The top of Yanmen Pass's city walls were riddled with craters from boulders, stained with blood, and covered in scorch marks.
Five days had now passed since Xiao Mo began his defense of the city.
Over the past few days, the Wei Kingdom's army had launched a fierce assault on Yanmen Pass.
Fortunately, Yanmen's City Defense Array was quite durable, and Xiao Mo had been on the walls day and night directing the defense without a moment's rest.
Thus, even after five days, the Wei Kingdom's army had made no headway.
The Wei Kingdom's general, Guo Xin, was starting to grow anxious.
Every day Yanmen Pass held out, the remaining Eleven Southern Cities of the Southern Realm fell into greater peril.
Although Xiao Mo's army was short on provisions and extremely low on all kinds of supplies, were the Wei Kingdom's Eleven Southern Cities truly well-stocked? Their situation was hardly better than that of Yanmen Pass.
