"Boom-"

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

In the deafening sound of cannons, the city wall of Zhige City, which was several zhang high, was blasted open with a large opening more than ten zhang wide. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In each of the general camps of the Chu State, there were at least two artillery pieces worth 10,000 gold, which were very effective in destroying the city.

"Brothers, rush with me!"

Seeing that Zhige City had broken such a big opening, Gongsun Xiong shouted, jumped in the lead, and rushed to the front with a hammer.

Fifty of his own soldiers followed, using muskets to sweep away anyone who might threaten him.

Tens of thousands of elite soldiers of the Chu State also rushed over.

In recent years, the state of Chu has expanded its territory and destroyed dozens of countries, and has raised a bunch of arrogant soldiers and fierce generals, whose combat power is rare in the world. And this time, in order to meet Ye Xuan's request for the collection of souls as soon as possible, Gongsun Xiong even issued an order to allow the soldiers to rob wantonly and kill any resistant, which made these soldiers even more excited.

Seeing that Jiancheng was knocked down by artillery, Xia Hengyang, the general of the Yan army, turned pale.

He has already learned the combat power of the Chu army, and the murderous demon king who has been trained on the battlefield for more than ten years is by no means comparable to the Yan army, which has enjoyed peace for hundreds of years.

Originally, he thought that he could rely on the fortified city of Zhige City to block the pace of the people of Chu in the south, but with the collapse of the city wall, he knew that this was impossible.

At a critical juncture, he made a decision: "After they capture Zhige City, they will definitely attack Suizhou, and we must act immediately to defend Suizhou!"

Suizhou is a large state in the north of Yan State, and it is an important place for grain production.

When his soldiers heard that the general had even ignored the important places he was stationed in order to protect Suizhou, they all admired the general's mind and said: "What the general said is very true, we must hurry up to defend Suizhou." ”

It's really terrible to stay here and fight with the people of Chu, it's better to defend Suizhou.

Xia Hengyang quickly got off the city tower, jumped on the war horse, and shouted: "Everyone follow me to defend Suizhou!"

His most elite troops were by his side, and with these people, he fled to the south gate as quickly as possible, abandoning the city without even informing his family.

He knew that at this time, his soldiers were much more important than his family.

The enemy soldiers have already broken through the city, and if they flee with their families, they may not have time to escape.

Fortunately, the city was more than a mile away from where he was, which gave him a chance to escape.

In the end, he took only his most elite more than 20,000 elite soldiers.

The rest of the tens of thousands of soldiers, along with the millions of Yan people in this big city, were all lost to the Chu army.

The Lord will flee, and the fate of this city can be imagined.

The Yan army, which has no ability to resist, and even has no will to resist, faces the wolf-like Chu army, like cattle and sheep in a slaughterhouse, and can only be slaughtered.

This is a massacre.

And not only for the massacre of the soldiers of the Yan State, but also for the civilian people here.

Ye Xuan was busy collecting souls at first, and he was a little excited, because this time the souls were collected faster than ever.

But there are more and more souls, so many that he is even a little too busy, so he feels strange - Yan Jun is only tens of thousands, where did so many souls come from?

Only then did he notice that the Chu army had begun to massacre civilians.

He stopped a soldier who was swinging his knife at an old man: "Why kill him? ”

"He wouldn't let me take his stuff. The soldier looked at his outfit and knew that it was Gongsun Xiong's personal soldier, and explained very respectfully.

"Then why are you taking his things?" Ye Xuan asked.

This morning, the Great General promised that as long as the city could be breached before sunset, we would be allowed to take the wealth of the city for ourselves, and those who dared to resist would be allowed to be killed. Big brother, haven't you heard?" the soldier looked at him curiously.

"This ...... Isn't this going to slaughter the city?" Ye Xuan's heart was cold.

"As long as they are honest, they can still live, and there is still a difference between slaughtering the city. The soldier said, "And they are from the Yan country, kill a few more, and it will be much easier to manage in the future." ”

"Hehe, is it?" Ye Xuan smiled bitterly.

He suddenly thought that Gongsun Xiong gave this kind of order in order to please himself so that he could collect more souls.

After the state of Chu proclaimed itself an empire, it destroyed dozens of countries, and this kind of massacre rarely happened.

He said the night before that he needed a million souls, and the next day Gongsun Xiong launched a battle to destroy the city, and also issued an order to almost slaughter the city, it is difficult to say that there is no connection between the two.

Thinking about it further, the strategy of the Chu State in the past few years was to suspend expansion and recuperate. However, after the Heavenly Machine Sword Sect Elder Taishang issued the task of collecting souls, the empress issued an order to launch several battles to destroy the country at the same time, which seemed to be to help Elder Taishang's task.

Is this world so cruel and terrible?

At this moment, Ye Xuan deeply understood what it meant to be an ant people.

A populace like ants.

Ye Xuan didn't dare to think about it, and if he thought about it, he would doubt his sect.

But his heart was blocked, as if the millions of people in this city could have been immortal, but because he wanted to collect millions of souls, he was stripped of his right to live.

"Senior Brother Gongsun, I don't want so many souls, please stop the massacre of those civilians immediately!"

Ye Xuan didn't care about collecting souls, so he immediately found Gongsun Xiong and said, "I can go back to the sect today and help you get that kind of elixir, I just ask you to stop the behavior of your soldiers immediately-there are too many people to kill!"

"Is there such a thing?" Gongsun Xiong was a little embarrassed, and sneered: "Brother Fool is not strict, which makes Senior Brother Ye laugh." ”

"Hurry up and give an order, there are too many people who have died in vain!" Ye Xuan said hurriedly.

"Okay," Gongsun Xiong turned to his subordinates and said, "Pass my orders, you can take your money, but you can't hurt people's lives." From now on, if anyone kills a civilian, all his belongings will be confiscated, and if it is serious, he will be punished with a serious crime!"

He was actually a little disappreciative in his heart, and secretly thought: "If you need souls, I will create a large number of souls for you, and I will bear the infamy, but what are you against here?

Thinking so in his heart, but he can't say that, this little junior brother is not something he can offend - just because people can openly call the empress "senior sister", he has to stammer.

"Senior Brother Ye, you are really kind-hearted!" he patted Ye Xuan's shoulder and said.

"Kind-hearted?" Ye Xuan shook his head with a wry smile, "I feel like I'm guilty." ”

After Gongsun Xiong's new order was conveyed, although those Chu soldiers were a little dissatisfied with not being able to slaughter the city, they could still take their own property, so they did not object, and many ordinary people in Zhige City could be regarded as having escaped the catastrophe.

Still, many innocent people died.

On that day, Ye Xuan collected more than 200,000 souls.