Xingluo didn't have any tactics, and he didn't have a teacher's guidance, but he still knew the basic tactics, and the artillery had previously pressed the city wall to bombard, and after paying a terrible price, the wall of Gengxin City was also blown out of a huge crack.

Subsequently, tens of thousands of black-armored knights also began to charge.

The artillery fell in the charging formation of these black-armored knights, but the effect was very few, often a shell can only kill three or four people, this income is undoubtedly too low compared to the current number, only the two giant cannons forged by Lou Gao himself can play the due income ratio of artillery, and one cannon can kill dozens of people.

The black-armored knights charged with their guns and guns, and soon reached the breach of the wall, and just as they were about to rush through with a bang, dozens of heavily armored soldiers armed with large swords stood in front of them.

Lou Gao is certainly not a person who fully embraces the new era, as one of the best blacksmiths in the world, his collection of armor can be described as the best in the world, these armor is more advanced than the equipment of the black knights, directly plugging the gap in the entire city wall, for a while, these knights who have rushed up are in a dilemma.

With the advantage of the city's buildings and walls, the garrison continued to pour fire downward, attacking the vulnerable points of the black-armored knights as much as possible.

"Damn! This building is really anti-minded, and he actually hides a hand! Looking at the battlefield where he had invested a lot of troops but had no practical effect, Dai Hua said angrily.

This Battle Star Luo Emperor drove the expedition in person, and it was impossible to put the command of each department into the hands of others, and the supreme commander of each legion must belong to the Dai family of the imperial family.

Dai Hua is a member of the Dai family of a branch, because he has read military books since he was a child and is proficient in suppressing bandits, he was also promoted to the commander of a 50,000-strong army at the time of this all-out war.

Military exploits on the battlefield are undoubtedly the biggest temptation, not to mention that Gengxin City gives the impression that it is a group of blacksmiths, who would have thought that it would have such combat effectiveness? A few dozen people can block an offensive path of hundreds or thousands of people?

"General Dai! At this time, we must not be greedy for merit, but should withdraw our army and start a protracted battle, otherwise we may be in danger of being attacked by the enemy. A general said with a sad expression.

Dai Hua looked at the map, Gengxin City was close to the ore-producing mountains on one side, narrow and difficult for the army to retreat, there was a large river in the north, but a large plain in the south, and the Xingluo army had no defense against this.

This is the strategy of encircling three and letting one go in the art of war, not encircling and dying, which means that there is a possibility of escape, so once the battle is long and the army's spirit is scattered, these people will flee along the south gate, and they will eventually fall on the offensive line formed by the army of the Star Luo Empire.

Siege without attacking, putting enough pressure is indeed the best strategy, but this is Gengxin City, in the northeast is Dai Mubai's occupation area, if Dai Mubai's army takes advantage of the fact that the main force of Xingluo has not arrived at the front line to directly raid the headquarters during the siege, it will probably be an end of annihilation.

Gray withdrawn? So how can you satisfy His Majesty the Emperor? For today's plan, the only way is to break through Gengxin City quickly, so as to form an angle with the main force of Xingluo, and resist the impact of Dai Mubai's armored legion here.

"Impossible, if the army withdraws, it will certainly be able to resist a possible sneak attack, but have you ever thought about how we should deal with it if we don't continue to attack and the two sides converge? Do you want to return to Your Majesty in a thousand miles? Dai Hua slapped the table fiercely: "For today's plan, there is only the slaughter of the city!" ”

As soon as he heard this, the surrounding generals were suddenly silent.

This massacre of the city does not mean to kill and loot the people after entering it, but to put a virus to ensure that all living beings are killed.

A long time ago, Xingluo didn't have such sophisticated equipment, and he was able to fight against Tiandou by relying on his ability to resist beasts, and among them, those highly poisonous things were naturally indispensable.

If you can project those poisonous insects into the city of Gengxin and let the devastating and terrifying plague spread, the city will be considered broken.

"General, this matter must not be allowed, the Martial Spirit Hall and the Kyushu Empire are the most hypocritical, if you don't give them a chance, you can't interfere in person, but if we use such a tragic means, then the Kyushu Heavenly Army will end up in person, and our Xingluo is afraid that the country will be destroyed!" The general who had previously dissuaded Dai Hua immediately knelt down and said with tears in his eyes when he heard that he wanted to poison him.

"Enough! What are your tips? If not, do as I say! If the area around Gengxin City can be stabilized, Your Majesty will definitely not blame it for this! Dai Hua was a little panicked, but he still insisted on his decision.

For him, if this battle can't be won quickly, or the army is defeated and fled, with the strictness of Emperor Xingluo, then even if he doesn't die, he will have to lose half his life, it is better to fight to the death!

Although the generals complained about these bestial acts, the other party was the supreme commander of the Twelfth Legion, so they also went down to prepare.

This poisonous attack strategy has always been one of the means of Xingluo to conquer the city, and this war is naturally no exception, if the frontal battlefield does not achieve an advantage, the Star Luo Emperor will not mind letting these three provinces all become purgatory on earth.

The Emperor had all this idea, so each legion had a backup, and the poison was now encapsulated in a special cannonball, which could be used to poison the original trebuchet by firing it at the target.

Lou Gao speculated with great malice about the way the Star Luo Imperial Army might attack, but after all, he still didn't expect this hand.

In his opinion, even if the army is defeated in the end, the blacksmiths should be captured, and as long as they are killed, I am afraid that most of the servants will not be affected, because the empire still needs them.

But it was obvious that the people of Xingluo were already extremely frenzied, and in order to prevent them from succeeding, they did not hesitate to directly eliminate hundreds of thousands of people in Gengxin City.

In addition to arranging artillery bombardment from multiple angles to ensure that the entire Gengxin City was polluted, Dai Hua also sent a team of cavalry to the upper reaches of the river north of the city to poison and directly cut off the main water source.

After doing this, the Xingluo army gathered its troops and began to besiege without attacking, surrounding the entire city and watching the destruction of Gengxin City.

In fact, as Dai Hua expected, Gengxin City's medical system was extremely backward, and there were even fewer soul masters in the healing department, and it was vulnerable in front of the various poisons that Xingluo had purified for thousands of years, and it spread rapidly in just one day, and many people were infected with these poisons.

At first, he was weak and unwilling to prepare for battle, but in less than two days, large-scale deaths began to occur, and corpses were the best vector for the spread of the plague, and soon, the shadow of death shrouded the entire Gengxin City, except for the soul masters with the strength above the soul king who could offset it as much as possible, no one was spared.

But how many soul masters above the Soul King are there in Gengxin City?

"Teacher, I'm afraid we can only stop here."

An atmosphere of panic spread throughout the city, and the inadequacy of medicine and the intensity of poisoning made it like a human purgatory, and in order to curb the spread of the plague, they had to adopt a policy of burning.

Water and food cuts are also a huge problem, most of the water sources of hundreds of thousands of people have been polluted in one day, and only a few wells are still clean, but under the pollution of some mad people, there is less and less well water to drink.

"No way. Organize the people and blacksmiths who can still move to retreat, we are more familiar with the mountains in the west of the city, and the Xingluo army is difficult to pass, if we can bypass this place, we can cross the river to Dai Mubai's territory, and at that time, there will be hope for survival. Lou Gao said sadly.

It's easy to say, but the mountains in the west are dangerous places, and the elites of the Star Luo Empire are still difficult to pass, let alone these already weak outcasts? I'm afraid that there will be no three out of ten who can pass in the end.

Of the thirty percent who survive, two percent must be soul masters, which shows the hardship.

But there is no other way than that.

The news spread quickly, but there were very few servants, just as Lou Gao thought, the people of Gengxin City all rely on mining and metal for a living, naturally know the hardships there, compared to it, it is better to die in their own homes, digging a grave for themselves in advance, it is more decent.

However, there are also about more than 10,000 people who are still strong and willing to embark on this difficult road with Lou Gao.

After a desperate speech in the city, Lou Gao set out from the west of the city and into the mountains with his men and those who were willing to leave together.

When they set out, this unsupervised city also ushered in the most desperate moment, people who were seriously ill and deprived of water were dying in large numbers every moment, or rather, they were already very strong to survive these two days.

Another half a day passed, and the bustling city was completely reduced to a dead city, no longer seeing any life, there were corpses everywhere, and even the crows and rats that liked to surround the corpses were difficult to survive under the poison, and the whole city was suffocating.

The tens of thousands of Xingluo troops with the antidote successfully settled into Gengxin City, occupied it, and began to disperse the plague here and dispose of the corpses, trying to eliminate their bestiality, but as everyone knows, all of this was clearly seen by Dai Mubai.

"Damn! How dare these brutes do such a heart-wrenching thing! After getting the report from his subordinates, Dai Mubai slammed the table, extremely angry.

For him, war can be cruel or bloody, which he can accept, but the only thing he can't accept is to attack innocent civilians, he thinks, this should be a purely military confrontation.

For the sake of a phased victory, the people who slaughtered a city, Dai Mubai, who had learned correct values and concepts of war by Leng Xiyue and Miho Nishizumi, couldn't accept it at all.

But he can only watch, there is no way at all, even if his current medical strength is completely enough to eliminate such a tragedy, but the military strength is still a lot worse, and now the millions of troops of Xingluo are coming one after another, forming a huge pressure, he can only scatter the armored division along the mountains and surrounding rivers to form a defensive line to prepare for defense in advance, and he can't organize enough teams to rescue Gengxin City, so he can only sit back and watch the tragedy happen.

Tiandou's 300,000 troops are still on the way forward, and if these 300,000 people fill in the line, his knife-like armored division can completely intersperse left and right and give the enemy a heavy blow.

Zhu Zhuqing stood beside Dai Mubai and said softly: "I heard that Master Lou Gao has led a team to prepare to cross the Gengjin Mountain Range and come to our side, I have already organized a medical team and an escort team to meet us, which should be able to minimize casualties." ”

That being said, the mountain roads are rugged and difficult to navigate, the mechanized troops cannot march at all, and the troops who go to support can only rely on foot, so how efficient can the rescue be?

Dai Mubai sat slumped in his chair, of course he knew this, and he didn't have much hope in his heart, he just waved his hand, not wanting to think about the scene of these refugees dying in despair on the road.

The war continues, and the situation is still not as optimistic, the Ten Thousand Beast Legion of the Star Luo Empire has not yet been dispatched, the mobility of this army is not worse than his armored division, and there is a legion composed entirely of griffins, this air army can completely hit any place in Dai Mubai's rear, and the tragedy in Gengxin City made him even more worried about whether these people would carry out the task of poisoning and wantonly slaughter the people in his rear.

At this moment, Li Mengdie walked over with an excited face: "Childe! We've won! ”

Dai Mubai raised his head blankly: "Victory? Which side of the army repelled the enemy's attack? ”

"No, no, no, it's this war, the war has been won!" Li Mengdie excitedly put a projection device on the table in front of Dai Mubai, and then, Leng Xiyue, dressed in formal clothes, appeared on it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the issue of the Star Luo Empire can no longer be ended through mediation, and I have called on the Pope and the Pope to exercise restraint on all sides, but just today, a tragedy happened in the Star Luo Empire."

"Gengxin City, a city dominated by merchants, craftsmen, and miners, the people here are hardworking and hardworking, and they still maintain an enviable vitality under the strict system of the Star Luo Empire, but at this time, the people of this city no longer exist."

Leng Xiyue in the picture stretched out her hand and scolded angrily at the camera: "The Xingluo people dare to use poison gas warfare to slaughter hundreds of thousands of people in the face of the world's condemnation, such evil deeds are indignant to everyone and gods, and it is a huge provocation to the joint announcement of my Kyushu Empire and the Wuhun Palace, regarding the continental convention as waste paper, in order to repay such beastliness, the Kyushu Empire will officially declare war on the Star Luo Empire!" ”

"This battle will take revenge for hundreds of thousands of living beings, completely wipe out the Star Luo royal family, and never die!"

Dai Mubai understood.

No wonder Li Mengdie is so happy, if Sister Xiyue ends up in person, then this war will indeed not last long.

If the Star Luo Imperial Army and Dai Mubai and the reinforcements of the Heaven Dou Empire can still fight, then in the face of the army directly sent by the Kyushu Empire, there will only be no scum left in the end. (End of chapter)