Withdrawal Westward

The remorse for their own mistakes and the pain of losing their comrades in arms compounded the misery of the survivors of the battle.

When the fight was over, the morale of the Great Snowmountain soldiers began to fade away. They kept looking around blankly, searching in vain for their best friends, until the grief of seeing familiar faces among the pile of corpses wrenched their hearts. After that, these hard-bitten warriors, who would rather die than surrender before the enemy, would slump down on the ground with the most vacant expression on their face, their minds completely blank.

Before long, they would begin to ponder, "Why did we fail to win this battle? And why did we fight this battle?"

The soldiers were suffering from low morale caused by the huge loss, so much so that even the appearance of the Dragon King failed to cheer them up.