King Chen’s Palace.
The silence was terrible.
A pin drop could be heard.
From the king down to the officials, there was no one who was not astonished and no one who did not smack their lips.
They knew that Xu Qingnian was incredibly arrogant.
But they had never imagined that Xu Qingnian would …… The city’s slaughter was a great success.
If we say that killing a surrender would bring uncertainty to the country.
The people are innocent, after all, and although war is cruel, it is not possible to kill people indiscriminately.
In particular, Great Wei was a sacred place for the learned, and the Great Wei Palace of Literature still loomed in the middle of Kyoto.
In other words, anyone could ma*sacre the city, but not him.
But Xu Qingnian ignored this rule and made a decision that no one could have imagined.
If you think about it, which of the things Xu Qingnian did was not unexpected by everyone?
At this moment, the hundred officials of Chen suddenly realised something.
They had underestimated Xu Qingnian, always thinking that Xu Qingnian was nothing more than that, nothing less, but every time it was because of underestimation that the battle was seriously affected ah.
Xu Qingnian’s ma*sacre of the city was not just that, it affected Chen’s military heart, what was even more terrifying was that after this battle, Chen might have to destroy its seed and die ah.
This is the most terrifying of all.
Even if they really did bring down the Great Wei, so what? The state of Chen would also be destroyed.
This was a scene that no king would want to see.
At this moment, the ruler of the state of Chen regretted a little, he regretted why he had provoked Xu Qingnian, if he had simply responded and not been so brutal and arrogant.
The reason why Xu Qingnian dared to ma*sacre the city was because what the State of Chen had done had given Xu Qingnian a reason to do so.
He found a reason to ma*sacre the city.
The ruler of the state of Chen trembled a little, he didn’t even know what to say.
Xu Qingnian’s move was a move that turned everyone’s imagination upside down.
At this moment, the state of Chen was in a state of panic.
The people were panicking, looking at the murderous Great Desolate Army, who were trembling with fear. These people had golden-blue hair, but their faces had Middle Kingdom features.
It was the descendants of the foreigners and the Chinese, and at this moment, fear was written in their eyes, while their faces were full of innocence.
“We are innocent people, you cannot kill us.”
“We are innocent, we are unarmed, if you slaughter us, the gods will be outraged.”
“Gentlemen of the army, these things, they have nothing to do with us.”
This group of people cried out, and some even knelt on the ground, scared out of their wits.
Don’t look at them as they flaunted their might before, even when the city gates were breached, they were not afraid.
It was because, as the Great Wei was a benevolent army, they could only kill the generals but not the people, and if they really dared to kill the people, would the Readers spare them?
That’s why they were so arrogant and C*cky.
But now they found out that everything was wrong, the Wei army dared to kill the people, and even took the initiative to slaughter them, to slaughter the city and destroy the country.
With such death looming over them, everyone was afraid, everyone cowered in fear.
They hated the Great Wei, but they cherished their lives even more.
“I remember you all, the day before yesterday you were flapping your teeth and claws on the city’s entrance, taunting my Great Wei army as shrinking turtles.”
“Gentlemen, don’t be merciful, no amount of killing such B*****ds will relieve your hatred.”
It was also at this moment that someone in the Great Desolate Army recognised one of them, he remembered it well, and with his battle sword held in his hand in a deadly grip, he slashed straight down towards the other side.
Heads fell to the ground on the spot.
“Kill!”
Without any nonsense, everyone struck out in unison, and this group of Chen’s subjects were beheaded on the spot.
And after being beheaded, the Great Wilderness Army searched for the IOUs from these people, lending food to the Chen army for free, such people were patriotic to the Chen Kingdom, but to the Great Wei, such people absolutely could not be spared.
At this moment, the entire State of Chen was in flames.
Blood stained the entire Kingdom of Chen, and the people of the Kingdom of Chen fled in all directions, they were completely dumbfounded and frightened out of their minds.
“Don’t kill me, don’t kill me, I’m innocent, I’m innocent.”
“You can’t kill us, we are innocent people!”
“Great Wei Dynasty, I will fight with you.”
“Sovereign of the State of Chen, save us, save us.”
“Where is the king? Why don’t you come to our rescue?”
“We innocent people have been caught in the crossfire, Sovereign, why don’t you send someone to save us?”
“Why are the warriors of my country, Chen, so weak and useless? Why can’t they even protect us?”
The voices of the people rang out, full of grief, full of sorrow, and full of despair.
At this moment, with the Great Wei army breaking through the city, the people of the State of Chen were completely and utterly frightened, they cried out, they screamed, they cried, they begged the Great Wei army not to kill them.
At the same time they hated them for not fighting, why were the soldiers of the state of Chen so weak? And why were they so weak?
They saw with their own eyes a single Great Desolate Army running after a dozen of Chen’s generals.
Throughout the city, the people fled in all directions, and the Chen generals, too, fled in all directions.
They were utterly and completely terrified, utterly and completely terrified in front of the Great Wei generals.
Cries of sorrow rang out.
The people begged for mercy, they wept bitterly and pleaded with the Great Wei hors*men to spare them, but they were greeted only with cold swords.
One by one, heads fell to the ground, bodies fell, and lives were lost.
Both the Great Desolate Army and the Clan King’s reinforcements knew that after this battle, Xu Qingnian would become the target of all the people of the world.
But at this moment, they had nothing but admiration for Xu Qingnian, and no other emotions.
Even for the reinforcements of the va*sal kings, their admiration for Xu Qingnian had risen.
There was no other reason.
Since ancient times, those who slaughtered the city were the heroes of the army.
How much suffering did the soldiers endure when they were out on the battlefield? Only the soldiers themselves know clearly.
Every battle could take away their lives, and in such a frightening environment.
In fact, everyone is suffocating, every general is eccentric inside and they want to vent their frustrations, so generally speaking when two armies meet, the killing is a little more intense.
But is this enough? Not enough at all?
When one’s own brother dies on the battlefield! When one’s best friend of ten years dies on the battlefield! When one’s friend, who died to save one’s life! When one familiar person after another leaves.
Is this kind of hatred something that can be vented by killing a few enemy soldiers?
Surely not.
But the slaughter of a city is too horrible, inhumane and against Confucianism, something that the world abhors.
There is no law against the slaughter of a city, but it is the default rule of all nations that when two armies are at war, they do not slaughter the city.
To the extent that a city is slaughtered, it means four words.
Extermination of the race! Slaughter the nation!
This is what the Northern Barbarians had in mind in the beginning. If it were not for the deterrence of the First Grade martial artists of Great Wei, the Northern Barbarians would have really wanted to exterminate Great Wei and slaughter the country.
There were millions of Chen’s people in the city at the gates of the state, their numbers were extremely large, but they could not withstand the ma*sacre of the Great Desolate Army and the reinforcements of the va*sal kings.
Imagine the image of four million troops entering the city. In almost every part of the city, there were Great Wei iron hors*men.
“Marquis of Sheyang!”
“You’ve gone too far!”
“Destroying the seeds and slaughtering the city is not acceptable to the heavens, not acceptable to heaven and earth, not acceptable to the readers.
A terrifying voice rang out.
It was the roar of the king of the state of Chen.
He stood outside the royal palace, his hair cascading, furious and violent, his eyes bloodshot as he looked deadly at the Marquis of Sheyang, his voice sounding hoarse.
He was truly dizzy with anger.
The Great Wei had slaughtered the city.
This was no longer biting off a piece of Chen’s flesh and blood, this was pumping the marrow of Chen’s bones.
Three million of Chen’s people.
Four hundred thousand Chen troops.
As the ruler of the state, how could he not be angry and feel bad about being slaughtered by Wei like a dog?
But in the face of the words of the ruler of the state of Chen.
The Marquis of Sheyang’s laughter rang out.
“Hahahahahahaha!”
“The State of Chen is also considered a state?”
“The State of Chen is also considered a human being?”
“B*****d pigs and dogs are just that.”
“All the generals in the city, listen to the order, within half an hour, slaughter them all.”
The Marquis of Sheyang laughed loudly as he ridiculed the people of the state of Chen, ridiculing the state of Chen as nothing more than a bunch of mutts and pigs and dogs.
This humiliation was so clear that all the people and generals of the seventy-two provinces of the Chen Kingdom heard it clearly.
Such humiliation, such contempt, caused many people to almost vomit blood ah.
“The Qilin Army! The Heavenly Son Army! Hear the order!”
“Attack the second city!”
“Before attacking the city, ask again whether to vote or not.”
“If you don’t, slaughter the city and exterminate the seeds!”
The next moment, the Marquis of Shuyang’s voice was incomparably cold.
The first city was still being slaughtered, while the second city could be ready to begin, not giving Chen a single chance to breathe, this was Xu Qingnian’s strategic plan.
Create a sense of oppression!
To make Chen’s beliefs crumble! Disintegrate the confidence and glory of the nation as one.
Isn’t Chen’s country relying on its unity?
Fine, we’ll slaughter you for not being united!
See how arrogant you still are?
At the same time, the army of the Qilin and the army of the Son of Heaven attacked the second city of the Kingdom of Chen in unison.
They still asked if they would surrender!
Still they were refused!
The great battle broke out again.
The second city was obviously a little more solid than the first, but so what? In front of the flood of Wei generals.
Everything was a mere chicken and a dog.
Especially the ma*sacre at the first city.
Countless people had been beheaded, and the shouts, cries and howls of sorrow had frightened the people of the Second City out of their wits.
I don’t know how many people wanted to run away, but the four gates were blocked, so they couldn’t get out.
Inside the First City.
The Marquis of Sheyang pa*sed on the battle report to Xu Qingnian at the first opportunity.
He still had the guts to carry on with the slaughter of one city, but if he really wanted to slaughter the country, he still had to ask Xu Qingnian for advice.
At this moment.
The capital of Great Wei.
Inside the Hall of Wenhua.
As the battle report from the Marquis of Sheyang came in.
All the people in the hall looked at Xu Qingnian with an incredulous gaze.
“Shouren! You ……. You actually ma*sacred the city?”
“Shouren, you ma*sacred the city?”
“This!”
It was almost only after the Marquis of Sheyang had ma*sacred the city that the hundred officials in the Great Hall learned that Xu Qingnian had actually ordered the ma*sacre of the city.
Xu Qingnian had been hiding this matter from them, so when they heard about it now, the hundred officials naturally clamored.
The Duke of An Guo and the others were also completely frozen in place.
They knew that Xu Qingnian was a ruthless person, but they never thought that Xu Qingnian would order the ma*sacre of the city.
Chen Zhengru, Wang Xinzhi and the others even looked at Xu Qingnian with an incredulous gaze.
Especially Chen Zhengru, he had been thinking about what method Xu Qingnian would use to solve the battle of the Chen Kingdom, but what he did not expect was that Xu Qingnian would use the method of ma*sacring the city.
Faced with the questioning of the hundred officials and the unbelievable stares, Xu Qingnian was very frank and direct.
“Pa*s on my military order, if one city does not defect, one city will be slaughtered, if ten cities do not defect, ten cities will be slaughtered.
“From the king of the country down to the people, young and old, male and female, all will be executed!”
Xu Qingnian spoke, his words filled with indifference as he gave the order.
But a moment later, Chen Zhengru spoke out.
“Hold on!”
Chen Zhengru interrupted momentarily, he looked at Xu Qingnian, took a deep breath and looked at him and spoke.
“Shouren, the matter of slaughtering the city is too big, if you just kill the surrender, the Great Wei Palace of Literature will be verbally attacking you, if you slaughter the city.”
“It’s not just that the Great Wei Palace is looking for you, the whole world will not let you go, and His Majesty will find it hard to protect you.”
Chen Zhengru really did not expect that Xu Qingnian would be so ferocious, and without talking to anyone, he directly ordered the Marquis of Sheyang to ma*sacre the city.
Killing a surrender is a big crime.
The crime of slaughtering the city was even greater.
This was something that was unjustifiable in heaven.
When Xu Qingnian killed the surrender, it could be said that he did so to deter the villains, which was perfectly fine, and only the Palace of Literature could find fault with it.
But the ma*sacre of a city is different. Killing unarmed people is a big no-no.
It would affect the country’s fortunes, but more importantly, it would provoke the wrath of the world, and even the Tusi and Chu Yuan dynasties would be eager to step in and find trouble.
Great Wei is a dynasty.
Normally, fighting Chen would be bullying the small with the big, and a beating would be enough; if the city were slaughtered, it would probably involve a real dynasty stepping in.
Take a step back.
But the problem was that this time the commander was Xu Qingnian, and what Chen Zhengru was most worried about was not anything else, but whether someone would look for trouble with Xu Qingnian when the time came.
When the war is over, the world’s scholars will be criticised and criticised, and this kind of pressure is no joke.
It would be fine if one city was slaughtered.
It was definitely not possible to slaughter a second city.
What’s more, Xu Qingnian meant to slaughter the country.
Faced with Chen Zhengru’s words, Xu Qingnian looked at Chen Zhengru calmly and said.
“Shang Shu Chen.”
“When I slaughter a city, I do so for the people of Great Wei.”
“Kill! It was for the sake of not killing!”
Xu Qingnian spoke in a calm tone, but his eyes, were incomparably firm.
“Shouren, if you slaughter the city in this battle, it will inevitably have a great impact on you, and when that happens, I’m afraid that even His Majesty will find it difficult to protect you.”
Chen Zhengru’s voice trembled as he spoke, persuading Xu Qingnian.
Only, Xu Qingnian looked at Chen Zhengru.
The voice was calm and unmistakable.
“Shang Shu Chen.”
“Great Wei cannot fight a second battle.”
“The purpose of this battle is to let the world see that Great Wei is crazy.”
“Either we don’t fight, or we fight fiercely.”
“My mind is made up, today, even if His Majesty comes, Xu will not change his mind.”
How could Xu Qingnian not know what Chen Zhengru had said.
Ma*sacre the city!
This was something that the gods and goddesses would be outraged by, and everyone in the world would have to crusade against themselves.
But so what?
Today’s killing!
It is for the sake of not killing tomorrow!
If we don’t slaughter the city, how can we truly deter all?
“Shouren, there must be another way. The slaughter of the city is against humanity.”
Chen Zhengru continued to discourage him, not wanting Xu Qingnian to slaughter the city.
“My mind is made up!”
Xu Qingnian ignored Chen Zhengru’s proposal.
Since he had chosen to kill, there was no point in slaughtering one city or ten cities.
In an instant.
The heavenly decree burned.
After seeing this scene, Chen Zhengru was completely and utterly silent.
The people from the Ministry of War were also silent.
Several state princes looked at Xu Qingnian and did not know what to say either.
Xu Qingnian ……. The actual person is really a wonder of the ages.
The things that he does every time are beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
But in retrospect, suddenly think about it.
Each time it was a dead end, and Xu Qingnian’s actions seemed to be the only way to break it.
Although the means were fierce, no matter what, the situation could be broken.
“It’s just that! It’s just that! That’s all!”
Chen Zhengru sighed a few times, and he did not say anything else.
And at the same time.
The news of the ma*sacre of the city.
It had also reached the Si Long King’s Palace.
The messengers from all the countries were also frozen.
The Si Long King even looked at the messenger in front of him in a daze.
“Xu Qingnian ……. He dares to ma*sacre the city?”
“Has he gone mad?”
King Si Long’s voice was trembling, he had counted on everything, but he had not counted on Xu Qingnian to ma*sacre the city.
What was the greatest strength of the Chen Kingdom?
It was the Chen Kingdom’s hatred for the Great Wei since ancient times, they hated the Great Wei very much, extremely much.
Therefore, the people of the State of Chen will unite to resist the Great Wei.
The nation is united.
In such a situation, even if Great Wei had the unbelievable means, it would not be possible to defeat the State of Chen in a short period of time.
Not to mention delaying anything for a year or two, half a year would at least hold off.
However, the slaughter of the city was a different story.
For the people, they aided their country’s generals, which was under the guarantee of their own safety, and they supported their country because they could survive.
But after Xu Qingnian’s order to slaughter the city was given, then everything changed.
Everything, completely, changed.
No one could stand up to the ma*sacre.
Even if the people believed in their country, in their king and in their generals, they still wanted to survive.
For if we are to say that Chen hated Wei, it was nothing more than a hatred of dignity, and it was not as if Wei had done anything very vicious to Chen.
On the contrary, it is Chen that has often disgusted Wei, so when it comes to life and death, these people will not have any faith.
All they want is to survive.
Just survive.
This move by Xu Qingnian directly killed the state of Chen.
It would be deadly dead.
“King Si Long.”
“The Great Wei army is already besieging the Second City, and if there are no surprises, within an hour, the Second City will also be breached.”
“The king of the country asks you, step up your efforts to aid the generals and stop the Great Wei army, ah.”
The messenger from the State of Chen spoke, his voice tinged with tears as he pleaded with King Si Long for help.
But upon hearing these words, King Si Long did not reject them outright, but spoke, “Stand down, I will make the specific arrangements, the State of Chen can at least hold out for a little while longer.”
King Si Long gave his reply, saying thus.
“Many thanks, King Si Long.”
The latter gave a thank you and then withdrew.
When he had retreated, King Si Long could not help but frown.
Reinforcements? How else could he reinforce his troops? Of the troops of the hundred kingdoms combined, basically one third had already been allocated to the Chen Kingdom, and the Fan Kingdom, Tang Kingdom, Amuta and Tuliang had also provided a lot of a*sistance.
The remaining troops are less than 50% of what they were before.
This force was reserved for the Fifth Pa*s to fight against the Great Wei.
Where were the troops to a*sist now.
Moreover, Great Wei had already sent five million seven hundred thousand generals, a force that was perfectly capable of swallowing up the state of Chen.
They had confidence before because they were certain that Great Wei would fight a protracted war.
So even if Great Wei occupied one or two cities, it didn’t matter, after all, there wasn’t much grain in the cantonment, you still had to take care of the people, you couldn’t starve them alive, right?
This alone can slow you down, but now Great Wei is directly slaughtering the people, which directly creates two unfavourable situations for everyone.
Firstly, the hearts of the Chen people are broken.
Secondly, the cantonment of grain is enough for Great Wei to fight a protracted war.
Especially the first one, as long as Great Wei is willing now, occupy the first city and the second city, then nothing to screw you, they lose, a death of 70,000 or 80,000 or 100,000 people.
But once you lose and everyone in the city dies, ask, will the hearts of the Chen people be broken at this time?
Who would dare to stay in Chen?
All the people will have to run. If they don’t run, will they stay and wait for death?
The people’s will is a will, but it is based on the premise that Wei will not slaughter the city.
If Wei ma*sacres the city, then nothing can be said.
King Si Long was silent.
He had been thinking about breaking the game.
But when faced with the killing game of Great Wei, he really didn’t know what to do ah.
“Boom!”
In the end, King Si Long was so angry that he smashed the lampstand with his palm, and looked at the amba*sadors from all the countries and the hundred officials of Si Long Kingdom, his eyes filled with anger.
“Your Majesty.”
“Actually, there is no need to be so angry.”
It was also at this moment that someone spoke up, a minister of the Si Long Kingdom.
“It’s already this time and you’re still not angry?”
King Si Long roared.
The latter shook his head and said.
“Xu Qingnian has ma*sacred the city, and the gods are outraged, such an act would not even require us to take action, and all the readers in the world would curse Xu Qingnian to death.”
“Furthermore, it is impossible for the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty to sit idly by and do nothing about the slaughter of the city.”
“Secondly, would Xu Qingnian dare to continue ma*sacring the city? Old minister thinks.”
“Xu Qingnian has only reached a desperate situation and he wants to break the situation with the slaughter of the city, but he does not know what threat the slaughter of the city will bring.”
“As long as the world’s scholars start to rage against Xu Qingnian, as long as the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty step in, then Xu Qingnian can be directly suppressed.”
“So that he cannot run wild like this, and as long as the Great Wei army does not ma*sacre the city, then the people of Chen will remain united, which is beneficial to us.”
“Your Majesty, Xu Qingye has already been defeated.”
The old minister of the Si Long Kingdom spoke, and when he reached the end of his sentence, he even sneered outright.
Sure enough, once this was said, the gazes of the crowd flashed shrewdly.
Yes.
Xu Qingnian had slaughtered the city like this, didn’t he just rely on the fact that the world’s scholars didn’t know about it, didn’t he rely on the fact that the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the Primordial Yuan Dynasty didn’t know about it yet?
If word really got out, would he still dare to be arrogant?
“That’s right, as long as the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty come forward, he Xu Qingnian won’t dare to ma*sacre the city.”
“Yes, yes, yes, Xu Qingnian has already been defeated, he has already been defeated.”
“I was almost bluffed by Xu Qingnian, Lord Lin was absolutely right.”
All at once, the emissaries from all the countries spoke up.
Hearing the crowd’s support, Lord Lin continued to speak.
“Your Majesty, Xu Qingnian has merely caught us off guard.
“But in fact, I can guarantee that, for one thing, Xu Qingnian will definitely not dare to continue to slaughter cities, at most three cities, this is Xu Qingnian’s bottom line, because if he slaughters more, even if the Great Wei Dynasty wants to protect Xu Qingnian.”
“It will not be able to stop the mouths of the world.”
“Secondly, if the Chu Yuan Dynasty and the Sudden Evil Dynasty step in, the Great Wei Army will not dare to shout, and then the morale of the Great Wei Army will drop, and they will directly lose this battle.”
“Slaughtering the city, hehe, digging your own grave.”
“However, I still need to ask your Majesty, to immediately contact the Sudden Evil and Primordial Yuan Dynasties, and at the same time have someone spread the news, in that case, the Great Wei Army can be effectively stopped.”
Lord Lin was incomparably confident.
And the crowd’s confidence was gradually recovered.
King Si Long even thought about it for a while before he couldn’t help but be overjoyed and said.
“Good, in that case, I will now go to the Sudden Evil and the Primordial Yuan Dynasty, and as for the matter of spreading the news, I will leave it entirely to Lord Lin.”
King Si Long also felt that it made sense, and naturally looked somewhat impatient.
“My Lord, receive the decree.”
“All the messengers must also help out more, it will be difficult for just one Si Long Kingdom to let the whole world know, all the kingdoms need to work together.”
“Remember, exaggerate things a little and be rhetorical.”
The latter nodded, he was a civil servant himself, and it was extremely simple to spread this news, but it was up to all the kingdoms to do so.
“Good, Lord Lin, don’t worry, leave this matter to us.”
“En, it’s just a small matter.”
“No problem, please don’t worry Lord Lin.”
The messengers nodded, exaggerating a bit on the original factual side.
They understood.
Totally understood.
At that moment, King Si Long left, so did the hundred officials, and as for the amba*sadors from all the countries, they also wrote letters to confront Xu Qingnian together.
Half an hour later.
Yes.
Half an hour.
The Second City of the Kingdom of Chen was broken.
Originally, the Kingdom of Chen thought that the Second City would last at least an hour, but with the dual cooperation of the Qilin Army and the Heavenly Son Army, as well as the a*sistance of the Clan King’s Army.
In half an hour, the city gates were breached.
The cries of heaven and earth also rang out directly at this moment.
In fact, Chen would indeed not be so weak, mainly because they were still intimidated by the three armies ah.
At this moment, the three armies of Great Wei looked like war gods crawling out of hell, each with a look of certain death, each like a madman, desperate to attack the city.
Under such circumstances, Chen’s generals had long since been scared out of their wits, especially as the ma*sacre of the city by the Great Wei was fresh in the minds of the generals of the Second City.
They were already a little nervous, but the fact that the people in the city were fleeing in all directions and crying out to the heavens made them even more nervous.
In half an hour’s time, their gates were breached.
The Great Wei army rushed in like a torrent, like the first city, killing everyone on sight, whether you were a citizen or not.
There were also some of the people, who knew they were bound to die, who took their weapons and killed back, trying to fight to the death.
But alas, the miracle was not for them.
The battle swords of the Qilin army were even more fierce than the Great Desolate Army.
One slash killed them.
It was still considered merciful for the Qilin Army, not torturing the other side, but killing them with a single slash; they were only doing it for the sake of war, not for the sake of their hearts.
Killing, in order not to kill.
But the Great Wei Army did not show any mercy, they did not torture each other, but they would not be merciful either.
The slaughter began, and it was almost one-sided.
The second city was lost.
The battle report reached the State of Chen.
The ruler of the State of Chen grimaced, he said nothing, but waited quietly for news, for good news.
For him to surrender?
There was no way he would surrender.
Seventy-two cities, but only two of them were gone.
He didn’t believe that Xu Qingnian would dare to continue killing like this.
At this moment, the Great Desolate Army and the Qilin Army came under the third city gate.
They really didn’t take any rest, and after taking complete control of the first city, they appeared under the third city gate.
“By order of the imperial court, those who throw themselves in will not be killed.”
The Great Wei army a*sembled under the city.
The Marquis of Lin Yang roared loudly, his aura surging.
A quarter of an hour.
There was no response from the Third City.
There was no nonsense.
The army rushed to kill.
The Third City was desperate.
But even in despair, they would fight.
Kill!
Still no miracle.
But the Third City was slightly better, holding out for more than half an hour and a quarter.
The army entered the city.
It was devastating.
Blood was everywhere, bones were piled up like mountains, and the sickening smell of blood reached the capital of Chen.
In the seventy-two cities, the eyes of countless people were filled with despair and grief and anger.
The Great Wei Army is unstoppable!
The flames of war spread to three ancient cities.
The fourth city.
The Marquis of Guangyang led his troops to kill.
“By order of the court.”
“Those who defect will not be killed!”
This voice rang out like a fatal charm, and before the battle had even begun in the Fourth City, the people in the city were already howling and crying.
They were loudly pleading for the king of the country to step in, expecting the heavenly generals and divine soldiers to save them from the fire.
They had wanted to run, but Wei had sent 200,000 troops to cut off the retreat of the first twenty cities.
As for the people behind the twenty cities, they could not escape either.
Where would they run to? To the capital?
The gates of the capital were already closed, so it was impossible for them to enter the city, what if there were spies?
No one dared to gamble.
And no one dared to mess around.
This battle, they were really scared.
Real fear.
The Great Wei had killed until the whole of Chen was trembling in fear.
“Stop the war!”
“Truce!”
“Truce!”
It was also at this moment that a loud voice rang out, the voice of the ruler of the State of Chen.
This voice was full of helplessness, full of grief and anger.
“I am willing to make peace with Great Wei!”
“Stop the war!”
The State Monarch of Chen was not afraid, he wanted to stall for time, if he allowed the Great Wei army to slaughter endlessly like this, even if the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the Primordial Yuan Dynasty stepped in.
There would be no point in doing so.
What is the concept of ten dead cities? It was no longer a matter of how much silver could be settled.
He wanted to stop the war.
And outside the Fourth City.
Marquis Guangyang frowned as he told his army to stay put for the time being, but instead wrote a heavenly decree asking Xu Qingnian if he would agree to peace talks.
It took less than half a quarter of an hour.
The heavenly decree came back.
It was Xu Qingnian’s response.
“There are no peace talks! Those who do not vote will be killed!”
When the Marquis of Guangyang saw the heavenly decree, he could not help but take a deep breath.
To be honest, it was almost enough to kill here.
But Xu Qingnian actually wanted to kill on.
He was shocked because he was shocked that Xu Qingnian, who looked like a scholar, could not see that he was so cold and cold.
But this was good, for Wei needed a man like this.
If he didn’t get tougher, Wei would be doomed.
For the generals, they would rather die standing up or live on their knees.
“Imperial orders!”
“No peace talks, kill those who do not defect!”
“All troops listen to the order! Follow this general and kill!”
The voice of the Marquis of Guangyang broke through the clouds as he rode on his war beast and was the first to charge into battle.
A million troops followed, still with that same desperate ruthlessness.
They had gone mad with killing.
Defiant and unrelenting.
In the capital of the State of Chen.
Inside the royal palace, when the ruler of the State of Chen heard these words from the Marquis of Guangyang, his face could not help but turn incomparably ugly.
“Xu Qingnian!”
“Xu Qingnian!”
“Xu Qingnian! You deserve to die! You deserve to die!”
He let out a roar of rage, his body trembling with anger, he had offered peace talks.
The two countries were at war and the other side had slaughtered the city, relying on a ruthless force, could it be that Great Wei wanted to wipe out the state of Chen overnight?
It was impossible, and even if Wei did, they would have to pay at least a million casualties.
Now it is clear that Chen is at a huge loss and Wei could have agreed to peace talks.
No matter what his own aims and ideas, Wei had the upper hand.
His offer of peace talks was a complete act of submission, he had already given in.
But why did Xu Qingnian still want to be like this?
Xu Qingnian, what exactly are your credentials?
On what basis?
The ruler of the State of Chen no longer had the confidence he had before, there was only hatred, there was only anger.
Three cities had been slaughtered.
There was no telling how many people had been killed, the smell of blood had reached the palace, the people of Chen were in a state of fear, and the fate of the state was about to be lost.
If the Wei army didn’t stop, he would be the end of the kingdom of Chen.
If he really slaughtered so many cities, even if the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty stepped in and settled the matter, the people of Chen would not spare him.
At this moment, he was in a desperate situation, truly in a desperate situation.
“Has King Si Long responded? What the hell is he doing? What the hell is he doing?”
The ruler of the State of Chen roared in anger as he smashed the great hall and questioned the hundred officials.
And all of the hundred officials of the State of Chen were silent, their eyes filled with helplessness.
At this point, what could be done? There was nothing they could do.
And the Si Long Kingdom.
As King Si Long lit the incense fire, a vapid figure appeared before him at once.
“What is it?”
The voice was cold and condescending.
“Greetings, Your Majesty.”
Facing this void figure, King Si Long knelt down directly on the ground, in a sincere and humble display of fear.
“The Great Wei army is already approaching the State of Chen, Xu Qingnian has lost his heart and is even slaughtering the people in the city, I implore Your Excellency to intervene and deter Xu Qingnian, otherwise once the State of Chen is broken, I am afraid that we will have difficulty in resisting the Great Wei army.”
Thus said King Si Long.
Yet the Void Shadow slowly spoke out.
“This King knows.”
His words made King Si Long a little surprised, but soon King Si Long didn’t think much of it, this was the king of the Sudden Evil Dynasty, and he naturally knew about the affairs of the Chen Kingdom.
It was not surprising, what just surprised him was that since the Sudden Evil Dynasty knew about it, why didn’t they take action earlier?
“Your Majesty, what do you mean?”
King Si Long asked curiously.
“Let them kill.”
“The more you kill, the better.”
“Hmph, the ma*sacre of the city is a matter of outrage to the gods, and the sudden evil has already drawn up a decree, but there is no need to announce it now, we must wait for Great Wei to continue killing, and when they have slaughtered all ten cities, the sudden evil will strike again.”
“This is the only way to interfere with the internal affairs of Great Wei.”
The king of the Sudden Evil Dynasty spoke up and gave this answer.
When this was said, King Si Long was not too surprised, after all, it was only the people of Chen who died, but what he did not expect was that the Sudden Evil Dynasty had already made a good layout.
“Then my subordinate will say no more, but this Xu Qingnian, he is indeed a bit ruthless.”
King Si Long mentioned Xu Qingnian.
He was indeed afraid too.
This Xu Qingnian was truly fierce and terrifying, and he dared to do the ma*sacre of the city, was he really not afraid of death?
“Xu Qingnian? He is very good, originally His Majesty wanted to draw him in, but what he didn’t expect was that he would be so stupid.”
“Since ancient times, it is against heaven’s justice to ma*sacre a city, this time, the Great Wei Dynasty cannot protect him, there is no need for us to take action, the world’s readers will not spare him.”
“All right, when Chen breaks the ten cities, we will naturally strike, but you still need to send a message with the king of Chen to tell him to hold steady and not to surrender, he will be given a lot of compensation after the war, he will not be sacrificed for nothing.”
As the other party said this, his figure gradually dissipated.
And with a kowtow, King Si Long got up and left to send a message to the king of the State of Chen.
A quarter of an hour later.
When the State Monarch of Chen received the message from King Si Long.
His entire face became even more ugly.
“Sacrificing my State of Chen in exchange for you and the others?”
“Bravo! Bravo!”
“What bullSh*t alliance.”
“Remember, all of you, when the day comes that the Chen Kingdom develops, you will destroy you Si Long.”
King Si Long’s message was simple: he told the State Monarch of Chen to stabilise first, that the Sudden Evil Dynasty was already aware of the matter and was negotiating, and that within a day at the latest, he would formally declare the decree to Great Wei.
The ruler of the State of Chen knew what this meant.
He was sacrificing one of the ten cities of the State of Chen in exchange for the opportunity to attack the Sudden Evil Dynasty.
But, he had no choice.
He was completely and utterly out of options.
“Pa*s down the order!”
“Reinforcements will be arriving soon, all cities go all out to resist the Great Wei army!”
In the end, the ruler of the State of Chen still gave this order.
For there was no way out.
There was no way out.
Surrender to the Great Wei?
Would Wei let him go?
The answer was obvious: they would not let him go.
In that case, it was better to fight to the end.
Soon, the orders of the ruler of the state of Chen were pa*sed down.
It did raise some of the troops’ spirits, but was it useful against the already mad Wei? Not at all.
One hour later, the fifth city was broken!
Two hours later, the seventh city was broken.
Three hours later, the eighth city was broken.
Four hours later, the ninth city was broken.
Five hours later, the tenth city was broken.
There was no suspense, if the army had not needed to rest for a while, two cities would have been broken in one hour.
The Great Wei army was already numb, their bodies were so thick with blood that they didn’t know whether it was the enemy’s blood or their own.
Ten cities were broken.
Not a single citizen survived.
The people of the remaining sixty-two cities in Chen were utterly and completely desperate.
They had been expecting! Always waiting! Waiting for reinforcements to come.
Waiting for someone to save them.
But alas.
Nothing, nothing at all.
But just as the army a*sembled in the eleventh city.
Finally.
A voice rang out.
The voice was magnificent, reaching up and down the entire Chen Kingdom, and into Great Wei as well.
“The Emperor says, Great Wei Dynasty! Raise an army to conquer the war! Be fierce and tyrannical! Committing the crime of slaughtering cities! It is against the law of heaven! The empress of Wei will issue an edict of guilt to put to rest the grievances of millions of souls, otherwise, the dynasty will send reinforcements to the state of Chen to crush Wei and do justice.”
A magnificent voice rang out.
It was a holy decree from the Tusi Dynasty.
It was transmitted to the State of Chen and to the Great Wei with the weapons of the Sudden Evil Kingdom.
The sudden evil dynasty.
It had finally appeared!
The whole country of Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
The hundred foreign nations were also completely relieved.
But at that very moment.
A similar voice reached the Chen Kingdom.
It was Xu Qingnian’s voice.
There was only one word.
“Kill!”
The voice rang out, and the entire Chen Kingdom, who had not yet had time to rejoice, froze completely.
