"Immediately send a messenger pigeon to inform His Highness that the gates of Nanzhao Royal City have been breached and the Zhennan Prince's army has begun to enter the city."
As Qian Ping said these words, several young eunuchs beside him quickly wrote them down, and then sent them to Sichuan in three groups, two of which were sent by pigeons and one by horses.
In such an environment, three methods of transmission were established to ensure that the intelligence was foolproof. Although carrier pigeons were faster, the possibility of losing information along the way was also greater. Although human transmission was slower, the problems along the way were recorded at the post stations in various places, so such a complicated method was adopted.
In the distance, Prince Zhennan had already come out on horseback. Today was destined to be different from any other time. He had been in and out of the Nanzhao Royal City countless times in his life, but this time he was still very excited, because after leading the army in this time, the Nanzhao Royal City would be his.
The King of Zhennan rode on his horse with high spirits. A lot of the surrounding troops had already entered, and the battle on the city wall was nearing its end. When his army entered the city gate, many of the king's soldiers on the city wall were unaware of it. But when these soldiers saw many of the King of Zhennan's troops coming up the stairs, they knew that the rear had been breached, and it was meaningless to continue fighting, so they all surrendered.
According to the order of Prince Zhennan, all the people who surrendered on the city wall were thrown down from the wall. Prince Zhennan's daughter and wife were thrown down from the wall. No one knew who did it at the time. Since the murderer could not be found, all the soldiers on the wall were responsible, so they just threw you all down.
Although many people think that it is inappropriate, although the King of Zhennan has now taken the royal city, there is still a part of the army in the palace. We cannot be considered to have completely taken over this place now. We should be benevolent and should not kill innocent soldiers indiscriminately. After all, they are also following orders, and it is not their intention to throw people off the city wall.
When these people tried to persuade Prince Zhennan, Prince Zhennan whipped them and said, "It wasn't your daughter who was killed, so you are talking nonsense here."
After his men were beaten, the rest of them fell silent. They knew what to do. The Prince of Zhennan had lost his wife and daughter. Although these women were not in the Prince's heart at ordinary times, they were his relatives after all. It was normal for him to kill a few soldiers to vent his anger. If anyone stood up and said something wrong, he would probably be whipped in the face.
We have no ties to the soldiers on the wall, so why should we plead for them? There are only eight or nine hundred of them. If we don't charge in now, the battle on the wall will continue. Maybe these people will die on the wall too. Now we just want to find a new place for them to die.
"Pass the order down. All the residents in the city are bandits. They failed to protect me at the critical moment. Therefore, after all soldiers enter the city, they will be severely punished for not defending themselves tonight..."
Just after killing all the soldiers on the city wall, the next order from Prince Zhennan came out, which made his men panic. If it were just a few hundred people on the city wall, they could let the prince show his temper, even dragging these people up and throwing them down, it didn't matter, after all, it was just a matter of a few hundred people.
But if the soldiers are allowed to rob tonight, the entire Nanzhao Royal City will be in trouble. One-fifth of the entire Nanzhao population lives here. If the soldiers rob from east to west, who knows how many people will die tonight. Don’t think that the soldiers are just going to rob. If someone resists, can the soldiers who have just experienced a major war bear not to draw their swords?
Moreover, the prince has already defined these unruly people as bandits, not ordinary people at all. When we were fighting outside the city, these people were helping that damn king. It is very likely that the men in their families also fought on the city walls, and many of our brothers died at their hands. Now the prince wants us to punish them. How can we live up to the prince's orders if we don't rob their entire families?
Some generals strongly opposed it, but some generals did not wait for those people to speak, and immediately took their soldiers to start looting. They had been fighting outside the city for several days, and they didn't know how many of their men had died. Now was the time to compensate them.
Soldiers must be brave on the battlefield, so they must taste the sweetness after the battle. Next we have to attack the palace. The guards of the palace are no worse than those on the city walls. It will be a fierce battle. If the soldiers are not allowed to relax, who will be willing to accompany you to fight?
Many generals also understood that after the robbery of the entire Nanzhao was completed, the morale of the soldiers would definitely be high. This was also what the King of Zhennan meant. When the morale of the soldiers was inspired to an extreme, the King of Zhennan would personally lead his men to attack the palace.
When the night fell, the whole city fell into disaster. The army coming in from outside the city started to rob every house like crazy. Even if the doors of the rich families were closed, they would be kicked open by all kinds of things. Except for some nobles who were specially cared for by the King of Zhennan, no one was spared.
At the beginning, they just robbed some money, but soon it turned to the stage of murder. If anyone tried to stop them, they would stab them. If they saw a beautiful young lady in the house, the soldiers who had been holding back for a long time would not be able to help it and would immediately drag them to the next room and rape them.
The men in the city naturally couldn't bear it, and immediately picked up all the weapons they could and fought with the soldiers outside the city. Unfortunately, they were all ordinary people, so how could they be a match for these soldiers?
So I don’t know how many people suffered from the disaster that night. In short, if you walked on the streets in the city that night, you could smell the blood in the whole city. When many people got up the next morning, many people’s doors were open, but there was no sound from inside. There were several corpses lying all over the place. It was estimated that the whole family was dead.
The men under the Prince of Zhennan were also heartbroken, but they could do nothing to persuade him. If they didn't do this, the morale of the soldiers would not recover quickly, so how could they attack the palace?
