World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 914 - 427: Turing Tuo is defeated and perished!_4

Chapter 914: 427: Turing Tuo is defeated and perished!_4

Over a hundred solid cannonballs fiercely smashed into the city walls, merely leaving a dent!

Turing Tuo had learned his lesson and knew how to defend against these hellish Primitive Cluster Bombs.

Seven minutes later!

The catapults fired their second round in unison, and the cannons followed suit.

The entire walls of Baiyun County City once again shook violently with another round of earth-shattering explosions.

It felt as though the entire city was trembling, the whole earth quaking.

But casualties remained limited, only occasionally did a projectile fly through a hole and kill the soldiers inside the bunkers.

"Boom boom boom..."

The relentless barrage from Suo Lun’s catapults and cannons seemed tireless!

Round after round, as if they would never cease.

But still, the inflicted casualties were minimal.

Turing Tuo couldn’t help but burst into laughter: "Suo Lun, you boy, you have so much money to spend. How many of my men can you kill with such a waste of Gold Coins? I am surely destined for victory in this battle!"

Turing Tuo’s confidence was further reinforced.

Hiding in the bunkers and enduring Suo Lun’s long-range artillery attack, it would soon be Chu Ye’s army’s turn to assault the city. In close combat, facing Chu Ye’s ragtag army, victory was certain.

"Ha ha, Suo Lun, you’ve run out of tricks. Your scheme to use others for your dirty work is no match for me, Turing Tuo, hahaha!"

...

However...

Suddenly came the devastating news that the defenders on the western wall had opened the gates and raised the white flag to surrender!

Soon after, the southern wall’s defenders also opened the gates and surrendered!

Turing Tuo had calculated everything accurately, except he had grossly miscalculated the morale of his eighty-thousand strong army!

The reason why these eighty thousand troops had gathered under Turing Tuo’s banner was not out of loyalty to him but out of a sense of safety.

After the defeat at Fenglei Fort Defense Line and Zhi Li’s escape, the morale of these troops had plummeted to an all-time low.

They had but one thought: to flee far away and never fight again.

Now, with Suo Lun’s long-range firepower raining down without causing significant casualties.

Nonetheless, the entire city was shaking, and the overwhelming sense of the world turning upside down was devastating to morale.

These people had no desire to fight; surrendering meant not dying, but continuing to fight could mean death.

You, Turing Tuo, say that if we can defeat Chu Ye, the path ahead is clear, but that is a clear path for your Turing Clan, what does it have to do with us common soldiers?

Defeat Chu Ye? How many of us would die, thirty thousand? Fifty thousand? For what?

For this army of eighty thousand, the war was over. They didn’t want to fight anymore, so amidst the shock and fear of the artillery, they surrendered en masse!

The much-anticipated defense of Baiyun City by Turing Tuo had ended before it had even truly begun!

Watching the soldiers raising white flags and streaming out of the city gates to surrender, Turing Tuo felt waves of dizziness.

Turing Chen frantically screamed, leading his samurai household guards in a frenzied slaughter of the surrendering soldiers, but it only made the soldiers flee faster.

"It’s over, it’s over..." Turing Tuo’s heart was in agony; his last assets were gone!

Why did it come to this? Why?

We could have won this battle, we surely could have won if fought normally!

Why flee, why surrender?

This surrender directly pushed the Turing Clan towards doom!

Feeling waves of darkness before his eyes, a constricting pain in his chest and abdomen.

"Pu..." A mouthful of blood spewed out, and Turing Tuo fainted to the ground!

But soon, Turing Tuo regained consciousness, fearing that Turing Chen might do something foolish, he had his trusted samurai cut through the encirclement and escape back to the royal city. And indeed, Turing Chen was planning to do just that!

"Help me dress, I’m going to see Suo Lun, I’m going to kneel before Suo Lun!" Turing Tuo said with a trembling voice: "I’m going to find the last road to survival for the Turing Clan."

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