My Cultivation Starting from Archery Chapter 310 - 158: Besieged on All Sides [Thanks to "Jia Lin

"What did you say?"

General Fan snatched the letter and as he read, his pupils visibly shook, "True, truly surrendered? They didn’t even put up any resistance?"

"None!"

The subordinate spoke firmly, "The brothers at the front all saw it with their own eyes. The Xuanjia Army only needed to stand outside the city gates with the General’s Banner for a while, and the city would open on its own!"

"Good, good..."

ng Quji was relieved that he had heeded advice and hadn’t rashly ordered the troops to be called back.

He looked toward the silent green-robed scholar at his side, "General Fang, you must tell everyone, how did you do it?"

"..."

Fang Qingyun silently stared at the sand table, motionless like a rooted tree, for a long ti.

"General Fang?"

Zhan Taoming cautiously interrupted, "What is this?"

"I got it."

After a long while, Fang Qingyun suddenly spoke up, his voice clear and filled with surprise, akin to a seasoned mathematician finally solving a puzzle or a master craftsman discovering the thod to unlock a complex contraption.

"I know how Vice General Chen did it."

"Oh?"

ng Quji couldn’t wait, "Tell us, let’s hear it!"

"Commander ng."

Fang Qingyun asked with a smile, "I’m asking you, what is your path?"

"My path? You an my proficiency in military tactics, right?"

ng Quji promptly replied, "Then my path, naturally, is the path of invincibility. For all great military families, one must first ensure an invincible position for oneself, to await the enemy’s defeat."

Fang Qingyun turned to the next person, "And you, General Fan?"

"?"

General Fan proudly claid, "What I believe in is the king’s way, the way of the king being to follow the Heavenly Son’s mandate, to dispatch a righteous army. Wherever it goes, it is aided by heaven and is bound to be unstoppable, winning the hearts of the land."

"I’m not worthy to discuss paths."

Zhan Taoming said candidly, "I am a deputy under Commander ng. If I had to speak of a path, my preference in everyday matters is the dominating path most favored by General Ji. Of course, compared to General Ji, I’m rely a poor imitation."

"General Ji is the true embodint of military dominance. Wherever he goes, the enemy trembles with fear, and once he seizes the advantage, there’s no stopping him. The enemy is sure to be routed!"

"Ming State was just like this! Zhong Wuxin is a Martial Saint as well, and what beca of him? His army of eighty thousand, under General Ji’s pursuit, ended up with only a little over ten thousand returning alive. I heard many were so frightened they were paralyzed with fear, so even died on the spot from terror."

"General Ji is indeed a role model for our generation!"

The court had intended to arrange it this way. As the deputy general alongside ng Quji, one steady and the other dominant, the goal was to create a complentary effect in critical monts, achieving unexpected results.

"To tell you the truth, our understanding of military tactics is not as profound as yours, General Fang."

ng Quji lanted, "Our respective ’paths,’ whether they be the king’s way, the dominating way, or even the stable way, are all about finding the thods that suit us in the Military Books and then expanding on them. But you, General Fang, you are the founder of ’Deceit,’ a true master of the ’path,’ and you will certainly be enshrined in the Martial Temple one day."

Fang Qingyun did not show modesty or boastfulness, but at this mont, he changed his approach: "Do you gentlen know which ’path’ General Chen’s military tactics follow?"

"That..."

ng Quji stroked his short beard and soon declared, "Deceit!"

"I think the sa."

Zhan Taoming agreed, "Now it seems, without a doubt, that General Chen’s path is Deceit! Actually, I have carefully reviewed Vice General Chen’s battle records. Back in Po Yang, when a re thousand remaining troops crushed a twenty-thousand-strong barbarian army, he used strategies like feigning attacks and striking from unexpected angles, fitting with Deceit."

"Yes."

Even General Fan agreed, "The Four Crossings of Hongze River, moving around within the small territory of Ming State, and then, without running away, directly striking at ishan Prefecture, isn’t it all just like what General Fang originally wrote, ’The military, too, is based on deceit’? Truly worthy of being General Fang’s junior, he might surpass you in Deceit."

Fang Qingyun just smiled and said nothing.

"Oh?"

ng Quji beca interested, "General Fang, don’t hold back, is it another ’path,’ perhaps Benevolence, Madness, or even the rare Art of Crossing?"

"None of them."

Fang Qingyun shook his head, "You are misunderstanding. If you look at Vice General Chen’s records, at first, there certainly are elents of Deceit, but if you look further, you’ll know it’s not rely Deceit."

"I don’t know who he learned his military tactics from, but it definitely wasn’t ."

"And now, at this point."

"No matter who he learned from before, or how many people he learned from, it has all rged thoroughly, transford into his own ’path.’"

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"His own ’path’?"

ng Quji discerned the underlying aning, "General Fang, are you suggesting..."

"Exactly!"

Fang Qingyun waved his sleeve and announced loudly, "Gentlen, prepare yourselves. Before long, the Eight Volus of Military will beco the Nine Volus of Military, a path that belongs solely to Vice General Chen, a path that has always been there, yet it is also a completely new ’path’!"

"This path’s na is—Montum!"

"The military is about montum!"

...

Changting Prefecture.

"General!"

"All our brothers in the north have surrendered!"

"There’s no more food in the city!"

"Let’s surrender too!"

"Surrender? We still have four thousand brothers, and you tell to surrender?!"

"General! General Chen is only giving us three hours to consider! It doesn’t bother you, you’re camp soldiers transferred from elsewhere, even if the city falls you’re just losing your own life, eighteen years later you’ll be a man again! But we are the local garrison, our wives and children are inside the city, if we continue to resist, once the city breaks, they will suffer the consequences!"