Pinan City fell as three thousand iron cavalry of the Wu Dynasty breached its gates. Blood flowed into rivers along the border city, and corpses piled into mountains.
Facing the Wu Dynasty's three thousand most elite iron cavalry, the fifty thousand new recruits seemed utterly green. Before they could organize an effective counterattack, they were swiftly crushed.
Outside Pinan City, the Wu Dynasty's two hundred thousand troops arrived soon afterward. With an unstoppable offensive that swept away all in its path, they bathed the entire city in blood overnight.
The fifty thousand Yan Kingdom recruits, painstakingly trained for more than three months, suffered losses exceeding ninety percent in a single night. By the time they withdrew from Pinan City, fewer than five thousand remained.
Among the five thousand battered and defeated soldiers, Ning Fan and Zhu Ye, who had narrowly kept their lives under Eldest Princess Yue Ling's hands, retreated with the army in miserable disorder. Only after daybreak did they finally stop to rest for a while.
Both were badly wounded. Eldest Princess Yue Ling was extraordinarily skilled; had they not been lucky, they likely would never have left Pinan City alive.
On the wilderness, Ning Fan and Zhu Ye sat back to back, gasping for breath.
"Thanks!"
They spoke at the same time. After a brief stunned pause, they could not help but laugh.
"That was truly close."
Zhu Ye said.
"Yes."
Still shaken, Ning Fan said, "I nearly died at that woman's hands."
"Still, that Eldest Princess of the Wu Dynasty really was stunningly beautiful."
Zhu Ye said.
Ning Fan laughed. "Our lives were almost gone, and you still had the mind to notice that?"
"Men, aside from achieving glory and establishing careers, what else do they think about but women?"
Zhu Ye said as though it