Two days later.
Although Harmony Gate County had resisted fiercely, the city still fell.
The county magistrate set himself ablaze in the county office, leaving not a single survivor from his entire household.
County office.
Amid the pitch-black, charred ruins, wisps of green smoke still curled upward.
Covered head to toe in blood, Tang Xun watched corpses being carried out of the county office one after another and sighed. "Why go this far?"
"They were merely putting up a stubborn, doomed resistance. There have never been any shortage of fools blindly loyal like this throughout the dynasties..."
Aaron gave a cold laugh and asked, "What were our losses?"
"Reporting to the Chancellor, we killed eight hundred of the enemy and lost over two thousand ourselves..."
"Not bad, not bad. At the usual exchange ratio of one to five for a siege, this was a very good fight." Aaron was fairly satisfied with the fighting strength of the Six Jia Divine Soldiers.
Tang Xun, however, sucked in a cold breath. "For a mere county town, the army has already lost twenty percent?"
Ten thousand men had attacked the city, and two thousand had been killed or wounded. The losses were already grievous.
If the Six Jia Divine Soldiers had possessed such a thing as morale, deserters might well have appeared by now!
"Chancellor, we absolutely cannot continue like this."
Tang Xun said sternly, "Double Blossom Prefecture has five counties, and Xu Prefecture has six prefectures—that's over thirty counties! If we keep fighting this way, our fifty thousand men will all be spent!"
"Yes, we can't fight like this..."
Aaron yawned, looking rather bored, and waved Little Jade back from where she was digging a pit nearby.
"So... we should order a massacre of the city!"
"A... a city massacre?"
"In Xu