Instead, it developed into a group of foreign soldiers who, together, sneaked away when it was their turn to patrol the city walls.
Hundreds of people fled the city and surrendered.
Because of the large number of collective betrayals, the high-ranking members of the Seven Star Sect had no choice but to mix Linwu County soldiers with foreign soldiers so that their core supporters could supervise the soldiers from the Outer County.
Then they appointed the core disciples of the sect as junior military officers to supervise and command.
But this arrangement was still useless.
Because the soldiers of Linwu County continued to flee, and once they fled, the soldiers of the Outer County naturally followed suit. Military officers who were the core disciples faced the fury of hundreds of people desperate to survive.
