The remnants of the army surrendered.
Everything else became much simpler.
Du Chengwu arranged for his men to stabilize the situation in the city while recovering his strength as quickly as possible, preparing to attack the next city.
"My lord, there's movement at the Teleportation Gate!"
A subordinate deputy general came to report.
Du Chengwu looked puzzled, then said, "Let's take a look."
There was movement at the Teleportation Gate.
Could that mean more reinforcements were arriving from the Imperial Court?
But he had already captured the city. Sending reinforcements now would be no different from sending them to their deaths.
At that thought,
Du Chengwu immediately ordered, "Have all the archers surround the Teleportation Gate. If Great Zhao's troops teleport in, shoot them dead immediately!"
"Yes, my lord!"
Teleportation between prefectures differed from ordinary teleportation between regions. It could not happen instantaneously; the process took some time.
By the time Qin Shujian and Wu Lang emerged from the Teleportation Gate, several minutes had passed.
"This is Guangding City?"
Qin Shujian wore an odd expression as he surveyed his surroundings, unsure what to say.
As for Wu Lang,
once he saw the scene around them, his expression turned as grim as if his entire family had died. "Guangding City has fallen!"
"How? How could Guangding City have fallen so quickly?"
They had chosen Guangding City because it was the closest city to the Imperial City and one of Central Province's lifelines.
Although Central Province was currently in turmoil,
Guangding City was one of the safest cities outside the Imperial City.
In Wu Lang's view,
there was no way Guangding City could fall so soon.
If even Guangding City had fallen, it meant the Imperial Court's defenses had collapsed across the board, and the armies would soon surround the Imperial