The news of the Ming Army’s campaign into Yunnan grew more absurd with every retelling. By the time the rumors had circulated through various prefectures and reached Yunnan Prefecture City, they claimed the Ming Army possessed a total strength of half a million soldiers and ten thousand cannons. Under the frantic bombardment of those ten thousand cannons, Qujing City—and every soldier and civilian within it—had reportedly been reduced to dust.
That was not all. It was said that the Ming Army had even slapped the wild dogs outside the city walls.
The Brocade Guard played no small part in the distortion of these reports. Everywhere they went, they would embellish the news before spreading it further. Then, whoever heard the stories would add their own interpretations, leading to an increasingly outlandish legend.
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