Yanmen Pass, at noon.
On the city wall, Niu Xingyuan stood by the battlements with a deep frown. In the distance, smoke rose from the Beidi camp, and the faint roar of tens of thousands of cavalry could be heard. He clenched his fists so hard his knuckles turned white—yesterday, Xia Huai'an had actually sent only a dozen or so men to reinforce Dayuan Prefecture, while dropping some cryptic remark about "the outcome being decided within a day"!
"General!" The deputy general started to speak, holding back, but finally voiced his pent-up doubts: "Can the Huaxia Army reinforcements actually make it or not? Weren't they saying a full ten thousand men were blocked at Dayuan Prefecture? Why won't Master let us go support them?"
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