Although they had not spent much time drilling the Armor-Breaking Formation, they could clearly feel themselves coming together quickly. All that remained was to test it in actual combat.
Meanwhile, three hundred li outside Jinyang Prefecture, banners fluttered above an army that stretched beyond sight. On the gold-trimmed black banner at its center was a ferocious giant bear, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws.
Beneath that great banner, a burly man like an iron tower sat astride a blood-sweating steed roughly ten feet tall. He wore armor over his otherwise bare upper body and carried a heavy spear.
"General Chimuda, the remnants we've gathered along the way now number more than ten thousand." Beside the burly man, a general wearing Puppet Liang armor spoke with a trace of ingratiation.
"And His Majesty will send reinforcements from Bing Province to join us in a pincer attack on Jinyang Prefecture."
"Oh. Understood," the burly man named Chimuda replied indifferently.
"In truth, my twenty thousand armored cavalry alone would be enough to take Jinyang Prefecture. Why go to all that trouble?"
The general beside him, surnamed Gao, was Gao Cheng, the newly appointed commanding general of Puppet Liang's Right Grand Camp.
Of Liang Qian's main forces, the Five Great Camps, the Left Grand Camp and Right Grand Camp had already been annihilated. The Front Grand Camp was pinned down by the western army at the border of You Province, leaving only the Central Grand Camp and Rear Grand Camp in the capital, Bingzhou City.
This newly established Right Grand Camp had been cobbled together in haste. Most of its men were a disorderly rabble, along with remnants of defeated forces, and Chimuda held Gao Cheng in utter contempt.
"General Chimuda, we must not underestimate Jinyang Prefecture's defenders this time. General Tan and