Chapter 221: Public opinion?
After a closer look, the more than a hundred enemy soldiers who were kneeling in the Wufu Square were not all ordinary people with no cultivation. Look at their knees on the ground, their legs were trembling slightly, and many people were sweating on their foreheads. These people obviously had insufficient physical strength.
Such a person can at most be called an ordinary person, but now he has clearly become the city-defense defender of this city, which surprised Huang Yuchen.
Not only Huang Yuchen, but Yu Sheng was also a little surprised.
Although Wacheng is not big, the terrain is dangerous and it is the last pass to enter the Wufeng City area. When you move forward, you will pass through a mountain range and you will find a plain with no danger to defend.
But at such a critical position, why did the enemy arrange more than a hundred old, weak and disabled soldiers to defend themselves? Didn’t they feel that they could rush here from the beginning?
Thinking of this, Yu Sheng walked forward and walked straight up the steps of the front hall of the Martial Palace. Huang Yuchen followed Yu Sheng and looked at the enemy soldiers kneeling below.
Yu Sheng stood on the steps of the front hall of the Martial Palace, and the enemy soldiers kneeling in front of him became obviously even more nervous. According to rumors, the general of the Eastern Prince's Mansion was a peerless devil who killed people without blinking. If he fell into his hands, he would definitely die.
Every surrendered enemy soldier had this idea in his heart. When he thought of his relatives and his peaceful life in his family, an indescribable fear surged into everyone's hearts.
After the few people kneeling in front stood still for the rest of their lives, beads of sweat dripped from their foreheads and hit the bluestone floor of Wufu Square. Their bodies were shaking like sieve chaff, as if they were about to faint in the next moment. What's more, there was a water stain between their legs, which was scared to pee.
Yu Sheng frowned slightly when he saw this scene. He wanted to ask a little, but now it seems that before he spoke, these people were already scared to pee their pants. If he spoke, he would be afraid that he would be scared to death.
He shook his head helplessly, and Yu Sheng whispered: "Send all of them to prison, do not beat and scold them, and be careful." After saying that, Yu Sheng walked into the martial arts palace.
Huang Yuchen stood for a while. He looked at the enemy soldiers in front of him who were shaking like sieves, and felt a little funny, but he did not say that he followed Yu Sheng and entered the Martial Palace.
After hearing Yu Sheng's order, the two captains immediately stepped forward and ordered all the enemy soldiers to get up and enter the cage in the backyard of the Wufu in an orderly manner.
Two people escorted hundreds of people, and each of these hundreds of people had pale faces. Some people could not even walk by themselves, their legs were weak, and they had to be supported by their companions around them.
At this moment, let alone resisting, they didn't even have the courage to look up.
All the enemy troops were locked in a cage, the two squadron leaders turned around and left, returned to the army, and arranged more than a dozen soldiers to enter the prison and watch over a group of enemy soldiers.
After entering the cage, many enemy soldiers immediately breathed a sigh of relief and locked them up. It seemed that they would not kill them. The atmosphere of fear relaxed slightly.
Yu Sheng entered the Martial Palace and immediately ordered all the soldiers to enter, and arranged for defensive matters to be taken care of the front and back doors. Although the Wa City was not big, there were tens of thousands of people. Fortunately, the soldiers of the Dongwang Mansion were strict in their precepts, so they would not do anything to disturb the people without Yu Sheng's orders.
After all this trouble, the sky was already a little dawn.
Yu Sheng sat in the slightly simple hall of Wucheng Martial Palace, frowned slightly. Huang Yuchen sat down while Yu Sheng, and was also thinking a little.
Yu Sheng originally thought that several captains would not be so smooth to take down the last pass city. The enemy would at least arrange thousands of defenders to defend this place and send several captains to infiltrate, so that they could have an inner support when siege. But what happened now was beyond Yu Sheng and Huang Yuchen's expectations.
The three captains not only sneaked into Wacheng, but also easily captured Wacheng. Yu Sheng led his troops into Wacheng without any resistance. The enemy seemed to have completely given up Wacheng and disappeared.
Moreover, looking at the fearful look of the defenders of Wacheng just now, people have to think about it.
During the war, there were some rumors in the city and in the army, which was normal. However, managers often terminated the spread of rumors in time before the rumors spread, in order to maintain the confidence and morale of the army and the people in the city. Now this situation is obviously the result of the flood of rumors, so that the defenders of Wacheng, looking at the soldiers of the East Prince's Mansion, were as if they were looking at the demons of Jiuyou, and they had not resisted at all, and were about to collapse.
Such a contrasting situation has forced the rest of my life to think more.
Huang Yuchen also pondered a little. Looking at the previous defenders, it was obvious that rumors had reached a point of flooding. As long as the manager is not a fool, he would definitely stop the rumors at the beginning and would not have happened. But now this situation has occurred. In this way, either the managers of the nearby cities are all fools, or the managers are gone in this hucheng.
Yu Sheng frowned slightly, glanced at Huang Yuchen, and said, "What are you thinking?"
Huang Yuchen was slightly stunned and replied, "It's nothing, I just feel that the soldiers outside are a little weird. If you rely solely on rumors, you are afraid that this effect will not be possible."
Yu Sheng nodded slightly, and he naturally thought about this, but he couldn't guess why the defenders of Wa City were so afraid of the East Prince's Mansion.
"I don't know what happened. When we entered Wacheng, we thought there would be a bloody battle, but we didn't expect that the defenders here would have no combat power. They were all old, weak and remnants, and there were not a single elite soldier. The last pass in front of Wufeng City should have been guarded by heavy troops, but now it is like an empty city, which is very strange." Yu Sheng said, thinking a little, he really couldn't figure out why the enemy's behavior was. It was to accumulate combat power to defend Wufeng City?
"According to the general's original plan, tomorrow we can follow the official road of the enclave and enter the Wufeng City Plain." Huang Yuchen said softly: "But now we have to make a long-term plan for such strange events in the Wacheng Pass."
"That's true." Yu Sheng nodded and said, "It is not ruled out that you will encounter ambushes in the middle before entering the Wufeng City Plain. For caution, we will not go the main road."
The two had a brief conversation, but neither of them understood what was going on, but there were pursuers later, and Wufeng City was close at hand, so they could only move forward. At this time, they could only choose the safest strategy.
"The city of Wa is not big, and there should be no danger today." Yu Sheng said: "You should hurry up and repair it. Enter the Wufeng City Plain later. What is waiting for us is probably a bloody battle."
Huang Yuchen sighed lightly, nodded, then stood up and walked to the back of the front hall.
Generally, after the front hall of the Martial Palace, there will be a bedroom for soldiers to rest. This type of bedroom is usually used by people at the city lord or captain level. Huang Yuchen walked to the nearest bedroom and pushed the door open and went in.
The furnishings in the house were very simple. Huang Yuchen looked around and saw that there was nothing special in the bedroom, so he walked into the room, sat cross-legged on the wooden bed.
He can no longer tell the situation clearly, and at the last critical moment, both sides will be even more nervous. Huang Yuchen cannot do anything now, so he can only try his best to fix it and fight hard in the subsequent battle.
Huang Yuchen had no fondness for the enclave. This kind of place that did not treat the people as human beings made him very angry. However, he must not act on the battlefield. Although Huang Yuchen wanted to directly enter the enemy camp and kill all his main generals, he did not have this strength and could not do so.
Close your eyes and circulate the Dou Qi in your body. Huang Yuchen slowly entered into meditation. The natural force in the surrounding air slowly entered his body. Through special acupoints, he entered the meridians, condensed into Dou Qi, gathered into the original long river of meridians, and disappeared.
After Huang Yuchen entered the back, Yu Sheng also stood up. He found four captains and ordered them one by one.
Immediately, the back door of Wacheng opened, and three teams of sergeants galloped away in different directions. Each team of sergeants had seven people, respectively, to explore different directions.
The fact that Wacheng had no resistance at all made Yu Sheng very confused. But it was necessary for the troops to advance. In this way, we could only be more cautious and send scouts to explore the way forward.
For a strong martial artist like Yu Sheng, riding a horse in one day does not consume much energy at all. At this moment, Yu Sheng is full of energy and is upset, and he doesn't want to meditate and regulate his breathing. After sending out the scouts, he left the martial arts mansion and checked around in the city.
At this moment, it was already midday. It should be the time for the people to be busy, but it was very strange. There were few pedestrians on the streets of the city. Even when they saw pedestrians, they looked hurried and didn't dare to look at Yu Sheng, and their steps were fast.
Yu Sheng was wearing general's armor and walked on the street, looking at the hurried pedestrians, frowning slightly.
According to previous information, there were about 10,000 people in Wacheng, which was not a small town like Wacheng, but the streets were very deserted, which made Yu Sheng frown.
"This matter looks a bit weird. I don't know if it is because of rumors or the enemy's intentional actions so that the people can hate the Eastern Prince's Mansion and cannot be integrated." Yu Sheng walked on the street and looked at the closed shops on both sides of the street with a little thought.
After checking the defenses of the two city gates in front and back, Yu Sheng returned to the Martial Palace.
He wanted to arrest a few people to ask clearly, but after thinking about it, he gave up this idea. Originally, the people in Wacheng were extremely afraid of the soldiers of the East Prince's Mansion. If he arrested people at will, his negative image would be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The Dongwang Mansion wanted to take down the enclave, not to plunder the enclave's resources, but to use the enclave as a base camp. The foundation behind the deepest is public opinion.
Yu Sheng thought about it for a moment and seemed to have understood the enemy's strategy. Whether it was forcing the people to go to the battlefield or letting rumors spread, it seemed that they were all targeting the Eastern Palace. If the negative image of the Eastern Palace was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, even if the enclaves really occupied the enclave in the future and the people's hearts would not be able to achieve the expected effect.
Chapter completed!