Volume 1, Chapter 78, Tens of Thousands of Deserters

The captain was speechless after being asked by Jin Ba, and his face turned red.

What could he say? Was he going to say that the Mituo Pass, where their one million troops were stationed, was broken by the more than 200,000 troops of the Great Sun Dynasty, and that they entered the city to chase and kill them?

If he said such words, not only would Jin Ba not believe it, even he himself would not believe it.

This is ridiculous, so outrageous!

Jin Ba continued to shout, "Why are you silent? Are you feeling guilty?

This city lord thinks you are spies of the Great Sun Dynasty. Come, shoot them to death with arrows!"

After these words were spoken, the soldiers under the city wall became anxious. They had used all their strength to escape and save their lives, and they didn't want to die at the hands of their own people at this time.

Many people immediately shouted, "The Great Sun Dynasty came with a punishment from heaven. I was at the scene and saw with my own eyes that Marshal Lian Yi and the generals were killed by the punishment from heaven!"

"Yes, I saw it too. General Lian Yi was smashed into pieces by the heavenly punishment. He is deader than dead!"

"The walls of Mituo Pass were destroyed by the heavenly punishment. The army of the Great Sun Dynasty came to kill us. We had no choice but to flee here!"

"We are all from the Mahayana Kingdom, please open the city gate and let us in!"

Jin Ba shouted angrily, "How dare you! There is no such thing as heavenly punishment! You are just talking nonsense!"

"This city lord finally understood. It turns out that you are all deserters from Mituo Pass!"

Jin Ba glanced at all of them, roughly estimated their number, was secretly shocked, and immediately scolded these people: "If you were ordinary people, this city lord would definitely open the city gates and let you in!

But you are deserters, more than 400,000 deserters. If you take up arms, even if you fight to the death with the army of the Great Sun Dynasty, Mituo Pass will not be lost!"

"You guys just lost Mituo Pass. This is really a huge joke. In my opinion, you are just a bunch of cowards!"

Jin Ba said in a cold voice: "I'm sorry, everyone, there is no place for you in Jingu City!

But this city lord can provide you with weapons, whether you want to commit suicide or fight your way back to Mituo Pass, please use whatever you want!"

Upon hearing this, the captain shouted, "We can choose not to enter the city, but we need food. We have been running all day and are exhausted. We are already starving. Please, Lord Jin, give us some food!"

Jin Ba looked at him strangely and sneered, "Are you kidding me? There are hundreds of thousands of you. Even if all the food in the entire Jingu City is taken out, it will not be enough for you to eat!"

The captain was furious when he heard this: "You won't let us into the city, and you won't give us any food. It's freezing cold this night, and we're starving and freezing. Do you want hundreds of thousands of our soldiers to starve or freeze to death?"

“This city lord has already said, pick up your weapons and take back Mituo Pass!

If I remember correctly, the food in Mituo Pass is enough for you to eat for three months!"

The captain was furious and shouted, "Brothers, the Golden Drum City is going too far. Let's break open the city gate and go into the city to get food!"

Someone immediately echoed, "That's right, we are all from the Mahayana Kingdom, why don't they let us enter the city!"

"Break open the city gate and enter the city to eat food!"

"Everyone, come together!"

All of a sudden, all these people became excited, and many of them walked towards the city gate, preparing to attack the city by force.

This made Jin Ba furious, and he immediately shouted coldly: "If anyone dares to take another step forward, I will kill them without mercy!"

Jin Ba's shouts alone were no match for the shouts of hundreds of thousands of people outside the city. No one paid any attention to Jin Ba and just kept rushing towards the city gate.

Jin Ba's scalp tingled as he watched. These people were all soldiers, each of them strong and powerful, and strong men. Although they had no weapons in their hands, they were also very intimidating.

Such a large number must not be allowed to enter the city, because these people are no longer under the supervision of their superiors and have no military discipline in their hearts. No one knows what they will do after entering the city.

If he robs everywhere for his own selfish desires, his Jingu City will be finished.

Therefore, Jin Ba would never let these guys enter the city no matter what, no matter whether they are from the Mahayana Kingdom or not!

As they got closer and closer to the city gate, Jin Ba gave the order: "Shoot!"

Suddenly hundreds of sharp arrows were shot out, and a large number of soldiers close to the city wall were shot to death, but some people still rushed forward. Jin Ba hurriedly ordered people to shoot again!

A large number of soldiers outside the city gate were attacking the city gate, while a large number of soldiers inside the city gate were constantly resisting, and two tug-of-war battles were formed at this time.

Before long, thousands of these deserters had died under the city. Jin Ba even had people bring in boulders and logs, and threw them down without any hesitation, killing quite a few people.

The key point was that there were too many soldiers below. In order to avoid the rain of arrows, rolling stones and logs, many stampedes occurred, and many people were trampled to death by these brothers.

There were more and more corpses under the city wall, even blocking the road. These deserters finally began to regain a bit of sanity, retreating in fear, and dared not move forward to attack the city again.

Looking at the blood-soaked wall below, Jin Ba shouted grimly, "If anyone dares to come within ten meters of Jingu City again, I will kill them without mercy!"

After this, the farce finally stopped. The fleeing soldiers just waited outside Jingu City to rest. They were really exhausted, hungry and tired, and had no strength to rush to other places.

Time passed gradually, the sun rose, the sky just started to turn pale, and above the earth came the solemn sounds of swords and horses.

The deserters who were resting outside Jingu City suddenly raised their heavy heads and looked in the direction where the sound came from.

With just this one glance, everyone suddenly lost their sleepiness and stood up in fear, shouting, "They are coming! Run!"

"The army of the Great Sun Dynasty is coming!"

"Run? Where should we run? We can't even get into Golden Drum City!"

"Quick, continue the siege, and make sure to charge into Golden Drum City, otherwise none of us will survive!"

In the east where the sun was rising, Xiang Yun was seen approaching with densely packed Great Sun Dynasty troops, followed closely by three hundred Great Sun cannons. They looked breathtaking, majestic and extremely powerful.

These deserters had already been frightened by the army of the Great Sun Dynasty. No one dared to go forward to fight, and all of a sudden they all ran towards the gate of Jingu City.

After dealing with the deserters last night, Jin Ba went back to the City Lord's Mansion to sleep, leaving only the soldiers guarding the city. They changed posts every two hours, and anyone who crossed the line would be shot mercilessly.

At this time, the soldiers guarding the city had been frightened by the densely packed Great Sun Dynasty army in the distance. Looking at the Great Sun Army flags, these people were dumbfounded. Could it be that Amitabha Pass was really breached by the Great Sun Dynasty?

What’s going on? Aren’t we going to attack the Great Sun Dynasty? How come it’s the Great Sun Dynasty attacking our country now?

In the blink of an eye, they were already too late to stop the deserters from attacking the city, and it was too late even if they shot them with arrows.

The gate of Jingu City was knocked open by these deserters in an instant. The soldiers blocking the gate had already fallen asleep due to exhaustion and were immediately awakened. However, before they could stand up, they were stepped on the face by the deserters who rushed in and used the force to run into the city.

More deserters poured in from behind, and the gate of Jingu City was pushed wider and wider. All the guards who were lying down to rest were trampled to death by them.

Everything was in chaos. Among the four or five hundred thousand soldiers, not a single one dared to rush forward to face the army of the Great Sun Dynasty.

Moreover, they were already starving, so as soon as they rushed into Jingu City, they looked for ordinary people's breakfast shops and restaurants. They didn't pay at all, but just grabbed the food and ate it, completely ignoring the bosses' shouting and cursing.

Are you kidding? People are almost starving to death, and they still care about this?

More and more deserters entered Jingu City, and the defenders of Jingu City were unable to control them at all. They quickly sent people to the City Lord's Mansion to inform Jin Ba.

A vendor selling steamed buns said with a bitter face: "Hey, soldiers, eat slowly, there are plenty of steamed buns, but this money..."

The stall owner stretched out a rough big hand towards them, tremblingly, asking them for money for the buns.

These deserters looked ferocious and the stall owner was actually very scared, but these buns were the result of his hard work. His family was not well off to begin with, and he had two children to raise, so he needed the money from the buns to live.

These deserters had no time to pay attention to him at all. They just ate their buns and didn't seem to have any intention of paying.

The vendor was anxious and shouted, "Sir, I am also a small business owner. You can't refuse to pay for the buns."

A rather burly deserter swallowed a large meat bun, then kicked the vendor to the ground, cursing: "Old man, we fought on the front line, so what's wrong with eating some of your buns? You keep nagging here, it's endless, right?"

Another person echoed, "That's right. It's your honor that we eat your buns. How dare you ask us for money? Are you tired of living?"

Another person said, "Pah, this is such a disgusting thing. If I weren't really starving, I would never eat it even if I died. I'm lucky enough that I didn't ask you to pay for the damage to my body!"

These deserters are arrogant and domineering, and they don't look like soldiers at all, let alone protecting the common people.

One of them pointed to a big restaurant in front and said, "Brothers, let's go, there is a restaurant in front, let's go eat roast chicken!"

"That's right, eating this kind of coarse grains can only fill your stomach. The real delicious food has to be eaten in a restaurant!"

As these people were shouting and about to leave, the boss of the bun stall quickly got up from the ground, stopped them, and forced himself to muster up the courage, and shouted with a stern face: "Give me my money for the buns, quick!

Otherwise… otherwise I will report you to the government and have you all arrested!"

Upon hearing this, these people burst into laughter, then rushed forward and beat the stall owner up with just a few punches and kicks. They didn't stop until he was lying on the ground wailing and crying.

A deserter shouted, "You ungrateful fellow, I'll teach you a lesson this time. If you keep being so blind, watch out for your head!"

After these people finished talking, they were ready to leave. The stall owner was now lying on the ground covered in blood, unable to move.

But the money for the buns could not be lost. He stared at these people with extremely resentful eyes and shouted loudly: "I remember what you look like. You want to eat buns but don't pay, and you beat people up. Wait, I will definitely report you to the government. Don't even think about running away~!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the group of people looked cold, looked at each other, and nodded to each other.

Then a man took out a big knife from somewhere, walked up slowly and stabbed the stall owner in the neck.

Suddenly, blood flowed everywhere. A loyal citizen who was struggling to make a living and support his family died at the hands of these deserters who were not bound by military regulations.