A Grand Gift (Part 2) [Monthly Ticket Request]

"Lord Shen is back!"

"It was a great victory—"

Chaoli Pass, the city walls, the watchtowers.

The guards spotted Shen Tang returning at the head of her troops from far away and hurriedly passed the news along. One told ten, ten told a hundred. Shen Tang had spotted Chu Wuhui waiting beneath the city gate long ago. The sight of his face tamped down some of the anger burning in her chest.

"Wuhui, is everything all right?"

Chu Yao smiled. "How did the battle go, my lord?"

He naturally took the reins of the Motorcycle. Shen Tang swung down from the mule's back and said, her face full of fury, "I knew Huang Xiguang would do something inhuman once he ran short of food, using dried meat as military rations, but this was the first time I'd actually seen it."

Seeing it with her own eyes was a different kind of shock from merely hearing about it.

At her words, Chu Yao's expression barely changed. He had seen the scenes his lord described countless times before. He wasn't numb to them, but he was used to them. What he cared more about was what his lord planned to do next. "What do you intend to do, my lord?"

Shen Tang said, "Issue a proclamation calling for a punitive campaign."

She had originally planned to wait until Huang Lie ran out of weapons and food and had no choice but to launch an all-out attack on her forces. Then she could respond to any changes without changing her own course.

From a rational standpoint, that was also the safest plan.

First, the bigger the move, the bigger the opening. Second, the enemy had no steady, reliable supply line for food. Her side had plenty of opportunities to plant spies among their