activa-t Chapter 219: Taking the City After Losing 3 Men!
Chapter 219: Taking the City After Losing 3 Men!
Just now.
Mo Feng, leading dozens of people, emerged from below the city gate.
They stood tall and proud, full of confidence!
Mo Feng looked up at the dejected defenders on the city wall and shouted in unison:
"Listen up, you on the city walls!"
"Wang Li is dead, Fang Jie has surrendered!"
"Why don't you all quickly open the city gates and surrender, lest you waste His Majesty's time watching the battle!"
Upon hearing the words "Your Majesty," the guards on the city wall trembled even more.
They never expected that they would lose the exercise in such a humiliating way.
"Even His Majesty is watching... We... We actually lost so badly..."
A young soldier muttered to himself, his voice filled with shame.
"Stop talking... It's too embarrassing! General Wang has been beheaded, General Fang has surrendered... If we continue to defend, won't we just be making a fool of ourselves in front of His Majesty?"
"Why put up a futile resistance when the tide has turned?"
The captain's face turned ashen!
Smoke signals rose from Gate Tower No. 7 and Gate Tower No. 8 in succession!
The general is gone!
The enemy has already reached our base!
What's the point of continuing the military exercises?
He struggled for a moment.
finally.
He waved his hand dejectedly:
"Open...open the city gates."
The city gate slowly opened, and a hundred guards, dejected like defeated roosters, walked out of the city gate one by one.
He threw the weapon in his hand to the ground.
Seeing that everyone had surrendered, Mo Feng suddenly curled up a sly smile.
He suddenly raised his hand and yelled.
"Children! Kill them!"
The dozens of soldiers charged like tigers descending a mountain, instantly rushing towards the unarmed defenders!
The captain was immediately startled, his pupils contracted sharply, and he screamed in terror:
"We've been tricked! We've been tricked!"
However, it was all too late!
They lost their weapons and their will to resist.
They were completely "eliminated" before they could even mount any effective counterattack!
"You...you all!"
The captain was furious; even the lime powder covering his face couldn't hide his flushed red face.
He pointed at the smug-looking Mo Feng and roared,
"Despicable! Shameless!"
"How dare you lie to us! You have no sportsmanship!"
He roared and was about to step forward to argue, but was stopped by the magistrate in charge of recording.
The official, expressionless and in an icy tone, said:
"Sir, this is the rule of the exercise; all's fair in war."
"All warfare is based on deception..."
The captain felt as if all his strength had been drained away; those four words were suffocating him.
The soldiers behind him, covered in white ash, stood frozen in place.
Anger, frustration, but even more so, utter shame and embarrassment!
They were defeated by their own folly and the enemy's cunning!
This is so frustrating!
Mo Feng completely disregarded the feelings of these "dead people".
He whistled triumphantly and waved his hand triumphantly:
"Hurry up!"
"Clean up the battlefield and get rid of these 'corpses'!"
Immediately, he led a group of men and quickly rushed up the deserted No. 9 city tower.
A moment later.
Another thick plume of smoke rose into the sky from the beacon tower of the ninth city gate!
……
Xianyang, atop the city walls.
Everyone held their breath, wondering if Wang Li could turn the tide!
A scout rushed up the city wall again, his voice filled with excitement.
"Report—!"
"Your Majesty! Your Excellencies!"
"Breaking news! City gate number nine... has fallen!"
Upon hearing this, the civil and military officials watching the battle were immediately in an uproar.
"What?"
Prime Minister Li Si frowned and asked the first question.
"Has the ninth city gate also fallen?"
"Isn't Wang Li's main force rushing in that direction?"
"Could they have been intercepted by Zhang Fan's main force?"
The scout swallowed hard, his expression extremely strange.
There was a mixture of amazement and embarrassment!
He shook his head and reported to the supervisor:
"Reporting back to the Prime Minister, it was not Zhang Fan's main force!"
"It was...it was done by a hundred-man squad under his command named Mo Feng!"
"A hundred-person squad?"
The generals standing nearby all showed disdainful expressions.
How could a mere hundred men possibly capture a city gate guarded by a hundred elite soldiers?
Meng Tian looked surprised and suspicious.
He asked in a deep voice:
What were the casualties of the defenders at Gate Tower No. 9?
"What price did Zhang Fan's unit pay?"
This is the core of warfare: to achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost.
Upon hearing this question, the scout's expression became even more peculiar.
He lowered his head, seemingly finding it difficult to speak.
"Reporting to...Reporting to the General!"
"The hundred soldiers guarding Gate Tower No. 9 have... have all been 'killed in action'!"
"What about Mo Feng's troops?" Meng Tian pressed.
The scout took a deep breath, as if using all his strength, before uttering two words:
"...three people."
"What?"
This time, exclamations echoed throughout the entire city wall.
If we had previously used traps and ambushes to annihilate Wang Li's reinforcements!
It can also be attributed to Zhang Fan's skillful planning!
At this moment, to annihilate a hundred elite city defenders at the cost of only three lives is simply a pipe dream!
"Three people?"
"Are you sure you're not mistaken? One hundred people for three?"
A military officer questioned excitedly,
"Even if you slaughtered a hundred pigs, the casualties would still be more than this!"
"This...this is absolutely impossible!"
Faced with everyone's doubts, the scout quickly recounted Mo Feng's plan verbatim.
From donning enemy armor to sending men to disguise themselves as routed soldiers and spread rumors that "Wang Li was killed in action"!
Then they staged a chase after "friendly forces" to gain their trust, and finally lured them into surrendering and annihilating them...
The entire process was recounted in detail, and a deathly silence fell over the city wall.
The civil and military officials, who had been making a great fuss just moments before, were now all dumbfounded!
The faces of the civil officials, in particular, changed from white to green, and then from green to purple, a truly spectacular sight.
In the silence, Shao Fu—Zong Yu—could no longer contain himself.
He stepped out of the ranks, bowed deeply to Ying Zheng, and reported in a stern voice:
"Your Majesty! I have a memorial to present!"
Ying Zheng remained expressionless, merely raising his eyelids slightly to signal him to continue.
Zong Yu straightened up and said indignantly:
"Your Majesty, war is a matter of vital importance to the state!"
"On the battlefield, where life and death hang in the balance, victory must be won with a dignified formation and an upright army!"
"Only then can the might of our Great Qin be truly displayed!"
He became more and more excited as he spoke, and his voice grew louder and louder.
"But Zhang Fan's troops act suspiciously and use despicable methods!"
"First, spread rumors to undermine morale; this is a deceptive tactic of psychological warfare!"
"To deceive and trick someone into surrendering is to betray their trust and act like a despicable person!"
"Such a cunning scheme is simply unheard of!"
"This isn't military strategy; it's clearly a swindle by street ruffians!"
"Such actions, even if victorious, would be an dishonorable victory!"
"If this gets out, it will not only fail to enhance our national prestige, but will also damage the upright and honorable dignity of our Qin warriors!"
He paused, then continued with a pained expression:
"If soldiers all follow such methods and take pride in deception and fraud, where is military discipline?"
Where is the morale? Where is the spirit of my Great Qin army?
"Your Majesty, I implore you to severely punish this disgraceful practice!"
Zong Yu's words were passionate and inspiring.