Before the hand-to-hand combat even truly began, Cheng Jinhou had already given strict orders, which to many sounded almost inhumane. Yet the most brutal fact was the soldiers had no choice at all.
But how many soldiers left in the camp could still fight? It looked like barely three thousand, and even among them, many were already wounded. Even if you included another thousand who, just as they rotated off patrol to rest, had returned only to run right into this, there were less than five thousand in total...
And on the other side? The Barbarian Race—conservatively estimated at twenty thousand, possibly thirty thousand.
