In the early morning of the next day, the empty canyon turned into a school military field, the three marshals and Mo Shaotian were personally present at the parade, and the 300,000 troops who went out with the army were neatly lined up in the canyon and stood in the canyon waiting for Mo Shaotian and others to review.

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Mo Shaotian first made a righteous and awe-inspiring speech, and then Ge Ye issued a mobilization order on behalf of the three generalissimos, this kind of scene is actually a formality, the process is extremely boring, Long Tianci slept very late last night, so he was angry.

Finally survived until the end of the parade, accompanied by the sound of three gongs, hundreds of military trumpets were blown at the same time, and a hundred artillery guns were fired, and then the army drove out of the canyon and marched in the direction of the imperial capital of the Xuanwu Empire!

How the army marched not to mention, just talk about the embarrassed and defeated prince, this guy with about 200,000 remnants of the army all the way to retreat, but because the army has no food supply, so the army is very loose, in order to be able to let the army safely withdraw to the imperial capital, the prince ordered to meet villages and towns along the way to directly collect food, this order came to those hungry soldiers are all crazy, officials and bandits are more terrible than real bandits, these guys almost all the towns and villages along the way looted, if they encounter resistance, even the villages and towns are slaughtered, so along the way there are nearly 100 small villages and more than 30 small and medium-sized towns were looted by this army。

The imperial capital also knew the news of the defeat of the army led by the prince, although the emperor was furious, but now the national strength is empty, there is no place to mobilize enough soldiers, so the remaining nearly 200,000 people are almost the last strength of the Xuanwu Empire, the emperor urgently allocated a large amount of supplies and food to the prince to send over, and ordered the prince to lead the army back to the imperial capital as soon as possible, and garrison outside the imperial capital!

In the emperor's mind, although the head-on conflict was defeated, but he was not in a situation of exhaustion, first of all, the Dijiamen and the Immortal Sect also supported him, and the Vermilion Bird Empire and the Xuanwu Empire also promised to send an additional 200,000 reinforcements, and before the reinforcements of the Suzaku and Xuanwu empires arrived, as long as they could hold the imperial capital, then everything would still have room to turn around!

It's a pity that the emperor thought about this matter too beautifully, just when the prince's army had not yet returned to the imperial capital, the Dijiamen and the Immortal Sect actually issued an order from the master of the sect to recall all the disciples who participated in this war, and even issued a statement saying that the two major sects would no longer participate in the battle for imperial power!

Although there are not many people from the two major sects, they can be regarded as the core force of the imperial army, after all, there is a big difference between the warriors and ordinary people, and now that these warriors are all gone, the strength of the emperor has at least dropped by a full forty percent.

Clear-eyed people can actually see the current situation in the Xuanwu Continent at a glance, the current emperor's father and son have betrayed their relatives, and the people of the whole country simply hate the behavior of this father and son, and in comparison, Mo Shaotian is loved by most people, and many people think that Mo Shaotian will be a good emperor!

Although there are four counties and sixteen cities in the middle of the imperial capital from Xiangcheng to the imperial capital, but when the prince led the defeated army to retreat, almost all the villages and towns in the four counties were looted, and the people were miserable, so after the arrival of the Mo Shaotian army, the people actually welcomed them, and the scene was like welcoming their relatives, and under the orders of Cao Youyi and others, the army would send food to help the people who had been robbed of food every time they arrived, so the evil behavior and the evil behavior of the prince and his party were very different, and the people's support for Mo Shaotian was more deep-rooted, and even some young and strong middle-aged people and young people consciously joined the armyand join the torrent of overthrowing tyrants!

All the way down, the first nine of the sixteen cities did not fight at all, after the army arrived, the city lord took the initiative to open the door to surrender the city, and he could become the city lord, these guys are not stupid, and there is no need to think about how to choose the current situation, rather than working for the unpopular emperor, it is better to support the now popular Mo Shaotian, which is also leaving a way out for themselves!

However, the fall of the first nine cities without resistance also made the emperor realize one thing, that is, these city lords are no longer reliable, in order not to have similar problems again, the emperor sent his most trusted seven generals to assist the city lords of the remaining seven cities to defend the city, of course, the name of this collaboration is very good, but in fact, it is to empty the rights of the city lord, these emperors' henchmen even use the city lord's family as hostages to coerce the city lord to defend the city!

Because of this, when the first arrival in the tenth city, the dungeon army officially fought with the city guard for the first time, but unfortunately the city is not big, the city wall is not high or thick, under the command of Ge Ye, the army actually took less than half a day to attack the city, but when the army entered the city, the city lord and his family have been brutally slaughtered, and the military general sent by the emperor himself is nowhere to be found!

Next, four cities in a row resisted desperately one after another, but in front of the imposing dungeon army, these cities were not much different from paper paste, no city could last more than three days, and the ending was broken into the city, but what is puzzling is that as long as the city is broken, the city lord's family will definitely be brutally slaughtered, and the generals sent by the emperor will also disappear strangely!

Two more cities were about to reach the imperial capital, but Cao Youyi asked the army to stop when it was still fifteen kilometers away from the fifteenth city, and neither Long Tianci nor Ge Ye understood why Cao Youyi stopped.

Cao Youyi didn't sell the guanzi, and directly explained the reason to the two of them, it turned out that along the way, five of the seven cities behind were attacked, but although the city was attacked, but the city lord's family all died tragically, it was obvious that the prison army sent by the emperor slaughtered the city lord's family at the same time as the city was broken, although it seemed to have no practical effect on the surface, but it was not completely ineffective, although they were overwhelmed along the way, but they all felt that the resistance of the four cities behind was becoming more and more intense, and it was becoming more and more crazy？

In fact, if you analyze it from a psychological point of view, then everything can be figured out, those city lords should have intended to surrender, but the emperor sent the prison generals who could be in charge of life and death, these city lords naturally did not dare to surrender, but it is estimated that most of the city lords have such an idea in their hearts, that is, although this battle has to be fought, but it can be deliberately lost, when the dungeon army enters the city, the prison army sent by the emperor will either die in battle or escape, and then their own family will survive, but unfortunately these city lords did not expect that the prison army generals will slaughter the city lord, including his family, at the same time as leaving。

What will the city lords of the latter cities think after hearing this news? Surrender is death, and deliberately releasing water to lose is also death, and the only chance to survive is to defend the city, and this is what the emperor wants these city lords to realize, for the sake of their own lives and their families, the city lords will desperately defend.