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At worst, Huyan Zhao had thought that he would wake the next morning and then start holding people accountable. That was what he had been thinking right up until he gathered those two beauties into his arms.
Who could have imagined that with one careless lapse, the enemy would already be at his gates?
How could it have come to this? How could they not stop them?
The city gates had been repaired and reinforced for more than a decade, so how had they become so laughably fragile in front of the Panlong army?
“Seal the palace gates! Where are my generals?!”
The State of West Ji tried to rally, but it could not organize any effective resistance. By daybreak, two generals were already dead in battle, two more had been captured, and the rest, who saw the writing on the wall, led their troops back to the royal palace, as well as the inner city, and slammed the gates shut.
With the outer city already breached, holding the inner city and waiting for reinforcements was still, in theory, a workable plan. The palace gates were even stronger than the outer gates, layered with more defensive arrays. And because the area was smaller, manpower could be concentrated, making it easier to defend.
Not to mention that the palace had plenty of provisions stockpiled.
And yet, even when the sun rose in the east, no reinforcements came.
Aren’t there garrison...
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