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

Massacre the city!

He himself could not 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 the punching bag and the target for Zheng Yuanyun's soldiers to vent their anger.

Just when Gu Qingfeng disguised himself as a soldier under Zheng Yuanyun and ran back to Ketan City, Xilong City was already filled with howls and flames.

burn!

kill!

Rob!

Plunder!

Zheng Yuanyun, who felt guilty, did not restrict any behavior of the soldiers at all. As long as you dare to think or do anything, you can do it, and everything is fine.

One can imagine what these resentful and angry soldiers would do when there were no restrictions.

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

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

He had no bad taste in watching the horror 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 provide support. When the army advanced, all the Qingyang Empire troops in Xilong City left.

Of course, what is left is a city that looks like ruins.

This Xilong City, which once existed as the main city of Nantes Province, finally ended its mission today. From now on, Xilong City will be erased from the territory of the Zhu Yan Empire, and there will never be any trace again.

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Of course, in Zheng Yuanyun's case, he even wanted to not record this tragic city on the new version of the Qingyang Empire map in the near future.

After massacring the city, they set fire to it, and the entire Xilong City was reduced to ruins. However, Zheng Yuanyun's troops who committed such evil deeds did not feel any guilt for this, and had no intention of stopping.

He knew very clearly that at the beginning, Xilong City had 300,000 troops to defend the city. This must be because Ning Zhenggang mobilized all the few defenders in the surrounding cities together.

In other words, the defenses of the surrounding cities are now extremely empty.

This was also confirmed by the prisoners of war he captured. These soldiers did not belong to one city, but had gathered the power of five surrounding cities to achieve such a scale.

How could Zheng Yuanyun miss this opportunity?

Moreover, he could still feel that after the restrictions were lifted, the soldiers under his command vented their grievances fiercely, but because of this, the army became more bloody and fierce.

This is the side effect of massacre.

Although most soldiers have blood on their hands, it is the result of fair and square fighting on the battlefield, not the massacre of civilians.

The pleasure caused by massacring civilians distorts the psychology of most soldiers, which is also a hidden danger. Therefore, Zheng Yuanyun, who is extremely experienced, decided to leave Xilongxu immediately and launch an attack on surrounding cities.

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

He needed these cities not only for his own benefit, but also to make the soldiers think that there was another city to massacre, and issued a strict order prohibiting any more massacres.

Even if someone disobeys this military order, he will punish him severely, and he doesn't mind killing the chicken to scare the monkey and make the soldiers wake up. His order is still at the highest level.

At that time, the resentment accumulated in the hearts of the soldiers against him had already been vented, so even if strict orders were issued, there would not be much backlash.

Zheng Yuanyun was planning to use this method of loosening and tightening to achieve a delicate balance 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 space.

There is no other reason.

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

So what will happen to Ma Hui and others who then rush to Xilongcheng?

They... will be at a loss.

In Xilong City, they could not find Master Zheng and his troops who were in urgent need of rescue. At the same time, they could not find a living enemy who could ask for the truth.

They had no idea what was happening, and the burning Xilong City had become an excellent roadblock blocking the progress of Ma Hui and others.

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

At first, Zheng Yuanyun ordered people to temporarily block the river channel with earth and stones at the upper reaches. However, over time, after being washed away by a large amount of river water, these stones that were not blocked tightly were washed away, and the river channel gradually recovered.

unobstructed.

As for the river opposite Xilong City, Zheng Yuanyun ordered people to clean up and relocate those sword and shieldmen who died in vain because Zheng Yuanyun was afraid of causing public outrage. The water level of the moat rose to normal levels again.

This resulted in Ma Hui and others who came to support needing to build a bridge or hundreds of troop transport ships before they could cross the moat and catch up with Lord Zheng.

Before this, Ma Hui and others who did not understand what happened would not associate the scene in front of them with Chen Ze, let alone Chen Ze who set them up.

After all, when they thought about it, Chen Ze had been trapped in Ketan City. 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. If you can't catch Zheng Yuanyun, the other side won't know that the 500,000 elite soldiers in Ma Hui's hands have been transferred away by Chen Ze.

And more importantly, Ma Hui was unable to hand over the request for aid document obtained from Gu Qingfeng into Zheng Yuanyun's hands.

Although Ma Hui could only tell that this was a letter written by Zheng Yuanyun, he had no idea where the document would have gone.

But how could Zheng Yuanyun not know this?

The letter was written by him, and he wrote it not long ago, so even if Gu Qingfeng tore off the letterhead and stained the entire document with blood, Zheng Yuanyun could still tell at a glance that this document was handed over to him.

Xiao Du, a document used to request help from Anluo Province in the rear!

How could such a document fall into Ma Hui's hands? You don't have to think about it. Someone must be causing trouble!
Chapter completed!