Chapter 124 - 118: Attack Again
Someone ran back and said, "General, they have no reinforcements, our people saw them cleaning the battlefield."
Upon hearing this, Shi Le was even angrier, stomped his foot and said, "We’ve been deceived!"
"General, let’s kill our way back!"
Shi Le looked at the already exhausted soldiers, pondered for a moment, and said, "Let everyone rest for a while, eat something, and wait until dawn to go."
With a malicious look in his eyes, he said, "Do they really think a word will scare us off, they underestimate us too much."
In Zhao’s Fortress, everyone dragged the stones from under the city gates up to the city walls, while carpenters were banging away with planks and wood, but the majority of people lay sprawled on the ground, deep in sleep.
As the morning light appeared, women and children pushed out meal carts. Seeing them in slumber, they did not wake them but nudged to find their husbands and fathers. If they found them alive, they breathed a great sigh of relief and handed the meal to them;
If they found them among the corpses lying to one side, they quietly tidied up the bodies, tears falling one by one, but they did not cry out loud.
Zhao Hanzhang stood silently watching for a while, then turned her head and hoarsely ordered, "Wake everyone up, eat a hearty breakfast, and prepare for battle."
Everyone couldn’t help but look at Zhao Ming.