Even as the situation in the Capital continued to unravel, a sudden turn of events shook the front lines.
Before the gates of Cangbei City, the rebel army inexplicably abandoned its geographical advantage, marching out of the city to engage the enemy head-on. Naturally, the imperial army, currently riding a wave of surging morale, refused to pass up the opportunity.
The two forces clashed fiercely almost immediately, plunging into a grueling, bloody quagmire of war. Ragged battle flags snapped in the crimson glow of the setting sun. The ground had already been churned into a morass of gore and flesh, where shattered arrowheads and broken blades wedged deep between splintered bones.
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