Empress looks forward to falling out of favor every day

Chapter 488 Murder

Xiao Yueyao has already sent someone to confirm with Jin Shui whether the picture she gave her is true.

The lives of the golden jelly mother and daughter are now in Xiao Yueyao's hands, and she dare not make small moves at all.

And Xiao Yueyao had to ensure the authenticity of the picture, she didn't want her brother to put herself in danger, and she didn't want to put Pingyan's soldiers in danger.

If there are fake pictures, Xiao Yueyao decided to kill them without any hesitation.

Jin Shui also knew this truth after thinking about it.

She didn't hide anything, "Only half of it is true. I can't remember the deployment of troops around the capital."

Her words were sent to the front.

The picture in Xiao Nanchen's hand is much more authentic than the one in Ye Ling's hand.

And now, because of the Beiming army's siege of the city for many days in a short period of time, and the lack of food and grass supply in the rear, the morale of the soldiers has begun to be greatly slackened.

And Xiao Nanchen is now waiting for them to attack again.

Sure enough, according to the map given by Jin Shui, Ye Ling launched a strong attack, preparing to take down the big city.

But what they didn't expect was that they captured this big city in just an hour.

When they led their troops to attack, they suddenly realized that this was an empty city.

The large number of soldiers and horses on the city wall just now was just an illusion, just to force all their troops into the empty city.

However, there were not many soldiers stationed in the cities they captured in the rear.

Xiao Nanchen didn't even bother to take action himself, and dispatched a lieutenant general with [-] troops to take back the cities that Ye Ling captured.

Ye Ling has no way out now, and the soldiers who just went to search for it reported the news that this is indeed an empty city, so empty that there is not a grain of food in it.

If this continues, they will be surrounded and trapped in this empty city, and there will be no water or food in this city, and they will fall into a passive state.

Ye Ling immediately gave the order and led the troops back to the nearest city.

They had to rush there before Xiao Nanchen took over the city.

But God doesn't help.

When they arrived, Xiao Nanchen also led troops to the city wall.

Ye Ling and the others only left a little force to guard the city wall.

This force is almost unstoppable.

But now we only look at the two teams outside.

To be conservative, Ye Ling only brought out two-thirds of his troops. He didn't expect Xiao Nanchen to hit this city so quickly.

Now he has 3 people here, but Xiao Nanchen seems to have rushed here, only bringing 5000 people with him.

Ye Ling looked at the disparity in the strength of the two sides, and felt that he could win [-]% of the time.

A big battle is about to break out in this city.

A few rounds down.

Ye Ling's side suffered heavy losses, and he was already very tired.

Seeing Xiao Nanchen's face still unchanged, Ye Ling realized that Xiao Nanchen's title of God of War was definitely not groundless.

But the number of soldiers he brought has been decreasing, while Xiao Nanchen's side has not changed much.

Ye Ling's face was ugly, and finally he could only order, "Withdraw!"

All the way people can only return to the empty city.

Xiao Nanchen didn't chase them, but took the city directly.

Killing a prince does not do them any good. This will only boost the morale of the enemy and make them passive.

All they had to do was force them into that empty city.

They have already emptied the water and food inside.

The food brought by the Beiming army's march will only last for a day or two.

Ye Ling led the troops back to the empty city, and now he also realized Xiao Nanchen's intentions.

They just want to trap them in this empty city.

He had to take people out before the food ran out.

But Xiao Nanchen almost predicted his next move, and directly sent some soldiers to surround all their escape routes.

Ye Ling had no way out.

He is stuck.

Two days later, the soldiers found out that the food provided for these two days was insufficient, and after everyone was not full, they broke out completely.

Ye Ling promised that they would give them enough food tomorrow.

But they have no food.

The soldiers were bitter and tired, and they were still hungry, seeing that the food Ye Ling promised hadn't arrived.

The soldiers gathered around the city wall and started a commotion, shouting for food.

Ye Ling stood on the high city wall, looking down at the soldiers who looked like ants under the city wall.

He looked sideways and asked, "Did someone bring it?"

The deputy general stepped forward hesitantly, nodded, "Third Prince, man, man has already been brought."

He is waiting for Ye Ling's final decision.

Ye Ling looked at the thousands of hungry soldiers below, and said in a deep voice, "Kill."

The lieutenant general's eyes flickered a little, but he still nodded, "Yes."

He backed away, but came back in a moment.

Four guards followed behind him, and they all dragged a dead body in their hands.

A very old couple and two children aged eleven or twelve.

They were wearing black and gray cloth clothes, but the clothes were already dripping with blood.

Their eyes were wide open, as if they were dying.

The soldiers who were yelling to release food were stunned for a moment, not knowing who the four corpses were.

What did Ye Ling do to put these corpses on the city wall?

Ye Ling looked down at the group of ants, with no emotion in his eyes, he stretched out his hand and threw down a piece of cloth washed with blood.

The cloth strips fluttered down.

Someone reached out to pick it up.

"What you are seeing now are the bodies of Jin Shui's family."

Everyone gasped, as if they didn't expect to hear this name.

All the people in Beiming knew that Jin Shui was the princess' maid, and she risked her life to send this map of the military deployment in Pingyan City.

She is the great hero of Beiming.

Her family deserves to be treated well.

Ye Ling supported the city wall with his hands and looked down, "That's right, it's exactly what you think, Jin Shui risked his life to get this map, and now we have captured seven cities because of this map.

"It was too late when we sent people, they didn't spare even the elderly or even the children."

"Let me tell you the truth, now we have no food or water, Pingyan's army has surrounded the outside, we will be trapped here to die instead of dying in battle."

"After we die in battle, they will rush into our homeland and kill our family, parents and children. You came to join the army, not to protect them, but to live well for them?"

"But now you are all going to die here! Once you die, you should know who they should kill next."

Ye Ling finished speaking plausibly.

The soldiers standing on the city wall looked at the bloody corpse, their eyes turned red with anger.

(End of this chapter)