After speaking, General Wu prepared to descend the city wall and command the great army below.
As he descended, the Qin army had already broken through the gates of Chu's city.
Under normal circumstances, the Chu army should have fiercely resisted at this point.
Then, the Qin army would not have been able to advance a single step into Chu's city.
However, the situation faced by Lin Tian's army was completely different from the norm.
As soon as Lin Tian's army broke through the city gates of Chu, the first reaction of the Chu soldiers was not to resist Lin Tian's army, but to drop their weapons and crouch on the ground.
"Don't kill me, we are willing to surrender!!"
"Don't kill me, we are willing to surrender!!"
"Don't kill me, we are willing to surrender!!"
It wasn't just one or two Chu soldiers willing to surrender, but a vast number of them.
They had been eagerly awaiting this moment for a very long time.
Before, Xiang Yan had always ordered them to retreat, and they never had the chance to surrender.
Now they were no longer retreating, and Lin Tian's army had finally arrived, so they surrendered without hesitation.
This kind of surrender seemed contagious, to the extent that Lin Tian's army had not even truly entered the city, and large numbers of surrendering soldiers had already appeared within.
These people had long since lost the will to resist; they had longed to go home.
Therefore, they surrendered very quickly.
Their surrender made the soldiers who had not surrendered feel awkward.
They held their weapons, unsure whether to surrender or not.
In this dilemma, they saw Lin Tian's army charging in.
Wherever Lin Tian's army passed, they specifically targeted soldiers who were standing and still holding their weapons.
With virtually no hesitation, those who were standing and holding weapons had their heads severed.
Lin Tian's army was already incredibly powerful, and now, with insufficient forces to resist them, their slaughter became even simpler.
This simple slaughter was an immense deterrent to the soldiers who had not yet surrendered.
Those soldiers had originally not intended to surrender, but after Lin Tian's army arrived, even if they didn't want to surrender, they had no choice but to do so.
Therefore, they all obediently dropped their weapons and crouched on the ground.
Except for a very small number of stubbornly loyal individuals, virtually no soldiers stood in the way of Lin Tian's army anymore.
After all, if they surrendered, they would have a chance to live.
Under these circumstances, if they still didn't surrender, they would be fools.
This also caused General Wu to be completely stunned by the situation in the city when he descended the wall.
Soldiers were densely packed throughout the city, all having dropped their weapons and crouching on the ground.
From their appearance, it was clear they had surrendered.
Yet, Lin Tian's army was still a considerable distance away, and some of them couldn't even see Lin Tian's army!
Under such circumstances, the Chu soldiers actually surrendered, which was truly incomprehensible to General Wu.
His entire body trembled with anger.
"You, what are you doing?? Who allowed you to surrender? Who ordered you to surrender??"
"Do you have any shred of a soldier's honor left in your hearts?"
"Get up! All of you get up, pick up your weapons, and continue to resist, continue to fight!"
General Wu roared, but no one paid him any heed.
This made him even angrier.
He drew his sword and pointed it at everyone.
"I, your general, command you to pick up your weapons and counterattack, otherwise, I will have you beheaded!"
At this moment, General Wu wanted to use his status as a general to suppress these soldiers and force them to pick up their weapons and continue to fight.
However, when Xiang Yan could not suppress the soldiers who wanted to surrender and go home before, it was even less likely that this General Wu could.
Therefore, after he uttered these words, curses erupted from the crowd.
"Screw you, mother!"
"What a fool!"
"Do you think we're idiots? You won't let us go home, but you want us to die, what a pipe dream!"
"Who! Who was that speaking, step forward, and I will surely have you beheaded!"
Hearing someone curse him, General Wu immediately flew into a rage.
He looked towards the source of the voice, but the soldiers were densely packed, and he couldn't discern who was cursing him.
This made him even more furious.
He held his sword and made a move as if to kill someone.
The person he intended to kill was naturally a soldier who had put down his weapon and was standing near him.
He wanted to decapitate this person with a single stroke to establish his authority.
However, he had no idea that although these soldiers had dropped their weapons, they had been watching him all along.
Seeing his long sword about to strike, these soldiers did not hesitate and immediately retaliated.
They picked up the swords they had placed on the ground and, without a second thought, stabbed towards General Wu.
"Screech!"
Several soldiers' sharp swords pierced General Wu straight through.
At this moment, General Wu's eyes were filled with shock.
In his opinion, these soldiers were just ordinary ants.
When he wanted to kill, these soldiers had no right to resist.
He was a great general, commanding an army of three hundred thousand men. Killing a few soldiers to assert his authority was a perfectly normal thing.
Those soldiers who were to be executed could only stand and await their fate.
They had no right to resist.
But today, the soldiers before him not only resisted but also pierced his body with their swords.
General Wu felt his consciousness gradually fading, on the verge of death.
However, his eyes were wide open, clearly dying with regrets.
Yet, even though he died with regrets, he was still dead.
And with his death, the soldiers of Chu knew that all was lost.
Their commander was dead, the soldiers had surrendered, and in such a situation, what else could they use to resist Lin Tian's army?
Therefore, apart from a few extremely loyal Chu generals who chose to take their own lives, all other Chu soldiers chose to surrender.
This surrender was truly shocking to everyone.
Especially when Wang Wu and others counted the number of surrendering soldiers, they were so stunned they couldn't close their mouths.
"Two hundred thousand, this time, the number of surrendering soldiers is a full two hundred thousand!!"
"Good heavens! An army of two hundred thousand surrendering at once, such a number is simply terrifying!!"
"Although I had already noticed a large number of people surrendering before, an army of two hundred thousand surrendering all at once is truly something I did not expect! With so many troops surrendering, does Chu still have any soldiers left to use?"