With this delay, the eight hundred Self-Defense Army Beast Tamers at the Military Camp had already subdued all the enemies. Unfortunately, there were not many prisoners held here, only a little over a thousand, and their strength varied wildly!
What use could these crooked melons and split dates possibly be?
Still, now that they had rescued them, they could not simply leave them to fend for themselves. These thousand-odd people had probably suffered inhuman torture; every one of them was skin and bones and could barely stand. For now, they could only settle them in civilian homes and take them into the army after the city fell.
Once that was done, the eight hundred Self-Defense Army soldiers began a fierce street battle against the Northern Barbarians pursuing them.
Over at the City Wall, the two hundred and thirty Shao Clan Disciples had been reduced entirely to transportation. Each time they moved together, they could fly two hundred and thirty Self-Defense Army soldiers onto the wall. Following Jiang Hao's instructions, each batch of two hundred and thirty concentrated in one location, striking the surrounding enemy from a single point and steadily eating away at them to occupy a short stretch of wall. This allowed their comrades below to climb up safely using siege ladders.
As the Self-Defense Army occupied one short stretch of wall after another, one side waned while the other waxed. In far less than half a day, the ten thousand Northern Barbarians were soon squeezed into the area around the gate tower, while the Self-Defense Army soldiers occupied all the rest. This time, the Infantry Regiment could only play a supporting role and watch the show.
For some time afterward, Jiang Hao and his men encountered little resistance, because the Northern Barbarians voluntarily abandoned the cities they had