Bang, bang, bang!!!

A dense crackle of musket fire broke out.

Right behind it came earthshaking explosions.

In an instant the whole Liangzhou camp erupted in battle cries and fell into chaos.

The soldiers who'd been about to rush in and rescue Song Gaozhuo stopped dead in their tracks, with no idea what was happening.

"The Ning'an Army is here! Why aren't you surrendering already?"

The roar came from a Ning'an Army soldier guarding the tent.

The stunned Liangzhou soldiers all went pale.

Inside the tent, Prince Xiang watched Lei An pounding Song Gaozhuo, shocked and furious at once.

Shocked, because he'd never expected Lei An to suddenly lay into Song Gaozhuo.

Furious, because Nanyue was being far too arrogant. Worthless as Song Gaozhuo was, he was still the Great Xuan's highest commander in Liangzhou. For the Nanyue to beat him without a second thought showed they didn't take the Great Xuan seriously at all.

But when he heard the Ning'an soldier's shout outside, he froze stiff.

The Ning'an Army?

Wasn't that Ning Chen's crack army?

He came to with a jolt and stared hard at Lei An.

These men weren't the Nanyue army at all. They'd all been fooled. These were Ning Chen's men.

It was the only thing that explained why this man had suddenly laid into Song Gaozhuo, who had been cursing Ning Chen the whole time.

His eyes fell on Wu Congzhou, who had ducked off to one side.

"Lord Wu, what exactly is going on here?"

When Lei An flew into a rage and started pounding Song Gaozhuo, Wu Congzhou had gotten well out of the way, afraid of getting caught in the fallout.

At Prince Xiang's question, he said gravely, "Old Prince, this is General Lei An, a great general under the Ning Emperor.

Nanyue really did send fifty thousand reinforcements, but the Ning Emperor set an ambush at Hundredfold Ridge. The fifty thousand were routed. More than ten thousand were killed or wounded, and the rest were all captured."

Prince Xiang had barely come to his senses, and now he froze stiff again.…