1148 A Soldier’s Spirit Lives On 5 (1/2)

Consecutive days of fiery war put the Qi Kingdom in a deep quandary. Surrounded on four sides, the Rui Lin Army and the Qi Kingdom's Army fought bravely, but were finally still not a match for the merciless battering from the four country allied army forces!

Mo Qian Yuan in the Imperial City then issued an order, to have all their forces who were resisting the enemy outside to immediately pull back to the Imperial City, in preparation to make a final stand against the four country allied army.

Initially, the Rui Lin Army soldiers who had moved out from the Imperial City had numbered a hundred thousand. But returning back to the Imperial City, there were only a pitiful twenty thousand of them…..

Eighty thousand Rui Lin Army soldiers had been buried in the battlefield, and on top of that, several hundred thousand soldiers of the Qi Kingdom's army were lost!

When the army returned to the Imperial City, all the citizens were lined up along the sides of the street, peering at the returning soldiers. All the soldiers who had come back after having fought with their lives on the line, had their armour already turned red with blood. Many of their injured were carried into the city, and not a single one among them did not have clothes free of mud and blood.

Looking at these men who walked in weary and utterly exhausted in order to defend their country's soil, the citizens in the Imperial City could no longer hold back the anguish in their hearts and many broke down in tears.

A hundred thousand Rui Lin Army soldiers when they left, with only twenty thousand returning, and the Qi Kingdom's army only numbering about one hundred left.

Six hundred thousand the Qi Kingdom's army had numbered, and that number had diminished by four out of five!

This war had truly taken a dire toll on the Qi Kingdom!

Anxiously anticipating the return of their husbands, the ladies could not find the faces of their beloved. Eagerly anticipating their father's return, the children failed to see those strong shoulders sturdy as a mountain. Worriedly anticipating for their son's return, the elderly could not find those familiar figures!

Four hundred and eighty thousand of the Qi Kingdom's soldiers had not been able to come back alive!