They failed to take the enemy by surprise and were surrounded.
When the news of the Red Lotus Group's defeat reached Fenghu District, the scholar was stunned by the news.
A moment before, he had been happily waiting for his subordinates to escort the captured Liu Xi over. The next moment, he was stricken with panic.
"What did you just say?" The scholar took a large step forward and grabbed the messenger by the collar, his expression grotesque. He looked so furious that it seemed as if his eyes were going to burst with rage. Flames of fury burned in his chest. He felt that he must have misheard, or that the messenger must have given him the wrong message. How could they possibly have been defeated?
The messenger was having trouble breathing with the scholar's hands around his throat.