Given the distance between Mount Tai City and the other cities,
it would take no more than four hours
for the other cities to receive word.
In Ju Dongyi's opinion, the rebels would have to retreat within half a day.
Otherwise,
Once reinforcements arrived, the defenders of Mount Tai City would sally out, and the enemy would inevitably be crushed between the two forces.
However—
Ju Dongyi did not relax in the slightest.
As he saw it,
The rebels must have been extremely confident to launch a surprise assault at this hour. Under the current circumstances, they had no hope of breaching Mount Tai City.
All this would accomplish
was to get large numbers of their soldiers killed or wounded.
After all,
attackers always suffered far heavier casualties than defenders in a siege.
Ju Dongyi knew very well
that Gu Changqing, the Marquis of Thousand Mountains, would never make such a foolish decision.
Since he had done so,
he undoubtedly had some hidden trump card that Ju Dongyi knew nothing about.
At that thought,
Ju Dongyi immediately told the deputy general beside him, "Go to the other three walls at once and warn their commanders to guard against surprise attacks. Also, no one is to leave the city without my orders. Anyone who disobeys is to be killed on sight!"
"Yes, sir!"
The deputy general respectfully accepted the order, then turned and hurried toward the other three walls.
Seeing this,
Ju Dongyi returned his attention to the enemy ahead, his brow still tightly furrowed.
What exactly is their trump card?
Meanwhile,
in the Marquis of Thousand Mountains' camp,
three people sat astride demonic beasts behind the besieging army, coldly watching the assault unfold.
"To think a mere Mount Tai City would have defenses like these!"
The speaker was the figure