"What's going on? Why is it so noisy outside? "
Anfeyangu and Nurhaci walked outside together. They hadn't even taken a few steps when Fei Yingdong ran in with a panicked expression. He looked at Nurhaci and Anfeyangu and panted heavily.
"What's wrong?"
Nurhachi looked at Fei Yingdong in surprise: "Defeated so quickly?"
"No … no, it's … it's …"
"What is it?"
Anfeyangu pressed on Fei Yingdong's shoulders anxiously.
"… Those who went south to avoid the battle, something happened!"
Anfeyangu was stunned, then shocked. He looked back at Nurhachi and saw that Nurhachi was also pale with fright.
"What?!"
Nurhachi shouted and walked forward: "Who did you hear it from?"
"Someone who escaped from the south reported that for some reason, a group of black-armored Han cavalrymen appeared behind our troops who were seeking refuge in Mount Changbai and launched a sudden attack. Our men suffered heavy casualties, and only he managed to escape with his life to report the news to us."
Fei Yingdong was obviously still in shock.
Nurhachi's eyes widened. He remembered his family that he had arranged to go with him to Changbai Mountain.
"Where is that person?"
"Outside. He fainted as soon as he finished talking."
Nurhaci hurriedly rushed out with Anfeyengu following closely behind.
It was a mess outside. Everyone was talking anxiously, but Nurhachi did not care. His heart was filled with the safety of his family and his sons.
Akina, who had returned to report the news, was currently unconscious on the ground. Of course, he was only pretending to be unconscious, but he still had to put on a good show. His clothes were ragged, his face was covered with dried blood, and there were bloodstains on the corners of his mouth. His tattered clothes were also stained with blood, and the warhorse he was riding was also stained with blood.
No matter how you looked at it, it was a bloody appearance. No one could doubt that he had escaped from the battlefield by luck.
When Nurhachi came over, a group of people were surrounding him, trying to wake him up. When Nurhachi came over and saw Akina's appearance, his heart suddenly became cold. He quickly squatted down to help Akina up, and pinched his philtrum with one hand to wake him up.
This was taught to him by Li Rusong when he was working for Li Chengliang. He did not know the principle behind it, but it was definitely effective as long as he used it like this.
His attacks were heavy.
Akina resisted the urge to scream out loud.
Then, he opened his eyes in a daze.
At first glance, he saw the fiendish Nurhachi.
"What happened when we went to Changbai Mountain? Was it really the Han who chased after them? Which group are you from? "
Nurhachi immediately asked.
Akina blinked, and then his eyes turned red and a pained expression appeared on his face.
"I'm from the left flank. There are so many Han cavalrymen, tens of thousands of them! I don't know how they caught up. We weren't prepared at all, and they killed countless people. All the people around me were killed. I could only run, run for my life, and finally … I escaped … "
Then, he began to cry.
Nurhachi only breathed a sigh of relief.
Because his family's troops were not on the left flank. However, since the left flank was attacked, it meant that the Han had already chased after them. Even if the left flank was attacked, the other flank was also in danger of being attacked. At that time …
Tens of thousands of cavalrymen? Had the main force of the Han cavalry gone to attack his rear? No wonder they used infantry as the main force!
But how did the Han get there? How did they know that he had arranged for his troops to evacuate? How did they know where it was exactly?
Many questions intertwined in Nurhaci's mind, but before he had time to think more, he discovered another more terrifying thing.
The Jianzhou soldiers became restless.
"The Han have fought to the rear!"
"My family is there too!"
"The Han have attacked my family!"
They shouted, and then fell into chaos.
Before Nurhachi could react, the neighing of horses sounded. Four Jianzhou soldiers rode their horses and galloped in the direction of Hetuala, ignoring Nurhachi's orders.
This was just the beginning. While Nurhachi was still in shock, more people began to run in the direction of Hetuala.
They panicked and were in chaos.
The news of the attack at the rear spread like wildfire. Many people knew about it, but most of them had been coerced. Before they could hear the news, they realized that the crowd had started to move. Many people were running in the direction of Hetuala, and some were even riding horses.
They did not know the reason, but they were afraid. When two armies were fighting in the camp, their own soldiers were running to the rear. What did this mean?
They had lost the battle.
But why did they not hear the sounds of the Han charging over?
Why did they care so much? Everyone was running. Something must have happened. Run!
This was the root of the collapse, the fear of the unknown. The most terrifying thing in a military camp — a camp explosion — happened just like that.
All of this happened so quickly that the leaders of the Jianzhou army didn't even have time to react. The soldiers beside them started to run back. The noise was so loud that the leaders couldn't stop it even if they shouted at the top of their lungs.
Why did they stand at the front and fight to the death against the Han? Wasn't it to protect their families? Nurhachi himself had said that he did not want to be a slave to the Han to protect his family, and that he did not want to be a slave to the Han. That was why he fought to the death, but now …
His family was finished, so what was the point of fighting?
A small number of people thought this way.
Most of the people who did not know what was going on were led away by all kinds of rumors. They did not know what was going on, but their hearts were filled with fear. They could only run.
There were no loudspeakers in the military camp these days. A person's voice could not overcome such a strong noise. So although Nurhachi tried very hard to stop the soldiers from running, he could not stop the restless people.
He pulled out his saber to kill the escaping soldiers, but it only made the situation worse. The Jianzhou soldiers ran faster and faster. In the end, there were quite a number of them who pushed and trampled each other. The Qin army had clearly not launched an attack, but they were in chaos as if it was the end of the world.
Soon, people died. Some were trampled to death, some were pulled off horses and hacked to death, and some fell to death. There were all kinds of strange ways of dying. The camp became even more restless.
Everyone was running back. The war was not over, the battle had not started, the Qin Army had not even charged and was preparing for war.
But they were in chaos and retreated.
Nurhachi could not have imagined such an ending.
Of course, Fei Yingdong and Anfeyangu could not have imagined it either.
They could not even control the guards around them.
Because the guards also had families, they abandoned them and ran. Only a few who did not have families protected them.
The loud noise from the Jianzhou army camp could not be hidden from the Qin Army, who were preparing to attack the Jianzhou army's defense line. When they heard the restless noise, they thought the Jianzhou army had sent their main force to resist. Luo Rong immediately ordered the whole army to prepare for war.
But after a while, not a single Jianzhou soldier appeared. Instead, the noise from the Jianzhou army camp was getting louder.
What was going on?
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