When the general defending the city heard this, he felt something was wrong. If this continued, the defenders would surely run away.
He immediately issued a death order, forbidding the opening of the city gates to surrender, and anyone who violated the order would be killed on the spot.
For a moment, the two sides were in a stalemate.
However, the Yuezhou Army is not in a hurry. This situation is normal.
Jiang Hai still asked people to start cooking. The aroma of rice and flour, and the aroma of broth continued to erode the will of the defenders.
Everything is easy if people are full, but they are almost starving to death, which makes the defending soldiers, who have been "psychologically counseled" by Jiang Hai for so many days, become restless.
Time passed little by little, and Jiang Hai was waiting, waiting for the defenders to collapse internally.
Sure enough, under the temptation and threat of time-limited bombing, that night.
The enemy's garrison commander was beaten to death and taken out of the city as a token of his surrender.
Proudly joined the Yuezhou Army's construction team.
Of the 100,000 defenders in the city, more than 80,000 surrendered, and the remaining 10,000 fled out of the east gate and became deserters.
This situation is inevitable. After all, not everyone believes that the Yuezhou Army will treat prisoners of war well.
However, the results of the battle were remarkable. With only a little friction, they captured Qingnan City, which seemed to have a large number of soldiers and generals.
This battle is enough to make him a god. Even Yuchi Zhong admired him very much.
"What a clever son-in-law."
"Old Taishan, you're too kind. It's mainly because of our overwhelming equipment that we've forced them to stay in the city.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so easy.”
"It seems that this world will still belong to you young people. This kind of fighting style is really unprecedented." Yuchi Zhong was very pleased.
Jiang Hai chuckled twice and said a few humble words. He felt much better when he saw the Yuezhou Army receiving the surrendered troops.
In this way, they lost so many of Yang Hongye's troops, and were one step closer to advancing into the capital. They would be able to finish the battle soon and return to Xincheng to live freely.
At this moment, a rider on a fast horse came galloping in from the north gate and hurried into the city.
The people who came found Yuchi Zhong and Jiang Hai. They were scouts sent by the army heading north to cut off the food supply route.
I saw him breathing heavily, and the breath he exhaled was emitting white smoke in this weather, and the horse behind him was the same as him.
"General, the army from Taihe City in the north is coming. The troops ambushing the grain road have run out of explosives and have withdrawn.
General, please quickly seal the north gate and prepare for battle against the enemy." He reported the situation while panting.
"Oh, that's perfect, hahaha, here come the food again." Jiang Hai was not afraid at all.
Guo Hao and Wu Gong went to ambush and block the food supply route, and the method they chose was naturally to ambush on the mountain and drop explosives.
Because the roads were difficult to travel, all the supplies that could be brought were relatively limited. In addition, after so many days of resistance, it was normal that they were used up.
I didn't expect that the reinforcements from the northern court would arrive so late. They only came from Taihe City after we had already taken Qingnan.
But think about it, grain is not transported every day. If Qingnan City is trapped, the scouts returning to Taihe City to report the news will definitely be intercepted by Guo Hao's men.
Therefore, Taihe City would not discover it until something went wrong with the grain transport team, which might have been a few days later.
Then he had to run to the capital to ask for help and send troops, which took several more days. Ten days or so was enough.
After hearing the information brought by the scouts, Yuchi Zhong ordered his men to close the north gate and be on high alert.
Jiang Hai said that too many people were not needed to guard the place, so he left enough supplies and assigned 20,000 soldiers to escort most of the prisoners of war back to Guhezhou for arrangements.
A small number of prisoners of war were left behind in the city, waiting to be assigned to work.
Early in the morning of the second day, the northern imperial army that came to Qingnan Prefecture arrived north of Qingnan City.
At this time, all the people standing on the north wall of Qingnan City were from the Yuezhou Army.
Guo Hao and others also arrived at midnight, and now they were standing on the city wall with Yuchi Zhong, looking at the army outside the city.
The incoming troops were powerful, but that was all. After running a long distance, they braked.
Now everyone knows that the Yuezhou Army has explosives and cannons, so they dare not rush forward recklessly.
Then the battlefield outside the north gate of Qingnan City was very confusing.
Jiang Hai clicked his tongue twice.
"Tsk tsk, they're scared and don't dare to come over, hahahaha."
Who wouldn't be afraid? Some of these people were ambushed by Guo Hao and his men, and some of them were lucky enough to survive the explosion. Now look at the situation on the city wall.
Neither advancing nor retreating is possible.
These reinforcements were not too numerous, and were not as numerous as those originally defending Qingnan City. There were only about 50,000 at most.
Jiang Hai yelled into the microphone at the top of his lungs,
"You guys, come here!"
Then, the scene returned to silence. No one dared to rush forward and everyone stayed outside the range of the shelling.
It was really boring. Guo Hao and Yuchi Zhong on the city wall were getting a little impatient waiting. According to convention, shouldn't someone come up and say some trash talk?
They stood in this standoff for a long time.
Finally, two horses rushed out from the local army.
It seems like he is here to shout.
Guo Hao looked closely and saw two figures, one red and one green. He said,
"It's Red Peach and Green Willow. Eunuch Lai fought against them before. They teamed up with Cui Dongcheng, and the three of them fought against Eunuch Lai alone."
"Oh, someone from the killer list, that's impressive." Jiang Hai asked Dugu Qiu next to him with great interest.
"Old Qiu, can you beat him?"
"You should be able to fight, but why should I do it? You have a gun, it would be better to just kill him directly." Dugu Qiu said calmly.
"Ah, you're so pragmatic now. Where's your old self? That pretentious old Qiu is gone."
"Fighting and killing are meaningless. I have seen through it."
"Okay." Jiang Hai was helpless.
He wanted to see some fighting between masters, but Dugu Qiu didn't want to move. The comfortable life in the new city had eroded his chivalrous heart.
"I'll fight them." Wenzhi said.
Jiang Hai was stunned. He didn't expect Wenzhi to actually want to take action.
After hearing Wenzhi speak, Dugu Qiu also felt embarrassed and said,
"Then I'll go too. It's only fair two against two."
"Clap, clap, clap." Jiang Hai clapped his hands. "Okay, let's see your performance."
After Jiang Hai finished speaking, Wenzhi and Dugu Qiu jumped directly off the city wall.
When he landed, the ground beneath Wenzhi's feet shook as if it was about to crack.
Dugu Qiu flew down, lightly touching the ground with his toes.
The two men formed a sharp contrast as they walked towards the direction where the horses were galloping.
The soldiers of the Yuezhou Army on the city wall suddenly became enthusiastic, shouting and cheering, waiting to watch the show.
For a moment, the North City Gate was bustling with activity, with the beating of war drums deafening the heavens and the sound of cheers rising one after another.
Guo Hao clenched his fist and said to Jiang Hai,
"These two were very cunning. Eunuch Lai must have died at their hands. Although they were still fighting when I came out, Eunuch Lai was almost unable to hold on."
"Don't worry, General Guo, it's just a small dish."
Jiang Hai believed in Wenzhi's strength. Dugu Qiu was also good. Now that he had his sword, he was like a tiger with wings.
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