“Yes, that fellow Han Qianqian went so far as to place the great mouth of the Evil Taotie behind the city gates, and those inside deliberately created an atmosphere of great tension in the battle before opening the gates, which made our soldiers drive towards the city in a single bound after the gates were opened wide.”
“But the problem is that the soldiers didn’t actually rush into the city, but merely into the mouth of that Taotie of Evil ……”
“The sight inside the city was extremely poor because of that big mouth being open, and it was only after we noticed that something was wrong that we used torches to briefly illuminate the situation and retreated in a hurry, but because we had rushed too hard earlier and there were no screams from any soldiers inside …… ”
Hearing these words, the elder was like a deflated ball of leather.
Yes, a hundred thousand men were but skin deep to a million plus men, but the problem was that these could
But the problem was that these were the best of the best, and the fact that 100,000 people had been killed or injured without even touching a single hair was unacceptable.
“This Han Qianqian is really f*cking sinister, he actually thought of using this kind of trick to undermine us.”
“Yes, there was nothing wrong with the overall judgement of Du Ling and Du Yan, they just made the most normal reaction to the situation, but Han Qian Qian used these normal reflections to deal a fatal blow to us.”
“Elder, the intelligence team’s scouts are all our spies who have been working in Night Sky City for many years, how could they suddenly betray us and turn against Han Qianqian? If they hadn’t helped Han Qianqian mess with us, I believe we definitely wouldn’t have suffered such heavy losses this time.”
“That’s enough!” The elder shouted angrily, “You guys are making a lot of noise.”
With one angry shout, the men did not dare to
say another word.
The elder was distraught, and although he could understand what the men were saying, he really couldn’t understand why every time they came close to taking a breath, it not only didn’t come back, but stuck in their throats and nearly killed them.
A mere Han Qianqian, a million-strong army, could not even do anything to him, and the more they fought, the more it looked like a tug-of-war.
“Pass the order down, send me a wanted notice for all those scouts from the intelligence team of Night Sky City, I want them to die a good death.”
“Yes.”
“As for Du Ling and Du Yan, you two led the troops to attack, not only did you not achieve victory, but you acted recklessly to the extent that our army suffered heavy losses, you deserve to die, someone.”
“Present.”
“Drag them out of the tent and kill them on the spot, in order to set the army straight.”
“Yes.”
With those words, the four guards at the entrance stood
immediately rushed in with their swords.
Du Ling and Du Yan were in a hurry and hurriedly knelt down, “Elder spare my life, Elder spare my life.”
Although they had thought that their crime was not small, they thought that they were close to the elders, and that there was a reason for the loss, so perhaps the elders’ punishment would be lessened.
But how could they have imagined that it would be a capital offence straight away!
Seeing this, the fellow disciples also stepped forward at this point to plead for mercy.
“Elder, although this loss is indeed depressing, the crime is not as bad as Du Ling and Du Yan, ah, to know that the root cause of this battle is that the intelligence team has defected, thus giving us misleading information, anyone who goes, is just throwing himself into the net.”
“Yes, this time we can only blame our intelligence team, they are clearly setting us up, and if we still have to decapitate our own great
If we have to kill our own generals because of this, won’t that be even more of a punishment for the enemy’s treacherous plan?”
The elder raised his eyes and looked at the few people who were pleading for mercy, but in fact, their words did make sense.
It was just that the successive defeats had made the elders need someone to take the blame, to raise the army’s prestige and make everyone clear what would happen if they lost a battle.
But then again, the men’s words also had a point. People had clearly come to mess with you, so if you still went along with this to kill your own general, wouldn’t that be the same as going along with someone else’s wishes?
To do so would indeed only make the enemy happier.
“So what is to be done? Is that how it will be left?” The elder gave a cold hum, “In future, everyone can give me defeat? Everyone can give me reasons?”
No one dared to respond to his words, but at that moment, a soldier’s voice came from outside the tent, “Greetings, Elder, a flying letter has arrived, addressed to Han Qianqian!”