A Show of Force

The generals from the kingdoms exchanged glances. In the end, they could only swear their oaths.

"General Ye, my task is complete. I'll take my leave now."

The generals bowed to Ye Rong and prepared to lead their troops back.

But in a flash, a terrifying pressure descended on every soldier who had come to deliver supplies. Beneath that aura, as overwhelming as the might of heaven, none of them could stop themselves from dropping to their knees.

"Did I say we were finished?"

Ye Rong turned to the Northern Great Wall Army behind him.

"Hu San, how much was missing from the supplies you just counted?"

Hu San, who had accompanied Ye Rong, immediately took out a ledger and read from it as he turned the pages.

By the time he finished, Ye Rong's pressure had grown even stronger. Some of the weaker soldiers struggled to breathe and came close to fainting.

Then, in the next instant, the terrible pressure vanished. Everyone gasped for air like fish hauled ashore.

"Make up the shortfall. Otherwise, I don't mind paying your commanders a visit to discuss military law."

It was a naked threat from Ye Rong, but a threat was all he could make.

Back when the Empire still stood, he would have beheaded those commanders under military law for embezzling supplies.

Yet Ye Rong's repeated threats had also stirred anger among some of the officers delivering the supplies.

"General Ye, what do you mean by that? Are you planning to leave the Great Wall on your own, without an imperial order?"

The dispute between the kingdoms and the Great Wall Army came down to control of the troops.

Ye Rong and the others held that the Great Wall Army belonged to the Empire. It would never take orders from the