Shi Le led his remaining soldiers to escape, but soon encountered another retreating army.
This was a force of twenty thousand that had been dispatched separately due to a lack of provisions, retreating from another route, and tasked with foraging.
When Shi Le met up with them, he brought over eight thousand soldiers, making it twenty-eight thousand in total, though there were also more than three thousand captives in the group.
Shi Le was also injured by Zhao Erlang; at this moment, he was sitting in the tent letting a doctor bandage him. He clenched his fist to feel the strength, only to find the pain unbearable, and his face turned somewhat grim, "How young is that Zhao Erlang, yet he has such strength."
Wang Yang squatted beside him, and upon hearing this, said, "He's a fool. I heard that apart from his great strength, he has no other skills."
