Who Won and Who Lost

At the gate of Chen City's South City Wall, which towered into the clouds.

For dozens of miles around the gate, jagged remains lay scattered in every direction. Bodies were piled in layers, while broken blades, shattered halberds, fallen arrows, and battle flags stood like clumps of low shrubs. Foul blood ran across the ground, cloaking the earth in a dark-red cocoon and soaking the hard-packed soil into a bloody mire.

Several miles from the gate, on that corpse-strewn battlefield, the Huan King Jian Shang's War God Body still stood at the forefront, more than ten yards tall. Corpses lay heaped within a hundred yards of him, but not one enemy remained standing.

Behind the War God Body stood more than eighteen thousand Ravenous Wolf Guards. Behind them were the mere two hundred thousand-odd Zhangchu State recruits who remained, their ranks stretching like a front line back to Chen City's gate.

To the Ravenous Wolf Guards' left were the little more than five thousand survivors of Tian Dan's Fire Ox Berserk Cavalry and the just over three thousand survivors of Gao Gong's Golden Tiger Iron Cavalry.

To their right were roughly forty-five hundred survivors of the Long Ju Division's Loufan Elite Cavalry, along with Li Tong's Great Zhao Deathsworn, which had suffered fewer losses and still numbered more than eight thousand, and about seven thousand of Yang Ning's Flying Swan Feather Cavalry.

More than ten miles from Chen City's South City Wall, an endless column was withdrawing south. It was the civilians of Chen City, escorted by the Huan Kingdom Army and the remnants of Deng Zong's Zhangchu State forces.

Strangely, Han Xin's main banner stood tall more than ten miles from Jian Shang's War God Body at the front, yet Han Xin sent no more troops into battle. The