What Happened to the Self-Inflicted Injury Ruse?

Chapter 837: What Happened to the Self-Inflicted Injury Ruse?

Song Jiang's claim to the throne was illegitimate, so there were very few armies across the land willing to come to the emperor's aid.

With the Jia Clan Army charging in all the way, the troops loyal to Song Jiang and fully under his command had already been wiped out for the most part.

Even if the rest came, Song Jiang had no doubt that they would not be coming to rescue him.

They would wait for him and the Jia Clan Army to wound each other, then come out to reap the benefits.

"Thirty thousand, plus the people in the city... How are Lin Chong and the others doing?" Song Jiang asked.

"Judging from the auras that occasionally leak out, there should be no problem for them to advance another level and become Grandmasters," Wu Yong said, pausing briefly. "But they will need at least another ten days before they emerge from seclusion."

"Can we hold out for ten days?" Song Jiang asked.

"The grain in the city alone can last more than two months even under siege." Wu Yong shook his head. "But the enemy is coming in force, and Jia Rong is a Grandmaster. If he personally leads the charge and attacks the city without regard for anything else, we have no one capable of stopping him."

"A Grandmaster!" Song Jiang's expression darkened.

Great Yin naturally had its own Grandmasters—two of them, in fact.

But neither belonged to Song Jiang. One had belonged to the Great Yin imperial family and had since passed away.

Song Jiang and Wu Yong had plotted against him and killed him in secret.

The other was Zhou Tong. He had once run a martial arts school, and Lin Chong, Wu Song, and Lu