When General Liu of the Vanguard Army arrived at Xingyang with his generals, he was dumbstruck by Shen Jin's results.
He had originally thought this battle was merely a strategic victory. Given the scene during the day and the casualties in Liu Jian's and Gao Heng's units, it was nothing to boast of.
Yet here, with those five hundred cavalry attacking from within and without, Shen Jin had actually achieved the classic victory of slaying a general, seizing the banners, and taking the camp, utterly overturning the assessment of today's battle... if this wasn't a fucking great victory, what was?!
From top to bottom, everyone was at a loss to express their astonishment at this victory of Shen Jin's, which seemed to have sprung from a crack in a rock, and at the man himself and his troops.
The two generals, Gao and Liu, had followed the most familiar path from Refugee Commander to Elite Soldier to Military Clan, with military experience in the Western Command and Jingzhou, so everyone had some measure of them. But this forty-year-old Shen Jin was a mighty warrior dropped straight from the heavens, wasn't he?
It was only because Shen Jin himself had hurried off to Aocang under Liu Cheng's new orders; otherwise, Liu Cheng would at least have seated him in the place of honor, summoned everyone, and spent the whole night praising him on the spot... rich and able to fight-was there any marriage connection more worthwhile in times like these?
Of course, even if a man came over alone to surrender, marriage connections were still very important.
Liu Cheng exercised patience and settled all the units into place.
He stationed the reinforcements in the main camp outside the city, while the Central Army and the two battered Columns under Gao and