(Lian Li POV)
"Retreat! Fall back to the second line! Engineers! Move up the second line of ramparts! Now!"
The order from princess Guiying shocked everyone to their senses and we began to move as she directed.
The Dong army that came out of the first cave was definitely surprised to see the barricades in front of them, but they quickly recovered to march forward and stop a short distance away from our traps.
Meanwhile, the labourers were doing as instructed, pulling out the wagons and broken furniture that they had prepared to use as the second line of defence should the first line be breached.
It was not easy herding the panicking and less than trained peasants to retreat orderly, but we were lucky that the main Dong army was too surprised by our presence to actually give chase. It was obvious that they had expected their little assault here to go unnoticed.
