During this half an hour,
the urgently appointed Xia Wenlin had spread his orders within the city's defending troops, not a second to lose.
He also anticipated that there might be traitors within Wanxiang City and emphasized this point when passing on the information.
But reality is not something one can solve just by anticipating it, because there wasn't enough time.
The middle-ranking officers only had time to pass the message to the lower-ranking non-commissioned officers, without any chance to communicate it to the ordinary soldiers.
They barely had enough time to evacuate the caravans at a few of the city gates and to close them.
Moreover,
after a long period of peace, when war does come abruptly, many people would think it's a joke.
Therefore,
when the troops within the city were assembling in formation, only a handful of the defenders reacted in time, while most of them looked on with dubious eyes.
