Chapter 99
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Ren Zhong fled to the city in a daze with his personal soldiers. He was defeated and lost. All the 80,000 troops outside the city were gone. Today, the Sui army launched an attack as usual. Just when Lu Wenda, Fan Yi and others led their troops to block the Sui army, Kong Fan's army on the right collapsed first. The front was drilled through by the Sui army, which immediately triggered the collapse of the central army. As a result, tens of thousands of troops were in chaos and had no power to turn the world back.
Lu Wenda, Fan Yi and others wanted to save the battle and led their troops to fight to the death, but Ren Zhong saw that there was no hope for the battle. No matter how much Chen's army resisted, it would not be possible for him to be annihilated by the superior forces of the Sui army. If it was a little later, it would be impossible for him to escape into the city.
Twenty miles south of Jiankang City, Xinlin, Zhang Erniu, Princess Leyi, and a maid, Lotus, were formed together, mixed with thousands of people and slowly walked towards the checkpoints set up by the Sui army. Several gates in the southeast of Jiankang City only opened half an hour for the people to enter and exit every day at the morning and afternoon. At this time, the people would lead their families to escape from the city.
The reason why Jiankang City opened the city every day was of course not to let the people escape. The hundreds of thousands of residents in the city consumed a lot of materials and garbage produced every day. It would be fine if the Sui army surrounded the city to death. However, since the Sui army did not siege the city to death, the Chen army naturally had to use it. One hour of opening time every day was when transporting things outside the city and transporting the garbage in the city. At this time, some people inevitably took the opportunity to leave the city.
Looking at the Sui Jun standing on both sides of the road, the girl Lotus held Princess Leyi's little hand nervously. At this moment, the two of them were wearing ordinary old clothes. Princess Leyi's snow-white face was painted with a layer of waxy yellow, covering her beautiful little face. But her eyes were full of curiosity, and her little head was turned around, constantly looking at the Sui Jun in armor.
For Princess Leyi, in addition to the imperial palace and the prince-consort's mansion, there were few opportunities to watch in Jiankang City, let alone leave the city. At first, she was not satisfied with leaving the city to go to the countryside. However, as soon as she left the city, her strong curiosity was drawn out. The cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks walking on the road, the ravines on both sides, lush flowers and weeds, Princess Leyi was seen for the first time, not to mention the armor, style, and even weapons of the Sui army were different from those she had seen before.
However, the lotus was extremely nervous. He had heard others discussing the cruelty of northerners in the palace: he was ten feet tall, his eyes were like copper bells, and his mouth was like blood. He could eat a roasted lamb with one person. With a wave of the big knife in his hand, his head was rolling.
Although it seems that these Sui army and Chen army are similar at this moment, they are just taller and fiercer, but they have never seen anyone with a height of ten feet, and they have never seen anyone with a mouth like blood, and they can't help but be afraid.
"Hurry up! Hurry up!" The impatience-thrusting voice of Sui Jun came from the front.
"Official, okay, this is the villain's life-saving money, you can't take it."
"Get out, if you don't get out, be careful to suck you." The sergeant shouted loudly. As Xu Deyan expected, the Sui army did not restrict ordinary people from leaving the city, but they would investigate people who were obviously officials or wealthy families, and they would let them go if there was no problem.
However, since you need to investigate, don’t expect to pass without losses. Many people’s bags are picked up, and valuable things have been passed by the soldiers. In this era, don’t expect military discipline to be able to be done very well. As long as you don’t kill people randomly, don’t force rob women, and follow some property, it is a rare army of military discipline.
The Sui army dispatched 500,000 troops to attack Chen. More than 90% of these 500,000 troops were all government soldiers who did not receive military pay. The only benefit of their fighting was that they could reduce labor service and taxes and give their families a reward if they win a battle. If they were defeated, not only would they not have any reward, but they would also be even likely to lose their lives. How could they expect these government soldiers to be able to avoid taking the masses one by one?
"Wow." Countless gold and silver shook out from a shabby bag, and a middle-aged fat man in old clothes shouted in distress: "Oh, my gold, my gold."
He was about to lie down and pick up the gold and silver on the ground when a Sui army officer shouted: "This person is a spy, take it away!"
"Oh, official, the villain is just an ordinary person, not a spy." The fat man was startled and quickly decided, but the Sui army did not listen to his explanation at all. The two Sui army quickly raised the fat man and dragged it down.
Seeing this scene, many people's hearts were thumping. I wonder what the Sui Army would do to the fat man who was dragging it down. He Hua was so nervous that he grabbed Princess Leyi's little hand tightly and whispered: "Princess, what should I do?"
Princess Leyi was not afraid and hit Hehua in the hand: "Damn girl, what did you say just now?"
"I...male...little sister." Hehua remembered the inappropriate name just now and quickly changed it.
Zhang Erniu had an experience of passing the test. He thought about it, his face changed, and he quickly asked Princess Leyi: "Little sister, there is nothing precious in your bag, right?"
Princess Leyi shook her head: "No."
Zhang Erniu was still a little worried and regretted not checking Princess Leyi's package when he left the city. That is, as he knew, people who did not bring valuable things in the bag can basically pass the test. If people found out gold, silver or other more valuable things, not only those things will be eliminated, but even people will take them away. He would collect all the gold, silver and silver that Lechang Lord gave him in person. If there is something that is annoying in the bag behind the lotus, it would be bad.
But now Zhang Erniu was worried that it was useless, so it was their turn to pass the test immediately. A Sui army had already pointed at them and shouted: "You guys open the bag!"
"Yes, Jun Ye!" Zhang Erniu quickly stepped forward and opened his bag. Sui Jun flipped it over with his hand. There were only a few old clothes, a dozen stiff steamed buns and a small string of copper coins. The Sui Jun put away the copper coins and shouted impatiently: "Go away, go away."
"Yes, thank you Junjun." Zhang Erniu quickly tied up his bag and pulled Princess Leyi and the girl Hehua to leave.
"Slow." A long spear reached over and stopped Princess Leyi and the lotus: "Your baggage is also opened."
"June, they are villain's wives and girls. The bag is just some women's clothes, so don't need to be opened." Zhang Erniu hurriedly pleaded with him. He had a bad premonition in his heart. There might be something eye-catching in the bag carried by the lotus.
"Does go." The Sui Junjiu ignored Zhang Erniu and grabbed the bag from the lotus hand. He opened the bag in just a few strokes. The bag was indeed filled with some women's clothes, but it was a little more refined. The Sui Junji was about to let go, but he lifted it hard, and a round bead rolled out of the bag.
"Huh, what is this?" Sui Jun quickly picked up the beads from the ground. The beads were all green and reflected green light in the sun. Sui Jun's face was filled with joy, and he quickly turned over the bag again. He found more than ten colorful beads from it. All of these beads were the size of thumbs, smooth and round, and you could tell at a glance that they were valuable.
Zhang Erniu was so distressed that she couldn't help but look at Princess Leyi, with a look of condemnation in her eyes. Princess Leyi blinked innocently. These dozen beads were toys given to her by others. She thought it was fun and put in her bag, but she didn't think it was too precious.
"Come, take them away." The Sui army put away the beads and ordered without hesitation.
Zhang Erniu had no choice but to take Princess Leyi and his servants to leave the brigade and walk in the direction designated by the Sui army. Zhang Erniu was secretly anxious and didn't know what the Sui army would do to them. The lotus was so scared that he trembled all over. On the contrary, Princess Leyi was the calmest person.
After almost halfway through, the three of them came to a large military camp. The Sui army was walking back and forth around them. More than ten tents were separated by wooden stakes in the middle of the military camp. Two Sui soldiers took them over, pointed inside, and shouted: "Get in."
Zhang Erniu was about to obey the order, but Princess Leyi suddenly stood still and looked straight ahead.
"Get in quickly." The two Sui soldiers urged. If it weren't for the fact that Princess Leyi was a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, the two Sui soldiers would have kicked her.
"Go away quickly, stop making trouble." Zhang Erniu quickly whispered. He was really afraid that Princess Leyi would not know the height of the world and would reveal her identity.
"Look, is that Xiao Jing, Xiao Yan who saved you?"
Zhang Erniu smiled bitterly in his heart. Xiao Jing, how could Xiao Wei be here? However, he still looked up at the direction Princess Leyi pointed, and saw the two young men in front riding on high-headed horses and passing by. Zhang Erniu saw it clearly. It was Xiao Jing, Xiao Wei and the others. Although they didn't understand why they were here, Zhang Erniu still shouted without thinking.
"It seems that someone is calling Xiao Jing, Xiao Wei." Li Jing raised his ears.
Han Shiyi laughed and said disapprovingly: "Cousin, don't be stupid. That's the pseudonym we used half a year ago. Who would know?"
Chapter completed!