The Era of Generals

Chapter 397   Death Without Proof

In urgent need of a solution to resolve the grievances accumulated in the hearts of the soldiers, Zheng Yuanyun made an extremely chilling decision.

Massacre the city!

He himself couldn't give a reasonable explanation to the soldiers, so the only way he could think of to deal with it was to completely release this resentment.

Naturally, it was impossible to release it on him, so the poor Xilong soldiers and civilians became this punching bag, and became the target of Zheng Yuanyun's soldiers to vent their anger.

Just when Gu Qingfeng disguised himself as Zheng Yuanyun's soldiers and ran back to Ketan City, there was already howling and flames in Xilong City.

burn!

kill!

Rob!

Sweep!

Zheng Yuanyun, who felt ashamed in his heart, did not restrict any actions of the soldiers at all, as long as you dare to think and do, you can do it all, and everything is fine.

It is conceivable what these resentful and angry soldiers will do when there are no restrictions.

That day, for the people of Xilong City, was definitely a doomsday day.

Chen Ze did not connect the video function with Zhang Hualin to witness the hellish scene with his own eyes. Although he had also ordered to burn Xifeng City, the difference was that what he burned was only an empty city.

He has no bad taste to watch the horrors of those unarmed civilians being massacred.

In this way, the entire massacre lasted for a day, until Ma Hui and others decided to leave Ketan City to support them. When the army advanced, all the Qingyang Empire troops in Xilong City left.

Of course, what was left was already a ruined city.

This Xilong City, which once existed as the main city of Nantes Province, finally ended its mission today. From then on, Xilong City will be erased from the Zhuyan Empire's territory, and there will never be any traces of it again. .

Of course, here at Zheng Yuanyun, he even really wanted to not record this miserable city on the new map of the Qingyang Empire in the near future.

After massacring the city and then setting it on fire, the entire Xilong City was in ruins, but Zheng Yuanyun's troops who committed such evil deeds did not feel any guilt because of this, nor did they intend to stop.

He knew very well that when Xilong City had 300,000 troops defending the city, it must be because Ning Zhenggang had gathered all the few defenders from the surrounding cities together.

That is to say, the current defense of the surrounding cities has reached the point where it cannot be added.

This point was also confirmed from the prisoners of war he captured. These soldiers did not belong to one city, but reached this scale by gathering the power of five surrounding cities.

How could Zheng Yuanyun miss this opportunity?

Moreover, he could still feel that after the restrictions were lifted, the soldiers under him admittedly vented their grievances, but also because of this, there was more bloody and sturdy air in the army.

This is the side effect of massacre.

Although the hands of most soldiers will not be without blood, but it is caused by fighting openly on the battlefield, not by massacring civilians.

The pleasure caused by the massacre of civilians distorts the psychology of most soldiers, which is also a hidden danger, so the very experienced Zheng Yuanyun decided to leave Xilong immediately and attack the surrounding cities.

But this time, there will no longer be the natural geographical advantage of Xilong City that can stop his offensive steps, and he will not even encounter much resistance during the whole process.

He needs these cities, not only for his own benefit, but also to make the soldiers think that when there are cities to slaughter, they will issue strict orders to prohibit further slaughter of cities.

Even he will punish severely when someone violates this military order, and he doesn't mind making an example to make the soldiers wake up. His order is still at the highest level.

At that time, the accumulated grievances against him in the hearts of the soldiers had almost been vented, so even if they issued stricter orders, they would not attract much backlash.

Zheng Yuanyun was planning to use this method of loosening and tightening to achieve a delicate balance, so as to solve the many hidden dangers left over from his previous stay in Xilong City.

However, he would never have thought that just because of this method, Chen Ze would get more breathing room.

There is no other reason.

Xilong City has been destroyed, and all that is left in the city are corpses. It is not an exaggeration to say that death has no proof.

So what will happen to Ma Hui and others who rushed to Xilong City later?

They... will be at a loss.

In Xilong City, they couldn't find Mr. Zheng and his troops who thought they were in urgent need of rescue. At the same time, they couldn't find a living enemy who could ask the truth.

They didn't know what happened at all, and Xilong City, which was in flames, became an excellent roadblock to prevent Ma Hui and others from advancing.

One must know that there is still a river between them and Xilong City.

At the beginning, Zheng Yuanyun ordered people to temporarily block the river with mud and stones at the upstream, but after a long time, after being washed by a large amount of river water, these stones that were not blocked tightly were washed away, and the river gradually recovered. unobstructed.

As for the river facing Xilong City, Zheng Yuanyun ordered people to properly clean up and resettle those knife and shield fighters who died in vain because they were afraid of causing public anger, and the water level of the moat rose to the normal level again.

As a result, Ma Hui and others who came to support had to build a bridge or hundreds of troop transport ships before they could cross the moat and catch up with Master Zheng.

Before that, Ma Hui and others, who didn't understand what happened, would not associate the scene in front of them with Chen Ze, let alone think that Chen Ze designed them.

After all, in their minds, Chen Ze had been trapped in Ketan City for a long time. He knew nothing about the outside world, so how could he know the situation here in Xilong City?

If you can't cross the river, you can't chase Zheng Yuanyun, and if you can't catch up with Zheng Yuanyun, the other party won't know that the half a million elite soldiers in Ma Hui's hands have been transferred away by Chen Ze's design.

And more importantly, Ma Hui couldn't hand over the request for help from Gu Qingfeng to Zheng Yuanyun.

Of course, Ma Hui could only tell that this was a letter written by Zheng Yuanyun himself, but he didn't know where the document would go.

But how could Zheng Yuanyun not know?

He wrote the letter, and it was written not long ago, so even if Gu Qingfeng tore off the header and stained the entire document with blood, Zheng Yuanyun could still tell at a glance that this document was given to him by him. Xiao Du, the document used to ask for help from the Anluo Province in the rear!

How could such a document fall into Ma Hui's hands, no need to think about it, someone must have made troubles!

Even if he couldn't think of Chen Ze's head, Zheng Yuanyun would think that his request for help was discovered by the hidden spies in the province of Nantes, so why would he continue to attack?