Fifth Year of Taiping.
July.
Song Gongbao had taken down eight stockades, but his own forces had suffered casualties over ten thousand, and the army stalled in its advance.
By this time, the fifty thousand strong he led had already lost over twenty percent. Even Song Gongbao's own orders could no longer make the soldiers obey, and there was even the risk of mutiny.
At this time, bad news also arrived.
The two detachments the Imperial Court had dispatched to take a detour to attack Jiangzhou City had been ambushed by Tang Xun's troops and were utterly defeated!
And Councilor Shu Mi Gao Qiu, eager for victory, had already arrived outside Lishui County with an army of over a hundred thousand, supervising the battle personally.
Although Song Gongbao's troops were reluctant to fight, with the supervision of an army of over a hundred thousand behind them, they still had to push on to attack the strongholds.
