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Zhou Tong’s joy over Northern Qiang’s retreat was shortlived.
The main forces of Northern Qiang arrived the next day, armed with a full array of siege equipment. Siege ladders, battering rams, trebuchets, and more menaced the city.
Three hundred thousand troops marched in a mighty procession from the north, joining the two hundred thousand cavalrymen already encamped outside the city. Together, they set up a truly massive camp.
Five hundred thousand troops. Even at its peak, Liangzhou Prefecture, with all its bustling prosperity, had never been host to so many people. If two hundred thousand cavalry harassing the city before had been like a tiger cautiously circling a bull, then the arrival of three hundred thousand additional troops turned the city into a mouse under a cat’s...
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