total war rise of empire

Chapter 82
The eyes of Commander Pylos flickered with disbelief. He didn't expect that the chain mail he bought with a lot of money would be easily pierced!
Commander Pyrrhus, who was struck by three armor-piercing arrows fired from a crossbow, fell to his knees on the battlefield and died with his eyes open unwillingly!

"The general is dead! Run!"

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Seeing the death of the commander, the Pylos infantry around them shouted in panic and began to rout!
Under such a disadvantage, the death of the commander in battle was absolutely fatal to the morale. Thousands of Pylos infantry were like frightened birds, routing into the city!

The huge gate of Argos City slowly rose. Lei Zihao looked at the soldiers who controlled the gate hub, cut off the Argos city flag and replaced it with his own Golden Dragon Banner, and ordered flatly: "Lancers ,attack!"

The sound of rumbling horseshoes was raised, and they stepped forward along the opened city gate!

At this moment, the entire city of Argos has fallen!

Since Lei Zihao had previously slaughtered the city of Corinth, after the fall of the gate of Argos, the Pylos bosses in the city did not give up their resistance completely. After the army is destroyed, they will be decapitated no matter what!

However, some dignitaries in the city of Argos gave up all their wealth and escaped from the city gate in the other direction with only a few coins!

It's not that Lei Zihao is incapable of sealing all the gates of Argos City, but that his troops are limited, and he doesn't want to turn Argos City, which has tens of thousands of people, into a desperate hell, and lose too many troops...

Although there are still many fresh troops in the city of Argos trying to resist on the streets between the houses, but under the iron hooves of the lancers and the strict phalanx of the heavy infantry with shields and spears, these scattered fresh troops cannot have much effect at all!

The new forces in the city are basically new recruits, or simply a Pylos civilian who was given a few bronze weapons and dragged onto the battlefield. There is no comparison with the citizen veterans who fought against Lei Zihao's troops on the earth wall!
What's more, after losing the terrain of the earthen wall, coupled with the forced panic mentality of the city gate, no matter how hard the elders of Pylos tried to block it, it would only increase the casualties of Lei Zihao's soldiers!
Lei Zihao has always kept his promises to the soldiers. After the city was broken, those Siris soldiers and even Lei Zihao's direct troops received orders to do whatever they wanted, because Lei Zihao was already in Argos City. Among the three processing options, slaughter and slavery are confirmed!
All the upper-class figures in Argos City will be forcibly executed, and all the Pylos civilians in the city will be killed on the spot except for the young, strong and useful people!

The tragedy of Corinth City was staged again in the city of Argos, and the fire soaring to the sky once again appeared in Lei Zihao's eyes!
Compared to the guilt he felt when he ordered the massacre of the city for the first time, Lei Zihao felt extra calm when he ordered the massacre of Argos City.

Could it be that once born and second time familiar?
"One will be successful, if I am not too weak, I can't really control the people of Pylos, and I don't have to completely destroy the city of Argos..."

"Huh? I didn't expect Lei Zihao to have a humanistic spirit. Are you from this world? Wars between different nations, massacres of cities, and demoralization of young and strong into slaves are normal, aren't you?
Do you need to be so emotional... What a big deal..."

Li Qingmei said contemptuously towards Lei Zihao.

Li Qingmei has a lot of resentment towards Lei Zihao, because her swelling hasn't gone down yet!
Riding a horse while doing that, it really isn't as good as it sounds!
However, Li Qingmei's contempt is definitely standing on the moral high ground of human beings in this world. If human beings fight among themselves because of small disputes, such as grabbing a few pots of honey, a small bag of pepper, etc., the nobles will often pick the wind. It's sunny and flat. Let's play a killing game in a flat place. The winner can go home with the loot. The loser, the noble, may not die, but he will definitely get a lot of serf corpses...

If it really comes to the point of a life-and-death battle to attack the old nest, and the weaker side still refuses to surrender, it is very common for the party to be completely slaughtered by the siege party!

After all, the siege party will die a lot of people. If they don't kill more to vent their anger, and capture more slaves to make up for their own losses, who can suffer?

Especially in wars between different ethnic groups, it is not uncommon for entire cities to be burned to the ground and civilians of all defeated ethnic groups to be reduced to slaves!

However, for the human nobles who are not wealthy, real big cities are often reluctant to burn them all...

Therefore, Lei Zihao's behavior of massacring a city and enslaving its civilians usually only occurs on the battlefield between big nobles and even kingdoms, and it also requires the tacit approval of the church. Every large human city is a precious treasure, and it cannot be tolerated. Just burn it!
The degree of hatred between the people of Seris and the people of Pylos, no matter from the perspective of plunder or racial hatred, Lei Zihao's behavior of massacring the city and enslaving the city is a matter of course for the people of Seris!
If Lei Zihao treated the Pylos people well, he would have attracted criticism!
After all, no one wants to be neighbors with a group of low-class people who have stabbed knives in the back!

This is the reason why Li Qingmei laughed at Lei Zihao's sentimentality. He just killed tens of thousands of Pyrrhus's low-class people. Is there any need for the sophisticated "one general's success and ten thousand bones withered"?

In this world, which noble lord has fewer lives in his hands, it is considered a symbol of weakness, not kindness!
Mercy is the aura of the Church of the Lord of Radiance, not the obligation of nobles!

The nobles don't need mercy, and the church doesn't want the nobles to have mercy!

Once a noble lord with a noble name appears in the human world, it means that this good nobleman's nickname will not last long. Either he will be annexed by a powerful nobleman for a lame reason in the future, or he will be annexed by an unknown person. The enemies of the assassins, hire the assassins of the League of Assassins to assassinate!

This is why the calendar in this world is called the dark calendar!
Since the glory of the knights fell, the church rose, and the orc empire spread wars to the Eurasian continent, the whole world has put the law of the jungle on the table. If you do not abide by this iron rule, you will die!
Li Qingmei, who was born in the royal family, naturally understood this truth a long time ago!

"Lei Zihao, after the fall of the city of Argos, will you continue to attack the city of Pylos? It is far away from Megara, and our logistics..."

"Well, after this fight it's time for us to make repairs."

Li Qingmei breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, finally she didn't have to continue playing games on horseback...

(End of this chapter)