The horrific casualties enraged the Allied Forces soldiers, whose morale had been high.
Atrocities broke out one after another. They burned homes, seized draft cattle, and killed the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled who could not or would not relocate.
Yet every one of these atrocities became fuel for the Light Division to rally the people to fight.
"Look! If we don't resist, how many of us will they kill?"
"Are you still being deceived by them? Anyone who fails to flee in time will be killed by them! They claim they are overthrowing the Empress Dowager's rule and making the secret of the Fountain of Youth public to everyone, yet they are stealing our cattle, our gold and silver, and our land!"
There were photographs, and there was the Truth.
The invaders' true faces were swiftly exposed.
Just as Wenren Sheng had said, the Western Allied Forces' lax discipline swiftly transformed their enemy from a single dictatorial monopolist into all Great Cheng People.
And the total population of Great Cheng People exceeded the entire Western population by one-third, not to mention their many Tributaries.
More than a hundred thousand cavalrymen were sent from the grasslands to serve as sentries and scouts.
Mountain infantry were also sent from the plateau to fight in the south.
Their defeat was already plain to see.
Wenren Sheng had seen far too many cases in his previous life where a campaign began with a favorable situation, only to end in defeat.
Besides, although there was a gap between Great Cheng and the Western Allied Forces in overall strength, their opponent's long supply line stretching thousands of miles, with vast amounts of military supplies and spare parts needing to be shipped from the West, was enough of a logistical disadvantage to make up for that