Crushing Defeat

Even a normal retreat could quickly devolve into a disordered scramble backwards. This was the belief of the General of the Left Dugu Xian, and Gu Shenwei had always kept it in mind.

He barely knew the 500 soldiers behind him. There was even some distrust between them, so under this circumstance, "fighting while retreating" was a stupid move.

Instead, his plan was to "retreat while fighting."

Gu Shenwei sent five cavalrymen to get reinforcements and ordered the rest of his army to advance forward towards the left, take a small hill, reorganize themselves, and get ready to fight.

The soldiers followed the orders, but Gu Shenwei could sense the palpably intense atmosphere.

Patches of torches were quickly approaching from far away, and the sound of horse hooves could be heard rumbling. Mo Lin watched for a while before declaring, "At least 3,000 men."