The battle stopped, yet Old King Xiyan had not sent a single soldier to provide reinforcement from beginning to end. Truly—cold-blooded.
Rushou began leading his men to clear the battlefield, tally up the numbers, and plot their next countermeasures.
Xiangliu was gravely injured. Several generals, including Guifang Qing, had also sustained injuries to varying degrees, but fortunately none were life-threatening. The army, once boasting five hundred thousand strong, now had only a little over one hundred thousand remaining by this point. At most, only half of them were still whole in limb and body; the situation could hardly be described as anything less than disastrous.
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