Once the main force of the Northern Wilderness Army joined the battle, the tide turned in an instant.
Moreover, their arrival at Yanmen Pass meant that all eleven cities of the southern border had fallen.
For the Wei Kingdom's army, this was utterly unacceptable, and their morale crumbled.
"Retreat!"
Even though Guo Xin had risen through connections, he knew the situation was beyond saving and decisively ordered a withdrawal.
Xiao Shi personally led the pursuit for twenty li before returning to the city.
After the Northern Wilderness Army's great victory, Xiao Shi ordered a search of the battlefield for survivors.
Anyone with even a breath left had to receive every possible effort to save them.
Inside Yanmen Pass, provisions arrived along with the main force of the Northern Wilderness Army.
Xiao Shi ordered the grain distributed, allowing every household to eat its fill again.
As previously agreed, the Northern Wilderness Army also compensated the wealthy merchants whose grain had been requisitioned, paying them in silver or grain.
As for Yanmen Pass's City Protection Array, the array masters were working urgently to repair it, and would even reinforce it.
The Northern Wilderness Army's senior officers jointly decided to pour resources into making Yanmen Pass an iron barrel, turning it into a truly formidable defensive stronghold.
When the Northern Wilderness Army marched out again, they could fall back and hold Yanmen Pass if things went poorly.
Three days later, the casualty count for all Northern Wilderness Army soldiers who had defended Yanmen Pass was complete.
Of the ten thousand Snow-Treading Dragon Cavalry riders Xiao Mo had originally brought with him, only four hundred and twenty remained.
Counting the surrendered soldiers Xiao Mo had recruited and the men conscripted at Yanmen Pass, the infantry had numbered sixty thousand.
Yet after the battle, only