"What else can I do? Of course, it is to accept those captured soldiers, how to say that this is also the warrior of our Rus' country, once Emperor Ivan inherits the unification, these people are also soldiers of our country, and it is absolutely impossible for them to fall into the hands of others. Utkin said in a very affirmative tone.

"This... I'm afraid that people won't agree lightly. I know that this person is not big, but the temper is indeed not small, I have heard that he has a family member who is the commander of the Celestial Empire, although there is no blood connection, but the intersection is also very good, with this relationship, even in the face of the commander of the Dian Wei Army, he sometimes dares to speak out, such a person we want to make something cheap from his hands, I am afraid it is not easy. Matvey made a comment based on his own knowledge.

"Don't say yes? Hmph, then it's not up to them to decide, this is our territory, and there are only 50,000 troops around that horse play, and after we have taken prisoners now, there are nearly 50,000 troops. Utkin said this through some gritted teeth.

"What?" Matvey gasped and said, "Does Lord Wu mean that they won't agree to us if they don't agree?" ”

Now everyone is still an ally, and the danger of Hybalan has just been solved, and now they are going to use force against the Celestial Empire, even Matvey has not made mental preparations in this regard.

"It's not that we're going to do it, it's that they're forcing me." At this moment, Utkin's face was deep and terrible as he spoke.

But as soon as he finished saying this, a herald entered the room and said, "Two adults, the 400,000 infantry of the Dragon and Tiger Legion of the Celestial Empire have come outside the city, and now they are entering the city. ”

"So fast?" Hearing that the reinforcements of the Dragon and Tiger Legion arrived so soon, the faces of Utkin and Matvey were not good-looking at this moment, in this way, the initiative was in the hands of others, and it was strange to be in a good mood.

It's just that in any case, even if the Dragon and Tiger Legion has already entered the city, it is too late to stop it now, and they don't rush to stop it, with 50,000 against 400,000, is there any difference between that and looking for death? "Let's go, let's go out to meet them together."

Utkin's tone softened again, much to Matvey's relief. To be honest, now that he is an enemy of the Celestial Empire, he really has no confidence.

Leading the 400,000 troops of the Dragon and Tiger Legion into the scene was the deputy commander Cai Yang, who led all the infantry, and the speed was far less than that of the cavalry, so he arrived at Haibaolan City a day later. Knowing that the war here has ended, he can't help but feel a little regretful, but after entering the city, he immediately dispersed the army and guarded the four external gates of Haibaolan, which is also what the commander of Zhao Yun's army had ordered before, that is, after coming to Haibaolan City, he must control this place first, as for what the prince Ivan will be unhappy with, it is true that he can't control so much, everything is the order of the emperor Zhang Chao, they just have to obey.

In this way, when Utkin and Matvey appeared in front of Cai Yang with their people to greet them, they already knew that the defense of the four gates in the city had been taken over by Cai Yang's deputy commander.

In this regard, the two naturally disliked it very much, but they did not dare to say it. Only Utkin hurriedly wrote a secret letter, explaining the situation here, and then hurriedly sent it to the hands of the second prince, Ivan. Even if it is to go against the Celestial Empire, it should be the second prince who gave the order first.

The main force of the infantry of the Dragon and Tiger Legion entered the city, and the control of Hai Paolan was also in their hands. At this point, Zhang Chao's first step into the Rus' country was completely completed. According to his usual style of doing things, what he eats in his mouth will not be easily spit out, that is to say, the future Celestial Orchid will not belong to Rus, but to the Celestial Empire.

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Nexus City.

Two days later, Zhao Yun and Dian Wei came to the city with an army of more than 600,000 people, accompanied by 100,000 prisoners of Rus' who had caught up along the way.

Peter led an army of 800,000 to attack Haipaoban, and more than 430,000 were captured, nearly 200,000 were killed, and tens of thousands were lost.

Yuri, the defender of Nexus City, had just welcomed the 150,000 men into the city, and before he had even made timely arrangements, he discovered that the Celestial Empire army had appeared outside the city. "Quick, quick, all go up to the castle tower and be ready to fight at any time."

Peter's defeat was completely unexpected by Yuri, but fortunately, he kept a hand at the beginning, leaving Peter's 200,000 horses to help him defend the city, and with his original nearly 200,000 horses, there were 400,000 defenders in the city. Now another 150,000 deserters have returned to the city, leaving a total of 550,000 troops at their disposal.

With this, Yuri was not too nervous about the sudden appearance of more than 600,000 Celestial Empire troops outside the city.

"Prepare for the siege." As soon as he arrived in the city, Zhao Yun arranged for his cavalry to settle the military tent, and then ordered the infantry from the Sixth Army to start building ladders to prepare for the siege.

Zhao Yun is a first-class military general, Dian Wei is just a second-class military general, and Shangguan has orders, so he naturally has to obey. Moreover, he also thought that the siege could indeed catch the other party by surprise, so he agreed with this decision very much and began to actively prepare.

Only three hours later, near noon, the siege began, mainly by the infantry of the Sixth Legion.

After an order, under the personal leadership of Yan Liang, the deputy commander of the legion, the black-armored soldiers, the crowd of black-armored soldiers launched a fierce attack on Lianxcheng with two thousand cloud ladders that had been prepared.

In the face of the attack of the Celestial Empire army, Yuri on the castle tower was not prepared, such as sleepers, boulders and fire oil, many of which were not transported to the castle tower. It's just that the attack is immediate, and all he can do is arrange for the archers to counterattack on the city wall first.

When the archers of the Celestial Empire got the city tower and were about to counterattack, Zhao Yun also made corresponding measures, that is, he selected 20,000 of the captured 100,000 Rus troops and arranged them at the front, so that they could appear on the battlefield in the form of meat shields.

In this way, if the Rus bow and arrow in the city are shot down first, they will naturally shoot their own people first, which will invisibly bring a kind of pressure to the opponent and restrain the opponent psychologically.

Naturally, this kind of tactics is a bit shameful, if it is in the territory of the Celestial Empire, the Celestial Empire army will never do such a thing, because no matter what, it is their own people who die, but it is a different matter if it happens in the Rus country, even if it is a foreign race, what does life and death have to do with them?

Zhao Yun's choice of tactics gave Yuri a headache.

When he saw the archers on the castle tower with strong bows and crossbows in their hands, but they didn't know what to do, he knew that these soldiers were taking care of their brothers. But he still gave the order to shoot.

Speaking of which, Yuri is not a murderer, and in comparison, he is a very merciful one among the many Rus' generals. But this does not mean that he is weak, for the sake of the more than 500,000 troops in the city, he must give the order to shoot, he will not lose the big because of the small.

The order was given, and the Rus archers on the castle tower were not allowed to release their bows and arrows, and aimed at their own prisoners who were walking in the front.

Suddenly, under the fire of 10,000 arrows, Ross's soldiers were killed and wounded countless times, and 20,000 unarmed Ross prisoners really became meat shields at this moment, seeing the bows and arrows flying from the city, he didn't even have the ability to dodge, so he was shot by the bow and arrows one by one, and finally died tragically on the ground.

The wall of flesh lined up with 20,000 Rus' prisoners was all shot in less than half an hour, and the explosives soldiers of the Sixth Army also buried the explosives under the city.

Compared to the artillery used in the first siege, this time it was almost ten times the amount, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the explosives carried by the Sixth Army were almost half used at one time. And under so many explosives, the rumbling sound was one after another, and the sound was deafening, making the earth begin to tremble at this moment.

The powerful power of explosives was also undoubtedly revealed at this moment, and in a short period of time, the wall of Nexus City, which had just been repaired, was blown open dozens of openings, the smallest of which was more than one zhang wide, and the largest reached five or six zhang, allowing the cavalry to pass unimpeded.

"Kill!" Seeing that the city wall was blown apart, Zhao Yun did not hesitate at this time, and with a wave of his hand, he took the 280,000 cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Legion to start a crazy attack in more than a dozen ways. At the same time, the commander of the Sixth Legion, Dian Wei, also led the infantry to climb up to the top of the city tower with the help of the cloud ladder, and the hundreds of thousands of Celestial Empire troops all moved at this moment.

The sudden and powerful siege method took Yuri completely unexpected.

Originally, I thought that with the strong soldiers in my hands, there would be no problem in keeping the city, at least there would be no difficulty in holding on to it for the last month. But when he watched those cavalry rush into the city from the gap, and his own soldiers were disorganized because they were not fully prepared, and they could not form a unified defensive front, he knew that the offensive of the Sixth Army Corps before was just a show, and now it was the real combat power level of others.

The Celestial Empire army entered the city, and the Rus' army became chaotic. Many soldiers who were still carrying sleepers and boulders to the city tower were the first to be the first to be harvested, and became the targets of the cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Legion.

These Rus soldiers didn't even take their weapons because they had to move things, and now they are almost unarmed to face the attack of the elite cavalry of the Celestial Empire, and the result can be imagined. As the charge continued, almost every cavalryman could kill two or three Rus soldiers in a very short time.

With this impact alone, tens of thousands of Rus soldiers were killed.