"Oh no! It's Chen Gui!"
Huang Taiji immediately turned at the crash from the gates. Through the windblown sand, he recognized the man blocking the gates behind his army at a glance.
He had been in the information Qiu Luan gave them!
The former commander-in-chief of Xuanfu.
The current Xuanda Governor-General.
Peak Tongyou, the God-Shocking Blade, Chen Gui!
Huang Taiji looked around.
Within a hundred-zhang radius, fierce winds howled and dust swirled, the blowing sand making it impossible to keep one's eyes open.
The three assassins from before had vanished without a trace.
Under cover of the sandstorm, the government troops who had been scrambling to meet the attack climbed onto the arrow towers behind the gate tower and the walls on all four sides.
They raised powerful bows and crossbows, their faces solemn as they aimed at the five thousand cavalrymen below.
"First Prince! We're surrounded!"
A commander of a thousand clutched his reins and shouted in alarm.
Men covered the landscape!
Besides the soldiers of Dushikou Pass, the garrisons of nearby Zhuolu and Xuanhua counties, including large cavalry units, were closing in from all directions.
In the darkness, suit after suit of armor gleamed coldly as they drew nearer, the atmosphere growing ever more murderous!
"So that's it!"
Huang Taiji gritted his teeth. He finally understood!
They had deliberately sent out one fourth-level Tongyou fighter and two sixth-level Tongyou fighters, pretending they were powerless despite giving their all, to deceive them and lower their guard. Once the entire vanguard had entered, they could join forces with the other garrisons lying in ambush, complete the encirclement, and swallow up these five thousand elite cavalrymen!
Chen Gui was not dead.
Then it went without saying who had died.
-Toghto and the other eleven Wings had been caught in one net!