Chapter 231
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Chapter 231: A Fatal Blow
The large-scale troop advance made Luo Ji’s expression grow increasingly playful.
“Looking at this formation, Wang Luzong plans to use these troops as cannon fodder.”
“He wants to exchange the lives of these soldiers for information on my troop strength.”
“Can that outsider truly be so cold-blooded and ruthless towards his own soldiers?”
Being cold-blooded and ruthless towards enemies was not wrong, but the problem was that these were his own people.
Wang Luzong’s act of sending his own soldiers to their deaths undoubtedly aroused Luo Cheng’s disgust.
Luo Ji did not say much.
Wang Luzong clearly still had some ‘player habits,’ which meant he did not value the lives of his own soldiers at all.
After all, when playing certain games, encountering some pioneering levels occasionally required sacrificing some troops as cannon fodder to figure out the level’s strategy.
This kind of thinking and habit was what Luo Ji referred to as ‘player habits.’
Of course, this habit was not obvious in the ‘no-rank’ stage because players were short on troops and naturally had to use them carefully.
However, once they reached the Bronze rank, there was a relatively long transition period from the Bronze Age to the Black Iron Age.
This transition period gave these players ample time to increase the population within their civilizations and expand their military strength.
With sufficient troops, 100 to 200 soldiers might only cause Wang Luzong a pang of pain.
Since Wang Luzong himself was cold-blooded and ruthless towards his own soldiers, Luo Ji, as an enemy, naturally had no reason to hold back.
The continuous bombardment from the archer and slinger units directly struck the opposing siege forces.
After two rounds of relentless bombing, the enemy’s siege troops clearly suffered significant casualties.
Through his telescope, Luo Ji clearly saw this scene.
As thoughts rapidly spun in his mind, he immediately realized this was an opportunity.
He resolutely shouted from outside the city.
“Your leader is cold-blooded and ruthless.”
“He clearly knows this battle has no chance of victory, yet he disregards your lives and sends you to your deaths in vain, just to gain information about my troop deployment with your lives.”
“Why would you pledge allegiance to such a heartless and unrighteous person?”
“Why not lay down your weapons and surrender to me?”
The timing of Luo Ji’s shout was incredibly precise.
It was perfectly timed when the enemy soldiers had just suffered a head-on blow from his defending forces and their morale was shaken.
As soon as he spoke, it struck a chord with the soldiers, instantly becoming a catalyst for their inner emotions.
Whether a siege battle had a chance of victory, how formidable the opposing defending forces were, and how fierce the successive barrages of arrows and stone projectiles were, the soldiers at the forefront knew best.
However, their leader had given the order, and as soldiers, they had no other choice but to charge forward, because desertion meant certain death.
Now, Luo Ji’s action was tantamount to presenting a second path right in front of them, directly asking them if they would take it.
This psychological tactic was too ruthless.
The shield-wielding soldiers pushing forward immediately wavered.
The archers’ movements to draw and release arrows also unconsciously slowed down by a few points.
The already declining morale plummeted further.
As for Wang Luzong, his entire face turned green with rage.
He clearly felt the change in the battlefield’s atmosphere.
Realizing something was amiss, he hurriedly shouted.
“Surname Luo, stop slandering me!”
“These soldiers are my good brothers who have fought alongside me through life and death!”
“How could I disregard their lives?”
“Everyone, don’t fall for that despicable villain’s trick!”
“He wants to sow discord among us!”
After shouting this, Wang Luzong slightly breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as he estimated that his words should have stabilized morale, Luo Ji’s voice echoed again from a distance.
“Surname Wang, have some shame, will you?”
“Good brothers who have fought through life and death?”
“Do you not feel ashamed uttering those words?”
“I only see these soldiers fighting for you through life and death, while you cowardly hide behind, ready to flee when things go south!”
“You even specifically arranged a company of halberdiers to protect your own safety!”
“As for whether you disregard their lives, don’t you have any idea yourself?”
“Do you truly think everyone is a fool?!”
Luo Ji’s words were truly incisive.
After speaking, his next action was almost a fatal blow to Wang Luzong.
He spread his arms, and his archers and slingers behind him immediately ceased their attacks.
As the defending side, he had a clear advantage, yet he actually took the initiative to stop the assault.
Suddenly, with the pressure from arrows and stone projectiles gone, the soldiers who had been desperately pushing forward were all momentarily stunned.
They had never encountered such a situation before.
Many unconsciously stopped in their tracks, and some ran forward a few steps before turning around, seeing their comrades had not moved, and then also stopped.
The battlefield, which had been engulfed in flames of war, suddenly became eerily quiet.
Wang Luzong, who had not yet realized he was being pushed to a dead end, saw the enemy voluntarily stop and a look of wild joy appeared on his face.
Then he shouted repeatedly.
“Quick! Push forward, push forward in one go! All of you…”
However, he stopped halfway through his shout, as if finally realizing the change in the situation.
His still joyous face gradually stiffened, because he discovered that at this moment, none of his soldiers were listening to him.
All their gazes were focused on the person standing on the city wall.
Wearing a Qilin helmet and Mingguang armor, Luo Ji appeared exceptionally tall and majestic as he stood bathed in the sunlight.
“Brothers! Lay down your weapons!”
“From now on, you are my brothers!”
“Unlike that guy over there, I, Luo Ji, always keep my promises!”
To actually order the defending forces to stop in a crucial defensive battle?
Luo Ji’s move instantly shattered the soldiers’ last shred of defense.
No one noticed who was the first to do it.
At that moment, they only heard a ‘clatter,’ as one of the shield-axemen dropped his shield and battle axe onto the ground.
This small action directly triggered a chain reaction.
In the blink of an eye, the shield-axemen and heavy shield soldiers’ equipment was scattered all over the ground.
They had clearly given up resistance and accepted Luo Ji’s surrender.
Facing such a situation, Wang Luzong nearly vomited blood in anger.
“Give me…”
Enraged, Wang Luzong forcefully swallowed the words that had rushed to his mouth at the last moment.
Suppressing the urge to order the archer unit to shoot the traitors, he decisively issued a retreat order.
The heavy shield unit and shield-axemen unit at the front obviously would not return with him.
However, the halberdier unit and archer unit at the rear hesitated for a moment before finally following him.
They were not the ones at the very front after all.
Even if they felt something and their mood became somewhat subtle, it was difficult for them to immediately make the decision to betray.
