An Lushan sat upon a stone, his eyes filled with utter bewilderment.
Along the way, his forces had swept forward like a broken bamboo shoot right up to the gates of Luoyang, and the garrison within was on the verge of collapse due to a lack of grain. With Yang Guozhong acting as his inside man and holding the tactical advantage of terrain, how could things possibly have devolved to this state?
A single probing attack had somehow cost him half his troops. If Shi Siming had not arrived in the nick of time, he probably would have lost his life there as well. Now their army of one hundred thousand was trapped on Mang Mountain, and annihilation was only a matter of time.
Chapter 747