Chapter 123 He Doesn't Care

Zheng Boye didn't plan to stop buttering up Grand General Nian.

Of course, sometimes this behavior doesn't have much specific purpose, but is more of a casual act.

Whether Nian Yao would rebel, wanted to rebel, what his difficulties were, what his concerns were,

For these,

Zheng Boye didn't care.

Similarly, Jingnan Wang didn't care either.

In Tian Wujing's plan,

Nian Yao's reaction wasn't even included;

It wouldn't affect Jingnan Wang's determination to eat up the elite of Chu in one fell swoop.

After the Xishan Fort was broken that day, whether what Feng Yuanyang said was a straight hook or a curved hook didn't matter, because Tian Wujing didn't even intend to look at this fishing hook.

I want to destroy you,

Whether you kneel or not,

Is your own business.

"Someone, find him a horse."

Zheng Boye beckoned,

And pointed to Wang Zhi, who was kneeling in front of him,

Said:

"Remember, pass the message verbatim."

After speaking,

Wang Zhi was dragged down by two personal guards, ready to be "released."

At this time, the Yan soldiers on the ship behind were still landing.

Jing City is a strategic location, and Nian Yao, who was always cautious when facing Jingnan Wang, naturally couldn't neglect it. There were three troops stationed in the northwest, northeast, and due north of Jing City alone.

But unfortunately, who would have thought that the Yan army would land from the back along the Wei River in a grand and upright manner.

No matter how hard your front shell is,

But Pingye Bo still pinched this piece of juicy soft flesh hard.

"Pass down this Lord's military order, today, no sheathing of swords!"

"Lord Marquis has ordered, no sheathing of swords!"

"Lord Marquis has ordered, no sheathing of swords!"

The soldiers needed to vent the repression they had accumulated in the cabins for so many days, and Zheng Boye needed to create enough panic with real killing.

It was impossible to kill everyone, because his subordinates were not cavalry anymore, and there would definitely be many people who could escape. They would also transmit and spread the panic here.

Inside and outside Zhennan Pass, there are hundreds of thousands of the most elite imperial guards and noble private soldiers of Great Chu, but so what?

When he planted the Black Dragon flag of Great Yan here,

It was tantamount to telling them clearly,

You,

Are already meat on the chopping board.

Zheng Boye looked at the group of demon kings standing behind him, clapped his hands,

Said:

"It's a rare opportunity, go play, so A Cheng won't be lonely."

"Yes, Master!"

"Yes, Master!"

………

Liang Cheng had already led his troops into Jing City. The defense of Jing City was very loose. Although the Yan army was famous for its cavalry, these soldiers were still elite after dismounting.

To be precise, if hard conditions such as formation and cooperation are not considered, in the case of normal chaotic fighting, cavalry without horses are still more valiant than ordinary infantry.

In the era of cold weapons, the quality of cavalry was a complete crushing of infantry.

And the Chu army in Jing City was obviously not high enough in quality, and was caught off guard by the Yan army. Several counterattacks were quickly defeated, and after that, only fleeing in all directions remained.

This is a normal phenomenon. No matter how elite a country is, it is impossible for all of them to be elite;

Even in Yan, there was the left-wing army that failed and dragged its feet in the first Wangjiang battle. Now, the Yan army system is also divided into three, six, and nine grades, not to mention the Chu people.

The soldiers who manage grain, manage transportation, and guard the safest places, if they can really fight, how could they be placed here?

And Zheng Boye's subordinates, except for the first town of Savage Warriors brainwashed by the Savage King, the rest of the soldiers are truly brave warriors. Under the situation of Tian Ji's horse racing, the Chu people directly collapsed, which is not surprising at all.

"Kill!"

Liang Cheng raised his sword. He was the arrowhead. The Yan army that rushed into the city basically took him as a guide and began to rush to key positions in the city.

After the organized resistance of the Chu people was broken, the next step was to first occupy the City Lord's Mansion in Jing City, first ensure to strangle the other party's center, and then divide the troops to control other city gates and then clear the chaotic soldiers in the city and the Chu people who attempted to resist.

The outer wall of the City Lord's Mansion was a bit high, but the funny thing was that when Liang Cheng led his soldiers to charge over, he found that the gate of the City Lord's Mansion was actually crowded with people.

It can be seen that the garrison in the City Lord's Mansion wanted to close the door, but many people with faces in Jing City outside, with their personal soldiers and guards, wanted to go inside for safety.

Before the Yan people came to kill, they were actually fighting at the door themselves.

The City Lord's soldiers began to shoot arrows, and the people outside held knives and rushed inside.

And when the figures of Yan soldiers in black armor appeared in the line of sight, the group of Chu people who had previously had the courage to fight each other at this time collapsed again.

The people outside surrendered, and the people inside fled to the backyard like they were abandoning their armor.

It's not that they didn't want to resist, but they no longer had the heart to resist.

Even if the coldness is the nature of a zombie,

But Liang Cheng couldn't help but smile speechlessly when facing this scene.

It was as if the Chu people who had been fighting fiercely outside Zhennan Pass for several months and the Chu people in front of them were not the same species at all.

The Chu people in this city were somewhat mummified.

Because the military order of not sheathing swords had been conveyed, and this battle was not a battle to capture prisoners at all, facing the Chu people who had knelt down and surrendered, the Yan soldiers still chose to rush up and end them with a single knife.

The rest continued to rush into the City Lord's Mansion.

Finally, when Liang Cheng stepped into the backyard, the Yan soldiers captured Jing Su Yuan, the City Lord of Jing City, alive in a well, and beside Jing Su Yuan, there was also a handsome man with bare skin and a beautiful face.

This handsome man was the leader of the Youge troupe at the wharf outside the city. He was considered quite legendary and mysterious for traveling north and south. When facing the bright sabers of the surrounding Yan people, he was so frightened that his face turned pale.

However, a man looking so delicate can also be considered another kind of charm.

As for Jing Su Yuan, you can tell from his surname. The Jing family of Great Chu, in charge of the cultural context of Great Chu, produces many civil servants, and is the representative of the culture of Great Chu;

The Jing family does not value martial arts, so this national war did not contribute private soldiers like other families, but instead transported a lot of grain and corvée.

Jing Su Yuan was originally the head of a yamen in the county city of Shanggu. After the war began, he was transferred to Jing City to organize the operation here.

Perhaps,

It was really because of the reliance on Zhennan Pass that the people in the rear were at ease and slack. This Master Jing even had time to have a private meeting with that illegitimate son;

It is true, where can one find a confidant in the world, the wind of Jin dances.

The appearance of the illegitimate son made me feel pity, but the surrounding Yan soldiers showed clear disgust and nausea on their faces.

To put it bluntly, the wind of Jin is still more popular among the powerful and nobles, and precisely because it is popular among the powerful and nobles, it further intensifies its vitality, as if one would not be considered high-end enough if one did not also dance to this wind.

And ordinary people, ordinary soldiers, are still at the point of saving their military pay to have fun in the red tents, and are still relatively pure and down-to-earth.

"General!"

At this time,

A captain escorted a woman over.

The woman was about thirty-four or five years old, wearing hairpins and ornaments, plump in figure, with a mole at the corner of her mouth, and a very full figure. At first glance, she had the "appearance of a tiger and wolf," so it's no wonder the thin Jing City Lord had to find a sense of existence in that illegitimate son.

Not sheathing swords is not sheathing swords, but some people should be captured alive.

That captain was discerning. He noticed the difference in this woman and escorted her over.

"Madam………”

"Master………”

Liang Cheng glanced at the woman a few more times. According to Blindman and the others, this woman was considered to have crossed the threshold.

But with Ah Ming's previous lesson of helping arrange Ke Shi, Liang Cheng was unwilling to do this kind of thing to help his master prostitute again.

Therefore, it's better to let the master judge for himself.

"Escort these three people to the wharf and hand them over to Lord Bo!"

"Yes, sir!"

………

"Tsk, no."

"Tsk, this one won't do either."

Ah Ming was like a "little girl picking rice ears,"

The fighting around was not over yet, but he was already rummaging through the corpses on the ground to find wine that suited his taste.

Generally speaking, the higher the strength of a person, the sweeter their blood tends to be, but this is not absolute. Some people, even if they don't have much strength, still have a chance to have good-tasting blood.

Ah Ming was seriously looking.

"Hmm, the blood of this corpse has great vitality, it should be good."

Ah Ming held the wine bag in his right hand, and his fingernails grew out of his left hand.

But at this moment,

The Chu soldier who was originally lying in front of Ah Ming, covered in blood and already dead, suddenly opened his eyes.

The two sides met eyes.

There was some embarrassment in each other's eyes;

This guy,

Was actually playing dead!

Ah Ming's fingernails pierced the other person's neck. The other person wanted to resist, but was unable to struggle. Soon, he completely merged with the surrounding environment.

Ah Ming stood up somewhat helplessly,

Looking for the next target.

Next, Ah Ming continued to find several Chu people lying in the pile of corpses pretending to be dead in an attempt to fool the guards. Some Yan soldiers noticed this scene and couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.

They couldn't use specific words to describe this behavior. Roughly, it was the kind of thing where Mr. Ah Ming specially selected those Chu people who were trying to fool the guards and were really close to fooling the guards, and crushed their hopes one by one, bringing them despair.

But in fact,

Ah Ming was just looking for wine to drink,

And the blood vitality of those living people lying in the pile of dead people was too clear, but it disappointed Ah Ming again and again.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Another Chu person who was trying to play dead was killed by Ah Ming.

Ah Ming's face had already cooled down.

He had been searching for so long, flipping through for so long,

The wine bag,

Was still empty.

For the first time,

On the battlefield,

Ah Ming felt that picking up corpses was so difficult.

………

Xue San and his men were on the other side of the city gate. They had few people and did not forcibly intercept and control the people fleeing from inside.

To be precise, they didn't plan to kill everyone here at all. Those who should run away, let them run away.

Therefore,

Xue San had a good attitude. He was sitting there comfortably, fishing.

Fishing for the high-end fish among this group of fleeing people.

"That one, go!"

"And that one, go!"

"That one over there, go!"

Some dignitaries really have the talent to escape for their lives.

The Yan army had already come very suddenly, but they could still quickly disguise themselves and sneak out of the city.

It's a pity,

They ran into Xue San, who was sitting there playing the "identification game."

There were not many people around Xue San, but they were all experts, and the Chu people were only focused on escaping. Seeing that the Yan people were only catching one or two targets and ignoring the others, naturally there would be no scenes of shared hatred and common resistance.

"For the men, ask for their official positions. For the big shots, keep them for now. For the women and family members, the good-looking ones, or the legal wives, must be kept."

………

"Roar!"

Fan Li led a group of soldiers and boarded the Chu people's ships upstream of the wharf, and began to clear the Chu people on these ships.

These ships were docked by the wharf earlier, and after the incident happened, there was no time to escape.

Naturally, these targets could not be let go.

The grain of Jing City had to be burned, and the military supplies of these Chu people had to be destroyed. However, Chu was a big country after all, with a solid foundation, so in order to reduce the Chu people's ability to transport grain and military supplies in the future, these ships could not be allowed to slip away.

However, they didn't choose to scuttle them.

If Jingnan Wang liked to be meticulous in fighting wars, peeling cocoons, then Zheng Boye liked "a wily rabbit has three burrows."

Originally, according to the previous assumptions and plans, after the army boarded the shore on Yan's navy ships, they should scuttle the ships to block the river, preventing the Chu people's navy from coming over.

Because, there was really no need to think about it. Yan's navy was not comparable to Chu's navy in terms of the scale of warships, shipbuilding technology, or naval warfare experience.

This time, this branch of Yan's navy had no intention of letting them go back, and... couldn't go back.

But Zheng Boye still felt that they could keep it for a while and not be so extreme. Jing City was taken too easily, which he didn't expect, but this also meant a problem, that was, this city might not be so easy to defend, otherwise his subordinates would not have been able to kill their way in so easily.

If it really didn't work, keeping these ships, at the last moment, he could do another transfer.

Returning the same way would inevitably encounter the Chu navy who would come here after receiving the news,

But,

Changing direction………

You know,

The Mi River next to Yingdu is actually a tributary of the Wei River.

Last time, he took the princess to Yanjing City to receive the rewards from the Yan Emperor and the imperial court, so when Jing Renli of Chu sent gifts, he was not at home.

This was not good,

Zheng Boye had always been a person who paid attention to reciprocity.

If the situation really changed again,

He really wouldn't mind leading his subordinates by boat south along the Wei River, turning into the Mi River, and going outside Yingdu City to say hello to his brother-in-law.

Presumably, his brother-in-law would definitely feel happy and moved by the visit of his brother-in-law.

………

Si Niang was in the city, but she didn't bring anyone with her.

Although the city had long been militarized, the so-called real civilians and merchants had either become corvée or had received the news early and migrated away.

But this didn't mean that Jing City was not prosperous.

Dignitaries are a species with a luxurious halo of their own;

They know how to eat, they also know how to play, they are willing to eat, and they are willing to play, even during wartime.

After drifting on the ship for so many days, some of the ingredients that were brought in a hurry had long been used up. Si Niang wanted to find some fresh ingredients to make dinner for her master.

Exquisite food is nature's best gift to human labor.

Right now, the sound of fighting in the city was deafening,

But Si Niang was carrying a basket, walking through the streets and alleys, specially looking for those mansions to look at the kitchens.

From time to time, when passing through an alley, she would encounter Yan soldiers slaughtering Chu people. After seeing her, these Yan soldiers would immediately salute her.

They knew that the one in front of them was Lord Bo of Pingye's woman.

Si Niang nodded slightly to them, without stopping, and continued to the next house.

The silk thread extended out, opening the latch from the inside.

This kitchen made Si Niang's eyes light up. There were so many things stored, and the vegetables and meat looked fresh.

Just then,

A man suddenly rushed over with a knife.

Si Niang's eyes narrowed, and just as she was about to raise her hand, the sharp silk thread that could dismember the man into eight pieces in an instant was about to fly out.

However, the man suddenly stopped his movements, looked at Si Niang, and said:

"Quick, hide in the cellar behind, don't come out, the Yan dogs are killing people outside!"

The man was wearing an apron, and looked like a cook. The one he was holding was also an old kitchen knife.

"Quick, quick, quick, hide with them."

Si Niang didn't say anything, and walked inside. The cook helped her open the cellar lid. Below, there were several women and children hiding.

At the cellar entrance, Si Niang sensed a chill, which meant that there should be a small ice room below the cellar.

This was really luxurious enough. Presumably, the original owner of this house should also be a person who enjoyed life.

Si Niang went down. Her master liked to eat fish. She wanted to go down and see if there were any fish stored in the ice cellar, so she could make a fish soup for her master tonight.

There was also a woman below the cellar, also wearing an apron.

How should I put it,

After being together for a long time, some aspects of a couple will slowly converge and become similar.

This woman, at first glance, was the cook's wife.

She stepped forward, took Si Niang's hand, and pulled Si Niang, who was originally wanting to go to the ice cellar, towards them, and at the same time said:

"Don't be afraid, it's okay, it's okay, the Yan dogs won't find this place."

I just found it?

The woman's hand was shaking. She was afraid. Her man was still above, guarding the latch, guarding everyone.

Si Niang pointed in the direction of the ice cellar,

And asked:

"Is there any fish in there?"

Chu people also liked to eat fish, and there were many ways to eat it, especially among the wealthy.

The cook was stunned for a moment. She really couldn't understand why this woman in distress would ask herself this question at this time.

"Is your husband's cooking good?"

The cook was stunned again.

Next to her, several women and children were also stunned together.

Si Niang patted the cook's hand,

And said:

"How about this, a signature dish in exchange for a life here, is that okay?"

………

On the wharf, personal guards brought two chairs and a table.

Zheng Boye sat on the chair, with his legs propped up on the table.

He asked the Sword Saint to sit next to him, but the Sword Saint didn't sit.

Zheng Boye looked at the Sword Saint and asked:

"Why don't you go play?"

This was nonsense, how could the Sword Saint be willing to draw his sword in a one-sided battle?

The Sword Saint asked back:

"Why don't you go?"

Zheng Boye reached out and covered his chest,

And said:

"I'm a soft-hearted person and can't bear to see killing."

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My schedule is still messing with me, coupled with writer's block, a double torture. I slept dimly until dark. I originally planned to ask for leave today, but I felt it was inappropriate to ask for leave on the first, so I still got up to write.

I won't ask for monthly tickets for now, I'll ask for them after my update frequency returns and stabilizes. Hug everyone tight!