After Ting Zheng led the defeated remnants around the mountain paths to escape back to the Hu Kingdom, he learned that their kingdom had already been massacred by the great army of Great Liang, with only a few children narrowly surviving.
Their monarch was dead, the national treasury had been emptied by the Great Liang soldiers, and what they couldn't take, was set ablaze by the Liang people. Despite feeling utterly exhausted, Ting Zheng gritted his teeth and assumed the throne.
Upon becoming the monarch, the first thing Ting Zheng did was investigate where the Liang army that suddenly attacked their capital came from. Before launching the war, they had thoroughly probed all Liang military forces in Linzhou. How could the Liang army suddenly increase by more than ten thousand men?
