The peace talks on Shao Zi's side soon began, and the battlefield fell silent as well. There was no need for me to keep watching the final cleanup, especially since I couldn't hear what was being said even if I wanted to, so I quickly turned my attention back to Zhao Jing.
After suffering a prolonged defeat, Shao Zi's side had failed, while Zhao Jing's side seemed to have reached the point of turning things around. The situation of running into obstacles everywhere and falling apart had vanished, and the entire battlefront had taken on the momentum of a counterattack. It seemed that while only a few days had passed for us, several years had gone by for them, and Zhao Jing had already seized control of the whole situation.
Although the small countries were still taking their scalpels everywhere, carving flesh and opening fresh wounds, after making their cuts, they had to tread carefully so they wouldn't be caught. Once Zhao Jing steadied the vast nation amid the tide of retreat, newly budding resistance forces also rose with the tide and began driving out the invaders.
Of course, after several years of war, the territory the great nation had lost to encroachment was considerable. Completely reclaiming the land and wiping out the invaders would not be easy. However, the tide of events was already set, and victory was merely a matter of time. In the end, the general trend of the world would lean toward the side with the firmest footing. So unless Zhao Jing's luck was catastrophically bad, I believed he had already secured victory.
Just as I was preparing to turn my attention to Ru Xue's side, Shao Zi came out with exhaustion written all over her face.
Everyone knew how aggrieved Shao Zi had been this