Chapter 498
Chapter 498 A Message from Goryeo
The defeat was as crushing as a mountain collapsing. Upon seeing Prince Cheng captured, the morale of the two thousand peripheral troops who had been fighting fiercely plummeted. They turned to retreat, only to be decimated by the unified cannon fire of the Divine Machine Unit. The morale of the government troops soared as they vigorously pursued the retreating forces for ten miles, scattering and largely annihilating them.
"General, Prince Cheng has been taken to the palace," Lin Wanrong sat in a wheelchair on an elevated vantage point, staring blankly at the smoke in the distance. Xu Zhen observed his somber mood and lowered her voice considerably as he reported.
Taken to the palace, a place where words would be as sharp as swords and tongues as piercing as daggers. Lin Wanrong merely hummed in response. The exhaustion visible on his face even took Xu Zhen aback.
"Have all the remaining forces been eradicated?" he asked.
Xu Zhen answered cautiously, "Sixty percent have been killed, and the other forty percent have been captured alive. Among the sixty percent who were killed, there were two hundred Dongyin people. They offered the fiercest resistance our army encountered."
Lin Wanrong had already anticipated Dongyin's involvement. Prince Cheng's elite soldiers often betrayed the influence of Dongyin warriors. He was not surprised, and simply nodded.
With the battle over and nothing urgent in the southern part of the city, he instructed Xu Zhen to clean up the battlefield meticulously before being carried back to the city in a palanquin.
"Husband, what's the matter?" Qin Xian'er sensed that something was off. Lin Wanrong had been silent the whole way, his palm cold to the touch. Ever since Prince Cheng had been captured, Lin Wanrong's expression had been grave and he had been speaking much less. This was unlike his usually cheerful demeanor.