On the ninth day of the third month in the 752nd year of Jianwu on the Great Zhou calendar, after Prince Anping's Qingzhou and Yunzhou defensive lines had been breached, the defensive lines he had painstakingly established across Shouzhou, Lezhou, and Fengzhou were once again broken by Demon Emperor Second Crown Prince Zhui Ri.
The next day, Demon Emperor Fifth Crown Prince Cong Yun directly encircled Fengzhou Prefecture City from north of Fengzhou. With Fengzhou Prefecture City on the verge of falling, Luoyi was shaken, Great Zhou was shaken, and the whole world was shaken!
Because of this battle, the Emperor and Great Zhou's nobles, who had always sat steady as if on a fishing platform, convened an emergency court session for the first time after nightfall, when the lamps were lit, to discuss countermeasures.
Once word spread, chaos erupted in Luoyi for the first time.
Some nobles began gathering their valuables and assembling their families, preparing to temporarily head south or to the relatively stable west to avoid the possible flames of war.
That very night, some of the more radical nobles even began disposing of assets in Luoyi and several prefectures near Luoyi.
As the news spread, the central government was shaken once more.
Why had this happened?
That had to be explained through the geographical positions of Fengzhou, Shouzhou, and Lezhou.
The Huzhou and Luzhou previously attacked by the Devil Race were both considered far from Luoyi.
Those two prefectures lay behind the Human-Demon Battlefield defensive line, but they were not war zones themselves.
One had to know that the Human-Demon Battlefield's original five great war zones were in fact formed from five great border prefectures. Each prefecture covered vast territory, and Luzhou and Huzhou, far behind the five great war zones, had naturally been extremely safe.