Two days later.
Beyond the Great Wall.
The scattered Barbarian soldiers had finally regrouped into a force of roughly a thousand. Yet no one dared approach the Great Wall again. They went straight back to camp on the grasslands dozens of miles away. The two scouts sent out during that time had also vanished without return, and nobody dared send more.
Rumble—
The sound of hooves shook heaven and earth.
It was on this very day.
The army forcibly redeployed from the main battlefield in Liang Province finally arrived. Their numbers exceeded the intelligence reports, reaching a full forty thousand!
"Bastards!"
Wuliangha, the Main General at the Meridian Opening Realm, lashed a soldier with his whip. "Weren't you supposed to be besieging the city? What are you doing here?!"
With that single lash, the soldier's body was cleaved directly in two!
Anyone with sharp enough eyes would have seen it.
The whip had not actually touched the barbarian's body. Rather, an invisible force clung to the long whip, and it was that invisible force which tore the soldier apart.
"Spare us, my lord!"
The Barbarian soldiers fell to their knees one after another, recounting what had happened two days ago.
"Nonsense!"
"Sun Xiangzong is still on the main battlefield in Liang Province. Even if he came to Yun Province, it would take at least half a month! How could he possibly come to Poyang and kill some insignificant Organ Refining general?!"
Wuliangha flew into a rage. "The army marches with me! We attack Poyang directly! I want to see who scared you into this state!"
When the army of more than forty thousand reached the foot of the city walls.
What appeared before them was an empty city.
There were no defenders, not even any civilians!
"Idiots, idiots!"
Wuliangha thundered