The guard took a few deep, ragged breaths before explaining, "N-no, Commander-in-Chief! The Eighth Brigade’s Third Battalion, which we had stationed on the perimeter, was subjected to a sudden, inexplicable attack. The entire battalion has been wiped out!"
"What!" Jin An’s brow furrowed as he sprang to his feet.
A whole battalion—that was a thousand men! Although he had mobilized over ten thousand troops for this operation, the senseless loss of a thousand men still cut him to the quick. More importantly, where had these people come from, and how could they have destroyed an entire battalion in such a short amount of time?
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