Chapter 2067: Chapter 190: No Heroic Demise (Part 2)
Cao Jie transmitted a ssage that was quite interesting.
Every word spoken can be considered factual. Not a single subjective opinion was added, which prevents people of Sumr Country from dismissing it as rumor.
But indeed, when only a fragnt of truth is presented, it already diverges from its full reality.
The costs that the Qi Army paid for this are completely erased, and it conceals Yu Liyang’s balancing and sacrifices.
When the first battle won a great victory, forcing Yu Liyang to retreat within a day and achieving a significant triumph at Jianfeng Mountain, Cao Jie naturally aid to fully exploit its influence in public opinion.
The vast majority of people wouldn’t care how much power the Qi Army deployed in the war, nor would they think about the level of depletion from the Autumn Kill Army forcibly attacking with military formations… People would only notice that even Da Xia’s King Min couldn’t defend Jianfeng Mountain, not even for a day!
What deep psychological shadow would this leave on the people of Sumr Country, and what kind of fear could it instill?
If asured purely by the gains and losses of the battle, it’s hard to say whether today’s battle at Jianfeng Mountain was advantageous. It’s difficult to assess which is a heavier price—half a month’s ti, the consumption of massive Pri Stones by a hundred Thorn Boats, or the temporary rest of the Autumn Kill Army.
But for Cao Jie, the losses that Sumr Country suffers from this battle will be seen later!
Cao Jie decisively wagered heavily, as this battle was definitely not just for the present mont.
Yu Liyang certainly saw this point, but compared to the blow to Sumr Country’s military morale, the loss of a True Monarch is sothing Sumr Country cannot bear.
Today, Cao Jie seed to have shifted his style, venturing quite boldly, but his move was in fact a guaranteed win!
Upon first seeing Yu Liyang, he calculated the outco of the war and without hesitation placed his bet! Bet! Bet!
At the mont when a hundred Thorn Boats launched simultaneously and Jianfeng Mountain’s defense was riddled with holes, Yu Liyang was destined to suffer.
The only suspense lay in how he would weigh the two harms and make his choice…
Yet even this isn’t a suspense.
Because everyone knows, one must “take the lesser!”
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“Those who surrender will not die!”
Squads of County Soldiers under the command of officers flew up to Jianfeng Mountain, with accompanying flag officers raising flags and shouting loudly.
On the winding mountaintop roads of Jianfeng Mountain, squad after squad of Sumr Country soldiers surrendered, knelt, and disard.
This mountain is indeed fortified.
This army indeed mighty.
But at this mont, there aren’t many Sumr Army resisting stubbornly.
After all, their legendary figure of Da Xia’s martial era, representative of national rejuvenation, the outright Yan Dao Expert, King Min Yu Liyang! Escaped without uttering a word…
Who could be stronger or more courageous than King Min?
The mountain remains outside, but in their minds, the mountain has collapsed.
Thus, a massacre was avoided!
Among the army, there was one nad Zhang Tai, from the Feng Xian County of Qi Country, unrelated to that once famous “Zhang.”
Perhaps several hundred years ago there could have been so blood relation?
Who knows!
Anyway, the Phoenix Immortal of Clan Zhang no longer exists.
After the original crying ceremony incident, the Ministry of Rites officially declared the Nine Returns Marquis extinct.
This illustrious family that once established martial achievents with the Martial Emperor and shared glory with Daqi vanished into smoke. Only a line in history books remains for future generations to commorate.
Besides that lineage of Nine Returns Marquis, there weren’t any other prominent aristocratic families in Feng Xian County.
Zhang Tai’s own family situation was quite ordinary, having enough als for three daily, not starving. In Qi Country, as long as soone isn’t lazy and has intact limbs, they won’t lack food.
At sixteen, he joined the army. Despite not being very physically fit, he gradually matured into a soldier through hard toil and courage, serving as County Soldiers to guard his native place.
Five years ago during the military selection, he didn’t manage to join the Nine Soldiers, but after exhibiting bravery on the field, he was promoted to Dui Zheng upon returning. In charge of around a hundred n, life was fulfilling.
Last year, due to his team’s excellent performance in joint military exercises among the counties, he earned himself a Channel-opening Pill and successfully opened his ridians at the end of the year, leaping to beco a Transcendent Cultivator!
Life has since changed!
The gates of Qi Nine Soldiers opened for him. Feng Xian County Soldiers also offered him a deputy commander position.
Originally, he wouldn’t hesitate.
Nine Soldiers was after all a place of his dreams, a stage that every Qi soldier yearned for. It marked a new starting point, representing infinite future… But as years passed, he had an elderly father, a loving mother, both old and weak, and he was no longer his eighteen or nineteen-year-old self.
Reflecting, he stayed with the County Soldiers. Promoted to deputy commander, he could take care of his aging parents nearby, and earlier in the year, he married a delightful wife. How comfortable life was!
His Zhang family, lacking aristocratic blood, finally beca soone of standing locally, living a decent life.
This ti, Son of Heaven Fa Xia mobilized troops nationally, and he was the tenth to sign up within the Feng Xian County military ranks.
Damn, after receiving the news, he rushed overnight to enroll, thinking he’d be first. The nine dogs ahead actually camped with their bedding outside the door waiting!
For an ordinary soldier in Qi Country, what does war an?
It ans military achievents, it ans official positions, it ans opportunities.
An opportunity to rise overnight.
No need to discuss distant matters, but consider the preceding Sun-extinguishing War, how many ascended to Transcendent through accumulated rits?
How many leapt through the Dragon’s Gate?
He, Zhang Tai, Deputy Commander Zhang, also aid to gain resources, fulfill his Dao Veins’ ambition, try feeling like a Deity flying to the sky and escaping the earth! Relying on peaceti military exercises to accumulate rit, how long would it take?
Moreover, his beloved wife was already pregnant, and by the ti this battle concludes, the child would be due. Wouldn’t he want to earn a Channel-opening Pill for his unborn child? He’d labored bitterly, risking his life, and endured so much hardship to beco Transcendent, spending years in the County Soldiers, so much that eting young faces in the Nine Soldiers team made him timid.
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