348, better to join me under Hexi's command

Hundreds of thousands of Zimiao Army scattered like birds and beasts, and in any large plain or sufficiently spacious area, this wouldn't have posed a serious problem, but it had to be Luo Mountain Valley—a narrow entrance and exit with a slightly wider middle.

Such terrain made a retreating army's defeat a nightmare.

The exit was blocked by the crowding soldiers, those caught in the middle began trampling each other as they could not get out, and the soldiers at the rear, terrorized by the pursuing Red Flame Army, desperately pressed forward, shoving and jostling in a frantic scramble, further trampling each other at every turn.

Even more disastrous was the fact that this hundreds-of-thousands-strong Zimiao Army all had their war horses!

"Don't push me!"

"Run fast."

"All of you get out of my way!"

"Move, move!"

"The army is catching up from behind, move fast!"

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