The next morning dawned bright and clear, another sunny winter day. A section of the military camp outside the city walls lay in ruins, where soldiers were busy clearing away corpses. The bloodstains on the ground bore grim witness to the ferocity of the previous night’s battle.
Prince of Guandong Mi Yuantu stood before the wreckage, a fresh saber cut marring his face. His eyes burned with a murderous intensity. His original plan for the previous night had been to coordinate an inside-outside attack to breach Yufu City through the North Gate. Not only had the plan failed, but he had also nearly been undone by his own subordinate. Zhao Tianming had led his personal guards in a surprise assault on the central command tent. Fortunately, Mi Yuantu had still been waiting for news of the internal assassination attempt, allowing him to discover the betrayal of the general he had only recently promoted before it was too late.
After a brutal skirmish, he had used his overwhelming numerical superiority to annihilate Zhao Tianming and his followers, though the cost had been heavy. Had his reflexes not been so sharp, or had Zhao Tianming not been nearing exhaustion, he might not have avoided a fatal blow.
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