Chapter 416 Collapse (Continued)
In the afternoon, there was still quite some time before dark, and the fine spring rain showed no sign of stopping, and the Jin army had completely collapsed across the board.
It is said that before the total collapse came, although Wuzhu, who stayed behind in the rear camp, was extremely panicked, he still tried his best to make a series of preparations for response... On the one hand, he asked Tai Shi Nu to take Yu Yunwen to meet the Zhao Song government in order to delay the possible total collapse as much as possible; on the other hand, he asked the personal guards to open all the camp gates and drawbridges, and prepare flags behind the drawbridges for support when necessary; on the one hand, he asked the remaining troops in the camp to drive the signed troops out of the camp directly from the other side, and on the other hand, he asked people to clear the passages and venues in the camp to facilitate the entry and preparation of the troops.
However, all the preparations, at least the immediate ones, became completely ineffective when the moment of earth collapse and mountain collapse arrived.
The camp was out of control from front to back, and most people no longer paid attention to military orders. Looting and fighting spread everywhere, accompanied by abandonment of posts and escape. Most of the flag bearers arranged to lead the troops turned around and left... At the beginning, Wuzhu tried to lead his guards to kill the flag bearers as a restraint. However, as the first batch of defeated troops arrived in front of the camp, even the ruling prince's own guards who stayed behind lost the last glimmer of confidence and stopped carrying out military orders.
This is certainly understandable - you know, even though countless suspension bridges and gates were opened in front of the camp because of the previous troops, when the defeated army turned back, a large-scale stampede still occurred, and countless soldiers were pushed directly into the trenches by the rear army. Then, these core combat forces of the Great Jin Kingdom fought and pushed each other in the suspension bridges and mud ditches for a slight possibility of escape.
They trampled on each other, tore each other apart, and even swung their war hammers. Some even tried to take off their armor in the mud just to crawl into the camp earlier.
In just a moment, the armor, weapons, and mud in the trenches caused a huge number of casualties, which might have been caused by the previous half-hour of melee.
In fact, seeing this situation, not only Wuzhu completely gave up his efforts, but the few other people in the camp who strictly followed military orders also lost their discipline and turned around and fled.
"King of Wei! King of Wei! The Fourth Prince!"
Hong Ya, breathing heavily, shouted several times to the watchtower. "The situation is hopeless. If we don't leave now, are we going to destroy the entire Jin Kingdom? Let's hurry back to Zhending Prefecture!"
The pale-faced Wushu finally nodded blankly, then climbed down the watchtower in a daze, but almost fell down again. But before he fell, several guards rushed up and pulled and lifted their prince to the ground, and someone quickly brought a war horse.
"No! I can't go to Zhending Prefecture!"
Wuzhu got on his horse in a daze, and walked slowly for a while with Hong Ya and dozens of his trusted guards. When they reached an intersection in the camp, they suddenly regained some clarity. "With such a big collapse, the floating bridges on the Hutuo River can't pass many people. The majority of the troops still have to go east... But if they go east, Hong Chengzhi, you know..."
Of course Hong Ya knew... most of the defeated Jin army would definitely stay in the south of Hutuo River in a hurry, and Yue Fei would most likely attack from downstream... but now that things have come to this, how dare he still interfere in this matter?
As the person in the army who might be most mentally prepared for the complete collapse of the Jin army, he was much more sober than Wuzhu just now, but he dared not say a word, for fear that he would be suspected of something in the future.
The mess that Yu Yunwen is in is enough to scare people!
"I'll go to Shiyi first and see if I can gather people along the way and cross the river as soon as possible." On the other side, Wuzhu saw that Hong Ya didn't speak, but misunderstood, thinking that the other civil servant was afraid of death. "Hong Chengzhi, please go to the rear camp and take the people in the rear camp to Zhending Prefecture. I asked Gao Qingyi to call Lao Liu to send reinforcements before. Now you have to stop them and don't let them come to die again. Let Lao Liu defend Zhending... One day is one day... Let Pu Suyue take control of the floating bridges on the river and gather as many people as possible!"
When he started saying this, Wuzhu tried to take out his gold medal from his waist and hand it to the other party, but for some reason, he didn't take it off until the end. In the end, Hong Ya himself was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He rode over on horseback, untied it and snatched it away.
After taking it, the two men rode their horses and prepared to go their separate ways. But after walking a few steps, Hong Ya couldn't help but turn his horse slightly, and on his horse, holding the gold medal, he bowed to Wuzhu sideways:
"Fourth Prince, please take care of yourself!"
Wuzhu looked back at the other person blankly and nodded slightly in the rain, but soon the two of them finally rode their horses and went their separate ways.
And if it is said that Wuzhu and Hong Ya still had some time and thinking space to maneuver because they were in the rear camp, then before the total collapse, the three generals Wanyan Huo Nu, Wanyan Po Shu and Jiagu Wulibu and their subordinates who were at the forefront of the high ground would be the first to bear the brunt of the attack, and then they realized at the first moment that the situation was hopeless and beyond human control.
However, when the mountains here were collapsing and destroying, the three former trusted veterans of Lou Shi behaved completely differently.
Jiagu Wulibu, who was already 64 years old, let out a long sigh, then rode his horse back to the camp and tried to escape. Moreover, unlike most of the fleeing soldiers, he actually led dozens of cavalry guards against the trend and headed eastward, as if he was preparing to do the opposite. He took advantage of the inconvenience of the Song army's iron curtain formation to calmly avoid the large group of fleeing soldiers, and it was also convenient for him to take the Hutuo River to Zhending Prefecture.
He knew the importance of crossing the river as quickly as possible.
As for Wanyan Huonu and Wanyan Poshu, they both stopped where they were at the same time, and let the soldiers beside them disintegrate, but they just stared blankly at the motionless dragon flag on the top of the mountain.
This is understandable. Others have reasons to escape and the instinct to survive, but what about Huo Nu and Po Shu?
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