Map of the Kingdom's Warfare.

Summary

On Gouyue Island, Zhang Xuan's Sui Jun launched a surprise fire attack, using hidden water ghosts to sabotage the Tang army's rafts and ignite the flammable cedar forest. The Tang soldiers, trapped and panicking, faced a disastrous defeat, leading to a retreat. In the aftermath, Li Xiao Gong and his generals contemplated their next steps, realizing they were running low on food supplies. Huang Jun Han proposed a controversial survival strategy involving the defection of soldiers, suggesting they surrender to the Sui Jun to secure rations for the remaining elite troops. Li Xiao Gong, initially resistant, agreed to consider the plan if reinforcements did not arrive in two days, unwilling to concede defeat just yet.

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