General, Your Wife Is Requesting Your Return Home For Farming novel Chapter 383

Chapter 383: Overwhelming Strength (2)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

If Qin Jiang had won two rounds in a row, Emperor Jing Xuan would not have let out a fart.

Cough cough, this is too much. They couldn’t be so disrespectful to His Majesty, even in their hearts…

But then again, Emperor Jing Xuan did not do a good job.

Su Cheng was Qin Canglan’s biological son. He was originally qualified to inherit everything, but someone else had impersonated him for twenty years.

It was already miserable enough for him to be stranded among the commoners and grow up stumbling. Now, he had to take back what belonged to him in such an unfair way.

It wasn’t easy for him to win, but Emperor Jing Xuan did it again.

Some neutral officials could not stand it anymore.

This Su Cheng was really miserable. Too miserable.

But what could they do? Oppose Emperor Jing Xuan?

There were some things that they could fight for, but there were some things that they could not.

It was the same for Emperor Jing Xuan. There were some things that he could be shameless about but not for others.

In this world, no one could be always stubborn. It all depended on who grasped the ingenious balance first.

Emperor Jing Xuan slowly picked up his teacup and gently stirred the tea leaves with the lid. He asked, “Is the result out?”

Eunuch Fu quickly sent someone to ask.

Not long after, the young eunuch returned and reported the results of the military strategy examination.

Emperor Jing Xuan suspected that he had heard wrongly. “Say it again. Whose paper is better?”

The young eunuch trembled. “Su… Su Cheng…”

Seeing the emperor’s gloomy face, he did not know what he had done wrong. He could only make wild guesses and change his words, “Qin Che! Qin Che’s exam responses were more outstanding! ”

He said Qin Che twice in a row. It seemed that it was indeed not Qin Jiang.

At this moment, Qin Jiang, who was placed on the ground, slowly woke up.

The first thing he heard when he woke up was that Su Cheng had defeated him in the military strategy exam. His blood and Qi surged, and his vision went dark as he fainted again!

This time, the Ministry of War and the Hanlin Academy reviewed the papers together. After that, the three dukes reviewed the results. The degree of importance and rigor was not inferior to those of the imperial examination.

Not only that, Wei Ting even swaggered over to the location.

Naturally, Emperor Jing Xuan did not ask him to go. He was so thick-skinned that no one could chase him away.

Emperor Jing Xuan still did not want to believe it, so he asked someone to bring their exam papers over.

He glanced at the name on the paper and immediately wanted to scold him for making a mistake. After all, Su Cheng’s big and clumsy handwriting was worlds apart from Qin Jiang’s handwriting. How could he win?

Emperor Jing Xuan had personally come up with this test question. It was not based on the memorization of all kinds of military books by rote. Instead, they had to express their opinions on a battle of the navy.

They had a navy of 1,000 men and 20 warships against an enemy of 10,000 men and 200 warships.

They only had one night. At dawn, the enemy would capture the island.

The cliffs on three sides of the island were a natural barrier that prevented the enemy from going ashore. Only the east side allowed the enemy to go smoothly ashore.

Qin Jiang gave two strategies.

The first was to defend the east bank to death, using the terrain to block the enemy in the water and use the smoke to request reinforcements from the nearby navy.

It would take two days for the nearby navy to arrive, and the various defensive measures of Qinjiang’s formation could last for three to five days.

It could be said to be a very successful defense.

His second strategy was to sacrifice 30% of his forces to break out with the ships, in exchange for maximum evacuation at the least cost.

He even described clearly how to arrange troops, how to set up formations, and how to launch a surprise attack.

If they had to forcefully break out of the encirclement, this was indeed the method with the least casualties.

Emperor Jing Xuan was very satisfied. As expected of someone who had been in the Qin family’s army for 20 years. His train of thought was clear and his use of the art of war was very mature.