The exclamation made the extremely nervous Lord of Lys in the city look towards the city gate. This sight almost made him fall off the tower.
The city is broken!
Just when the crossbow formation fired this wave of attacks, five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry had already gathered. They mounted their horses and formed a three-row square formation.
The moment the city gate panels shattered, five thousand tiger and leopard riders rushed towards the city gate!
It turned out that Zhao Yun had no intention of relying on cannon fodder to capture the city of Lys. Everything he had done before was nothing more than an action taken with the purpose of reducing the casualties of the Second Army.
Whether it was transferring the 20,000 Lis City garrison away or using cannon fodder to contain the remaining garrison, these were all actions taken to minimize the Second Army's own casualties.
Now, the city gate is broken, the defenders are restrained on the city wall by cannon fodder, and only a few enemies are defending the inside of the city gate. This is the best opportunity to capture the city of Lys in one fell swoop.
The 5,000 fine cavalry of the second army, which looked like wolves and tigers, rushed towards the city gate.
With a distance of just two hundred meters, it only took them ten seconds to rush in. At this time, there was no time for the defenders to react.
The Lord of Reese could only watch blankly as these cavalry poured into the city gate like a flood, and then broke through the thin inner city defense line like chopping melons and vegetables.
"It's over, everything is over." The Lord of Reese looked at the situation in front of him, collapsed on the ground, and kept saying.
News of the city's destruction spread throughout the entire city wall in a short time.
The defenders couldn't believe this fact, but the cavalry rushing up the city wall in the inner city made them despair.
The collapse occurred in an instant.
Surrender, run away, beg for mercy, kill.
When Zhao Yun entered the city of Lys with the 3,000 cavalry assembled after putting away their crossbows outside the city, the offensive and defensive battle of the city of Lys was already over.
There is a tactic of attacking in the east and attacking in the west, a tactic of luring a tiger away from the mountain, and a tactic of driving away a wolf and devouring the tiger.
The perfect performance of three tactics captured the heavily defended city of Lys.
In the brief fighting, the defenders of Lys City lost more than 2,000 defenders, while the cannon fodder lost more than 6,000.
But the most important thing is that the Second Army lost less than a hundred people in this battle!
This news made Zhao Yun secretly relieved. The next step was to make arrangements for the next step.
However, the nearly 10,000 defenders who surrendered brought new problems. We could never just take them away, nor could we lock them here.
In the end, Zhao Yun decided to pick out 5,000 of the 10,000 defenders and break them up into the cannon fodder army. The generals and nobles were killed like those in Eden City.
The Second Army did not need anyone behind them who could threaten them, so the massacre lasted for a whole day.
In this massacre, the soldiers of the Second Army did not participate at all, and they were even only responsible for identifying and selecting personnel. However, the final evolution was beyond everyone's expectations.
Cannon fodder, under the influence of madness left after the day's battle, chaos gradually began.
Order has disappeared.
Even the five thousand defenders who were used as cannon fodder went crazy during this massacre.
The defenders of Lys City were all from the border areas, and their families were not from the area. Therefore, during the massacre, the innocent civilians gradually failed to escape the disaster.
Zhao Yun could have stopped it, but in the end, he chose to remain silent.
This is because if you want the cannon fodder to willingly serve as the vanguard for the Second Army, in addition to brainwashing and intimidation, you also need to have hatred. It is not their hatred of the Alton Empire, but the empire's hatred of them.
Hatred!
Let both of them become unrelenting enemies, and then these cannon fodder will be used by Zhao Yun.
The release of the sinful side of human nature brought about by killing.
The blood stimulated everyone, and the scenes of burning, killing, and looting lasted for a whole day.
Women have broken the last string in the hearts of cannon fodder.
Under Zhao Yun's strict order, the Second Army watched with cold eyes. Many soldiers saw these crazy cannon fodder dragging women captured from noble families and doing so-so things on the street. Fires, robbery, rape, and killings
, the entire city of Lys fell into hell.
After dawn the next day, the tragedy gradually stopped.
Now the city of Lis is devastated. Crying has become the only melody.
The cannon fodder who came back to their senses were either completely depraved with madness, or lost in a daze.
The Second Army selected the cannon fodder who had committed the most heinous crimes and conducted an organized "screening". The remaining cannon fodder, in this human tragedy, completely fell to Longcheng.
After receiving the support of a large amount of food and grass from Lys City, the expeditionary force turned its attention to Giulio, who was still blindly pursuing eastward.
"Have the statistics been calculated?" Zhao Yun stood in front of the window of the conference hall of the city lord's palace and asked the soldiers who came in with his back turned.
"Go back to the commander, the preliminary statistics have been released."
Zhao Yun turned around and took the report handed over by the soldier, and read it expressionlessly.
This battle of Lys City took a total of ten days.
Divided into two stages.
In the first phase, the Second Army forcibly captured young men. The estimated number of casualties was around 10,000, all of which were resisters killed during the capture process.
Later in the training, 40,000 cannon fodder were eliminated, which was also included in the number of people they killed.
After that, enter the second stage.
In this battle, more than 3,000 Lys city defenders were killed, and after the surrender, nearly 5,000 people were massacred. These are the number of people in a normal battle.
Subsequently, the massacre and chaos continued for a day and night. According to incomplete statistics, a total of 160,000 people died in the city of Lys, and as many as 30,000 cannon fodder participated in the massacre!
This bloody data made Zhao Yun struggle painfully in his heart. Unfortunately, this is war. In order to win, you must do whatever it takes!
After the soldiers left, Zhao Yun sighed quietly. Although he did not pick up the butcher's knife, this crime would always be with him.
"That's all, what's the use of thinking about it now, I'm already a devil. For the sake of your lord's great cause, let me fall deeply into the abyss!" Zhao Yun looked at the distant north, with a trace of sadness in his eyes.
After deliberate "screening" by the Second Army, the number of cannon fodder was maintained at 30,000. They wore the armor of the Lys City defenders and picked up brand-new swords and sharp blades in the warehouse. They will serve as a criminal force.
The army fights on its own land.
After Zhao Yun collected the letters preserved in the city of Lys, he discovered the notice from the Senate, and he secretly screamed that it was dangerous.
If he hadn't insisted on capturing Reese City and seizing the logistics, the Second Army would have faced an all-out encirclement and suppression by the Alton Empire! At that time, it would have been extremely difficult to obtain logistics subsidies. Fortunately, now the Second Army has taken the lead.
Seize the upper hand and seize the strategic initiative!
However, the situation was not optimistic, so Zhao Yun stepped up his actions. Carloads of grain and grass were loaded onto the stolen carriages, and groups of soldiers rushed to replenish the strength of the horses. They must leave the city of Lis within two days and rush towards the east.
, get out of this range before the encirclement and suppression troops behind you arrive!
As for our Mr. Giulio, he is leading 20,000 soldiers at the moment, cautiously advancing towards the distant target in the east. Unfortunately, the target they want to seize has already captured the city of Lis behind them.
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The residents of Lys City who had experienced the catastrophe watched with trepidation as the devils left the city. The originally peaceful and peaceful Lys City had now turned into a dilapidated ruin.
At least 60% of the people lost their relatives in this catastrophe, the houses they had lived in for generations were destroyed, and a large number of women were ruthlessly subjected to inhumane insults.
Crying, the whole city of Lys is crying.
The Second Army left the city of Lys, accompanied by 30,000 cannon fodder who had fallen into the abyss. At this time, they could no longer be called cannon fodder.
Dragon City Second Army Pioneer Corps, this new name cannot hide the sin they are filled with.
Their equipment is comparable to that of the original defenders. They eat plenty of food and grass, and they use sharp blades. They are no longer rookies who have never experienced killing. They are a group of mad dogs. They are the mad dogs of the Second Army and they are dragons.
The city’s mad dog is also Zhou Yunfei’s mad dog.
It wasn't until six days later that a cavalry team chasing from the Eden area saw the dilapidated city of Lys. They couldn't believe that the beautiful city of Lys in the past had turned into the miserable state it is today.
The people of Lys who used to be hospitable are now like zombies. After plundering the food reserves in the city, these people spent five long days in hunger.
No one took care of the corpses left after the battles and killings, and the stench filled the entire city. Those who could afford to leave had already left. And the ones who were left were the old, weak, sick and disabled. They had nothing, and they stayed here all day long.
The city was filled with stench. They were tortured in nightmares over and over again. They lost their loved ones, their homes, and everything.
The arriving cavalry were stunned, and they even felt desperate. Because the plague was slowly brewing!
Quickly sending this information back, the arriving general reluctantly made the decision to burn the city of Lys.
Fire, fire again, but this time the city of Lys failed to survive the fire.
Thousands of people still alive in the city were struggling in the fire, but in order to prevent the plague, the imperial army had no choice but to burn them to death.
The fire lasted for several days, and the city of Lys was completely destroyed.
There were thousands of people, but less than fifty people survived in the end! These survivors were even more angry towards the empire than the expeditionary force! After all, massacres and massacres were not unheard of on the Ross continent, and there were even a lot of them.
. But being burned to death by the troops of his own empire was a huge resentment. So when the future Dragon City intelligence personnel found these survivors and made their accusations public, it was rare that the people of the Alton Empire were more angry with the empire than
Dragon City. Of course, these are all things for later.
After the destruction of Lys City, the Senate realized that they had once again been taken advantage of by the enemy, and had to make adjustments to restore their strategic disadvantage.