Chapter 684: Execution

"Boom, boom, boom..."

At the same time the Northern Di cavalry were being attacked, the fighting at Xian City also grew increasingly intense.

In the darkness, skirmishers continuously threw Hand Grenades onto the city walls; amidst the dense explosions, Ma Jin's soldiers were constantly killed or wounded.

Furthermore, in order to take Xian City as quickly as possible, Ma Han ordered the Mortars and Field Artillery to bombard the Ma Jin soldiers on the city walls.

One Lime Bomb after another exploded on the city walls, and smoke shrouded the ramparts.

The Ma Jin soldiers, already in a state of disarray due to the Hand Grenades, were in even more unbearable misery.

More soldiers were so terrified by the ferocious explosions that they hesitated and refused to move forward; no matter how the commanders urged them, they dared not climb the city walls.

To them, this was simply courting death.

Seeing this scene, Ma Jin was extremely furious. He said to the commanders beside him, "Where is the Supervision Team! Execute anyone who retreats without exception."

Under his order, the Supervision Team soldiers appeared behind the troops; they drew their Long Blades and pointed them at the soldiers, forcing them to climb the walls to defend.

The soldiers had no choice but to grit their teeth and charge up, but they immediately fell again amidst the explosions; some soldiers' corpses were even pushed directly off the city walls by the shockwaves of the blasts.

The state of these soldiers' deaths was miserable, often with shattered limbs.

After two more failed attempts to scale the walls, even with the Supervision Team holding blades to their backs, the soldiers were unwilling to charge toward the walls again.

Just then, a soldier came before Ma Jin and whispered a few words in his ear.

"What!" Ma Jin's expression changed drastically. What this soldier told him was nothing else but the news that the Northern Di cavalry had been ambushed at Nan Cheng.

In an instant, Ma Jin broke out in a cold sweat.

His plan to coordinate with the Northern Di cavalry to attack the Ma Han Army from both inside and outside had failed just like that.

Now, with the Northern Di cavalry unable to break through the ambush set by Ma Jin's troops, he could only face Ma Han's army alone.

But with Ma Han's army possessing such ferocious Weapons, how could he possibly resist?

At this moment, he finally understood why Rang City had been taken within a single day.

Thinking of this, he could not help but feel a wave of despair.

"Kill!" Just at this moment, deafening shouts of battle rang out from outside.

Ma Jin knew that this was Ma Han's soldiers preparing to scale the walls.

Seeing this, he became even more panicked, desperately urging the Supervision Team to force the soldiers to climb the walls and fight.

However, the soldiers were terrified out of their wits.

No matter how the Supervision Team pressured them, the soldiers still refused to climb the city walls.

If they died at the hands of the Supervision Team, they would at least have an intact corpse, but if they climbed the city walls, they would truly be left in pieces.

While the Supervision Team and the soldiers were at a stalemate, many Ma Family soldiers climbed onto the city walls; looking at the Ma Jin soldiers below the wall, they raised the Rifled Muskets in their hands.

"Bang, bang, bang..." Dense sounds of gunfire came.

The Ma Jin soldiers below the wall, who could neither retreat nor advance, fell one after another.

At the same time, Ma Family soldiers untied the Hand Grenades from their waists, pulled the ignition cords,

and threw them into the midst of the Ma Jin soldiers.

Red Flame flowers bloomed below the city walls like flowers in a field.

Borrowing the light from the explosions, the soldiers saw more of Ma Jin's commanders and soldiers clearly.

Aiming at them, the Ma Family soldiers pulled the Triggers one after another.

Under the attack of the Ma Family soldiers, the Ma Jin soldiers immediately fell into chaos.

The city walls had fallen, and the outcome of the battle was decided; why should they continue to throw their lives away for Ma Jin?

Dropping their Weapons, they fled for their lives, preparing to surrender once the Ma Family soldiers entered the city.

Seeing this, Ma Jin acted like a madman.

Ordinary soldiers could flee to save their lives, but he knew that if he were caught, he would have only one path: death.

Drawing the sword at his waist, he continuously hacked and killed the fleeing soldiers, and ordered the Supervision Team to intercept the soldiers.

But everything was to no avail; to the soldiers, surrendering still offered a glimmer of hope, while continuing to fight meant certain death.

They ignored the Supervision Team entirely; some soldiers, driven to desperation, even picked up blades and swords to fight against the Supervision Team.

The Supervision Team was small in number and was immediately routed by the fleeing soldiers.

At this time, Ma Jin's act of hacking the soldiers also enraged the fleeing troops.

Some soldiers surrounded him and brandished their blades to fight him.

Ma Jin was terrified; seeing that the situation was completely out of control, he led his Personal Guards and disappeared into the darkness.

Outside the city.

Ma Han looked toward the Ma Family soldiers continuously crossing the city walls, tears seemingly shimmering in his eyes.

Xian City, this was where he was born and raised.

Here, there were memories of him and his father.

Now, he had finally personally reclaimed this capital of Qinzhou that symbolized the Ma Family.

The battle lasted from night until dawn, and from dawn until noon.

By evening, the gunfire inside Xian City ceased.

Dian Zhang escorted a person before him; it was none other than Ma Jin.

"Dear nephew, spare me. Considering that I also carry the bloodline of the Ma Family, I guarantee that from now on, I will follow your lead in everything."

At this moment, Ma Jin was wearing women's clothing and looked extremely disheveled.

Seeing that the situation was lost, he had prepared to disguise himself as a woman to blend in with the commoners and escape at the first opportunity.

But he had underestimated the anger of the Ma Family soldiers.

After entering the city, all the Ma Family soldiers were searching for him.

He hid inside the water well, but was still discovered.

"I have no right to spare you; you should beg for forgiveness from my deceased father and the Ma Family elders who were killed by you in a timely manner," Ma Han said, his face as cold as frost.

A flash of cold light streaked by as he drew his Dagger and fiercely stabbed it into Ma Jin's heart, pausing after each word: "Betraying the Ma Family, first acting as a lackey for Western Liang, then acting as a lackey for the Northern Di—don't you know that a two-faced dog deserves a miserable death!"

Having said this, he violently pulled out the Dagger, and Ma Jin clutched his chest, his eyes gradually losing focus as he slowly collapsed.