More than a dozen people who were high-ranking officers and generals for the defenders were cut off by the cadres outside the city, which had a great deterrent effect on the defenders on the city tower.

These high-ranking officials and generals who usually command and shout at each other can be as majestic as they want, but now they have their heads cut off like pigs, and the defenders have a sense of relief in their hearts, and at the same time they are frightened and frightened, such people can easily cut off their heads, so what about them at the bottom of the small fish and shrimp?

During the whole beheading process, everyone on the city wall held their breath, which was frightened, and it was not until the executed cavalry left to return to their own team that they came back to their senses, and everyone had a deep fear in their hearts.

Chen Xian knew that he had to say something at this time, otherwise the morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers would be over, he took a deep breath: "Don't be afraid, the soldiers are just scaring us, and they want to use this means to hit our morale and fighting spirit!" Soldiers think about it, those captured officials and generals, who are in high positions and positions of power on weekdays, they will be killed casually by the cadres, if we are replaced by shrimp soldiers and crabs will be captured, wouldn't they slaughter us even more unscrupulously? So if I want to live, I can only pick up the knife and gun and fight them to the end, either he dies or I live, we can't wait to be killed, even if we want to die, we have to pull a cadre soldier on our backs, and never let them have a better ······"

In front of the cadre army outside the city, Zhao Junsheng rode on horseback and heard Chen Xian's words clearly, and he couldn't help but say to the generals and colonels around him: "This Chen Xian has a set of leading troops, and few people can compare with this morale-boosting ability!" You see, the defenders at the head of the city were still frightened one by one, but they were encouraged by Chen Xian like this, and their morale was completely different, and just one word made everyone hate the same enemy! Yang Lie, do you have this kind of ability? ”

Yang Lie was ashamed, hugged his fists and said, "Minister······ Stupid mouth, can't say these disgusting words······"

"Disgusting? Yang Lie, Yang Lie, you have been a general for so many years, you think these words are disgusting, but the soldiers below can listen to them at this time, they need someone to encourage them and give them courage, this is also the role of a general, and it can better reflect a general's ability to lead troops! ”

Yang Lie promised: "Yes, the minister······"

"Okay, I still have to practice more in the future!"

"No!"

Zhao Junsheng pulled the reins, turned around on his horse, and waved his hand and shouted: "Withdraw the army and return to the camp!" ”

"Withdraw the troops and return to the camp!" As the herald shouted, the soldiers and horses turned around and returned to the camp in turn.

On the morning of the next day, Su Ji came to the Shuai tent to report to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, the First Route Army has captured the entire territory of Xindu County, Fu County, Mianzhu County, Zitong County, Shifang County, Yu County and other places, among which Shifang County Order, Yun County Commander and others have been escorted over this morning!" ”

After listening to this, Zhao Junsheng looked at a royal guard next to him, and the imperial guard immediately walked to the sand table and planted a few small banners of the cadre army on the territory that had been captured.

Zhao Junsheng got up and walked to the sand table to look at it, and asked: "Give the order to the First Route Army, march to the northwest, and take Gangdi Road, Dianshi Road, Baishui County and other places, we must ensure that the logistics supply line and soldier transportation line are unimpeded!" ”

Su Ji clenched his fists and agreed: "Obey!" ”

"By the way, is there any news from the other soldiers?"

"Back to Your Majesty, there is no news for the time being, but it must be soon, and news will come one after another tomorrow at the latest!"

In the afternoon, Zhao Junsheng summoned Li Bao and instructed: "In the morning, the First Route Army sent people to escort the captured officials such as Shifang County Commander and Yuxian County Commander, and later you will take some men and horses to the East City Gate, cut off the heads of these people, erect some wooden poles outside the city, and hang the heads of these people on the long poles. ”

Li Bao asked, "Your Majesty, is this useful?" ”

"Whether it works or not is only known if you try it! Besides, these officials have no ability and are stubborn, but they are very good at bullying and looting the local people, so why should we waste food to feed them? We're not used to these silverfish! ”

"No!"

Li Bao soon led a team of people to the Dongcheng Gate with the Shifang County Decree and the Yuxian County Order.

The soldiers dug two deep pits with tools, erected a tree trunk in each pit, and then used a long trunk to lay it horizontally to make the shape of a horizontal bar.

Several county orders were tied up by Wuhua and forcibly pressed to kneel on the ground in the direction of the city tower.

The city tower suddenly became restless again, and the defenders looked solemn and looked nervously outside the city one by one.

Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang also rushed over when they heard the news, and when they went up to the city tower to take a look, they knew that the cadres were going to kill people again.

Chen Xian's previous military rank was not high, and he didn't know many high-ranking officials and generals from all over Sichuan and Shu, but Ye Tongzhang was different, Ye Tongzhang had been a lieutenant in Yizhou for several years, and he knew most of the high-ranking officials and generals from all over Sichuan and Shu.

Chen Xian asked, "General Ye, these people ······?"

Ye Tongzhang said with a solemn face: "It's the Shifang County Order, the Yu County Order······ It seems that the Qianjun army has changed their strategy, they have sent cavalry to surround us, but they have sent infantry to attack other cities in Sichuan and Shu! ”

When Chen Xian heard this, he said angrily: "These people deserve it, who let them not listen to the order of the Assassin Mansion to come to reinforcements?" Who made them selfish and wanted to preserve their strength? When the neighboring counties and counties were attacked, they did not send troops to rescue, but only guarded their own one-third of an acre of land. ”

Ye Tongzhang shook his head and smiled bitterly, "General Chen, it's time for you, don't talk angry, let's find a way to solve the unfavorable situation in front of you!" ”

"Breaking the game? You think it's beautiful, I can't help it, now we can't protect ourselves! Unless someone convinces the defenders from other places, let them concentrate their forces and maybe hold out until the imperial reinforcements arrive! ”

"General Chen, this is not nonsense, if there is such a person with such ability, why wait until now?"

Chen Xian sighed: "So we know the intentions and purposes of the cadres but have no choice, we can only watch the defenders from all over Sichuan and Shu being taken by them one by one, and our city will soon become a lonely city!" General Ye, I won't hide it from you, I don't have the slightest confidence in guarding here, but I have to do it as a soldier, since ancient times, loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, my father and mother are long gone, and I can't do it to honor my parents, and now the only thing we can do is to be loyal and keep the festival, so that we can not come to the world in vain! ”

As he spoke, the cadres outside the city had already moved.

An executioner with a large waist and a large waist walked up behind several captured officials with a broadsword.

Li Bao shouted to the city tower: "Presumably there are people on the city tower who know them, just know them!" Come on, cut them all! ”

The executioners waved their knives, several heads rolled to the ground, and the corpses fell to the ground, blood was still spurting out, and everyone in the city felt a chill rise in their hearts.

Several heads were poked up with spears by the soldiers of the cadre army and hung on the beams, and the terrifying faces of the heads were facing the city towers and city walls, and one by one they were still staring wide-eyed, seeing the defenders and generals panic.

"Why, facing these terrifying heads every day, how can you live these days!"

"Don't be funny, you still see the dead, huh? That war was not a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood? It's not like we haven't eaten on the pile of corpses! ”

"You hammer, can this be the same? These people were not killed in battle, they were cut off without resistance, and they have grievances, maybe the ghosts will not disperse, do you understand! ”

"What's the matter, when you say that, Lao Tzu really feels a little hairy in my heart!"

Another day passed, Du'an County, Mianchi, Wenjiang, Guangrou, Silkworm, Maoqi and other counties were all captured by the Second Route Army of the Cadre Army, and the principal officials of these counties were escorted to the camp of the Cadre Army.

According to Zhao Junsheng's order, Li Bao also escorted these officials outside the East City Gate and beheaded them one by one, and then ordered their heads to be hung on the beams.

On another day, several counties in Padang County were captured one after another, and the main officials were also escorted over, and they were taken outside the Dongcheng Gate by Li Bao and beheaded one by one.

As more and more Song officials from all over Sichuan and Shu were beheaded, the defenders in the city knew that all parts of Sichuan and Shu were being captured by the cadres one by one, or it would not be long before their city would become an isolated city, and if the imperial court did not send reinforcements, they would no longer get any reinforcements.

The morale of the defenders disappeared little by little as officials were taken over and beheaded every day, and every time the cadres killed an official, the defenders knew that they had less hope of getting reinforcements, and if one day there was no one to kill the cadres, it also meant that the defenders had no chance of getting reinforcements at all.

Chen Xian's pressure was getting bigger and bigger, but he had to try his best to maintain it, and he kept cheering up the defenders every day, but he knew that this method could only be used a few times, and if it was used continuously, it would soon lose its effect, because the soldiers' ears were calloused.

After half a month, the entire territory of Sichuan and Shu was taken by the cadres, and the officials from all over Sichuan and Shu who should have been killed were almost killed, and more than 100 heads had been hung on the beams outside the east city gate, some of which had rotted and smelled, and some of which were still very fresh.

These days, many of the defenders have lost their minds because of the loss of hope, some have gone mad, some have jumped off the city wall and died on impulse, and some have fled through other city gates.

The defenders originally had more than 6,600 people, but when the cadres captured the entire territory of Sichuan and Shu, there were only more than 4,000 defenders left in Chengdu, and more than 2,000 people escaped by various means.

"Look, Song Jun brothers, these brothers who escaped are eating with their mouths full of oil, fat heads and big ears, eating and drinking every day, look at what kind of days you live every day? There is not a single citizen in the city except you, so what do you say you are keeping? What is there to keep? Open the gates and surrender! ”