The rainfall in the south had indeed diminished substantially, and Chu Country, too, was greeted with the long-absent clear skies. However, for Chu Country, this was hardly good news.
On the very day the weather cleared, the bombers from Tang Country appeared in Chu Country's skies. The Tang pilots, who held deep-seated enmity, did not hesitate to drop their bombs on several major cities in the northern part of Chu Country.
The civilians of Chu Country could be said to have seen such foes for the first time: flocks of bombers, darkening the sky as they flew en masse over the cities, before bombs began dropping like raindrops from above their heads.
Carpet bombing was brutally relentless upon a city; the bomb blasts caused rows and rows of the flimsily constructed houses to collapse.
