"Han Tuozhou withheld this batch of armaments," Shen Xitang said, her silver needle etching a star map onto the crossbow’s body, "only to substitute them with inferior crossbows from the Shen Family Ironworks."
The needle tip suddenly snapped. A developing agent revealed the full smuggling route on the surface of the crossbow mechanism. "This led to the tragic slaughter of your thirty thousand soldiers under the iron hooves of the Khitan!"
In the middle of the torrential rain, a bell sounded from the corner tower, its rhythm of seven long and five short beats identical to the one heard during the attack on Marquis Zhenbei's Estate years ago.
Chapter 79