Chapter 183 The only way to survive is not to retreat
Although the turmoil caused by Chen Fan and the others has been temporarily resolved, it is not yet over.
The female officials with severed eyebrows and others on the top of the city saw the opportunity early. When the people entered the city, they arranged officers and soldiers to temporarily intercept the wealthy people's carriages and horses in Wengcheng.
Those wealthy family heads are now without masters. The power revealed by the ice Buddha makes them frightened and dare not take the risk.
The fact that one of Chen Fan’s carriages exploded and some experts flew out to join the battle made them even more worried.
Everyone is a local snake, and they know exactly how many masters there are in Chen Fan's family. It is not clear to them. The meaning behind the sudden appearance of so many strange faces is self-evident.
There were a few people with good eyesight who could clearly see the bloody eyes and blue skin of Bai Zhongtuo and others. Their hearts were spinning and they scolded the Chen Fan family a hundred and eighty times.
When Du Yuanzhen and others rode into the city, these wealthy family heads couldn't wait to defend themselves, talking and making noises.
"Even if Chen Fan really deceived you in some respects and incited the people to unrest, it was ultimately the result of the hard work of all of your families."
Du Yuanzhen has nothing to be polite to these people. "It is inevitable to go to jail and face the crime. Whoever explains more will suffer less."
While she was speaking, the red-armored cavalry behind her had already dismounted and drawn their swords, cooperating with the government soldiers to capture them all.
“Wait a minute!”
Everyone was shocked and angry, and one of them shouted, “In Chang’an City, we are preparing carriages, horses and ships, and the family members of officials and families who are strapped with food and grass will only be more numerous than We have dozens of wealthy families in Bonan City.”
“Your Du family’s. Needless to say about those relatives, among the frontline generals Zhang Anshou, Dong Ling'er and others, which family has no relatives ready to escape? They can't hide this news from us!"
"If the princess is really so unkind! , I dare to ask those officials and their families, how to deal with it?”
Du Yuanzhen turned to look at the person who spoke, sneered, and was about to reply, but she didn't know what came to mind, her eyes turned, and her face darkened.
"Have they incited a large number of people to leave the city, intending to use them as stepping stones on their way to escape?"
Su Hanshan's voice sounded, and he stretched out his hand to grab it, and a big golden hand flew out of the air. , grabbed the person who just spoke, and brought him closer.
That was a middle-aged man with a dignified appearance and a neat beard. At this moment, his face looked horrified. He felt that his once quite proud martial arts skills were completely unable to resist this dog that held him in the palm of his hand and only exposed his face. Big hands with head and feet.
"You just said that you know a lot of information. Okay, please name some more people who instigated the people to slander them. No matter what their identities are, if they are found, I will kill them."
Su Hanshan looked at the man, and his voice suddenly became loud and loud, like a Zen chant, "Say!!"
The man was shocked, and it seemed that only this one word was echoing in his mind, although there were many things in his belly Pretentious words, but at this moment, inexplicably, he didn't dare to tell lies.
"I...I..."
He "I" for a long time, but didn't say anything useful.
These people in Wengcheng also became silent.
The battlefield was chaotic just now, and many of them actually didn't know who made the ice Buddha.
But Su Hanshan's Zen chant immediately made them guess the truth. They felt panic in their hearts and looked miserable.
The panic this time was not the one they pretended to deceive the people before, but was completely sincere. Unfortunately, not so many people watched their performance this time.
“If you are not willing to be the only one being arrested, you can tell all the information you know in prison and accuse other people with similar intentions, but it is best not to tell lies, otherwise you will be arrested. After I verify it, you will only suffer more!"
After Su Hanshan said these words, he threw the man out.
This time, when the soldiers started to kidnap people, they did not dare to resist.
After these people were escorted into the city, Du Yuanzhen led his people to climb the inner wall of Wengcheng and face the city.
The sun has risen. If you climb up and look into the distance, you can have a general view of the city.
Although the people in the city no longer have the momentum to continue to attack outside the city, they are still crowded in the streets of the eastern city.
Du Yuanzhen immediately asked the personal guards behind him to take out the letter and the order and pass it to the officials and generals in the city, so that they could send it down to all levels, distribute the order, mobilize the soldiers in the city, and preach loudly to appease the people. .
When the whole process was turbulent, many of the soldiers were wavering. After all, their own relatives were also among the crowds of people crowding out of the city.
Fortunately, only tens of thousands of people left the city at that time, and the vast majority of them were still in the city. Otherwise, I am afraid that these soldiers would also have fled with them.
Now that the situation has stabilized, the warrant is issued to them first, and the effect is better if they shout on the spot among the crowd.
Su Hanshan took a look at the words written on the paper. They were concise and easy to understand. Although they were not long, they all hit the point.
"Well, it seems that you have been prepared for the propaganda specifically for this turmoil."
Du Yuanzhen shook his head and said: "It's still a step too late. These preachings were originally used to curb rumors, but now they can only be used to appease them afterwards."
Su Hanshan said: "Since I have prepared something, I just wanted to point out The flaw in that person's words should be very simple. How could it be Like he choked on his words?”
“His few words can’t reduce my guilt, they are just some of my original worries, which were aroused by him, and I forgot to reply for a while. "
After Du Yuanzhen said these few words, he was not ready to continue talking.
However, in order to observe the situation in various parts of the city in time, everyone had to stay on top of the city for a while.
Being idle, Du Yuanzhen paused for a while, looked at the officials and soldiers around him, and with a slight thought in his mind, he told what was bothering him.
It’s not a strange thing, it’s exactly what the person mentioned before.
Everyone in the world has selfish motives. The greater the ability, the heavier the selfishness.
Among the cities in Chang'an, the one with the most detailed and reliable preparations for escape was the one with the most thorough route planning.
They are definitely not those local snakes, nor those high-rollers who have experience running caravans, but relatives of the upper echelons of Chang'an, civil servants and generals.
Asking himself, even if Du Yuanzhen is willing to stay in Chang'an to fight and achieve a result, he still hopes that his family members can be transferred to a safer place first.
Based on the strength of their family members, their ability to protect themselves, the number of relatives in groups, the quality of their chariots and horses, their complete supplies of food and grass, and their detailed maps, not to mention taking advantage of the Yellow River eastward to escape to the coast of the Bohai Sea.
Even if we first head south into Jiangdong, wait and see the situation, and then consider taking the East China Sea and the South China Sea, we are still sure of success. But the problem is that if the Du family leaves, in order not to chill the frontline generals, they will not be able to stop Zhang Anshou and Dong Ling'er's families.
If these two families leave, it will be difficult to stop the families of their civil servants from leaving.
After these people are gone, can ordinary soldiers still be unable to smell the wind and ignore their own families? The morale of the military and the people will inevitably change drastically.
However, ordinary people, even the families of young generals and officials in the middle and lower classes, do not have the same favorable conditions as the relatives of upper-class officials. If they leave the city in large numbers, they will not be able to escape successfully.
Before they can cross the river and reach other cities, they will be chased and surrounded by endless living corpses, and they can only turn into withered bones in the wild.
Du Yuanzhen has been worrying about this matter for a long time, and still can't figure out how to solve these problems.
Bo Nancheng’s chief and deputy city lord, chief and deputy guard generals, and others were still rejoicing that today’s turmoil was contained, but suddenly they heard Du Yuanzhen say something clearly, and their expressions changed. He stopped talking.
The families of each other are indeed preparing for these things, but what does the princess mean by saying this in public? !
They went to look at their subordinates, and sure enough they saw that the soldiers and officials on duty on the city had strange expressions.
Those people knew very well that they were by no means considered high-ranking in the city. If they had figured it all out, their family would have a better chance of survival if they stayed.
So when they see the clan members of the city lord and general preparing to flee, what will those who are not prepared to flee do?
Thinking of this, the city lord and others did not want to think deeply about it, and all turned their attention to the princess.
Du Yuanzhen stroked the wall with one hand, her expression still calm. No one knew what her state of mind was when she said these words.
"Staying is a life of nine deaths, and escaping is a life of ten thousand deaths, but no matter whether you stay or escape, the very few survivors are more likely to be people from the upper class."
Su Hanshan looked at the people in the city and said, "Although it is cruel , But this is the fact. If you think about it this way, the princess did not run away directly, but was delaying these things, which is quite conscientious."
The calm Du Yuanzhen's face changed after hearing this. I couldn't help but feel a little bit subtle, and felt very unhappy.
The guards around her were even more indignant and wanted to defend themselves. Du Yuanzhen quickly raised his hand to stop them.
This man had just saved their lives. His strength was rare in the world. After a few words, he revealed that his temper seemed to be a bit surly. It was definitely not wise to argue with him over a trivial matter.
"What a pity."
Su Hanshan turned around and looked at these officials and soldiers, "Things are even more cruel than what you, Princess, thought."
< br>"If you really abandon the city and flee, how many people will Death, what awaits other survivors will never be a life of death, but a life of no life."
No matter how many living corpses the Bai Palace drives, they will not be able to chase them overseas, let alone. Maybe in the vast sea, you can accurately find the direction where others have fled.
Su Hanshan's words sounded very alarmist.
Du Yuanzhen's heart suddenly felt, and there were some hazy premonitions in his mind, which seemed to be suddenly realized, but he couldn't put it into words. He asked solemnly: "Why are you so sure?"
Yang Baifa touched his sparse and soft beard and spoke: "The cities in Chang'an are still a handful of prosperous places after fifty years of drastic changes. "Many of you should know that corpse transformation does not only occur in Kyushu."
"Beyond the Great Wall, overseas, wherever we are." The places where news can still be communicated have also experienced corpse transformation. It is conceivable that no country in the world is completely immune."
"In other words, the power of the source of corpse transformation is enough to penetrate into every place in the world."
Du Yuanzhen said in surprise: "The source of corpse transformation? What if the corpse transformation is not a natural disaster like an earthquake and tsunami, but There really is a source. Could it be that Old King Wu meant that there is a long-term source? After An falls, the source of corpse transformation will become powerful again. "
"Even if you don't sleep on the winter solstice, all the remaining living people in the world will be turned into living corpses."
Yang Baifa nodded and said: "Exactly."
This is not a lie.
After fifty years of fighting between the will of heaven and the source of the corpse transformation, it has reached a crucial point.
The Baiwang Mansion's attack on the cities of Chang'an echoes this node.
If the cities of Chang'an were destroyed, the source of the corpse transformation would completely overwhelm the will of the sky, infiltrate the entire world, and take it as its own.
As for what kind of food the living corpses will rely on to survive after all the living people turn into living corpses, this kind of thing is probably not something that needs to be concerned about for the source of the corpse transformation.
“I don’t know if you have captured the Soul-Calming Bell.”
Yang Baifa took out a small copper bell wrapped in cotton and stuffed with bell tongue from his back, and said, "This is the treasure used by Prince Bai's Mansion to control living corpses, but the material of this treasure itself has nothing special about it."
“You can just go through a certain ritual and obtain the approval from the source of corpse transformation, and then you have the power to control living corpses.”
“You can study it and find some Prisoners try, but remember, You must not shake it with your own hands, and do not use your fist spirit to explore, otherwise, it will be subtly eroded by the source of the corpse transformation."
Du Yuanzhen carefully took the handful of cotton cloth and said: "We haven't done it yet. alley How does Prince Qingbai control living corpses... With all due respect, where did King Wu get so much information about the origin of corpse transformation? "
Yang Baifa said: "Thanks to Han Shan."
People like Bonan City Government Office have experienced too many changes and turns this morning, and they still need to digest it. Their thoughts are in chaos, and all of them have complicated expressions on their faces, some are surprised, some are worried.
"I know you still can't believe these words."
Su Hanshan answered the words, glanced at everyone, and said, "Tonight, I will let you see Evidence. "
Since you are all relatively strong, you are confident that you can safely survive the wilderness, escape to the Bohai Sea, or even go out to sea when you escape.
Then, use your spare strength in the sacrifice of heaven.
But this time, Su Hanshan was not prepared to just drag the soldiers into a dream like he did in Juma City.
Because he felt that in the process of arriving in Chang'an, the will of heaven became more active, and the range that he could pull into the dream was wider.
Furthermore, Su Hanshan also wanted to take out the images he had seen and heard along the way and use the images collected by the Eyes of Heaven to sort out the details and use them to confirm the details of his cultivation in the true form stage.
(End of this chapter)