Forget about heading to Kunlun and fighting everyone one by one—Zhao Changhe’s next target was not even Kunlun at all. He simply did not have the time to be heading there and doing all that right now.0

More importantly, he was not sure he would even survive such an endeavor. At this point in time, heading to Kunlun would likely be a one-way trip to a very messy death.0

Winter was drawing to a close, and Zhao Changhe could bet his life that by the time the snow melted, Timur would be consolidating his gains from defeating Batu. He likely already had his troops sharpening their blades and preparing to march. Come spring, it would not take more than ten days before reports would arrive of Timur’s forces bearing down on Yanmen Pass while the Li Clan’s forces advanced from Longyou, striking from both sides.0

There simply had not been enough time for the fledgling Han dynasty to properly build its military infrastructure. The most they could manage was to integrate and train the surrendered troops from the Wang and Yang clans. While their numbers had increased significantly, a hastily reorganized army with just a month of training was an untested force at best. Even assembling the troops and getting them from point...0