His words immediately met with agreement from the others.
This was a war with no hope in sight, at least in their eyes.
They had also utterly destroyed their only chance of survival.
Had they followed the commander's plan, Dai Mubai really would not have dared attack the Inner City's residential area, and firing blindly would not have caused that much destruction. The battle would have lasted several days.
That would have given him enough time to send people outside to muster all the troops in the Earl's Domain. Then more than ten thousand men would have come to resolve their predicament, even if those men were still conventional cavalry and archers.
Although Dai Mubai could also have rallied more people to his side during that time, the final situation would presumably still have been ten thousand against a few thousand. If all else failed, breaking out would certainly have been possible.
But now, none of that was possible anymore.
The thought of surrender spread rapidly like a plague. To give themselves a better chance of surviving, more people began attacking those ahead of them who were still fighting inside the castle.
For a time, those still inside the castle were pinned in place, and ultimately, Dai Mubai's forces killed them all.
When he walked out through the castle gates, ranks of enemy soldiers had already thrown down their weapons and knelt on the ground, awaiting Dai Mubai's judgment.
Almost all of the castle's remaining thousand-odd men were here.
Dai Mubai gave Li Mengdie a look, and she arranged for people to surround those who had surrendered. Then he looked at a captain who had led the surrender and asked, seemingly casually, "Are all of you here?"
"Yes! My lord! All of us are here! Spare us-"
Before he could