In the blink of an eye, half a month quietly passed.
Ge Long, who had fled back to Northern City, ordered men to rush back to Heaven Dou, yet none had returned.
The people of Northern City had also learned of Ge Long's defeat. The city's soldiers were still brazenly plundering the commoners' clothes and grain, leaving the entire city in a state of panic.
Some Soul Master families tried to leave the city with their entire households, only to be stopped by the soldiers. Conflict erupted, throwing the city into ever greater chaos.
"Let us out!"
"Otherwise, don't blame us for getting rough!"
"We may know nothing about marching and warfare, but my grandfather is a Soul King! He may not be able to come and go freely through an army of ten thousand, but he can certainly move through a force of a thousand! Let us pass, or don't blame us for taking action!"
Ge Long's return after a crushing defeat with 20,000 infantry and 5,000 heavy cavalry had already caused some of Northern City's Soul Master families to lose faith in him.
If the Crimson Soldier Bandits attacked, would they still have any chance of surviving?
They might as well flee east while they could!
"When the nest is overturned, how can the eggs remain intact?"
Ge Long was unwilling to accept it.
But these Soul Master families would not listen at all.
Before Soul Masters truly chose to serve a particular faction, they were free men. They had not sold their lives to the Heaven Dou Empire, so why should they resist the Crimson Soldier Bandits alongside Ge Long? If the Heaven Dou Empire truly could not hold on, they could simply surrender then! No matter how mad the Red Assembly was, it could not possibly