Betrayed by Luo Minghai, Ma Wei endured countless hardships before breaking out with his remaining sixty thousand troops and heading straight for Binyang City, determined to settle the score with Luo Minghai.
They had agreed on everything. They had planned everything.
Why, at the critical moment, had his reinforcements failed to arrive? Why had he not seen so much as their shadow?
Yet when Ma Wei finally reached Binyang City with his battered army, what greeted him was a firmly shut gate and flags atop the walls that had long since been replaced.
In that instant, Ma Wei felt as though the sky had collapsed.
He had gone out for a while, and someone had stolen his home!
"Where's Luo Minghai? Where's Luo Minghai? He never came to support me, so how did we lose Binyang?"
Luo Minghai stared at the changed flags on the walls, utterly stunned.
How could a city this large simply vanish from their grasp?
"Ah! What the hell happened?"
Barred from entering, Ma Wei could only shout helplessly beneath the walls.
"Well, well, isn't this our young master Ma? How did you end up in such a sorry state?"
When Luo Minghai heard his subordinate report that Ma Wei had returned, he immediately got out of bed, changed his clothes, and went up to the battlements, just in time to see Ma Wei roaring below.
"Luo Minghai? You're still inside? Hurry up and open the gates! Let us in!"
"And I have questions for you! We agreed that I would attack and tie down Sterling while you circled around to surround him. I fought for ages, but where were you? What were you doing?"
Ma Wei looked up at Luo Minghai, who had suddenly appeared atop the wall, half delighted and half furious.
He was