C42 (1/2)

Using Liang Qi's own words, everything was part of his plan. He had deliberately delayed the time for rescue because he did not want to leave any hope for the twenty thousand men garrison troops and make them feel despair. Only by doing so could they display their strongest fighting capabilities in this life or death situation.

Even if they let the Ning Army attack the Tong Gate, if they wanted to use the Western City wall as a barrier, it would be impossible to defend. Furthermore, the enemy is exhausted, and their own side's attack is caught off guard, so if they were to fight inside the Tong Gate city, it would definitely cause huge damage to the enemy.

As a result, Ning Army had lost over fifty thousand people in the attack and suffered another fifty thousand casualties in the battle against Liang Qi's group within the Tong Gate. Its four hundred thousand army had shrunk to less than three hundred thousand.

In Zongzheng's eyes, Liang Qi was a typical silkpants son, relying on his noble birth, his eyes above his head, he only knew how to exaggerate, it was flashy and unreal, as for being able to produce such an effect, he was not sure if Liang Qi's plans were better or his luck was better.

Liang Qi snatched back the Tong Gate and was about to attack Ning Jun immediately. Although Zongzheng did not care about whether he lived or died, he did not want the one hundred thousand disciples of the Feng Country to die in vain.

He did not have a good impression of Liang Qi, and Liang Qi found him even more unpleasant to look at. Seeing that Zongzheng had stepped forward to stop him, he sneered and said: ”A defeated soldier still has the face to boast shamelessly in front of me!”

Zongzheng's old face turned red and white because of what he said.

Liang Qi shook his head and said, ”You are so stubborn! With twenty thousand people wanting to defend against the attack of four hundred thousand people, no matter how strong the city guards were, it was impossible to do it. However, General Zongzheng, who clearly knew that he was not a match for the enemy yet did not think of changing his mind, was really stupid. If it were me, I wouldn't even block the city gates and kill myself. In the beginning, it was extremely chaotic with four hundred thousand people gathering outside the city. Furthermore, the Ning Army knew very well that the Tong Gate defense was lacking and would definitely not have attacked first, if General Zongzheng had led twenty thousand guards to attack from the shadows and sneak attack them in the night, they would have definitely been defeated. General Zongzheng, do you believe me? ”

”Oh …” With 20,000 people taking the initiative to attack 400,000 people, only madmen would do such a thing. Zongzheng's mouth was wide open, unable to say a word.

”I'm just asking if you believe me or not.”

”This …”

”If you don't believe me, tonight, I'll bring twenty thousand officers out of the city to ambush Ning Army Camp and let you see whether or not you can win!”

”Huh?”

”Four hundred thousand soldiers of the Ning army is nothing special. In my eyes, they are nothing more than grass!”

”Oh …”

”It's a deal!”

”But …” Zongzheng's words stunned Zongzheng, as he did not know what kind of mental state this Eldest Young Master was in.

But Liang Qi was not joking, he was really selecting twenty thousand elite soldiers from the ten regiments, preparing to rush out of the city that night to ambush Ning Army Camp.

Seeing that Liang Qi was not joking, Zongzheng was very filial, Liang Qi himself was not worried, but he wanted to pull twenty thousand of his brothers to their deaths, he could not just sit and watch.

But Liang Qi did not listen to him at all, all his persuasion and dissuasion had turned into wind in Liang Qi's ears.

Just as Zongzheng was panicking and not knowing what to do, another person from Yan City arrived.

This time, it was a young general, who was a trusted aide of Liang Family and was assigned by Liang Xing to deliver the letter to Liang Qi.

After Liang Qi read his father's letter, he didn't need anyone to advise him against it. He took the initiative to give up the plan to sneak attack Ning Army Camp, and then began to work on strengthening the defenses of Tong Gate. The huge boulder that was originally blocking the city's gate had already been moved away, and he had once again ordered people to move it back.

The next day. The Ning Army attacked once again, but in the end, they were met with the army led by Liang Qi that welcomed the attack. In the end, they did not achieve anything and hastily retreated.

In the past few days, the Ning Army had launched three attacks against the city. Although the defenses of the Tong Gate City was still strong, the casualties of the Ning Army were still great. In the end, the Ning Army did not dare to rashly attack.

Liang Qi seized the opportunity to report to the Imperial Court, and requested that the Feng King send five more squads to strengthen her Tong Gate defense.

Not only had he defeated the attack of the Ning army, and recaptured the Tong Gate, the Tong Gate that he had been protecting, was as stable as a mountain. Hundreds of thousands of the Ning army could only stare at the city and lament in excitement.

When Feng King saw the memorial, he did not even think twice before giving her approval.

After the five legions were transferred to Tong Gate, not long after, Liang Qi once again went to the memorial and requested for Imperial Court to continue dispatching the five divisions' manpower. He would launch a counterattack against the Ning army outside the city.

This time, after discussion with the Minister of Imperial Court, Feng King approved once again. Five Regiments' worth of troops from each county were allocated to Tong Gate.

Right now, Liang Qi was directly in charge of twenty of the divisions, and had raised all of their Liang Family s to suppress the other three nobles.

The capital city of Feng Country, was also the core of the Feng Country, and one would not be able to sense any border wars here. The capital city was bustling with activity, and there were many carts and horses;

Not long after returning to the Yan City, Tang Yin's title was conferred upon him continuously.

The first time was because he had killed a thousand-man commander of the enemy forces in Hedong Region, and had bestowed him with the title of Viscount. The second time was because he had captured the third prince of Ning Country amidst the chaos of battle, and had rendered great service to his own people by bestowing him with the title of Baron.

Within a day, he had managed to increase the number of people by three. This could be considered extremely rare.