The Imperial Capital

As expected, the imperial army waited for us at the doors to the city. There were around five hundred soldiers on this side, almost double of the army behind me. In a straight-out campaign, we would surely be overwhelmed and killed before long, fortunately for us, Carbon and Khashi were as shrewd as they were experienced and in our previous talk, we had planned plenty of strategies to deal with a mightier force.

Everything would depend on the presence of the demon and where and when it decided to appear.

The experienced Mongolian scouts had gone over the defenses with their chieftains before riding out to check the strength and position of the enemy forces before our attack. All of them had come back with news of a massive army taking care of each of the doors, but most of it was stationed at the northern entrance, the very same I had always used when coming and going to my family house in Yan.

If all went well, we would be bringing this city to its knees soon.