As a nobleman of Aki and a distant relative of the royal family, Brooks still has some influence in Aki even if he surrenders to Palche, and his preferred target of persuasion is the old man he knows, and he is a cowardly and hesitant person, so it takes a lot of pressure off his lobbying work.

Brooks successfully used his aristocratic status in Yaqui to negotiate with him, proposing that he could keep his fief and fief in the future, and that he could ensure the safety of everyone in the city, and then stirred people's hearts with his dexterous tongue.

If the local Yaqui officials were determined, then they could have arrested Brooks and those who tried to listen to his persuasion, but the situation of one country and two lords was originally inherently confusing, and the huge oppression of the Palchi army was also a reason for them to hesitate, plus Brooks said that Usubu and Kumuel were not orthodox kings at all, and had no right to demand the allegiance of others, and after multiple persuasions, some people finally began to loosen.

With the surrender of the first city, Brooks took advantage of the opportunity to cause six or seven surrounding towns to surrender one after another, so the entire large and small towns around Ehiteton began to snowball to express their willingness to surrender to Palch. The few remaining towns still pledged allegiance to Yaki, but had no intention of sending troops to aid the rebellious Usubu. Brooks can be said to have successfully completed the work of persuasion.

Of course, Li Tianhao wanted to make the most of his work results, and Li Tianhao would send someone to read it aloud to the city under the city of Ashtiton.

As more and more news of the submission of the city is heard. The people of the city began to feel more and more hopeless. Yes, the walls of Ashtiton were very strong. The weapons and food in the city are also abundant, and it is not particularly difficult to hold on for a long time. However, in the previous battle, the Dilcs army did not hesitate to slaughter 18,000 Yaki soldiers, and this scene that happened in front of everyone's eyes was deeply reflected in the hearts of Yaki people. Confronting the Dilcs army is a dead end, but surrendering can be alive, which is very tempting for the vast majority of the people, even the soldiers. Originally, they held on to the city to defend their homes and families, and if resistance would have led to a worse outcome, then submission might not be the worst. The only thing that kept the city of Ashtiton from surrendering was the fear of the suppression of Usubu and his army, and the expectation that reinforcements from all over the country would come to relieve the siege. Now the second one has been eliminated by the other party. The large number of news of the surrender of the surrounding cities has made people's hearts more and more unstable, and even many soldiers have lost hope of holding out to the end, and all they can do is prolong the time of death.

Fortunately, the Direan army has not yet begun to attack the city, and if the war starts, then everyone will have to take up arms against the Dirs, and then they will have only a dead end. There are not one or two who think about it, but it is widespread among the militia, and there are many soldiers.

Usub sensed this. For him, this is something that must not be allowed to happen, but the problem is that it exists in the human heart. No amount of power he had could erase this thought from people's hearts, so he resorted to the strongest means he could, which was to sit together. He divided the soldiers and civilians of Ashtiton into groups of five, and one of them defected to the enemy or was cowardly. The entire group will then be decapitated, unless the group members execute the unstable before they are discovered; Every five groups are formed into a team, and if one group defects to the enemy or is cowardly, the whole team is executed; Every five teams are organized into a brigade. Every fifth brigade is organized into a battalion, and five battalions are organized into an army. Led by a general.

In terms of the organization and practice of Usub, there seems to be no problem on the surface. It is also a necessary measure, but in fact it has played a very bad role, his kind of establishment of some military and civilian, but also destroyed the establishment system of the Yaki army itself, making the generals more chaotic in command, for example, the Yaki general Likuenis, who could have controlled tens of thousands of troops, can now only command 3,125 people, and some commanders who were originally unable to command the army have made an exception to promote them to generals to command the army of 3,000 people to strengthen control, which has laid a hidden danger for the Yaki army.

As soon as Usubu's order arrived, the fine work in the city of Ashtiton sent the news to Yamo outside the city, and then handed it over to Li Tianhao.

Li Tianhao, who received this information, was overjoyed, and set an offensive strategy with Wei Song and other senior generals that night. Early the next morning, the defenders of Ashtiton were horrified to find that the entire army of the Dils had been dispatched and began to prepare for the siege of Ashtidon.

The Dilcs army attacked! The news spread like a plague from the city walls throughout the city, and everyone's expressions were full of horror and despair when they heard the news, and they looked at each other, but they did not dare to say anything.

Li Tianhao deliberately dragged out the preparations before the siege very slowly, and that invisible sense of oppression only captured the hearts of everyone in the city - it was still too late, it was still too late. Everyone thought this sentence in their hearts, but the people around them didn't dare to be the first to say what they wanted to say.

Seeing that the Dils army had entered the range of the bow and arrows, and the huge siege towers and ladders were slowly approaching the city walls, the generals began to shout hoarsely: "Archers! Shoot the arrows! ”

However, not a single arrow was fired from the head of Ashtidon. Not a single one. When the generals realized the implications, a chill struck their hearts: it meant that the archers had defected!

But it was not only the archers who rebelled, and when the generals tried to order the soldiers to execute the traitors immediately, the soldiers around them also began to rebel, and when one person began to move against the general, immediately more people followed his example, and except for a few people in the whole city who tried to stop this rebellion and were beheaded by everyone, there was hardly any behavior that Usub expected the soldiers to kill their rebel comrades for fear of being killed. Things went in the opposite direction of his original intention, and a tacit understanding was formed among the soldiers, and when none of the archers shot arrows, everyone understood that they were not alone, but the vast majority, and that it was better to survive than to rebel together. The oppression of terror eventually turned into a mass mutiny.

Of the entire army in Ashtidon, only Licuannis's men remained calm, partly because his army was not placed at the head of the city, but as a commando ready to attack and contain the enemy's siege, and partly because Licuannis himself was still quite prestigious in the army, and he did not dare to move his troops in charge. It's a pity that the army he now controls is only a little more than 3,000, and in the face of mutinous armies from all directions, it is really difficult for him to have the strength to return to heaven. Seeing the gates of Ashtiton being opened one after another, Likuenis knew that the tide was turning, and that what he should do now was to protect King Kumuel and Prime Minister Usub from the city.

Licuenis led his army into formation all the way to the palace, and on the way he encountered several small bands of rebels who were taking advantage of the chaos and robbery, and Licuenis had no intention of pursuing these small matters at such a moment, he only dispersed them and hurried to the king's side.

Entering the royal city, the situation here is much better than that of the outer city, but it cannot be held with the meager troops here. At the gate of the palace, he met the prime minister of Usubu, who was also hurrying towards the palace with his guards.

"Your Excellency, the lowly rank will escort you and His Majesty the King out of this place, please rest for a while, and the lowly rank will go in and find His Majesty immediately."

Usubu smiled bitterly and said, "Well, you are faster than an old man like me, but if the king refuses to leave, you don't have to force it." ”

"Yes, my lord." When Licuannis said this, he couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, King Kumuel didn't look like a man who could die for the community. (To be continued.) )