“Your Majestic General, whom we respect, has broken our agreement.”
Half a month later, when Wang Han arrived at Xingqing, the capital of Western Xia, Emperor Taizong Li Deming was already standing on the city wall, looking at Wang Han who had flown above the city wall, and questioned him.
"I broke the agreement? In what way did I break the agreement?" Upon hearing this, Wang Han lowered his altitude, looked down at the emperor of Western Xia, and asked in return, "The Song army I led only moved on to the next city after gathering all the people of the Song Dynasty."
"No, you have definitely broken the agreement," the Western Xia emperor said firmly. "The Song people we released back were released in batches without interruption. Logically speaking, you couldn't have advanced so quickly."
"That's because you underestimate the unity of the Song people. They were indeed released continuously, but they gathered together afterward, waiting for the Song army to arrive. You were releasing Song people continuously, while we had no trouble gathering them together. You must know this, so why pretend to be ignorant?" Wang Han said with a sneer.
"Impossible. Even if the people of the Great Song are united, it's impossible for everyone to be united and waiting in one place." The Western Xia emperor was well aware of this, and he knew that Wang Han must have done something to make these people of the Great Song gather together to wait for the arrival of the Great Song army.
But what good is knowing? Let alone evidence, we don't even know how Wang Han managed to gather all these Song Dynasty people in one place to wait. Moreover, most of the Song Dynasty people have already been released. If we wanted to fight, it would be a fight to the death. There's no way to stop it. We absolutely cannot use force, otherwise it would be a catastrophe.
Now that things have come to this, he can only pretend to be confused and insist that Wang Han violated the agreement, thus gaining the moral high ground. Only in this way can he buy some time. A month has already passed, and the messenger with the imperial edict may arrive today.
“But they did indeed gather together and wait for the Song army to arrive, that’s a fact. Everyone says you underestimated the unity of the Song people. On the contrary, many of your Western Xia’s generals who were guarding the city fled very quickly. Otherwise, they might have been able to prevent the Song people from gathering in one place and avoid this situation. Unfortunately, they were the first to flee the city they were guarding.” Wang Han said with a sneer, “Now, it’s this city’s turn.”
"I believe that the generals of Western Xia did not flee, but led the people to evacuate." The Western Xia emperor gritted his teeth and refuted Wang Han's words. He hated these cowardly generals with a passion for their own lives. Although these generals had indeed fled, he absolutely could not admit such a fact. This would be very detrimental to the country and the people's view of the empire. Moreover, there were far too many generals who had fled.
"Your generals led your people to evacuate, but why didn't they arrange for the people to evacuate as well? They stayed behind to cover the retreat for the people, even though there were so many important matters to attend to!" Upon hearing this, Wang Han sneered, "Now it's your generals' own cowardice that led to the failure of the evacuation, and you're now blaming me for breaking the agreement. This city is doomed."
Wang Han spoke loudly, and his voice clearly reached the ears of everyone in the city.
"These cowardly cowards who fear death." Under Wang Han's words, many civilians, and even soldiers of Western Xia, couldn't help but look at the Western Xia generals they could see with hatred. Many people also understood that if these generals hadn't been cowardly and fled early, allowing the people of the Great Song to be released and then gather again, how could they have lost so many cities and become homeless? How could the Great Song's mighty general have arrived here so quickly?
"What else do you have to say now? These will be your last words when the Song army arrives." After saying this, Wang Han deliberately lowered his flight altitude, looking down at the emperor of Western Xia. The distance was no more than twenty meters.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..." Suddenly, the whistling sound of crossbow bolts rang out one after another, and seven or eight crossbow bolts, as long as spears, shot towards Wang Han from both sides of the city wall at high speed. In addition to the crossbow bolts, there were also more than a hundred ordinary arrows mixed in.
However, the next moment, Wang Han simply raised his hand, and all the crossbow bolts that were shot at him stopped in mid-air, one or two meters away from him, just like that.
The sudden firing of crossbow bolts was so unexpected that almost everyone in Xixia was caught off guard and didn't realize what was happening until Wang Han stopped firing all the crossbow bolts and arrows.
"Who ordered you to fire arrows?" The Western Xia emperor turned and roared at the soldiers on both sides of the city wall, his anger rising. He was provoking them!
"Great General Shenwei of the Song Dynasty, I did not order any soldiers to fire arrows!" The Western Xia emperor roared at the soldiers who were firing arrows, and quickly explained to Wang Han that the consequences of failure were too severe. Compared to assassination, there was a better way to survive, so he had never made such an arrangement. But would the other party believe him now?
"Stop pretending. If I were dead, you'd probably already be rewarding yourselves for your service. Too bad, you're still a long way from killing me," Wang Han said coldly. A terrifying aura, like that of a natural disaster, permeated the air, even darkening the sky. Wang Han was clearly furious that the Western Xia emperor wanted to shoot him. Of course, if Wang Han hadn't tricked the archers into firing their arrows, it would have looked quite convincing.
"Oh my god!"
"It's over!"
"The entire city will be leveled."
As the sky gradually darkened, and the oppressive and terrifying atmosphere thickened, the emperor of Western Xia, the soldiers on the city walls, and the people within the city all began to despair. Some, unable to withstand the terrifying aura emanating from Wang Han, even fainted.
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