Chapter 740: Fumeng Lingchas Fury (1/2)

One hundred and fifty thousand experienced craftsmen were in the city, and though they were normally laying bricks, placing tiles, and building the city, when a battle began, they would become one hundred and fifty thousand pairs of eyes. They could serve as the best scouts and lookouts. No one should have been able to sneak past their eyes and infiltrate the city.

Yet it was a fact that before Dayan Mangban launched his sneak attack, no one in the city had noticed anything strange. Simply put, the enemy had not climbed over the walls, but had infiltrated the City of Steel beforehand.

From a certain perspective, this was utterly inconceivable.

”This… Time has been short, and we still haven't had time to properly investigate. However, according to the procedure laid out by Lord Marquis, after the incident, we cleaned up the area and discovered several broken wooden chests.

”These chests all had a large hole, and half of the steel and building modules were missing.”

Behind Wang Chong, a young officer, about twenty-eight years old, described the results of the preliminary investigation.

Wang Chong's brow furrowed, but he quickly understood what was going on.

I really did underestimate him. He must have done something while the products were being shipped from the capital and the provinces. This Tibetan madman seems to be a far more meticulous person than I imagined, Wang Chong quietly said to himself.

In order to maintain secrecy, Wang Chong had sealed many of the modules for his City of Steel in wooden chests so that outsiders wouldn't be able to tell what was inside. A large hole being made in these chests wasn't enough to draw any sort of concern, but that so many steel modules were missing completely changed the nature of the matter.

There was a high chance that this was how the Tibetans had managed to sneak past his eyes as well as the eyes of the one hundred and fifty thousand craftsmen.

”I understand. Let's leave the matter there! Strengthen the guard. In addition…”

Wang Chong began to head back when he suddenly stopped.

”Have some people clean this place up!”

After glancing behind him for a moment, Wang Chong quickly left.

The night winds howled, spreading a thick stench of blood through the air. The ground behind Wang Chong was strewn with the corpses of Tibetan White Braves. Nothing came without a price.

Dayan Mangban had retreated, but these two-hundred-some Tibetan elites were the price he had to pay.

……

Gallop!

The Tibetan White Braves rode through the darkness, fleeing toward the Tibetan Plateau. Next to Dayan Mangban, a Tibetan deputy general appeared greatly confused.

”Milord, what should we do now?”

The deputy general's eyes were tinged with a deep worry.

More than two thousand White Braves had suffered two to three hundred losses in the attack on the city. The elite White Braves had never suffered such a heavy loss before. This tiny City of Steel had inflicted more damage to the White Braves than entire kingdoms.

At the very least, the White Braves had never suffered such casualties when they attacked Greater and Lesser Balur.

And when they thought about how Lord Dusong Mangpoje was waiting at the edge of the plateau for news of their victory, the soldiers couldn't help but shiver in fear.

I really didn't think that we would be defeated by that small city with only several thousand people guarding it!

I didn't think that Great Tang brat would be even more impressive than the rumors. Milord has always been a master of siegecraft, never leaving a city empty-handed, but not even Milord personally taking action could deal with that boy.

And that city was incredibly tough. Zongka and Cangba with their Metal element abilities can easily turn a gate into powder or transform it into a giant. This move has always been effective in previous battles, but even after working for so long, those two only managed to dig a few inches into the wall. I truly can't believe it.

General has always been proud. For him to lose to this Great Tang youth must be very difficult for him to accept.

Underneath the starry sky, the White Braves were thinking about the battle, a variety of expressions on their faces. However, none of them dared to voice their thoughts.

They had come very prepared for this operation, bringing with them battering rams from the Great Snow Mountain Sacred Ground, and grappling hooks for scaling the walls. They had wrapped the hooves of their horses, brought Metal element warriors, infiltrated the city beforehand… Using all these methods on a city still in the middle of construction was like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly.

But no one had expected their opponent to be so formidable.

And even their commander Dayan Mangban had lost to them.

In Ü-Tsang, Dayan Mangban might not have led troops in battle very often, but he had an extremely high prestige within the White Braves, no less than that of renowned generals like Huoshu Huicang.

In truth, Dayan Mangban had used his conquest of several small kingdoms to prove himself. In those countries, Dayan Mangban was even more famous than the other Great Generals of the empire.

That he would fail in this mission was completely unexpected. Even the personal involvement of their general had failed to kill that brat!