"This is impossible..." Kong Youde exclaimed, his face etched with astonishment. "What are the Liaoyang garrison troops doing? Can't they think of a way to stop Li Dingguo?"
"They wouldn't dare stop him, even if they wanted to!" the scout replied, his face a mask of misery. "There are fewer than two thousand defenders in Liaoyang. To be precise, they aren't even soldiers—they're mostly the old, the infirm, the disabled, and even some women! They’d struggle just to defend the city, let alone sally out to fight."
Kong Youde was rendered speechless.
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