At the same time Lu Xingshi received the Wen Dao Hall intelligence, he also received news that the Imperial Court's Hundred Thousand Strong Army had been utterly crushed by Aha Chu, the Saibei Prince of Liao.
When he heard the news, he had been rather dumbfounded as well. With such an enormous advantage, how had they lost?
Leaving aside the fact that the Saibei Liao Army only had around fifty thousand people who could truly fight, they had twice the enemy's numbers. Furthermore, Great Song soldiers were stronger than the Saibei Liao Army's soldiers, and they even possessed the corresponding geographical advantage. How could they lose? Then he looked closer: first, the commander-in-chief had been captured; then the enemy had exploited the information gap by controlling the commander-in-chief to lure them in, ultimately wiping out the Hundred Thousand Strong Army just like that.
After this battle, the Imperial Court had indeed suffered grievous harm to its Primal Qi. First, it lost Saibei, that natural pastureland and shield; then it lost a Hundred Thousand Strong Army within it. Soon afterward, news came from the Imperial Court that it intended to negotiate peace.
In any case, Saibei was certainly never being recovered.
Murong Xuan cursed for several days over this, calling the Imperial Court nothing but trash.
The ones cursing were not limited to the Imperial Court. The martial world and common folk were cursing too. This incident had directly reduced the Imperial Court's prestige to rock bottom.
This also caused a fracture in what had once been calm seas and peaceful rivers in public opinion. The gentlemen of the court could only control public opinion on the premise that national strength was flourishing. With things as they were now, who would be willing to help them? "The origins of Wen Dao