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"What a fucking disgrace, these spineless cowards!"
"You're just embarrassing us."
"Your Majesty, let me lead the troops."
Zhao Yuan said to Hua Rong beside him,
"Lead your cavalry to stop them,"
"Kill all those who escaped back."
Hua Rong was taken aback upon hearing this.
Zhao Yuan said in a deep voice, "Kill them all. Do I need to repeat myself?"
Hua Rong noticed an unprecedented seriousness in Zhao Yuan.
He dared not hesitate any longer.
He led a thousand cavalrymen to bypass Lin Chong's troops and attack the fleeing army.
Lu Junyi glanced at the routed soldiers and said with unbearable pity,
"Your Majesty, those defeated soldiers number no less than three hundred."
Zhao Yuan replied, "This is the moment I've been waiting for."
"Let alone three hundred, even if the previous seven thousand fled,"
“I will also order them all to be killed.”
Lu Junyi was, after all, from a wealthy family.
Hearing Zhao Yuan's murderous words,
My lips twitched involuntarily.
I want to speak, but I don't know where to begin.
Hu Yanzhuo nodded beside him.
“Your Majesty is right, these Imperial Guards have all become scoundrels,”
"Verbal instructions on military discipline are no longer enough to intimidate them,"
"Only the price of blood can make them remember what military discipline is."
"A compassionate heart cannot command an army; if one harbors compassion..."
"I'm afraid it will cause even greater casualties in the future."
Li Kui, however, said happily, "I told you from the beginning that they were useless."
"Your Majesty, these seven thousand men are entrusted to me."
"I'm just about to have a good time killing people."
The routed soldiers below the city wall desperately ran out of the range of the archers on the wall.
I just slowed down to catch my breath.
Then they heard the loud sound of horses' hooves on the flanks.
Hua Rong led his cavalry in a straight charge.
Startled, he screamed.
Some turned and ran away.
Some, however, sprinted forward as fast as they could.
Hoping to escape into the army formation behind Lin Chong,
There are still seven thousand of their comrades there.
Some soldiers, seeing that escape was impossible, surrendered again.
Kneeling on the ground.
"kill!"
Hua Rong shouted.
The spear kept thrusting and stabbing.
Where the horse galloped past,
Whether they fled in panic,
They still knelt down and begged for mercy.
They all lay on the ground, turned into corpses.
The seven thousand imperial guards behind witnessed Hua Rong slaughtering the routed soldiers.
It immediately became chaotic.
One soldier shouted, "They want to kill us all!"
"Either way, we're going to die, so let's fight them..."
Before he finished speaking,
An arrow was then shot into his mouth.
He stared in disbelief at Zhao Yuan riding past on horseback beside the formation.
He fell to the ground with a thud.
There were no signs of life.
Zhao Yuan shot down several shouting soldiers in quick succession.
Anyone who dares to disrupt the formation will be killed without mercy.
The Imperial Guards looked at the Liang troops on both sides, who were eyeing them menacingly.
Thinking back to the previous battle,
The ferocity of the Liang army.
Suddenly, the courage to scratch disappeared.
They stood perfectly straight in place.
They were terrified that the slightest movement would provoke Zhao Yuan's arrows.
Chapter 1630 Breaking the City
The 30,000 Imperial Guards behind them
Seeing Zhao Yuan's ruthless methods,
They all fell silent in fright.
The noise from before is gone.
Zhao Yuan rode his horse to the front of the formation.
He glanced at the dozen or so routed soldiers that Lin Chong had stopped, and shouted, "Kill them all!"
Those dozen or so people were the fastest runners.
Having escaped the ambush by Dong Ping's cavalry,
I originally thought I could escape with my life.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yuan issued this order.
She was so frightened that she started crying.
"Your Majesty, spare my life!"
"You executioner, you'll die a horrible death."
Some begged for mercy, while others cursed.
But it only took a blink of an eye.
They were all assassinated on the spot by Lin Chong's personal guards.
The soldiers on the city wall also realized what was happening.
Under the command of a general
They shouted in unison.
"Kill the thieves! Kill the thieves!"
The imperial guards heard the commotion from the city walls.
There was some itching.
Zhao Yuan turned his head to look at the Imperial Guards behind him.
Wherever the eye can see,
The imperial guards immediately straightened their backs in fright.
They stood there more disciplined than Zhao Yuan's personal guards.
Zhao Yuan glanced at the army formation.
The entire army fell silent.
Zhao Yuan turned to Lin Chong and said,
"Send another thousand-man squad to attack the city."
Lin Chong nodded.
Then he pointed to a team of a thousand men stepping out.
The fourth thousand-man squad, under Zhao Yuan's watchful gaze,
Their charges became much more ferocious.
The shouts of killing shook the sky.
They rushed through the rain of arrows in the blink of an eye.
They rushed to climb up the city walls as soon as they arrived.
Li Kui said regretfully,
"I didn't even get to use those two axes,"
"These bastards are such cowards,"
"The king merely glanced at them,"
They were all frozen in place, like wooden stakes.
Zhao Yuan glared at Li Kui.
"You want to fight,"
"I'll send you to attack the city later."
The city walls were now a living hell.
The soldiers on the city wall kept throwing down logs and stones.
Occasionally, they would pour pots of hot water over it.
The soldiers attacking the city let out heart-wrenching screams.
Zhao Yuan was horrified when he saw it.
They wanted to use cannons to blast open the city walls.
However, the Northern Song Dynasty government controlled saltpeter and sulfur.
Although Da Liang bought some privately,
However, it cannot be mass-produced.