Chapter 809: Despicable
Tian Heming has already tasted the sweetness of cultivating the Fa and cultivating the Fa these days, and from the bottom of his heart, he doesn't want to rebel anymore. It's just that the guards on the border of the north and south have already surrendered to the enemy, and he is facing Shen Tugong, the most powerful of the five major lords. In this case, if he does not surrender, he can only lose his life under the encirclement and suppression of the three armies.
The three border passes were broken one after another, and the Eastern Regions were suddenly completely exposed to the attack range of the three major lords.
Leng Hong and Zuo Huanshan had to retreat back to defend Youyun City, giving up the rest of the lands in the Eastern Regions.
Cloud City is the largest city in the Eastern Regions, with a population of more than 40 million. Defending Cloud City will keep the last hope of the rebels.
Leng Hong and Zuo Huanshan's troops, in addition to the more than 1,000 miners rescued from the Cailiu Mine at the beginning, later absorbed a large number of miners and hard laborers who were rescued from various mining areas. Among them, there are also some Dharma hermits who came out of the secluded mountains and forests to join after hearing the news.
Originally, this force was named the "Resistance Army" to resist the tyranny of the lord Mu Lianzhong. Now that Mu Lianzhong has been ambushed, the other small lords in the Eastern Regions are unwilling to let the "untouchables" in their eyes rise up to be the masters of their own affairs, and they have secretly made no stumbling blocks for the new policies implemented by Leng Hong and Zuo Huanshan.
Even Cloud City, which is used as the base camp of the rebels, is not monolithic. The power of the traditional big family is ready to move, ready to cooperate with the armies of the three lords outside the city at any time to subvert the rule of Leng Hong and Zuo Huanshan, the new lords of the twin stars.
What Leng Hong and Zuo Huanshan could rely on was the well-trained army of 3,000 people at the beginning. With them as the team, they quickly trained a team of 30,000 elites who could barely arrange the Eight Desolations and Six Formations.
It was with this elite force that the rebels trapped in the lonely city were not as vulnerable as they imagined. On the contrary, in the first few rounds of attacks by the three major lords, the rebels exerted amazing lethality with the help of the Eight Desolations and Liuhe Qiankun Array, killing a large number of enemies who rushed to the city, including nearly a hundred captains and more than a dozen commanders under these lords.
Even if the three major lords personally dispatched, they did not take much advantage in the battle of the castle.
After the old and spicy Shen Tu Gong learned the power of the Eight Desolations and Liuhe Qiankun Array, he immediately ordered the general Tian Heming to help the army practice this formation.
Coincidentally, the other two lords also ordered the generals Xue Jun and Dong Hechuan to train the army to master the Eight Desolations and Liuhe Qiankun Array.
In this way, the powerful formation advantage is no longer exclusive to the rebels. The day when the three-way army rehearses the Eight Desolations and Liuhe Qiankun Formation is the time when the city is broken.
It is not an overnight thing to let the army practice the formation, several lords were not idle during this period, and at the same time secretly sent people to infiltrate the city to plot against some important forces in Youyun City, so that they could cooperate with the outside to help completely defeat the rebels when the army attacked the city again.
To make matters worse, several lords also sent people to various villages and towns to search for the families of the defenders in the city.
Because the 30,000 troops that Xue Jun and the others surrendered were from the 60,000 troops that Zuo Huanshan and Leng Hong had incorporated at the beginning, they were very clear about the details of their former comrades-in-arms in the city. Of the 30,000 rebels who were able to use the Eight Desolations and Six Formations, nearly half of their families were escorted to the city.
Zuo Huanshan is not only strong in commanding troops, but also resourceful. The small actions of the three major city lords against the forces in the city did not hide from her, and the family forces of the seven families who had promised to cause chaos in the city were purged as soon as possible. In front of the Eight Desolations and Liuhe Qiankun Array, the private soldiers raised by these forces were simply vulnerable. The rebels have not yet been destroyed, but they have been wiped out of the city of clouds.
As for Mu Lianzhong's family, it had already been purged after Youyun City was taken down by Leng Hong. The one who goes to prison and the one who kills can't make any waves at all.
But this time, in the face of the families of the army defending the city outside the city, Rao is Zuo Huanshan was full of scheming, and he couldn't think of a countermeasure for a while.
Whether the enemy forced these people to attack the city, or threatened the defenders with their lives, it was a great demoralization of the rebels.
Just as Zuo Huanshan was thinking hard about countermeasures, the massacre under the city gate had already begun.
Because Zuo Huanshan personally sat at the head of the city, the three major lords threatened the families of the soldiers defending the city and did not break the morale of the army. Annoyed and angry, the lord of the Northern Regions, Tang Tailang, took the lead in ordering the massacre of the hostages, and the heads of the first batch of 500 people fell to the ground.
This included a large number of old and weak women and children, and rivers of blood were already flowing under the city gates.
The defenders at the head of the city witnessed the tragic death of their families, and many of them shouted their names and fell to their knees and wept bitterly. The already unstable morale of the army finally dissipated.
Shen Tu Gong and Yue Qi saw that this move was very sharp, and they also ordered some of them to be executed.
They want to completely break the morale of the defenders and break the city in one fell swoop.
"Don't!"
Many of the martial guards defending the city put down their weapons and jumped down from the city, desperately rushing to the relatives who were about to be beheaded on the opposite side.
Zuo Huanshan sighed helplessly in her heart, she knew that the general trend had gone.
Leng Hong's expression was flat, and there was no trace of panic. She endured humiliation and burdens for so many years, just to avenge her parents' blood and revenge. Now that the revenge has been avenged, she has died without regrets.
Shen Tugong released the unclaimed hostages and continued to order the massacre of the unclaimed hostages.
At this time, more martial arts guards jumped down from the city, and they rushed up frantically to claim their relatives. 30,000 martial arts and guards, and seven or eight thousand people fled in an instant.
There were still many hostages, and Shen Tugong coldly ordered another 500 people to be killed, forcing the soldiers defending the city to completely give up their will to resist.
Just as the executioner raised the butcher's knife in the air, one by one they all suddenly froze in place, unable to move any longer.
"What's going on?" Shen Tugong's face changed, and he flew high into the air, looking around as if he was facing a great enemy.
Being able to fix five hundred executioners at the same time under his nose without realizing it, the strength of the people who came was simply extraordinary.
Five people appeared a hundred miles away, four men and one woman. In the next moment, they were already under the city gate.
The five hundred executioners were clearly the work of these men. A hundred miles away, these people can actually do this, what kind of strength is this?
Shen Tugong felt a chill in his heart, he had been crisscrossing the Wuzun Continent for so many years, and today he finally met a real opponent.
Zuo Huanshan, who was on the city tower, was surprised and pulled Leng Hong, who had already sprouted his will to die, and said excitedly: "The sky will not die, I will wait, you see who is coming!"