Chapter 48 (2/2)

The cavalry hooves and the arether into a low ru quickly only to retreat as fast as it ca Qin ar to stabilize hi a palisade post His spear stabbed crookedly into the dirt beside hiinal appearance, dyed only in hues of red and black: bloodstains from sources unknown

It was now the seventh day, and there was not the slightest hint of the three hundred thousand reinforcements From the fifth day forward, the morale of the ar for a while, Zhao Kuo finally, with the help of his spear, hobbled back to the center caeneral called out to Zhao Kuo

Zhao Kuo looked up towards the surroundings Quite a few cohtly Here they coave Zhao Kuo a complicated look

“Do you think the reinforce?”

He directly asked the most important question To hold the line for seven days under the barrage of six hundred thousand troops, they became more distressed as the days drew

Not a person here was a fool If this battle was hopeless, they would consider surrendering Even if itZhao Kuo to the Qin for more favorable terms

This was the conclusion that all the coht They must find Zhao Kuo today

“…” Zhao Kuo kept silent for a while After several long moments, he spoke with a heavy heart “Will not”

This time, he said the truth

“From the start, there were never any reinforceed on everyone's robes

The deputy general moved forward three steps and delivered a punch

“Pah!”

With a sigh, Zhao Kuo didn't hide from the blow and was knocked down into the dirt

“Four hundred thousand people!” The deputy general's voice was shaking through his grating teeth “Zhao Kuo! You are really so!”

“You've chosen to die, yet you still ask the four hundred thousand others to die with you!”

“Cough” Zhao Kuo's jaw felt broken and blood streamed from his mouth But with all the blood on his face, it was impossible to tell

The scene was eerily still with no one deciding to speak first

That was until Zhao Kuo broke the silence “Gentle, as if squeezed out of hisis Handan It is our nation of Zhao

“It is whereis lost, the State of Zhao will perish

“My wife and children will become slaves to the Qin people

“Myme for twenty years

“What is filial piety if I don't stop this…”

Zhao Kuo's hand gripped the sand beneath hi down

“I have never wished to die I never wanted to part fro cannot fall like this

“If it falls as it is, will the nation be peaceful? Will our hoh ene is lost, I can protect roup behind him but spoke every ith much effort “I, Zhao Kuo, am not an orator here to mislead you

“I, Zhao Kuo, have deceived everyone, ordering the deaths of others with ht the last battle with ?”

In the end, Zhao Kuo tone's took upon a slight pleading As the top commander, this show of feebleness would be unacceptable

No one spoke, and no one answered hihed deeply This twenty-year-old felt like an old round, lonely in his effort

He knew that after this battle, his name would be cursed upon by countless people, a shaeneral suddenly spoke up “Reinforcements will come, to death I will not retreat”

After he spoke, he left, clutching his sword

“Reinforcements will coave a co one by one

Their hands were shaking with faint tremors Each one knew that there would be no reinforce

To follow their general and die in battle, it is their loyalty to their king and country

Zhao Kuo finally turned his head and looked at the departing commander

This was his second step The arh the limits and stand anew