Guan Xing looked regretfully at Nanchang's city walls, but didn't waste time talking to Wang Yue. He took several hundred personal guards and left at once.
Wang Yue stationed his army beneath the city while sending others to bring the surrounding counties under his control.
Less than two hours after Guan Xing left, Guan Yinping arrived with a large number of catapults.
Pan Zhang and the soldiers in the city were in for a miserable time. The barrage of stones left them with no choice but to take a beating every day.
Since Wang Yue wanted to become a strategist in this life, he knew that breaking the enemy's morale was the best approach.
So while he hurled stones into the city, he also sent men to the nearby counties to identify the families of the soldiers defending Nanchang.
Wang Yue wasn't about to use those families to threaten the soldiers. Instead, he could simply be generous and let the soldiers' families enter the city.
Pan Zhang had already experienced a city gate being seized back in Chaisang, so he refused to allow it, no matter what.
But with their families calling at the gates beneath the walls, and the attackers no longer attacking, how could the defending soldiers hold back?
So despite Pan Zhang's strict orders, less than two days later, the soldiers opened the city gates in the middle of the night.
The moment the gates opened, Wang Yue ordered his cavalry to storm the city and had the catapults start hurling stones inside as well.
After days of practice, they had become skilled at throwing stones. The projectiles mostly struck the walls or landed just inside them, blocking the reinforcements.
The civilians who had entered the city, meanwhile, had managed to take shelter beneath the walls and