After Su Xin went into seclusion to cultivate for ten days, Shen Wuming and the others gathered the elite forces of the Seven Great Gangs in Jianghuai Circuit. The six gangs had brought nearly a hundred thousand men—none of them ordinary people. Even the weakest were Houtian Martial Artists at the Post-Natal Initial Realm, veterans tempered in real combat.
Word came directly from Pang Yuande, ordering Su Xin to head for the Eastern Jin border and prepare to encircle and annihilate the Golden Tent Khanate!
That was right—encircle and annihilate. Most of the Golden Tent Khanate's forces were currently scattered throughout the various circuits of the Central Plains. Pang Yuande intended to mobilize every available force, surround and crush all of the Golden Tent Khanate's troops, letting them enter the Central Plains but ensuring they could never leave!
Pang Yuande was ambitious as well. If his achievements in this battle were great enough, he would become Great Zhou's fourth Great General.
Merely driving the Golden Tent Khanate out of the Central Plains would not be enough. Pang Yuande wanted to cripple them so badly that, for at least a century, they would no longer dare invade the Central Plains.
Although the Golden Tent Khanate had no intelligence network in the Central Plains, it was impossible for them to remain unaware of a commotion as great as the one Su Xin and Pang Yuande were making.
The moment Su Xin's side began to move, the news had already reached Mogo.
Wuguli, chieftain of the Heavenly Wolf Tribe, hurried into Mogo's grand tent. "Great Khan! This is bad! Great Zhou has sent Pang Yuande, Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Garrison Army, to gather up the defeated troops from the former Eastern Jin defense line. They are now closing in to encircle and destroy