Jinzhou in Peril

Where there were winners, there were bound to be losers. Song Kingdom was that loser, though the true losers were the common people behind the warring states.

War was a matter of vital importance to a state—the ground of life and death, the path of survival and ruin. It could not be neglected!

Because of a momentary strategic misstep, Song Kingdom had brewed a bitter fruit too hard to swallow.

Just as Meng Shanming was hoping for Wei Kingdom's grain supplies to arrive soon, abnormal movements came from Zhao Kingdom. Troops and horses began gathering and shifting.

For Yan Kingdom, another storm was gathering on the horizon.

Jinzhou of Zhao Kingdom, the first to feel the chill, sent plea after plea for aid, desperately begging Shang Chaozong to immediately turn his troops back to reinforce them.

Niu Youdao had cut off most of his contact with the outside world. Unable to reach Niu Youdao, Myriad Grotto Heaven Manor could only contact Shang Chaozong, telling him that the war in Song Kingdom had ended and asking him, for the sake of their alliance, to hurry to Southern Prefecture.

But Southern Prefecture was far away from here. It was not somewhere they could reach merely by saying so.

Sensing that something was amiss, Wei Kingdom and Qi Kingdom immediately put urgent pressure on Zhao Kingdom, warning it not to act rashly!

And at that very moment, a drastic change erupted in northern Yan Kingdom.

Han Kingdom suddenly launched a fierce attack against Yan Kingdom. That was right—against Yan Kingdom, not Song Kingdom.

Shang Chaozong had long made preparations. Once war broke out, Shao Dengyun could immediately produce his appointment as Grand General of the Northern Expedition and assume full command of Northern Province's forces and the Imperial Court troops stationed in Northern