Chapter 70: Persuasion

If it were ordinary words, it might not be convincing.

But Luo Cheng's words were sincere and touched the hearts of these rebel soldiers.

They were the glorious Zhenbei Army, responsible for guarding the northern border to defend their country.

But now they were attacking the cities of their own country, slaughtering the people of their own country, and swinging the butcher knife at their compatriots.

They didn't have time to think about these things when they were fighting just now, they only wanted to capture the city.

But at this moment, in this state, their hearts were shaken.

Lu Fan knew that he had to stand up again at this time.

These soldiers are at the bottom of the existence, without any decision-making power at all, and even without their own opinions.

And they are precisely the easiest to manipulate.

As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Lu Fan used his cultivation to shout loudly:

"You are all my Daqian people. Your butcher knives should be slashed at the Mobei barbarians and our enemies, not at your brothers and sisters like now.

As long as you lay down your weapons and surrender, I, Lu Fan, guarantee in the name of the prince that I will never punish you."

The rebels under the city had already wavered, and when they heard Lu Fan's words, their psychological defenses collapsed again.

If they were facing the enemy, they would be fearless.

But facing their own people, facing such deeply rooted words, they could not resist.

Bang...

Soon a soldier dropped his weapon and squatted on the ground, holding his head and crying.

"Wuwuwu...I don't want to rebel, my parents are still in the imperial capital, I can't die..."

With the first one, there will be the second, the third...

Soon more than half of the remaining 6,000 soldiers under the city put down their weapons and squatted on the ground.

The ten thousand captains looked at this scene and roared loudly.

"Pick up your weapons, and do not surrender!"

"Pick up your weapons quickly, and I will kill anyone who dares to surrender!"

These ten centurions were promoted by Tong Qian and are his diehards.

And they are also the core members of the rebellion, so they will not be shaken by these words.

So when they saw so many soldiers laying down their weapons and surrendering, they were immediately angry.

However, their extremely angry shouts were useless, and soldiers continued to lay down their weapons.

Seeing that more and more soldiers laid down their weapons, they were completely angry.

"Dare to surrender, then die!"

Swish!

Amid the roars, these ten centurions directly began to slaughter the soldiers who laid down their weapons around them.

These ten centurions were all cultivators in the Condensation Realm, and slaughtering these ordinary soldiers was like cutting melons and vegetables.

Looking at these ten centurions slaughtering the surrendered soldiers, Lu Fan turned his head to look at Qin Qiong and Xiahou Wei.

"Go, destroy the cultivation of these ten guys and throw them down."

"Yes!"

Qin Qiong and Xiahou Wei had long wanted to kill these ten centurions.

At this moment, they received Lu Fan's order, without any hesitation, and jumped down from the city wall.

"Die!"

These ten centurions were invincible to ordinary soldiers, but they were vulnerable in front of Qin Qiong and Xiahou Wei.

"Ah..."

With a few screams, the cultivation of these ten centurions who slaughtered the surrendered soldiers was directly destroyed by Qin Qiong and Xiahou Wei.

According to Lu Fan's order, they only destroyed the cultivation of these ten guys, but did not kill them.

After completing the task, Qin Qiong and Xiahou Wei stepped into the air and returned to the city wall.

Lu Fan looked at the soldiers below and shouted in a deep voice:

"You are the heroes of Daqian who guard the northern border and defend your country, but these ten guys humiliated and slaughtered you like pigs and dogs.

This king does not agree to such a thing, so I will leave them to you to deal with."

As Lu Fan's persuasive words fell, the soldiers who chose to surrender below immediately picked up their weapons and madly chopped at the ten centurions whose cultivation was abolished.

As Lu Fan said, they have indeed been humiliated too many times.

These ten guys relied on being cultivators and treated them like animals.

They also had anger and murderous intent in their hearts.

It's just that they didn't dare to burst out at ordinary times.

At this moment, with such an opportunity, the suppressed anger and murderous intent in their hearts broke out completely.

In the blink of an eye, the ten centurions whose cultivation was abolished were directly chopped into a pile of meat paste.

Looking at this scene, Lu Fan snorted in his heart, and his eyes became colder.

The soldiers who had not made a decision at first, after seeing this scene, also put down their weapons and chose to surrender.

The 10,000 troops who were originally going to attack Hanyang City were easily dealt with.

Except for the more than 3,000 people who were killed, the remaining more than 6,000 chose to surrender.

A thousand meters away.

Ji Pingchang and the other eight captains looked at this scene, their faces uglier than each other.

The face of the commander Zhang Yu was even more frightening, his eyes were almost spitting fire, and the killing intent was directly condensed into substance.

The reason why he arranged Tong Qian to lead 10,000 troops to attack the city.

On the one hand, he felt that this 10,000 troops were enough to easily capture Hanyang City.

After all, he knew the situation in Hanyang City too well. There were only more than 3,000 guards, and they were the reserve of the Zhenbei Army.

On the other hand, he also had to reserve 90,000 troops to prevent Gu Tiefeng, who had not made a decision, from leading his army to attack.

According to his plan, there was nothing wrong with this arrangement.

But the result was completely beyond his expectations.

Tong Qian led 10,000 soldiers to attack the city, but not only did he fail to capture the city wall, he himself was also destroyed and captured.

More than 3,000 soldiers died in the battle, more than 6,000 soldiers surrendered, and ten loyal centurions were hacked to death.

Faced with such a result, he was almost angry to the point of vomiting blood.

Ji Pingchang looked at the densely packed corpses under the city, and his eyes could not help but turn red.

These are all the elites of the Zhenbei Army.

As Prince Lu Fan said, they did not die on the battlefield fighting with the enemy, but died on their own people.

This is simply a kind of sadness.

Thinking of this, Ji Pingchang looked at Zhang Yu, whose eyes were almost spitting fire, with red eyes.

"General, retreat, return to the original place to stop the Mobei barbarians, we still have a chance to redeem ourselves, otherwise..."

"Shut up!" Zhang Yu interrupted Ji Pingchang angrily, staring at him with eyes that were almost spitting fire, and said with murderous intent:

"It's too late to regret now, either capture the city or die here, you choose!"

Looking at Zhang Yu with a ferocious look, Ji Pingchang was filled with regret.

At the beginning, in order to improve his cultivation, he agreed to Zhang Yu's recruitment out of greed, and ended up on the road of rebellion.

In fact, he regretted it after agreeing to the recruitment.

It's a pity that the temptation to break through the cultivation is too great, and he couldn't resist it after all, so he ended up in this situation.

"No, I still have a chance..."

Thinking of what Lu Fan said on the city wall just now, Ji Pingchang made a decision in his heart.

The next moment, he looked up at Zhang Yu with murderous intent on his face and spoke in a deep voice...