The Danger of Crossing the Zhang River! Mechanical Ink Fish Floodgate!

The Blood-Clad Army had been holding back their frustration, and now that they no longer needed to fear the mechanisms, they charged forward in a frenzy.

They slaughtered more than half of the garrison in Ye City.

The remaining soldiers, terrified out of their wits, scrambled into civilian homes to hide among the common folk.

"The two states are at war! Do you intend to massacre innocent civilians?"

"You truly live up to the name Blood Butcher! You even kill commoners!"

"Your actions will be judged by the world, and your general will be reviled by all!"

"Killing civilians and those who surrender—the world will unite to punish you!"

They acted this way specifically to use the lives of these innocent civilians to pressure Zhao Cheng.

If the Blood-Clad Army killed them, they would be murdering innocents, which would surely incite the fury of all states; the spit of the world's people alone would be enough to drown them.

Yet, they had underestimated the Blood-Clad Army; if the former Iron Eagle Elite could handle such situations with ease, how could the reborn Blood-Clad Army not?

"Stop the act. Your arms are thicker than a grown man's thighs—what kind of civilian are you pretending to be?"

Feng Quan cut down a soldier disguised as a civilian with a single stroke.

The rest of the Blood-Clad Army also easily distinguished soldiers from civilians, their strikes as swift as lightning; even when those soldiers stood among the commoners, they had no time to dodge, being plucked out and executed in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that their strategy could not stop the Blood-Clad Army, the soldiers went mad and began taking the city's civilians hostage.

"If you kill me, I will kill them! These civilians will die because of you!"

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