Bab 50: Refocused

Ming heard from the scouts that Goding's army set their base just a mile away from the city walls, but the expected cavalry and aerial support didn't come. Not even the expected general hadn't arrived.

Zhang Wei sent a report that they have eight hundred able-bodied men ranging from sixteen to sixty years old. But only three hundred, the present city guards, had undergone military training. The rests were simple farmers or carpenters.

All villages lay empty while the city crammed with people, young and old alike, staying in abandoned estates and began foraging to survive. Storage houses gave porridge round the clock to fill two thousand inhabitants. However, the Governor's estate remained closed. He also stopped the construction to keep outsiders from entering his estate in this time of crisis.