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There weren't many Yellow Scarf soldiers in Xindu City's three prefectures, and Yang Rui quickly took control of them.
"Let go of me! I am the Prince of Peace, Liu Xu! Don't be rude! "
Peace Country was originally a commandery, and Xindu City, as the administrative center of Peace Country, was not small at all! However, Yang Rui only found a Yellow Scarf leader in his fifties or sixties. He was currently shouting for Yang Rui to let him go!
Listening to the content of his shouts, Yang Rui more or less understood what was going on. It turned out that the person who was captured was the Prince of Anping of the Han Dynasty — — Liu Xu! Peace Country was the first commandery to fall into the hands of the Yellow Scarf. Their Prince, Liu Xu, had already been captured by the Yellow Scarf. The fact that he was still here meant that he had already submitted to the Yellow Scarf faction!
Liu Xu's bright colors of the opposing faction also proved this point! Regardless of how much trouble he caused, Yang Rui was not going to let him go!
"Stop causing trouble! If you aren't the Prince of Peace, then so be it. If you are, then you should be questioned! First of all, the crime of submitting to the enemy is enough for you to be sentenced to death! "
"I … I am indeed not the Prince of Peace. I was just speaking nonsense!"
After Yang Rui's threats, Liu Xu obediently shut his mouth, not daring to say anything else.
Actually, whether or not this person was King Anping didn't have much of an impact on Yang Rui. Right now, what Yang Rui needed to do was to effectively defend the inner city of the three prefectures of Xindu City! Thus, Yang Rui only threatened him with a few words before stuffing Liu Xu into his small spatial pouch. He was going to find him for a chat when he had the time!
After Liu Xu was captured, Yang Rui ordered the soldiers to quickly split up and exterminate the remaining Yellow Scarf soldiers in the three prefectures. These Yellow Scarf soldiers were originally around Third Grade. Naturally, they were quickly cleaned up! At the same time, Yang Rui also placed all the maids and servants in the inner city into his storage ring. These people did not belong to the Yellow Turban Faction, but rather the Neutral Faction. In the end, they could all submit to Yang Rui!
After dealing with the personnel in the inner city, Yang Rui had one thousand and fifteen hundred Fourth Grade knights patrol the city and maintain order. He then assigned one thousand and sixteen hundred Fourth Grade archers to the inner city gates and walls. All of the other close combat soldiers, including all of the elementary level generals, were all sent to different parts of the city wall by Yang Rui.
It was only at this moment that Yang Rui felt for the first time that the forces he brought with him to participate in the storyline were still too little! Although Yang Rui only had to defend the inner city with a radius of a few li, he was still short on manpower!
The counterattack of the Yellow Scarf soldiers in the inner city soon arrived. Almost as soon as Yang Rui finished dealing with the matters in the inner city of the three prefectures, the Yellow Scarf soldiers were organized. They arrived around the inner city and surrounded Yang Rui and the others. Soon, they began their assault!
There were over 20000 Yellow Scarf soldiers surrounding Yang Rui. Moreover, the number was still increasing. Meanwhile, Yang Rui only had four or five thousand men at the very most. The difference in numbers was significant! However, after the Yellow Scarf soldiers started their assault, it did not immediately work. It didn't work immediately. Yang Rui's soldiers weren't to be trifled with!
Yang Rui's Fourth Grade archers on the walls were constantly raining arrows down on the Yellow Scarf soldiers. Most of the Yellow Scarf soldiers were killed before they could even get close to the walls! Moreover, the Yellow Scarf soldiers did not have many siege weapons. They had a hard time scaling the walls!
Even if some of the Yellow Scarf soldiers managed to scale the walls, Yang Rui still had many elementary level generals on the walls. Each of them was responsible for defending a section of the walls. Coupled with the cooperation of the Fourth Grade soldiers, the Yellow Scarf soldiers would not be able to gain a foothold for the time being!
Thus, even though there were many Yellow Scarf soldiers attacking the city, not many of them could pose an effective threat! Yang Rui instructed the elementary level generals to focus on defending the city gates and walls when he saw this. He then walked down the walls and headed toward the vaults of the three prefectures!
Yang Rui had once reaped some benefits from the vaults of Nanyang City. Naturally, his first target was the vaults of Xindu City! Some soldiers had already discovered the location of the vaults when they were cleaning up the remaining Yellow Scarf soldiers. They had informed Yang Rui of the location. Thus, it was a walk in the park with the soldiers leading the way. Soon, they arrived at the vaults of Xindu City's king's mansion.
However, the contents of the vaults disappointed Yang Rui! This was especially true when it came to money. There were no piles of gold bricks like Yang Rui had imagined. There were only a few boxes of gold coins that were clearly counted. The total amount was only about 20000 gold coins. Compared to the loot in the Southern Sun Mansion's vault, it was a little shabby!
The equipment stored in the vaults was much more plentiful than the vaults of Nanyang City. The quality of the equipment was also much higher. There were plenty of Refined Iron equipment. It was a decent piece of equipment for Fourth Grade soldiers. However, Yang Rui did not immediately take away the equipment. Instead, he put away the boxes of gold coins and returned to the walls to participate in the defense of the inner city!
This continued until evening. The Yellow Scarf soldiers outside the inner city remained at the scale of twenty to thirty thousand. Apart from the occasional battering ram that posed a threat to the south gate, there was nothing else to be done!
Speaking of which, King Anping, Liu Xu, had a part to play in this! If it weren't for the sturdy construction of the inner city, the advanced level of the walls and gates, and all the necessary facilities, the defense of the inner city would have been much more difficult!
As the night deepened, the Yellow Turban soldiers besieging the inner city finally stopped temporarily. After leaving a small number of people to monitor the inner city and guard the four exits of the inner city, most of the Yellow Turban soldiers dispersed and went to rest.
Naturally, Yang Rui wouldn't let go of this opportunity at night. Ever since he obtained Li Dong and the other Fifth Grade bandit leaders, Yang Rui had been treating the night as his home field. He would attack at every opportunity, earning Yang Rui plenty of merit and credit points! Now that most of the Yellow Scarf soldiers had retreated, leaving only a small number to keep watch at the various exits of the inner city, it was a good opportunity for Yang Rui!
Thus, after midnight, Yang Ruixian sent Li Dong and all the Fifth Grade bandits to clean up the Yellow Turban Army that had been keeping an eye on them! After that, Yang Rui and the other beginner generals also left the inner city, leading the bandit leaders to attack the Yellow Scarf soldiers all over the city. In one night, the total number of Yellow Turban Soldiers killed by Yang Rui and the others had reached five to six thousand!
The next morning, the Yellow Scarf soldiers continued to attack the inner city. The situation wasn't much different from the first day. Even though there were a few dangerous situations during the defense, Yang Rui managed to resolve them in time! On the most dangerous occasion, the Yellow Turban Soldiers actually used a battering ram to break open the south gate of the inner city. Many soldiers rushed in, and Yang Rui mobilized almost all the beginner generals, as well as all the patrolling Fourth Grade knights in the inner city. It was only then that the situation was brought under control. The Yellow Scarf soldiers inside the city gates were cleared out and the gates were closed!
From then on, Yang Rui focused on strengthening the defenses at the city gates. Most of the one hundred and sixteen hundred Fourth Grade archers were stationed at the city gates, leaving only a small number on the walls! The Yellow Scarf soldiers outside the city lacked siege weapons to begin with. Yang Rui's deployment didn't have much of an impact. Even though the Yellow Scarf soldiers were able to reach the walls more often, they couldn't hold their ground against Yang Rui's many beginner generals and Fourth Grade soldiers! The position of the city gates, on the other hand, was much more stable!
For three to four days, the Yellow Scarf soldiers persistently attacked the inner city. Moreover, the total number of Yellow Scarf soldiers participating in the attack remained the same. There weren't many Yellow Scarf soldiers in the first place. There were only several tens of thousands of Yellow Scarf soldiers in Xindu City to begin with. Moreover, there were casualties of varying degrees during the day and night. The total number of casualties every day was over 15000! Thus, the Yellow Scarf soldiers must have replenished their ranks from outside the city to maintain a constant number of attackers!
Yang Rui still didn't know that the reason he was able to defend the inner city for so many days was largely due to the swift actions of Huangfu Song, Cao Cao, Feng Yi, and Liu Bei! Once the Han Court's armies had surrounded Guangzong City, the Yellow Scarf soldiers had already sent out requests for reinforcements! At this moment, most of the Yellow Scarf generals and soldiers had hurried over to reinforce the main force of Guangzong City. Xindu City was the same. All of the Yellow Scarf generals and above, as well as more than half of the Yellow Scarf soldiers, had been transferred away!
Moreover, Xindu City had also sent out several groups of soldiers to escort supplies and supplies. That was why there were only several tens of thousands of Yellow Scarf soldiers in the city! Even so, Yang Rui still had a lot of pressure defending the inner city. In particular, after several dangerous situations, Yang Rui didn't dare to be careless!
Actually, Yang Rui could have already retreated and rushed out of Xindu City under the cover of night! To Yang Rui, this wasn't a difficult matter. However, the relentless attacks of the Yellow Scarf soldiers had stirred up Yang Rui's emotions! Yang Rui wanted to test how long the Yellow Turbans could last under the rapid depletion of the soldiers.
As such, although the battle between the attackers and the defenders was in a stalemate, the situation had stabilized. The situation had stabilized. However, Yang Rui was busy running around every day, and it was difficult for him to find the time to practice the basic Inner Qi cultivation method! Occasionally, there would be some scattered time. However, it was only enough for Yang Rui to recover his internal energy and ensure that he could continue fighting!
During this period of time, Yang Rui was also busy fighting. Letting out the Prince of Anping, Liu Xu, for a few 'chats' could also be considered as a form of relaxation. Yang Rui had always been suspicious. The huge Anping Kingdom had been run by Liu Xu and his generation for decades. Could it really only have a surplus of 20000 gold coins?!
Previously, when Yang Rui was in Nanyang, in addition to the loot in the treasury, he also found a few good things in Zhang Mancheng's study! But here in Xindu, Yang Rui found almost nothing in Liu Xu's residence and study! This made Yang Rui feel that something was wrong. Even if the Yellow Scarf captured a large portion of the gold coins in the beginning, it shouldn't be that they didn't leave Liu Xu, the 'surrendered general' behind …
A few days passed between the attack and defense. Counting from the time Yang Rui took control of the inner city, the Yellow Scarf had persisted in attacking for a total of seven to eight days. The fierceness of the siege had decreased slightly, and the number of soldiers participating in the siege had also decreased. In the end, they simply pretended to attack the city and didn't put in too many soldiers!
Yang Rui could clearly feel that the Yellow Scarf were about to lose their patience! Sure enough, after the Yellow Scarf continuously attacked the inner city for ten days, perhaps because they saw that the situation was hopeless, or perhaps because of other reasons, all the Yellow Scarf soldiers actually left Xindu and headed towards the southwest direction of Xindu. Yang Rui was also able to control the entire Xindu in his hands!
"System Notification: Congratulations on successfully recapturing the territory of the Han Ting camp — Xindu City (High Level City, i.e. Big City!) You have received 60000 merit points (double), 60000 points (double), and 300 reputation points! "
Until now, there was a system notification about the recapture of Xindu City! The reward of merit points and points were also very considerable, and different from the recapture of a low level territory, the system also gave an additional 300 reputation points as a reward!
Although reputation points were not calculated by double, but 300 points at once was not a small amount! Including the reputation points rewarded this time, Yang Rui's reputation points had only exceeded 3000 points!
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