Chapter 1188 Under the Shouchun City(2/3)
Therefore, he could not instruct Shouchun's defenders at all.
"Fire the arrow, what are you still waiting for?"
After Yang Hong questioned Tian Yu, he turned around and faced Wei Bing, who was bowing but hesitantly.
"Qiang!"
But Yang Hong pulled out his command sword and said, "Whoever dares to disobey the command will be killed!"
"Puff!"
As the first arrow was shot, more and more arrow feathers were shot at the people at the city gate.
The screams of misery arose and mixed with the calls for help and cries, forming a miserable song of hell on earth in troubled times.
"Save us..."
Some of the people below raised their heads and kept shouting and praying: "We are not craftsmen, we are the people of Wei..."
What answered them was more dense arrow feathers.
An iron arrow hit him mercilessly in the face, causing his voice to suddenly stop.
Tian Yu gritted his teeth and watched as the people kept falling and the ground at the city gate turned blood red.
He finally couldn't control his emotions.
"ah!"
He suddenly drew his sword and struck it hard on the city head, shouting to the sky with tears streaming down his face.
I don’t know whether he is shouting incompetently or shouting about the difficulties of the world.
"General Tian is too tired. Send General Tian down to rest!"
Yang Hong was startled by Tian Yu's outburst, but when he saw that the other party made no next move, he calmed down and gave an order.
Tian Pengzu, the son of Tian Yu, has been following his master, seeing everything in front of him, and then hearing Yang Hong's instructions.
Without waiting for others to take action, he quickly stepped forward, supported Tian Yu, and whispered:
"Sir, it is useless for us to stay here. We should go down first."
Tian Yu sighed and closed his eyes without saying a word.
Tian Pengzu half supported and half pulled him, and together with several personal guards, he sent Tian Yu down to the top of the city.
Before they could get far, they heard a sudden "boom" behind them.
Turning around to look, it turned out that several waves of arrows were shot down, resulting in a large number of casualties and deaths, which finally stopped the people from rushing into the city.
Shouchun's city gate was barely able to fall before the Wu army rushed to it.
The last scene Tian Yu saw outside the city was that Wu Jun had chopped down several unarmed civilians, and arrows were constantly falling from the top of the city.
He closed his eyes again in pain.
Like a zombie, Tian Yu was carried away by his son for an unknown amount of time without opening his eyes.
"If I had known today, why would I have left Liu Xuande back then?"
Tian Pengzu was the closest, and when he heard his master's words, his body suddenly trembled.
"grown ups?!"
Tian Yu closed his eyes and murmured:
"When I was young, I entrusted myself to Liu Xuande, who also treated me very kindly..."
Probably remembering what happened in his early years, Tian Yu had a look of extreme regret on his face:
"How great would it be if I could follow Zhao Zilong's example and travel thousands of miles to find Liu Xuande?"
In my early years, I thought that only Cao Mengde could bring peace to the world.
Therefore, even though Cao Mengde massacred the city many times, he still persuaded himself in his heart that this was a last resort in order to bring peace to the world as soon as possible.
Who would have expected that the current situation in the world would become increasingly difficult to understand.
It even develops in the opposite direction of what I thought back then.
Especially when he was guarding the border areas, he repeatedly defeated the barbarians, and when he was in chaos in the Central Plains, he kept the soldiers in the border areas in peace. He thought he had done something good.
But compared with Ji Han's method of governing the Hu people, it is not worth mentioning.
How satisfying would it be to be able to live in Jihan, ride horses across the desert, and conquer the barbarians?
How is it like being in Wei State, being squeezed out by Wang Xiong in Youzhou, being squeezed out by Cheng Xi in Qingzhou, and being squeezed out by Wang Ling in Yangzhou...
And every time I am squeezed out, I am the one who suffers.
Tian Yu suddenly realized that he seemed to have been on the wrong path for most of his life.
Not only was the choice wrong, but what he did was also meaningless.
This seventy-year-old veteran was deeply hit, as if his faith had collapsed, his energy and energy seemed to be suddenly drained, and he lost his spirit.
"grown ups?"
Seeing that his master was getting more and more depressed, Tian Pengzu asked again worriedly.
"I'm fine."
Tian Yu shook his head, "Help me go back."
When they arrived at the temporary residence, Tian Yu said to Tian Pengzu, "After this battle, I will write to the court to beg for the body, retire and return home."
When Tian Pengzu heard this, he was immediately stunned: "Sir, this..."
But when he saw the appearance of the Lord, he remembered the scene at the top of the city, and then thought of the unfair treatment that the Lord had received over the years.
Finally nodded:
"What the adults say is what it is."
After a pause, he asked again:
"Sir, what should we do now?"
Tian Yu seemed to have recovered, and he said in a calm tone:
"Naturally, they tried their best to defend the city. Yang Hong's actions of shooting and killing people certainly regarded human lives as nothing, but if the Wu invaders were allowed to enter the city, they would probably act like animals."
Although he couldn't stand what Yang Hong did at the city gate, Tian Yu had to admit that this move was to kill the people at the city gate and save the people in the whole city.
He is not qualified to comment on right or wrong.
Maybe no one is wrong, it's just that the world is wrong.
As a young man, he wanted to help Cao Mengde change the world as soon as possible, so he chose Cao Mengde.
Now it seems that this idea is a bit too naive.
The general trend of the world is surging, but who dares to say that they have the ability to change it?
At this time, Tian Yu was old, short-minded and disheartened.
"You lead one thousand troops from Runan to the city head to report to General Yang and assist him in defending the city."
Tian Yu waved his hand, "Don't worry about me, go ahead."
Seeing that there was really nothing serious going on, Tian Pengzu accepted the order and left.
At this time, the arrow rain at the top of the city still showed no intention of stopping.
A large number of people were killed and injured at the city gate. Wu Guoxizuo, who was mixed in, was also shot by the rain of arrows fired from the city wall without distinguishing between friend and foe.
Only a few were lucky enough to sneak into the city gate and try to snatch the winch, but were hacked to death by the swarming Wei army.
The remaining common people, as long as they could still walk, had no way to move forward, and there were Wu bandits behind them, so they all tried their best to run in both directions.
Those who ran slowly were initially thought to be in the way by Wu Jun, who chopped down some of them.
But when he watched helplessly, the city gate that was only a little bit in his hand suddenly closed at the critical moment.
Quan Xu (the son of the Grand Governor Quan Cong) and Quan Duan (the son of Quan Cong) who led the assault were furious.
With such great achievements taken away from him, how could Wu Jun let go of the people who couldn't run far, and then turned around and drove those people back again - at least it would be considered a little interest.
Facing the rain of arrows at the top of the city, the two men finally had no choice but to retreat with their troops and start setting up camp.
Half an hour later, Quan Cong arrived with the main force of the Wu army.
"grown ups!"
"uncle!"
Quan Xu and Quan Duan came to Quan Cong with shame on their faces.
Quan Cong, who was riding on the horse, had no intention of dismounting. He said "hmm" and did not look at them. He just looked silently at Shouchun not far away.
"Sir, this child is incompetent, please punish me."
Only then did Quan Cong look back, saw the two people kneeling in front of the horse, and said calmly:
To be continued...