Furthermore, according to the peripheral lords from whom the Northern Expedition Legion had been extorting protection fees, these same lords had indeed paid up. Yet, puzzlingly, they had joined the core of the Northern Expedition Legion after encountering Mei Yuan.
Aside from them, as the number of lords in the Northern Expedition Legion grew, the ranked lords along their path felt their spirits sink. They ceaselessly reinforced their defenses, exhausting every last resource in their territories to recruit more soldiers.
This anxiety reached its peak after December 5th.
On this day, all the lords of the Northern Expedition Legion gathered outside a massive city. The city covered over ten square kilometers, and its walls appeared to be cast from a single piece of metal, forming a seamless whole.
Within the city, buildings of all kinds stood in dense rows, and defensive structures were numerous. The machine gun nests positioned along the walls were exceptionally conspicuous.
