into various pleadings and pleadings for mercy:
"All right..."
"We know this..."
Regardless of the pain, Meng Kai went deep into the camp. Following the sound, he slashed open the rope-bound door of the Didian warehouse, and suddenly he rushed towards his face in a scream of exclamation. Some kind of mixed stench, revealing a woman with a hundred invisible clothes inside.
"Guo Niang?... Guo Niang?..."
Meng Kai yelled several times, and after watching them one by one without giving up, he was able to confirm that the person he wanted to find was not among them. Randomly he came to a prisoner and slashed his arms, then shouted at the others:
"Where are the other women who have been caught?"
"People...People...People are all sent away, and there is only this last batch..."
A little leader of the officers and soldiers stammered in fright.
"Where did it go..."
Meng Kai once again swung his bloody horizontal knife. I saw that the other party was so scared that he was so busy crying out:
"It was sent to the release pool in the northeast corner of the city..."
"This matter can only end here. We are going to retreat, otherwise no one will be able to leave."
Then, Yi Damao with a serious face turned to Meng Kai and said:
Meng Kai couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh. Although his face was full of bitterness and disappointment, he just nodded and said nothing, and put on a cloak to cover his injuries, and followed them away from here. Only the camp of the dead remains.
However, before their team had gone far, they encountered another brigade of officers and soldiers who were escorting many vehicles and mules and horses and hurriedly retreating outside of the three streets; they saw the "Goose Gate Shouchou" they played out. "The banner, without any explanation, took all of them in and became part of the escort team.
Soon after, they were in chaos, and took advantage of the situation to arrive at the Changping Office at the northern end of the East City. And there was a group of brightly armored generals holding torches, and beside them and under their feet, they used carts and carts, loaded and piled up with collected oil urns, wine barrels, firewood and other flammable materials.
But in the row of barns, there were large slaps, percussions, and crying for mercy, which came out intermittently; while the expressions of Meng Kai and Yi Damao became serious, because they only had to be careful. When I heard it, I could find that it was sent out by many women locked up in the barn.
Then there was a general wearing a large armor standing on the heights and shouting:
"Hedong Army Tiger Wing Capital and Flying Leopard Capital, I was ordered by the minister to clear the wild and strong walls, and the men of the tribes followed me to set fire to these city treasury, don't let the thieves get it!!"
However, before his words fell, he suddenly flew an arrow in his chest and fell on his back with an expression of unbelievable disbelief; suddenly these gathered officers and soldiers blew up the camp on the spot, and there were even more people there. It yelled and screamed.
"No, there are spies..."
"Hezhong soldiers have rebelled against the chaos..."
"The Heavenly Soldiers are killing people indiscriminately..."
"It's the Jinju Army who caused the chaos..."
"Kill these generations of northern soldiers..."
"Grab money, food, and women..."
In these cries of one after another, they almost each raised their weapons and feared each other, and then as someone started to do it without hesitation, there was a burst of hacking and killing at the left and right, and they were screaming in an uproar. Mutually involved in the melee of their respective groups.
Then, he shot the crossbow arrow in his hand with lightning speed, and lost the crossbow Yi Damao; also under the cover of a dozen people from the left and right to fight and fight, rushing from left to right to kill a bloody way. And squeezed to the edge of a Didian building, and each leaned back against the building in a semi-circular formation and fought and walked away.
After a while, they found and smashed open the closed door of the mansion shop and retreated into it; they hurriedly dragged and pushed down all the objects they could see to temporarily block the door. Their respective backs are close to the wall and support each other to alert.
At this time, the officers and soldiers who were fighting in the outer war, also under the iron-fisted suppression and loud rebuke of the Hedong Army that quickly intervened nearby, began to slowly restore order from panic-stricken madness and confusion. Then he started to search for the so-called spies in the yelling and yelling,
And Yi Damao, who got a moment of gasping here, also dropped the blood-stained horizontal knives and cudgels in his hands, and took out a few other tubes and pulled them vigorously to ignite them; several bangs turned into shots. Groups of bright fireworks went into the air; after a half-sound delay, they turned into the roar of firearms bursting into the distance one after another.
However, for them who are likely to have exposed their identity and deeds, this also means the arrival of the most difficult moment.
"Isn't there any trace of the Sha Tuo Army yet? ..."
In Mingdemen, Zhou Huaian continued to ask:
"Enlighten to the governor, enter the eastern and northern suburbs of the city to get the cavalry. Apart from seizing several Shatuo herds that are wandering, they have gotten more than 10,000 cows and horses, and nothing else. ..."
Responsible for the news summary De Yuhou Changmi Baolian said:
"More follow-up news, waiting for them to bypass the enemy's interception in the Longshou Mountain area and enter the Forbidden Garden before they can return..."
Then another staff officer began to report:
"Victory in the west! The West Road Horse Team once again caught up with the retreating party divisions at the Pinghe Ferry in the upper reaches of the flood waters in Xianyang, and finally broke the camp of one of the eight divisions of the party, Ye Lishi, and killed the Chiefs on the spot There were more than 3,000 people below Lilaiming, and 40,000 people were intercepted."
"Furthermore, in the outskirts of the fierce battle at the waterlogging level river crossing, suspected of encountering an assault by the Vassal Cavalry from the Tuoba Department, it has been repulsed and is being tracked..."
"Report to the general governor, Chunmingmen, the urgent report, the nearby officials and troops have begun to gather at Xingqing Palace (Nan Nei)... Wang (Yanzhang) Lang Jiang's election front camp has begun to assault the East Market..."
And to the west of Tongguan Guancheng, where the flag had been replaced, the flag of Laosan Zhu also appeared under the city of Huayin County, where the city gate was wide open. (End of this chapter)