At this thought, a chill instantly ran down Ouyang Mingyue's spine.
"Guo Dundun's cavalry all ride War Wolves. Wolves can't make long-distance raids like warhorses." The more Ouyang Mingyue thought, the more shocked she became. "There's another possibility."
This cavalry force had never accompanied Shen Zaitian to Firmament City at all. No, the Self-Defense Army did not have that many cavalrymen. In other words, of the fifty thousand elite troops who had slipped out of Weizhou City, only a small portion had followed Shen Zaitian to attack the Cangling army's right flank. All the rest had concealed themselves nearby, ready to coordinate with the Self-Defense Army inside Weizhou City and strike the Cangling army outside from within and without.
After her initial shock, Ouyang Mingyue calmed down.
"Marshal, give me ten thousand men, and I'll bring back the head of the Self-Defense Army's general in Weizhou," Yu Mo said.
"No, there's no hurry." Only after a moment's thought did Ouyang Mingyue continue, "Weizhou's defenses are no weaker than Firmament City's. The cavalry the Self-Defense Army sent on this surprise attack must be few. Now that they hold the city and can coordinate attacks from inside and outside, there really is nothing I can do about them."
"You mean, Marshal?"
"Leave them alone. Once I've swallowed up the Self-Defense Army at Firmament City, I'll turn back and fight that damned fatty head-on. Meanwhile, Situ Long has blocked Liu Zhiwei's westward route outside Peace City. Everything is within my grasp!"
On the evening of August thirtieth, while several elite detachments from both armies clashed around Firmament City and Weizhou, the battlefield in the Death Desert had already become a meat grinder.
Yet on the battlefield at Peace City, thousands of li away, a new variable had emerged.
Gongsun Qianxun arrived on the