Deep within the towering, craggy mountains, Huang Fei, Regional Commander of the Ming Army’s Liaoxi-Dengzhou Naval Fleet, was leading a massive force of thirty thousand soldiers through the thick snow.
It was cold—bitterly, bone-chillingly cold.
Although they had been stationed in Liaodong for several years, most of their time had been spent in Shandong’s Dengzhou or aboard their warships. The remainder was spent in Liaoxi and Liaonan. While those places were cold, it was a dry, biting chill, unlike the damp, suffocating cold of these mountain ranges, where peaks and dense forests blocked the sun for hours on end. The Southern Route Army was approaching the Abudali Ridge, roughly 152 kilometers into their march.
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