On the highway, the military stretched as far as the eye could see, Dahua's soldiers trudged through the damp air, step by weary step on the road back home.
They were very depressed because they had finally made it past South Wind Pass through Li Family Village, and then from Li Family Village to Xicong.
Along the way, they truly suffered: the constant drizzle meant they could only cover a few kilometers each day, mired in mud, severely tormenting the feet of Dahua's army.
It's already been mentioned that this kind of weather is very unfriendly to the soldiers' feet; wet boots would lead to foot rot, and the soldiers were widely afflicted with athlete's foot. Cross-infections of fungi could be so severe they were intolerable.
Thus, the march from South Wind Pass to Xicong was extremely slow. The soldiers grumbled, and the officers were just as miserable.
