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Chapter 1133: Chapter 457 Leling Taken Down_3 Chapter 1133: Chapter 457 Leling Taken Down_3 Even the three Inborn Grandmasters stationed in the city were under constant watch by Lu Ning and his men.

Despite several attempts to leave the city, they were intercepted and could not escape.

Under such circumstances, Qingyangzi pursued for three days and took over a prefecture.

After another two days of pursuit and breaking through another prefecture, he reached the south bank of the Yellow River.

During those days, even though the Xu People moved day and night, they only managed to take more than two hundred thousand people with them.

The originally planned evacuation of over two million people completely failed under Qingyangzi’s relentless pursuit.

Qingyangzi successfully recaptured over two million inhabitants, preserving a vast amount of spoils for Chu State’s victory in the Le’an campaign.

Meanwhile, Xu State could only watch as the two hundred thousand elite troops traded for two hundred thousand civilians wept bitterly on the riverbanks to the north of the Great River.

After completely expelling Xu State, Chu State essentially took over the entire Le’an Prefecture.

At this point, in the whole territory of Le’an, only the cities of Le Ling and Wuyan remained outside of Chu Army’s control.

However, the Xu Army in Wuyan City was busily preparing to flee.

The Xu Army in Le Ling City had become a doomed force, unable to escape even if they grew wings.

After taking those two cities, then driving out the Xu Army from Qingping County, Chu State would be able to fully control the entire Qingzhou region.

The goal of the third Northern Expedition, the unification of Qingzhou, would then be achieved.

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Even beyond that, the annihilation of Wei Country and Zhao Country added extra glory to this victory.

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At the end of the eighth month,

Having just completed a brilliant pursuit, Qingyangzi left a large number of troops to defend Henan, keeping a close watch on the Xu People to prevent them from heading south again.

He then led the remaining forces, escorting the just captured over two million Xu People, taking them back to their original location for resettlement.

During the resettlement period, he selected some representative individuals, roughly a hundred thousand people, and escorted them to the foot of Le Ling City.

These selected individuals were family members of the city’s defenders, identified through the reports of Xu State officials captured during the pursuit.

Hence, Qingyangzi specifically chose them and brought them directly to the bottom of Le Ling City, using these family members to threaten the city’s defenders into giving up their resistance.

He also announced a message.

That was, their plan had failed, and not only were their families captured, but the entire Le’an Prefecture had also been completely lost.

These two hundred thousand people had become an isolated force, surrounded by Chu troops on all sides, with no other way of life but to surrender.

This was a very ruthless psychological warfare strategy.

As soon as Qingyangzi put it into play, it immediately achieved a significant effect.

The Xu Soldiers inside the city, upon seeing their own kin, instantly became wavering in spirit.

That very night, over a thousand Xu Soldiers who saw their family members climbed over the city walls to flee, coming over to the Chu Camp to surrender.

By the next day, even after the Xu Army officers executed more than a hundred men in an attempt to intimidate the soldiers, they still were unable to stop the tide of surrenders.

Because it wasn’t just the low-level soldiers who were concerned for their parents and kin, but even the mid and low-ranking officers of Xu State were worried about their future.

Unlike the high-profile nobles who had shipped their families to Hebei early on, many of these mid and low-ranking officers had families among the planned two million people to be evacuated.

Many Xu Army officers, during the day, saw their own family members.

With their families in another’s grasp, how could they still have the heart to fight?

Not to mention the situation in Le Ling City was clear to all.

They were merely pawns, used to delay the Chu Army’s advance and buy time for the civilians retreating behind them.

Initially resigned to being sacrificial pieces while their families were held hostage, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and persist.

Now that their families were out of Xu State’s control and instead under Chu Army’s power,

The threat to them had shifted from Xu State to Chu State.

Though the controller had changed, the ones held tight remained the same.

Not wanting to die and yearning for their families, under this dual psychological assault, more and more Xu Soldiers began to desert and surrender in the following two days.

In fact, due to the fear of military law, there were even incidents of group desertions.

Once they ran, it was dozens, hundreds of men at a time, unstoppable.

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Seeing this situation, the defending Commander of Le Ling City was all too aware that the will of the people was gone and all was lost.

Even if he wanted to defend, the soldiers’ hearts were no longer with him.

A discordant garrison, conspiracies from within and without.

No matter how capable he was, it was impossible to hold onto the city any longer.

And so, on the fourth day, the three Inborns of Xu State in the city unexpectedly chose to flee.

The three picked a direction and ran with all their might.

Others in the city could surrender, but they were deep in the ties with Xu State.

Not only were they the rulers of Xu State, but their families and clans had already moved to Hebei, Xuzhou earlier.

In such a situation, there was no room for surrender.

They wouldn’t surrender either.

The Inborns of the Xu People chose a direction and fled; those assigned to monitor the Inborns of the Xu Army within the city were only two, facing three desperate men breaking out was a difficult intercept.

An Inborn intent on escaping at all costs,

Unless surrounded by several times their number, or a Grandmaster intervenes, even a Second Realm Inborn can’t stop a First Realm Inborn who is prepared.

After a brief skirmish and before other Inborns of Chu State could arrive to help, the three had fled.

In the end, as they watched their retreating figures, the two intercepting Inborns of Chu State could only sigh and return to camp to admit their fault to Qingyangzi.

Fortunately, Qingyangzi also understood how difficult it was to stop an Inborn.

So he did not blame the two, instead offering comforting words before sending them to rest.

With the Commanders gone, the remaining Xu State forces inside Le Ling City, upon learning the fact,

In absolute despair, they no longer had any reservations.

The day after the Commanders fled, led by some of the remaining high-ranking officers inside the city, they opened the gates of Le Ling City and welcomed the Chu Army inside.

With this, Xu State’s South Capital officially fell into the hands of Chu State.

The dream of Xu People’s dominance in Qingzhou was completely shattered at this moment.

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