"System Notification: Congratulations to player Blazing Sun for conquering Jiuliuri City. You have obtained 160000 achievement points, 160000 points, 2000 reputation points … …"
After about six hours, Yang Rui's troops had practically used the heavy trebuchets to grind their way through bit by bit. Finally, they received the system notification that they had breached the barrier.
This was a far cry from the time when Yang Rui used the terracotta soldiers to conquer Jiuliuri City.
The most important reason was that Jiuliuri City was no longer the same city as before. After continuous construction and modification, the city's defense had obviously improved substantially.
At the same time, the 9 terracotta soldiers that Yang Rui brought with him were indeed very powerful. Their strength was comparable to top level historical generals. Furthermore, there was no need to worry about losing them. After all, they had expired, so they could be used as much as they wanted.
In fact, the reason why Yang Rui took down Jiuliuri City was because of the 'aerial bomb' that ignited the Heavensguard Pavilion at the highest point of the city, causing it to collapse. This caused quite a bit of damage and chaos to the Lijian troops, which allowed Yang Rui's troops to advance much faster.
Otherwise, Yang Rui would have had to expend a lot more effort to take down Jiuliuri City. At the very least, it would have taken a lot longer.
Even so, Yang Rui's troops still had to constantly move the heavy trebuchets around and slowly break down the city walls. The changes in the situation inside the city only slightly pushed this process forward.
Of course, if the attacking and defending sides were switched, the Lijian troops would be in despair.
Facing the attacks of Yang Rui's troops, the Lijian troops could only watch helplessly. Even if they wanted to counterattack, it was like throwing meat buns at a dog. They could not do anything to stop the enemy's advance.
After losing the Heavensguard Pavilion, the Lijian troops were finally driven to the empty space at the top of the mountain. At this point, the Lijian troops were completely in despair.
In the past six hours, both the Lijian Clan's army and Yang Rui's army didn't suffer too many casualties. In the end, the Lijian Clan's army only had seventy to eighty thousand soldiers left. A head-on conflict was unavoidable.
Facing an opponent several times their size, it was hard for the Rijian Clan to do anything. Furthermore, there were 100 heavy trebuchets around them, making the Rijian Clan in the center even more passive.
After about an hour, the battle between the two sides finally came to an end. Yang Rui, Zhang Mancheng, Bo Cai, Bo Ji, and Bian Xi led the Yellow Turban Army. They paid the price of nearly 30000 Yellow Turban Soldiers and finally wiped out the Lijian Clan's army.
On the other hand, the seventy to eighty thousand soldiers of the Rijian Clan were completely wiped out. Two historical generals were captured (according to the standards of the Japanese civilization), and two historical generals were killed in battle. Their exact identities were still to be confirmed.
At the same time, Yang Rui obtained a lot of money, resources, and equipment from the city, including more than 60,000 gold coins, more than 200,000 kilograms of food, and more than 30,000 sets of equipment for soldiers of various ranks.
At this point, the Battle of Jiuliuli City finally came to an end. This battle was the most difficult battle Yang Rui had ever experienced in the Japanese civilization. It took nearly four hours, and they lost the most people in the process!
In the process of the siege, four or five waves of forces arrived one after another, harassing Yang Rui's troops from the periphery. Fortunately, their scale was not very large, and Yang Rui quickly dispatched some troops to quell them.
This situation was normal. After all, the battlefield was within the Japanese civilization's territory. This was the result of Yang Rui's strategy of diverting the attention of the various forces in the Japanese civilization's territory.
Otherwise, if the siege lasted for nearly four hours, there would be more forces from the Japanese civilization coming to help. At that time, it would be hard to say if Yang Rui's army could deal with them.
"System Notification: Respected player Blazing Sun, because you have conquered the Japanese civilization's native city, Jiuliuli City, you can choose to occupy it or destroy it. If you choose to occupy it for more than ten game days, you will have the normal ownership of the city …"
In the face of the system notifications, Yang Rui decisively chose to destroy the city. In fact, according to the current state of Jiuliuli City, even if he did not choose to destroy the city, it would be as if the entire city had been destroyed once.
However, that was only the appearance. No matter how badly damaged Jiuliuli City was, it could be repaired. Only people like Yang Rui who chose to destroy the city and defend it for more than an hour so that the city would not change owners, would automatically destroy the city after 12 hours.
In the next hour, Yang Rui's army cleaned up the battlefield and guarded against the Japanese civilization's forces that might appear. After cleaning up the battlefield and blocking two or three waves of small scale counterattacks, Yang Rui's army withdrew from Jiuliuli City.
When Yang Rui's army arrived at the fleet on the coast again, it was already a quarter to three in the morning. For the entire day, Yang Rui and the Yellow Turban Tribe spent all their time attacking Jiuliuli City.
After spending so much effort, Yang Rui finally caught the head of the Lijian family, Lijian Yiyao. He was one of the two historical generals that Yang Rui captured, and he was defeated by Yang Rui himself.
The other two Lijian family generals that were killed were also killed by Yang Rui. The various items that they dropped were not much different from the previous few historical generals that were killed, including two sets of historical generals' soul stones, cultivation methods, skill books, weapons, and equipment.
Lijian Yiyao was captured, and so far, most of the Lijian family had been destroyed. Among the remaining forces, only Lijian Yihong and Lijian Yilai could inherit the Lijian family's legacy. For the time being, they would not be a stumbling block for Wako Uesugi.
Even so, Yang Rui did not intend to let the Lijian family go just like that.
Especially after the previous few days of farming the plot merit and points on the sea, Yang Rui found that there were too many directions to escape in. At this time, the water forces of the Nihon civilization were also disturbed. Often, before Yang Rui's navy arrived, they had already escaped.
This situation was especially obvious in the next few days. Even if Yang Rui had flying reconnaissance units to obtain information, the effect was not too great. The situation of not being able to capture the main force of the Nihon navy continued.
Under this premise, Yang Rui did not intend to blindly persist. Since the water forces were easily scattered, Yang Rui was ready to give up on the water targets and focus on the land. He only used the fleet as a means of high mobility.
The water targets could escape, but the cities on the ground could not be moved. Moreover, there were indeed forces in the Kanto area that Yang Rui was concerned about!
At this time, the Lijian family in the Fang family's territory had not been eradicated, and the Takeda family of Jiafei was Wako Uesugi's old enemy. The Imagawa family that occupied Junhe, Yuanjiang, and Sanhe was also a potential threat.
These famous forces could be Yang Rui's next targets.
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