For a time, the united army swelled to three hundred thousand, a formidable force that seemed to block out the sky.
At this moment, Bai Mengyang finally stopped and stayed in Tianmen Prefecture.
This place, because it was close to Yueyang Prefecture, could receive certain guarantees in terms of money and food, so the morale of the troops could be maintained without causing chaos and mutiny.
So this Wuan Marquis gathered the court's troops in Tianmen Prefecture and led fifty thousand men to defend the city, blocking the advance of the thirty thousand enemy troops and preventing them from crossing the river at will.
However, with a six-fold difference in strength, Bai Mengyang, at best, could only defend the city, and it was hard to say how effective he would be in blocking the enemy.
Even how long the city could be defended was now a question mark.
