Chapter 155: Attack another city, the plan failed? (Subscribe)
The days keep passing by.

Lin Zhongyun acted very decisively. After making the decision, he immediately led his troops north again.

Yangzhou, Jianghua County, and Fuling City.

On the top of the city wall, the wind was freezing cold.

In the past, winters were extremely cold and peaceful, but this winter, Fuling City was faced with an approaching army.

The cold wind blew the battle robes, making a rustling sound. The densely packed officers and soldiers had already been ready for battle, each of them bent their bows and drew their arrows, looking at the distant horizon.

In the distance, the rebel army surged like a tide, a dark mass that seemed to swallow up the entire world. At a glance, all you could see were the rebel army's flags fluttering.

It's finally here!

The rebels are finally here!

The legendary invincible King Wu is coming with his army?

At this moment, everyone had only this one thought in their mind.

Even though the exciting sound of war drums continued to sound, the faces of everyone present remained bleak, some even ashen.

they understand,

What appeared before their eyes now was no longer the easily defeated rebels of the past, but a real battle-hardened army.

Gradually, with the rebel army's well-organized steps, the atmosphere in Fuling City became more and more solemn.

On the top of the city wall, the city defense general Cheng Xudong stood by the city wall, looking solemnly at the approaching rebel army. His face had long lost its previous sharpness, replaced by deep worry and helplessness. His hands tightly grasped the sword at his waist, and his palms were soaked with cold sweat.

"hiss!"

Looking at the scene below the city,
Even though he had already prepared himself mentally, he still couldn't help but gasp and feel a sense of despair in his heart.

Once upon a time, these rebel forces, which they considered to be inferior, have now become so powerful and unstoppable.

In fact, ever since the fall of Jialing County, he knew that this day would come for Fuling City.

At that time, he still held on to a glimmer of hope and frequently sent letters to the court for help. However, these letters seemed to sink into the sea and there was no response.

The most crucial thing is the people's support, and the court has lost the people's support.

Especially since the recent events in Jialing County and Lin Zhongyun's manifesto of attack had become known to everyone, the people in the city were even more uneasy.

This meant that he not only had to be on guard against the rebels' attacks, but also had to be prepared to suppress unrest in the city. Otherwise, Fuling City might have been taken over before the rebels arrived.

This caused him great pressure. Not only did he have to guard against the attack of the rebels, but he also had to suppress the unrest that might break out in the city. In the past few days, he had lost his appetite and could not sleep well because of these things.

However, the rebel army finally arrived.

"General, what should we do?" The adjutant beside him said in a trembling voice, his eyes filled with despair. Since he became the deputy general, he had never seen such a large enemy force.

"What should we do?" Cheng Xudong's voice was hoarse, and his eyes were burning with anger. "Let's burn our boats. Now it's either you or me."

His voice was filled with determination and madness. "Even if we are willing to surrender, do you think the rioters in the city will be able to bypass us easily?"

He said this with a face ashen, and in his eyes there was only endless despair, fear, and a hint of unwillingness.

At this time, he was ready to die.

He understood that although he had not done as many evil things as others over the years, he had offended quite a few people to get to this position.

Even if I managed to survive by chance, so what?

He will not be able to escape the fate of having to beg for mercy in the future, which is something he absolutely cannot accept.

He did not hold out any hope of being forgiven. Thinking of this, a stern, cold light flashed in his eyes.

"Come on, pull those people up!" He shouted sternly, "Even if we have to die, we die together."

A few days ago, he had already captured several people who led the rebellion. The reason why he didn't kill them before was for now.

His order was passed down, and several soldiers dragged several ragged rebels to the city wall. These people's eyes were full of anger and unyielding, even though their bodies had been tortured beyond recognition.

One of the rebels raised his head, eyes burning with rage: "Cheng Xudong, you are just trying to survive. Fuling City will fall into the hands of the rebels sooner or later, and your doom is here!"

At this moment, Cheng Xudong had fallen into madness and didn't care how the rioters scolded him. Now he had only one idea, which was to drag someone else down with him.

In sharp contrast to this is the mighty army of rebels, who are full of vigor and fighting spirit, and march forward courageously.

"King Wu is invincible!"

"King Wu is invincible!"

"King Wu is invincible!"

Facing the defenders in front of them, they all had hideous faces and let out hysterical roars.

Deafening shouts rose one after another, resounding through the sky.

At this moment, they seemed to be about to burst out all their resentment at being oppressed by the imperial court for nearly decades.

In one day, Leling was conquered.

In January, Jialing was conquered.

This unprecedented and unparalleled glorious record has long made them fearless. They firmly believe that as long as they are led by King Wu, they will be invincible and unstoppable.

Looking at Seventeen's increasingly high voice, Lin Zhongyun nodded in satisfaction, looked at the Fuling City in front of him, waved his sword, and shouted: "Attack the city!"

At his command, thousands of horses galloped and their cries were like thunder, resounding between heaven and earth like an overwhelming tidal wave.

The rebel army rushed forward quickly like a wild horse.

Li Zhongwu led the charge, riding his horse and rushing to the front like a humanoid monster.

At this time, the defenders reacted and fired thousands of arrows into the dense rain of arrows.

However, at this moment, the rebel army had already replenished its armaments after conquering Jialing County, and these piercing arrows could no longer hurt them at all.

What's more, because of two consecutive wars, their battlefield experience has been greatly accumulated, and their combat power has become more and more terrifying.

boom! Boom! Boom!
Li Zhongwu led his men to attack the city gate.

The huge siege equipment hit the city gate with a heavy rumbling sound, and even the defenders on the top of the city felt the violent tremor.

The war has begun.

"Hurry up!"

The general who was ordered to guard the city gate shouted hysterically, but even though his throat was smoking, his voice seemed so weak and powerless amid the roar and drums of the rebels. Soon, the fully armed rebels had already attacked the top of the city.

A rebel soldier rushed up the wall first, with a crazy light flashing in his eyes. He swung his sword suddenly and cut down a defender. Blood spurted out, staining his armor red. But he didn't care and continued to rush forward.

Behind him, more rebel soldiers followed closely and rushed towards the city wall like a tide.

The defenders tried to fight back, but their strength and morale seemed insignificant in the face of the fierce offensive of the rebels. A defender's spear was cut off by a rebel's sword. He retreated in fear, but was kicked to the ground by another rebel. More defenders were killed in the chaos, and their screams echoed in the air, seeming so shrill and desperate.

The battle on the city wall was extremely fierce, blood dyed every brick red, and the battle had entered a white-hot stage.

At this moment, Li Zhongwu let out a roar, and the gate of Fuling City could no longer withstand the attack and was breached by the army.

"Everyone charge, kill!"

The morale of the soldiers defending the city was already low, and they immediately lost all their will to fight upon seeing this, and were quickly defeated under the fierce attack of the rebels.

At this time, the people, seeing that the court was doomed, could no longer tolerate it and joined the ranks of the rebel army, going from street to street to capture officers and soldiers.

Lin Zhongyun stood at the city gate, looking at the scene in front of him, thoughtful.

Although he had captured Fuling City as planned, he couldn't feel happy at this moment.

In fact, the resistance encountered in this attack on Fuling City was far greater than he had imagined.

If Fuling City had enough troops, they would have to pay a heavy price to capture it.

Attack the mind, attack the mind.

Logically speaking, the rebel army is gaining momentum and is unstoppable. In addition, he has already announced the declaration of war to the world, so the public sentiment should be far more than this.

If this continues, I'm afraid the next war will definitely not be as easy as it is now.

How to cause greater unrest is the next question he must think about.

Thinking that Lin Zhongyun didn't have a game, he directly called out the system upload interface, uploaded the siege video, and captioned:
"We have captured Fuling City, but the effect is not very good. Although the people are willing, the defenders in the city are on guard. Do you have a good plan?"

Once the video was uploaded, the number of views quickly exceeded 10,000. This is the effect of fan scale.

After a few seconds, there were already thousands of comments.

"It's getting faster and faster recently. He will be able to declare himself emperor soon."

"From this siege, the fighting power of the rebels has been raised to a new level. It seems that taking over Jialing County will be of some help."

"Of course. After all, Yangzhou is the arsenal of Daqian, and its military equipment is the most complete. This is like a big supplement."

"But as the host said, we can't be complacent now. The psychological strategy has not achieved the desired effect."

"Shangshang is right. We should not take it lightly at this time."

……

As the number of comments increased, the popularity of the video also increased, and soon more and more people were able to see the video.

Meanwhile, Songjiang Province.

Yu Ping, who was eating, estimated the time, opened Douyin and searched for Lin Zhongyun's video, and sure enough, he found it.

However, the moment he saw the video, his brows furrowed and he fell into deep thought.

How is this going?

Doesn’t the punitive declaration have any effect?

He frowned and looked gloomy as he thought about all this.

He originally thought that the rebel army's manifesto would arouse the anger of the people and ignite the fire of resistance in their hearts.

However, the reality is cruel. The people of Fuling City did nothing, as if everything had nothing to do with them.

He knew very well that the previous plan could only be carried out smoothly if it was based on the unstable public sentiment and frequent civil unrest in various cities.

Now, the city of Fuling alone encountered such resistance, but the people in the city did nothing. The consequences can be imagined.

The imperial army has not yet joined the battle, but the resistance in Fuling City is already so fierce. Later on, the resistance will only become more intense.

Their real enemy is the imperial reinforcements, not these cities. If they put too many troops on these cities now, they will lose the big picture for the small.

He even now suspects that the reason why the imperial court has been silent is that it wants to take this opportunity to weaken the power of the rebels.

Thinking of this, major wars in history kept emerging in his mind, and he recalled it all.

Yes,

The Daqian Empire lasted five hundred years.
Especially in the past hundred years, the exploitation of poor people has become even more severe.

Everyone understands that Daqian is the mountain pressing down on them, sucking their blood all the time, but so what?
Five hundred years of rule have already deeply planted the seeds of oppression and exploitation into everyone's heart.

The people were taught from childhood to obey, to endure, and to accept the arrangements of fate. Their fathers and grandfathers had all lived this way, and they could only live this way. Even if they had grievances in their hearts, they could only bury them deep in their hearts and dare not express them at all.

"The people have grievances in their hearts, but they have already given up." Yu Ping thought silently.

He understood that for those people who had long been oppressed and numb, the rebels were just another Daqian. Even if they were full of resentment about the current situation, this resentment had long been smoothed over by the years and turned into helplessness and numbness.

In addition, after the previous incident in Jialing County, the major cities will be more stringent in their defenses against unrest, and will use force to suppress any slight disturbance.

In this almost killing the chicken to scare the monkey method, even if some of them have already been aroused by the denunciation manifesto, they will only remain silent under the threat of their lives.

If they rebel, they may be reborn if they succeed, but if they fail, they will die.

Compared with the so-called illusory freedom and good life, most of them would rather live a miserable life. Even if it is just a miserable life, isn’t it still living?
Moreover, the policies of the rebel army have now been widely publicized, and everyone knows that even if the city is broken, as long as they do not join the soldiers, their lives will not change much.

It may even be possible to live a happy life without any effort.

In this case, how many people would be willing to take such a big risk?

Although they are living a hard life now, it is not to the point where their families are broken up and they are displaced, nor is it to the point where they have to do anything.

For now, what they have done is not enough. They must add fuel to the fire and thoroughly ignite the anger in the hearts of the people.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly stood up and walked towards his study, not even bothering to eat his meal, leaving it aside.

After entering the study, he began to look through the handwriting and homemade maps on the table. These were the materials he had used in his previous research on ancient military strategies. There must be the answer in them.

After a moment, he found a notebook and his eyes suddenly lit up when he read the contents on it.

"Got it, that's it!".
ps: I’m begging for monthly tickets at the end of the month, and I’m begging my brothers to support me! The author is really begging!!!

(End of this chapter)