Travel through troubled times and escape famine with the system

When Lu You heard Lu Yi's proposal before, he agreed, but he was not very optimistic about it in his heart.

According to Lu You's idea, the four gates of Qingshi City were sealed. Once he demolished the west gate, the people in the city would most likely use the west gate as a way out and flee to the west.

After all, although the Jin soldiers were approaching from the west, they had already arrived.

As long as everyone is smart enough to run west along the official road and escape to the forests on the north and south sides of the road, there is a high probability that they will survive.

Although this city is only a small one, compared with the provincial capitals, its area is extremely large.

The only way to lead everyone to the east gate is to run along the street and shout.

This alone is enough to break Lu You's legs.

But at this point, Lu You finally realized that she had underestimated the impact of feudal rule on the people.

Following Zhao Wenbo's psychologically suggestive shout, all the people ran towards the east gate with their families.

At first there were dozens of people, then hundreds, and then several thousand people...

In the end, the number of people had become incalculable, and all Lu You could see was a crowd like a torrent.

"Uncle Zhao, can the power of your virtue affect such a large area?"

Looking at the people pouring into the main street from the alleys on both sides, Lu Yi turned and asked Zhao Wenbo beside him.

Zhao Wenbo shook his head and sighed when he heard this.

"I have just mastered the power of virtue. The range of influence is very limited. If you are a little further away, you will not be affected at all."

"They are just too scared, so scared that they even forget to think and just blindly follow the people in front of them."

As Zhao Wenbo was speaking, a middle-aged man ran out from the alley next to him, holding a child.

"Where are you running?" the man asked loudly to the crowd.

"East! There is a way out at the east gate!" someone in the crowd answered kindly.

Hearing this, the man turned around to look at the collapsed west gate, and then followed the crowd to run to the east.

Seeing this scene, Lu You also secretly thought about the horror of the herd mentality.

People always like to follow the crowd. Even if they know there may be danger, as long as there are enough people, they will take the chance and think that they are likely to be safe.

"Let's go. With so many people gathered at the east gate, no matter how brave the Jin soldiers are, they can't stop them!"

As he spoke, Lu You followed the crowd and walked towards the east gate.

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At the east gate of Qingshi City, the Jin soldiers guarding the city had already laid down all the carriages disguised as traveling merchants, forming a semicircle around the east gate.

Behind the carriage, a group of Jin soldiers were sweating all over their faces, holding crossbows and looking around vigilantly.

"General, what's going on? Why are there so many people?"

A Jin soldier turned and whispered to the burly man next to him.

But the burly man did not answer, but just gritted his teeth and stared straight ahead.

Where do so many people come from?

Although the burly man had a resolute and stern expression and did not show any panic, he had already started cursing in his heart.

Since a while ago, people have been gathering towards the east gate.

At first, a dozen or so people were shot to death by them with crossbows.

But just as they were pulling the crossbow arrows out of the corpses, they heard shouting all around them. In just a short while, the open space outside the east gate was surrounded by the figures of the people.

But even when surrounded by many people, the burly man remained calm.

In his opinion, these people were merely frightened by the chaos in the city and wanted to leave the city to seek refuge. As long as they saw the corpses on the ground, they would turn around and leave.

Such scenes have been played out more than once in Xijiang Prefecture, and he is already familiar with them.

And the fact was just as he imagined. When the people who rushed over saw the tragic dead bodies in the fire, they all turned around and left.

But this is when the unexpected happened!

Those people who saw the corpse wanted to turn around and run back, but behind them, there were countless people rushing towards the east gate.

Moreover, there were a lot of people behind, all shouting at the people in front to make way.

Those people who wanted to leave were pushed back again by the crowd.

"There are Jin soldiers ahead!"

The people closest to the Jin soldiers shouted in despair, fearing that they would be used as shields by the people behind them.

Upon hearing this, the people behind did not dare to move forward and wanted to turn around and leave, but they encountered the same problem as the people in front.

Can not go back!

There were too many people coming from behind.

In order to escape, everyone was crowding forward frantically. Even though they were shouting that there were Jin soldiers in front of them, there were still people behind them who were crowding forward.

When there are more than ten thousand people, there is no end.

There are only a few roads in front of the east gate of Qingshi Town, and they are already crowded with people. The people at the back are still scolding the people in front for blocking the road while they are madly crowding inside.

crazy……

All crazy! !

The person in front who knew the situation wanted to retreat.

The people at the back who wanted to escape rushed forward frantically.

In just a short while, miserable cries for help began to be heard from the crowd.

If Lu You saw this scene at this moment, he would definitely not be unfamiliar with it.

Because this was the stampede she had seen on the news in her previous life!

As time went on, people continued to howl and curse.

"Why the hell are you pushing back? Get out of town!"

"There are Jin soldiers ahead! There's no way out!"

"There are so many of us, are we still afraid of a few Jin soldiers? Just charge!"

"Stop talking nonsense from behind! Why don't you lead the charge? Let me block the arrows for you? Don't even think about it. The worst that can happen is that we can all die together after the Jin soldiers enter the city!"

Under the moonlight, Lu You flew over the roof and wall.

After breaking through to the inner strength realm, Lu You's bones, muscles, and flesh were greatly strengthened, and he could easily leap a distance of two or three feet each time he leaped.

For her, climbing over rooftops and walking on walls was as easy as walking on the ground.

After discovering that the road was blocked, Lu You left Lu Yi and Zhao Wenbo behind and ran towards here.

Because she understood that if the people really worked together to attack the East Gate, only if she was there to take advantage of the chaos to deal with the Jin soldiers guarding the gate could she minimize casualties.

It's not that she is such a saint, but the fact that she is using human lives to pave the way is too much, no matter how nice it sounds.

But fundamentally, they are using innocent people as guns.

If she could minimize the casualties, she would feel better.

But when she landed on a roof near the East City Gate and heard the conversation among the people, her heart sank completely.

She never thought that more than thirty Jin soldiers could actually stop nearly ten thousand civilians.

What she didn't expect was that the people would rather be slaughtered together, and no one dared to rush towards the Jin soldiers to fight for a way out for themselves.

What they feared was not just being killed by the Jin soldiers.

They are even more afraid that others will take advantage of them and live on their dead bodies!

They are right.

But this... doesn't seem right!

Lu You just stood on the roof, looking at the "hell on earth" below.

After a long time, she finally made up her mind and clenched the sword in her hand.

wrong!

It is wrong for them to do this!

I can never live like them!

He took out a powerful pill and threw it into his mouth. The extremely fishy and bitter taste lifted Lu You's spirits.

"The door to life is behind this door!"

"Someone has to take the lead and rush through this door!"

"Since you don't dare!"

"I come!!"