The total population of Xuchang in the 7 years of collapse was 1.5 million, excluding the floating population from other places, as well as the number of people who took refuge in the north after the outbreak of the Northern Expedition, there were still 700,000 soldiers and civilians in the city when the cold kite soldiers came to the city.

Under the slaughter order of the eagle general, Xuchang became a dead city in the real sense after a day and a night, not to mention the living, even the complete corpse is difficult to find, blown up, burned, shot to death, suffocated to death, suicide, all kinds of dead and dead corpses are all over the city.

Among all the Republican Hui troops that launched the attack, the soldiers from the 39 artillery battalions may have felt better, after all, they only got war data, and they were nearly ten kilometers away from the battlefield, so even if they knew that they could kill more than a dozen innocent people with one shot, they didn't see it with their own eyes, and they didn't have too much psychological burden.

But the vanguard team responsible for the siege and annihilation of the city gate was different, the whole army, including the commander with the highest psychological quality, had lost their souls, and finally became like walking corpses, if it were not for Leng Kite ordering the gendarmerie to take away their weapons, maybe there would be a large number of soldiers who committed suicide by swallowing guns.

The soldiers witnessed the slaughter, the shattered bodies of civilians vividly in their minds, and each realized that it would be a nightmare for the rest of their lives, and that it would haunt them until they died...

I don't know if it was the burning heat that disturbed the air flow, or the heavens also wept for the city, the sky rarely rained in this dry season, and the rain hit the burning city, rising a scorching mist, some mixed with the loess outside the city, and the dust splashed made people feel tight, and the air became more turbid than cement.

Leng Kite stood at the front of the troops, her dark purple pupils reflecting the dead city she had personally ordered to slaughter, the once iconic smile that hadn't appeared on her face for days, and the rain on her face could only sweep through the corners of her lips that had fallen slightly, seeping into it and disappearing.

The commander of the forward team was sitting on the edge of Leng Kite at this time, his eyes had lost all color and became as gray as the haze of the sky, he looked at the desolate Xu Chang with tears in his eyes, and said hoarsely: "General... Don't you feel a little guilty..."

Leng Kite glanced sideways at the commander, turned to leave, and left a cold sentence: "I want to save all the people, what is the crime?" ”

Five minutes later, under the command of the heralds, the huge force of the Republic of Glory moved again, and the soldiers who took off their hats to Xuchang City also returned to the military vehicle gloomily, heading towards the final destination Bianliang.

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The fall of Xuchang and the slaughter of the whole city soon spread throughout the wilderness, and the deterrent effect it brought was absolutely shocking, because in the past confrontation between the north and the south, both sides had an unwritten rule, that is, not to hurt civilians, which is also the spirit handed down from the three major disciplines and eight points of attention in the old era, although this iron rule no longer exists, but the sergeants on both sides will abide by it intentionally or unintentionally.

But this time, Leng Kite's iron-fisted military order undoubtedly released a terrible signal, she used the massacre in Xuchang to warn all the soldiers and civilians in the territory that death is with us in the war, and no mercy will be shown to anyone!

This signal not only greatly deterred some wilderness evolutionaries who took advantage of the chaos and destruction, but also made other cities in the war zone boil, and the fear spread wildly like the Black Death in the Middle Ages, unstoppable, and everyone was terrified, for fear that the butcher's knife of the eagle general would cut down on their heads, making their home the next Xuchang.

However, if it was just to spread fear, it would not be a complete chaos, but Leng Kite's next move was to completely reverse the balance of war in the Northern Expedition!

When Gonghe Zhihui arrived in Bianliang, everyone thought that Leng Kite would wave his butcher's knife again and capture the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties with the "Xuchang model" of assassination, artillery bombardment, and slaughter of the city.

However, no one thought that Leng Kite chose the "stupidest" way of playing in the offensive and defensive battle of this city, attacking head-on! And it's a frontal assault without artillery support!

In the attack and defense of Bianliang, the blood-stained begonia rocket artillery did not fire a single shot, after the night attack of the ghost, the trapped camp took the lead in the attack with the city defense artillery in the sky, and fell into a cruel white-knuckle battle in a very short time, in the case of a great advantage in their own forces, although the city was captured, but the battle damage ratio reached an appalling 5:1!

If this command mode is in a textbook, it is definitely a counterexample that makes people laugh off their big teeth, but one of Leng Kite's orders caused a storm.

Completely contrary to the executioner slaughter in Xuchang, because no cannon was fired, the Republic of Glory did not hurt any civilians in the process of besieging the city, and Leng Kite's post-war disposal here was no longer an indiscriminate massacre, but a fair care of the wounded and the enemy, preferential treatment of prisoners, and no disturbance of the people.

The tragedy of Xuchang and the benevolence of Bianliang formed a shocking contrast, frantically knocking on everyone's hearts, and what finally turned the balance of war was Leng Kite's announcement to all the war-torn cities in the territory: "Fighters are like Xuchang, and those who descend are like Bianliang!" ”

During the Warring States Period of the Qin State, in order to make the people trust the new decree, Shang Ying set up a three-zhang tree at the south gate of the national capital, and recruited people to give ten gold to those who could relocate to the north gate. The people are strange, don't dare to migrate. It was said that those who could migrate were given 50 gold, and one person migrated to give 50 gold, and the order was given, which became the "standing wood for the letter" that was handed down to future generations.

The so-called war, the soldiers who die, the sufferers are the civilians, and the common people never want to fight, which is the eternal truth.

The same is true of this Northern Expedition, the civilians actually ignore it, who wins and who loses, they don't care! Just let me live my life! And Leng Kite's Yitu Yiren perfectly grasped this psychological weakness!

Through Xuchang's killing, Leng Kite deprived the civilians in the war-torn area of the psychology of "staying out of the way", and made them understand that even if they were unarmed, the sickle of death would be treated equally.

Through Bianliang's kindness, Leng Kite told these desperate civilians that as long as they surrender, they will be treated preferentially and will not hurt you in the slightest.

In this way, a delicate logical relationship is formed.

For civilians, no matter how the Republic and the Northern Rebels fight, it is a civil war, not the common hatred of the whole people in the War of Resistance in the old era, so whether it is against the Republic or the Northern Rebels, the civilians have no hatred, or that sentence, it doesn't matter who wins or who loses, just let me live.

Now, the cold kite is like a bamboo, the cities in the middle of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River are all in danger, under the announcement of "the fighters are like Xuchang, and the surrenderers are like Bianliang", the people's psychological expectations have been broken, and they have become the "wall grass" in the wind, and everyone hopes that their cities will become "Bianliang", not "Xuchang"!

In the end, it is not known which city will lead the way, in short, the day after the announcement was issued, the city controlled by the rebels in the middle of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River was in chaos, and the civilians marched in the streets like crazy, storming the consul hall and the barracks, demanding that the rebels surrender and make peace with the republic.

This kind of chaos in the whole territory came too quickly, like a hurricane sweeping, devastating, the generals in the head of the capital failed to make timely countermeasures, and the commanders of the cities did not have the iron fist and courage of Leng Kite, and did not dare to bloody suppress the civilians at all, and finally they were driven out of the city by the civilians who were eager to survive, and fled to the strategic rear in embarrassment.

And these cities drafted a surrender document as soon as they drove out the rebels, and sent people to deliver it to the Republican Hui overnight, and in this way, a large number of cities that had not yet been conquered were captured bloodlessly, not a single soldier died, and not a single citizen was injured!

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