The Fei Xin Force is in tatters!
I'm sure you had some kind of clever plan, but boy, did it fail.
Now you know:
This is the difference in our tacticians!
"Age of Giants"
"Fei" "Kai"
"Wei"
I... I can't even see our guys...
Ca-Captain!
We're leaving Xin in the enemy's midst?!
By the sounds of it, Xin's 2,000 will be left among Kai Meng's 13,000.
We have no choice.
For Qiang Lei's right flank to reach Wu Fengming,
Xin has to keep Kai Meng and Xun Zao occupied.
Y-Yes, but... can he get out of there with the right flank gone?
To be honest, Xin...
If it comes to that,
even if he manages to slay Kai Meng...
Kill them!
Crush 'em!
I don't think he can get out on his own.
If he makes no rash attempts to escape...
...but only fights...
Commander Tian Yǒu!
...and keeps on fighting, I know--
Sergeant Ze!
I just know...
I-It's no use!
What's the big idea, Long--
"Long"
Help is on the way.
Enemy attack from the deep right!
Wait--that's...
"Teng Army General" "Long Guo"
That's not the Fei Xin Force!
Honestly. So high-maintenance.
Just in time...
That's Long Guo's army, from the next battlefield over--past the mountains.
You're not the only ones who team up with other armies.
This is the difference in our tacticians, Kai Meng!
Reinforcements from another battlefield, eh?
Good job showing up without us noticing, I suppose.
They broke through.
They made it... the reinforcements--just in time!
The good fortune of the Fei Xin Force...
...was in having Long Guo,
Teng's most quick-witted aide,
stationed on the battlefield next door.
You want reinforcements from us?!
Tomorrow, the Fei Xin Force will use Xin as a decoy
to send Qiang Lei's detached force to Wu Fengming's HQ.
We'd like your army to come afterward, to help Xin
out of his predicament.
Watch the time and come when needed, then?
Yes.
Come too early and you'll attract Wu Fengming's attention.
It has to be after Qiang Lei has left.
But come too late and Xin will be killed.
Oh, come on!
You ask us for backup, then add all these stipulations?!
We're in a fierce battle ourselves, you know!
Do you think we can just jump when you say "tomorrow"?
Any troops we do send will have to go around the mountains.
Judging the timing will be harder than you think.
No, it ought to be easy enough for you, General Long Guo.
Pretty much.
Long Guo, sir!
The whole army is already in this deep.
Failure is no longer an option for the Qin army.
It's all in the name of capturing Zhuyong.
Don't get cocky.
You ought to be ashamed, asking another army for reinforcements mid-war.
I'm well aware.
He Liao Diao of the Fei Xin Force...
You owe me one.
And it's Kai Meng, Fire Dragon of Wei.
So in one sense, this is my lord's unfinished business.
Bian! Cheng!
Fan out to both flanks and circle to their sides.
We're after the raging bull Kai Meng!
What is it, Xin of the Fei Xin Force?
Did you purposely use yourself as a decoy to lure me in?
Not just you.
We're lookin' to get the whole Wei army over here.
Kai Meng, sir!
Please withdraw!
Orders from Xun Zao, sir. Says a dangerous foe approaches.
Just like Wang Yi and the others...
You'd deny me a resolution to our duel?
If you want me to keep on fightin' you, then sure, I'll do it,
Fire Dragon Kai Meng.
But y'know... something's been buggin' me.
Something your tactician Xun Zao said,
about Wang Yi and Lian Po avoidin' a duel with you.
But in actual fact,
ain't it less like they avoided you,
and more like they didn't see you as an opponent?
Ah, Kai Meng. You again.
A raging bull, yet still an infant. What will we do with you?
You could innocently challenge me to a duel,
but it wouldn't be worth the effort.
Do you understand?
I'll gladly slay you once we have something to fight about.
Goodbye.
So you're talking like they were.
Those fools speaking of dreams and feelings,
painting war as a thing of beauty.
You've been good and poisoned, Xin of the Fei Xin Force.
There is no light in war.
All this prattle about meaning and dreams
is just a cover-up for scraping together ignorant morons.
War is about the strong following their desire to defeat the weak,
merely a site for slaughter.
Nothing more, nothing less.
You're wrong.
I am not.
--You're-- --Kai Meng, sir, hurry!
Then prepare an acceptable answer for me the next time we meet--
as one following in Wang Yi's footsteps!
Here comes Kai Meng!
Xun Zao, sir! The enemy--Kai Meng--
What?!
After Kai Meng!
Kai Meng, Fire Dragon of Wei...
Xin!
Die!
Y-Yes!
Hang in there a little longer!
Come with me! We're breakin' through the right!
We might be runnin' late, but we're gonna go see Wu Fengming, too!
Huh?!
Ur-Urgent report!
What is it?
En-Enemies from the north!
"Yu"
They've made it past Zi Bai's army and are headed here, for the main camp!
What's more, Zi Bai has been slain by the foe!
H-He what?!
Fire Dragon Zi Bai--slain?
How many enemies approach?
Just over 3,000.
Three thousand...
No problem at all.
Have our army and the waiting reserves in the area intercept them.
Sir!
Ur-Urgent report! Urgent report!
Dammit! What now?
Enemies from the west are closing in on the main camp!
"Teng"
It's Lu Wuwei's army, with 8,000 troops!
Wha--
Their reserves are finally on the move.
Clearly they're slow to respond.
Did the Yu Feng Force and Lu Wuwei's army get the jump on us?
Actually, we're right on target.
Yeah, sure!
The Fei Xin Force will be the ones to take Wu Fengming's head.
H-Here they come!
Stop them!
I can see it!
That's Wu Fengming's HQ!
Report!
There's no stopping the enemies from the south!
They're pushing back our western defensive line, too!
Report! Our first line in the north is struggling!
Wei An and Wei Chao have fallen in battle!
Urgent report! Our first line in the west has been breached!
Dammit! They don't have that many troops!
Pick an army and destroy it!
Then our defenses can regroup!
D-Damn it all! Two armies is one thing, but three striking at the same time?
The reserves' interlocking encirclement isn't complete.
We should have them return to defending the HQ, creating a buffer!
Is there still time?
Don't tell me... this triple strike--is it not a coincidence, but their strategy?!
Ridiculous!
A strategy like that--
Sure enough.
Mistaking the biggest and best-equipped Teng army
as their main offensive force
was entirely my fault.
Fengming, sir...
The enemy's main offense
has been these three encroaching armies all along.
S-Still... Lu Wuwei's army may have over 10,000 troops,
but the other two are 5,000-man brigades.
Why rely on such weak units for offense?
My greatest miscalculation was in thinking those two units
would not make it past Fire Dragons Zi Bai and Kai Meng.
I believe both the Yu Feng and Fei Xin Forces are led by young commanders.
Their strategy, too, is young.
What we didn't realize
is that their only decision was to meet here at the same time.
But that was a double-edged sword,
leading to the ruin of the whole Qin army if but one of their three failed.
Teng would not risk that danger.
Someone other than Teng...
So a young strategy--that would be...
Gone is the age of Qin's Six Greats and Wei's Fire Dragons.
It is my and Li Mu's generation who now stand at the helm
of a warring Middle Kingdom.
Thus I had thought Qin's Huan Yi, of the same generation,
to be the man who would be my sworn enemy.
But apart from that...
It's Qin's next generation
that may also be seeing the rise of those who would be giants.
Giants in the coming generation...
Report! Our second line has been breached!
The enemy's practically...
...on top of us!
What?! That's absurd!
What are you doing?! Send any spare troops in!
Get the enemy away from our main camp!
It's no use.
These armies are the blades in which Teng has put his absolute trust.
Now that they're at our throat, they can't be stopped.
N-No... Fengming, sir...
Han De.
Those shouts are getting louder!
Must be a free-for-all around Wu Fengming's camp!
Captain!
Yeah--no doubt about it.
Our simultaneous triple-strike worked!
Now it's a competition:
Who's gonna be the one to take Wu Fengming's head?
As it happens, Yu Feng was the first to arrive,
followed by Lu Wuwei's army.
Each understood they were to be a distraction in front of the goal.
"Main Camp"
To take down Wu Fengming's main camp,
with reserves beefing up its defense,
they must attack from multiple directions, disrupting the defensive balance,
"Lu Wuwei's Army"
"Yu Feng Force"
and strike at an unguarded point.
In other words...
...plunging the blade into the main camp
"Main Camp"
"Yu Feng Force"
"Lu Wuwei's Army"
is up to the Fei Xin Force, the last to arrive.
"Main Camp" "Fei Xin Force"
Go! Go!
That's Wu Fengming's HQ!
Not happening!
Outta my way, blockhead!
Yue Lei, Wo Lu! You got this!
What?! You idiot!
No way can you go it alone! Get back here!
One rider, coming this way!
Skewer 'em!
They're gone?!
Urgent report!
A portion of Lu Wuwei's army is breaching our second line.
Send reinforcements to the west!
You fool! This is hardly the time!
An e-enemy?!
That's one of them! Kill them!
We're under attack!
No! Lord Fengming!
Lord Fengming!
Why, you...!
You...
You did it, Qiang Lei!
Lord Fengming!
We'll take his head.
So he's a fake.
A fake?!
I don't know the real Wu Fengming's face,
but his aide's face says it all.
Where did the real one go?
Go to hell, Qin dog.
So what I saw earlier...
I missed.
But if he's abandoned his camp...
Wo Lu!
Set fire to the surrounding area!
Raise a signal that the enemy HQ has fallen
and send word to all battlegrounds of the Qin army's victory!
Right! I'm on it!
Hey! Is that--
Gan Yang, sir, that couldn't be...
"Qin"
That's the Wei main camp-- no doubt about it!
Look! We took down their main camp!
We won!
H-How can that be?
Yesss!
Beautifully done... Lord Ben!
Damn Fei Xin Force, swooping in to grab the best part.
All right, we're going into clean-up mode!
Destroy any enemy remnants!
Xin!
We--we did it. We won!
Yep.
"Teng's Army vs. Ling Huang's Army"
"Ling"
What the--
What's going on?
L-Ling Huang, sir...
We did it...
That's the Wei army HQ!
Teng, sir!
Looks like the Yu Feng and Fei Xin Forces really pulled it off.
And Lu Wuwei's army!
Fengming, sir, let us take point!
We might run up against the enemy, sir!
With our main camp gone and our chain of command paralyzed,
just about every army deployed in the area is on its own.
That smoke signal will have sapped their morale;
regrouping will be nigh impossible.
But the enemy's strategy does have a single flaw.
If we strike at that now...
Ling Huang, sir!
Ah, Fengming.
What is it, Fengming?
I must sincerely apologize.
The enemy's simultaneous triple-strike strategy
has cost us our main camp.
They got past Zi Bai and Kai Meng?
And Zi Bai was slain.
What?!
I'm surprised they had anyone besides Teng who was capable of slaying Zi Bai.
As am I.
Still, what's lost is lost.
Now we need only strike at the flaw in the enemy's scheme.
Huh?
They may have taken down our main camp...
...but conversely, by focusing their might on that one spot,
the enemy's heart has been left stark naked.
I'm sure you understand.
Yes:
Teng.
In these past three days,
my army has made it 80 percent of the way to Teng's neck.
Knowing no reserves will come to Teng's aid, we simply focus all our power.
If we give the order to Luan Beipo and attack with our entire army,
we can slay Teng within half an hour.
Killing Teng will likewise kill all hope for the Qin army,
sparking a sudden shift toward a Wei victory.
The battle for Zhuyong is not yet over.
"Movement in Xianyang"
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