Chapter 864: Prisoners
"Bang bang bang..."
Intensive gunshots rang out from all directions in Jiangxia City.
After occupying the trench, the royal soldiers immediately took control of the city wall.
Some soldiers climbed up the city wall, occupied the commanding heights and fired into the city.
From a high position, the situation in Jiangxia City can be seen at a glance.
They aimed at the powerful soldiers, pulled the triggers, and quickly reloaded.
The rain of bullets was dense, flying towards the powerful soldiers like locusts.
The powerful generals and soldiers who fled on the streets continued to fall.
Some more soldiers went straight to the city gate. Under the protection of the soldiers on the city wall, they easily controlled the city gate.
At this time, more royal soldiers poured into the city.
"Hahaha, Your Highness, the overall situation has been decided."
Outside the city, Zhao Xu and Chang Wei watched the battlefield.
When the royal soldiers invaded Jiangxia City, Chang Wei laughed.
Then, he added: "This time, the Wu army in Jiangxia City collapsed at the first touch, which shows that it is at the end of its war effort. The leaflets issued by His Highness's Propaganda Department are indeed useful."
Zhao Xu nodded, "Of course the leaflets are of some use, but this situation is caused by many reasons. The most important thing is that the soldiers equipped with Qin-style rifles have very different combat capabilities. Soldiers from powerful tribes face The desperate fight makes them no longer interested in resisting. "
"Your Highness is absolutely right." Chang Wei continued to look at the battlefield, and then changed the topic and said: "The Fifth Army fought well this time and entered the city first. Did Huo An drink chicken blood?"
When Zhao Xu heard this, he smiled and said nothing.
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at the same time.
Jiangxia City fell into extreme chaos.
Four to five million troops crowded into Jiangxia City, and powerful soldiers could be seen in every street in Jiangxia.
They looked frightened and panicked, trying to find a place to hide.
There was even a fight over a secret cellar.
Faced with the chaotic army, Commander Liang and his generals were helpless.
They could only lead their direct soldiers and horses to act as a supervisory team, forcing the fleeing soldiers to retake the city wall.
But even so, they could not stop the soldiers from being defeated.
The soldiers were very shrewd. Taking advantage of the chaos and the crowds everywhere, they were able to evade the supervising team. The only outcome for rushing towards the city wall was death.
The muskets in the hands of King Yan's soldiers are so powerful that they can hit people accurately and have a long range.
Within two hundred meters, they were simply targets.
Seeing that he could not control the chaotic army, he immediately ordered his 60,000 direct troops to attack the west gate.
Jiangxia could no longer hold on. His only hope of survival was to break out of the encirclement, and then find a way to escape to Bazhou through the trails of the western mountains.
Although these trails are not easy for the army to pass, they cannot carry baggage.
But he can't control so much, even if he abandons the army and flees back to Bazhou alone.
But his hopes were quickly dashed when he received desperate news.
"General, we have suffered heavy losses. Their muskets have a long range and are very accurate. We can't get close to the city gate at all." A general returned with desperate eyes.
In an instant, Liang Tong lost all his strength.
You can't win, and you can't escape.
They could only wait to die in the city.
"Bang bang bang..."
Just when Liang Tong was feeling discouraged, gunshots were getting closer and closer.
After taking control of the city wall, the royal soldiers began to enter the streets and alleys to clear out the powerful soldiers.
Stepping over corpses, they continued to approach the center of Jiangxia City.
The scope of activities of powerful soldiers has been continuously reduced.
Originally, they could still hide out of the range of King Yan's soldiers.
But now there is no escape.
In fear, they threw away their weapons, raised their hands, and knelt down to throw themselves at him.
As a result, this strange scene appeared in Jiangxia City.
Where the royal soldiers passed by, the soldiers of the powerful clan looked at the wind and knelt down one by one.
The fighting lasted from early morning to dusk. After annihilating Liang Tong's direct troops, the eight-day Battle of Jiangxia came to an end.
"Kill, I will kill, kill you!"
In front of the Jiangxia government office, Liang Tong was surrounded by soldiers from the palace.
They held up Qin-style rifles and pointed their gleaming bayonets at Liang Tong, who looked like a madman.
Liang Tong raised his sword and kept slashing forward, but it seemed that he had exhausted his strength.
Every time he swung his sword, he had to stop and rest for a while.
"King Yan! King Yan! King Yan..." He swung his sword again and was blocked by the palace soldiers. Liang Tong looked up to the sky and roared.
He was unwilling to lose like this, and he lost without dignity.
In this war, they were like pigs waiting to be slaughtered in a pen.
At this moment, the palace soldiers surrounding him dispersed, and a young man in a green military uniform walked towards him.
"King Yan!" Liang Yiyi recognized this young man as King Yan at a glance.
He lived in Jinling for a period of time and met King Yan.
Zhao Xu looked at Liang Tong and saw that the royal army had basically taken control of Jiangxia City, so he entered the city with Chang Wei.
It happened that soldiers captured Liang Tong, the general of the state of Wu.
He was slightly impressed by this Liang system.
Moreover, before the war, the Fourth Academy provided him with the situation of Wu's army.
He knew that Liang Tong was the commander-in-chief of this army.
"Hmph, you rebellious officials and traitors, you should have thought of this day when you were rebelling and colluding with the Western natives." Zhao Xu sneered.
The title of General of the Kingdom of Wu was worthless in his eyes, just like the King of the Mountain.
Hearing this, Liang Tong laughed bitterly several times, "The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. I, Liang Tong, accept it. But King Yan, you won't be able to be proud for many days. The Northern Di, the Russians, the Britons, and the Franks have united. Your death is not far away."
Laughing several times again, he said, "I really hate it. At the beginning, our Liang family should have united with other powerful families and killed you when you just grew fangs. Otherwise, how could you take the throne of our powerful family!"
Zhao Xu's face was as calm as water. He looked at Liang Tong as if he was looking at a dead person. He slowly said, "This Dasong Jiangshan does not belong to your powerful family, nor to me, but to the people. The era of taking the world for yourself and treating the people as slaves is over. This is also the reason why you lost to me. However, you will never understand this truth."
After that, he raised his hand and turned it into a palm and chopped it down.
The soldiers of the palace immediately stepped forward and dozens of bayonets pierced Liang Tong's body.
His attitude towards prisoners was lenient, but the premise was that the prisoners had to be tried before that.
Those who committed serious crimes would be killed without pardon, and only prisoners who had not harmed the people and had not killed the soldiers of the royal palace on the battlefield would be forgiven.
And the core bullets of the powerful families such as Liang Tong did not meet this condition anyway.
Sooner or later, they would be killed, so there was no need to waste words.
After killing Liang Tong, Zhao Xu ordered Chang Wei to detain the prisoners in the city.
After taking Changcheng, together with the prisoners in Changcheng, after trial, those who should be killed should be killed, and those who should be released should be released, so as to restore production in Jiangnan as soon as possible.