Azure Heaven Saber
Chapter 1138 - 1138 47 Meng Shuais Military Record

Chapter 1138: Chapter 47 Meng Shuai’s Military Record 3【2-in-1】_3 Chapter 1138: Chapter 47 Meng Shuai’s Military Record 3【2-in-1】_3 Fighting in Lin City was indeed real. The only unreal part was…

The Qin Army tents scattered through the forests outside Lin City were all empty.

Though it seemed preparations for a siege were underway, seeming as if countless troops were ready to attack wave after wave, there were actually only fifty thousand.

It was simply that the flags of my subordinate generals were numerous.

Given that the intent was to deceive and blind the enemy, naturally the more flags, the better!

Meanwhile, Meng Fang’s main combat forces, upon his orders, had marched swiftly along territories gained from battles and reached behind the main forces of Wu Tiejun, who were confronting the Qi Army.

This preemptive ambush had been thoroughly planned. The attack was executed with perfect timing and without any pauses throughout its execution.

In this battle, Meng Fang was ruthless.

The encircled six hundred thousand Qi soldiers crumbled like a landslide, resulting in a full-blown rout.

However, Meng Fang had already prepared traps on the inevitable retreat path of the defeated Qi Army: dry forests soaked with oil and countless logs and boulders rolled down from cliffs and ravines.

After this ambush, the entire Qi Army was annihilated, with high-ranking generals and marshals alike perishing in the inferno.

After the battle, Wu Tiejun inspected the battlefield and couldn’t help but gasp with shock.

“Meng Fang, your methods are just too brutal, it’s against the harmony of heaven!”

“I only lament they’re not brutal enough. Only with sufficient ruthlessness can my brothers be spared from death.”

Meng Fang, with a stern face, said, “My brothers’ lives are worth offending the harmony of heaven once, ten times, a hundred times!”

“In this battle, you have the most merit,”

Wu Tiejun sighed. “Let’s clean up the battlefield.”

“Yes, Commander Wu.”

After this battle, the name of Meng Fang once again shocked the world, earning the moniker ‘The Butcher’, his hands stained with blood, responsible for countless deaths.

And after this battle, Qi State, like Yan State before it, never recovered!

Having lost an army of six hundred thousand soldiers, Qi State was left virtually without any forces to deploy, facing annihilation at any moment.

Yet Great Qin still chose not to commence an annihilation campaign.

With his forces joined with Meng Fang’s, Wu Tiejun led his mighty army like a surging torrent forcefully into the battlefield between Qin and Zhao.

Invincible Commander Wu Tiejun, Ghost General Fei Xinyu, Mighty General Meng Fang, experienced General Ma Daocheng, and God of War Fei Pingjiang; with five armies combining a force of one hundred and twenty thousand soldiers, they encircled and launched a full-force attack on Li Po from all sides.

Li Po was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troop strength, yet he still managed to block and parry on every side without disorder, steadfastly ensuring no losses.

With five armies attacking and besieging him intensively, not only cutting off his supply lines and encircling him with an iron wall, the outcome of the battle had become clear. Yet Li Po managed to maintain his defenses strategically; even as the Qin forces bore down on him with the ferocity of dragons and tigers, they could never truly claim a complete victory.

However, given the situation, nobody believed that Li Po could survive the intense encirclement of five armies and escape with his life. Naturally, rumors began to spread: Li Po has surrendered to Qin!

This rumor was greatly exaggerated by the Qin people.

They even bribed officials at the top of Zhao State, cementing the narrative.

Upon receiving the report, the king of Zhao State flew into a rage and without further inquiry ordered the execution of Li Po’s entire family, all three generations of them.

Yet, once again, reality exceeded everyone’s expectations, and a month later, Li Po actually led his troops out of the encirclement and retreated back to the mountains of Cuiping within Zhao, adding a new chapter to the legend of Great Zhao’s God of War.

This was an absolute miracle. Neither Wu Tiejun, Fei Xinyu, nor any other famous commander in Great Qin dared claim they could achieve what Li Po did!

But after a legend is fully told, at the peak of brilliance, comes the final chapter.

Before he could even regroup his forces, Li Po received news that his family had been executed by King Zhao.

This legendary general finally broke down. He had not faltered under an iron siege from Great Qin’s one hundred and twenty thousand mighty troops, but he collapsed under the persecution of his own homeland.

Yet he did not choose to return to Zhao State for revenge—”How could I bear arms against my own country!”

Nor did he surrender to Great Qin—”How could I surrender to those who caused all this trouble!”

In the end, he chose to lead his fifty thousand personal soldiers away from the battlefield, heading north into the vast desert, making a name for himself in foreign lands, sweeping across the plains.

This was the last news of a legendary military God from the great wars of the seven states; from that point on, this man vanished from the Central Plains.

With Li Po gone and Lian Mu succumbing to illness, Zhao State’s military pillar was completely lost.

Meng Fang led his army forward with all the fury of a thunderbolt, employing blood-soaked methods to forcefully eliminate the remnants of Zhao State’s power.

By now, Zhao, Yan, and Qi were in name only, their true existence all but extinguished.

Thus, Meng Fang was appointed as a senior general, promoted to Prime Minister, and awarded with a hundred mu of land in Xianyang, where a General’s mansion was built for him.

He transformed overnight into a truly influential figure, a rising elite within the Great Qin officialdom.

And with Great Qin’s years of warfare, there finally came a time to catch one’s breath.

Even the deepest coffers need to be replenished, and Great Qin entered a new period of rest and recovery.

And everyone knew that when the drums of war beat again, it would herald the true war for unification, as well as… the wars of annihilation for the states!

After being granted permission, Meng Fang returned home for a family visit, clothed in glory and triumph.

At this moment, General Meng Fang already longed for home.

But how could a general’s homecoming lack significant display?

First off, his subordinates and strategists were bustling with plans and strategies, deep in contemplation.

After several days, General Meng Fang, escorted by three thousand personal soldiers, set off for home.

Everywhere they passed, red flags fluttered in the wind, flowers carpeted the ground, and seas of people flocked to see them.

The utmost glory and honor!

This might be his last visit home because after this, he would follow his wife to Xianyang!

Meng Fang rode on his horse, lost in thought.

For a moment, he felt as if he were dreaming.

Three years!

Just a mere three years.

He had already reached such high ranks.

And truly, he had been through a hundred battles!