The magistrate of the city answered with his feet on his feet:

"There is no reason for you to attack our city savagely, and we will release you only if you retreat."

"Bah, barbarian, then what do you say about attacking Qianyue Mountain and slaughtering our people, do we deserve to die, do you deserve it? Ben will ask you how you will release them, and say! ”

The administrator thought for a moment, and then said slowly:

"As long as the troops are withdrawn, we will release them."

"It is absolutely impossible to retreat, the four gates will leave you with two gates, how do you want to retreat. Ben will give you one last chance, and our army will retreat three hundred paces to the south, and you will release them immediately. Now give you two moments to think about it, if you don't respond after two moments, this general will be your agreement to the conditions, our army will begin to retreat, if you don't let go at that time, you will lose your trust, and the day the city will be broken, it will be the time to slaughter the city. ”

When the administrator heard the word "slaughter the city", his face was like ashes and sweat rain, and he fled from the city in a panic, and rode to the north of the city to see the guard:

"Suosen, the northerners only promised to retreat 300 steps south for us to release them, but they refused to withdraw their troops." Executive Mulsak said quickly.

Defender Sosen said disdainfully:

"These idiots, go and tell them that we need time to prepare. Only after dark can the people be released, let them retreat to four hundred paces, otherwise there is no negotiation, and if there is a kind of let them attack the city. ”

"There are more than 100,000 people outside the city."

"It's just a rabble, and you don't look at what they're carrying, do they have weapons? The biggest threat is the more than 30,000 sailors of the northerners, who will soon be wiped out by us as long as they hold out until reinforcements arrive. Go and tell them now that they are four hundred paces away, or else everything will be left to spare. ”

"Alright then, may the moon god bless, these pigs will pay for it."

Mushak returned to the South Gate and brought Sosen's conditions to Bailiyan. Bailiyan sternly refused when she heard the news

"I figured it out, it was us who attacked the city, not you who attacked the city, it wasn't General Ben who asked you to release people, it was your slaves who let you go. Ming told you to release the people immediately after 300 steps, otherwise the jade will be burned before dark. ”

"Then let's not talk about anything, you continue the siege, our reinforcements are coming, and you just wait to be punished."

Mushak shouted confidently, and when he heard the news that the reinforcements had arrived, the leaders elected by the villages were discussing:

"The reinforcements of the Jin Xuedi people have arrived, and this time it will be unlucky."

"That's right, the army of the Central Plains seems to be unreliable."

"Then let them retreat quickly, and we can negotiate terms with the Jin Xuedi people, which is better than taking us out of anger after their soldiers and horses arrive."

"Yes, that makes sense."

After a round of private rounds, the tall man with a bad nose said loudly:

"Hey, what generals are coming from the north, you also heard it, their reinforcements are about to arrive, the defenders want you to retreat, three hundred steps back is also a retreat, four hundred steps is also a retreat, you just go, when your army really hits Songdia, it's not too late to show off your might, don't harm us again."

Bai Liyan was furious when she heard the news:

"Bastard thing, you know what you say! You shed the blood of the Central Plains, you are dressed in the skin of the Central Plains, when the two armies are fighting, you are willing to be a lackey, and you are here to open the way for the enemy army in the face of great rights and wrongs, how can you be a man! ”

"You don't show off your power here, don't think that if you have a sword in your hand, we are afraid of you. I can see that you are disheveled, you are dressed in everything, and you are not the original army at all, but the rioters. What Jin Xuedi said is not wrong at all, when their reinforcements arrive, they will soon clean you up, you better leave quickly, don't bother us. ”

"Yes, don't bother us, if you really have the ability, let the million army let us see, hurry up, don't hurt our wife and daughter."

……

Under the instigation of the thieves in the Central Plains, everyone scolded again and again, and everyone was like a seasoned detective, who saw through Bailiyan's tricks at a glance, how wise and powerful.

At the next moment, Bai Liyan pretended to be angry, and said fiercely:

"You short-sighted rats, sooner or later you will have to pay for this. Jiang Jie, let's go, let's go! ”

"Yes, my lord!"

Riding away with the guards, the coalition forces quickly retreated south to a distance of 400 paces, and lined up for battle. The people of the Central Plains still continued to negotiate with the Jin Xuedi people unrelentingly.

It was nearly dusk, and the Kelownas defenders showed no sign of opening the city. Seeing the stalemate from afar, Jiang Jie was restless:

"My lord, the people of the Central Plains will not suddenly turn back and attack our army, right?"

"No, it won't." Bai Liyan affirmed.

"How can you see it?"

"They came in a hurry, unorganized, these days are eating our army's grain and grass, if they rebel, our army's grain and grass are on the ship and in the camp, the surrounding area is empty of our army, what will they eat at that time.

Moreover, our army's 28,000 men lined up on the shore, and their 100,000-odd rabble was scattered on the north, south, and west sides. Their brains are just stuffed with pig, and they don't want to provoke unwarranted disasters. ”

"Oh...... Now we only need to wait until it is dark for the barbarian army to leave the city, and our army can attack. ”

"Yes, the order goes down, the battalions are standing and eating their stomachs, and they will inevitably fight all night tonight."

"Yes!"

At a young age, the sky was dyed at dusk, and the night was getting darker, and the coalition troops lit torches and waited while eating.

Around seven or eight o'clock, the north gate and the west gate were opened at the same time, and the people of the Central Plains only thought that the defenders opened the city to release people, and rushed straight to the two gates, but unexpectedly, what was waiting for them was hundreds of iron cavalry and thousands of remnants of the defeated soldiers who opened the road, and killed them to the point of bleeding.

"My lord, the killing is outside the west gate and the north gate!" Jiang Jie said busily.

"If you don't see the coffin, don't cry, let them kill first. Go, call Tian Peng to me. ”

"Yes!"

When he was young, Tian Peng came on horseback, still chewing mutton in his mouth, and there was a strong smell all over his body:

"General, what do you command?"

"How much have you eaten, are you full!"

"It's okay." Tian Peng didn't care.

"Eat, eat, and you know how to eat. Listen to me, blow up the wall right now. After the wall collapsed, the army did not move for the time being, you threw the miners' battalion for me, blew up the south gate for me from the ground, and encouraged the Central Plains people outside the city to enter the city. ”

"Don't worry, we've done a lot more about this."

Tian Peng is full of peace of mind, and Bailiyan will never be relieved.

As soon as the time passed, the sound of killing increased sharply, and the people of the Central Plains who had killed their heads suddenly found that they were fooled, but it was too late, and the Jin Xuedi people were left with only fast horses to break through the west gate and quickly break away from the battle, and the infantry army immediately retreated back into the city.

When the people of the Central Plains approached the city, the rain of arrows at the head of the city poured down mercilessly, and hundreds of the people of the Central Plains fell like fallen wheat, falling in patches. How foolish and pathetic it is to be repeatedly struck by an arrow in wailing until he dies of agony, and still silently reciting the confessional prayers of the Cult of God.

When the sound of killing was scarce, Bailiyan immediately decided:

"Blow the battle horn!"

"Yes, sir."

In the next moment, the battle horn roared, resounding in the sky, and it was clearly heard within a radius of more than ten miles. The firefighters who were hiding underground ignited the fuse at the same time, and the burning fire line burned rapidly, quickly burning along the fuse to the city wall.

One minute... Two minutes... Three-minute ...... Four minutes passed, and a loud bang accompanied by orange fire first exploded in the north of the city, and then two or thirty explosions followed.

Hundreds of thousands of people were stunned and shocked, and those who did not know what was going on thought it was a disaster, and the devil appeared, and they knelt on the ground and prayed for the preservation of the ghosts.

At the next moment, Tian Peng led a number of dead soldiers in the miners' battalion, rode out of the army formation and flew to the south gate, and the defenders were stunned when they had no time to take care of a group of men and horses rushing in the dark, and when they reacted, Tian Peng and others had rushed to the city gate to pile up a powder keg like a hill.

"Withdraw!"

Tian Peng gave an order, everyone climbed on the war horse and quickly evacuated, ran ten steps, looked back and threw the torch, the flame touched the ground in an instant, and the fire soared to the sky. The explosion was deafening, the south gate was engulfed in ashes under the air wave generated by the explosion, the door hole exploded into the sky, and the stones flew everywhere, injuring countless people.

"Jiang Jie!"

"What do you command?"

"Ordered Bai He and Fang Liang to make a detour to the west gate and attack the city through the gap in the west gate."

"My lord, don't you enter the city from the south of the city?"

"No, from the west gate, there are too many people in the city, and there are 100,000 Central Plains citizens outside the city, plus our army, more than 400,000 people, sitting in such a small city, even if 400,000 dogs are stuffed, there will be many people, and it is inevitable that the enemy and me will be trampled. Our troops will enter from the west of the city, and they will evacuate from the north and south flanks and rush outward. ”

"However, our army entered from the south of the city, didn't they also rush out from the west gate and the north gate?" Jiang Jie asked rhetorically.

"Kelownas is long from north to south, short from east to west, and the south and north flanks are more populous, and our army entering the city from the south flank is bound to be hit by refugees, if you enter the city from the west gate, you can cut off its north and south more quickly, and drive its population out of the city."

"Aren't you going to slaughter the city, what are you doing when you drive it out of the city?"

"Don't you look at it, the 267,000 people in the city, just rely on us 20,000 or 30,000, even if you slaughter them for three days, you can't slaughter them all. Let them flee for their lives, one can make them fight with the Central Plains people outside the city, and the other is to make the Central Plains people sober and sober and know what it means to be cocooned.

Thirdly, the city has been without food for several days, its people are hungry, and they will inevitably suffer heavy casualties if they trample on each other under the chaos, even if they flee to the wilderness, they will starve to death if they do not survive for a day or two, so why should our army slaughter the city.

Fourth, there are enemy reinforcements to the south of our army, and there are enemy ships entrenched in the lower reaches of the river to the north, and the refugees will drag them down, creating opportunities for our army to hold on and counterattack. ”

"Subordinates understood!"

Kelownas is long from north to south and short from east to west, the population density in the south and north of the city is high, and the density in the west of the city is low, and 2670,000 people are scrambling to flee for their lives in the chaos.

At that time, the coalition forces will detour to the West Gate, and they can kill all the escapees from the West Gate, release the space in the west of the city, and cut off the north and south of the city. From the center of the city to the north and south of the city, the slaughter of the city at the same time, the population of the city was driven out of the city, so that they could fight with the original people outside the city, or be killed, or freeze to death and starve to death. In the end, even if there were more than one catastrophe, it was still the reinforcements of the Jinxuedi people who dragged them down.