"Generals defending Liaodong City, stop putting up this futile resistance! Lay down your weapons and come out to surrender!"
"His Majesty of the Tang Dynasty treats others with benevolence. So long as you cease resisting, he will not make things difficult for you!"
After an incomparably brutal street battle, Gao Yanwu, the commander defending Liaodong City, was now holding out inside a civilian residence with two deputy generals at his side and several defenders covered in wounds!
Their cause was already lost. Liaodong City had been thoroughly breached by the Tang Dynasty army, and those nobles and officials, along with those who had tried to keep resisting, had all become souls beneath Tang Dynasty blades!
Upon learning that the commander of Liaodong City was holding out in a residence, Cheng Yaojin, Qin Qiong, Hou Junji, and the others leading the assault also brought dense ranks of soldiers to surround the residence so tightly not even water could seep through!
"Keep dreaming!!!"
From within the formerly silent residence came Gao Yanwu's cry, like that of a lone wolf!
"Gao Yanwu! I can see that you are a true man, so I urge you to lay down your weapons and come out to surrender at once!"
"Otherwise, once the heavenly soldiers of the Tang Dynasty charge in, you will be left without even bones or ashes!"
Hearing the shout from inside, Hou Junji—his armor drenched in blood—raised his weapon and shouted at the residence, whose entrance had been tightly barricaded from within!
"If you want to fight, then fight! Why waste so many words?!"
"The Gao Family has received the nation's favor for generations. How could I betray my lord and surrender to the enemy? So long as I draw breath, I will never let you Tang soldiers have your way!"
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