My Cultivation Starting from Archery-Chapter 373 - 168: The Emperor’s Personal Visit, Grand Ancestor’s Relic

"Hysteria?!"

Meng Quji simply didn’t believe it, "Old Zhan, you should go take a couple of sleeping pills first and get a good sleep after we retreat."

"Commander!"

Zhan Taoming pointed at the letter, "I’m not talking nonsense, it’s true!"

"True?"

Meng Quji slapped himself hard, "Three thousand against a hundred thousand, and not only didn’t we get wiped out, but we also crushed the enemy? Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Commander, see for yourself!"

Zhan Taoming shoved the battle report into his hands, "We killed twenty thousand enemies, captured forty thousand, not to mention You Jingzhi and Ran Jingxuan both died in battle, and Fan Shuzhen and Fan Jiuxiao, both were captured alive! Among them, Fan Jiuxiao was captured alive twice!"

"Is, is this true or false?"

Even as Meng Quji stared at the plain white paper with black letters, he couldn’t accept it for a long time, "Did I go too far?

"Or is this a ruse by Nan Xu to lure us!

"After taking Hu Lao, they somehow captured Hai Dongqing alive and sent false reports, the purpose is to deceive us to stay in Yong Yue Prefecture and surround us in one fell swoop!

"Right, it must be so!"

"Commander, how could it be."

Zhan Taoming said, "If Hai Dongqing had been captured, it would have desperately cawed as a warning when it came back."

"They drugged it, right? They gave Hai Dongqing drugs."

Meng Quji firmly refused to believe it.

Such an inconceivable event could occur in the world.

Until...

"Report—"

"Commander!"

"General Chen!"

"The General and his forces have already left Hu Lao and are preparing to return to Yong Yue Prefecture to reinforce us, I saw it with my own eyes!"

"Boom!"

Meng Quji actually found it somewhat hard to accept this reality, beginning to feel ringing in his ears and his heartbeat quickening, as if they hadn’t won a great victory but had suffered a great defeat.

After a full tea time had passed.

He finally recovered, "Quick! First pass this news to the people inside Yong Yue Prefecture, tell them to come out and surrender, and if they don’t comply, then we initiate a siege without attack, I want to see how long their supplies can last."

Hu Lao was secured.

No longer any concerns from behind.

They could continue to employ the strategy of encirclement without attack.

...

Yong Yue Prefecture.

"Unbelievable."

Li Gong paced back and forth in the room.

"I’ve already raised the stakes to the sky, yet why haven’t Fan Shuzhen and the others acted!"

"According to the timing, Fang Qingyun’s head should already be hanging up."

"Especially that Deng Feng! He must be hacked into pieces and have his bones pulled out and sinews extracted!"

"..."

"Report—"

"Prince!"

"It’s bad, the Sheng people outside the city are shouting that Nan Xu’s hundred thousand strong army has been crushed, and they are asking us to come out and surrender, or else they won’t leave a single person alive when the city falls."

"A joke!"

Li Gong sneered, "Meng Quji, that shameless man, has been completely driven insane by me, now even spouting such dreams. "

"Chirp—"

Before he could finish speaking.

A Black Hawk flew in.

"Prince."

Liu Huanrong said, "This is a letter from the Princely Heir, quick, there must be news from Hu Lao."

"Hmm."

Li Gong calmly took out the secret letter, and soon his forehead vein began to throb wildly as if it had come alive, his hands trembling uncontrollably as he held the paper.

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"Prince? Could it be that the treacherous Nan Xu is still driving up the price, indecisively?"

Seeing that something was wrong, Liu Huanrong carefully approached his side.

Then, he saw the detailed contents.

Nan Xu was utterly defeated, the Princely Heir’s whereabouts were unknown, his life and death uncertain.

"One hundred thousand men!"

Li Gong burst out in desperate screams, "One hundred thousand men! That’s a full one hundred thousand men!

"Do you know?

"One hundred thousand men, how much food do they need every day?

"One hundred thousand men, how much iron ore is needed for their weapons?"

"One hundred thousand men, how long does it take to forge their armour!

"And four Mystical Phenomenon Generals! Four!

"Even if they were all wild boars, they should have stormed Hu Lao and captured it by now, how, how could it turn out like this, absurd, just absurd!"

"Prince, what should we do now?!"

Liu Huanrong was equally at a loss: "One hundred thousand Nan Xu men gone just like that, the battle at Green Ridge Mountain still hasn’t broken through, and the most crucial thing is that we don’t have much food and fodder left in the city; if this goes on, we may truly be in peril."

"In peril? No, I insist we continue to hold our ground!"

Li Gong crushed the paper in his hands, his voice booming like a tidal wave: "With Chen Sansi’s three thousand cavalry, he could breach Nan Xu’s one hundred thousand strong army, can’t my forty thousand elite troops hold a city against one hundred thousand men!

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"Order them to keep defending!

"When we run out of food, eat the horses, when we run out of stones and timber for defenses, tear down the houses, but keep defending!"

The fury in his heart was uncontrollable.

Yongle Prefecture City.

In a flash, another half month had passed.

"Prince!"

"It’s bad!"

"What could be wrong now?!"

"Chen Sansi’s troops have arrived!"

"Fear nothing!"

As of late, Li Gong had been cursing daily, long devoid of any noble demeanor: "So his three thousand men have arrived, what can they do!

"Prince, it’s not three thousand men..."

Liu Huanrong said gravely, "Chen Sansi has brought forty thousand troops!"

"Forty thousand? Nonsense!"

Li Gong cursed, "Where did he get forty thousand men!"

"Nan Xu, all Nan Xu people!"

Liu Huanrong, equally furious, said, "Fan Shuzhen, that damned coward, to save his life, even though he’s a Crown Prince, has actually surrendered to Dasheng, directing the tens of thousands of remaining men to serve as shields for the Sheng people! Combined, there are now one hundred fifty thousand troops outside the city!

"Prince!

"We truly can’t hold out any longer!

"We have only two days’ worth of food and fodder left!

"And there’s still no word from the Emperor!"

"They should all die, they all deserve to die!"

All Li Gong could do was rant helplessly, incapable of making any useful decision.