But the Keda Tribe could never have imagined that, just as the Pan Army reached the gates, bearing down on them as though it was about to flatten the Black Rock Mountains, Tang Changsheng had not hidden deep in the mountains. He had struck first.
The unsuspecting tribe paid dearly. Under the onslaught of the Black Smoke Army, it held out for less than an hour before suffering a crushing defeat.
Yet when its people tried to retreat, they discovered that the Black Rock Army was already everywhere.
The largest Black Rock Army in history, numbering over a hundred thousand, had marched out of the Black Rock Mountains.
In just ten days, it wiped out dozens of tribes that had migrated there in response to the King Pan's command, seizing vast quantities of supplies and grain.
Before the Pan Army arrived, the hundred thousand Black Rock troops had withdrawn into the Black Rock Mountains.
When the Pan Tribe Vanguard arrived, eager for revenge, they found a city blocking their path.
It was Shao Jun City, rebuilt and reinforced.
Shao Jun had originally built the city as a bridgehead for an assault on the Black Rock Mountains. It had been tall and sturdy from the start.
After it fell into Tang Changsheng's hands, he had not abandoned it. Instead, he had raised and strengthened its walls. The terrain made it even easier to defend and harder to attack.
With ten thousand Black Rock Warriors garrisoned there and the Black Rock Mountains at their backs, it had become an unbreakable fortress for the Black Rock People.
The Pan Tribe's tens of thousands of troops assaulted it day and night for seven or eight days, suffering fifty or sixty thousand casualties.
Yet Shao Jun City stood firm...
With Blackwater behind the city, the