In the next few days, Ziyu also tried to launch two sieges of the city, but there were still 70,000 troops in the city, and the fighting spirit did not completely collapse, and the two tentative attacks ended in failure, but lost thousands of soldiers.

Huo Ying, the veteran of the Flying Fox Regiment, was also shot by a stray arrow in a battle and died, Fei Na and Wei Ling were quite sad, Huo Ying was the elder who followed them when they established the Demon Sword Regiment, and made a lot of meritorious achievements.

In the next ten days, Ziyu did not make any more attempts to attack the city, and the Rakshasa people in the city did not break through, and the siege formed a strange state of stalemate.

"They are still waiting for reinforcements from the Donghai Prefecture. In the big tent, Ziyu's face was gloomy, and the rest of the generals also had heavy expressions.

"What's the situation in Donghai Prefecture?" asked Gongsun Zhan.

"Reinforcements can't come for the time being, Donghai Prefecture said that nearly 200,000 troops have been requisitioned, but even the weapons are not ready, the armor is only a few thousand sets, the quality of the soldiers is not high, female soldiers account for more than a quarter, such a force, even if it is sent, there is no need to take it seriously. Yan Gang said that he is now in charge of intelligence gathering.

Ziyu said hatefully: "But I'm afraid that the night will be long and I will dream a lot." ”

Xu Rong was also speechless, in the past few days, he tried to attack the city wall with a stone-throwing cart, but the city wall of Qinglu City was extremely strong, and there were many people in the city, so it was rare to attack two gaps, and they were quickly filled again.

Yunzhong groaned, "Why don't you try digging tunnels?"

Ziyu thought for a while: "Give it a try, this matter is handed over to Jiang Qin." ”

In the next few days, Jiang Qin took 3,000 infantry to start from a place where the Rakshasa army could not see and dug a tunnel leading to the city, but when he was about to reach the city wall, he found that the Rakshasa army had dug a culvert around the city and filled it with water.

That night, Yunzhong asked to see General Ziyu.

"Lord Yun, is there a way to break the city?" Ziyu's face was a little haggard, obviously the lack of progress in these days had also made him quite tired.

Yun Zhong arched his hand and said: "General Yu, Yun Zhong thinks that now that we are holding each other, our army's morale will certainly be frustrated, but the Rakshasa army in the city should have suffered a greater blow to morale, after all, they have lost more than 100,000 troops, and now there are only 70,000 recruits and mercenaries left, and there is no hope of victory." ”

Ziyu smiled: " It is true to say so, but after all, they still have 70,000 troops, and there is enough food and grass, and the city defense is strong, in the case of no hope of breaking through, they will be consumed wholeheartedly with our army, if it really takes a year or two, even if it only takes a few months, and when their reinforcements are consumed, the advantageous battle situation that we have carefully created in front of us will be in vain, the mobilization ability of the Rakshasa people is too strong, in the past nine years, I have beaten them down many times, and this cannot be transformed into the victory of the entire war, and I am really unwilling to see that this time it is like this. ”

Yun Zhong said: "The enemy army has 70,000 people, and there is no way to escape from the trapped city, so it can only hold on, so although the morale is low, it is still difficult to attack, Yun Zhong thinks that he can give them a way to escape." ”

Ziyu's eyes were full of light.

The next day, Ziyu ordered Xu Rong, Cheng Pu, and Yan Gang to attack the east, south, and north gates of Qinglu City respectively, but the west gate was vacated, and all the merchant troops outside the west gate were evacuated, leaving a gap for the Rakshasa army in the city.

"This is too obvious, will they be fooled?" said to Yunzhong in a forest not far from the West Gate, Gongsun Chan frowned and said to Yunzhong. Behind the two were 10,000 elite cavalrymen.

Yun Zhong smiled: "This is not a secret plan, the other party can indeed see at a glance that we have an ambush in this direction, but they will definitely rush out from this direction." ”

Gongsun Chan said, "Why, are they in a hurry to die?"

Yunzhong said: "It's not to die, it's to survive, now the morale in the city is low, there is no hope of victory at all, this road is their only possible way to survive, so they know that there is an ambush, but they will still take this road, hoping to have the possibility of survival." ”

After a pause, Yun Zhong's face showed a complicated expression: "In fact, there is no life at all, even if they can escape from the resistance of you and me, the west is completely the territory of the big merchants, and it is impossible for them to get out." ”

"It's just the difference between dying early and dying later, but people still have to struggle to survive. Yun Zhong silently said to himself, human beings, often doing useless struggles, strong and desperate.

"They're out!" shouted Mu Ying, who was standing in the front row.

I saw that the west gate of Qinglu City was wide open, and the Rakshasa army in the city poured out like a tide.

"Prepare to attack!" Gongsun Zhan's eyes lit up, and he raised his right hand to prepare to wave his army to cover the kill.

"Wait a minute!" Yun Zhong said in a deep voice, "Anyway, they can't run, intercepting it now is to force them to fight hard, it's better to wait for them to go out for more than half of the time, and then we will chase and kill." ”

Gongsun Chan thought about it and said with a smile: "Reasonable, I'm in a hurry." ”

After about half an hour, seeing that there were already fifty or sixty thousand Rakshasa troops rushing out, Gongsun Chan shouted: "It's now, kill!"

10,000 iron horsemen rushed out of the forest like eagles fighting rabbits, chasing after the Rakshasa army.

The Rakshasa army had no intention of fighting, but scattered and fled without their lives, and some knew that they could not escape, so they put their weapons aside and knelt on the side of the road in groups begging for mercy.

In order to save time, Gongsun Chan ordered that no prisoners be left and all of them were slaughtered!

For a time, Qinglu City was dozens of miles to the west, with tens of thousands of corpses lying in waiting for them, and blood flowed and drifted.

In the clouds, I saw several Rakshasa female soldiers kneeling on the side of the road and begging, hesitating what to do, two Youzhou elite horsemen rushed to the scene, raised spears, and stabbed several women to death, the women's eyes were still looking at the clouds, and the clouds only felt dizzy, and ran to the side of the road, no longer participating in the pursuit.

On the side of Qinglu City, Jiang Qin led 5,000 infantry to break through the west gate of the city gate, and sent people to open the other three city gates on the one hand, and slaughtered the remaining Rakshasas who were still resisting.

Yun Zhong found a place in the woods outside the city to breathe for a while before suppressing the discomfort in his heart, he was not a soft-hearted person, and he had seen a lot of killings, but such a slaughter of people who had no resistance still made his heart like a boulder.

Of course, Yunzhong would not think that Gongsun Chan had done anything wrong, but that he himself might have given the same order, which is the sorrow of mankind, the sorrow of this world, not anyone's fault.

But Yunzhong felt that it was difficult for him to forget the eyes of those Rakshasa female soldiers before they were killed, there was no anger, no blame, no even begging, only deep despair.