Chapter 464: One general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand
Su Zhan hovered at an altitude of ten thousand zhang, above the clouds, gazing down at the scarred and ravaged land beneath his feet.
He took in the entire scene below.
Once prosperous cities were now littered with broken walls and ruins.
Charred earth, dried dark red blood, the wreckage of abandoned war vehicles... these formed the dominant palette of the land.
On the winding roads, he could see crowds of people moving slowly like swarms of ants. They were refugees who had lost their homes, struggling to find any possibility of survival amidst the ruins.
Further away, once fertile farmlands had turned into scorched earth.
Over the past half-year and more, every resource of society had been ruthlessly drained and poured into that massive meat grinder called "war."
Now that the machine had stopped, what remained was a barren soil stripped of all vitality.
Hunger, disease, despair...