"What?
An army of tens of thousands, and only half came back."
Xue Ye stared in terror at the two relatives below the throne.
Prince Xue Xing, and his only remaining son.
The two of them knelt below with deathly faces, maintaining a deathlike silence.
Rage and terror, confusion and disbelief, tangled violently in his mind.
He turned to look at Dugu Bo, unable to believe that with him there, the situation could still have deteriorated to such a terrifying degree.
Dugu Bo sighed and shook his head. "Alas, the leader on the other side possessed strength equal to mine.
In a short time, neither of us could determine a victor.
So, to avoid involving anyone else, the two of us had no choice but to fly up into the sky and keep each other in check.
But I never expected that in such a short time, the army would suffer such a heavy blow.
At that point, all I could do was continue restraining the enemy's strength and cover the troops' retreat."
This had already been told to everyone before the battle began.
But the problem was, no one had expected Heaven Dou's army to be so fragile that it would be defeated at the front within just a few minutes of the battle starting, forcing a retreat.
The reason did not lie with him, but with the army below.
Dugu Bo tactfully conveyed this point to Xue Ye.
Dugu Bo added at this moment, "The other side also hid a type of Magnetic Device that can attract metal.
It can knock all of our metal equipment down to the ground.
The bolts of the Zhuge Repeating Crossbows were all brought down by this move, so we failed to suppress the city walls, while the metal projectiles launched by