The battle unfolded without the slightest suspense.
The cover of a snowy night, an orderly long-range assault by organized forces, commanders eager to win merit, overwhelming fighting strength to fall back on, and nearby county towns that never reacted at all made uprooting the Huang Lineage's Walled Fortresses as clean and easy as slicing ice with a red-hot knife.
Su Jingfang, who had not slept all night, watched the battle while yawning.
How should he put it? He had no particular further opinion of the Exorcising the Dragon Army's fighting strength.
First, it certainly fell short of the Wuan Commandery Troops his own master had trained, though the gap could not be called very large, especially since the drill manuals both sides used were broadly the same. Besides, war itself depended on favorable timing, terrain, and human unity... For instance, anyone with a little common sense knew that, under normal circumstances, a fortified estate's defenders were scarcely worth mentioning in a field battle. Yet when defending their homes, they often unleashed enormous potential. Today, however, their defenses had been breached at the outset, before they could organize any resistance, and they had fallen into utter disarray.
Besides, the Exorcising the Dragon Army had the Eight Commanderies behind it and the six commanderies of Huaixi supporting it from outside, with fully twenty-five battalions stationed in Hebei alone. Wuan Commandery was only a single commandery, and not even a large one, with barely ten thousand Commandery Troops. There was no need to compare their scale.
Soon, however, after the battle ended, Su Jingfang followed Dan Tonghai into the fortified estate and instead saw something that surprised him.
Pointing at a raised platform ahead, Su Jingfang could not help speaking.
"Trying cases and determining guilt." Dan Tonghai turned back coldly, as though this