"Stop!" Following the order, thousands of hungry aboriginal soldiers stopped 1.5 kilometers away from Jinyu City. They looked at the city, subconsciously licked their lips, and their eyes glowed.
According to the plan, they should have attacked another city at least seven days ago.
However, the tragedy was that they actually went the wrong way!
They were delayed for a full seven days before they came out of the mountain range. If they hadn't caught a lot of wild beasts and picked some wild fruits, which somewhat delayed the livestock they brought with them, they would have had to kill their mounts to appease their hunger.
Even so, thousands of people were so hungry that their chests were sticking to their backs. Their stomachs were rumbling, and they couldn't wait to attack the city in front of them to have a big meal.
Li Qianqiu rode his fork-horned cow to the front of the troops. He looked at the top of the city with a pair of binoculars and saw terrified faces.
He roughly looked at the number of people and immediately felt relieved.
There were only a few hundred people at the top of the city wall. As expected, the interior of Great Xia was also empty, and there was nothing that could stop this army.
"The winged cavalry, open the city gate and arrest all those who resisted.
The first and second battalions will control the four city gates. The rest will collect food and livestock first. The rest will also gather at the magistrate office in the city. "Li Qianqiu waved his hand.
It wasn't difficult to attack this city. Even if there was some resistance, they weren't a match for the nearly 1,000 Earth Wheel winged cavalry warriors.
The next step was to snatch food! Snatch food! Snatch food!
"Kill! Break the city! "
"Kill!" Following Li Qianqiu's order, the 1,000 winged cavalry warriors dismounted, held their sabers, and rushed toward Jinyu City in the distance. It took them less than three minutes to cover the 1.5 kilometers. Sparse arrows were shot from the top of the city wall.
To these Earth Wheel winged cavalry warriors, these arrows couldn't even disturb them. Many of them grabbed them with their bare hands and threw them back.
Then, the figures jumped seven to eight meters with the help of a run-up, and with a single kick, they flipped over the city wall.
A hundred ordinary soldiers wouldn't be able to defeat one winged cavalry warrior. Not to mention the current situation, where it was almost two winged cavalry warriors against one ordinary soldier.
It was equivalent to two tigers staring at a little white rabbit.
When the guards on the city wall saw these Dayao people actually jump up the city wall that was 10 meters high, their legs went soft, and they couldn't move.
Rays of saber gleam lit up.
Screams of death could be heard coming from the city walls.
A moment later, the city gate was opened. To this army, the resistance in the city was like a delicate little lolita shyly pushing away a two-meter-tall man who weighed three hundred kilograms.
"Enter the city!" Li Qianqiu ordered.
By the time everyone entered the city gate, the winged cavalry had already charged towards the magistrate office in the middle.
Along the way, they encountered some resistance. The Great Xia officials had gathered some famous martial artists in the city, but just as they gathered, the city gate was broken.
Then, more than a dozen Earth Wheel experts faced nearly 1,000 winged cavalry warriors. At that time, their eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets.
However, the winged cavalry didn't listen to their nagging and immediately slashed down with their sabers.
In the end, only two of them managed to escape from the city.
Of the three thousand soldiers, half went to control the four city gates, while the other half began to loot everywhere.
One by one, the winged cavalry warriors kicked open the tightly shut doors of the houses, glared at them, and shouted, "Hand over all the food!"
Those Great Xia commoners were already scared to death. When their doors were kicked open, they were completely disheartened. In the end, they heard the burly man holding the saber say, "Hand over all the food!"
Trembling, they immediately put all the food in their houses into a bag and handed it over. Then, the burly man carried the food to the next house.
The Great Xia commoners were left to heave a sigh of relief after shutting their doors tightly.
The small inn that Li Mengyuan and the other two were hiding in was not spared either. When there was a commotion in the courtyard, the three of them were in their throats.
In the end, those Dayao soldiers actually snatched the food and left, leaving the three of them hiding in the room dumbfounded.
"They are here to snatch the food? Dayao doesn't even have food to eat? I've long heard that Dayao is a barren land, but I didn't expect it to be so poor. "Yao Zhengyan was a little dumbfounded.
In the records of previous wars, there was never a rule that only food was taken after the city was breached.
Most of them plundered wantonly, and many of them raped and pillaged.
After a disaster, even if every family wasn't in mourning, they would at least be in mourning.
Yet, these Dayao people came in and snatched the food. They didn't care about anything else and just left!
This was really beyond his expectations.
"I hope we will be safe this time." The other two were now focused on preserving their lives.
Ever since they knew that Dayao was going to attack the city, the two of them had been worried. In the chaos of war, there was nowhere to run. If they were careless, they might lose their heads.
Now that those Dayao people had snatched the food, it couldn't be any better.
Before noon, the original magistrate's office was piled up with a huge pile of food.
There were very few livestock. Most of them were chickens and ducks, and a small number were horses and cows. Most of them were coarse rice and other grains.
From noon until late at night, the smoke in the magistrate's office didn't stop.
Thousands of people ate lunch, lunch, dinner, and supper after dinner. Those coarse rice and other grains were really not of much use as they could barely replenish their blood.
If they needed 2.5 kilograms of meat, this kind of coarse rice would need 20 to 15 kilograms. Almost everyone had to eat half a pot to barely replenish their body's needs. However, as they moved, they soon felt hungry again.
From afternoon until late at night, all the soldiers were in a cycle of eating, going out to scavenge for food, sending it back to the magistrate's office, eating, going out to scavenge for food, and eating again.
The next day, dozens of scholars were captured in the city. Li Mengyuan and the other two were among them. The dozens of scholars were like livestock waiting to be slaughtered as they trembled in the middle. Surrounding them were tall and strong men holding gleaming steel sabers.
Li Mengyuan and the others were ashen-faced. They didn't know what these Dayao people were going to do.
"Distribute paper and pens to them. I'll speak, and you guys write! Once you're done, I'll let you go, "Li Qianqiu said in a deep voice as he stood on the steps in front of everyone.
Only then did everyone feel a little more at ease.
After the papers and pens were distributed, a few scholars sat cross-legged on the ground. The others followed suit and spread the papers on the ground. They sat cross-legged and prepared to write.
Li Qianqiu took out a piece of paper and read from it.
"Xia Baichong is ruthless and tyrannical. For his own selfish reasons, he led troops to attack Dayao. Now, he has suffered heavy casualties, and 500,000 Great Xia soldiers are buried in foreign lands. However, isn't Dayao innocent for suffering this calamity? Great Xia has to compensate Dayao for the funeral expenses, city repairs, farmland damage, mental damage, felling of trees, cleaning of garbage, and burying of corpses … A total of 105 million taels of silver.
A life for a life, a debt for a debt, and compensation for damage is a matter of course. Xia Baichong did something wrong, but didn't want to bear the consequences and refused to pay compensation. Dayao will collect it ourselves. If you want to blame someone, blame Xia Baichong. "
After Li Qianqiu finished speaking, he rubbed his head and cursed, "What the f * ck? What kind of nonsense is this?"
"What are you looking at? Why aren't you writing?" Li Qianqiu scowled at those scholars who were in a daze.
"If the monarch is insulted, the officials will die. You have insulted our monarch, so I'd rather die than write." A scholar threw his pen away, raised his head, and scolded.
"Drag him out and behead him. Where is his home? Behead him together. "Li Qianqiu waved his hand, and that scholar was dragged out.
"I will take responsibility for my own actions and not implicate my family!" that scholar cursed as he was dragged away.
"This is called reuniting your family so that you won't be lonely on the road." Li Qianqiu had a look of disdain on his face. You are really uncultured. How can you call yourself a scholar?
With a flash of the saber, a person's head fell off, and fresh blood spurted out for several meters.
"Go and ask who captured him, where his home is, and send him and his family on their way." Li Qianqiu looked at the guards beside him and said to the crowd below, "Principal Ren once said that the most important thing for a family is to be reunited. I deeply agree with this."
"Are you going to write or die?"
Seeing that scholar get beheaded, everyone felt sorrowful.
This group of damned barbarians. Everyone cursed in their hearts, but they didn't dare to express it. No one wanted to test whether their neck was harder or the saber was sharper.
Furthermore, this group of barbarians didn't just kill people, but also harmed their entire families. Such means made it impossible for them to resist.
However, which was more important, life or integrity? For the majority of people, life was more important. They could only comfort themselves that even if they didn't write, someone else would.
After a while, Li Qianqiu held the paper that he had written and said meaningfully, "That's why the more books you read, the worse you are and the more timid you become."
His words made everyone's faces turn red with anger.
Half a day later, these pieces of paper were pasted all over the main locations of Golden City.
Li Qianqiu had been plundering Golden City for two full days, and almost all the livestock had been gathered together.
In addition, there was also a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, and salt, which were all plundered from those shops and wealthy families.
As for those small families, Li Qianqiu couldn't be bothered with them.
He only needed to grab the most valuable things. Grabbing too many things would be detrimental to the operation.
To the ordinary people of Golden City, this was a blessing in disguise.
"Find a few people who know the way and set off tomorrow." Li Qianqiu instructed the people beside him. This time, he wasn't going to take a detour.
Two hours later, Li Mengyuan and the other two appeared in front of Li Qianqiu again.
Nowadays, most of the ordinary people had never been more than 50 kilometers away from Golden City.
Li Mengyuan and the other two scholars were unlucky enough to fall into Li Qianqiu's evil clutches.
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