The Discourse Ranking came alive once more, as the entire Human Race mocked the Qing Kingdom together.
"Congratulations to the Jing Kingdom. Without deploying a single soldier, you have won the first battle!"
"The Jing Kingdom's scholars are terrifying indeed—taking an enemy's head amid ten thousand troops from thousands of miles away!"
"The Qing Kingdom did its best! After all, occupying cities is hard labor!"
"I don't understand why you are mocking the Qing Kingdom. They occupied eight cities and are about to take all of Taihe Prefecture! They achieved this record with only several hundred casualties. Isn't that a military miracle in the history of warfare? What? They were all killed by their own people? Pretend I said nothing."
"The Battle for Prefectures has finally drawn blood! Fine sons of the Qing Kingdom!"
The Qing Kingdom's School of War scholars suffered unprecedented pressure.
Next, under the enormous pressure of having "no enemies," they swept through all of Taihe Prefecture in one breath. The ten cities of Taihe Prefecture were all the same: the entire cities surrendered, rejoicing in celebration.
After occupying all of Taihe Prefecture, the Qing Kingdom army did not act rashly. They still divided their forces into four and stationed them in four cities.
According to the Qing Kingdom's original plan, the battle for Taihe Prefecture should have lasted at least a month. Yet it had all been taken in barely more than ten days. The army should have pressed on like a bamboo stalk splitting apart, but no one dared act rashly.
Three more days passed before the Qing Army could no longer endure it and once again advanced in four separate columns.
They had no choice but to dispatch large forces to garrison the cities they had already occupied. Even if each city maintained only