Elsewhere, in a military camp, the night was already deep, yet the campfires burned brightly, their brilliant light illuminating the camp and everything within several hundred meters of it.
This was the main camp of the Tiger Leopard Cavalry. Since the Tiger Leopard Cavalry had shattered fifty thousand men with three thousand, they had pressed their victory, or rather, pursued without killing—relentlessly chasing only the important figures of the Yellow Heaven Army. As for the scattered Yellow Heaven Army soldiers, the Tiger Leopard Cavalry proclaimed that those who surrendered would not be killed, further breaking down the Yellow Heaven Army's will to fight.
If they knew surrender meant certain death, the Yellow Heaven Army would surely fight to the bitter end. Unlike now, apart from the Yellow Heaven Army's core elites, the rest of their troops possessed virtually no will to fight.
Many who knew they could not escape simply surrendered. Afterward, their weapons were confiscated, and they were given only one bowl of thin gruel each day, mixed with bran. It had little nourishment—just enough to keep them from starving to death. This prevented the surrendered soldiers from fighting desperately while also stripping them of their ability to fight.
Some Yellow Heaven Army soldiers who did not trust the Tiger Leopard Cavalry scattered into the mountains and forests. Unless such groups contained important figures, such as officers ranked Sima or above, the Tiger Leopard Cavalry generally left them alone.
The Yellow Heaven Army soldiers who fled into the mountains had simple thoughts. It was not that they were especially loyal; they simply felt that no one else could be trusted. Since ancient times, there had been no shortage of people who declared that surrendering soldiers would not be killed one moment, only to bury them alive the next.
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