The total population of Xuchang in 7 years of collapse was 1.5 million. The migrant population in other places was removed and the number of people who took refuge and transferred north after the outbreak of the Northern Expedition. When Leng Yuan's troops were at the city, there were still 700,000 soldiers and civilians in the city.

Under the command of the Eagle General's slaughter, Xuchang became a real dead city after one day and one night. Not to mention living people, even complete corpses are difficult to find. They are bombed, burned, shot, suffocated, and killed by suicide. All kinds of corpses of death and death are everywhere in the city.

Among all the Republican troops that launched the attack, soldiers from 39 artillery battalions might be feeling better. After all, they only got war data, and they were nearly ten kilometers away from the battlefield. So even if they knew that they could kill more than a dozen innocent people with one shot, they did not see it with their own eyes and did not have too much psychological burden.

But the vanguard team responsible for encircling and annihilation of the city gates was different. The entire army, along with the commander with the highest psychological quality, were already lost and eventually became like a walking corpse. If Leng Yuan had not ordered the military police to take away their weapons, there might have been a large number of soldiers who committed suicide by swallowing guns.

These soldiers witnessed the tragic situation of the massacre, and the scene of civilian bodies being broken was revealed before their eyes, engraved in their minds like knife and axe. Everyone realized that this would become a nightmare that would accompany them for the rest of their lives, and would never linger, and would bother them until their death...

I don’t know if the high temperature of burning disturbed the airflow or God was also crying for this city. The sky rarely rained in this dry season. The rain hit the burning city, and burning mist rose. Some were mixed on the loess outside the city. The dust splashed makes people feel tighter and the air became even more turbid than cement.

Leng Yuan stood in front of the army, her dark purple pupils reflected the dead city she ordered to massacre. Her iconic smile had not appeared on her face for several days. When the rain fell on her face, it could only pass through the slightly falling corners of her lips, and then disappeared after seeping into it.

The commander of the vanguard was sitting next to Leng Yuan at this time, his eyes had lost all their colors and became as dark as the haze of the sky. He looked at the sad Xuchang in tears and said hoarsely: "General... do you have no guilt at all..."

Leng Yuan glanced at the commander sideways and turned around and left, leaving a cold sentence: "I want to save all the people, what crime is there?"

Five minutes later, under the handover command of the messenger, the huge army of Republic Zhihui started again, and the soldiers who took off their hats to Xuchang City also returned to the military vehicle sadly and headed towards their final destination Bianliang.

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The news that Xuchang was invaded and the whole city was slaughtered soon spread throughout the wilderness. The deterrence it brought was absolutely shocking, because in the past confrontation between the north and the south, both sides had an unwritten rule, that is, not to hurt civilians. This is also the spirit passed down from the three major disciplines and eight points of attention in the old era. Although this iron rule actually no longer exists, the soldiers on both sides will abide by it intentionally or unintentionally.

But this time, Leng Yuan's iron-fisted military order undoubtedly sent a terrible signal. She was using Xuchang's massacre to warn all the military and civilians in the territory that death was like a shadow in the war and would not show mercy to anyone!

This signal not only greatly shocked some wilderness evolutionists who took advantage of the chaos to destroy, but also made other cities in the war area boil. The fear spread like the Black Death in the Middle Ages, and it was unstoppable. Everyone was afraid that the hawk general's butcher knife would cut on their heads and turn their home into the next Xuchang.

However, if it were just to spread fear, it would not be completely confused. However, Leng Yuan's next approach was to completely reverse the war balance of the Northern Expedition!

When the Republic of China arrived in Bianliang, everyone thought Leng Yuan would wave his butcher knife again to capture the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties with the "Xuchang mode" of assassination, shelling, and massacre.

However, no one expected that Leng Yuan chose the "stupidest" style of attack in the offensive and defensive battles of this city, with a frontal attack! And it was a frontal attack without artillery support!

In the attack and defense of Bianliang, the blood-stained Begonia rocket launcher did not fire. After the night attack of the ghost, the camp led the attack with the city defense cannons all over the sky, and fell into a cruel hand-to-hand battle in a very short time. Although the city was captured, the battle loss ratio reached an appalling 5:1!

If this command mode is in the textbook, it is definitely a counterexample that makes people laugh, but Leng Yuan's order caused a storm.

In contrast to the executioner massacre in Xuchang, since no shot was fired, the Republic of China did not harm any civilians during the siege. Leng Yuan’s post-war treatment here is no longer an indiscriminate massacre, but rather taking fair care of the wounded enemies and us, treating prisoners preferentially, and not disturbing the people at all.

The tragedy in Xuchang and the kindness of Bianliang formed a shocking contrast, crazily hitting everyone's hearts, and what ultimately reversed the scale of war was Leng Yuan's announcement to all war-torn cities in the territory: "The warriors are like Xuchang, and the surrenders are like Bianliang!"

During the Warring States Period, in order to make the people trust the new laws, Shang Yang established three feet of wood at the south gate of the country's city, and recruited people to move to the north gate to give ten gold. The people blamed him and did not dare to move him. He said that those who could move would give fifty gold. One person moved him and gave fifty gold at all. He finally ordered it, which became the "trust of wood" that was passed down from later generations.

Leng Yuan’s approach is similar to the fact that it is the same as establishing a wood as trust. The so-called war is the soldiers who die, the suffering is the common people. The people will never want to fight. This is an eternal truth.

The same is true for this Northern Expedition. The civilians actually put it aside. Whoever wins and loses doesn’t care! Just let me live a good life! Leng Yuan’s slaughter and Ren perfectly grasps this psychological weakness!

Through Xuchang's killing, Leng Yuan deprived the civilians of the war-torn area of ​​"putting them aside", making them understand that even if they were unarmed, the sickle of the God of Death was treated equally.

Through the kindness of Bianliang, Leng Yuan told these desperate civilians that as long as they surrender, they would be treated preferentially and would not hurt you at all.

In this way, a subtle logical relationship is formed.

For civilians, no matter how the Republic and the Northern Rebels fought, it was a civil war. It was not the kind of resistance against the people in the old era, which was the same as the War of Resistance Against Japan. Therefore, no matter whether they were rebellious or the Northern Rebels, the civilians had no hatred. As for the same sentence, it doesn’t matter who wins and loses, just let me live.

Now, Leng Yuan is as strong as a bamboo shoot, and the cities in the middle of the Yellow River and Yangtze River are in danger. Under the announcement of "The warriors are like Xuchang, and the surrenders are like Bianliang", the people's psychological expectations have been broken and they have become "fence-behind grass" in the strong wind. Everyone hopes that their city will become "Bianliang" instead of "Xuchang"!

In the end, it was unknown which city led the leader. In short, the day after the announcement was released, the city controlled by the rebels in the middle of the Yellow River and Yangtze River was in chaos. Civilians went crazy to march on the streets, rushing to the ruling hall and military camps, demanding that the rebels surrender and make peace with the republic. At the back, the crazy civilians almost pulled the commander out of the barracks, holding a hoe and a sickle to force him to descend on his neck.

The whole area was in chaos too quickly, like a hurricane sweeping through the wind and destroying the dead. The generals in the capital were unable to make timely countermeasures. The commanders of each city did not have the iron fist and courage of Leng Yuan, and did not dare to suppress the civilians bloodily. In the end, they were driven out of the city by the eager civilians and fled to the strategic rear.

After driving away the rebels, these cities drafted the surrender letter as soon as possible and sent people to the Republic of China overnight. In this way, a large number of cities that had not been conquered were taken away without bloodshed, one soldier was not killed, and one civilian was not injured!
Chapter completed!