The court of the Great Wei.
Inside the Hall of Wenhua.
When the good news appeared, for a moment, the entire Mandarin Hall fell silent.
No one would have thought that the Marquis of Xinwu, who arrived yesterday, would have beaten the tombs out of the country today.
Dozens of military officials were still arguing with the civil officials about how long it would take to bring down the tombs.
The military officials thought that they could take the country in three days with one push.
The civil officials argued that it would be extremely difficult to defend the city, and that the other foreign countries were not stupid, and that if they saw that it was difficult to fight, they would naturally give a*sistance.
So the two were at loggerheads.
The general idea is that one side thinks it needs to fight a long battle, that logistics must be done well, and that the battle should be fought slowly.
One side thought that it was only necessary to attack hard, so that with the help of morale, they could break the country in one fell swoop.
But what we didn’t expect was that at five minutes past dawn.
The news came.
The country had surrendered.
The people were shocked, it was too fast.
It disrupted everyone’s thinking and rhythm.
The military intelligence was sent to Xu Qingnian, and all the officials gathered around, scrambling to see what the Marquis of Xinwu had to say.
How did the tombs suddenly surrender.
In the letter, the Marquis of Xinwu pa*sed over the course of the war, having led soldiers in battles, and indeed did not need to rely on this to add merit to himself.
The content of the letter mainly details the reasons why the tombs surrendered.
One, the main army of the Tombs had been unremarkable, allowing other foreign states to sell their lives.
Secondly, the morale of the Great Wei army was high, and they were not afraid to fight to the death and kill.
Thirdly, the ruler of the Tomato State wanted to offer the resources of the foreign states in exchange for negotiating peace.
These were the three main things mentioned by Marquis Xin Wu, which required Xu Qingnian to judge properly.
Handing over the military intelligence to Duke An and the others, Xu Qingnian closed his eyes.
The tombs had surrendered too quickly.
Indeed, it had disrupted his own plans.
For right now, Great Wei was faced with a choice.
Accept the surrender.
To surrender or not to surrender.
This choice has great implications.
Originally, according to Xu Qingnian’s intention, the tombs would fight to the bitter end, but with 300,000 troops in Great Wei, and paying the price in blood, it was only natural to make an example of the monkeys.
To kill to stop killing.
But now, the tomato country surrendered, and for a moment, it made itself hesitate.
Normally, it would be a good thing for an enemy country to surrender, to accept the surrender, to punish some things, to demand some benefits, and so on.
But the nature of the situation at hand was different, as Wei was not facing one tomato country, but over a hundred.
Accepting surrender would lead these countries to subconsciously believe that they could surrender if they lost the battle.
In that case, even if they won, what would be the point? It still doesn’t teach these foreigners a hard lesson.
Next time, if they get the chance, they will still come out and forget their wounds.
What Xu Qingnian wanted to do was to make sure that this scar would not heal.
But if you don’t accept the surrender, there are two extremely troublesome points: one, the Great Wei Palace will want to make a big deal out of it, not accepting the surrender is not a good thing, it’s a simple ma*sacre, and two, it will cause other foreign nations to resist to the death.
The advantage is that the prestige of Wei will reach its peak, public opinion will be endless, and the people of Wei will have unprecedented confidence.
This would be conducive to the Northern Expedition and the development of the country.
Only this would affect the overall war situation.
Xu Qingnian took a deep breath as he pondered.
At this moment, the Duke of An and the six ministries and others all noticed that Xu Qingnian’s expression was not one of joy, but rather one of contemplation.
As powerful officials of the Great Wei, how could they not know what Xu Qingnian was contemplating?
However, the crowd did not come, but Chen Zhengru spoke.
“When the tombs surrender, will we accept or not?”
Chen Zhengru spoke up and asked the question that none of the crowd probably wanted to answer.
Surrender was definitely a good thing, but the problem was that this was not a war to open up the territory, but a civil war, and such surrender was not very meaningful.
“How can you accept surrender when 20,000 people have died in battle? This is the first battle, there is no reason to accept surrender.”
The voice of Minister of War Zhou Yan rang out, he opposed surrender, the first battle cost 20,000 lives and now you are telling me to accept surrender? Is that possible? It was simply impossible.
As his voice rang out, the voices of the rest of the people followed.
“That’s right, resolutely not to surrender.”
“D*mn it, 20,000 people, 20,000 lives, and now you’re telling me to surrender? What are you doing now?”
“That’s right, no surrender.”
This was the collective reaction of the military officers.
This is a real 20,000 lives.
There was no way they would accept the surrender.
But the voices of the civil officials followed suit.
“We must surrender, otherwise it would be unkind, and if we don’t surrender, how can we fight in the future? If we can accept the surrender, they will still have a chance, and we can reduce our casualties.”
“Gentlemen, I know that we are all heartbroken by the death of 20,000 warriors, but to accept the surrender is to protect the lives of more generals, and if we don’t accept the surrender, the next hundreds of nations fighting to the death will have a greater impact on us.”
“Surrender! Surrender must be accepted, this is only the first battle, just fight to show the country’s prestige.”
The civil servants spoke up, and their reasoning was simple: this was only the first battle, there would be more to come, and if they did not surrender, more people would die later.
At that moment, Chen Zhengru’s voice rang out and he looked at Xu Qingnian and said.
“Lord Xu, if we don’t accept the surrender this time, I’m afraid it will not be good for the overall battle, plus it will also cause some controversy, the main thing is, can the country be settled down?”
Chen Zhengru was also very direct, he was very firm, three issues that Xu Qingnian had to consider.
If you don’t surrender, the battle behind you will definitely be a deadly one. Anyway, if you surrender, you will die, if you don’t surrender, you will also die, so why not put up a fight?
If you do not accept the surrender, the people of the Palace of Literature will not be idle, they are originally Confucians, advocating benevolence and love, and also want to make trouble, but if Xu Qingnian dares not to accept the surrender, there will definitely be a flood of abuse.
If the above two issues are ignored, then the third issue must be taken seriously.
The chaos of the va*sal kings.
The va*sal kings are only laughing now, and if Great Wei dares to go to full-scale war, or if a battle is fought for months without results, they will certainly rise up.
These three issues, Xu Qingnian could not accept surrender if he could solve them, but if he could not, he would have to.
The two gangs quarrelled together, each with their own reasoning.
Inside the main hall.
Xu Qingnian closed his eyes, he too was contemplating this issue.
But after a quarter of an hour.
Xu Qingnian stretched out his hand, and suddenly the great hall fell silent.
Everyone looked towards Xu Qingnian, wanting to hear Xu Qingnian’s opinion.
“Gentlemen.”
“The battle report only said that the tombs were surrendered.”
“But from the beginning to the end, this officer has not received a letter of surrender from the tombs.”
“Further 20,000 people’s lives opened the gates of the tombs’ city.”
“I think the decision to surrender or not to surrender is not up to Mister Xu, but up to this 300,000 strong army.”
When Xu Qingnian put the words here, the meaning was simple.
To accept surrender? Or not? It was not up to him, nor was it up to the civil servants of the court.
This issue was left to the 300,000-strong army to resolve.
If they say accept, then accept, if they say no, then no.
But odds are, basically, they will not accept the surrender. Their own comrades, their own brothers, died on the battlefield, this is a great revenge, how can they possibly let this group of people go?
“Shouren, it must not be done!”
“If we let the generals choose, this is not conducive to normal warfare, to fight a war is to shed blood, to fight a war is to have sacrifices.”
Chen Zhengru was the first to speak up, he still dissuaded Xu Qingnian and accepted the surrender.
“Lord Xu, the prime minister is right, there are too many enemies behind this, if we don’t accept the surrender, it will do more harm than good to us.”
Li Yanlong followed suit and spoke in support of Chen Zhengru.
“Not accepting the surrender would be against benevolence and justice, and would also come under fire. Lord Xu, you must think this matter through and not be impulsive.”
Wang Xinzhi followed suit and spoke up, he was the Minister of Rites and knew even better what such an act represented.
And at this moment, the military officials didn’t know what to say.
They were definitely unwilling to accept the surrender, but the problem was that the chooser was not them; if it had been them, they would have killed and surrendered long ago.
But they did not speak up because they did not want to sway Xu Qingnian, because it was indeed not good not to accept the surrender, it would have a great impact.
“Pa*s on my order.”
“The matter of the surrender of the tombs will be chosen by the 300,000 troops themselves.”
Xu Qingnian did not listen to Chen Zhengru’s words.
He left the decision to the 300,000 troops, whether to kill or surrender, it was up to them to decide, and he alone would bear all the responsibility.
The words fell.
Chen Zhengru wanted to say something else, but he was pulled back by Gu Yan.
Because the chief commander of this battle was Xu Qingnian, not him, Chen Zhengru.
“Ugh.”
Chen Zhengru sighed, since the decision had already been made, then he indeed had nothing more to say.
The next moment, Xu Qingnian went to his study, wrote down the information on the war opportunity and handed it to the messenger, while the latter received Xu Qingnian’s military information, but suddenly his expression changed, but soon he was expressionless and turned around directly, hoofing it towards the tombs.
It was another two thousand miles of galloping.
There was no room for jokes when it came to military intelligence.
Two hours later.
The capital of the country.
The messenger was extremely tired, but still walked as fast as he could into the palace of the King.
Inside the palace of the King, the civil and military officials were at a loss as to what to do, while the ruler of the Tomato Kingdom was at peace.
After all, he knew that Wei would definitely accept the surrender, and his only request was that the supplies be sent to Wei.
He could give the supplies sent by the other countries, but he could not spare his own family’s supplies.
At the same time, he also secretly asked the chancellor to do something, contacting good people, sneaking out, using secret pa*sages and so on, to ask for a*sistance, but of course this request for a*sistance, to come or not is one thing, the main thing is, not to offend the countries ah.
The tommy king is purely a wallflower, whoever has an advantage follows whoever, anyway, he will not suffer.
“Two thousand miles of expedited information!”
“Please read it at once, Marquis Xinwu.”
The messenger stumbled to the Marquis of Xinwu, breathing heavily, but still holding the envelope in both hands for the Marquis of Xinwu to read.
At this moment, the Marquis of Xinwu on his throne got up and opened the envelope straight away.
With just a glance, the Marquis of Xinwu burned the information straight away, his face and eyes not changing a bit.
The message given by Xu Qingnian consisted of only one sentence.
[The 300,000 generals will decide whether to accept or not, as they have not yet received the surrender document from the tomato kingdom].
At this moment, all the civil and military officials in the court were somewhat curious, looking at the Marquis of Xinwu with doubts in their eyes.
As for the ruler of the Tomato Kingdom, he did not think so, and even looked at the Marquis of Xinwu with a flattering face, saying.
“Lord Marquis of Xinwu, dare I ask what the court said?”
He still had the face to ask how Great Wei had chosen, not even noticing the crisis.
The Marquis of Xinwu did not answer, but was somewhat torn. Xu Qingnian had left this choice to the 300,000-strong army, and the Marquis of Xinwu admired it.
For he was ready to accept the surrender. As a prince and marquis, could he not know the implications of not accepting the surrender?
But he was also angry in his heart. 300,000 troops, 20,000 dead, had taken this city, and this was a sneak attack, for if it had not been a sneak attack, at least 50,000 people would have died.
Halfway through the battle, he should have been slaughtered all the way through, but what he didn’t expect was that the king of this country would be so cowardly as to surrender.
It was really unbearable for him to hold back.
Not to mention himself, the 300,000-strong army had a hard time, 20,000 of his comrades had died forever, not including the kind of brothers in arms.
How many people would let go of such hatred when their own brother, or their own brother, died on the battlefield?
If they didn’t kill, the army would only find it hard to swallow the anger.
If he killed, it would be bad for the situation, bad for Xu Qingnian and bad for Great Wei.
So the Marquis of Xinwu was also somewhat torn, but it must be said that he admired Xu Qingnian’s courage in not accepting the surrender outright.
Instead, he left this choice to the 300,000-strong army.
The implication was that he wanted to kill.
It was just that the choice of the 300,000-strong army was nothing more than the choice of the prime movers themselves, who would kill if they said they would, and not kill if they said they would not.
If something went wrong, Xu Qingnian would bear the burden, they were merely following the general’s orders.
But just then, the messenger burst in, clutching a note and said.
“General, this time you have defeated the Tomans in less than two hours, and all the civil and military officials are praising you, I’m only afraid that this time when you return, you will be crowned as a state duke.”
He spoke thus, congratulating Marquis Xinwu.
And the Marquis of Xinwu saw the note in an instant and immediately got up and laughed loudly.
“The state duke is a bit exaggerated, after all, it’s a small country, and it’s just a bunch of dogs and cats, but if this marquis can put down this turmoil, it might be okay, all right, go down and rest, you’ll be busy these days.”
The Marquis of Xinwu rose and patted him on the shoulder with a look of great enjoyment, but silently took the note into his hands.
The officials of the Tomato Kingdom were a little ashamed by the words of the Marquis of Xinwu, and the ruler of the Tomato Kingdom was also a little embarra*sed, who would feel better if he were humiliated like that in public?
But in a moment of silence, the Marquis of Xinwu turned his back on the crowd, unfolded the note and scanned it with his afterimage.
In an instant, the Marquis of Xinwu’s complexion changed.
There was only one word in the note.
Kill!
This was Xu Qingnian’s intention. Fang’s letter was just a reason, but Xu Qingnian had already made his choice.
For a moment, the Marquis of Xinwu clutched the note tightly to death, then hid it without moving and walked directly towards the bottom.
“Lord Marquis of Xinwu, what did the court say?”
In an instant, the ruler of the Tomato Kingdom became somewhat curious and could not help but catch up with him and ask.
“The court said that it would have to think about it and give an answer tomorrow, but as normal, it would naturally accept the surrender.”
“But there are a few points, reveal all the strategic secrets of the kingdoms, or else the court will not spare you.”
The Marquis of Xinwu didn’t make the first move, he was planning to use a negative one.
Upon hearing this, the ruler of the Tomato Kingdom was overjoyed, and did not doubt what the Marquis of Xinwu said, after all, it was indeed impossible to come to a result so quickly by accepting or not accepting surrender.
The normal course of action would have been to accept the surrender, but it was just a question of what the price would be.
I guess now Wei is thinking about what price to offer. Thinking about this, the ruler of the tomato state could not help but curse the empress of Wei, wishing that the barbarians in the north would have rushed to destroy Wei long ago.
He hoped that the barbarians in the north would have crushed Wei a long time ago, and that the empress of Wei would be arrested and the foreign rulers of the world would enjoy themselves.
On the other hand, on the bright side, the ruler of the State of Tomato was full of smiles and said.
“Please don’t worry, Marquis Xinwu, I will say everything I know and say everything I say.”
The ruler of the State of Tomato spoke, and the Marquis of Xinwu wrote it all down.
It was already dawn.
There were still fires in the main city of Fan. The post-battle care was the most troublesome, and the generals who had survived and were not injured were divided into their respective jobs.
The general is just to control the generals of the tombs and the accomplices of the other countries, plus blocking the city gates to guard against foreign enemies, while the people must also be controlled.
As for the gold, silver and jewellery, the Wei generals did not move for the time being, as the territory had been captured, it did not matter whether they robbed it or not, as it would be their own sooner or later.
The military office of the royal palace.
The Marquis of Xinwu had already commandeered this place, and a letter of information was written down by him, all of which was to be sent within the imperial court for it to judge.
It was also at this time that a voice rang out.
“Report! The city gates have been completely blocked, thirty-two secret pa*sages have been searched, and all of them have been guarded by soldiers!”
“Report! All 124,750 of the elite soldiers of the Tombs have been sealed off and imprisoned at the city entrance.”
“Report! Forty-five thousand of the elite soldiers from all countries have been sealed and imprisoned at the city’s entrance.”
“Report, all the people of the main city of the Fan Kingdom have been gathered, there are four hundred and thirty-five troublemakers and two thousand four hundred noisy people, forty-five of them attacked our army and were beheaded.”
A voice rang out.
Upon hearing this again, the Marquis of Xinwu nodded, then rose and said.
“Pa*s down the order for all soldiers and horses to a*semble at the city entrance.”
After saying this, he walked directly towards the city entrance, and the ruler of the Tomato Kingdom as well as the civil and military officials followed.
In a short time, the Marquis of Xinwu arrived at the entrance of the city of Fan.
The main city entrance was enormous and could hold 30,000 people, a total of a cumulative total of 170,000 generals, all of whom were gathered inside several city entrances.
After all, there were no cells of that size to hold them.
At this moment, all these prisoners of war had their hands tied and their acupuncture points were sealed, unable to operate their true qi, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Above the entrance of the city, the 6,000 Wei generals watched them coldly, they had no mercy for their enemies, and if it wasn’t for the fact that they hadn’t been given orders from above, they would have killed them already.
Tap, tap, tap!
Tap, tap, tap!
A burst of footsteps rang out, and the only remaining Great Desolate Army that was not seriously injured appeared at the entrance of the city. Apart from some soldiers who were necessary to guard the city, the remaining 200,000 Great Desolate Army stood in unison.
When the army had a*sembled.
It was only then that the ruler of the Tomato Kingdom realised that something was wrong.
“Marquis Xinwu, what are you doing?”
The Tomato State Monarch spoke, his tone carrying some timidity.
“It’s alright!”
Marquis Xinwu patted his shoulder, and then standing on the city wall, he looked at the 200,000 elites and said in a loud voice.
“Brethren.”
“Two hours.”
“It only took us two hours to bring down the tombs.”
“But within those two hours, we gave 20,000 lives.”
“Most of them died in the battle of the siege.”
“Now we have won.”
“I ask you all, are you happy?”
The Marquis of Xinwu’s voice was loud as he asked the crowd if they were happy to have won.
There was some silence from the 200,000 strong army.
Happy?
They were not happy? They couldn’t laugh when their brothers died in front of them!
There was another group of brothers, with broken arms and legs, hanging on for dear life, and they couldn’t be happy either.
Although they had won, they had paid an extremely heavy price.
Over 20,000 lives.
Since the Northern Expedition, where had Great Wei ever suffered such tragic damage?
Looking at the silent army.
Marquis Xin Wu nodded as he took a deep breath and looked at the crowd.
“A win! It is one thing to be happy about.”
“But, we also gave more than 20,000 brothers who died in battle and will never see the sun today.”
“I can’t laugh or be happy.”
“Now that the tombs have surrendered, the court has given an answer.”
“Let you decide, to accept, or not to accept?”
The Marquis of Xinwu spoke up and said what the court meant.
In just a moment, the ruler of the State of Fan, as well as the civil and military officials were all stunned, they did not expect this answer from the court of Great Wei.
Not only the ruler of the state of Fan, but also the 200,000 troops were astonished, for they had never been given a choice since ancient times.
Their choice must have been to kill.
“Lord Noble Marquis, is there some kind of misunderstanding here?”
“How could the soldiers be given a choice in the matter of surrender? It has never been heard of since ancient times?”
The king of the Tomato Kingdom asked with a stiff upper lip.
But the Marquis of Xinwu looked coldly at the ruler of the State of Fan and said.
“Then listen carefully, this is the words of Xu Shouren, the young minister of Wei, the Lord Xu himself.”
The Marquis of Xinwu said this.
“Xu Shouren? Is it Xu Qingnian?”
The ruler of the Tombs asked.
“How dare you call my brother by his full name?”
The Marquis of Xinwu slapped his hand back and threw a slap directly at the face of the ruler of the Tomato Kingdom.
Give him some face, he was the ruler of the state. If he didn’t give him some face, what was the ruler of a subordinate state of Great Wei? Who is he? The Marquis of Great Wei, the Marquis of Xinwu!
How much higher is he than these va*sal kings?
A king? Heh.
As a king of a country, when had he ever been so humiliated? But the Chancellor of the Tomato Kingdom was the first to pull his ruler back.
He pointed downwards, realising simply that our troops were all here, so we could not turn against the Marquis of Xinwu, for if we did, there would be no place to die.
When he saw where the Chancellor was pointing, all the anger on the face of the ruler was gone, replaced by helplessness and unhappiness.
He somehow regretted why he had surrendered so early.
And when the 200,000 generals saw this scene, they all became excited.
This was the kind of gesture that the kings and lords of Wei should have.
“Brothers!”
“Now I ask you, will you accept the surrender or not?”
Marquis Xin Wu asked loudly.
His eyes looked at the 200,000 strong army.
“No! No! No!”
At this moment, the 200,000 troops spoke in unison, they were blood-soaked generals, they hated war even more, but once they went into battle, they had only one belief in their hearts.
Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!
20,000 men had died during the siege and 30,000 were seriously wounded, not to mention half of them.
They had planned to kill all the way to the city, but they had never expected the surrender of the ruler of the Tomato Kingdom, which gave them a real feeling of hitting cotton with their strength.
It was a stifling, stifling, really stifling feeling.
Veterans who have fought in wars know that the surrender of an enemy country is generally accepted, after all, for the sake of the overall war effort, it is reasonable to accept the surrender.
But everyone was just uncomfortable.
This bunch of foreign nations, first came to pick a fight, only to surrender when they couldn’t beat them, and after surrendering, they came again next time. They didn’t feel bad when these guys died, but didn’t they feel bad when one of their own died?
Now the marquis of Xinwu let them choose, that must be not to accept the surrender ah.
“Good!”
Hearing the deafening reply from the army, the Marquis of Xinwu was satisfied.
At that moment, the Marquis of Xinwu raised his hand, his face incomparably cold, and said.
“Archers prepare!”
“Shoot the enemy troops to death!”
“Leave no one behind!”
“Zhang Wu listens, lead 5,000 men and capture the families of the civil and military officials of the tombs!”
“Listen to Lin Feng, lead 5,000 men and kill all disobedient mobs on the spot!”
The Marquis of Xinwu’s voice was incomparably loud as he gave out a single order.
At this moment, the 200,000 strong army couldn’t help but clench their weapons in excitement, their blood boiling, they didn’t expect the Marquis of Xinwu to give such an order.
On top of the city, the six thousand generals, who had taken up their bows and arrows, stared deadly at the generals inside the city entrance.
“Marquis Xinwu! Marquis Xinwu!”
“What are you doing?”
“The lone king has already surrendered, the lone king has already surrendered, no killing, no killing.”
“I am willing to give all the gold, silver and jewels of the state to Wei.”
The ruler of the state of Fan almost fainted, he did not expect that the Marquis of Xinwu would actually want to kill the surrender, this was something he had not even counted on.
“Kill!”
However, the Marquis of Xinwu gave a command.
In an instant, arrows rained down on them, killing a number of the generals of the Tomato Kingdom at the entrance of the city.
They cursed the Marquis of Xinwu, but more curses were directed at the ruler of the Tomato Kingdom.
“You dog of an emperor, you have victimised us, we would rather die in battle than this.”
“Ah! To die at the hands of such a dog emperor, I’m not convinced.”
“If I had known this, I would rather die in battle.”
They roared in anger, but what could they do? There was absolutely no chance of turning the tide.
The civil and military officials of the tombs were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and the Chancellor even pointed at the Marquis of Xinwu and cursed.
“Since ancient times, killing a surrender is an ill omen; your actions will bring misfortune to Great Wei.”
“We have already surrendered, but you still want to kill the surrendered, this matter will be reviled by the world.”
“Marquis Xinwu, you are not destined to end well.”
The chancellor of the tombs was white as he trembled, for he knew that the Marquis of Xinwu would not spare them.
“Ridiculous!”
“You have surrendered? Do you have a surrender letter? I have not received a surrender letter from the Tomato Kingdom.”
“Furthermore, the Marquis attacked the city for two hours, why didn’t he just surrender? Why didn’t you surrender after our army had suffered 50,000 casualties?”
“Is there such a good thing under the sky?”
“A bunch of foreign B*****ds, where is the wrath of heaven for killing you and the others?”
Who is the Marquis of Xinwu? He was a prince of Wei, a marquis who had fought on the battlefield. Would betrayal of the Great Wei be condemned by the heavens?
“You!”
“You!”
“You!”
The Chancellor of the Tombs was frightened by the aura of the Marquis of Xinwu, pointing at him and shivering, unable to utter a word.
Swish!
The next moment, the Marquis of Xinwu drew his long sword and directly cut down the chancellor of the tombs, such a fellow, death was not enough.
“My lord, my lord, we are all innocent, it is the king of the country who wants to fight, not us.”
“My lord, I implore you, my lord, let us go.”
“My lord, we are willing to submit to Great Wei with all our hearts and minds, and will never start any more mischief at all.”
They cried out loudly and knelt on the ground, begging the Marquis of Xinwu to let them go and put all the blame on the ruler of the Fan Kingdom.
However, the Marquis of Xinwu did not look at them, but gazed with cold eyes at the elites of the Tom Kingdom who had been slaughtered in the city’s entrance.
“If we kill the surrenderers in this first battle, the kingdoms will definitely not surrender in the future, they will only fight to the death.”
The ruler of the Tomato Kingdom spoke out, his voice trembling as he spoke of what was at stake.
Only when he finished speaking, the icy voice of Marquis Xinwu rang out.
“Do you think that Great Wei is afraid of war?”
The Marquis of Xinwu spoke, and his cold reply caused everyone to freeze.
At this moment.
They suddenly realised something, and that was that something had gone wrong with their judgement of Great Wei over the years.
Yes, since the Northern Expedition, Great Wei’s state had declined and Confucianism had flourished, appearing polite and courteous.
But the problem is, that was only the Great Wei of the peaceful era. The real Great Wei was killed by the blood of the sword.
The dynasty was not built up by benevolence and morality, nor by silver, but by corpses, and over the years they had come to despise Great Wei.
Yet at this moment, they suddenly recalled the true stance of Great Wei.
Above the upper kingdoms, the Great Wei Dynasty, a dynasty that came so close to unifying the mountains and rivers, even if it was decaying and falling, it was not something that a small nation like theirs could mess with.
Blood flowed everywhere, cries were scattered to the clouds, and the generals of the kingdoms screamed in agony, some of them seriously wounded, but they laughed and pointed at the king of the Fan Kingdom, hurling insults.
“Dog king, hahahahahahaha, but do you still surrender now?”
“Surrender? Great Wei will allow you to surrender? Kill! Good killing!”
“It’s just a pity that I was not born in Great Wei, this Xu Shouren, a true man of war, hahahahahaha, killing and surrendering, the first person in the ancient world, what a pity! What a pity!”
Among the generals of the kingdoms, there was no lack of true men of iron blood, they did not fear death, and when they entered the battlefield, they had long since put life and death outside.
They were only angry at the shamelessness of the king of the Tomans, but now that the king of the Tomans had eaten his own words, they were happy and let out wild laughter.
Others sighed as to why they were not born in the Great Wei, and Xu Qingnian’s killing and surrendering this time would certainly carry a bad name for the world.
But for these generals, Xu Qingnian’s killing of the surrender had brought out the might of iron blood and the credentials of a military god.
I’m afraid that after this battle, the generals of the Great Wei will have immense respect and admiration for Xu Qingnian.
The most important thing for a general is bloodlust.
Everyone understands the big picture, but how many soldiers under the sun would hold back their anger because of the big picture? Why do you say that martial artists are reckless? It is because they are simple-minded, straightforward and bloody-minded.
They don’t like to play tricks and schemes.
Xu Qingnian’s move to kill and surrender had indeed convinced them.
And above the city entrance.
The ruler of the Tomato Kingdom lay helpless on the ground, knowing that the momentum was over.
The civil and military officials, too, knew that they had really provoked the wrong people this time.
They regretted it, immensely.
Why did they go and offend the Great Wei, why did they stay with a group of fools and invite the Great Wei Dynasty ah.
Inside the mouth of the city.
Trying to kill 170,000 people was also an extremely troublesome affair, with archers changing from batch to batch, hundreds of bows drawn, bundles of arrows sent in and bundles consumed.
The scene was too bloody.
Corpses piled up like a mountain, the smell of blood was sickening, some were uncomfortable, their faces pale, vomiting aside, but immediately replaced.
But there was also someone whose eyes were dripping with blood, who had broken three bows and whose fingers and bones were a bloody mess, but who continued to shoot wildly, and whose brother, with whom he was dependent, had died in the midst of the battle, burned alive by the enemy with fire.
His death was so tragic that he rolled wildly on the ground, crying out his name all the time, saying that he was in so much pain, and was finally spared the pain of his skin by a slash from his comrades.
For him, it was monstrous hatred, and he cried for two hours, crying so hoarse that he had no tears left.
Now he would kill, kill all these men, kill them all cleanly.
Bow and arrow shot to kill, one after the other, with endless hatred.
Such is the cruelty of war.
There is no right or wrong for the generals, but there is no innocence either, fighting for their country, fighting for their people, fighting for themselves.
An hour later.
After an hour of slaughter, the horrific smell of blood permeated the whole of the main city of the Fan Kingdom, and even at the edge of the main city, the sickening smell of blood could be smelt.
One hundred and seventy thousand people were slaughtered to the bone.
Dark clouds rolled above the sky, lightning flashed and thunder roared, killing and surrendering 170,000 people.
Even the Marquis of Xinwu was somewhat baffled by the feeling.
Ka-ching.
Thunder cut through the vault of the sky and heavy rain poured down, washing the blood on the ground, trying to wash away the purgatory on earth.
Three to four thousand people, too, were caught in unison, men and women, old and young, these were the families of the civil and military officials of the tombs, as well as the royal family members of the tombs, and the harem concubines.
“All except the women under the age of twenty-five, beheaded!”
The Marquis of Xinwu gave an order.
In an instant, a head fell to the ground.
There was a mixture of screams and shouts, some of the foreign women fainted in fear, and some of the cowardly men even P*ssed and Sh*t themselves.
Unfortunately, the swords fell again.
Each time, hundreds of heads fell to the ground.
The women under the age of twenty-five escaped death, but not life, and their future fate was to be sent to a place like the Church, where they would be sold into slavery and become prostitutes for generations to come.
If they were lucky, after three generations, they might be pardoned on the occasion of a great event, but not for the next three generations.
There is nothing fair or unfair about it.
For if today, it were Great Wei that was attacked at its gates, it would only end up worse than this.
The rain poured down.
The Marquis of Xinwu let the rain drench his battle robes as he quietly watched it all.
He waited for another half an hour.
After the heads of all the officials of the Tomato Kingdom had been cut off, the Marquis of Xinwu drew his long sword.
He came in front of the ruler of the State of Tom.
“You are the ruler of a country, it is an honour for you to die under my sword.”
He looked at the ruler of the State of Tomato and spoke calmly.
“Marquis Xin Wu, I beg you, don’t kill me, don’t kill me, I can do a lot of things for you, I can do it for you …….”
The ruler of the State of Tomato kept speaking.
And at that moment, the Marquis of Xinwu chopped off his head with a slash.
Up to this point.
From now on, there was no head of the Tomato Kingdom.
“Pa*s on the order of this marquis.”
“Take all the gold, silver and jewellery, count all the military supplies, block the city gates, control the granaries, and kill all those who stop the people of the Tomato Kingdom.”
“Remember, no killing of innocents, no robbing of civilians, no female prostitution, just gold and silver, all gold and silver and jewels will be distributed to all brothers.”
The killing was done, and so was the establishment of prestige.
The next step was to make the army really happy.
It was time to count the spoils of war, and since the royal family of the tombs had been slaughtered clean, there was nothing more to be said.
Sure enough, as soon as this was said, the 200,000 strong army got excited.
Some were in a bad mood, but most of them were still relatively calm, especially a group of veterans who ran straight towards the royal palace.
War, in itself, involved sacrifice, it was good to look on the bright side, silver decided everything.
At this moment, everyone began to scavenge, the most people went to the royal palace, but some were clever enough to go towards the homes of the major royal relatives and nobles, knowing that there was much to scramble for in the royal palace.
For a moment, the whole of the main city of the Tombs was in chaos, but the Marquis of Xinwu did not care.
The generals were in bloody battle and needed to vent their frustrations, especially since they had just killed so many surrendered troops, so if they didn’t vent their frustrations, they were afraid that something would go wrong.
So generally speaking, it was the default for everyone to loot, as long as they didn’t go too far.
At the same time.
He also wrote a letter back to the court within the first hour.
But just then, someone came quickly and said.
“Report, General, three secret pa*sages have been found and hundreds of people have fled, should we send troops to pursue them?”
Hearing this, the Marquis of Xinwu shook his head, there was no way to chase after a poor enemy, furthermore it was simply impossible to completely block it off, and many people had run away before.
It didn’t matter anymore.
Just don’t run too much.
This is something that can’t be helped.
But this matter, he still wrote on the intelligence, the battle situation absolutely must be detailed, every detail must be included, so that the court can better distinguish and judge.
And so it was.
Three hours later.
The information on the battle was delivered to the Mandarin’s Palace.
However, in the capital of Great Wei.
In King Huai Ning’s residence.
King Huai Ning rose to his feet with a start.
“Killing a surrender?”
“Xu Qingnian, how dare he kill a surrender?”
“This matter, is it true or not?”
King Huaining’s gaze was incomparably shocked.
He had done a thousand calculations, but he had never calculated that Xu Qingnian would dare to kill and surrender.
This was simply impossible.
“Your Majesty, it’s true, I spent three thousand taels of silver before I asked someone to find the secret pa*sage and escape from death.”
“The Marquis of Xinwu went crazy with the killing, the royal family of the Fan Kingdom was killed cleanly, the civil and military officials were killed cleanly, and the 170,000 surrendered troops were also slaughtered cleanly.”
“The sky is raining, and the smell of blood fills the entire main city of the Tomato Kingdom.”
“I dare not deceive you, the Marquis of Xinwu said it was the court’s intention, the intention of which Xu Qingnian.”
A Fan merchant knelt on the ground as he cried out, his eyes filled with fear.
At this moment, King Huai Ning gulped his saliva.
He was indeed shocked.
One hundred and seventy thousand surrendered troops.
The imperial family of the tombs.
Was he Xu Qingnian crazy?
Was he not afraid of taking the blame of the world?
Prince Huaining froze for a full half a quarter of an hour.
Because he knew that if word of this matter spread, the whole world would be shocked.
