When Sun Mingke reached Green Mountain Pass, Wang Chong had Mo Zhenxing accompany him out through the pass.
Gan Ci and Dong Qing were both horse bandits, and both could command troops independently, but Mo Zhenxing was purely a martial artist. Wang Chong did not trust the two horse bandits' ability to look after others, so he had deliberately kept Mo Zhenxing behind to go with Sun Mingke. Sun Mingke came from the Taiyi Sect and felt quite favorably toward Mo Zhenxing, who likewise belonged to a renowned orthodox sect. He assigned seven or eight hundred men to him, allowing this outstanding Wudang disciple to muster a thousand cavalry as well. Hearing that two forces had already left the pass, Sun Mingke could hardly wait and set out immediately too.
Within just two or three days, Qin Gao and Monk Xuangang both arrived. Although Qin Gao had his reservations about such a risky strategy, he knew it was too late to offer advice now. He could only hasten to lead his troops out, hoping to take Yanzhou as soon as possible and avoid giving Feng Pofeng of Ling Prefecture an opening.
When Gao Gun left, he left the Wind-Treading Cavalry with Wang Chong. At last, Wang Chong was no longer a lone man with nothing to his name. Together with Monk Xuangang and Su Luoyan, he was the last to set out.
Veteran players of strategy games, such as those in the Three Kingdoms genre, would be accustomed to leaving the rear to develop on its own, massing troops at the front, then throwing everything into churning out soldiers and sending their generals to attack enemy cities wave after wave. Wang Chong was merely copying this "time-honored stratagem."
Such a course was, of course, extremely risky. When Wang Chong set