"These people look like rebels!"
"They must be rebels, carrying so many weapons, they're definitely trying to storm our city!"
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go, take them down!"
"Charge! It's time to earn military merits!"
To the soldiers at the city gate, these people charging out were walking military merits.
So, without any hesitation, they charged directly at them.
This instilled a profound sense of dread in those who resisted Great Qin.
They felt they had come to the wrong place, that they were essentially delivering themselves to be slaughtered.
Especially with so many soldiers at the city gate, and their own numbers being less than those of the gate guards, they froze.
"What do we do? They're charging at us, should we still charge forward?"
"Charge for what? They're a regular army! If we fight them head-on, we'll be dead. Let's go, leave now, get out of here!"
"Ah! Everyone run!"
In this situation, continuing to fight was clearly impossible.
If they really charged head-on, it would only lead to their deaths.
Therefore, their minds leaned more towards fleeing.
In the next moment, without any hesitation, they began to flee for their lives.
As they started to escape, the soldiers defending the city gates pursued them without mercy.
Their demeanor suggested they would not stop until all were dead.
This made the resistors of Great Qin run even faster.
Before they had even begun to fight, they felt like they had already lost.
The charge of the army was incredibly terrifying to them.
In an instant, they were routed and broke into disarray.
Yet, even so, the defending soldiers showed no signs of letting them go.
They pursued these people relentlessly, chasing them for a great distance.
It seemed they would not stop until they were all killed.
Such a pursuit was undoubtedly terrifying.
Those who resisted Qin were largely chased down and killed.
However, this pursuit also created opportunities for others.
When the second group of people appeared outside the city, they became excited.
"There are no large armies, no army guarding the city gate!"
"This is a great opportunity! For us, this is an excellent chance, we can completely seize this moment to rush into the city!"
"I thought the city would be heavily guarded, but I didn't expect their defenses to be so lax, with no one guarding the entrance. Isn't this telling us we can do whatever we want?"
At this moment, these Tu'an people and resistors of Great Qin were unaware that for this imperial examination, Lin Tian had mobilized two hundred thousand troops.
Not only were there soldiers at the city gate, but there were also many patrolling soldiers on the streets.
More importantly, many soldiers were guarding the imperial examination venue.
They didn't know that seeing the city gate unguarded, they thought their chance had arrived.
With almost no hesitation, they charged towards the imperial examination venue.
Although their luck wasn't particularly good along the way, encountering a patrol of soldiers.
They still persisted in their charge towards the examination venue.
"Hold on a little longer, just a bit longer, and we'll reach the imperial examination venue, we'll soon reach our destination!"
"Brothers, hold on! Once we reach the venue, we can start a massacre!"
"Resist Great Qin, restore Tu'an is now! Everyone, hurry up! You'll have your chance to kill later!"
At this point, they hadn't officially begun their killing.
All they were doing was fleeing, to reach the examination venue, and then begin their true slaughter.
Therefore, they appeared more like they were enduring humiliation.
This endurance of humiliation was somewhat stifling, but thinking about the impending slaughter and the imminent achievement of their goal, they no longer felt humiliated.
However, when they actually reached the vicinity of the imperial examination venue, they were not excited, but rather more desperate.
Because they discovered that outside the imperial examination venue, there were soldiers arranged in neat formations.
These armies not only included archers but also cavalry, and many soldiers wielding long ge, forming a complete system.
Each of them was standing at the ready, guarding their surroundings.
Their arrival immediately drew the attention of these soldiers.
Each of them looked at the charging Tu'an people and resistors of Great Qin with killing intent.
Then, without any hesitation, they directly gave the order to attack.
"Kill!"
Upon the command, the army immediately moved.
The cavalry charged at the forefront, followed closely by the infantry.
The galloping warhorses put immense pressure on the Tu'an people and the rebel army.
They never imagined that there would be so many troops here.
Nor did they imagine that Great Qin would deploy cavalry.
As the cavalry moved, despair swept over everyone.
"It's over, it's over! So Great Qin was prepared all along, we're finished!"
"God! Why did Great Qin deploy cavalry? Why didn't anyone inform us earlier? Princess, where are you?"
"Is there anyone, anyone who can save us? I don't want to die here!"
If it were just a large army, they wouldn't have been so terrified.
But with cavalry involved, the situation was completely different.
The killing power of cavalry was too terrifying, so terrifying that these people dared not confront them.
Now that the cavalry was charging, even the most decisive among them had lost their composure and their wits.
Their minds were filled with only one thought: escape, escape from here, escape.
Only then would they have a chance to survive.
However, in front of them were the soldiers guarding the examination venue, and behind them were the patrolling soldiers.
When they came, they were already being pursued by the patrolling soldiers.
Now, caught between an attack from the front and the rear, escape was impossible.
Under these circumstances, they could only desperately resist and die in despair.
In the end, the Tu'an people and those resisting Great Qin all failed in their actions.
They all died under the pursuit of the soldiers.
And their actions had no impact on the imperial examination.
On the contrary, because they acted this way, more common people realized that the imperial examination was the path with the most prospects.
Because all the common people felt the importance Great Qin placed on the imperial examination.
With such importance attached to it, the imperial examination would surely be prosperous in the future.
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