Beautiful Peasant Girl: The Young Marquis's Beloved

What they didn't know was that Nanyue's soldiers were also devastated at this moment.

His Highness asked them to delay Dongsheng's soldiers as much as possible, but Dongsheng's method of attacking the city made it impossible for them to start.

None of these people came within the attack range, but they lined up a row of catapults in front of the formation and kept throwing bombs at their city gates.

That's it... How are they going to fight back?

After being bombed repeatedly, no matter how strong the gate of Hancheng was, it gradually became shaky.

Listening to the roars coming from the city gate again and again, the garrison even thought of letting the bombs kill them directly.

However, Dongsheng soon realized this idea for them.

There were several consecutive loud noises, and the east gate which Yang Rong was responsible for was the first to be blown up with a big hole.

"Shield soldiers, crossbowmen, and archers provide cover, and the rest of you follow me!" Yang Rong led the army and rushed towards the city gate.

The garrison on the city wall moved first, shooting arrows down one after another.

Unfortunately, before they could shoot the second arrow, the crossbowmen had already brought them a valuable gift.

Explosions were heard one after another on the city wall, and all the Nanyue troops on the wall were wiped out.

The garrison commander was furious but also somewhat relieved.

Never mind. With Dongsheng's combat power, let alone their mere 40,000 men, even if all of His Highness and the others stayed, they wouldn't be able to hold out for long.

They, Nanyue...may really be finished.

With the East Gate breached, the North Gate did not hold out for long either, as the vanguard led by Xiao Kai marched straight in.

"Brothers, we can't retreat! For our families, for Nanyue, we must fight to the death!" The Nanyue general stationed here shouted at the top of his lungs, trying to boost morale.

Unfortunately, the next second he was shot through the heart by an arrow.

There were only one-third of the people stationed here. Xiao Kai didn't even use small bombs. He just used the combination of crossbows and shield soldiers to almost kill all of them.

What followed was a one-sided massacre.

In one hour, the Dongsheng army occupied Hancheng:

Actually, this was Nan Yiheng's fault. This guy clearly still had some explosives in his hands, but he didn't leave any for the garrison troops.

His original words were, since we are just pretending to resist anyway, why waste resources.

As a result, these 40,000 garrison troops died in vain.

Yang Rong originally wanted to persuade them to surrender, but seeing that these people simply wouldn't listen, he simply gave up.

Although Dongsheng won the battle, there was no joy on anyone's face.

Because they discovered shortly after entering the city that there was no one else in the city except these people.

I also understood that Nan Yue had abandoned this city, and these people were left here to die.

As for why these people would rather die than surrender, it must be that their weaknesses were discovered by their superiors.

Seeing the corpses all over the streets, no one in Dongsheng, from the generals to the ordinary soldiers, felt sad for them.

It also strengthened his determination to destroy the Nanyue royal family.

Such a royal family is rotten from the root.

In this war, Dongsheng naturally suffered casualties. Although the death toll was less than a thousand, there were quite a few injured.

After clearing the streets, the army stopped to rest and wait for food and supplies.

They all knew that Tongcheng was the key to destroying Nanyue.

Ten days later, Chang Yifei led the Su family merchant ship to land at the dock.

Not only did they bring food and fodder, but they also brought a resupply of explosives and newly made crossbows.

After the handover, Chang Yi flew to meet Liu Donglai.

"Godfather, my little sister asked me to bring this to you."

Chang Yifei handed over a package. Liu Donglai opened it and took a look. Inside was a letter, some clothes, shoes, socks, and some additional medicine bottles.

He opened the letter and found that the medicines were all made by his daughter.

After Liu Xu returned home, although Mr. Meng told her not to disturb him, he increased the study time by one hour the next day.

The extra time is used to teach her how to make medicine.

Willow catkins can be used to make poison, so learning how to make medicine is stress-free.

And it seemed that Elder Meng did it on purpose, and the first ones he taught were the ones that Liu Donglai took away. That's how he got this pack of medicine bottles.

Thinking of his daughter, Liu Donglai felt soft in his heart.

Chang Yifei sat aside and drank tea without disturbing him. After he finished reading the letter, he spoke again:

"My sister also asked me to bring you some food. The soldiers are doing a routine inspection, so it should be brought in soon."

Sure enough, just as Chang Yifei finished speaking, soldiers from outside brought in two boxes.

Behind the soldier were Hu Ming, Xiao Kai and Yang Rong.

Liu Donglai had nothing else to understand. These people probably knew that there was food inside and came to snatch the food from him!

Fortunately, Liu Xu had made preparations in advance. There were many earthenware jars in two boxes, and the ones with names on them were for them.

The three of them didn't expect that the other party had already prepared their own things, and their mood suddenly became happy. Even Xiao Kai praised Liu Xu several times, and then he took his own things and left happily.

Chang Yifei stayed in Hancheng for one night and left the next day.

Three days later, the army continued to move southward towards Tongcheng.

Everyone looked solemn, because they all knew that the battle in Tongcheng would be a fierce one.

It will also be a prelude to their destruction of Nanyue!

It was already the ninth day of December when the 600,000-strong army arrived outside Tongcheng City.

As they expected, this time, Nanyue was also on high alert and had stockpiled 800,000 troops waiting for them.

Among them are garrisons from various parts of Nanyue, as well as some young and strong men who have recently joined the army.

The Dongsheng army camped thirty miles outside the city.

On the third day, the horn sounded, and Yang Rong led his army to stand under the city.

The flag representing Dongsheng was hoisted high, the war drums thundered, and the tense atmosphere seemed to be suffocating.

At Yang Rong's signal, the messenger began to challenge.

"You rats from Nanyue, you go back on your word. You negotiated for peace one moment and then secretly broke the agreement the next. You have no integrity at all and are absolutely shameless! Do you think you can succeed with such despicable behavior?" The messenger's voice was loud and full of anger.

"And your unscrupulous Third Prince Nan Yiheng, who disregarded human lives, poisoned and infected the innocent cities of Wuzhou and Yunzhou, sealed off the cities and cut off their food supplies, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Aren't you afraid that the people who died in vain will seek revenge on you in the middle of the night?"

After these words were spoken, some of Nanyue's soldiers were stunned.

They came from all over to provide support, and they knew a little about the reason why Dongsheng called, but they never thought that their monarch would do such a thing?

However, this is not over yet!

At this moment, a group of ragged people walked out of the Dongsheng Army. They were the people from Yunzhou and Wuzhou who joined the Dongsheng Army.

"We are the people of Wuzhou and Yunzhou. The evil deeds of the Nanyue royal family are intolerable!"

"They are simply not human beings. Our relatives were killed by them!"

"The Nanyue royal family will be punished!"

On the wall of Tongcheng, the soldiers looked at each other with doubts in their hearts.

Several soldiers from Wuzhou and Yunzhou began to murmur quietly: "This can't be true?"

"It's hard to say. My cousin is in Yunzhou City and I don't know what's going on with him," said a Nanyue soldier.

"My cousin is in Wuzhou, and there's no news from her either!"

At this time, I don't know who started calling out the names of relatives and friends.

"Zhang Fushun, are you there?"

"Li Xinya, are you still alive?"

No one among the people responded to these shouts until a soldier asked loudly, and finally someone responded.

"Er Gouzi, is that you? I'm here. Yunzhou City is in such a pity. Almost all my relatives are dead!"

The response back and forth stunned the uninformed soldiers of the Nanyue Army. For a moment, the morale of the army was somewhat shaken.

Upon seeing this, a general was about to chop off the person asking the question, but was stopped by the King of Annan.

He personally said: "Warriors of Nanyue, don't be bewitched by the thieves of Dongsheng!"

"It's hard to say whether those people are civilians or not. Even if they are, I'm afraid they are also threatened..."

As the saying goes, old ginger is wiser. After a round of deception, the previously shaken morale of the army stabilized again.

Even many soldiers were brainwashed by him, and they were eager to try when they saw the Dongsheng army below.