Facing Off

Gu Shenwei waited for three more days before agreeing to fight.

During the three days, the 3,000 soldiers of the Shili family' army, who had come to the city with only their weapons, horses and dry food, plundered the city's treasure and thus accumulated lots of money and slaves. Now, every soldier in the army owned some slaves and several parcels of valuable items.

The slaves in the city were still loyal to their masters, but the nobles declined to trust them. They accused them of doing nothing when the thousands of slave men had been compelled to join the army of the Great Snowmountain and began to take their revenge on the slaves in the city before the war.